Force Astral Plane: Starting with the Chimera Ants

Chapter 52: The Correct Way to Use the "Flying Blade"

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Hongyuan opened its jaws and tore off a deer leg from the corpse. It picked it up with its jaws and placed it in front of Ye Zhi. With a flick of its antennae, it signaled Ye Zhi to come forward and begin her performance.

Ye Zhi tapped its antennae and slowly moved forward. Its abdomen swayed, and three extremely fine ant threads were drawn out from the end of its abdomen. A trace of primal force was injected, and the extremely fine ant threads transformed into sharp flying blades. With a swing of its abdomen, the blades lashed down, piercing through the gaps in the skin and flesh, peeling off the fur, and cutting off pieces of flesh.

"Hey, little guy, this is interesting!" Hong Yuan approached, its antennae twitching, its compound eyes and mental energy scanning the three extremely fine ant threads, watching Ye Zhi's movements and transmitting its mental power:

"This is metal-based primal energy? Little guy, you've mutated into a metal-based type? You're injecting primal force into the filament, making it tough enough to cut like the inner edge of a jaw tooth?"

A dozen or so pieces of flesh were quickly cut off by Ye Zhi. Ye Zhi temporarily withdrew the original power between the ant silk threads, cut the thin threads that were no longer tough, flapped its wings and flew up. Its six limbs grabbed several pieces of flesh and threw them into the nearest insect trap of the "Chimera".

"Little guy, your ability is quite interesting. Compared to directly unleashing your ability in battle, this method conserves more Force, and the power inherited by the combat worker ants won't be reduced by much."

Red Cypress gently pinched the extremely thin ant silk that Leafweaving had cut off, which had already lost its original energy properties, and examined it in front of her: "But there are some places where you still need to pay attention, otherwise you won't be able to exert your maximum effect."

Ye Zhi tapped her antennae, pondered for a moment, and decided to demonstrate to Hong Yuan the way she had figured out how to use ant silk, so that the other party could teach her.

Looking around, he found a bamboo branch nearby, stuck it into the soil, then pulled out an extremely fine ant thread, infused it with primal force, and swung it out like a lasso, looping it around the bamboo joint. The sharp ant thread contracted, cutting the bamboo joint in half.

"Boss Hongyuan, this is the method I've come up with for using it. What do you think?"

"That's right. For us ants, the neck and waist are our most vulnerable areas. If your ant silk gets caught in them, it can indeed cause fatal damage."

"However, the situation will be different in a real large-scale battle." Hong Yuan's telepathic voice changed the subject. "In a large-scale battle that breaks out head-on, there are very few opportunities to target weaknesses. But at the same time, there is no need to do that in ant army battles."

"As I taught you before, when you attack, use the power of your six limbs to gain leverage instead of simply using your mandibles to bite. In this case, you can still leverage the enemy ant's strength directly."

Hongyuan extended its forelimbs and drew a simple ant-shaped pattern on the ground, with its body leaning forward to pounce: "This is the attack move I taught you, and it's also a common tactic used by most ants. Under normal circumstances, you lean forward, use all six limbs to exert force, and then strike and escape."

Immediately, it slashed with the tarsal claws of its forelimbs, placing the thin ant silk thread cut from the leaf weave in front of the pattern: "You only need to flick out a strand of ant silk, let the end adhere to the ground and become taut, hold it horizontally in front of you, and let the enemy ant's body hit your silk thread to achieve the killing effect."

"Your worker ants will inherit this ability, so you need multiple worker ants working together." Red Cypress shook its antennae, picked up another ant thread with its tarsal claws, crossed it, and transmitted a mental force, "Like this, cross it and tighten it, inject primal force, and the enemy ant's usual attack will crash headfirst into your thread."

"If two similar stones collide with each other, they will break. As long as your ant silk is infused with the Force and has enough toughness, and the worker ants grip the ground tightly, the force with which the opponent attacks will determine the amount of damage they suffer when it hits your ant silk."

"Of course, depending on the different attack methods of ants, your ant silk must also be adjusted accordingly. For example, after engaging an enemy, the large-toothed ant is accustomed to slamming its mandibles into the ground and retreating, so your ant silk should be thrown behind the enemy..."

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Time always flies when it's fulfilling and not boring. In the blink of an eye, the sun was setting, and Ye Zhi had learned a lot of useful skills from Hong Yuan and had also revised her training plan.

The main purpose of the training is to actively adjust the body structure by combining the ability of the Force food to modify genes. The worker ants born from the Force Ant King are clones of itself and will inherit the Ant King's body structure and make minor adjustments to the details.

Therefore, Ye Zhi added a new item to her training program - weightlifting.

Of course, because the body structure of weaver ants is different from that of humans, this weightlifting is more difficult - the body hangs upside down on the branch, the mandibles hold the weight, mainly a bamboo segment filled with water, and while maintaining stability, it tries to retract its six limbs upward.

The leaf weaver ant species is unique because ordinary leaf weaver ants need to pull branches and leaves together to form a leaf nest, and their six limbs have naturally strong pulling power.

In a previous life, a laboratory apparently conducted tests on ordinary weaver ants. Under the gravity of nearly a hundred times that created by a centrifuge, the worker weaver ants were still able to carry objects a hundred times their own weight and adhere them to a smooth glass surface.

While the main reason for such exaggerated data is that the average weaver ant is very light, it is enough to prove its amazing pulling and suction power of six limbs.

Now, Ye Zhi is training in a simulated environment, hoping that the worker ants' inherited six-limb pulling strength can be further enhanced, so that the ant silk blades can remain taut under impact.

The original project on the precise control of ant silk with mental power was not abandoned, but instead changed to a different approach, training participants to throw ant silk while moving and hit a designated target, such as a twig.

Of course, Ye Zhi would also try to hunt various small invertebrates, attempting to hit them with her silken "lasso" and practice her ability to strike moving targets.

Time flies, and almost a month has passed in the blink of an eye. Calculating the time, it's not far away to consume the Force food for the next growth and evolution.

During the initial warrior stage, the optimal interval for growth and evolution is about two to three months. After evolution, stop consuming Force food for one and a half months to recuperate, and then slowly consume Force food for another two and a half months to finally evolve.

The Leaf-Weaving Chimera physique has a strong ability to absorb Force food, so the second half will be faster, but the first half still requires waiting as usual.

When he evolves from the fourth to the fifth age, he can eat another top-tier divine-given food he obtained last time – the Black Emperor Peach Pit. This divine-given food enhances overall muscle strength and provides additional power boosts, making it a perfect match for his current training program.

At the fifth age of evolution, muscle strength is enhanced, which at least makes feeding the "Chimera" much easier. This is an enhancement that Ye Zhi cannot refuse.

As time passed, forty-five days after entering the fourth instar, Ye Zhi immediately returned to the main nest of the slender ants where the Black Ant King was located, retrieved the Force food she had prepared, and prepared to complete a new round of growth and evolution.