Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 580 - 551: Regretting Not Meeting Sooner

"..."

Dragon Cypress, Ink Orchid, and Black Birch were dumbfounded, alarmed, and confused.

We're all crammed this close together—there's no way we can escape, huh~

This guy deliberately revealed so much about Bayonet Continent and Zhibai Continent; it's testing and confirming us for sure.

Even the slowest Ink Orchid caught on, exclaiming, "Snow Velvet Spider King, you're incredibly clever. No wonder you told us all this—haha! You saw right through our origins a long time ago!"

Snow Velvet Spider King made no other movement, just said calmly, "The Giant-Headed Birstet Leaf Ant Kingdom is located at Gongmu Mountain. I visited it twenty-six years ago. There are three Ant Kings: Golden Tung, Twin Leaf, and Tiger's Claw, and a pair of Blue Bees living symbiotically with them. No Divine-Grade Fruit. I've never seen you all."

Snow Velvet Spider King looked at Dragon Cypress and said, "You're a Male Ant, but you're not a Giant-Headed Birstet Leaf Ant."

Dragon Cypress wasn't embarrassed at all, and said frankly, "Snow Velvet Spider King, you really are knowledgeable. I'm just a Giant-Headed Ant—more precisely, I'm from the Giant-Headed Blind Leaf-Cutting Ant Clan, a Pseudo Leafcutter Ant that can't cut leaves to cultivate fungus."

Snow Velvet Spider King looked to Ink Orchid and asked, "Which Mantis Tribe do you belong to?"

Ink Orchid: "My name is Ink Orchid."

Snow Velvet Spider King: "Which specific race?"

Ink Orchid: "If I say Demon Flower Mantis, would you believe me?"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "No."

Ink Orchid: "How about Giant Flower Mantis?"

Snow Velvet Spider King: "You're not big enough."

Ink Orchid: "...Fine... Orchid Mantis."

Snow Velvet Spider King: "Neither Giant-Headed Blind Leaf-Cutting Ants nor Orchid Mantises exist on Bayonet Continent or Zhibai Continent. Are you from the Northern Hemisphere?"

Ink Orchid: "No idea~ We got swept over here by a tornado~"

Dragon Cypress: "That's right."

"???"

Ink Orchid glared at Dragon Cypress.

Dragon Cypress: "Ink Orchid, stop lying. You can't fool the sharp-eyed, worldly Snow Velvet Spider King."

Snow Velvet Spider King asked indifferently, "How did you get here?"

Dragon Cypress raised a claw and pointed northeast, speaking honestly, "It was via that undersea Starship Passage guarded by your Flame Spider Tribe for generations. There's also a Leafcutter Ant King stationed on the island."

"I knew it!"

Snow Velvet Spider King wasn't surprised by this at all. What it was puzzled about was...

"Is the northern continent called 'Cloud Trace Continent'? Rumor has it that it's currently in an Origin Force Silent Period?"

"Yes."

Dragon Cypress lowered its head, opened its mouth, and spat out an azure metal orb, which quickly enlarged into a spherical throne just over four meters in diameter, hovering low in the air.

With another thought, a blue transparent Primordial Energy shield enveloped the Throne.

Dragon Cypress: "This item is called the 'Dominating Throne,' an Outworld Civilization Artifact, bestowed by the Natural True God..."

"You picked it up." Snow Velvet Spider King corrected, staring intently at the Dominating Throne, guessing its general use, and asked:

"This thing can store Origin Force and release it when needed? It carried you across the Origin Force vacuum of Cloud Trace Continent?"

Dragon Cypress: "...Yes."

Dragon Cypress: "But Origin Force hasn't entirely disappeared from Cloud Trace Continent yet. In a few rare spots, Origin Force still gushes up from underground. For example, the Xianglan Mountain where Ink Orchid and I live—there's a patch about 25 square kilometers where Origin Force remains, and its abundance even surpasses most areas during the Origin Force Era. Places like that, we call Land of Origin Force."

Snow Velvet Spider King: "Land of Origin Force?"

Snow Velvet Spider King was puzzled, fell silent for a moment, and asked, "Is there a flaw in the Natural Law that governs the world's workings? Are there many such places?"

Dragon Cypress: "Not many. Just a dozen or so across the whole continent."

Snow Velvet Spider King: "So what about your Divine-Grade Fruit...?"

Dragon Cypress: "To the west of Cloud Trace Continent is Ten Thousand Nations Continent, which is in the Prime Time of Origin Force. Further west is Ten-thousand Tribes Continent, also in the Origin Force Era. There's also a Starship Passage connecting Wan Country and Ten-thousand Tribes, with Flame Spider Roving Merchants trading between the two continents."

Dragon Cypress: "Over five thousand years ago, when Cloud Trace Continent's Origin Force fell silent and Wan Country's Origin Force was just beginning to revive, another Starship crashed from the Outworld, spanning Cloud Trace and Wan Country and linking the two continents. We traded with Flame Spider Roving Merchants via that Starship Passage."

Dragon Cypress: "Ink Orchid and I explored Cloud Trace Continent, dug up lots of good stuff, got rich, traded with Flame Spider Roving Merchants, gained plenty of benefits, and grew rapidly."

Snow Velvet Spider King: "..."

Snow Velvet Spider King mused, muttering, "How could there be Flame Spider Roving Merchants in Wan Country and Ten-thousand Tribes?"

Dragon Cypress: "Probably because at some point in the distant past, there was a Starship Passage connecting them, and some Flame Spiders got stranded there. From chatting with them, I learned that the Flame Spiders in Ten-thousand Tribes are split into five groups: Lilacs, Grape Hydrangea, Illusory Color, White-Legged, and Diaphus, together founding a Flame Spider Kingdom. They know their ancestral land is called 'Shanglu,' that Flame Spiders originated from Shanglu, but they don't know exactly where it is."

Snow Velvet Spider King once again fell into deep thought.

Who would have thought another branch of Flame Spiders existed in this world, having even founded another Flame Spider Kingdom.

Snow Velvet Spider King was one hundred percent sure that its own branch was the orthodox one; the Ten-thousand Tribes branch must have been exiled for some reason.

During the countless cycles of Origin Force Reincarnation, all sorts of unimaginable events have occurred—nothing strange about something like this happening.

The news Dragon Cypress brought was utterly beyond expectations, completely reshaping its understanding of the world.

After thinking long and hard, Snow Velvet Spider King sorted out its thoughts and asked, "In the Land of Origin Force on Cloud Trace Continent, do other Insect Clan Warriors survive?"

Dragon Cypress: "They do, but very few. All are naturally born, scattered across the continent, and almost none can survive past the High-Level Stage. After Ink Orchid and I found them, we brought Roving Merchant trades, high-quality plant seeds, and advanced cultivation techniques. With our help, a handful—around a dozen—Insect Clan Warriors have survived, now all at Lord-Level."