Chapter 63 - Chapter 63: Chapter 58 Upgrade Breeding Skill i (1/2)
Chapter 63: Chapter 58 Upgrade Breeding Skill i
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Fourth and the young worker ant emerged after a while, followed by two light green worker ants crawling out slowly.
“What’s going on?”
Based on experience, Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants should have evolved. Their current crawling speed was slower than a snail’s, which puzzled Qin Niu greatly.
He quickly checked the ant colony’s attributes.
Female Milky White Ant (Ant Queen)
Level: Grade Two Isopteran, experience 517/1000
Lifespan: 4.6 years
Energy: 10896
Skills: Breeding Grade One 335/10, Feign Death Grade One 2/10
Talent: Medium Intelligence, Offspring with Enhanced Strength (2%), Offspring with Mild Poison (5%)
Ant Colony: One subpar worker ant, lifespan 6 months, special abilities (Strength, Agility, Venom, Medium Intelligence).
Three Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants, lifespan 13 years, special abilities (Agility, Strong Mandibles, Acid Spit that aids in plant wound healing).
One Swift Worker Ant, lifespan 5 years, special abilities (Fast crawling or attacking, Acid Spit that mildly aids in plant wound healing).
Five Sturdy Worker Ants, lifespan 3.3 years.
Fifty-two regular worker ants, lifespan 3 years.
Two Sturdy Soldier Ants, lifespan 8 months.
Nineteen regular soldier ants, lifespan 6 months.
After checking the ant colony’s attributes, he was surprised and pleased to find that there were two more Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants.
It seemed that these two slow-crawling worker ants had just completed their transformation and needed a bit more time to stabilize their new level and adapt to the changes in their bodies.
All three Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants had a lifespan of 13 years and shared the same special abilities.
This indicated that Banyan Tree Blood could be used to mass-produce Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants.
He was extremely exhilarated by this discovery.
The abilities and combat power of Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants were far beyond those of regular worker ants.
He also found that feeding one-tenth of the safe dosage of Banyan Tree Blood could create Grade One Swift Worker Ants, though their abilities were much weaker than those of the Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants.
The advantage was safety.
There was no need to worry about them exploding and dying, and the transformation time was halved.
Creating one Grade Two Lightning Ant took two days, while creating a Grade One Swift Worker Ant took only one day.
He also discovered that the lifespan of the Ant Queen, Fourth, and five Sturdy Worker Ants had all increased by 0.1 year, which was equivalent to an extra 1.2 months of life.
This benefit likely came from consuming Royal Jelly.
According to the Green Demon’s Bee Breeding Texts, Royal Jelly could extend life and slow aging in both humans and other animals, but there was a limit. For instance, even if a human consumed Royal Jelly every day, once the extended lifespan reached one year and hit the ceiling, eating more would be of no use.
Qin Niu felt this deeply.
The first time he consumed wolf blood and wolf meat, his cultivation surged by nearly 20 points. Afterward, when he drank bear blood and ate bear meat, the increase in his cultivation was significantly less and also slower.
Nutritional supplements had their limits.
Anyway, the fact that Royal Jelly could extend the lifespan of termites pleased Qin Niu immensely.
Even if it only helped the Ant Queen and Fourth extend their lives by one year, it would give him more time to find other Life-Extending Methods.
He estimated that his strength would greatly improve within a year compared to now.
When his abilities in all aspects grew stronger, he would naturally be able to provide the termites with more food or methods to extend their life.
He also noticed that the Ant Queen’s Breeding Skill proficiency had skyrocketed by 2.2 points over the past two days.
Normally, the Ant Queen would lay ten eggs a day, which would result in a 0.1 increase in its Breeding Skill proficiency.
If it suddenly went up by 2.2 in two days, could it lay 110 eggs a day?
Clearly, that was unlikely.
There was only one explanation: it must have found another way to increase its Breeding Skill proficiency.
Raising its Breeding Skill was now his most urgent task.
Discovering a way to increase the Breeding Skill proficiency by at least one additional point per day, Qin Niu was thrilled beyond measure.
He was determined to unravel the mystery.
To solve a problem, one must find the cause.
He tried to communicate with the Ant Queen, “Ant Queen, come out.”
Soon, she emerged slowly from deep within the nest.
Her body had become severely swollen, with a visibly fattened abdomen bulging in several places, plump and white. She was a professional ‘breeding machine,’ capable of laying over five hundred million eggs in her lifetime.
Currently, the Ant Queen only laid ten eggs a day, just an infant in swaddling clothes, with her explosive breeding potential yet to be realised.
“Your breeding ability has improved.”
“Yes, I am very happy.”
“How did it improve?”
“It seems to be related to them eating insect eggs and then feeding me.”
The Ant Queen may appear plump, but her intelligence was exceedingly high.
When Qin Niu initially chose her, he valued her intelligence and caution.
“I see. I had guessed as much. Just let them feed you insect eggs today.”
“Master… It also helps to feed them a variety of other foods, which can allow me to produce stronger offspring.”
“No problem.”