SWDnovel Chapter 20: The Spirit Stone Defaulter... [New Book, Please Vote!]
Chapter 20: The Spirit Stone Defaulter... [New Book, Please Vote!]
Three months later, in the dark green poisonous forest behind Golden Cloud Peak, when Qing Li saw an army of 100,000 Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes in the battlefield of the Demon Insect Cave, with nearly 50% of its strength lost, finally pierce through the Nine Nether Nether Bee's carapace, which was comparable to refined iron, and successfully tore apart its internal flesh with the venom that could make even Foundation Establishment cultivators tremble at the mere mention of it, Qing Li understood that the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes had succeeded!
"..." Qing Li remained silent for a long time as she watched the remaining 50,000 Netherworld Poisonous Mosquitoes in the Demon Insect Cave devouring the corpse of the Netherworld Poisonous Bee.
After expending a large amount of spiritual herbs and spiritual flesh resources, Qing Li successfully cultivated the Nine Nether Poison Mosquito into a true spiritual insect.
However, after the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquito evolved into a spirit insect, its reproduction rate decreased and its reproduction time increased. Of course, this so-called decrease and increase were nothing to Qing Li.
Because the original Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes, with the acceleration of the spiritual herbs, could lay an average of five hundred eggs in each breeding cycle, and this cycle was... one day!
The original genetic prototype of the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquito, the Blood Mosquito, had its life cycle compressed by Mengde from one week to three to five days.
However, Qingli discovered that if a large number of low-grade spiritual herbs were fed to her, this life cycle could be compressed to within two days!
Of course, this doesn't mean that the blood mosquitoes can only live for two days. Rather, once they enter the breeding phase, they will rapidly multiply every two to three days. If they remain hungry and do not enter the breeding phase, they can survive for several months or more.
With the resources allocated to Qing Li, a cultivator at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes, excluding the factor of male and female, can achieve a rate of two to three hundred times per day, causing the swarm to expand rapidly.
As for the Nine Nether Poison Mosquitoes, which have advanced to the Spirit Insect realm, Qing Li discovered that the average number of eggs laid by female mosquitoes has dropped to around two hundred, and their growth cycle has also been extended by three times.
In other words, with sufficient resources, Qing Li's level-one Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes can increase a hundredfold every three days.
"If we keep only a thousand level-one Nine Nether Poison Mosquitoes as seeds, then if we spare no expense to mass produce troops, we can have over a hundred million level-one demonic insects in just ten days..." Qing Li began to realize the normal way to use the Source Blood Mosquitoes: select and breed superior individuals during peacetime, and mass produce troops in a frenzy during wartime.
"The Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes have now developed resistance to the toxins of the Nine Nether Nether Bees..." Qing Li sighed softly as she looked at the tens of thousands of Nine Nether Nether Bees outside.
The current Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes are truly capable of overwhelming the Nine Nether Nether Bees with sheer numbers... Qing Li discovered that her research on the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes, which she had only conducted for less than half a year, had already yielded results with the terrifying potential to severely damage bee colonies, leaving her somewhat dazed.
These tens of thousands of Netherworld Bees, a few of which are high-level poisonous bees, were inherited from Fairy Qingling, while the majority of the poisonous bees below level three were painstakingly cultivated by her over the years, eventually forming the Netherworld Bee Swarm that is now powerful enough to threaten Core Formation experts.
However, Qing Li only dazed for a moment before coming back to her senses. As a Foundation Establishment Grand Perfection expert, Qing Li knew very well that no matter how many Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes there were, they could not kill a Foundation Establishment expert. However, the Nine Nether Bee Swarm in her hands could truly make a Core Formation expert feel a little apprehensive!
When a Core Formation expert faces Qing Li's fully formed Nine Nether Bee swarm, unless they can completely dodge the attacks of the extremely fast Nine Nether Poison Bees with their ability to conceal their presence, the Nine Nether Poison, which can simultaneously solidify both their mana and divine sense, will be enough to make a Core Formation expert feel uncomfortable.
Qing Li inherited only three Level 5 Netherworld Bees, which were her most powerful spiritual insects, capable of threatening the lives of Core Formation cultivators, and were also her last trump card.
"Now that the spirit insects have yielded some results, it's time to pay our respects to the Ancestor." Qing Li took out the spirit insect bag and collected most of the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquitoes from the Demon Insect Cave, leaving only a small number of Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquito Seeds. Then, she threw out a talisman to summon the black and white spirit bears guarding the mountain.
"Bear Lord, I need to go out for a while. Take these bottles of pills to that kid at Blackwater Manor, and then come back to guard the mountain gate." Qingli put three bottles of cultivation pills into a low-level storage bag and then handed them to the burly black and white spirit bear.
"Hmph...Hmph..." The black and white spirit bear shook its round head, then swallowed the storage bag and walked slowly down the mountain.
"From a certain perspective, the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquito can also be considered a kind of rare insect. Being able to be on the list of rare insects deserves a reward." Qing Li looked in the direction where the black and white spirit bear had left, nodded slightly, and then took a step forward. A level 5 Nine Nether Poisonous Bee with gorgeous patterns rushed out from the dark green poisonous forest. Instantly, its size increased, just enough to catch Qing Li. Then, with a flap of its wings, it turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the sky.
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Meanwhile, while Qingli was focused on researching the source blood mosquitoes, Mengde of Blackwater Manor also gained a clearer understanding of the "dregs magic".
However, Mengde did not waste time on this, because his most important things now were cultivation, raising powerful mosquitoes, and acquiring spirit stones.
Because Senior Sister Qingli said that the fewer people who know about the Blood Mosquito, the better, Mengde is now in a bit of an awkward situation.
Firstly, because Mengde supplied blood mosquitoes, Senior Sister Qingli has stopped asking for more insect food, which has resulted in Mengde's monthly allowance of ten spirit stones being interrupted.
Without spirit stones, Meng De's cultivation speed would slow down, and he would also be unable to purchase the resources he wanted from the Black Bee Palace's trading market.
Meng De could have held out for a while, because through his transaction with Senior Sister Qing Li, he had managed to save up about twenty spirit stones.
However, after half a year, there was still no movement from Senior Sister Qingli, and Senior Sister Yunxi seemed to have entered a state of seclusion to cultivate the Golden-backed Demon Mantis, and had no time to pay attention to him at all.
This made Mengde, who was ravaging mosquitoes in Heishuizhuang, no longer able to sit still.
He was able to stay at Blackwater Manor, cultivate demonic mosquitoes, and improve his cultivation because he had a minimum subsistence allowance. In fact, this allowance of ten spirit stones per month was more than the income of an average late-stage Qi Refining cultivator!
"I have to go out and make some money...sigh..." Meng De, inside Blackwater Manor, looked at his last five spirit stones and couldn't help but sigh.
He still doesn't know if handing over the Source Blood Mosquitoes was a brilliant move, but Mengde understands that given their characteristics, they are destined to be impossible to hide.
Therefore, it would be better to reveal the source blood mosquitoes, which are naturally freedom-loving, in advance, so that Mengde can pick up lost mosquitoes from other people's trails on Spirit Beast Mountain...
"I wonder what kind of missions, besides my comfort zone, would be suitable for me within the Black Bee Palace?" With that thought, Mengde piloted his flying boat and slowly flew towards the Black Bee Palace.