Wet viviparity

Chapter 31: Shedding Skin, Stubborn Foolish Bug
Ever since he was picked out of the jar that day, Ji Ming was thrown into a dark space by this man.

Compared to the round-bellied jar, this space is square.

There was a metallic smell inside, and residual smells of toxicity, decay, etc.

Ji Ming guessed that it was the medicine cauldron that Madam Zhang had mentioned, the kind of medicine cauldron in "Panku Mountain" that was specially used to cultivate the Five Immortals.

In the following days, I was fed as usual.

Whenever there is a fresh, tender scent of a child approaching, it means the beginning of a new round of feeding.

Although every day there are special boys responsible for cleaning the medicine cauldron and throwing in clean water, insect eggs, poisonous food and other food.

But Ji Ming always felt that he lacked the attention that an alien should have.

The centipede species that he transferred to in this life clearly possessed the characteristics of the "Iron-back Centipede". Those who owned it would not be unaware of its value.

He only needs to shed his shell a few more times before growing into a giant centipede. His dark, multi-segmented back will be as hard as fine steel.

Logically speaking, the man should at least come to see him once every few days, if not just once a day!

But ever since that day, he never smelled the scent of that man again.

Because Ji Ming was just born and his cultivation was not very deep, he could not hear or see through his existing senses, so he could not effectively obtain information about the outside world.

He didn't know that in that man's heart, he was already a centipede destined to be sent away.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, try to transform into an adult first, and then make other plans." Ji Ming kept comforting himself in his heart.

In the following month, it sheds its shell three times.

His centipede body grew three or four more segments, which was far beyond the growth rate of ordinary centipedes. It was truly worthy of being an alien species.

Although it is growing very fast, it has just been born and is only the length of an index finger and the thickness of a chopstick.

Inside the pitch-black cauldron, Ji Ming's entire body seemed as if cast in iron. Only when the lid of the cauldron was opened did his pair of tentacles move slightly.

In the second month, the boy's feeding became noticeably less frequent, and the amount of specially prepared poisonous food was noticeably reduced.

Ji Ming guessed that the boy's negative attitude was most likely because the owner of this place no longer cared about him, making the boy think that he had been abandoned.

After all, the saying "look at the person you are dealing with the most" can also be applied to a centipede.

The iron-backed centipede is stronger than the average centipede in all aspects, but Ji Mingyuan has not yet reached the adult stage and is still quite weak. He cannot even hold up the lid of the cauldron and cannot escape from this medicine cauldron.

After a few days, the boy simply stopped coming.

If he starved to death in this medicine cauldron, it would be suffocating. The pair of jaws on Ji Ming's head kept hitting inside the cauldron.

With a "click" sound, the lid of the tripod was suddenly opened.

The familiar smell of the man was captured by his tentacles, and Ji Ming knew that he was most likely not hungry anymore.

After a while, a round object was thrown into the cauldron, where it rolled around for a long time and a fishy smell flowed out from it.

"Blood!

Boy!

Spherical!
"Heads?"

Ji Ming was shocked. All the information he captured indicated that this was the head of the boy.

Soon, the fishy blood flowed all over the bottom of the cauldron.

Ji Ming clung to the wall of the tripod. He could already imagine the horrible expression frozen on the human head.

Not long after, another fresh, tender smell approached. It was obviously a new boy who was sent to take charge of the medicine cauldron.

The new boy turned a blind eye to the human head with disheveled hair and blood stains in the cauldron, and just kept pouring poisonous insects into the cauldron.

Such as scorpions, spiders, poisonous ants, green-waisted insects, horse scorpions and so on.

As soon as these poisonous insects fell into the cauldron, they began to fight each other and dragged Ji Ming into the battle.

Fortunately, his hard shell can ignore the attacks of these poisonous creatures. When they are tired of fighting, Ji Ming will slowly clean up the mess and have a good meal.

The new boy was obviously much more diligent and would lift the lid of the tripod to check every one or two hours.

When he saw that Ji Ming had eaten all the poisonous insects in the cauldron, he immediately poured another batch of poisonous insects into the cauldron, allowing Ji Ming to eat them directly. It was obvious that the new boy had fully learned the lesson of his predecessor.

However, although the new boy was diligent, he did not dare to take the human head without permission, and left it to rot and grow maggots in the cauldron.

Ji Ming admitted that he was an intermittent pervert, but no matter how perverted he was, he would never go to the point of eating raw human flesh.

He had no choice but to slow down the speed of eating the poisonous insects in the cauldron, allowing them to eat the rotten human head clean.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

One night, the heavy lid of the square, millstone-sized copper medicine cauldron was gently pushed open.

A pair of flexible, whip-like tentacles stretched out from the gap in the lid of the tripod, constantly swinging in the darkness, capturing all information.

After confirming that there was no one around, the lid of the tripod was moved to the side by the force from inside.

A black-backed centipede about two feet long and as thick as an arm crawled out of the mouth of the cauldron and crawled quickly on the slippery ground.

"The smell of freedom!" Ji Ming waved his tentacles, wantonly capturing information in the air, and added in his mind: "And the smell of snakes."

The smell of snakes here is so strong that it is obviously a snake cave, a snake cave that never sees sunlight.

That man also had a terrifying, extremely dangerous snake-like aura about him, just like his natural enemy.

Ji Ming crawled outwards with a purpose. He needed to go to the outside world and nature to pray to the Yellow Sky Moon for a precious inspiration.

Only with Taoism can he gain the five senses beyond the limitations of this centipede body, and not just rely on tentacles to sense everything around him. The efficiency of obtaining information in that way is too low.

Climbing out of the cave, a ray of moonlight sprinkled on the edge of the cave entrance.

Ji Mingpan was in the light, and his iron back reflected a soft light in the moonlight.

On the head, the pair of maxillary feet with poisonous hooks on the ends repeated the clamping action, showing Ji Ming's inner unrest at the moment.

After more than half a year, he will once again practice the Moon Worship Method, absorb and exhale spiritual energy, and embark on the path of "refining the body".

When the head is arched high by the segments of the shell, the glowing silver disk drips drops of moonlight and falls into the mouthparts.

The spirit is embodied in the body, wandering inside and outside, and transforming stubbornness and stupidity.

The whole process of absorbing and exhaling the moonlight and spiritual inspiration lasted until dawn, but the effect of this practice made Ji Ming's heart sink.

The difficulty of refining the insect body was far more difficult than he had imagined.

The spiritual energy he had accumulated that night, not to mention the transformation of his body and limbs, even the transverse bone in his body had not been dissolved.

They say there are hundred-year-old beast spirits and thousand-year-old insect monsters. Today he finally saw how difficult it is for these insects to become spirits. Fortunately, he has some treasures.

However, now is not the time to obtain the treasure from the previous life, so Ji Ming chose to turn back and enter the cave again.

The boy outside the cauldron was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. When he saw the arm-long black centipede crawling down from the top of the cave, he was immediately happy and surprised.

Ji Ming swung his pair of segmented legs and crawled straight back into the medicine cauldron, and signaled the boy who was frightened by him to continue feeding him poison.

Nowadays, ordinary poisons can no longer satisfy him.

The amount of poisonous insects that the boy ate was only enough to fill him half full.

In the following weeks, he often went out at night, practicing the moon worship method and gathering inspiration.

The boy who was tending the medicine cauldron was frightened at first, but gradually got used to and adapted to his peculiar behavior.

As time goes by, the five senses are opened one by one, especially the senses of sight and hearing, which, although not yet complete, can already distinguish objects.

There was only one feeling of taste, and he really wanted to pretend that he had never experienced it. The taste of those poisonous insects was really hard to describe.

One day, when Ji Ming was resting in the cauldron, the lid of the cauldron suddenly opened.

A cold and gloomy face, mixed with an extremely familiar smell of danger, appeared outside the cauldron. This was... that man.

"Oh~"

Yu Xiao was surprised when he saw the black centipede in the cauldron, and then he stretched out his hand and touched the back of a shell, "The spiritual power is contained inside, is this the self-realized form-refining method?!"

(End of this chapter)