"Uh, of course it was a God-bestowed Treasure—the Spear of Destiny."
Beads of cold sweat rolled down the Ant Queen's head.
She feared that one wrong answer would bring down a killing blow from this tyrant.
"Then do you know what material it is made of?"
The Ant Queen recalled the many ancient texts she had read.
"According to Human Race historical records, the Spear of Destiny and the Tablet of Truth are made of the same unknown material. The Human Race has studied them for a million years.
They discovered that no substance in the world resembles these divine artifacts—not even various mixed metals share the slightest similarity."
"And what is above our heads?"
Holding his spear aloft and pointing it at the sky, the Ant King asked again.
The many Ant Queens looked upward. Beyond the magnificent palace, they saw the blazing sun and countless stars invisible during the daytime.
The Ant Queen suddenly understood and answered, "Stars! The starry sky!"
"Correct."
The Ant King nodded. "You are not completely hopelessly foolish."
Another Ant Queen spoke. "Honored King, I once ordered the strongest flying Ant Tribe Hero to fly upward with all his strength. According to him,
when he reached roughly ten thousand meters above the ground, he encountered a World Barrier like the one in the depths of the ocean and could go no farther. Although the stars could be seen, I fear they cannot be entered!"
"Yes," another Ant Queen said.
"I consulted the ancient texts of every race. Some wise men speculated that although the stars exist, they may be projections of another higher world.
Just as the Creation God is not present in every corner of the world, perhaps He resides with the stars in the divine realm!"
The Ant King tapped his fingers. "Our journey is the Sea of Stars! Pass down my order: warriors of all major clans are to slaughter one another. Only then can stronger warriors be born.
At the same time, send the strongest Ant Tribe Heroes to the four extremes of heaven and earth, as well as the depths of the ocean and the high skies, to explore the limits of the world. Draw the most complete map of the world and mark the World Barrier!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
The Ant Queens' blood boiled. The Ant King's ambitions were vast; he clearly wanted to break through the World Barrier and reach other worlds!
Turmoil rose once more among the Devouring Ants, and the slaughtering blades they could no longer restrain swung at their own kin.
At the same time, the strongest batch of Ant Tribe Heroes rushed toward every corner of the world.
When Jiang Ping returned from his meal and saw this, he laughed. "You always manage to come up with something new."
He had already vaguely guessed the Ant King's intentions. This truly audacious Demon King apparently wanted to cause him trouble!
"Hehe, you have devoured the world clean, and now you are searching for stars beyond the domain because you think the world has trapped you?"
Jiang Ping looked at the busy ant colonies and smiled.
It seemed the Devouring Ants wanted to develop into an interstellar insect race, attempting to break through spatial dimensions and come and cause him trouble!
"Creation Diary, do you think the Ant King is getting too full of himself?"
Jiang Ping asked the Creation Diary with a smile. He did not dislike such variables.
The Creation Diary said, "The Ant King's birth was originally a defiance of heaven. By all reason, a creature like him, whose Combat Power surpassed the ordinary limits of the world, should never have been born.
His strength was simply on a completely different level from other creatures. He broke the balance of the world, disrupting the flourishing development of a world where the Myriad Races had once competed for supremacy and ushering in an era where one race ruled alone.
In the final battle, I thought you would intervene in secret and make the Devouring Ants and the Myriad Races confront one another, driving each other to awaken their potential.
That would have maximized your benefits."
Jiang Ping raised his brows but said nothing.
Within the Primordial World, the Ant Queens gradually mapped out a massive chart depicting the complete World Barrier.
The world had originally been round in the heavens and square upon the earth. At the end of the previous era, war raged across the land, the Supercontinent collapsed, and fragments of land scattered to every corner of the world.
Over the years, the Ant King had wielded his black spear and traveled along the World Barrier year-round, attempting to find cracks in space. Several times, he had struck with all his strength.
Divine light illuminated the world, so blinding that the Ant Queens could not look directly at it. Yet although ripples spread across the barrier, there was still no sign of it breaking.
In fact, such spatial ripples had never appeared before in history.
The hardness of the World Barrier silenced the once-arrogant Ant King. After a journey of thousands of miles, he could not even take the first step!
Moreover, as the ant colonies slaughtered one another, although quite a few elite heroes emerged, their resources were exhausted. No new troops could be produced afterward, and the Devouring Ants' strength actually began to decline!
It was as though the moment after they had wiped out the Myriad Races had been the Devouring Ants' most prosperous era!
"Could our race truly be heading toward its end?"
An Ant Queen spoke anxiously. At that moment, she suddenly recalled the words of a Human Race sage before his death.
The Devouring Ants were so bloodthirsty that they left not a trace of life behind. Even if they destroyed all things in the end, they would only be digging their own graves!
This time, the Ant King did not kill that Ant Queen.
"I refuse to accept this!"
Late at night, an Ant Queen heard that voice coming from the central palace.
Unable to break free from the world's restraints, with the world's resources themselves depleted and its cycle broken, no new life could emerge. The Devouring Ants grew weaker by the day.
One thousand years later
The major Devouring Ant clans rebelled, devouring one another and even killing enemy Ant Queens, all so that they themselves could survive!
The entire world was riddled with devastation. Black mist blocked out the sunlight, and even the last source of energy—the sun—no longer shone upon the earth.
The Ant Queens and Ant Tribe Heroes despaired. At this rate, the Devouring Ants would surely perish!
"Is this our punishment? We devoured all things and slaughtered the Myriad Races, only to cut off our own path to survival?"
A powerful Ant Tribe Hero spoke in despair. Hundreds of years ago, he had personally led an army to breach the Human Race's front lines and slaughter every living being across an entire continent.
"King! Will you simply watch our race perish?"
Some Ant Tribe Heroes who were not afraid of death began challenging the Ant King. Inevitably, they were killed by a single move from him.
The crowd was enraged. This time, the Ant King had to act. This was a critical moment of life and death for the Devouring Ants!
"Mobilize the strength of the entire race and build the Altar of the God Sacrifice!"
Billions of Ant Tribe members rejoiced. The most terrifying thing in the world was despair; once hope existed, all things could create miracles!
With a single order from the Ant King, Devouring Ants across the entire world were mobilized. They spat out countless precious materials upon the continent at the very center of the world, where the Divine Tree had once been planted.
An altar a thousand meters high was slowly erected. Before the massive altar stood an even taller and more imposing statue.
The statue was none other than the creator of all things—the Creation God.
His body was so majestic that even the radiance of the rising sun was concealed by him. Every word of praise in the world could not describe even a fraction of Him.
Before the crisis of extinction, the Devouring Ants shone with their most brilliant splendor. This miraculous structure of the world was completed in merely ten years.
On the day construction was finished, the Ant King issued the highest command to the entire race. Billions of Devouring Ants surged in from every corner of the world and gathered around the Altar of the God Sacrifice.
The Ant King personally presided over it, with dozens of Ant Queens standing at his sides and tens of thousands of Ant Tribe Heroes leading their clans from the outskirts.
The grandest sacrifice in history began!
And the supreme offering at the very top was astonishingly a fossil bearing a footprint!
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