31: Chapter 31 Accelerating Civilization

A slight tremor vibrated through the Divine Kingdom.

Gu Han's consciousness entered the Divine Kingdom to investigate, and found that the [blessing of the sacrificer] had already been delivered and sent to his Divine Kingdom.

The principal's efficiency was truly impressive.

Mid-air at the center of the Divine Kingdom, a faintly glowing card slowly shattered, turning into a dusty stone altar.

The surface of the altar was carved with intricate patterns, its overall shape ancient and rugged without any fancy decorations, and at the top of the altar was a pool of blood.

With a thought, Gu Han placed the altar directly in the dead center of the Black-Armored Ant-men's territory.

With a dull "rumble,"

the altar landed solidly, kicking up a ring of dust.

The surrounding Black-Armored Ant-men were startled by this sudden commotion, raising their forelimbs one after another to assume defensive stances.

Gu Han ignored these ordinary Ant-men, directly issuing the highest command to all the ant queens through mental communication.

"From this day forth, this is the sacred ground of your race. This is a stairway to godhood that will allow your race to grow infinitely strong."

"Any clansman whose lifespan is nearing its end must voluntarily climb the altar and throw themselves into the divine pool, sacrificing their final life force for the future of the race. The altar will generate the power of blessing to help the race break through to the transcendent level."

Crouching deep within their nests, the ant queens received the Creator's will and immediately bowed their heads, emitting sharp screeches to transmit the God-Lord's command as a tribal law to every Ant-man.

Currently, this batch of Ant-men was in their prime, and there was no older generation in the clan for the time being.

Gu Han pulled up the altar's attributes, and upon looking, he found a pleasant surprise.

The breakthrough probability progress bar on the panel was not the zero he had expected.

It clearly displayed: 0.00001131%!

Calculating at an increase of 0.00000001% per sacrifice, this progress must have been accumulated from sacrificing one thousand one hundred and thirty-one living organisms.

It must have been invested by the previous God-Lord.

How could he know that this money-losing item, which had been listed on Yitao.com for who knows how long, was a tiny foundation scraped together by more than a dozen unlucky previous God-Lords who had gone bankrupt for it.

In the end, because they couldn't bear the exaggerated consumption, those people chose to cut their losses in time and listed the altar online for a low-price clearance.

As a result, it all benefited Gu Han.

"This is a massive profit."

Gu Han closed the panel and raised his field of vision, looking down upon the entire Ant-men territory.

Under the buff of the ten-times time flow rate, the Ant-men reproduced extremely quickly.

In a short period of time, the population of the clan had already broken through the twenty-thousand mark.

On the surface, dense crowds of Black-Armored Ant-men were transporting food and reinforcing defensive fortifications.

The underground portion was dug in all directions, interconnected to form a massive and strictly structured subterranean nest.

Now that the quantity was up, the next step was to focus on quality.

If he wanted the Ant-men to evolve from a barbaric race into a civilized race, relying solely on natural time evolution would take too long.

Gu Han decided to accelerate the ant civilization. With a shift of his thought, he directly plucked over the Disabled Wise-man who had been settled on the edge of the Reproduction zone.

The Disabled Wise-man, whose legs were amputated, was originally dozing off against a tree. He only felt his vision blur before his surroundings completely changed.

Supporting himself with both hands on the ground, he looked around in terror.

All he could see were massive monsters covered in black shells.

What made his scalp tingle the most was a monster crouching right in front of him, which was three times larger than an ordinary Ant-man.

The lower half of this monster was a bloated ant abdomen, but the upper half bore the torso and face of a female Sapiens.

The Disabled Wise-man swallowed hard, desperately dragging himself backward with his hands in an attempt to open up some distance.

Gu Han's voice rang directly in the Sapiens' mind.

"Teach her the language and writing of the Sapiens, as well as the concept of months and time."

"Teach her well, and you will be the priest of the Ant-man Race, with meat to eat for every meal."

"I will check on you periodically. If you fail to teach her well, you will become their rations."

The Disabled Wise-man shuddered all over, nodding repeatedly in terror as he stammered out, "I'll teach! I'll teach! Mercy, Lord God, I will definitely teach her well!"

He turned his head to look at the human-faced ant queen, braced himself, and pointed a finger at himself.

"...Hu... man..."

The ant queen tilted her head, her compound eyes shifting slightly, as she made a strange syllable in her throat.

"Hu... mnn..."

Watching this scene, Gu Han withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.

As long as the ant queen learned the language and writing, she could transmit them to the entire clan through her spiritual link, and the spark of civilization would be officially ignited.

Having dealt with the education issue, Gu Han turned his head to look at the other side of the Divine Kingdom.

Upon looking, his brow furrowed immediately.

The Six-Winged Chickens, which had originally been vast in number, had now also sharply declined.

The Ant-men population had exploded, and the meat they consumed daily was far too terrifying.

The quantity of Six-Winged Chickens could no longer keep up with the speed at which the Ant-men devoured food.

Gu Han restarted the large-scale Reproduction of the Six-Winged Chickens. This hybrid species was still unable to reproduce on its own, so he connected to his smart assistant to activate the [Forced Breeding] skill once more.

Besides solving the food shortage problem, there were still two major troublemakers in the Divine Kingdom's ecosystem.

The Giant Golden Beetle and the Large Honey Badger.

These two things were simply the tough customers of the Divine Kingdom.

Relying on their thick hides and flesh, they would run to the edge of the Ant-men's territory every few days, specifically to prey on isolated Ant-men or snatch food.

The Black-Armored Ant-men's guard squads would mobilize in full force every time.

But these two pests had extremely resilient vitality; they would run if they couldn't win, hide somewhere for a few days, and then cheerfully return to harass again once their wounds healed.

Gu Han observed for a while but did not step in to intervene.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

Having these two tough customers exerting pressure nearby served as perfect sparring partners for the Black-Armored Ant-men, keeping their combat instincts sharp.

As for the Hidden-Armor Ant-men, their size was too minuscule, they ate little, and they weren't easily targeted, making them the least of his worries.

The most precious seven hundred-thousand-year spirit-enlightening flowers were all located in the heart of the Ant-man Race's territory, well-protected by the Ant-men, so there was no need to worry at all.

The Iron Vine Snake Banyans surrounding the Six-Winged Beasts were already tall and lush enough to defend against aerial attacks from the Giant Golden Beetles.

The branches of the Iron Vine Snake Banyans were dense and troublesome, so even the Large Honey Badgers were unwilling to provoke them.

With the ecological issues temporarily stabilized, Gu Han began to ponder the core question.

The transcendent path of the Ant-man Race.