Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat point - Chapter 170
Chapter 170: Chapter 165 Green Silk Worm_1
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Etching words on bamboo slips is relatively easy, and the crafting process isn’t too complicated.
Jade slips are made by polishing pieces of jade, and both manufacturing them and etching words on them are much more difficult.
Picking up the jade slip and wiping off the dust, the words etched onto it became clearly visible.
“Green Silkworm breeding secret technique!”
Qin Niu couldn’t help but be startled before becoming overjoyed.
The Green Silkworm was likely that strange insect that could imperceptibly latch onto his head, hair-like in form and extremely difficult to detect.
The writing on the jade slip was very small, but meticulous and without error.
Glancing over it, it recorded the Green Silk Worm’s breeding methods, uses, and its known grades and forms.
The Green Silkworm is born as a Grade Two insect, tiny as a bedbug.
The best time to bind it to a master is during the egg phase.
Its breeding is extremely difficult.
It requires using the body temperature of a human to incubate, which can take as short as a month or as long as several years. During this incubation period, if the eggs get cold, they can easily die.
After successful hatching, it needs to be fed with the master’s own blood essence.
Moreover, it only consumes fresh human blood.
The fresh blood from a human’s head is most welcomed by it.
The Green Silkworm is highly poisonous, and in its larval stage, it cannot control the venom within its body very well, often resulting in the release of toxins while feeding on the master’s blood essence, leading to itching sores and swelling on the master.
The venom of an adult Green Silkworm can be lethal, causing a person’s blood to clot all over the body, ultimately leading to death.
Therefore, its venom has the effect of stopping bleeding.
No wonder the rooster died. Surely, that Green Silkworm injected its venom into the rooster before dying, causing the rooster’s blood to clot and leading to its painful death.
The Green Silkworm reproduces by parthenogenesis, and although reaching Grade Three counts as an adult, it only has the basic ability to lay eggs at that stage.
It only lays one or two eggs before dying.
Many insects have this breeding mechanism.
It’s as if one generation fades, only then giving birth to new life.
It’s precisely because of this mechanism that they can pass on from generation to generation, avoiding extinction.
To become a true female insect, the Green Silkworm needs to reach Grade Four.
At that stage, it has the normal ability to lay eggs, but its reproductive capacity is very poor, requiring a feast on the master’s blood essence for one or two months to incubate a single egg.
After laying eggs, a Grade Four Green Silkworm mother can hatch them on her own and nourish the larvae that emerge.
The mother will continue to support them until they reach adulthood.
The weakest Green Silk Worm mothers only track their offspring by scent. As the mother ascends each grade, she gains new abilities.
The owner of the jade slip only bred the Green Silkworm to Grade Seven.
At Grade Four, the mother can track her offspring by scent. Even if the offspring hide at the ends of the world, tens of thousands of miles away from the mother, she can still find them.
This ability is super awesome, equivalent to a modern-day tracker.
As long as it latches onto an enemy undetected, even if they flee to the ends of the earth, they can be pursued and killed.
At Grade Five, through the offspring, it’s possible to eavesdrop on the sounds surrounding the larvae.
At Grade Six, it’s possible to see the surroundings through the larvae.
At Grade Seven, it can sense the host’s emotional fluctuations and even peer into the host’s thoughts.
According to the owner of the jade slip’s speculation, this is not the ultimate form of the Green Silkworm; it can still be bred and evolve further.
After reading the description of the Green Silk Worm from Grade Two to Grade Seven on the jade slip, Qin Niu was beyond excited.
Gosh, the abilities of the Green Silkworm are simply heaven-defying.
Although it cannot be used for direct combat, for eavesdropping on intelligence, monitoring enemies, and pinpointing their location, it’s virtually a “divine tool.”
Evolved to Grade Seven, it could even steal the host’s emotional fluctuations and thoughts.
It was even more terrifying than brain-eating insects.
He subconsciously took out the egg to look at it; it wasn’t lost.
He quickly wrapped it layer by layer and then placed it in a bronze canister before feeling at ease.
If such a powerful insect were to be lost, it would be a real pity.
He must find a way to hatch it quickly.
He was willing to feed it his blood essence.
To endure the itchiness and swelling after it fed on his blood essence was a small price to pay.
Compared to its heaven-defying abilities, what was a little suffering?
As long as he successfully hatches it and breeds it to Grade Four, it will definitely play a major role in the future.
As for breeding it to Grade Seven, Qin Niu dared not aim too high, not even daring to contemplate it at this time.
Since the Green Silkworm lays eggs before dying, and there were over a hundred offspring on that female worm that the Ancient Banyan Tree had killed, then wouldn’t it have laid hundreds of eggs?
He quickly squatted down and searched carefully.
Unfortunately, he found nothing.
Were even the eggs killed by the Ancient Banyan Tree?
Qin Niu did not rush back to the village.
He could now basically conclude that Old Master Huang had not died, which posed a great threat.
Mu Kuai and those two Corpse Bees were taken down by Qin Niu, so it was very likely that Old Master Huang himself would take action next time.
Being targeted by such a ruthless character made it hard for him to rest.
At this moment, he could also seek protection from the Fang Family.
The Fang Family would definitely be eager for this.
But he was very clear that this was a last resort. As long as he could cope, he should most definitely not rely on the Fang Family.
A debt owed must eventually be repaid.
The more he received from the Fang Family, the higher the likelihood of becoming subordinate to them.
Being a servant to others, this was definitely not the life he wanted.
Even being a king of grass in the countryside was much better than being a wealthy servant in the city.
Under the Ancient Banyan Tree, he cultivated until the afternoon, then he came out of the maze and checked on the bee population. There were twenty more new bees. He nurtured them on the spot with Banyan Tree Blood.
Even though these bees were still far inferior to the Corpse Bees after cultivation, he didn’t feel inferior.
He believed that Old Master Huang’s Corpse Bees must have become so powerful after many rounds of cultivation.
As long as he seriously summed up experience and learned more about controlling insects, the bees would certainly continue to be cultivated. One day they would surpass the Corpse Bees.
Besides, he hadn’t been raising this swarm of bees for combat in the first place.
Even the termite nest he was raising wasn’t for fighting.
He preferred to engage in planting and then constantly look for ways to enhance his cultivation level and extend his life.
Currently, he had already broken past a hundred years in age.
This was only a primary goal; his next target was to break through to a lifespan of a thousand years.
After cultivating the bees, he casually took some honey and put it into a basket.
Children all like to eat sweets, so he believed Xiao Qing would be particularly happy to see so much honey.
He arrived at the Ant Nest and there were no abnormalities.
The Ant Queen was still evolving.
He really hoped it would finish evolving soon.
Currently being targeted by a powerful enemy, the stronger his ant colony became, the more power he would have to fight back when facing formidable foes.
It also meant he would be safer.
He hadn’t been willing to feed the corpse of that Corpse Bee to the ordinary worker ants.
Instead, he planned to wait until the Ant Queen finished evolving and then use it to feed the queen.
After all, such good things were hard to come by.
Grade Four insects were already extremely rare.
Even Fourth, being such a rare species and having been cultivated with Banyan Tree Blood and ‘Thousand Eyes Tree’ Blood, such high-grade sustenance, was still only a Grade Three termite.
It was conceivable how difficult it was to cultivate Grade Four insects.
His calculations were precise, using such scarce resources to cultivate ordinary termites, even if successful, would only result in one special termite.
If he used it to cultivate the Ant Queen, allowing it to acquire special abilities, then special termites could be continuously produced.
Which would bring greater benefits, is clear at a glance.
After cultivating the newly molted termites into adults, Qin Niu then headed home.
He deliberately chose this time to return home because he was worried about Old Master Huang lurking in the village waiting for him.
“Master Qin, have you been hunting in the mountains again!”
Wang Furen walked with his hands behind his back; he should be inspecting the crops he had planted in the field.
” I’m just strolling around!”
Qin Niu obviously couldn’t tell the truth.
“Uncle Wang, there haven’t been any strangers in our village these past two days, have there?”
“No, with locust plagues everywhere, who has the mood to run around!”
“That’s true! Recently, I heard that some villains have set their sights on our village. Tell everyone, if a stranger enters the village, report to me immediately. And don’t get near that person, they’re all cold-blooded demons.”
Qin Niu wasn’t just trying to scare him.
Old Master Huang had a black heart and ruthless hands; he didn’t need to do the dirty work himself.
A single Corpse Bee could wipe out the entire Shuangfeng Village.
“Where did you get this information? My eyelids have been twitching lately, oh no, this won’t do, I have to hurry back and warn Wan Yan and the others not to go out recently.”
Wang Furen was very timid and feared death.
Once, when someone in the village contracted an epidemic, Wang Furen shut himself in at home and didn’t come out for over a month.
He lived a comfortable life and didn’t want to die.
When Qin Niu returned home, he carefully observed the ground and other places and didn’t find signs of intrusion.
Fortunately, he had headed into the mountains soon after coming back from the city.
If he had stayed at home all along, the Green Silkworm would have been undetected, and the Mu Kuai would have surely killed its way into his house at night.
They say a crafty rabbit has three burrows, and Qin Niu started contemplating contingency plans for various crises.
“Move that swarm of bees to be raised at home?”
They could serve as sentinels.
If a stranger invaded, they would soon detect it and warn Qin Niu.
The only drawback of the bees was that they did not work at night.
Because they cannot see.
The vision of the bees was naturally poor, and they couldn’t see anything at night. They could only act as sentinels during the day.
The Diamond Ink Turtle raised in the front yard pond was also a good sentinel.
Perhaps he could also consider learning from Old Master Huang and keep some other insects in the courtyard.
He was certain that Old Master Huang kept many insects in the lotus pond in the front yard, as well as in the grass and on the trees. For an Insect Master, insects could not only serve as sentinels but also as guards, attacking the invaders directly when necessary.
“Now that I have reached the first level of the Acquired Realm and the ant colony has grown to a certain size, perhaps it’s time to retrieve the Green Demon’s treasure.”
Qin Niu cared deeply about the treasure left by the Green Demon.
With so many formidable insect masters worshipping the Green Demon to such an extent, it indicated there must be something exceptional about him.
“Wait until Miaodan Pavilion helps me refine the Beast Core, and after taking it, I raise my cultivation level by a major realm, perhaps I will have a better chance. Both the Ant Queen and Xiao Nui are evolving, and being away from home for many days, I worry something might go wrong with them.”
He thought to himself.
Moreover, once the Ant Queen finished evolving, it might be able to produce even more formidable termites, allowing him to cultivate stronger special termites.
It would also make venturing into the mountains where the Green Demon once lived a little safer.
