"Master, spare me, I won't dare to do it again."

The queen ant screamed and begged in the spiritual connection.

"I will spare you this time, but next time, I will make sure you live and die."

Ding Ning gave a cold warning and then stopped the punishment.

This was the first time he used the punishment measures in the master-servant contract. Unexpectedly, the effect was quite good. Even an eight-mark strongman like the ant queen was in pain.

"Master, I don't dare to do it anymore."

The queen ant regained her composure and knelt down on the ground, conveying her surrender in the spiritual connection.

"In this case, I will ask you some questions and you must answer them truthfully."

Ding Ning was full of doubts. According to his previous understanding, this ant queen could only evolve into a strong person with four or five golden lines at most. How could she suddenly become a strong person with eight lines?

The reason why I can't figure it out is because with the strength of the Eight Marks of the Ant Queen, he can lead the tribe back to the center of the desert. How could he honestly offer sacrifices to the Saintess tribe and still stay here?

"Master, I have just broken through the Eight Patterns..."

As the ant queen began to talk, Ding Ning finally understood what was going on.

It turns out that the queen ant did only have six gold lines before, but now it has eight gold lines because it ate all the ant slurry in its inventory before temporarily breaking through.

Ant paste is equivalent to the strategic reserve and reward resource of the tribe. In the past, it would never eat all the ant paste to improve itself. Instead, it would give it to the ants to maintain its rule. After all, ants are social creatures.

, what matters is the strength of the entire ethnic group.

However, since the people of the tribe are basically its offspring, every ant in the tribe has some kind of subtle spiritual connection with it.

When Ding Ning captured almost all the yellow ants into the Yao Ling Ring, the queen ant could clearly feel that almost all the tribesmen were disconnected from it one after another. This made her realize that there might be a tribe that could not compete with it.

Terrible enemy.

The group has reached a moment of life and death. How can the queen ant care about anything else? As long as she does not die, the group will recover sooner or later, but it will take a long time.

Therefore, she hurried to the place where the ant slurry was stored with the guard ants, intending to swallow the ant slurry all at once to increase its strength. If it could defeat the enemy, it would be best. If not, it would be more confident in escaping.

But it didn't expect that Ding Ning would come so quickly, so it could only send out all the guard ants to delay the attack, while it took this opportunity to make continuous breakthroughs.

Originally, with its eight-line strength, even if it couldn't defeat Ding Ning, he could still easily escape if he wanted to. Unfortunately, due to his temporary greed and his breakthrough in cultivation, he was overconfident in his own mental power.

She was deceived by Ding Ning, fell into his scheme, and ended up becoming a spiritual pet.

Ding Ning's face was full of disappointment. He came here for the ant slurry, but he didn't expect it, but what could he say? If he were the ant queen, he would definitely make such a choice.

Suppressing his inner depression, he continued to ask about the restricted area of ​​the queen ant and the method of brewing ant slurry.

The queen ant always answered Ding Ning's questions and did not dare to hide anything. Many years ago, before she became the queen, she once visited the restricted area by mistake.

In the past, it was just a worker ant with the lowest status. It had neither the ability to reproduce nor any fighting ability. If there were no accidents, its fate in this life would be to die silently without any troubles while working hard.

But it was that time that he sneaked into the restricted area that completely changed its fate.

The queen ant herself couldn't tell exactly what was in the restricted area. She only knew that it didn't look like a barren desert at all, but had beautiful mountains and clear waters, birds singing and flowers fragrant, murmuring streams and fairy sounds.

A place like a fairyland.

The fact that the ants live in the desert does not mean that they do not need to drink water. It is just that their ancestors have lived here for generations, allowing them to evolve into extremely drought-tolerant species. However, this does not mean that they do not desire to live in places with water sources.

However, even the queen ant herself cannot explain why she is unwilling to leave the desert to find a place with sufficient water to live. Maybe some ants have thought about this problem, but no one has mentioned it, as if they are living in the desert.

It is a matter of course, and it would be treason to suggest leaving the desert. Perhaps they themselves are not aware that there is a temptation in the desert that they cannot resist, and that is a restricted area.

Therefore, after the queen ant ignorantly plunged into the so-called restricted area, looking at the beautiful scenery there and breathing the fresh air, she felt that that was where the ants should live, and then she fainted...

When it woke up, it had returned to the clan, had inexplicably acquired the ability to reproduce, and had an additional memory of brewing ant syrup in its mind.

A few days later, the queen ant suddenly died without any warning. She, a female ant who had inexplicable fertility, naturally became the queen ant and began her legendary life.

When Ding Ning heard this, he was greatly disappointed. He thought he could get some information about the restricted area from the queen ant. Unexpectedly, she knew everything except the beautiful mountains and clear waters there.

The queen ant also told him the formula for brewing ant paste, but this formula is completely useless to humans. It seems to be a unique brewing method of the ant tribe, because one of the raw materials in the formula is a kind of formic acid secreted by the queen.

If it were just like this, the ant slurry would not be so precious. The most important raw material is a special stone deep in the Wanyi Desert. This stone is called water cloud stone by the ants.

According to the Queen Ant, water marble is not common in the center of the desert. On the contrary, when she first entered the restricted area, she saw that there seemed to be water marble everywhere. She suspected that the small amount of water marble that appeared in the center of the desert was strayed from the restricted area.

came out.

After the death of the ant king, the yellow ant tribe began to decline. The queen ant stepped forward resolutely and shouldered the mission of revitalizing the tribe. When she retreated from the center of the desert to the outer ring, she did not need to take anything with her, but she asked the tribe to take everything they could find.

Take away all the water marble.

At that time, there were still many tribesmen who were puzzled, but it persisted because it knew that ant slurry was the key to whether the tribe could regain its former glory. And if there was no indispensable main material such as water marble, then

Everything is empty talk.

"Water marble?"

Ding Ning had never heard of this kind of stone and murmured in confusion.

The queen ant made gestures for a long time before she explained to him exactly what the water cloud stone looked like. The appearance of this water cloud stone looked no different from ordinary stone, but if you look closely, you can find that there is always a faint floating layer inside the stone.

The mist looks like clouds swimming in it, so they call it water marble.

Ding Ning was stunned when he heard this. There was cloud-like mist flowing inside the stone. It was truly a magical stone that he had never heard of or seen before.

It was a pity that after so many years, the water marble that he brought out had long been used up by the queen ant brewing ant slurry, and there was no real object that could open his eyes, which made him deeply regretful.

"Then if I don't come, without the water marble, wouldn't you be able to brew ant syrup in the future?"

Ding Ning asked doubtfully.

"Originally, yes, but after I discover this tree, I can continue to brew ant syrup."

The queen ant raised her antennae and pointed to the top of the tree hole.

Ding Ning opened his mouth in astonishment: "You mean the Dragon Subduing Tree?"

"Is this tree called the Dragon Subduing Tree? The owner is really knowledgeable and knowledgeable."

The queen ant flattered her gently but not too harshly.

Ding Ning was even more puzzled. According to what the queen ant said, the formula of ant slurry appeared in its memory inexplicably. It was not a scientific researcher, so why did it think that Dragon Tree could replace that marble as a raw material?

"I don't know either. I just have this memory in my mind for no reason. The roots of the dragon tree can replace hydromarine as a raw material to brew ant syrup."

The confused and confused answer of the queen ant left him speechless. If he had not signed a master-servant contract with it and knew that it could not lie to him, Ding Ning would have doubted whether it was lying to him.

"So just to brew ant paste, you dug up the roots of the Dragon Tree and made such a big tree hole?"

Ding Ning twitched in pain and said in a bad tone.

You must know that in his mind, the Dragon-Dragon Tree is countless times more precious than the ant slurry. After all, without the ant slurry, he can cultivate slowly, but the Dragon-Dragon Tree, which is full of treasures, has one dead tree and one less tree. He wants to plant it artificially.

All difficult.

What's more, this kind of ancient dragon-subduing tree has been growing for who knows how many thousands of years. Its medicinal effect is many times more powerful than the ordinary dragon-subduing tree. In his opinion, the queen ant digs such a big tree hole to brew ant syrup.

It's simply a waste of resources.

What he couldn't accept the most was that digging a tree hole at the root of the tree would very likely affect the life of the Dragon Tree, and it would not be impossible to cause it to wither and die.

"I...I...I was wrong."

The queen ant lowered her head in fear, her lips pursed and she was speechless for a long time. Her heart was filled with awe and fear for Ding Ning.

"Forget it, I can't blame you. If you want to brew ant syrup in the future, I'll help you get some marble as raw material."

Ding Ning looked at its pitiful appearance and couldn't help but feel soft in his heart. He knew that it was no wonder that it was there. After all, it didn't know the preciousness of the Dragon Subduing Tree.

What's more, even if it knows, so what, it's just an ant, and it's not a member of the Rare Resources Protection Association. In order to strengthen the group's power, it will not hesitate to destroy the entire Dragon Tree, let alone dig a tree hole.

"Master, there are actually many such trees in the restricted area."

The queen ant said timidly, but Ding Ning was shaken all over, her eyes flashed with frightening light, and she asked excitedly: "Are you serious?"

"Really, although they are not everywhere like marbles, there are indeed many of these dragon trees growing in patches. I will not mistake the scent."

The queen ant replied affirmatively.

"Restricted area, hey, wait for me, I have to go and see what kind of secrets you have!"

Ding Ning's eyes were green and he was almost drooling. Even for Yunshi and Jianglongshu, he had to go to the restricted area.

Reaching out to collect all the queen ants and guard ants into the medicine spirit ring, Ding Ning looked at the towering ancient tree with burning eyes. There is indeed no technology on earth to artificially plant the Dragon Subduing Tree, but he has the medicine spirit ring, which will automatically

With an optimized growing environment, there is no need to worry that the dragon tree will not survive.

As for how to transplant, Ding Ning didn't take it seriously at all. How difficult would it be for someone with the Five Elements totem to transplant a tree?

But the facts gave him a loud slap in the face. Although he mobilized the earth element and wood element, and the Dragon Subduing Tree was on the verge of collapse, it could not be absorbed into the Medicine Spirit Ring.

Ding Ning could clearly sense that it was not the Yao Ling Ring's problem, but something strange under the Dragon Subduing Tree that seemed to be preventing it from leaving.
Chapter completed!