Changsheng Xiuxian: I can see through everything

Chapter 26: Fire Crystal Ant (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

"This is your swallowtail butterfly, keep it."

He handed the insect bag to Su Yanping and took out the butterfly-raising techniques he wrote yesterday.

"This is a little trick for breeding swallowtail butterflies."

Chen Xuan saluted Su Zhengming with his fists clasped.

"Senior Su, the swallowtail butterfly has returned intact to Zhao. This matter is settled. I have other matters to attend to, so I will take my leave now."

"Master, please stay!"

Su Zhengming returned the greeting with a straight face and a cordial attitude.

"My daughter is ignorant. Thank you for your help. I am very grateful."

"Dr. Tea, give me a pot of good spiritual tea."

Hearing that there was some excellent spiritual tea to be had, Chen Xuan sat down.

The world of cultivation has a strict class division, including large sects, small and medium-sized sects, and cultivation families. At the bottom are independent cultivators, forming a pyramid shape.

Generally speaking, a cultivation family with a spiritual vein and a Taoist temple foundation, although they have to pay taxes and tribute spiritual objects to the sect, they can always keep some, and their life is much better than that of the independent cultivators who live from hand to mouth.

Many independent cultivators have struggled their entire lives, with the goal of obtaining a miniature spiritual vein so that their descendants can settle down.

He remembered Su Yanping saying that the Su family in Feifeng Mountain had a small spiritual vein and an ancestor who had established the foundation.

Such a cultivation family suddenly greeted him with a smile, which must be something they wanted.

On the surface, his only skill was in controlling insects.

"I didn't expect that I would be so lucky to meet a young man like Mr. Chen."

Su Zhengming glanced at the swallowtail butterfly, which was full of energy and dancing gracefully, and landed on his daughter's shoulder.

"My Feifengshan Su family has always been generous and magnanimous, and we will repay any favor. This is just a small gift, even if it is the hard work fee for saving the swallowtail butterfly. I hope Mr. Chen will not laugh at me!"

Su Zhengming handed over two spirit stones.

Chen Xuan did not refuse and accepted it silently.

"By the way, has Master Chen been to Feifeng Mountain?"

"No."

"According to legend, a true phoenix once landed on Feifeng Mountain, leaving behind the flame of Nirvana. The entire mountain is filled with rich fire spirit energy, making it particularly suitable for fire cultivators to practice."

"Oh."

Chen Xuan glanced at Su Yanping, who was giggling because of the swallowtail butterfly.

"She takes after her mother, and has wood spiritual roots."

Su Zhengming explained.

No wonder Chen Xuan was soft-hearted and felt a sense of familiarity towards Su Yanping. It turned out that they were both wood cultivators.

As for the rumors about a real phoenix landing on Feifeng Mountain and the fire of Nirvana, Chen Xuan just heard about it.

If such a good thing really happened, it would not have been their Su family's turn, as it would have been occupied by the sect long ago.

"This is the Fire Phoenix Fruit produced in our Feifeng Mountain. Try it."

Su Zhengming took out a fist-sized spiritual fruit from his storage bag. It was fiery red all over.

When you break it open, the flesh is also bright red, tender and juicy, delicious and crispy.

Chen Xuan had a low-grade fire spiritual root. After taking a Fire Phoenix Fruit, the overbearing fire spiritual energy seemed to burn all his internal organs.

"What a great Fire Phoenix Fruit!"

Chen Xuan quickly drank some spiritual tea to suppress the anger in his body.

"Not bad, right? This is just the top-grade Fire Phoenix Fruit. The top-grade Fire Phoenix Fruit is a tribute to the Jinyang Sect."

"This spiritual fruit is really good."

"We only sell medium and low-quality Fire Phoenix Fruit. Medium-quality fruit costs one spirit stone per kilogram, while low-quality fruit costs two spirit stones per kilogram."

"Oh."

Chen Xuan drank the spiritual tea and waited quietly for what was to come.

He didn't think that a family cultivator in the late stage of Qi training would spend so much time treating him to good spiritual tea and high-quality spiritual fruits just to thank him for helping his daughter.

Monks pay more attention to benefits than ordinary people.

"Mr. Chen is an insect tamer. Have you ever heard of the Fire Crystal Ant?"

"Fire Crystal Ant?"

Chen Xuan recalled that this kind of demonic insect was indeed mentioned in "The Art of Controlling Spirits and Insects".

Fire crystal ants are social demon insects with fire attributes. They live deep in underground nests. They have ant spirit fire in their bodies, which can devour gold and burn stones. They naturally like to devour all kinds of fire-attributed spiritual objects.

Ordinary fire crystal ants are not of high quality, a small number of big-headed ants can reach the lower quality, and the queen fire crystal ants are generally of medium or high quality.

"heard about it."

Su Zhengming's face lit up with joy. "Master Chen, do you have any ideas for dealing with the Fire Crystal Ants?"

It was not until then that Su Zhengming revealed his purpose.

It turns out that Feifeng Mountain has a small fire spirit vein, and its specialty is the fire phoenix fruit trees, of which there are three thousand.

A batch of Fire Phoenix Fruits mature every year. The best quality ones are offered as tribute to the Jinyang Sect, the top quality ones are kept for the clan members to practice, and the mid-range and low-quality ones are sold outside.

It is a spiritual fruit, so it will be eaten by evil insects.

The fire crystal ant is one of the most common types of evil insects.

In the past, under the Su family’s strict defense, only a small number of low-quality Fire Phoenix Fruits were lost.

But this year, something unexpected happened.

The number of fire crystal ants exceeded the Su family's imagination.

Covering the sky and earth, densely packed, the three thousand fire phoenix trees are all filled with fire crystal ants that are stronger than iron and stone.

There were three thousand Fire Phoenix trees. The Su family tried their best, mobilized all the members of the clan, and sent out five hundred cultivators, but they still couldn't completely control it.

It is not an easy task to get rid of the fire crystal ants without harming the fire phoenix tree and protecting the fire phoenix fruit.

If this goes on, not to mention selling it to others or using it for personal use, even the top-quality Fire Phoenix Fruit that is presented as tribute to the sect may not be preserved.

"That's it!"

Chen Xuan had already been tempted in his heart, but he pretended to be embarrassed on the surface.

These are hundreds of millions of fire crystal ants. Even if the ordinary fire crystal ants are not of high quality, the insect spirits they contain are considerable.

What's more, there are quite a few big-headed ants who have entered the grade.

According to Su Zhengming, the Su family decided to invite external assistance. As long as the fire crystal ants could be eliminated, the Su family was willing to pay the price of eight hundred spirit stones.

"Senior, do you have any Fire Crystal Ants? I'll take them back and study them, and I'll get back to you tomorrow."

"Yes, I happened to bring some."

Su Zhengming took out an insect bag, which contained a dozen ordinary fire crystal ants and a big-headed ant general.

Chen Xuan put away the bag of insects, made an appointment to come to the tea shop to discuss it tomorrow, and then went home to study it on his own.

Sure enough, the fire crystal ants are not so easy to deal with.

It has a hard shell, is fearless, has strong vitality, and has poisonous teeth.

There is another key reason: there are too many of them.

"Qingqing!"

At critical moments, teammates are needed to help.

"Is there any way?"

The psychic green snake had a look of disdain.

"Little ant, what can I do? You have to give me half of the insect spirit essence!"

Chen Xuan looked at the smug psychic green snake speechlessly.

He suddenly realized that breeding strange insects too quickly was not always a good thing.

Like the poisonous flame golden silkworm, if you ask it to do something, you have to ask it for the essence of the insect spirit.

And there is the psychic green snake in front of me.

Blatantly exploiting him.

"That's not all. There are three thousand Fire Phoenix trees, and there must be at least a few thousand on each tree."

"Ah, with so many of them, Qingqing will be exhausted to death."

The psychic green snake rolled its eyes and said with certainty, "It costs more! I want 70% of the insect spirit essence!"

Chen Xuan gently advised, "Qingqing, you can't be too selfish as a snake. You will become a dragon in the future. You may have to face competitors in this business. When the time comes, Baobao, Xiaodao, and Heizi will all contribute."

Heizi is the Jade-faced Queen Bee.

"Look, how about this? I only want 30% of the insect spirit essence I get, and the remaining 70% will all be given to you. When the time comes, you can distribute it according to their merits and give some to the other insects."

"You are their leader. A successful leader won't eat alone."

I have to say that the psychic green snake is still very loyal.

After some persuasion from Chen Xuan, an agreement was quickly reached.

In front of Chen Xuan, the psychic green snake demonstrated its innate magical power, a spell called Extreme Cold Ice Mist, which is very effective against ordinary fire crystal ants.

There is still one remaining issue, which is safety.

Feifeng Mountain is not far away, and the Sima family won’t ambush him on the way.

When it comes to your life and property, you can never be too cautious.

(End of this chapter)