475: Transplanting old trees

As soon as Qin Shilei appeared, he began to comment on the Eight Trigrams Formation set up by Zhang Qiang and the others.

“This formation can at least trap a Platinum Peak expert. If thirty-two or more Evolutionaries jointly set up this formation, it can not only wear down a Platinum Peak expert but also contend with a Diamond Realm expert.”

“You are still a bit unfamiliar with this formation and need to practice more. With more proficient mastery, its power might even double.”

“Although the formation is good, its power is also closely related to your strength. You still need to work hard to improve your cultivation.”

Zhang Qiang and the others responded in unison, “Your subordinates will certainly practice diligently, striving to fully master the formation as soon as possible; we will also work hard to improve our cultivation, living up to our King’s expectations.”

With the formation basically complete, Qin Shilei had everyone form teams and head to their respective guarded areas.

As for places like Pretty Country, which were too far away, Qin Shilei would take them into his Blessed Land and then quickly travel via a teleportation array.

While Qin An Royal Mansion was deploying defenses in its territory and affiliated lands, the chat channel on Blue Star was also in an uproar.

“Only five days left until Platinum Experts from the Other World can come to our Blue Star, what should we do?”

“What can we do? Just leave it to fate!”

“I have rushed to Pretty Country. This is Qin An King’s territory, and it will surely be able to block the foreign experts.”

“+1, I am also heading towards the direction of Great Xia, hoping to reach the area ruled by Great Xia within five days.”

“You two worrywarts upstairs, abandoning your own countries, you really have no backbone. Why am I so far from Great Xia?”

“Calling His Highness Qin An King, please come and occupy our country quickly.”

Currently, among the ten thousand peerless experts on the leaderboard, Evolutionaries from Qin An Royal Mansion accounted for ninety percent.

Among the Platinum Experts, only five were not Qin Shilei’s subordinates.

With the invasion of foreign experts imminent, the safest places were Great Xia and its various affiliated countries.

Around the territories ruled by Great Xia, many Golden Experts abandoned their power, leading a portion of their elites towards Great Xia.

Qin Shilei also saw the cries of those people on the chat channel.

He could only shake his head helplessly at this.

Although he had set up thirty-six teleportation arrays across Blue Star.

As long as he learned of a powerful foreign race appearing somewhere, he could quickly travel through the teleportation array to kill them.

But Qin Shilei was not a saint, nor could he be in multiple places at once; he couldn't act as a firefighter responding to the pleas for help from Blue Star's many survivors.

As for whether everyone could survive this calamity, it really could only be left to fate.

Qin An Royal Mansion.

An Qian peeled an orange and fed it to Qin Shilei, “Shi Lei, do you think the four of us should separate and guard the cities near the various Space Rifts?”

Qin Shilei pondered for a moment and replied, “It is indeed necessary. But before that, I think I should first explore those Other Worlds.”

An Qian asked, puzzled, “Didn’t you used to disagree with going to the Other World again? Why the sudden change of mind?”

Qin Shilei replied, “Because during our travels, we encountered Space Rifts where we didn't know the situation on the other side, so going in rashly was too dangerous, which is why I disagreed. However, I have explored the several Space Rifts within our Great Xia territory. While going again still carries risks, it is worth taking this risk.”

Zhang Xiaoli, who was nearby, asked, “Then shall we leave immediately?”

Qin Shilei shook his head, “You all stay here, I can go alone.”

After a brief explanation, he flew towards the Space Rift north of Hope City.

Standing at the edge of the cave with the Space Rift, Qin Shilei handed the Mountain and Rivers Map in his hand to Xiao Chengfei, a reserve member of Night.

He instructed, “Once you pass through the Space Rift, release me immediately.”

“Okay,” Xiao Chengfei said, then opened the entrance to the Mountain and Rivers Map and took Qin Shilei inside.

Then he stepped forward and jumped down into the cave.

After a moment of disorientation, Xiao Chengfei arrived in the Insect World.

He immediately released Qin Shilei from the Mountain and Rivers Map.

“You should return to the Blessed Land to cultivate.”

Qin Shilei took Xiao Chengfei into his space before getting up and flying out of the cave.

The former lair of the Purple Armor Bugs now only contained a few hundred bugs. These low-level bugs would occasionally have unlucky ones pass through the Space Rift to Blue Star, becoming trophies for Evolutionaries.

Qin Shilei stood in mid-air, inputting spiritual energy into the Mountain and Rivers Map.

A miniature three-dimensional map appeared.

“Ding, this is an unknown new world. It can only display a map and living beings within a five-hundred-kilometer radius. Do you wish to absorb the Spirit of the Earth Vein to increase the display range?”

The system's prompt immediately sounded.

Qin Shilei certainly wouldn't rashly allow the Mountain and Rivers Map to absorb the Spirit of the Earth Vein again, lest he attract powerful bugs.

“Five hundred kilometers is better than nothing.”

He was about to circle this valley, searching an area of ten thousand kilometers, when a faint connection suddenly arose in his heart.

“Ant Queen, I almost forgot I had such a pet.”

Concentrating to sense it, the other party was at least ten thousand kilometers away from him, so there was no need to rush.

Qin Shilei’s figure moved, transforming into a phantom. With this valley as the center and the range displayed by the Mountain and Rivers Map as the boundary, he quickly began to search.

Several hours later, he had searched several thousand kilometers, only discovering one Golden Realm Gold Beetle, which he casually destroyed.

Although the Insect World was vast, there weren't many bugs above the Golden Realm, and bugs above Platinum were even rarer.

At least this area was like that; he had only found one Platinum Peak bug, Ice Frost Venerable, within a twenty to thirty thousand kilometer radius back then.

Qin Shilei was too lazy to continue searching and turned to fly in the direction of the Ant Queen.

More than two hours later, he finally saw his pet, the Ant Queen.

“Master, have you come to take me back?”

The Ant Queen had now advanced to Platinum One-Star and could communicate using mental power.

Its ant colony had also grown larger, with many more mutated ants.

Even a Platinum Four-Star Purple Armor Bug would likely not fare well against the Ant Queen.

Qin Shilei pondered for a moment, then shook his head, “You should stay here. The Insect World should be your Blessed Land; you might advance faster here. I hope that one day, you can become a hegemon of the Insect World.”

After speaking, he fixed several purple attributes on the other party.

Then he instructed the Ant Queen again before turning to fly towards Phoenix Butterfly Valley.

Having come all this way, he planned to move the ancient tree in the valley into his Blessed Land.

He flew for nearly three more hours before arriving at Phoenix Butterfly Valley.

Qin Shilei casually unleashed several Devouring Thunders, killing thousands of Illusion Sound Butterflies entrenched in Phoenix Butterfly Valley.

Looking at the ancient tree before him, more than ten meters thick and three to four hundred meters tall, Qin Shilei suddenly felt a bit troubled.

How could he move it into his Blessed Land?

After a moment of thought, Qin Shilei first chose a suitable spot in the Blessed Land.

Then he slowly opened the entrance to the Blessed Land.

As the entrance grew larger, Qin Shilei's mental energy consumption also increased.

With great effort, he finally stretched the entrance to over a thousand meters wide.

The entrance, like a gaping maw, suddenly enveloped the ancient tree.

Then the entire ancient tree suddenly disappeared from the valley, leaving only a huge pit by the lake.

Qin Shilei wiped a thin layer of sweat from his forehead.

He had finally transplanted the ancient tree into his Blessed Land.

From now on, the palace on this ancient tree would be Qin An King’s residence!