185: Chapter 184 Moving Mountains and Gathering Seas
Gu Han hovered in the shallow sea area, looking down at the group of heavy-load-bearing Scavenger Murlocs below.
"Do not care about the trivial matters right now; you have the potential to prop up the world." Gu Han muttered to himself, having already sketched out a grand blueprint in his mind.
Once all nine hundred million Transcendental Believers were born, the land and even the underground would become too crowded.
Gu Han immediately placed an order to buy an age-appropriate female blue whale.
The Divine Kingdom's portal opened in the air, and a thirty-meter-long female blue whale smashed into the sea, stirring up monstrous waves.
Gu Han's consciousness stirred slightly as he picked a robust male Scavenger Murloc to undergo [Forced Breeding] with the blue whale.
Immediately after, he snapped his fingers, releasing Tang Wuying from the punishment of impulse.
As soon as Tang Wuying landed, his legs went soft and he fell directly to his knees on the beach, retching endlessly.
His face was as pale as a sheet of paper, his body swaying slightly, and his hair, which had originally been neatly combed, now looked like a chicken's nest, with a few down feathers still clinging to his body.
Gu Han waved his hand, and a wave slammed into Tang Wuying's body to help wake him up properly.
"You..." Tang Wuying's voice was too hoarse to make a sound, and he no longer even had the strength to lift his head.
"The species within my Divine Kingdom are basically optimized now. Remember, you have no chance left."
Gu Han's words made Tang Wuying's body shudder, and his neck shrank abruptly.
"Now, I want the weight-bearing trait of the Scavenger Murlocs while retaining the size of the blue whale." Gu Han pointed at the pregnant blue whale.
Tang Wuying's eyes were filled with grievance, and his heart felt aggrieved to the extreme.
He was very clear that Gu Han still needed the skill [Selective Birth] right now, but he was even clearer about how vicious the other party's methods of torturing people were.
Tang Wuying climbed up with his hands shaking, mustered his spirit, and lit up the skill glow in his palm, directly covering the newly pregnant blue whale.
It is worth mentioning that through previous hybridization experiments on species of the same gender, Gu Han discovered that his skill indeed did not lock gender, and producing offspring did not depend on having to be one male and one female at all.
Pairing two females was the most efficient, because both sides could produce offspring, which was equivalent to directly gaining an extra set of perfect experimental control groups.
And although pairing two males could also produce offspring, it lacked the conditions for offspring cultivation.
If they were oviparous creatures, the eggs could still survive after being laid. But if they were viviparous species, there was no nursery room inside the males at all, and the offspring would die in the womb one hundred percent of the time, unless they were extremely rare and bizarre creatures.
The first batch of Scavenger Whales was artificially ripened and returned.
Gu Han chose to use the Shield-Armor Titan for the second round of hybrid cultivation. Not only was the Titan-class huge in size, but its lifespan also reached up to a thousand years, so he cultivated the Titan-class Scavenger Ant-men.
With dual-female Reproduction, the Shield-Armor Titan Ant Queen's side gave birth to the "Titan-Whale Ant-man" bearing ant-man characteristics, while on the other side, the Scavenger Whale gave birth to the "Shield-Armor Titan Whale" maintaining the whale's body shape.
The Titan-Whale Ant-man inherited most of the characteristics of the Shield-Armored Ant-Men. The shield armor on its back became wide, resembling a small plaza, except that its six limbs lay flat on the ground instead of standing upright, crawling extremely steadily.
Its body length was close to a hundred meters, making it larger than any Titan Ant-man in the Divine Kingdom.
"But crawling on the ground still takes up a bit of space." Gu Han touched his chin and grabbed a Ghost-Shuttle Dragonfly, which was a product previously hybridized using the Six-Winged Chicken.
"I want three pairs of giant membranous wings." Gu Han ordered.
Tang Wuying's eyeballs were almost popping out. He pointed at the hundred-meter-long behemoth, then looked at the palm-sized dragonfly in Gu Han's hand, gesturing helplessly with both hands, his throat hoarse as he babbled incoherently!
Seeing that Gu Han was expressionless, he stopped gesturing, turned back to work, and the light of [Selective Birth] flashed frantically.
After an unknown amount of time, Tang Wuying rolled his eyes and collapsed headfirst onto the beach.
Meanwhile, on the sea surface, a group of brand-new creatures crossed the virtual coordinates and returned after artificial ripening.
They were a hundred meters long, with six huge transparent membranous wings growing on their backs. The membranous wings vibrated at high frequency, emitting a low roar.
This behemoth rose smoothly into mid-air like a heavy helicopter, stirring up gusts of strong wind.
Gu Han snapped his fingers in satisfaction: "From now on, I'll call you the Mountain-Moving Ant-man."
He immediately issued a divine oracle, summoning Barton, the leader of the Dwarf Race.
He asked the Dwarf Race to forge the sturdiest light metal bases that could lock onto the shield armor spikes. He planned to install a mountain on the back of every Mountain-Moving Ant-man so that more believers could be accommodated to live there.
With the Mountain-Moving Ant-man, the airspace of the Divine Kingdom could be preliminarily utilized. Mountains suspended in the air would become new population residential areas. When tired, they could take off and land on the sea surface, completely without occupying land resources.
Tang Wuying's worldview was refreshed once again. What the hell, it could even be done like this!?
Having settled the Mountain-Moving Ant-man, Gu Han turned to look at the other branch—the Shield-Armor Titan Whale.
This thing's size was even more exaggerated, reaching a full three hundred meters in length, practically a giant warship on the sea.
Its six limbs were tightly closed and swung on both sides of the whale's body, greatly reducing water resistance while maintaining stability.
As soon as Tang Wuying caught his breath, he was grabbed by Gu Han once again.
"Optimize its fins, turn them into wing-like structures, and increase underwater propulsion."
Tang Wuying numbly obeyed; he also wanted to see the final result of his own creation.
The optimized Shield-Armor Titan Whale swam extremely fast, cutting through the waves on the water surface, with a back as flat as walking on level ground.
Gu Han renamed it the "Sea-Harvesting Ant-man".
But having level ground alone was not enough; carrying a mountain on them was obviously inappropriate since the Sea-Harvesting Ant-man would eventually dive, but houses could be built on their backs.
After pondering for a moment, Gu Han did not let the Dwarf Race engage in massive construction, but instead fetched barnacles and giant conches from the sea.
A moment later, a brand-new parasitic species, the "Giant Conch Barnacle", was born.
Gu Han specially had Tang Wuying modify this thing to have accelerated growth speed and an extremely short lifespan. Once attached to the back of the Sea-Harvesting Ant-man, giant conches would grow one by one.
After they died, they would leave behind empty shells of various sizes for other believers to live in, and upon the empty shells, a new batch of shells-upon-shells could parasitize, roughly building up to three layers; any higher and they would be washed away by the rapid currents.
Because the back of the Sea-Harvesting Ant-man was heavy shield armor, the parasitism of the barnacles would not cause them any harm at all.
As the area of the Divine Kingdom continued to expand in the future, the sizes of these Mountain-Moving Ant-men and Sea-Harvesting Ant-men would continue to grow, and the population they could carry would also rise exponentially.
Moreover, Tier 3 Transcendental beings had long lifespans, and with some longevity-increasing grand medicines, doubling it was not a problem at all, making it quite stable.
Tang Wuying sat on the beach, the seawater washing over his ankles.
Watching one Mountain-Moving Ant-man after another take off, soaring and hovering in the air, resembling floating islands one by one.
He got up with an intoxicated expression to chase after them, the sea breeze constantly patting his satisfied face.
"Mine, mine, they are all created by me!"
Gu Han looked noncommittally at him running wildly on the beach and shook his head.
"Why is he even happier than me? Has he been driven crazy by coercion?!"
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