Ant Clan, allies of the Dragon Clan... or perhaps former allies.

The so-called "Ant Clan" is merely a designation. They are not the "ants" of this planet, and they might not even fit the strict definition of "animals."

Their relationship is somewhat akin to the relationship between the Human Clan and Sea God Type today.

However, as the Dragon Clan gradually sealed itself away, and the Ancient Dragon Emperor closed off this realm to cultivate civilization without foreign interference, the connection between the Ant Clan and Dragon Clan gradually diminished.

To what extent were the Dragon Clan and Ant Clan close?

The Transformation Divine Power pioneered by the Dragon Clan was actually modeled after the Ant Clan's innate ability—differentiation. And the Transformation Divine Powers circulated among the Shenzhou Demon Clan today incorporate some of the Ant Clan's technology.

This race is categorized by Immortals as Beast Herd Species.

Beast Herd Species, they represent a collective intelligence.

This category of life possesses intelligence on par with humans or dragons. However, this intelligence does not originate from any one or another individual, but from the whole.

Only when acting as a whole, does a Beast Herd Species become an intelligent life form. The number of individuals and the situation of each one can only influence the personality and mind of the Beast Herd Species.

Or, in other words, for the so-called Beast Herd Species, each individual contains just a set of thoughts, a part of thinking. These thoughts combine into an organic whole using Spiritual Energy, sounds, electromagnetic waves, pheromones, and so on.

For Beast Herd Species, each unit functions as a group of neurons, and important individuals can be seen as a brain function area.

This is the true form of those Beast Herd Species.

"I see..." After quickly receiving information from Yue Luo and Liu Li, Wang Qi swung his sword, slicing through the waist of a Six-Blade Footed Demon Bee, as his internal Mana continued to circulate, rapidly contemplating the current situation.

The Demon Beasts did not slow down their attack because of his thoughts. As Wang Qi swung out with his long sword, three Demon Bees waved their spear-like forelimbs and charged at him. Wang Qi clicked his tongue, and with his left hand, pinched the opponent's forelimbs at a critical moment. The Arrow Control Technique activated, instantly changing the direction of kinetic energy in those forelimbs, causing them to break from the middle, the sharp ends shooting out like bullets, piercing the compound eye of another attacking Demon Bee, while the second Demon Bee was propelled into the third by the momentum of this "spear," causing the attack of the third Demon Bee to barely miss Wang Qi.

The powerful computing capability brought by Xiangyu Heavenly Position Technique allowed him to turn all movement around him into simple vectors for calculation. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't even need to understand the meaning of his actions; he only needs to initially act on his calculated results to achieve remarkable battle outcomes. Ultimately, even the legendary "divine clarity" may not compare to his performance.

This stands out especially during chaotic combat.

——Regarding the so-called Beast Herd Species, each beast body, each unit stores a part of memory, thought circuits, all part...

——They may or may not have a core "server"...

——Losing one beast body means losing part of memory, thinking ability, yet through some methods, they can backup a unit's memory...

This is nothing but a "network," isn't it?

The intelligence of Beast Herd Species originates from cloud computing. Their true form is equivalent to a "network," where each unit serves as a "terminal." Each terminal can upload or download "data," and the core Insect Queen or Beast King equates to server hosts.

Of course, a local network can be set up without an actual "host." Theoretically, there exists the type of Beast Herd Species without "primary" or "core individual."

However, according to the information from Yue Luo and Liu Li, these creatures possess the bloodline of the Ant Clan. The Ant Clan belongs to the type with a core.

The Queen Bee serves as their "brain" and "server."

"If that's the case, it's manageable." Wang Qi speculated, swinging his sword to retreat from the surrounding Demon Bees, then raised his left arm.

The arm armor, embedded with four Heart Demon Great Curse Memory bodies, emitted a radiant glow.

For Wang Qi, an unfamiliar "network" may be exceedingly hard to understand, abundant with challenges. However, from a "network" perspective, the Heart Demon Great Curse is closer to the "physical layer" of a network. Its function is akin to hardware replacement, transforming a network.

Colorful Spirit Light transformed into a sweeping halo. Dao Heart Pure Yang Spell turned into several heads burrowing into the Demon Bees' heads; Five Plagues Total Curse remained in the form of Xia Gai Demon Worms, gnawing at the Demon Bees' torsos; Thousand Illusion Divine Spell transformed into a thousand magic artifacts, falling like rain; Netherworld Fire Spell took the shape of numerous Netherworld Fire Crows, circling like hunting falcons and striking...

In the blink of an eye, all the demon bees surrounding Wang Qi were afflicted with multiple Heart Demon Curses.

However, in the next moment... their attacks became even more fierce.

When an individual of the beast herd species appears independently, it has no consciousness, only instinct. But the Heart Demon Curse targets consciousness, not instinct.

The combat power of intelligent life forms mostly comes from wisdom. The Heart Demon Curse disrupts wisdom, so they naturally cannot fight. However, for life forms that do not rely on wisdom in battle, the Heart Demon Curse is meaningless.

The Heart Demon Curse, which can make intelligent life forms lose their will to fight, has no obvious offensive effect on these unintelligent beings. Instead, when the Heart Demon Curse mixes into their original essence demon energy, it transforms, refining their strength indirectly, and actually enhances the power of these demon bees.

However, these Heart Demon Curses are merely the prelude to Wang Qi's real methods.

"Now, it's time to showcase the real technology." Wang Qi chuckled twice coldly, and faced the demon bees charging aggressively, entering a relative spacetime, stepping out of the reference frame.

In the relative spacetime, all the demon bees seemed to be frozen. Wang Qi carefully passed through this stagnant army. Meanwhile, the mana within him circulated, the path rank constructed by countless operators disintegrated, reconstructing with the operation of the mental method, once again changing the nature of mana.

After walking out of the encirclement of the demon bees, Wang Qi stopped at the edge of the swarm, pressing his hands on two demon bees — but stopped just before touching them. Contact is meaningless when both parties are in different reference frames.

Wang Qi whistled: "Then, time begins to flow."

Just like pressing the "play" button on a player, the frozen demon bees started moving, continuing to pounce on where Wang Qi had just been. They struck air.

Meanwhile, Wang Qi's hands were already on the bodies of two bee demons.

The physical bodies of different life forms vary greatly, but their souls are roughly similar, all being special spirit energy fields. The Divine Plague Curse and Heart Demon Curse, although both derived from the human clan, can take effect on any ethnic group.

In an instant, the bodies of the two demon bees were infused with a whole new will.

"Obey!"

Wang Qi's will imprinted into the souls of these two demon bees, inherently constructed, clashing fiercely with the consciousness of the beast herd species. The two demon bees suddenly went berserk, charging about madly, crashing straight into the bee swarm. It seems the demon bees had never experienced such a strange thing — "companions" actually betray them, momentarily unsure of what to do, helplessly watching these two demon bees rampage, completely breaking the formation of the bee swarm.

Moreover, this madness seemed infectious. Any other medicine that had direct contact with the infected demon bees would join the ranks of the out-of-control — the Divine Plague Curse Technique spread rapidly using the Heart Demon Curse as a bridge. In just a few breaths, the previously well-organized swarm of bees turned into a group of headless flies, buzzing chaotically.

However, this chaos is not permanent. It's merely the turmoil of alternating between the "new order" and the "old regime." Soon, the power of the Heart Demon Curse further infected them, transforming into divine power that dissipated. The Heart Demon Curse power that escaped from all the demon bees assembled and transformed into an invisible spiritual body.

Wang Qi drew out dozens of new Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles. These Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles are "compressed packages" of the "God." The released Spirit Sense combined with the Heart Demon Curse power surrounding Wang Qi, beginning to forge a new deity.

This time, Wang Qi did not specifically craft a divine body for battle for this deity. What he wanted was merely the "erosion ability" of the Divine Tao System.

What he's doing now is not controlling the original consciousness of this demon bee beast herd species, but rather using the controlled Heart Demon Network and Divine Plague Curse Technique path rank to overlay the will of that beast herd species.

Soon, thousands of demon bees surrendered, lining up like soldiers in front of Wang Qi, awaiting inspection.

Yue Luo Liu Li said: "Well done. I didn't expect it; even though this Heaven and Earth has no beast herd species, and the human clan is even less likely to have encountered beast herd species, you still managed to find these guys' weak spot and defeat them in one strike..."

Wang Qi frowned: "Even in this Heaven and Earth, aren't there bees and ants?"

"The ants of this Heaven and Earth, even if demonized by chance, will only exhibit the characteristics of individual life forms or transform into new, cultivated insect queens, spawning stronger mortal ants, muddling through life without ever becoming true beast herd species, a species entity that continuously advances until becoming an immortal." Yue Luo Liu Li replied: "Moreover... your human clan shouldn't consider monkeys as intelligent beings, right?"

"That's true." Wang Qi nodded, and then pondered: "Speaking of which, does this Heaven and Earth's Primordial Sea God count as a beast herd species?"

"The key characteristic of a beast herd species is that the individual entities that make it up are all creatures of one species, and each individual entity must possess some capacity for thought and memory ability. The Primordial Sea God clearly is not." Yue Luo Liu Li shook twice: "Speaking of which, what you really want to ask is that peculiar Senior Sister of yours, isn't it?"

Wang Qi was not surprised: "How did you figure it out?"

"Some of her concepts clearly differ from blood and flesh species like the human clan and Dragon Clan, and she's not a typical beast herd species. After considering it, this seems the most likely, right?" Yue Luo Liu Li lamented: "Primordial Sea God... I didn't expect it still existed in this Heaven and Earth."