Astral Gods

Chapter 94 Rhinoceros Tortoise Team - Departure

Chapter 94 Rhinoceros Tortoise Team - Departure

Zishan and Ziai followed the Lord of Zizhu Mountain to Hualing to join the many Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors.

The combat teams that went to the Thousand Star Islands for training were led by the Spotted Lord or the Azure Mang Lord in the past two years, but this year the Azure Bamboo Armor King had something to discuss with the tribes on the Thousand Star Islands, so it will lead the team this year.

When the Zishan brothers arrived here with the Lord of Zizhu Mountain, many Zerg warriors had not yet arrived.

Among the many Zerg warriors who have arrived, there are not only the Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle warriors. Whether it is the Sea God Hercules Beetle tribe, or the Mongoloid Rhinoceros Beetle tribe, the War God Hercules Beetle tribe, and other affiliated tribes, they have all selected the most elite Zerg warriors from their tribes to go to the Thousand Star Islands for training.

Because training in the Thousand Star Islands not only allows them to obtain some of the evolutionary resources provided by the tribe.

If selected for the coastal defense force, one would receive a salary and be supported by the tribes of the entire Thousand Star Islands.

This was a rare benefit even for the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe, not to mention the even poorer subordinate tribes that depended on the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe for survival.

Moreover, even if they don't participate in the training, according to the overall plan of the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe, they will migrate to the Thousand Star Islands within a hundred years at the latest, where they will also have to learn from other Zerg warriors how to fight against the sea beast warriors.

Since they were going to do this job anyway, they might as well do it thoroughly, so the affiliated tribes were very enthusiastic about signing up.

To Zishan's surprise, Tiannanxing also participated in the Thousand Star Islands coastal defense training. It flew over to Tiannanxing very familiarly and greeted her warmly: "Tiannanxing, hello there!"

Tian Nanxing had only been back in the tribe for less than a year, and he was a warrior of the Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise, a subordinate tribe of the Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe.

Aside from briefly visiting when they first returned, they spent the rest of their time quietly managing the new territory allocated to them by the tribe.

Suddenly, it saw a two-pronged rhinoceros beetle warrior fly towards it and greet it in a very familiar manner, which left it somewhat bewildered.

"Who are you--?"

Zishan said enthusiastically, "Hello, my name is Zishan, and I am a worm from Ziling."

"oh oh."

It had heard from its own clansmen that Zilingyuan ranked third among the four core territories, but in recent years it had undertaken many large-scale projects and made significant moves.

The tribe's hydroelectric power station, capable of powering electric lights, was built in Ziling, and it is now showing a tendency to replace Hualing as the tribe's second core territory.

"Yew? I think I've heard of you. Do you possess a divinely bestowed male mulberry tree?" It had heard of the name yew. According to the warriors of its tribe, this little insectoid warrior possessed a divinely bestowed male mulberry tree.

Every year after the divinely bestowed seed blooms, the tribal warriors who possess the mulberry tree seed will submit an application to the tribe, requesting to use the pollen from the male divinely bestowed seed to pollinate their own seed.

It is said that after the male flower of the divinely bestowed seed from the male mulberry tree pollinates the female flower, the yield value of the seed will be greatly increased.

However, the warrior of the same tribe said that because the production of male flowers was limited, it seemed that they could only be supplied to the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe at present. So it just listened to the story as a story, but it did not expect to see the main insect of the story standing in front of it so soon.

"Yes." Yew flapped its wings, quite excited: "I even went to see you when your life seed had just migrated back."

"Really? There were too many bugs at the time, and I was busy, so I don't remember much."

Tian Nanxing immediately became interested in talking to a warrior who also possessed a divinely bestowed seed as its life seed. After returning to the tribe, the tribe provided resources and purchased a batch of primal force food for it after the trade fair last year, allowing it to successfully advance to the level of a 3-year-old advanced warrior. At the same time, it also nurtured a mulberry tree that the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe focused on cultivating as its life seed.

Since the mulberry tree has been conceived as the seed of destiny, when the mulberry seed of destiny is able to flower and bear fruit one day, we should ask the yew tree to produce divinely bestowed male flowers to pollinate our seed of destiny. It is always good to establish a good relationship.

The yew didn't have so many thoughts. After all, it had never survived alone in the wild and didn't need to worry about resources. It was just curious about a bug that had just returned to the tribe.

Since the Green Bamboo King and the others hadn't arrived yet, seeing that the Purple Pearl Mountain Lord and Purple Ai were chatting with their respective familiar insects, it also stood next to the Arisaema and started chatting with it.

"Tian Nanxing, you returned to your tribe last year, which is almost a year now. Has your Tian Nanxing Divine Gift Seed recovered?"

"I've almost recovered. The tribe's Green Fruit Lord even specially invited several insectoid warriors with wood-type support abilities to enhance my Heterophyllum Acorn Seed."

"A Zerg warrior with wood-type support abilities?" Zishan was somewhat surprised upon hearing Tiannanxing's words.

"Could it be the Lord of Black Date Mountain, and the Lord of Willow Catkin Mountain, and the others?"

"It's them, you know the yew trees too?"

Yew twitched its antennae: "They also enhanced my life seed; their abilities are quite useful."

"Then your Araceae Herba Divinely Bestowed Seeds will be able to flower and bear fruit this year, right?"

"Pretty much. The God-given Seeds are simply migrated; they are not reverted to their initial form like ordinary Destiny Seeds."

If you are forced back to your initial form, it won't be a short time before you recover.

Zishan hurriedly asked, "And what about your ordinary destiny seed? How far has it grown now?"

"My ordinary life seed was reduced to seed form by the Flame Spider Merchant. It needs to be replanted and then waited for to sprout and grow."

"If the Zerg warrior's wood-type support ability is used on a regular life form, the price seems a bit too high, and it's not worth it."

So in the past year or so, most of my ordinary seedlings have only grown to about a quarter of their original size, and it's estimated that it will take another three or four years to grow to their original state before they can flower and bear fruit.

"That will take quite a long time." Zishan silently calculated in her mind that if the price of the Willow Catkin Mountain Lord and the Black Date Mountain Lord using their abilities was included, the total price would be 2000 primal stones.

To shorten the growth time of a life seed by three times, one would need to use the ability 24 times a year, requiring 48,000 primal stones. With other miscellaneous expenses, it would take at least 50,000 to 60,000 primal stones to cover the costs.

There are 20 life seeds in Tiannanxing. If each one were to use its abilities to accelerate its growth, it would require a million primal stones.

How many raw stones can a single plant produce in a year? It seems best to just wait for it to grow naturally.

While they were chatting, the Zerg warriors from other mountain peaks arrived one after another. By the time the Green Bamboo Armor King arrived, all the Zerg warriors had gathered.

Zishan glanced around and saw that there were one Zerg King, two Lord-level Zerg Warriors, 12 Mountain Lord-level Zerg Warriors, and 33 High-level Warriors present.

Needless to say, the two lord-level warriors were definitely going to replace the lord-level warriors on Sang Island. Among the 12 mountain lord-level rhinoceros beetle warriors, it had heard last year that a sea god giant herring beetle warrior and a double-forked rhinoceros beetle warrior had been selected for the coastal defense team.

So two of them are definitely going to work, while the other 10 will continue their training at the Thousand Star Islands training camp.

I wonder if any of the 33 high-level rhinoceros beetle warriors are also here to take a look, just like me.

Once all the insects had arrived, the Green Bamboo King gave the order: "Now that everyone is here, let's set off. Remember, the sea is turbulent, and all sorts of unexpected situations may arise, so please don't fall behind."

"clear!"

Led by the Green Bamboo King, the insects spread their wings and flew majestically towards the sea.

More than 50 Zerg warriors flew in formation, led by the Green Bamboo Armor King, with 12 Mountain Lords following closely on either side in a triangular formation.

More than 30 high-ranking warriors were positioned at the center of the triangle, while two lords brought up the rear.

A line of insects flew swiftly across the vast ocean, quickly moving away from Xiangjiao Island.

As the field of vision widened, the island behind them gradually shrank until it became a small black dot, and eventually even that small black dot could not be seen.

Over the years, although the yew has lived on the island, it has never left the island, nor has it ever truly flown over the sea. Looking at the boundless ocean, with no place to land, it has felt somewhat worried.

However, surrounded by warriors of his own kind, and with the Green Bamboo Armor King leading the way, any worry he felt upon seeing the boundless sea vanished instantly.

The distance between the Thousand Star Islands and Xiangjiao Island is about 500 to 600 kilometers. Between these two islands, there are only a few small, open islands, not even enough to form an island chain. Therefore, Xiangjiao Island forms a separate large island group.

The Thousand Star Islands, on the other hand, are a super-large island group, dozens of times larger than Xiangjiao Island, with a much wider expanse of sea area.

It is bordered by a divine barrier to the east, resists the beastmen to the north, and competes with the sea beast kingdom for living space to the south. It can be said that their overall strength is not necessarily much weaker than that of the Thousand Tree Continent.

The number of Zerg warriors who have developed in the Thousand Star Islands is in the hundreds of thousands, and they have formed a unique style and environment.

As long as they have the strength to occupy and survive on the island, relying on the abundant marine resources, the tribe can quickly grow stronger.

Of course, for some herbivorous Zerg warriors, although they can also eat meat, the taste of fish in the sea is far inferior to that of flowers, grass and trees on land.

If the competition on the Thousand Trees Continent hadn't been so fierce, the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe wouldn't have been willing to migrate to the Thousand Star Islands to develop.

A King-level Zerg warrior can easily traverse 500 kilometers in just one day.

Even though the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors are slow due to their large size, they can still arrive in two days if they fly at full speed.

However, the team has too many high-level warriors and mountain lord-level warriors, and their flight speed and endurance must be taken into account, so their overall flight speed is not fast.

Some might wonder, when yews usually fly 20 to 30 kilometers between Daqingfeng and Ziling in just half an hour during their classes at Daqingfeng, why do their flight speeds slow down after they are promoted to advanced warriors?

This is the endurance issue mentioned earlier. They can fly 30 kilometers in half an hour, but that doesn't mean they can fly 1,400 or 1,500 kilometers a day.

Rhinoceros beetle warriors are powerful and have terrifying explosive force, but their endurance is far inferior to that of other Zerg warriors, mainly due to their body structure.

They are large and heavy, so in the survival of the fittest in nature, they have developed a body structure where strength is greater than defense, and defense is greater than speed.

This also means that they need to rest every hour or two, and their resting time is during the most dangerous period of their sea voyage.

As mentioned before, the sea stretches as far as the eye can see, and even islands are scarce.

If there are no islands along the straight-line distance to serve as stop points, there are only two options: either deviate from the original flight path and turn to other islands as stop points, which would require lengthening the flight route.

Alternatively, one could use their abilities to create artificial docking points at sea, which would be simple, efficient, and time-saving.

The only problem is that the sea is very dangerous. Many sea monster warriors like to attack the insectoid warriors and devour them at will. If the insectoid warriors are not careful, they will be eaten by them.

Even without considering the sea monster warriors, there are countless enormous fish in the sea. Most Zerg warriors, even after advancing to the Mountain Lord level, are only 3 meters long. If they encounter some ferocious fish, they can swallow them whole.

Even if a mountain lord-level Zerg warrior is incredibly powerful, if they are ambushed, they will be severely injured, if not killed.

However, since their team includes a King Insect and two Lords, there's no need to worry about such issues.

If a single insect king can't even protect a few of its juniors, then it shouldn't even talk about expanding the Thousand Star Islands; it's better to just stay put on Banana Island.

Just as they had flown more than 80 kilometers, they suddenly saw a ship sailing on the distant sea.

"What's that??" Upon seeing the small black dot of a ship in the distance, everyone instinctively increased their flight speed.

As their flight speed increased, the dark shape on the sea ahead became clearer. All the insects could see that what was sailing on the sea was a ship modeled after the Flame Spider Merchant Ship.

As the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors drew closer to the ship, the Zerg warriors on board spotted them. A Mountain Lord-level Zerg warrior flapped its wings and charged towards them.

Upon seeing this, the Green Bamboo Armor King immediately reduced its flight speed, and the many Zerg warriors traveling with it also gradually slowed down.

As the two sides drew near, Zishan recognized them as Black Skipper Warriors.

The black skipper is entirely dark black, with a wingspan of four to five meters. Its wings have a black base color with light blue veins, and shimmer with iridescent colors under the sun.

The Black Skipper tribe is also one of the seventeen major tribes on the island. The number of their main butterfly tribe is similar to that of the Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe's insectoid warriors, around two to three hundred. However, if their subordinate tribes are included, the entire tribe has over eight hundred insectoid warriors.

After advancing to the Mountain Lord level, Black Skirting Warriors will awaken either Wind or Metal talents.

Because they share similar talent and potential, the two sides often engage in trade and competition, mainly over metal-type divine-given food on the island. Overall, however, they have quite a lot of contact.