Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton - Chapter 1104

Chapter 1104: Chapter 668: Black Crystal has no ‘Chaos’? Chapter 1104: Chapter 668: Black Crystal has no ‘Chaos’? The gigantic Black Crystal seemed to be the source for the War Giant Tree’s power. Once it was excavated, the War Giant Tree lasted for less than ten minutes before it depleted. Not only did the secretion of its sap greatly decrease, but its bark also continuously shriveled and peeled off. Unable to recover from the damage inflicted during Ange’s battle, the War Giant Tree soon thunderously fell to the ground.

Falling is but an adjective here; there is actually no “ground.” Simply put, having lost its energy source, the War Giant Tree couldn’t sustain such intense consumption and became immobile, only able to watch as insects devoured it, leaving behind nothing but a chunk of wood.

Mattis leaped forward, trying to collect these insects, only to discover they possessed an incredibly strong life force. After absorbing billions of them, he actually became overwhelmed.

“Master, I can’t eat anymore… I’m too full…” Mattis said.

After transforming into the Insect God, Mattis’s intelligence wasn’t high, often dull and even more dim-witted than Hemel, which was why Ange seldom summoned him.

This time, because he had experienced feeding on the God of Life, Ange had called upon him. Unexpectedly, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as Mattis ended up overly stuffed.

Stuffed? Ange tilted his head.

Negris and the others had already gathered around, and surmising from this, speculated, “Perhaps these insects have feasted on the Super War Gigantic Tree, causing their energy levels to become exceedingly high. Mattis can’t contain such potent life force; what can we do now? With so many super insects, what could possibly sustain them?”

Billions of insects comprised merely one percent of those that had burst forth, with hundreds of billions more the size of fingertips remaining, each shimmering with a cold light. Their shells seemed to have evolved as well, glittering with a metallic luster, appearing exceedingly robust.

Feeding such a vast number was no small feat–were they to occasionally find another War Giant Tree for them to feed on?

Eating to the point of boosting their life energy level wasn’t something ordinary food could satisfy.

Ange, puzzled, glanced at them, opened the Divine Realm, commanded the insects to fly inside, then closed it.

What he took out next was a Divine Realm full of insect corpses, continuously casting Element Separation to extract the Water Element from the insect corpses, leaving behind desiccated remains. All that was left to do was to set a fire to burn them once, and what would be obtained was strengthened Insect Ash.

However, in the Void where there is no air or Fire Element, burning was impossible. Ange temporarily stored them in Dimensional Space, planning to handle them once back in the Plane.

Negris felt embarrassed; how could he forget the Dead Skull’s passionate love for Insect Ash?

With the Divine Realm emptied of live insects only to bring them out again for separation, packaging the dried insects, he repeated this four times, gaining four full Divine Realms of insect corpses, and the ‘water,’ or perhaps ‘juice,’ which seemed a vibrant green likely from gnawing on the War Giant Tree.

Besides these, four fist-sized Black Crystals also appeared.

“Black Crystals? Why are there Black Crystals? Are they condensed from the insect corpses or from gnawing on the War Giant Tree? What’s going on here?” Negris exclaimed in surprise.

Anthony was the first to sense something was amiss, “Something doesn’t seem right; there’s no twinkling of starry light within them. Sir, what about the large one?”

Big Cat, Little Angel, and Little Zombie brought over the larger Black Crystal, which likewise lacked any twinkling of starry light.

“Lainas, your Oscillating Crystal Core, bring it out and let’s have a look,” Anthony was the first to raise the issue.

Lainas, initially reluctant–since the Oscillating Crystal Core was extremely important to him, his title of Spirit Abyss largely dependent on the Black Crystal, losing it would cost him at least two-thirds of his strength–he looked at the three-meter-tall giant Black Crystal, then to the four fist-sized Black Crystals in front of Ange, and found himself unable to refuse.

Particularly those four fist-sized Black Crystals, that originally didn’t exist, could it be that these people could also manufacture Black Crystals?

Carefully retrieving the Black Crystal Fragments, everyone glanced at them and indeed there were no speckles on the surface.

Negris turned to Ange and asked, “When you were digging them out, did you see the specks on them?”

Ange tilted his head; during the last digging, he was instantly transported back by the Oscillator and didn’t see anything clearly, plus such a small fragment that had nothing to do with farming wouldn’t catch Ange’s attention.

Seeing that he couldn’t get an answer from Ange, Negris reluctantly turned to Lainas and asked, “So, using it, did you notice any difference compared to before? Has the effect of the spiritual oscillation weakened?”

Lainas answered, “No, no, there’s been no change at all, it still works as well as before.”

“That means, Black Crystals didn’t have speckles before either,” Negris stated.

Feiti raised his hand and asked, “Could there be another possibility, that Lainas’s spiritual power is too weak, unable to bring out the Black Crystal’s full effects, so the presence or absence of speckles has no impact on him?”

Lainas immediately took offense, “What do you mean? I’m Lainas of the Spirit Abyss, if even I can’t harness its full power, then who can?”

Feiti shrugged, “The Lord could.”

Unconvinced, Lainas turned to Ange.

Ange tilted his head, and dozens of Spirit Tentacles emerged, thrashing wildly like ferocious Shay.

He could simultaneously control four tentacles for farming and battling, but if precise control wasn’t necessary, extending dozens or even hundreds of Spirit Tentacles was no problem.

Lainas promptly knelt down, respectfully offering his Black Crystal Fragment with both hands.

It was easy to command respect from someone like him by overwhelming him in the area he was proud of; faced with such a terrifying disparity, the proud Lainas couldn’t even harbor jealousy.

Ange accepted it, activated over a dozen tentacles, then disdainfully returned it to Lainas.

“It indeed doesn’t bring out the maximum effect, but whether it originally had speckles is also hard to say. We can only speculate for now. Like His Majesty’s bones that have speckles, are those called Chaos Black Crystal? Are those speckles inside what constitute ‘Chaos’? And these without speckles are just Black Crystals?” Durken analyzed.

Anthony continued, “So, are there actually a lot of this type of Black Crystal? For instance, could Void-level creatures like the War Giant Tree possibly have them? Did the insects gnawing on the trunk of the Void Giant Tree result in the formation of these Black Crystals?”

Negris slapped his thigh muscle and said, “That makes sense. So, Void-level creatures might all possess Black Crystals, or could we say that Black Crystals are a hallmark of Void-level creatures? If the God of Life is raised to Void-level and then burned, it might also coalesce into Black Crystals?”

While speaking, he glanced at the God of Life with ill intent.

Having grown accustomed to Negris’s nasty sense of humor, the God of Life ignored it and said leisurely, “Why don’t you ask about it? I’ll go search for relics of the parent plant.”

While speaking, he walked towards the pile of rubble that used to be the War Giant Tree, his steps slow and twisting in such a way that made his posture indescribably incongruent.

Everyone’s gaze then shifted toward the remnant ‘stump’ with only half a face remaining, the surviving eye emotionlessly observing everyone.