Astral Cockroach

In just three days, the Fire Oil Tea God-given Seed's stalk height broke through 2 meters, and the rapid growth trend continued.

The Fire Oil Tea Tree Spirit was indeed a miser.

Large chunks of primal stones were laid under the tree, refusing the help of the ant colony commanded by Banbu and Datou, instead trusting Oil Tea more.

Oil Tea slept under the tree.

Whenever primal force was needed, the tree spirit would transmit a friendly thought, and Oil Tea would pick up a primal stone, shave off powder, and replenish its primal force.

Each time, the tree spirit only ate about a third full, immediately transmitting an annoyed thought to Oil Tea, who would then put down the primal stone and stop replenishing its primal force. After the primal force was fully absorbed and digested, it would have to endure for a while, and then continue to let Oil Tea use the primal stone to replenish its primal force.

It was troublesome, requiring constant guarding under the tree, but Oil Tea enjoyed it.

Eating multiple small meals could maximize the efficiency of primal force utilization and save primal stones, which Banbu was naturally happy to see.

… …

Half a month later, the strange energy was exhausted.

The Fire Oil Tea God-given Seed's stalk height leaped to over 3 meters.

Banbu's plan was to use 10,000 primal stones to help it grow, but it only used less than 5,000. There were many left, but the Fire Oil Tea Tree Spirit stubbornly refused to let them be taken away. Banbu had no choice but to put them in a silk bag and place it under the tree.

The Fire Oil Tea Tree Spirit began to murmur every day about when autumn would arrive. Because Banbu had told it that after the start of autumn, the Black and White Flower Cockroach Tribe's County Princess would come to stimulate it once more, and this time it would be rewarded with 20,000 primal stones.

… …

In the following time, Banbu tried to relax a bit, handing over the necessary tasks to Hongdao and Duzhu. Every day, he ate and drank, practiced his cultivation techniques, and spent the rest of his time quietly lying on the mountain watching the scenery, or wandering around the territory, checking his life-seed plants.

Advancing to Mountain Lord had a certain probability of failure. Without the assistance of technological equipment, no one was confident that they could succeed 100%.

For no reason, Banbu became sentimental. Such a beautiful planet, such a wonderful life, worrying that he would fall asleep and never wake up again… What if he was unlucky and died… The several nests, large and small, on Lizhu Peak… What would become of them?

A low-grade Cattail God-given Seed, a wild Cliff Cypress God-given Seed that had not even completed a single transformation, could not support so many members.

Especially Datou, Daxiong, Oil Tea, and the seven Bamboo Rat warriors who could not conceive life-seeds. If he died, where would they find a living?

Wind Chime was not young and needed to spend a large amount of primal stones to grow quickly; otherwise, entering old age, it would inevitably die.

The Firethorn's family's life-seed plants were almost all Blood Thorns. Without his subsidy, its future would be bleak…

The entire mountain was full of worries and ties.

Banbu somewhat understood why the Chijian Cockroach King wanted him to stimulate the wild Cliff Cypress God-given Seed. When it advanced to Cockroach King, it had the same worries, right? The Chijian Cockroach King had over a thousand insect descendants. If it failed to advance, the consequences… Chijian County would gradually decline, and Lizhu Peak would not have the current peace and stability.

Leave some foundation for the younger generation, go to sleep and break through without any worries. If it fails, there will be no regrets in death.

… …

The bamboo species hybridization experiment was too exhausting, so he simply suspended it for a year. During the dry season, he only carried out some simple hybridization work between Green Bamboo and Rain Bamboo.

In autumn, the Fire Oil Tea God-given Seed produced flower spikes. After a long period of persuasion from Banbu, it finally allowed the worker ants commanded by Datou to approach and cut off these flower spikes, taking a year off from fruiting.

Mountain Lord Huabai brought a County Princess and came again to stimulate the Fire Oil Tea God-given Seed. Half a month later, the tree reached a height of 4.5 meters.

Now, there were two silk bags placed under the tree, containing 16,000 primal stones, and Oil Tea stayed by its side, guarding it.

It was a strange combination of styles. Upon careful consideration, Oil Tea seemed to have become a true "miser," while the Fire Oil Tea God-given Seed was more like a little rich man.

After the start of autumn, good news kept coming.

First, Pu Tao and Yun Tao successively advanced to L9 Advanced Warriors, and could try to advance to Mountain Lord in about two or three years.

Then came the news that Cliff Cypress had successfully advanced to Mountain Lord. From then on, the Iron Saber Mountain Range would have two Mountain Lords, Iron Saber and Cliff Cypress, sitting in charge.

Cliff Cypress's success gave Banbu great confidence: The high-quality primal force food that Cliff Cypress had eaten was not even a fraction of his. If it could succeed, why would he fail?

… …

The beast scourge was almost completely resolved.

In the late autumn season, the Chijian Cockroach King and County Princess Youli organized in advance, mobilizing 2,000 warriors to simultaneously investigate and sweep the Iron Saber Mountain Range and the Jinping Mountain Range.

Banbu's advancement to Mountain Lord was of great importance and could not be neglected in the slightest. In winter, the Chijian Cockroach King sent 20 warriors, divided into two groups, to guard the north and south sides of Lizhu Peak respectively.

Ten advanced warriors each guarded the southeast, northwest, and there were also 3 powerful Mountain Lord-level warriors on the mountaintop. Daxiong went up the mountain to squat and guard Banbu's cave entrance.

Ensuring that nothing went wrong, Banbu fell into a deep sleep.

Lizhu Peak was under high alert.

… …

"Datou, Daxiong…"

He woke up groggily, vaguely remembering that Daxiong was responsible for guarding, and called out with his mental power.

The extreme weakness that had not appeared for many years made even waving his antennae difficult.

"Banbu, you're awake!" Daxiong was overjoyed, and immediately drummed up his mental power and shouted: "Banbu is awake! Banbu is awake…"

"Daxiong, how long have I been asleep? Was it long?" Banbu asked.

"Not long, right?" Daxiong lowered his head, scratching hard, counting the horizontal lines carved on the ground, and said: "Banbu, 27 days, you only slept for 27 days. Mountain Lord Huangwen told me that it takes 30 days to advance to Mountain Lord…"

Datou hurried over, took a look, and immediately shook his antennae, directing the ant colony to act, moving out the stored dried meat, chopping it up, and sending it to Banbu: "Banbu, eat first."

Mountain Lords Huangwen, Bairong, and Hepi came down the mountain upon hearing the news.

Members such as Fengling, Hongdao, and Duzhu rushed over one after another, crowding the open space outside the cave.

"Banbu, you rest first." Mountain Lord Huangwen, being squeezed badly, shook his antennae and greeted: "Bairong, Hepi, let's go, let's go down the mountain and hunt some fresh food back!"

The newest and most complete novels are available first at 6_9_shu_ba!

After shouting, he leaped into the air.

Mountain Lords Bairong and Hepi followed and flapped their wings to leave.

Without the three big guys, it was no longer so crowded.

Banbu ate some food, felt much better, continued to eat, and his physical strength gradually recovered.

The gray-black carapace color began to change to deep black.

Soon, a Hooked Mountain Python was sent up the mountain. Slowly eating, his physical strength and nutrition were replenished, and his carapace completely transformed into a pitch-black color full of metallic texture. A layer of crimson lines appeared on the surface, flickering, emitting a fiery red halo, and quickly absorbing natural primal force.

Seeing that Banbu's advancement was going smoothly, the members crowded at the entrance of the cave gradually dispersed.

Banbu was finally able to walk out of the cave, spread his pulse wings, and carefully examine the changes after the advancement.

His body length leaped to about 4.5 meters, his whole body was full of explosive power, and his carapace was strengthened by metal abilities. Compared to the Advanced Warrior stage, his defensive ability was a qualitative improvement. In close combat, he was definitely not weaker than any overlord-level beast.

It was late at night, and the bamboo forest formed by the Ma Bamboo life-seed emitted a hazy halo.

Banbu strode forward.

The Ma Bamboo life-seed naturally fed back the massive primal force accumulated during the day to Banbu.

With the abundant primal force replenished, the bright red lines on the carapace stopped flickering and solidified.

Opening his pulse wings, his mind moved, and a flame lit up at the tip of his wings.

His mind moved again, and the flame went out.

Raising his head to the sky, he opened his mouth, and a crimson pillar of fire spewed out, shooting into the night sky.

"Hiss… a little hot on the mouth…" Banbu muttered, satisfied, and folded his pulse wings.

Spending a lot of primal stones to purchase high-quality primal force food, the benefits were manifested at this time. He was only at L1 Mountain Lord, but he could probably release the flame ability twice with all his strength, which was 1 more time than ordinary Chijian Cockroach Tribe Mountain Lords.

After releasing it once, the red lines on the surface of the carapace began to flicker uncontrollably again, quickly absorbing the surrounding natural primal force.

Banbu then came to the Lizhu life-seed and absorbed and replenished the primal force lost from just releasing the flame ability. Immediately, the halo emitted by these lines dimmed.

"Powerful talent ability!"

"No less than any gene martial skill!"

Banbu sighed inwardly, concentrating and calming his mind, carefully experiencing it. In a daze, he seemed to be able to resonate a little with the metal elements in the soil.

"Metal ability inherited from the Overlord-level metal core… is very poor!"

Banbu was not disappointed. Continuing to grow, he should be able to awaken a little metal control ability.

Continuing to scan with his divine sense, checking the changes in his bloodline and heart, his antennae twitched, and the great mood of successful breakthrough instantly vanished.

PS: Readers, please don't spray in the book review area! The post has been deleted, and you will be banned next time.