Chapter 334 - Chapter 334: Chapter 327: Grade Six Ant Queen_1 (2/2)
Qin Niu asked teasingly.
“I guess so! I was planning to accumulate some more special energy to be more confident in advancing to the next level.”
Whether it’s insect pets or humans, when breaking through to a new realm, it’s best to push through in one go. If the advancement fails, the difficulty of breaking through to the new realm the next time will increase.
If an insect fails to advance three times, that insect is basically done for.
In the future, unless it can come across some special opportunity, it would be very difficult to advance again for the rest of its life.
This is much the same for human cultivators.
Everyone is very cautious when breaking through to a new realm, making all the necessary preparations.
When reaching the later stages of the Innate Realm and aiming to advance to the Spirit Qi Realm, if circumstances permit, some would even choose to go into a cultivation retreat.
Fang Lian’s father was probably in a cultivation retreat trying to break through to the Spirit Qi Realm.
He left the family affairs for his son to handle.
Qin Niu knew that the Ant Queen had just finished advancing and its body was in a somewhat unstable state.
It was akin to a period of weakness.
So he did not bother it further.
“You’ve just finished advancing, so you can stop laying eggs for these few days until your body stabilizes, then resume breeding the young ants.”
Currently, with over twenty thousand termites, nearly thirty thousand in total, there were barely enough to get by.
There was no need to rush the Ant Queen.
If it were pushed to lay eggs hastily and its body encountered problems or even a collapse in its new level, then the loss would outweigh the gain.
He checked the attributes of the Ant Queen.
Female Four-Winged Yin Ant (Ant Queen)
Level: Grade Six Isoptera Insect, Upgrade Experience 1000000/10000000
Lifespan: 31,000 years
Energy: 1090007
Skills: Reproduction Grade Three 524/1000 (lays 1000 eggs per day), Feign Death Grade One 2/10, Flight Grade One 0/10, Escape Grade One 0/10, Advanced Self-Healing Grade One 0/10, Ant Formation Grade One 0/10 (can instruct worker ants and soldier ants to form formations, significantly enhancing the combat and defense capabilities of the ant colony).
Talents: Higher Intelligence, offspring with great strength attribute (10%), offspring with extreme toxin attribute (30%), offspring with Demon Ant attribute (0.4%), offspring with Gold Devouring Ant attribute (0.004%), offspring with Healing Ant attribute (0.2%), offspring with Zombie Ant attribute (2%), offspring with Advanced Self-Healing attribute (5%). Looking at the Ant Queen’s attribute changes, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Qin Niu’s mouth.
The Ant Queen had never let him down.
After eating nine Taiyin Yaoyao, the Ant Queen’s self-healing ability had advanced from basic to advanced.
On average, out of every hundred offspring it produced, five would inherit this special ability.
How strong was Advanced Self-Healing?
Qin Niu didn’t know.
He only knew that once the Zombie Ants advanced to Grade Four Iron Stiff Ants, their ability to self-heal was only at an intermediate level.
Even basic self-healing was very powerful.
Wounds could heal by themselves.
With advanced self-healing, even regrowing lost limbs was possible.
He could test this thoroughly on the battlefield when the time came.
As the Ant Queen advanced to Grade Six this time, her lifespan did not increase.
However, the newly acquired Ant Formation skill was exceptionally powerful—it allowed the command of ant formations for battle, whose significance was no less than that of the Advanced Self-Healing skill.
What’s more, the Ant Queen’s intelligence reached higher intelligence.
This meant that its intellect was now no different from that of humans.
The benefits were just as immense.
It could not only allocate each ant species more scientifically and rationally during reproduction, but it could also provide Qin Niu remote support when necessary.
If the Ant Nest was in danger, it could respond better.
Furthermore, now that the Ant Queen had advanced to Grade Six, the offspring it produced should be able to reach Grade Three, or even Grade Four.
After Qin Niu’s cultivation, a batch of Grade Four and Grade Five termites could appear.
This was a substantial increase in overall combat power.
The combat abilities of a Grade Two termite and a Grade Four termite were not even comparable.
Fortunately, the Ant Queen’s diet was varied; it could eat anything.
If it ate only meat and needed to lay a thousand eggs per day, it’s feared that every living creature in this mountain region would be eaten up by the termites.
Feeding on grass and trees removed this concern.
Because vegetation has a strong growth capability, and the Ant Queen had great wisdom, knowing to conserve resources for continuous use.
It would make reasonable use of every bit of food.
Therefore, even if its reproductive capability went up another notch, reaching ten thousand eggs per day, it wouldn’t deplete the whole mountain. As long as it showed restraint and didn’t focus on eating one tree, they would be unlikely to gnaw a tree to death.
Moreover, a large tree could feed the entire ant colony for a month or two.
The mountain is vast, with countless grasses and trees; when one area is consumed, another grows back.
Also, the worker termites, after Qin Niu’s cultivation, gained the ability to heal wounds on trees. After feeding, they could help the trees recover quickly.