The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 157 - 71: The Choice of the Two Beast Kings (3k)

Chapter 157: Chapter 71: The Choice of the Two Beast Kings (3k)

Bai Yi cultivating Tree-men follows an order that starts from the giant banyan tree and then outward to each individual tree.

Both because these banyan trees have been part of the territory for the longest time and to provide space for Yuktrahill, the giant banyan.

The initially clear space has now been completely covered by You’s canopy, even overshadowing some Mutated banyans at the edge of the clearing, causing these Mutated banyans to lack adequate care.

This is still the result of You trying its best to restrain its growth.

Otherwise, with the ability of gigantification, You’s canopy might have spread to over a hundred meters; now, You can only try to grow upwards as much as possible, rather than outward.

Moreover, now that the tier of the territory has broken through to level 4, You has found it even harder to suppress its growth tendencies, urgently needing more space.

If Bai Yi didn’t transform them into Tree-men, You would be forced to use the Same Root ability to completely assimilate the external banyans into itself.

But that would also mean "killing" them in a certain sense, so You is rather unwilling to do that and prefers to restrain its own growth.

Fortunately, now Bai Yi possesses the ability to enlighten Tree-men, transforming those Mutated banyans into Tree-men, sending them to White Poplar Mountain to serve as a barrier at the pre-set boundaries of Bai Yi’s territory.

You then synchronously releases its stored nutrients, beginning to grow rapidly, hanging down more wooden vines as root tendrils, forming auxiliary roots to support its large canopy.

Bai Yi also called back Nong Er, who was organizing construction in Eternal Life City, to rearrange the treehouses on the giant banyan, and materialized the building blueprints obtained in the Points Mall during this challenge.

Such a huge disturbance, naturally, couldn’t be hidden from the two Beast Kings residing within the territory; seeing Bai Yi’s actions, they even thought Bai Yi was deliberately pressuring them.

Even the large bird no longer maintained its sense of superiority, proactively conceding many terms, quickly reaching an agreement to come outside the tree hole to admire the growth of the giant banyan.

Busy until night fell, Bai Yi had cultivated nearly a thousand Tree-men, freeing over ten meters of space for You’s growth.

Yet these thousand Tree-men, even in the loosest formation, could only form a blockade line of ten kilometers, still two-thirds away from establishing a barrier across White Poplar Mountain.

Even if Bai Yi did nothing else tomorrow, it would still take another whole day to cultivate enough Tree-men to set up the initial defensive line.

Additionally, with the Tree-men’s moving speed, it would take at least another day to reach the designated position.

Bai Yi used his superpower for a day, and upon returning to the tree hole, felt a slight headache, not due to the exhaustion of Magic Power but mentally.

After advancing to Rank 4, not only his physical and spiritual power partly reverted back to Bai Yi’s control, but his superpowers did the same.

Although aided by the panel, Bai Yi didn’t need to manipulate genes for Fusion personally; however, he needed to personally control the output and absorption of Magic Power in his operations, unlike before when just clicking the panel would utilize it, or swallowing Crystal Rice would automatically digest into Magic Power.

It required precise control of Magic Power output to pay the cost of superpower usage, and also personally extracting Magic Power from Crystal Rice to restore his own Magic Power Value.

All afternoon, Bai Yi practiced controlling superpower and Magic Power clumsily like a beginner.

Also, because of Bai Yi’s rough absorption method, a lot of Crystal Rice was left with some residual Magic Power, producing a lot of low-quality, low Magic Power Concentration Crystal Rice.

Although Bai Yi also gained a lot of experience, it was truly exhausting.

Every Mutated banyan required careful differentiation of the main body within the intertwined roots, then each one being fused with terms, coupled with prompting to quickly grant them movement capabilities.

Half a day’s labor made Bai Yi look forward to the evolution of his ability after reaching Rank 5, hoping to obtain a method for quick and mass Fusion of terms, otherwise, she still hoped that one day all these huge areas of Mutated banyan forests could turn into Tree-men!

This also made Bai Yi decide to quickly enhance his superpower to Rank 4, to swiftly complete the [Forest Elf] ritual.

Returning to the tree hole, the two Beast Kings had already left.

Bai Yi directed those summoned Insect Swarms, who hadn’t received new orders, to each perform their function, dispersing from the surrounding banyan forests.

Not continuing to stay in the tree hole, Bai Yi took out a set of clothes to change into and went onto the suspension walkway, managing his way across the vine-composed suspension bridge to a hanging treehouse that depended on the thick tree roots.

Even before approaching, he could hear the babbling sound of water and see the water flowing along the bottom of the auxiliary roots, becoming a stream within the territory, with this treehouse as the water’s source.

This setup was specifically instructed by Bai Yi to Nong Er, utilizing bathhouse blueprints exchanged from the last challenge in the Points Store, even incorporating several low-tier relics to upgrade the bathhouse to the level of 3-rank Gold.

The expense was naturally for improving life within the territory.

Having been in this world for almost a month, the initial half-month was spent living like a primitive. After enjoying nearly modern living conditions upon entering the instance, Bai Yi returning to the territory found it somewhat difficult to adjust.

Since the conditions now allowed it, Bai Yi certainly wouldn’t shortchange herself.

Entering through the doorway covered by a beast skin curtain, directly opposite the front door was this treehouse’s water source, a Clear Spring altar, with a Faceless Dragon Girl sculpture holding a metal can from which flowed clear water.

It was somewhat strange for Bai Yi that, except for the Dragon Girl on the first Clear Spring Altar who had a concrete image, starting from the second one, the faces on the statues no longer had a true likeness.

However, since there was no change in effects and even because the Magic Power Concentration in the territory had increased, thereby reducing the spacing between these altars, Bai Yi let it be.

This time, You was specifically asked to move the original altar to a place far from the tree hole, facing the back mountain, and the position of the original altar was replaced with a new one.

Even if that altar was special, let it go enjoy the scenery.

Finding a compartment, lying in the warm water heated with Extraordinary Relics, Shang Ji had already stored the results of today’s discussions in the form of messages within the Swarm Network, which Bai Yi accessed upon entering the network.

The two Beast Kings will consolidate all the clan members within the territory tomorrow, waiting for Bai Yi to coordinate and complete the Cycle Challenge, and then they will start migrating from underground to come within the range of Bai Yi’s territory.

Both tribes will be situated near White Poplar Mountain within Bai Yi’s territory, with each having their own ten square kilometers area designated by Shang Ji, allowing them to freely build and live.

The daily food issue will be provided by Bai Yi to a minimal extent, and as a price for the food and new territory, they will also obey Bai Yi’s commands.

As for what specifically needs to be done, Shang Ji had already planned it; judging from the remains of the negotiation records on the network, it seems Shang Ji had already finished dividing these beast tribes with Bai Sheng.

And the two Beast Kings themselves have made different choices, which are the two methods set by Shang Ji. One is to fully join the territory and completely become a part of the territory as a hero through conversion certificates.

This option naturally means they would be fully regarded as one of their own and would get more benefits, being the first to be considered for any good opportunities.

But this also means losing the potential for their own growth and having to belong to the growth system of the territory.

The second option is to join only nominally, similar to Councilman Hong’s status, but with an additional subordinate relationship, needing to follow orders to serve the territory.

And the benefit is to be able to bask under the high Magic Power Concentration beneath the giant banyan, speeding up growth.

Monkey King chose to trust Bai Yi’s growth pace; unlike the orange cat, it was only one step away from Rank 6, and even with such high Magic Power Concentration, it didn’t believe it would breakthrough Rank 6 before Bai Yi.

Rather, it decided to follow the orange cat’s advice early and fully lean toward Bai Yi, becoming a member of Bai Yi’s territory.

And more directly speaking, Bai Yi’s panel showed that the Monkey King was still just lv.55; to break through, it would probably still take nearly half a year.

However, White Feathered Owl thought differently and chose the latter option, even though its level was one lower than Monkey King, only lv.54 in Bai Yi’s view.

But Bai Yi respected its opinion. She had given it the opportunity, allowing it to seemingly freeload and live in, even without requiring parasitism. But if it later regretted and came back asking her, it would no longer be up to it.

However, apart from these two Beast Kings, what truly interested Bai Yi was the fourth candidate mentioned by Monkey King, the old Snake.

Of course, it wasn’t because Bai Yi was interested in playing with a big snake, but purely because she coveted the gene it carried.

Previously, Bai Yi had not intentionally sought creatures with the ability to hibernate, but this snake-bodied Beast King happened to have this ability, though because it was Rank 5, Bai Yi could temporarily not read its gene.

But this kind of species-specific entry does not need its main body; even its low-rank descendants can obtain not much different genes.

With this, Bai Yi’s swarm could achieve a state of silence when combat was not necessary, reducing consumption.

Especially for the swarm inside the instance, who were just going in a few days, they planned to first obtain this gene, then go in to modify the swarms inside.

Otherwise, the few remaining humans inside would not need so many swarms to maintain rule, though Bai Yi could choose to let them all contribute to the Fungus Blanket as nutrients to be returned, and when needed, quickly extract nutrients for rapid troop production via division.

This was also theoretically the best solution, but Bai Yi still felt it was somewhat inhumane.

Even though they were swarms with very little intelligence.

Bai Yi believed that this was an important anchor to distinguish her as a human; she was the Queen of the swarm, but before that, she was still a person.

The rest of the other information, most of them were individual work reports from Bai Sheng and others, like today Nong Yi had successfully led people to open up a large piece of farmland, but due to severe weather, they had not yet started planting.

Like today, the Fungus Blanket had begun to spread as some areas’ snow melted, and like today Nong Er led people in Eternal Life City to carve a statue for Bai Yi, and like today Zhan Yi had already dug five kilometers up and down on the ice floats on the Red River and received from underground...

Wait, it seems something weird has mixed in...

"Eh? A statue?!"

Bai Yi suddenly froze, then quickly reacted, emitting a sharp shriek.

"Eh?!!!"

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Bai Yi (description): Allow me to introduce you, the common ruler of all swarms, the God who holds dominion over plants, the cutest in the world, Bai Yi! Hehehe, Bai Yi, my Bai Yi, hehe...ah!