81: Chapter 81 Electrotherapy

The spirit-testing stone erupted with a violent hum.

Immediately after, beams of red, yellow, blue, green, and gold light intertwined and shot into the sky. The pillar of light was mottled and murky, with the various colors pressing against each other, appearing chaotic and disorganized.

Zhangsheng looked up in a daze, watching the giant stone acting strangely. It did not understand what this meant, but it still felt a sense of anticipation in its heart.

All five colors present—a mixed spiritual root.

Originally, I thought the Fine Black Ant-men race had endured for nineteen generations and finally managed to produce a peerless genius.

It turns out, this Ant-man named Zhangsheng just had good luck and slightly higher comprehension; what a pity.

Thinking about it again, this is actually quite reasonable.

Only a mixed spiritual root has a better chance of perceiving the free-roaming spiritual energy between heaven and earth without any external assistance.

Spiritual energy has attributes.

It's like having a pure water-attribute spiritual root; if one lived in a Volcanic Zone with vast fire spiritual energy, even if their talent were heaven-defying, it would still be very difficult to capture the thin water spiritual energy.

But a mixed spiritual root is different; it possesses all five elements and can perceive a little bit of every type of spiritual energy.

It belongs to the type with a very low threshold that isn't picky about food.

However, in the cultivation world, single spiritual roots have always been considered the best, as they exclusively absorb one type of spiritual energy, leading to extremely fast cultivation speeds.

A mixed spiritual root can do everything, which also means it is mediocre at everything; balancing five attributes simultaneously makes cultivation quite difficult.

This is what Gu Han learned when he accompanied the Ant-men to study the "Spirit Sensing Chapter".

There was no change on Gu Han's face; he maintained his calm expression.

This unexpected surprise did indeed open up the path of transcendence for the Divine Kingdom, but it was of no help for the current increase in combat power.

The Fine Black Ant-men are simply too small, only a few millimeters in size.

Even if Zhangsheng enters the path of cultivation and can perceive spiritual energy, and its physique is significantly strengthened.

It would still be crushed to death with a single finger when facing the large-sized Orcs or Sapiens.

The difficulty still lies with those combat Ant-men crossbred from high-level believers.

The strongest individual combat unit, the Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man, swallowed four precious transcendent crystals in one go, yet it still hasn't managed to reach a level up; Gu Han is left somewhat speechless.

However, the path to transcendence has finally been blazed.

"I bestow upon you one bottle of Marrow Cleansing Spirit Liquid and ten Longevity Pills. You may enter and leave this place at any time."

A grand and ethereal voice echoed in this place.

Gu Han casually threw down two jade bottles, which landed with a thud in front of the tiny Zhangsheng, yet they didn't kick up a speck of dust.

He conveniently used the smart assistant to mark Zhangsheng.

It is naturally impossible to waste precious transcendent crystals on someone with a mixed spiritual root, but as the first cultivator of the Divine Kingdom, it is necessary to provide some resources as a benchmark to show his generosity.

Zhangsheng kowtowed repeatedly, and after expressing endless gratitude, it climbed toward the jade bottle containing the Longevity Pills.

After dealing with Zhangsheng, Gu Han shifted his attention to the expanded Divine Kingdom.

Due to Zhangsheng's breakthrough, the area of the Divine Kingdom surged from 700,000 square meters to 1,000,000 square meters.

The territory expanded by a large margin, and the original terrain appeared somewhat empty.

The defense tournament was imminent, and he had more important things to attend to.

With a thought, Gu Han arrived at the boundary of the Volcanic Zone.

The Cyst Demon Flowers previously watered with Giant Ice Toad venom had grown into a large patch. They were based on Level 6 transcendent creatures, possessing extremely tenacious vitality. Their branches were very durable; even the Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man would find it difficult to completely destroy them.

Gu Han wanted to use them to create the first absolute line of defense for the Divine Kingdom.

Under his mental control, each swaying Cyst Demon Flower was pushed along with the Volcanic Zone to the periphery, rearranging them in the open space at the edge of the Divine Kingdom.

Row after row, they densely encircled the periphery.

Gu Han arranged for more Ant-men venom to irrigate these Cyst Demon Flowers with the Giant Ice Toad venom, and required them to inhale back whatever poisonous mist they exhaled, so as to avoid causing environmental pollution in the Divine Kingdom.

Fortunately, they all loved poison and did not resist second-hand or third-hand poison... they even exchanged clouds of mist with each other, getting high on seeing whose purity was higher.

Looking at the lively sea of flowers before him, they must have all triggered the enlightenment effect, and had even learned the language of the Ant-men.

Watching their swaying forms, a classic game involuntarily popped into Gu Han's mind—Plants vs. Zombies; that was also a defense game.

This arrangement by Gu Han feared no violent destruction, and the deadly poison would make many Divine Lords shrink back in fear. If anyone dared to charge directly at him during the defense tournament, at the very least, their low-end combat units would be poisoned to death.

After setting up the outer defense line, Gu Han prepared to inspect the results of the new generation of Hidden-Armor Ant-Man.

The Black-Armored Ant-men were working vigorously at this moment.

Since opening the underground passage from the Demi-God Divine Kingdom, these Ant-men had returned to their ancestral trade, becoming ruthless transport machines.

The rare metals and thunder source ores from the opposing Divine Kingdom were being continuously transported back to Gu Han's Divine Kingdom.

And those ores flickering with deep blue electric arcs were exactly what Gu Han had prepared for the new generation of Hidden-Armor Ant-Man.

Strange beasts like the Thunder Servant eat these thunder source ores to generate electricity through the single horn on their heads.

After eating these thunder source ores, the Hidden-Armor Ant-Man should be able to secretly generate electricity on the battlefield.

Gu Han waved his hand, transferring a hill-like pile of thunder source ores to the heartland of the Hidden-Armor Ant-Man.

The Hidden-Armor Ant-Man are small and do not require much thunder source ore, but Gu Han was not sure if the principle of their horn-based electricity generation was determined by the quantity of ore, so he simply let them eat to their heart's content and would see how the electricity generation turned out later.

He needed to find an object for them to electrocute.

Gu Han rubbed his chin, his gaze sweeping across the Divine Kingdom, and finally locked onto a Level 4 male Sapiens who was in the midst of a fierce battle.

Gu Han was not worried that it would commit suicide; anyway, the Ant-man Race had basically completed its iteration, and he had another Level 4 Sapiens in hand as a backup.

With a thought, the Level 4 Sapiens was moved out of thin air to the heartland of the Hidden-Armor Ant-Man.

This originally robust and strong Level 4 Sapiens had now become completely emaciated.

His eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his legs were shaking; as soon as he landed, he collapsed directly onto the ground, completely lacking his previous transcendent vigor.

Saliva streamed from the corners of his mouth, his lips were white and trembling, and he lay on the ground, rolling his eyes incessantly. His hands supported him on the ground like butterfly wings flapping, and he was muttering to himself; his consciousness was clearly on the verge of a total collapse.

"Just consider this an electric therapy to help you sober up."

Gu Han issued the electricity generation order without hesitation; after all, this Level 4 Sapiens had killed quite a few Ant-men back then.

The Hidden-Armor Ant-Man quickly crawled into the Level 4 Sapiens' mouth.

In less than two seconds.

The Sapiens lying on the ground shuddered violently, performed a kip-up, and his eyes instantly widened to the size of saucers, his eyeballs almost popping out.

Zzzzt—!

A blinding blue-white electric arc suddenly burst out from the Sapiens' chest and abdomen.

Connecting to the other Hidden-Armor Ant-Man on his back, neck, and limbs, they exploded with miniature thunderstorms one after another.

"Ah♦Ah♦Ah↑Ah↷Ah!"

Unbearable screams echoed throughout the scene; the Level 4 Sapiens was electrocuted like a fish just pulled out of the water, bouncing frantically on the ground.

His body, which had been drained, now erupted with astonishing potential. He flailed in mid-air, the veins on his forehead bulging, his hair standing on end, and pungent black smoke rising from his entire body.

The effect of the electric therapy was extremely significant. The scene before him made Gu Han ask aloud: "Speak, what is your name?"