Chapter 485: Chapter 275: Creation Martial Arts Demonstration: Celestial Craft Ant and Blood Race

But until he actually tried to enhance the Blood Race, Zhong Yi wasn’t certain just how far he could take their Bloodline using only his Soul Taming Seed and Flowing Soul Soil.

As for the Celestial Craft Ant, Zhong Yi was even more pleased with it.

Zhong Yi had only just established his faction, Soul Soil, and he would need to undertake massive infrastructure projects in the future.

Once Zhong Yi formed a Soul Taming Seed Contract with the Celestial Craft Ant, he could rely entirely on the Ant Swarm bred by the Celestial Craft Ant Queen for all his future construction needs.

Even if he described his ideas to the most brilliant architect, the final product likely wouldn’t be exactly what Zhong Yi envisioned.

But a Celestial Craft Ant Queen could execute the thoughts in his mind perfectly.

In the future, once the Cloud Ridge World Dragon hatched, he could leave the task of building a city on its back to a thriving Celestial Craft Ant Swarm.

"Brother Ze, thank you for explaining all this in such detail."

Upon hearing this, the corners of Fang Ze’s mouth, which rarely smiled, couldn’t help but curl into an upward arc.

"Ah Yi, I feel a connection with you. There’s no need to be so formal with me."

"This Creation Martial Arts Demonstration lasts for ten days, yet they’ve only given us 50,000 Divine Origin Value to purchase materials."

"The vast majority of Creators, after helping the Celestial Craft Ant successfully complete its nuptial flight, will let it breed its colony on its own."

"They’ll focus most of their resources on the Blood Race instead."

"I, however, wouldn’t recommend doing that."

"With only 50,000 Divine Origin Value worth of materials, trying to raise a Blood Race’s Bloodline by two full ranks is extremely difficult."

"A newborn Elite Blood Race has a Bloodline roughly at the rank of a Blood Race Knight."

"To raise it past the rank of Baron to a Blood Race Viscount, you’d need to spend at least 30,000 Divine Origin Value in materials."

"Even if you spent all 50,000 Divine Origin Value on the Blood Race, it’s practically impossible to raise its Bloodline from a Knight to a Count."

"However, if you spend the remaining Divine Origin Value on the Celestial Craft Ant Queen, you can help her produce at least 150 Ant Successors."

Fang Ze’s words made Zhong Yi pause.

Fang Ze had effectively used his own insight and experience to reveal the true criteria for success in this Creation Martial Arts Demonstration to Zhong Yi.

If Zhong Yi were an ordinary Creator, following Fang Ze’s advice on how to enhance the newborn Blood Race and Celestial Craft Ant would undoubtedly lead to a better result.

Fang Ze had told Zhong Yi all this because he could sense that Zhong Yi intended to compete for one of the seventy First Level Creator positions in the Creation Sequence.

It was a bit of a pipe dream for a newcomer like Zhong Yi, who had only just become a Creator, to aim for the Creation Sequence.

But Fang Ze didn’t mind doing what he could to give him a hand.

For Fang Ze himself, getting onto the Creation Sequence was an easy matter.

After everyone had received their two Realm Passage Tokens, the woman’s cold, clear voice once again rang out from the high platform.

"All Creators participating in the Creation Martial Arts Demonstration may freely use their Realm Passage Tokens to leave the Ruins World during the ten days of the event."

"When you leave, you must temporarily leave behind the Blood Race and Celestial Craft Ant that serve as your test subjects."

"After the evaluations are complete and the Creation Sequence has been announced at the Wanyu Creation Company, you may return to the Wanyu Creation Company to retrieve the Celestial Craft Ant and Blood Race member you have raised."

"The clock starts now."

As the woman on the high platform finished speaking, nearly every Creator present activated the Realm Passage Tokens in their hands at the same time.

They were transported into the Ruins World, a place beyond anyone’s surveillance.

Zhong Yi had previously used a Realm Passage Token twice in succession, overdrafting his Soul Power.

This time, despite having rested for several days, Zhong Yi still felt his head throb after using the Realm Passage Token again to teleport to the Ruins World.

’I’ll need to raise my strength to at least the Fourth Level,’ Zhong Yi thought. ’Only then will my Soul Strength be enough to casually handle the Soul Power drain from using the Realm Passage Token.’

Fortunately, here in the Ruins World, he could slowly recover his depleted Soul Power by sleeping.

Not far from Zhong Yi stood a massive stone platform, and upon it rested a giant ant nearly fifteen meters long.

The ant’s entire body was a grayish-blue with a strong metallic sheen. Long, slender, bluish-purple bristles grew from its Insect Armor.

Its legs were long and sharp, each one at least ten meters in length.

It had a pair of fluorescent blue Insect Wings that would span at least twenty-five meters if unfurled.

This ant-like creature was, by far, the largest ant Zhong Yi had ever seen.

If Zhong Yi hadn’t known this was the female Celestial Craft Ant from the Creation Martial Arts Demonstration’s test—one that had just completed its nuptial flight—he would have mistaken the enormous Ant Race creature for a powerful combat unit.

It was hard to equate such a ferocious appearance with that of a master architect.

Using All Things Exploration, he determined that the post-nuptial flight Celestial Craft Ant was at Fantasy Tier, Tenth Level, Gold Quality.

All the Celestial Craft Ants assigned as test subjects for the Creation Martial Arts Demonstration were at the same level.

This colossal, Fantasy Tier Celestial Craft Ant gave off an incredibly oppressive aura.

Facing Zhong Yi the Creator, the remarkably intelligent Celestial Craft Ant bent its legs and prostrated itself on the stone platform.

The Celestial Craft Ant knew full well that a great Creator would now cultivate it, helping it become the Celestial Craft Ant Queen it dreamed of being.

Just as Zhong Yi was observing the female post-nuptial flight Celestial Craft Ant, a short figure on the stone platform began walking toward him.

The short figure stopped five meters from Zhong Yi at the edge of the platform and then steadily dropped to one knee.

With her left hand on her shoulder and her right hand on the ground, she spoke in a clear, respectful voice.

"Funnie respectfully welcomes you, Lord Creator. I greet you."

Zhong Yi turned to look at the female of the Blood Race before him, who looked like a little girl of six or seven.

She had long, pale-gold hair, which wasn’t simply left to hang loose down her back.

Instead, four or five slender braids had been woven on either side of her head.

These braids were coiled atop her head, while the rest of her waist-length hair was gathered together by more braids at the back.

The way the hair was tied up exuded a sense of exquisite detail, down to every last strand.

In Zhong Yi’s past life, a hairstylist would have needed over an hour to create such a style.

Her hair was also adorned with several hairpins made from gemstone fragments.

Funnie’s appearance perfectly matched Zhong Yi’s mental image of the Blood Race.

"Rise. I’m going to cultivate the Celestial Craft Ant first, and then I’ll tend to you."

For Zhong Yi, the sooner he could cultivate the Celestial Craft Ant and help it metamorphose into a Celestial Craft Ant Queen, the more offspring it could produce.

After all, the assessment was only ten days long.

Funnie looked up at Zhong Yi upon hearing his words, then rose gracefully to her feet.

Zhong Yi saw that on Funnie’s small, delicate face were a pair of enormous, exceptionally bright, dark-red eyes.

Those dark-red eyes were the mark of a pure-blooded, newborn member of the Blood Race.

Sensing such elegance from a little girl who looked seven or eight years old felt rather strange to Zhong Yi.

Members of the Blood Race all had this child-like appearance when first born.

They would only undergo a second stage of development and grow into their adult forms once their Bloodline reached the rank of Viscount.

Only then would the aesthetic elegance of the Blood Race be fully revealed.

A Blood Race member’s gender isn’t determined at birth.

The moment their Bloodline is promoted to Viscount, they can reshape their own bodies to determine their gender.

Furthermore, with every subsequent Bloodline transformation, a Blood Race member could choose their gender anew.

This allowed them to take on a completely new appearance with each Bloodline transformation.

When hunting a member of the Blood Race, if you couldn’t kill them in a single blow or leave a tracking mark on them, it would be nearly impossible to find them again once their Bloodline advanced.

Funnie stood obediently to one side, her dark-red eyes occasionally glancing at Zhong Yi, filled with anticipation and subservience.

Funnie was well aware that as a test subject from the Wanyu Creation Company, she would henceforth become the property of this young male Creator.

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