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Chapter 297 "List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth" and Three Kinds of Monster Insects [Subscription Request]

The insect repellent technique left by Han Yuan of Qianling Sect is indeed very exquisite and mysterious.

This so-called insect repelling technique not only includes the secret techniques of driving evil insects to fight, but also includes many secret techniques of breeding insects.

Although beast taming and insect repellent seem to have many similarities, there are actually great differences between the two when they are broken down.

For beastmasters, as long as the bloodline of the monster is high enough, they do not need to put much effort into raising the monster.

But deworming is completely different.

Except for a very small number of demon insect species with extremely strange and powerful individual abilities, the vast majority of demon insects have to rely on numbers to exert their powerful combat effectiveness.

As for how to expand the population of demon insects and how to control more demon insects, this will test the insect breeding ability of the insect-driving monk.

In the history of Qianlingmen, there are many cases where people have used their excellent insect breeding skills to transform an originally ordinary demon insect into excellent offspring through continuous careful selection, and finally cultivated a new and powerful demon insect.

Compared with monster beasts, the reproduction ability of monster insects is undoubtedly much stronger, and the time it takes for the larvae to mature is also much shorter.

In a hundred years, a high-level demon beast may only give birth to one cub, or even not even one.

However, the reproduction interval of most demon insects will not exceed five years.

In other words, the same hundred years is enough for the demon insects to reproduce twenty generations!

In the hands of monks who are proficient in the art of breeding insects, this kind of reproduction from generation to generation is enough for them to select the best insect species and use various methods to strengthen them to the strongest state.

Just like Han Yuan, he used his excellent insect breeding skills to continuously improve and mutate a demon insect called "Golden Spotted Iron-eating Insect", and finally bred a light golden insect that he named "Black Armor Golden Feather", which was the demon insect that caused Zhou Mingde and others a lot of trouble.

In fact, Zhou Mingde and his companions were lucky at that time. Those "Black Armor and Golden Feathers" had been sealed for too long, and their strength had dropped to less than half of their peak period.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators to survive the siege of so many "Mysterious Armor and Golden Feathers".

At this time, Zhou Chun was comparing the various notes left by Han Yuan, while flipping through the secret techniques used to breed insects. He felt his horizons were broadened and he gained a lot.

This even gave him some inspiration and he wanted to use some of these methods to cultivate monsters.

That’s right, compared to demon insects, demon beasts’ bloodlines are more stable, and their reproduction and growth cycles are longer.

But there is still a chance to change!
Breeding monsters by imitating the technique of raising insects may not necessarily produce quick results, but it is definitely a way.

If this path can be taken, the gains will undoubtedly be huge.

However, although he had a burst of inspiration and many ideas, he never thought of doing it himself.

I just recorded these ideas and planned to hand them over to Zhou Daoquan, the supreme elder of the Zhou family, along with the insect breeding techniques, to try out in the future.

For Zhou Chun, cultivation is the first priority, followed by how to strengthen his own strength and expand the influence of the family.

As for those skills, it would be fine if he really had talent, but if he didn't have any obvious outstanding talent, he didn't want to spend any more time and effort to get involved.

Unless one day he is no longer the patriarch and is not so busy, he may have time to get involved.

Therefore, after reading all the insect-breeding techniques, Zhou Chun turned his attention back to the insect-repelling techniques that could help improve the combat effectiveness of cultivators.

The Qianling Sect's insect repelling technique has become quite sophisticated, and different kinds of demon insects have corresponding secret techniques that can maximize their strength.

For example, for a demon insect with extremely strong defense like "Black Armor Golden Feather", it is suitable to use "Insect Armor Technique" to condense them into a special "Insect Armor" to protect themselves.

Or use the "Insect Spear Technique" to condense them into a "insect spear" and shoot it out, and then quickly explode in front of the target, allowing the swarm of insects to surround the enemy at the fastest speed.

For example, moth-like monsters like the "poisonous flame moth" release poisonous flames with extremely strong corrosive ability. The "Spirit Fusion Technique" can be used to merge the poisonous flames released by thousands of "poisonous flame moths" into a torrent of poisonous flames, forming a sea of ​​​​poisonous flames to attack the enemy.

There is also a secret technique called "Insect Explosion", which can be used to engrave relevant runes on certain evil insects in advance, so that the evil insects can self-explode at the critical moment.

This secret technique is very suitable for use on those evil insects whose body fluids and blood are poisonous. When they self-destruct in groups, the power will be extremely great.

There is also a secret technique called "Insect Puppetry", which can refine demonic insects into puppet clones for reconnaissance or combat.

To be honest, compared to the Zhou family's beast-taming technique, which was not yet fully formed, the Thousand Spirit Sect's insect-repelling technique inherited by Han Yuan was undoubtedly much more complete.

If the Zhou family can make good use of these insect repellent techniques, they may have a chance to become a force like the Qianling Sect in the future.

Of course, although the art of expelling insects has many advantages and benefits, its disadvantages are also obvious.

First of all, just like the art of taming beasts, in order for the art of repelling insects to exert sufficient power, there must be some excellent demon insects to be repelled.

Secondly, supporting the growth of a large number of demon insects requires a lot of resources, and this resource consumption is much greater than supporting demon beasts.

Third, except for some extremely rare and exotic insects, the strength of most demon insects is not too strong.

Even the demon insects carefully cultivated by the Qianling Sect's Jindan stage cultivators would find it difficult to withstand the power of the magic weapon.

When Qianlingmen's Jindan-stage cultivators fight with cultivators of the same level, very few can win simply by relying on the art of repelling insects.

It’s the same even if they raise a large number of insect swarms!
Similarly, the evil insects that can threaten Nascent Soul cultivators basically only exist in certain records in the Qianling Sect's books, and most of them have long been declared extinct.

In other words, the art of repelling insects is a very powerful fighting technique below the Jindan stage.

However, after reaching the Jindan stage, if there are no particularly powerful alien insects to drive, the effectiveness of this insect-repelling technique will be greatly reduced.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this defect that Han Yuan, a Jindan-stage cultivator of Qianling Sect, is obsessed with studying forbidden techniques, attempting to use forbidden techniques to cultivate powerful monster insects that can threaten the lives of Jindan-stage cultivators.

In a sense, he really did it.

The monster insects that are now wreaking havoc in Yang State are the product of his experiments. But Zhou Chun knows that the current situation of this monster insect is not what Han Yuan wants.

The reason why the current demon insects can form insect plagues that even Nascent Soul cultivators cannot extinguish is because of their huge and unlimitedly expanding population and because of the powerful insect kings born among them.

However, if any immortal cultivator wants to use this kind of evil insect as a control object, he will definitely regret it.

Because the population of demon insects driven by immortal cultivators could never give birth to a true king of the race.

At the same time, the cultivator's own spiritual awareness is limited. Even a Jindan-stage cultivator can only control hundreds of thousands of first-level demon insects at the same time.

However, hundreds of thousands of first-level demon insects cannot pose any threat to a Jindan-stage cultivator.

Therefore, the demon insects that can truly satisfy a Jindan-stage insect cultivator like Han Yuan should be those that are individually powerful and can reproduce into small-scale insect swarms.

It is like a strange insect recorded in the Qianlingmen classics, a strange insect called "Sky Fire Purple Centipede".

When this strange insect reaches maturity, it becomes nine feet long and can fly into the sky and hide underground. The purple flame it spews out of its mouth cannot even be touched by a Jindan-stage cultivator, and can even burn magical weapons!

If any Jindan stage cultivator could cultivate a hundred or so "Skyfire Purple Centipedes" that have reached a mature state, he would be absolutely invincible in the Jindan stage, and fighting ten enemies alone would not be a problem!
Unfortunately, let alone alien insects like the "Sky Fire Purple Centipede" which no one knows whether it still exists in this world, even those alien insects with weaker strength are now as hard to find as finding a needle in a haystack.

Han Yuan even wrote directly in his personal autobiography that the biggest regret of his life was that he did not return to the sect before Qianling Sect was destroyed, and the second biggest regret was that he did not actually find a strange insect on the "Heaven and Earth Strange Insect List".

The so-called "List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth" is also a strange book left by Han Yuan. It is said that the compiler of this strange book is a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage named "Master Bai Chong".

The founder of Qianling Sect originally inherited part of the Taoist tradition from the "Master of Hundred Insects".

The "Master of a Hundred Insects" compiled a total of one hundred powerful strange insects in the world through his own personal observations and information collected from various classics, and ranked those strange insects according to his own insights.

Even a powerful demon insect like the "Sky Fire Purple Centipede" can only rank fifty-third on the "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth".

Most of the evil insects listed in this strange book have been confirmed to be extinct in this world, and most of the remaining ones are on the verge of extinction. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator like "Master Bai Chong" has never seen one with his own eyes.

Only a small part of them are confirmed to still exist, and some traces have been found in some remote wilderness areas.

Zhou Chun had also read the book “List of Strange Insects in Heaven and Earth”. The various strange insects recorded in it, with their powerful strength and strange magical powers, opened his eyes and even made him doubt whether they really existed.

For example, the strange insect called "Kongyin Xuanjing Cicada" is said to have the ability to become invisible in space, and even a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage would find it difficult to detect its existence.

However, the wings of this strange insect are so sharp that they can cut through space and chop off the head of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage without him even noticing!
There is also a strange insect called the "Sky-catching Dragon-eating Spider". It is said that the spider web it weaves can even trap dragons and then kill and eat them.

Every time these extremely powerful strange insects appeared, they would cause a huge tragedy in the world of immortal cultivation, killing and injuring many high-level cultivators.

It's a pity that I don't know if it's because they are too powerful, so powerful that they have destroyed the balance of the world's laws, making it so that this world can no longer accommodate them.

Gradually, their figures disappeared, and it was hard to see living creatures anymore. Only some books about them were passed down to later generations, letting later cultivators know that such powerful monsters had once appeared in this world.

When Zhou Chun was reading "The List of Strange Insects in the World", he was just reading it as a story.

He knew in his heart that no matter whether these strange insects really existed, he would most likely never have the chance to verify them, let alone encounter them.

And his current cultivation level is not enough to worry about those strange insects.

"Fortunately, my current cultivation level is not high. These insect eggs left by Senior Han Yuan should be enough for me to use before the Golden Core Stage!"

Zhou Chun's mind moved, and he looked at the jade boxes in the storage bag.

Zhou Mingde valued him very much and gave him all the insect eggs he had obtained, allowing him to use them however he wanted.

Perhaps Zhou Mingde had no intention of distracting himself from studying the art of expelling insects.

But Zhou Chun didn't mind having one more trick up his sleeve.

At this time, he compared it with the demon insect illustrations left by Han Yuan and easily identified the origins of the insect eggs left behind.

There is no doubt that these insect eggs that Han Yuan deliberately left behind were the finest products he had at the time.

They might seem a bit useless to a Jindan stage cultivator like Han Yuan.

But for a Foundation Establishment cultivator like Zhou Chun, it is a treasure.

The most precious insect eggs among them are the unique demon insect "Black Armor Golden Feather" cultivated by Han Yuan himself, and a demon insect called "Silver Silkworm".

Needless to say, the "Xuanjia Jinyu" has the power to hurt Purple Mansion Stage cultivators after it is cultivated to maturity. If thousands of mature "Xuanjia Jinyu" can be cultivated, Zhou Chun will have the ability to rival Purple Mansion Stage cultivators even if he is at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The "silver silkworm" is an economical demon insect.

The silk produced by this insect is extremely tough and is not afraid of water, fire or strong acid. If it is woven into a robe, it is equivalent to a second-level low-grade robe. If it is refined by a monk who is good at weaving robes, it can easily become a second-level high-grade robe.

In order to feed the huge insect swarms they raise, Qianlingmen monks like Han Yuan often raise some economical demon insects such as the "Silver Silkworm" to earn spirit coins.

Zhou Chun has other ways to make money, so he doesn't need to raise the "silver silk silkworms" himself to generate income.

But for the Zhou family, owning the "silver silkworm" is undoubtedly another special spiritual product and an additional economic growth point.

At this time, after he identified all kinds of demon insect eggs, he collected those that he could not use for the time being, and only left three kinds in front of him.

These three types of demon insect eggs are "Black Armor Golden Feather", "Flying Fire Scorpion" and "Blue Moon Butterfly".

These three kinds of demon insects each have their own characteristics. If they are cultivated properly, they will greatly enhance his combat effectiveness.

ps: It's snowing today, which affects my writing speed. I'm writing a little late. I'm going to have a housewarming party tomorrow, so I won't ask for leave. I'll try to update twice the day after tomorrow!!
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