Destiny Beast Taming

Chapter 279 The Sprouting Blood-Brewing Grapevine!

After Zhong Yi bowed to Funi, he helped Funi up and then asked her a question.

"Given your current vampire count bloodline strength, how long would it take you to raise your strength to level three?"

After a moment's thought, Funi said with great certainty.

"Master, with my current bloodline strength, it will only take me 3 to 5 days to raise it to level three."

"If you can let me eat a few Blood Demon Lychees every day, without providing me with any other resources, I can raise my strength to the peak of level four within a month."

"But before I can raise my strength to level four, I need to choose a bat-like creature and form a contract with it."

"And refine it into my natal blood bat."

Upon hearing this, Zhong Yi's face showed a look of shock.

Previously, Zhongyi's understanding of vampire talents came from Fang Ze's words, and she did not have a real understanding of the vampires' strength.

But what Funi said made Zhong Yi realize just how twisted the vampire race was.

It's important to understand that the fourth level on the Virtual Source Network is not equivalent to the Mythic Rank in the Beast Taming World, but rather to the Mythic Rank and Immortal Rank in the Beast Taming World.

A vampire count was able to raise his strength to the peak of immortality in less than a month.

This growth rate far exceeded Zhongyi's expectations.

However, the speed at which the vampires increased their strength taught Zhong Yi how to quickly enhance the combat power of Soul Soil.

Zhongyi doesn't actually have many trump cards up her sleeve.

Zhongyi's trump card has always been the cultivation of other living beings through the Soul Control Seed and the Soul Breath Soil.

Previously, Zhong Yi had considered finding some excellent beast tamers in the Beast Taming World and having these beast tamers pair up with the Thorn Hunting Sparrow, which had made a contract with Rihua Thorn.

Use this combination to form the combat department of Soul Land.

Zhong Yi now feels that vampires can completely replace beast tamers to pair with those thorny bird hunters.

In any case, these thorn-hunting birds will obey the commands of the Japanese thorn after being contracted by the Japanese thorn.

"Fennen, you are free to move around in this ruined world for the next few days, and try to improve your strength as quickly as possible."

After saying that, Zhongyi gave all the Blood Demon Lychees he had in his Soul Base to Funi, so that Funi could use them as she pleased.

During the time that the Queen of the Skyworkers was focusing on strengthening Funi, she had already produced more than ten Skyworkers that were nearly two meters long and had the ability to build structures.

These worker ants, which possess the ability to build, would be considered worker ants in a normal ant colony, responsible for building the nest.

These construction worker ants did not grow a single extra hair.

Its carapace is smooth and shiny, and its two specialized limbs are thick and powerful, able to extend flexibly like human arms.

It can easily lift objects that are dozens of times its own weight.

The long, pointed proboscis of the ant contains dozens of mouthparts, which are like files of different sizes, helping the worker ant process the building materials carried by its limbs.

In fact, the Queen of the Skyworker Ants can produce not only these special nurse ants responsible for feeding themselves, but also the building ants responsible for constructing the nest.

It can also produce mandibles that occupy half of its body, and its body is covered with fine hairs. The two limbs at the end of its tail are specialized into stingers.

Each of these fighting ants can easily kill dozens of worker ants responsible for building.

These guard ants protect the nest and are essential for the survival of the queen ant.

Logically speaking, after a female nuptial worker ant transforms into a queen worker ant in the wild...

After producing enough nursery ants to sustain themselves, the queen ant will first hatch a few fighting ants to fight and protect herself.

But now this Queen Ant has been contracted by Zhongyi.

Under Zhong Yi's command, Zhong Yi will not allow the Queen of the Heavenly Craft Ants to hatch even a single combat ant.

Zhong Yi didn't think these fighting ants were particularly strong.

Instead of wasting energy on combat ants, it would be better to focus Zhongyi on protecting the safety of the Queen Engineer Ant in the future.

Over the next few days, Zhong Yi spent a very leisurely time in this ruined world.

Whenever the Soul-Controlling Flower secretes Soul-Breath Soil, Zhongyi feeds it to Funi.

Zhongyi is currently giving all the Soul-Flowing Soil to Funi in order to achieve a good ranking in this Creation Martial Arts Competition and enter the Creation Sequence.

After the Creation Martial Arts Competition ends, Zhong Yi will prioritize using the Soul Breath Soil produced by the Soul Control Flower to cultivate the Dragon Language Minks that have consumed the Fairy Flashing Flood Dragon Crystal, allowing these Dragon Language Minks to transform into Dragon Brew Immortal Minks.

Once all the Dragon Brew Immortal Sables have been cultivated, Zhongyi will store 1,000 milliliters of Soul-Breaking Soil for emergencies.

Zhongyi will still provide the remaining Soul-Breaking Soil to Funi.

The goal is to further enhance its bloodline strength, elevating it from a vampire count to a vampire marquis.

The Queen Ant, seeing that Funi always had Soul-Breaking Soil to drink, pitifully looked at Zhongyi while producing ant offspring.

Although he looks fierce, he exudes the emotions of a destitute puppy that has never received affection.

It looked as if the little dog had just been caught in the rain.

This rain was heavier than the night Yiping went to her father's house to get money.

The Heavenly Craft Ant Queen was also Zhongyi's tamed beast. Fortunately, Zhongyi fed the Heavenly Craft Ant Queen five milliliters of Soul-Flowing Soil.

After drinking five milliliters of the Soul-Flowing Soil, the Heavenly Craft Ant Queen immediately began to sway her body in satisfaction.

Immediately afterwards, the Queen of the Skyworker Ants, like a constipated person who had eaten 500 pounds of croton, produced more than 20 eggs that could hatch into building ants.

There are currently five days left until the end of the Creation Martial Arts Competition.

Not only did Funi stabilize the vampire count's realm, but her bloodline also received a certain improvement based on the vampire count's level.

The Queen ant, currently used as the evaluation standard, has produced more than ninety ants.

According to the standards Fang Ze had previously set for him, Zhongyi not only met those standards but also surpassed them.

On average, every 30 hours or so, the Soul Flower can reliably condense into a Soul Seed.

After leaving two Soul Seeds for Zhong Ling and Shen Xuan, Zhong Yi obtained a new Soul Seed on the eighth day.

Funi's strength has been steadily improving these past few days.

Funi's current strength has broken through level three and reached the Fantasy level.

And their strength is increasing at a visible rate.

However, every day, Funi has to eat 6 to 7 Blood Demon Lychees, which costs about 20 points of Divine Source Value.

Spending 600 Divine Source Points each month to supply Funi and help her improve her strength is nothing to Zhongyi at the moment.

However, Blood Demon Lychee alone is not enough to satisfy Zhongyi's requirements for Funi.

They decided to use the blood-soaked swamp soil they had obtained when exchanging for blood-brewing grapevine branches, and spread it evenly in a stone basin that the craftsman ant queen had instructed the building ants to construct.

Then these clearly vibrant blood-soaked grapevine branches were inserted into the blood-soaked marsh soil.

Once the branches of the Blood-Soaked Grapevine come into contact with the Blood-Soaked Swamp Soil, Zhongyi can feel the branches absorbing the energy from the Blood-Soaked Swamp Soil.

However, the absorption rate of this energy is extremely slow.

After absorbing the energy from the blood-soaked swamp soil, the branches of the blood-brewing grapevine showed no change whatsoever.

A single branch can fetch nearly ten thousand points of divine essence; this Blood-Brewing Grapevine must be an extremely precious blood-attribute productive being.

Zhong Yi simply and directly buried the Soul Control Seed next to the Blood Brewing Grapevine branch.

Since the Blood-Brewing Grapevine had not yet grown roots, Zhongyi simply pushed the Soul-Controlling Seed towards the Blood-Brewing Grapevine again.

Allow the Soul-Controlling Seed to come into contact with the cut surface of the Blood-Brewing Grapevine branch beneath the Blood-Soaked Swamp Soil.

Zhong Yi couldn't see what was happening beneath the blood-soaked swamp, but he could sense that the Soul Control Seed had been absorbed by this section of the Blood-Brewing Grapevine branch.

The blood-soaked swamp soil in the stone basin was very dense, more than five times heavier than ordinary soil.

But Zhongyi could feel a slight tremor on the surface of the soil.

This indicates that although the section of the Blood-Brewing Grapevine branch on the soil surface has not changed, its root system has begun to extend extremely wildly beneath the soil.

On either side of this withered branch, tender vines sprouted, one above the other.

When these vines first sprout, they are a vibrant, lush green.

Not long after it was extended, light red blood spots began to appear on it.

As the branches continued to grow, these blood spots increased in number and deepened in color, until finally the fully extended leaves on the vines turned a dark red, like dried blood plasma.

Under the influence of a Soul Control Seed, a withered branch not only grew a full pot of roots, but also two vines nearly four meters long.

The thickness of the end of the vine was already comparable to Zhongyi's index finger.

So, he decided to have the Queen Ant direct the building ants to carve three stone pillars, each about ten meters long.

These three stone pillars, each less than five centimeters in diameter, were placed in the stone basin to form a simple grape trellis.

There's absolutely no need to bother with winding the vines of the blood grapes onto the stone frame.

After Zhong Yigang erected the stone frame, the vines of the Blood-Brewing Grapevine had already coiled around the three stone pillars like serpents.

Through his exploration of all things, Zhongyi learned that the Blood-Brewing Grapevine was not a giant plant-type beast.

These three ten-meter-long stone pillars form a grape trellis, which is sufficient for the grapevines to produce blood grapes.

Once it has climbed all over the stone trellis, as long as there is enough blood to water the Blood-Brewing Grapevine, it will bear fruit containing pure blood element energy.

The yield of the blood grape vine is uncertain.

If the Blood-Brewing Vine yields a good amount, and if Zhongyi can obtain another branch of the Blood-Brewing Vine in the future, it should be enough to supply Funi's needs.

Thinking of this, Zhongyi's mind suddenly changed as she looked at the two vines growing from the withered branch.

Zhong Yi felt that she could cut a vine into several sections and try to cultivate them.

Once successfully cultivated, Zhongyi will not need to spend any additional divine source points to cultivate any number of vampires in the future.

Furthermore, if divine source points are needed in the future, a portion of the Blood-Brewed Grapes can be sold on the Virtual Source Network.

Blood grapes, a niche blood-based ingredient, will undoubtedly have a vast market on virtual resource websites.

Otherwise, how could a section of Blood-Brewing Grapevine be worthy of a price tag of nearly ten thousand Divine Source Values?

Zhong Yi timed it perfectly, with five minutes left before the end of the Creation Martial Arts Assessment.

Zhong Yi collected the Blood-Brewing Grapevines that were growing wildly in the stone basin into his Soul Foundation.

After counting the number of construction ants produced by the Queen of Workers ants, it was found that the number of construction ants exceeded 2300.

After the assessment is completed, Zhongyi needs to leave Funi and the Queen Ant temporarily at Wanyu Creation Company.

The evaluation was conducted by the woman named Zhao Xiyue, who was standing on the high platform, and other Level 3 Creators.

Zhongyi didn't see anything wrong with this.

They weren't afraid that raising the Queen Ant and Funi so well would attract envy and lead to the use of underhanded methods to replace Funi, a vampire count who had awakened the progenitor's bloodline.

Zhong Yi now regards the Beast Taming World as his home, because it was the world he created in his previous life.

However, he doesn't feel a strong sense of belonging to the ecological domain.

However, although the Beast Taming World is not included in the nine major ecosystems, it is still a world within the ecological domain.

If Zhongyi can feel goodwill within the ecological domain, Zhongyi is willing to become a protector of the ecological domain.

If even during the assessment process at Wanyu Creation Company, such a sordid incident occurred.

Zhong Yihui will re-examine the ecological boundaries.

Zhong Yi has a very good impression of the ecosystem. In her opinion, whether it is the four major companies or the nine ecosystems, they are all doing their best to invest resources in cultivating talents.

Otherwise, Zhong Yi wouldn't have been able to earn hundreds of thousands of Divine Source Points through her talent after logging into the Virtual Source Network.

There were two letters on the stone platform. Zhongyi was very familiar with these two letters and they could be used to collect the creatures being tested.

After giving instructions to Funi and the Queen Ant, Zhongyi put them in separate letters.

Then, very discreetly, after leaving the ruined world using the transfer token, he handed it over.

Zhong Yi spent a full ten days preparing for the Creation Martial Arts Exercise.

The healing totem that Zhong Yi imprinted on Ren Suxin through the Resurrection God could only last for about twelve days.

During this period, Zhong Yi made sure that Ren Suxin's injuries caused by bone fractures were the same as before.

Once Ren Suxin's bones start cracking faster, the duration of the Life Healing Totem will shorten.

Zhong Yi was in a hurry to re-engrave the Life Healing Totem for Ren Suxin, so he simply didn't go to Fang Ze.

After sending messages to Fang Ze, Song Zhixu, and He Yan via the Soul Fighting Bracelet, Zhong Yi left the Virtual Source Network.

Having spent ten days in the ruins, Zhongyi's soul had already recovered to its best condition.

Even after using the Transmission Token and returning to the Beast Taming World, Zhong Yi still didn't feel tired.

After helping Ren Suxin recarve the Life Healing Totem, Zhong Yi went to Tao En's room.

Tao En was seen with a sly grin on his face, calculating on a piece of paper with a pen in hand.

Upon seeing Tao En's chuckle, Zhong Yi suddenly felt that Tao En's smile was somewhat lewd.

"Young Master, I participated in this Creation Martial Arts Competition."

"I tried to help the female worker ant that was on its nuptial flight evolve into a worker ant queen, but I failed."

"It's probably because my soul strength isn't enough to connect with the soul of that somewhat irritable female worker ant."

"This meant my soul wasn't affected in any way."

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