The moment Wang Zheng's longsword made contact with the head of the bloodthirsty male ant, its carapace flew everywhere, and then its entire head was cleaved in two.

Instantly, green blood sprayed into the sky, and the internal tissues and various fluids from the exploded head splattered all over the ground, emitting a sour stench and turning the entire ground green.

An irregularly shaped spiritual energy crystal in its head was also ripped out. Fortunately, the crystal was hard and bounced back after hitting the dark wall.

It rolled smoothly down in front of the Bloodthirsty Golden Ant Queen, emitting a chaotic fluctuation of spiritual energy.

Spiritual Energy: +80

Seeing that he had only gained so little spiritual energy after all his hard work, Wang Zheng curled his lip in disdain, then smiled and looked at the long sword in his hand, saying:

"You destroyed a special mutated beast with your very first strike, so it's not too bad for you."

Then, with a showy flourish, he twirled the long siege weapon... oops! Miao sword, and stored it in his storage space.

If this Miao sword had a spirit, it would definitely rather self-destruct than follow Wang Zheng.

Miao Dao would definitely say: "You're so reckless, why are you using a knife? You could at least use an iron rod!"

Who uses a knife like that? Is knife fighting and hammer fighting really inseparable?

Oh, right, Wang Zheng doesn't know any hammer techniques either. He just swings the sledgehammer blindly—smashing it randomly!

Wang Zheng would reply: "At least you've sharpened the blade, so you can make do with it."

As he spoke, Wang Zheng had already collected the sledgehammer he had thrown out earlier, as well as the corpses of several male ants on the ground. As for whether there were any spiritual energy crystals or "ant treasures" inside, he would check them later when he had time.

Then Wang Zheng strode up to the queen of the bloodthirsty golden ants, bent down with a smile, and picked up the spiritual crystal from the ground.

Looking at the strangely shaped, irregularly shaped spiritual energy crystal in front of him, and feeling the mixed spiritual energy fluctuations inside, Wang Zheng didn't care.

After putting it away, he looked at the trembling queen ant and gestured as he spoke:

"Although you are only at the third rank and haven't yet awakened your potential, as the leader of a tribe, you should already possess wisdom. Can you understand what I'm saying?"

Seeing that the other person was only focused on trembling and completely ignored her, she tried to back away by using her hands and feet while her hands and feet were shaking.

Wang Zheng grabbed the queen ant's white jade leg with one hand and pulled it forward sharply.

Her enormous body paused for a moment. Although her remaining few ant-like legs were firmly planted on the ground, she had no chance to resist from Wang Zheng's distance. She left several deep scratches on the ground and was then dragged in front of Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng looked at the queen ant, whose head was only about the same size as his own, and was unwilling to look up and communicate with her.

So he grasped her ant-like foot and gently pinched it.

"Snap—"

A crisp sound rang out, and the thick ant leg, as white as jade, was crushed by Wang Zheng, breaking off a piece.

Seeing the other person's hateful eyes and the struggle as they twisted their body, Wang Zheng grabbed them up a little more.

Then, with a sudden burst of force, countless drops of green blood flowed from the hollow tips of the ant legs.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Zheng flipped over and jumped onto the queen ant's head, stomping half of her head into the ground to forcibly fix her body in place and prevent her from moving around.

He exerts force whenever the queen ant moves, and relaxes when she doesn't.

After the queen ant experienced what it meant to have her legs broken off and her long, smooth leg completely ruined, she was finally subdued by Wang Zheng's violence and stopped moving around.

Wang Zheng stepped on the queen ant's head, looked down at her disdainfully, then nodded in satisfaction and said with a smile:

"That's more like it. If you had been this obedient earlier, you wouldn't have had to suffer so much."

Then he took out a piece of ant dew that he had picked up earlier from his storage space and waved it in front of the queen ant.

"Come on, be quick about it, give me as much as you can."

At this moment, the queen ant's eyes no longer held the hatred and madness of before; all that remained was endless grievance.

...

Watching the fist-sized ants continuously roll off the huge egg sac, Wang Zheng felt quite satisfied.

Although Wang Zheng looked down on these ant dews, it was because he had genuinely seen where these honeydews, wrapped in a layer of hard calcium carbonate, came from.

These fist-sized ant mounds were covered with a layer of transparent mucus, and as they rolled down, they were stained with countless specks of dust and dark green blood, so Young Master Wang still found them a little dirty.

Despite his initial dislike, Wang Zheng quickly collected them to prevent their shells from being corroded by the formic acid on the ground.

The ant dew produced by the queen ant is known as "Queen's Honeydew," and it is the finest quality compared to ordinary ant dew.

It's important to know that this is the food that the bloodthirsty queen ant usually consumes herself, and it's also the best food used to raise male ants.

The type of soldier a bloodthirsty ant larva evolves into depends entirely on what it eats and how much spiritual energy it absorbs during its larval stage.

This "Queen's Honeydew" is specifically fed to the strongest larvae, serving as the best food for them to evolve into male ants.

Besides, even if Wang Zheng doesn't eat it himself, it's still good to sell it.

Eggs are made from... cough cough... anyway, we don't eat the shell, so we can just wash them a few more times.