Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat points - Chapter 63

Chapter 58 Upgrade Breeding Skill_1

Translator: 549690339

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 3.35/10, 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.”

Qin Niu chuckled.

He had just checked the Ant Queen’s attributes and discovered that the probability of it producing offspring with strong attributes increased by 1%, and the probability of producing offspring with slight toxin attributes went up by 2%. This was a very good performance.

“Go inside—you should keep a low profile unless it’s necessary, as you’re the most important part of the entire ant colony.”

In Qin Niu’s mind, the Ant Queen was the core of the core.

As long as the Ant Queen was alive, even if the rest of the ant colony perished, it could quickly create another batch.

“Don’t worry!”

She felt a hint of pride in its response.

And rightfully so, as Termite Ant Queens were best at hiding deep within their nests.

The ant colony now had several dozen Worker Ants and 21 Soldier Ants—whether in terms of defense capabilities or nest excavation abilities, they were already quite strong.

Relying on Fourth’s intelligence and cunning, he would surely dig a very concealed royal chamber for the Ant Queen.

Seeing such great progress in the ant colony, Qin Niu was filled with a sense of achievement and joy.

If they continued to develop at this rate, it wouldn’t take long for the ant colony to become the overlord of this region. At least on the ground, his ant colony would call the shots.

He used to think that the stinky ant colony not far away was very powerful.

Now he was somewhat worried about their situation.

When Qin Niu’s ant colony became stronger, given the termites’ nature to occupy territory, they would likely be the first to eliminate that stinky ant colony.

As for such matters, Qin Niu would not intervene.

It was better to let them develop freely.

This type of low-risk trial and error opportunity was very rare and could help them greatly improve their survival abilities in the wild.

Knowing that the larvae could help the Ant Queen quickly enhance its breeding capability, he naturally fed the ant colony another batch of larvae.

Then he selected five young Worker Ants that had just molted into adults yesterday and fed them a safe dose of Banyan Tree Blood, and five regular Worker Ants were fed one-tenth of the safe dose of Banyan Tree Blood.

Using Banyan Tree Blood to cultivate ten Worker Ants at once was quite a significant step.

This was because, after several experiments, he had come up with a set of methods to cultivate them.

The Swift Worker Ants were weaker, but their efficiency was much higher than that of ordinary Worker Ants. One could replace four or five regular Worker Ants.

Cultivating a group of Swift Worker Ants could greatly increase the work efficiency of the ant colony.

The two Soldier Ants were not yet done molting, so he could only wait patiently. Once there were results, he would make the next cultivation plan.

After he finished, Qin Niu quickly headed towards the location of the beehive.

To him, this route was already very familiar, and he easily arrived under that pine tree.

The bee colony showed no signs of disturbance.

“Master!”

The Queen Bee, sensing his arrival, transmitted a signal to him from within the beehive.

It did not leave the nest.

Just like the ancient emperors had to stay in the Emperor Palace of the imperial capital, they could not leave at will.

Otherwise, it could easily lead to unrest.

If the Queen Bee left the nest, the entire bee colony would feel uneasy and become restless. This would severely affect the stability of the bee colony.

“Keep control of the bee colony, and once you produce your first batch of offspring, I’ll have a way to help you extend your life and become stronger.”

Qin Niu reassured her, and then sat down under the tree to take out the Treasured Sword, applying all the remaining Banyan Tree Blood onto the blade.

The amount of Banyan Tree Blood fed to the termites was very small, almost negligible.

The main consumer was still the Treasured Sword’s appetite.

It needed to consume a lot of Banyan Tree Blood at once.

After applying it to the sword, the jar was empty.

Only a little bit of Banyan Tree Blood left clinging to the inner wall of the jar. Qin Niu treasured the remaining bit, not much though it was, it could cultivate a large number of powerful termites.

After the Treasured Sword was smeared with Banyan Tree Blood, it became excited again.

One could see the Banyan Tree Blood being greedily absorbed by the blade.

Qin Niu placed it between two stones and left it be, instead turning his gaze to the Ancient Banyan Tree next to the pine tree.

Tomorrow, once the two Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants’ realm stabilized and their movements became as swift as Fifth’s, he could consider bringing them over to give it a try.

Then, he would prepare two larger jars because if he entered, Qin Niu would definitely want to bring out several jars of Banyan Tree Blood.

“Queen Bee, that Banyan Tree next to us, can your bees fly out if they enter it?”

Qin Niu communicated with the Queen Bee inside the beehive.

“There is something there that we fear; we mustn’t go!”

The Queen Bee exhibited deep fear towards the Ancient Banyan Tree.

All things in the world have a spirit.

The bees’ way of perceiving the outside world was different from humans; they used vision and smell to investigate objects.

They could also sense the strength of magnetic fields.

Probably having suffered a loss from that Ancient Banyan Tree, they feared it.

“Have any bees gone in?”

“I don’t know. Our genetic information marks the range around that Banyan Tree as extremely dangerous.”

The Queen Bee’s response made Qin Niu even more certain that bees had entered before but couldn’t come out.

That’s why the bee colony would pass on this piece of information to the next generation.

For example, they feared birds, spiders, and so on. After being preyed upon by birds a few times, they would naturally form genetic information that marked birds as extremely dangerous enemies.

They would quickly hide or fly away to save their lives upon encountering one.