"Great King?"

"Second King, let's go! Dig for treasures! The Huagi Divine Tree told me about an important Insect Clan relic, where it's very likely to hide an Outworld Civilization artifact named 'Thousand-Year Tree...'"

...

"Spruce, Wuye, Ivy, help me tidy up the goods."

Dragon Cypress finished communicating with Ink Orchid, directly emptied the goods on the Dominating Throne, and controlled it for takeoff.

"I'm going too!"

Ivy leaped up.

"I want to expand my knowledge~"

Wisteria jumped up and precisely landed on Dragon Cypress's head.

Dragon Cypress: "..."

Linnan Divine Tree: "Ivy, Wisteria, supervise the ants. Prevent them from taking the goods but refusing to acknowledge it."

Dragon Cypress: "..."

A flash of crimson lightning suddenly stopped in mid-air.

"Thousand-Year Tree? Is there such a treasure?"

"There is—"

"Huagi Divine Tree, why didn't you tell us earlier!"

"..."

Huagi Divine Tree didn't respond.

Ink Orchid pressed, "Huagi Divine Tree, are there more treasures? Just tell me and Dragon Cypress! We won't take them from you, we'll just help dig them up and take a look."

Huagi Divine Tree indifferently said: "No more."

Ink Orchid: "Alright—"

Ink Orchid buried her head in examining the Dominating Throne and vigorously flapped her wings as a reminder.

Dragon Cypress shook his head, tossing Wisteria to Ivy, then leaped onto the throne's backrest and stood firm.

Ink Orchid softly flapped her wings and landed.

The Dominating Throne took off vertically.

...

The desert stretched beyond view.

Undulating sand dunes, with no sign of vitality.

Dragon Cypress focused on controlling the Dominating Throne, flying at high altitude.

Ink Orchid hung halfway out of the throne, deploying Scorching and the Super Brain Ability, observing and searching around.

"Great King!"

"Over there! Mountain range!"

Ink Orchid raised a claw to point.

"Alright—"

The Dominating Throne adjusted its direction.

Long years, geological shifts.

Originally not large, the mountain range was partially buried by drifting sands.

Dragon Cypress immediately locked onto the tallest peak, piloted the Dominating Throne quickly toward it.

Black mountain rocks, steep cliffs, a well-preserved pedestrian walkway.

After a brief observation, the Dominating Throne docked on a rock platform carved out by insects.

——Over there!

Dragon Cypress, Ink Orchid, Ivy, Wisteria simultaneously locked their gazes on the stone wall ahead.

Vertical black cliff wall, a conspicuous large patch of earth-yellow spots, quite striking.

Dragon Cypress gently tapped with a tentacle.

An ice pillar formed and shot out.

With a thunderous boom, the stone wall blocking the entrance was punctured.

"I'll do it!"

Ink Orchid leapt to the ground, gathering Wind System Primordial Energy in her fore paws, slashing fiercely.

A round-topped entrance nearly 3 meters wide and just over 1 meter high was cleared.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid blew forth their spiritual power.

Directly in front, a straight cave leading to a hall, horizontally to left and right were living quarters, empty.

At the back of the hall, another square entrance blocked by Earth-Stone Ability.

Ink Orchid flashed inside, slashing to breach the stone wall, she slipped in first.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King!"

"Quick! Quick! Quick!"

Ivy and Wisteria charged out competing.

Dragon Cypress unhurriedly observed left and right, up and down, slowly walked forward.

The immensely powerful spiritual power from King-Level Peak had already outlined the basic situation below.

A spiraling downward passage, mountain caves on both sides filled with remnants of Divine-Given Seeds.

About two hundred meters down vertically, the passage bottom, black-brown stone walls, prominently blocked by a stone wall formed from condensed and solidified yellow sand by Earth-Stone Ability.

Ink Orchid arrived swiftly but reined in her movements, employed Earth System Abilities, broke through the solidified stone wall's Primordial Energy Power, carefully opened.

Behind the stone wall, was an arched passage about ten meters long, moving horizontally forward, engraved patterns filled the Earth System fortified stone wall.

Further inside, an expansive empty cave, at the center stood a sturdy Sand Diving Insect Warrior statue nearly four meters long, upon the wide flat carapace, rested a rich green metallic little tree with only branches.

Thousand-Year Tree!

"Wow!"

"Found it!"

"So simple?"

Ivy and Wisteria cheered and rushed into the cave.

"Be careful."

Ink Orchid spread her wings, left and right, swatted the overly excited duo down, swung her tentacles, Hydras tentacles struck out, wrapped around the bottom and middle trunk of the Thousand-Year Tree, cautiously tugged.

Very stable.

Exerted a little force and pulled.

The branches were made of the same material as Glinting Gold, very light, almost weightless.

The weight was concentrated in the crimson brown root-like base, firmly standing on the statue's carapace.

Ink Orchid exerted more force to test, robust, a thought flashed, twelve Hydra tentacles moved together, carefully detached it, gently laid it on the ground, examined closely.

Dragon Cypress quickened his pace to arrive, leaned in to look closely, then raised his head to observe around.

Fundamentally no different from many explored relics, Sand Diving Tribe attempted to use warrior statues, illustrations, characters, to showcase their erstwhile existence to future insects, tried to pass down some tribal insects' generations of exploration insights.

In unison, Ink Orchid, Ivy, Wisteria snapped back to reality, clambering around the cave, tapping with tentacles, meticulously inspecting every stone wall.

Found nothing.

Wisteria noticed Dragon Cypress was staring at the Sand Diving Warrior statue's carapace intently without looking away, hurriedly gave a leap, jumped onto Dragon Cypress's head, buried herself in inspecting together.

Neatly arranged grid color paintings, finely detailed colored lines, intricately engraved, accompanied by complex characters, attempted to explain the origin and use of the 'Thousand-Year Tree' to future insects.

The first illustration, a round sphere symbolizing the Origin Force Star Realm, a damaged Starship lagged with fragments, crashing to earth.

The second illustration, under the Divine Force Barrier, the entrance to the fallen Starship's severed section, swarming Insect Clan Warriors.

The third illustration, Insect Clan Warriors rushing into the starship's interior, breaking into rooms, looting various Outworld Civilization items.