Chapter 212 - Chapter 212: Chapter 207 Two Types of Poisonous Ants’ Evolutionary Directionsi (2/2)

However, their lifespan had increased by 50 years.

This should be the biggest highlight.

Imagine that a termite Ant Queen can live for 120 years, which is twice the lifespan of an ordinary human.

Qin Niu has so far cultivated four Breeder Ants in total.

The first Grade Two female mutant milky termite would take flight to mate after a period of time.

He had been pondering a question.

Theoretically, the Contractual Talisman can only bind insects that have directly established a contract.

The Ant Queen and Queen Bee fall into a special category.

That’s because the Ant Queen and Queen Bee are not individual entities. Once they breed offspring and form an ant colony or bee swarm, it becomes a collective entity.

That is also why Qin Niu was able to command the multitude of termites by only forming a contract with the Ant Queen.

It was simply because they were an entity as a whole.

Now the problem arises, once the Breeder Ant takes its nuptial flight, it will no longer belong to this ant colony.

At that point, will Qin Niu be able to command it?

Even if he can command it, will the termites it produces listen to Qin Niu’s orders?

Even among humans, kinship usually does not extend beyond three generations.

Let alone insects.

To contract another Breeder Ant and then establish another ant colony?

There’s simply no need for that.

Moreover, he didn’t collect just any insect.

Only those with distinctive characteristics, and insects or beasts with decent potential, were worthy of his interest.

As his strength continued to increase, the criteria for selecting his pets became increasingly selective.

That day, after he and Xiao Qing finished cultivating in the labyrinth of the Ancient Banyan Tree, he felt some commotion in the ant colony as soon as they emerged.

Startled, he wondered if some calamity had occurred.

“Xiao Qing, go home on your own, I need to check on the insects I’ve been raising,” he said.

“Okay!”

Xiao Qing crisply agreed.

Her cultivation was increasing at the rate of a small realm every day, and over the span of five days, her cultivation had already risen to Tenfold in the commoner’s level.

Just like Qin Niu initially, she too hit a bottleneck at this stage.

For any Cultivation Technique, progressing to a major realm is an immensely difficult task.

Breaking through to major realms while practicing the Medicine King Sutra seems to be much more challenging than with ordinary techniques.

However, with her exceptional talent and the aid of the Ancient Banyan Tree, breaking through to the Acquired Realm should not be a problem.

It was just a matter of time.

At this moment, Qin Niu, with his full speed unleashed, sprinted through the mountains like a swift arrow.

Soon, he arrived at the entrance of the Ant Nest.

The ant colony was noticeably disturbed, but they did not come out; it seemed more like an internal commotion.

“Could it be that the first Demon Ant has completed its evolution?” he thought.

That seemed to be the only possibility.

At present, the ant colony’s strength was so terrifying that if any other insect dared to invade the termites’ lair, even a Grade Six insect might end up dead within.

The current ant colony had several thousand Grade Three ants.

The longstanding special ants of Grade Two numbered close to three thousand.

These combined were already an immensely terrifying force.

Add to that the presence of Fourth, the War Demon Ant, and it was likely that an ordinary Grade Six insect would not be a match for them.

As for Grade Five creatures, several of the Grade Five Corpse Bee generals had been vanquished by them in the past.

They probably would have been defeated even before reaching the nest’s vicinity.

“Come out!” Qin Niu commanded the ant colony.

Legions of termites swiftly surged from their nest.

Luckily, their diet was varied, consisting mostly of plant leaves and roots.

Otherwise, the insects and ants in the vicinity would likely have been devoured clean.

Fourth possessed high intelligence and was now capable of slaughtering the nest of black stinking ants not far away all by itself. Yet, this nest of black stinking ants continued to thrive.

Qin Niu secretly speculated that Fourth was intentionally protecting the surrounding ecology.

The smaller hermit hides in the woods, while the greater hermit hides in the open.

If the termites acted overbearingly and devoured all surrounding beings, their presence would be immediately noticeable to anyone entering the area.

On the contrary, their current low-profile and modest behavior, preserving the surrounding original ecosystem, was a very clever strategy.

Who would have thought that beneath this large camphor tree, a colony of super termites was hidden?

Fourth’s figure darted out of the nest with agility, followed closely by a termite that stood out significantly larger than Fourth.

Its size was almost as thick as an adult’s index finger.

Bear in mind, even the later cultivated Grade Three termites were smaller than an adult’s little finger.

This flashy super termite was more than twice as robust as the regular Grade Three ones.

After it emerged, it stood off against Fourth like two roosters who would not back down in a cockfight.

“Indeed, the first Demon Ant has completed its evolution,” he confirmed.

Qin Niu checked the attributes of the ant colony and immediately noted the new changes.

Grade Four Demon Ant, one specimen, life expectancy 70 years, special abilities (Swift, Medium Intelligence, Intermediate Carapace, Primary Self-Healing, Armor Penetration, Venom Attack, abdomen evolved to have a Poison Stinger and Venom Sac, the venom has strong paralysis and soul-corroding toxicity, the Poison Stinger has armor-penetrating capability. Demonization+, during demonization state, speed increases fourfold, attack power sixfold, and defense threefold.)

No wonder it dared to challenge Fourth.

In various aspects, its strength had indeed increased significantly.

And its level had also reached Grade Four, the same as Fourth’s.