I can understand what the furry creatures are saying, and I've become the number one beast tame

Chapter 402 The Cult of Fire God and the Cult of Water Moon

The disciples of the Beast Taming Sect only fully regained consciousness after being enveloped in the slime of the Vine Insect King.

however--

It's too late.

"What's going on? What is this thing? Why can't I move!"

"It's a trap! We've fallen for it! Ugh..."

Because of their shouting, the viscous substance that had been covering everyone's bodies began to flow into the mouths of each person who was speaking, until it blocked their throats.

boom!
After the Vine Insect King devoured the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect, the bark-like substance covering its body began to crack and peel off.

The "dead insect skin" peeling off the vine insect king's body fell from above Nan Ran's head, choking her quite a bit.

She was about to flee the place, but after seeing the scene before her clearly, she was at a loss for where to put her feet.

They could only stand still, staring at this disgusting scene before them.

"Is it...is it cannibalizing its own kind? Are those insect skins falling off its body actually the corpses of those vine insects outside?"

this--

That's disgusting!

Nanran felt nauseous and vomiting.

"Ah."

The big white dog said in a deep voice, "For it to advance, it needs a lot of cultivation, but it's very difficult for it to achieve that on its own."

"At least not in the short term."

"The people behind it wouldn't allow it to upgrade so slowly."

The more Nan Ran looked at what was in front of her, the more her scalp tingled.

"Where did they find such disgusting bugs?"

"It shouldn't have been found..."

Nan Shu's voice was slightly deep: "It was created."

"Created?"

She pointed to the crooked, dead vines on the ground: "You mean, these things were cultivated through human intervention?"

"Nine times out of ten."

Nan Shu's expression was grave: "This kind of insect has never appeared before on the Beast Continent, but we can roughly see the characteristics of more than a dozen kinds of demonic beasts on its body!"

"Huh? More than a dozen kinds of demonic beasts? Characteristics, traces?"

Nanran felt that the same confusion she used to feel when attending math class, like listening to gibberish, had returned.

Can't understand.

"Simply put, they put a dozen, or even dozens or hundreds, of kinds of monsters together to fight each other."

"Then pick out the weakest and the first to be defeated."

"Bring out those with the best physical condition and the strongest combat power."

Nan Ran understood; it was about raising Gu worms! She used to read about it a lot in novels.

Can understand.

But soon, Nan Shu's words overturned her understanding.

This made her feel like she was hearing a divine scripture again.

I don't understand a thing.

It's completely different from what she'd read in novels before!

Because of the Southern Treatise—

"They took the hardest part of the strongest insect, the part that was least injured and had the best damage resistance, and transferred it to the weakest insect to repair its wounds. They also added some medicinal powder to promote the healing and growth of the wounds, so that it could be perfectly integrated and survive."

"Then they transferred that insect, the most powerful weapon, back to the weakest insect in the same way."

"At the same time, they will also analyze which part of the blood in the strongest insect is the most active."

"Then extract this blood, refine it into an essence, and feed it to the weakest worm."

"Using this splicing method, they transformed the weakest insect into the strongest one!"

"And the strongest insect has become a cold corpse, or perhaps it will be used as the first full meal for the weakest insect after it recovers."

"Once the weakest insect and the most perfect part of the strongest insect's body have fused together without any aftereffects, they will consider the splicing a success!"

"Then, they will put the weakest insect, which has now merged with the body and fighting power of the strongest insect, back into the insects to fight each other."

"If this time, the spliced ​​insect perfectly inherits everything from the strongest insect before—its strength, cultivation, body, and even status—they will take out this insect again, then select the weakest insect, disassemble the spliced ​​insect once more, take out its most perfect and best parts, and splice them onto the weakest insect that has been selected again."

"If the fusion is perfect again this time, they will repeat the same method until, in the end, only the strongest and the weakest of the insects remain."

"If at this point, the strongest insect is the one that has been pieced together multiple times, they will divide this insect again, take its most essential parts, and transfer them to the weakest insect that remains."

"Although the weakest insect was left, in another sense, it was actually the second strongest among all the insects!"

"When this insect achieves a perfect fusion with another, the strongest splicing insect."

"They still won't leave it behind."

"But——"

"The insect that was finally perfectly fused was transferred to vines, weeds, etc. It did not develop high intelligence and was merely a plant-type demon beast that could cultivate."

"That is, the origin of the vine worm you see in front of you."

Nan Ran was stunned!
"You can do that? But—"

She couldn't understand: "What's their purpose in doing this?"

"Is it just to breed low-intelligence, high-level demonic beasts?"

"Do they intend to wage war, unify the Beast Continent, and enslave human cultivators?"

Then the person behind this must not be human, right?
The big white dog shook its head: "They want to use this kind of experiment to influence people in the future."

"As for unifying the Beast Continent... no way!"

His voice was firm and resolute: "He is a smart man and would not make such a foolish decision. Not only would he not do it himself, but he would not allow it from his subordinates either."

There's no need to worry too much about that.

"But what they want to do is no less sinful than enslaving humanity."

Nan Ran blinked, already having some guesses in her mind. After all, she had occasionally come across some alarming news in her previous life.

as predicted--

"He wants to change the ethnic group."

"Use these monsters, pieced together and bred, to ultimately affect people!"

"Use the strongest to support the weakest..."

Nan Shu sneered: "There are always people in this world who lack talent, but perhaps they were born into powerful and prestigious families. It's just that fate doesn't always favor them, giving them both a good background and exceptional talent."

"In fact, being born into such a family is already a greater advantage than many talents."

"As long as they work diligently and focus on their cultivation, with sufficient resources from their families, they can also become top experts."

"There are always people in this world who are unwilling to work hard and only want to take shortcuts."

Nan Ran was shocked: "So they came up with this method? To take the strongest talent and transplant it into the weakest person, so that the weakest person can possess it? Even if it means sacrificing countless of the strongest geniuses?"

"Yes."

Nan Shu's face was full of disgust.

"So this disgusting bug in front of us is their test subject?"

"Have they succeeded?"

Looking at the Vine Insect King again, Nan Ran felt a surge of annoyance. "No."

"It's not a success yet. For them, the real success is to attach this disgusting worm to their believer and have that believer survive and be used by them."

"believer?"

Nan Shu's words left Nan Ran bewildered once again.

Could it be that she had underestimated the situation?

"Yes……"

Nan Shu looked at Nan Ran, then suddenly hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Nan Ran assumed that this matter involved some secret of the Myriad Beasts Continent and shouldn't be known by someone as insignificant as her, so she very considerately said, "If it's inconvenient for you to say, it's okay if you don't."

"I didn't really want to know that much."

She understood the principle that the more you know, the faster you die.

"There's nothing I can't say."

I'm just afraid she won't be able to accept it if she hears it.

But soon, Nan Shu chuckled to herself: What could she possibly not be able to accept? She didn't remember anything at all...

Thinking about it, he felt relieved.

"This must have been the work of those guys from the Vulcan Cult. Those disgusting things have never had any aesthetic sense, so even their creation of monsters is equally disgusting."

Nan Ran raised an eyebrow: "The Fire God Cult?"

"Ah."

Nan Shu's mood dipped slightly: "You know Fire Lord, right?"

Nan Ran nodded: "I've heard some things about her before. She seems to be the first person on the Beast Continent to cultivate a single elemental attribute, and also the strongest person with the fire attribute, so everyone respectfully calls her the Fire Sovereign."

This also sparked a trend of severing one's meridians to reactivate elemental attribute talents, causing many people who previously cultivated multiple attributes to switch to cultivating a single attribute.

At that time, most people cultivated fire-attribute techniques.

Southern Commentary: ...

It doesn't seem like we can say she's wrong.

After all, this is indeed how the various forces and sects of the Beast Continent recorded and spread her story.

"Yes."

Nan Shu's tone was somewhat sarcastic: "The leader of the Fire God Sect is the disciple of the Fire Venerable! The name of the Fire God Sect also comes from the Fire Venerable."

His face was full of gloom, and he looked extremely unwell, as if he had swallowed a fly.

"what?"

Nan Ran was shocked: "So that Fire Lord was actually a bad person?"

"What bad guy? Don't talk nonsense!"

Nan Shu glared at her angrily, looking very dissatisfied.

Nan Ran immediately made a sincere apology.

"The Fire Lord is the Fire Lord, and her disciple is her disciple... He's just a guy who needs to be expelled from the sect. Does he even deserve to be compared to her master?"

"They even created the Vulcan Cult, a heretical sect, to tarnish the reputation of the Fire Lord."

"In that case, how are you any different from a traitor?"

Nan Shu gritted his teeth, looking as if he wished he could take the place of Huo Zun and clean house.

Nan Ran blinked, somewhat curious: "You have a good relationship with this Fire Venerable? You admire her a lot?"

Otherwise, why would he be jumping around and getting so angry when someone else's apprentice does something wrong?

He seemed quite angry.

"I just feel sorry for Huo Zun." Nan Shu turned her head away arrogantly, avoiding answering Nan Ran's question.

Nan Ran, on the contrary, felt that his appearance was an admission.

It's just that this stubborn guy refuses to admit it no matter what.

"You're not going to tell me that besides the Fire God Cult, there's another evil sect, are you?"

"Is this the person who instigated Liu Yi to harm and absorb the cultivation of the Beast Taming Sect disciples?"

Nan Shu looked surprised: "How did you know?"

"My guess."

Given Nan Shu's recent demeanor, it's hard not to suspect that the Fire God Cult might actually have an adversary.

But they are not the righteous path's adversaries.

This rival might even be quite beautiful...

as predicted--

"Yes, the Water Moon Sect is the one that shares the same lineage as the Fire God Sect, but is also different from it."

Nan Shu looked sullen.

"The Water Moon Cult worships the Water Deity..."

Nan Ran was stunned for a moment, then interrupted him, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. The Fire God Sect and the Water Moon Sect are from the same lineage? But the Fire God Sect worships the Fire God, while the Water Moon Sect worships the Water God—so can I assume that the Water God and the Fire God are actually the same person?"

Southern Memorial: ...

Oops, I spilled the beans!
How to do how to do!
Seeing Nan Ran's suspicious gaze fixed on her, Nan Shu was at a loss. She was not good at lying, especially not good at lying to "her," so she completely surrendered and blurted out everything.

"Indeed."

And—that's not all.

However, since those "more than that" things haven't been revealed yet, there's really no need to be overly frank.

Nan Shu told the truth, but not everything.

It's not the right time yet.

"So, the leader of the Water Moon Sect and the leader of the Fire God Sect are from the same school? Are they fellow disciples or—are they the same person?"

As soon as Nan Ran finished asking the question, she had already mentally rejected the answer that followed.

If they are the same person, then unless this person has a split personality or a second personality, how could one have extremely ugly aesthetics and the other has extremely beautiful aesthetics?
That's too extreme and confrontational.

It's hard to imagine how abstract this everyday thing would be if it were a person.

Or perhaps she has a vain personality during the day and an ugliness-obsessed personality at night?

That seems to make sense, doesn't it?
Nan Shu had no idea what Nan Ran was thinking. His face was sour: "We are senior and junior brothers and sisters."

"Hmm?" Nan Ran felt like she was hearing another math problem that was hard to understand with her brain.

"The leader of the Fire God Cult is the eldest disciple of the Fire Lord."

"The leader of the Water Moon Sect is the eldest disciple of the Water Venerable."

"When no one knew that the two people were actually one person, they were each the senior brother and senior sister of each other's sect."

"later--"

"After it was discovered that the Fire Lord and the Water Lord were the same person, the two changed their ranking and began to address each other as senior brother and junior sister."

"Of course, they also address each other as senior sister and junior brother."

"They all felt that they were the one most valued by their master and should be called the eldest sister/eldest brother."

"They even fought over it, and the fight lasted for three days and three nights without a clear winner."

Finally, it was agreed that on odd-numbered days, they would address each other as senior brother and junior sister, and on even-numbered days, they would address each other as senior sister and junior brother.

Nan Ran: ...