Dominating the Ant Queen!

Lu Changsheng swiftly swam outside the mountain and looked at the Ant Queen on the slope, an idea forming in his mind.

He had originally planned to kill it outright, but now that he possessed an entirely new innate divine ability, he naturally had to give it a try.

If he could take it in as a subordinate, the benefits would be astonishing.

In the future, the Ant Queen could lay eggs without end, raising countless ant armies to assist him in exploring the mountains and forests, greatly improving his efficiency.

No sooner thought than done.

Lu Changsheng directly tapped his Dominion Talent.

A wondrous ripple surged from within him, transforming into a colorful mark that shot toward the Ant Queen.

In the blink of an eye, it sank into its body.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The Ant Queen suddenly became agitated, wildly waving its antennae as it scurried about the mountainside in extreme unease.

At the same time, the ant army around it also grew restless, gathering around the Ant Queen in a dense mass.

Lu Changsheng frowned. He suddenly sensed an immensely powerful resistance coming from the Ant Queen's mind.

It was clearly fiercely resisting his enslavement, its will of resistance exceptionally tenacious.

Even the first-tier ants were helping their queen resist him.

The Ant Queen actually shared some kind of mental connection with the ant colony.

This discovery greatly surprised him.

If he could successfully enslave the Ant Queen, controlling this swarm of Blazing Fire Ants would take no effort at all.

This made Lu Changsheng look forward to succeeding in this act of dominion even more.

He began activating the innate divine ability within him with all his strength.

The two sides began a battle of wills.

After nearly half an hour, the Ant Queen still had not yielded. Instead, its resistance only grew fiercer.

"The king of a species truly isn't so easily enslaved."

Lu Changsheng's expression darkened slightly.

He was already a third-tier creature. By all rights, contracting a second-tier creature should not have been difficult.

This Ant Queen was clearly rather unusual.

Seeing how fiercely it resisted, he had no choice but to change his approach.

If he kept forcefully activating his ability, he feared its soul would simply collapse. That would be more loss than gain.

Lu Changsheng withdrew his divine ability and quietly pondered in the water.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The Ant Queen stared at Lu Changsheng, its eyes blood-red and filled with Sha Qi.

It seemed ready to perish together with him at any moment, even if both jade and stone shattered.

Lu Changsheng gave a cold laugh at the sight.

Before long, he came up with a solution.

He would hollow out the mountain entirely, leaving it nowhere to stand. Once it had been soaked in the water for a while, he would try to bring it under his dominion again.

When it was at death's door, he refused to believe it would still resist.

With that thought, he immediately sprang into action.

"Whoosh..."

Waving his claws, he swiftly swam to the edge of the mountain and frantically dug into the rock wall before him.

"Bang bang bang..."

Large amounts of rock, as soft as blocks of tofu, were easily clawed loose and fell into the water.

After his breakthrough, the power of his claws had risen by a great deal. Digging through rock was no different from digging through earth.

With that, his excavation speed skyrocketed.

Just a few days later.

The entire mountain had been hollowed out.

Only the final outer layer remained to support it.

As Lu Changsheng began digging again, several hours later, a thunderous boom rang out.

The entire mountain collapsed toward the water's surface, countless boulders tumbling into the lake.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

After falling into the water, vast numbers of ants began struggling desperately. Even the Ant Queen wailed in the water.

Seeing this, Lu Changsheng knew the time had come and immediately charged toward the Ant Queen.

He was incomparably swift.

Reaching the Ant Queen, he extended a claw, pressed down on its head, and violently shoved it beneath the water.

"Glug glug glug..."

Before the Ant Queen could react, it gulped down a mouthful of icy lake water and became even more frenzied.

Its pair of fangs desperately gnawed at Lu Changsheng's scales, letting out piercing shrieks.

Lu Changsheng only felt a faint tingling, without the slightest pain.

With the scales of his third-tier Mountain Spirit body, it could not break through his defenses at all.

Large numbers of Blazing Fire Ants crawled toward Lu Changsheng from all around, desperately biting at him as they tried to rescue the Ant Queen.

Seeing how unyielding the Ant Queen was, he pressed its head underwater again, then pulled it back out more than ten breaths later.

After repeating this over a dozen times, it finally wilted, appearing weak and listless.

Lu Changsheng then lifted it and swam toward a large tree behind him.

Before long, he carried it onto the tree crown.

He tapped his Dominion Talent again.

A colorful mark suddenly sank into its mind.

"Hiss hiss hiss..."

The Ant Queen still struggled desperately, as though it knew its own doom was at hand.

Before long, even when the Ant Queen was at death's door, its resistance continued.

Lu Changsheng frowned. This Ant Queen had such an unyielding nature that it would rather see both jade and stone shattered than be enslaved.

Just as he was preparing to accept that the contract had failed, an unexpected change occurred.

At the very moment the Ant Queen was about to die, its will to resist suddenly loosened, and the contract was completed in an instant.

A faint connection linked the two.

With a single thought, Lu Changsheng could make the Ant Queen's soul collapse.

He knew this was the mark of a successful contract.

His face was filled with delight.

At the same time, a message appeared on the panel.

Dominated Creature: Ant Queen.

Tier: Second-tier.

Attribute: Fire.

Remaining Lifespan: 50 years.

Status: Near death.

Egg-laying: 0.

Looking at the panel before him, he hurriedly tapped the plus sign behind its status.

After finally succeeding in bringing it under his dominion, he did not want this Ant Queen to die.

It would be of great use to him in the future.

As Source Energy Points slowly drained away, it visibly recovered before his eyes.

Before long, it stood up, Sha Qi rising all around it. It looked exceptionally fierce.

A sense of closeness came from the Ant Queen, and Lu Changsheng felt it clearly.

Restoring it this time had consumed a total of ten Source Energy Points, leaving him with 175.

Lu Changsheng then led the Ant Queen and swam into the water.

He planned to rescue some of the first-tier Blazing Fire Ants.

They were all his subordinates now.

Without its ant army, the Ant Queen's strength would be greatly diminished.

Before long, he arrived at the center of the basin.

The area around him had already become a vast expanse of water, and the lake surface was littered everywhere with the corpses of Blazing Fire Ants.

Lu Changsheng acted repeatedly, scooping up some Blazing Fire Ants that were still alive.

They soon formed a large ball.

Under the Ant Queen's control, these Blazing Fire Ants were extremely docile and no longer attacked him.

He took the remaining ant colony and swiftly swam onward.

Three days later.

At the northwestern edge of the Cangyun Mountain Range.

At the foot of an unfamiliar mountain.

Lu Changsheng dug out a cave and settled the Ant Queen inside.

The surroundings were filled with the scent of sulfur. It was clearly not far from a volcanic crater, making it perfectly suited for the Ant Queen to reproduce and thrive.

After finishing all this.

He looked at the egg-laying button on the panel, his expression shifting slightly.

He tapped it experimentally.

As ten Source Energy Points were consumed, the Ant Queen immediately began laying eggs.

"One, two, three..."

It laid them without end, as though there were no limit.

It only stopped after laying one hundred gleaming ant eggs.

Every egg carried a faint luster and looked exceptionally wondrous.

These eggs were clearly different from ordinary ones.

They appeared to contain far more spiritual energy.

Seeing this, Lu Changsheng's expression shifted slightly.

Ten Source Energy Points in exchange for one hundred Exotic Beast ant eggs was somewhat expensive, but still barely acceptable.

Once these eggs matured, he could command an ant army to gather spiritual herbs for him, perhaps even besiege Exotic Beasts in the mountains. If he had a vast sea of ant soldiers...

At that thought, he suddenly grew excited.

This Dominion Talent was simply a divine skill.

Once he had raised an ant army, he would immediately have them help him search the mountain range.

Only with a constant stream of resources flowing in to nourish his martial path could he grow stronger quickly.