Beast Taming: My first spirit beast was a frog junior?

The blood-stained monument is located north of Songluo Village.

The Takagi trio gathered here.

"What should we do with these locusts?" Xu Xian asked Gao Mu and the other two after taking a few drops of blood from the locusts with a small knife.

[Race: Grass-Eating Locust]

[Level: Beginner, Level 5]

[Attributes: Insect, Poison]

[Race Rank: Black Iron, Medium Grade]

Racial Trait: Swarm Toxin

[Skill: Beginner: Venomous Fang (Introduction)]

I checked the attributes of these Eroding Locusts through the Beast Taming Pearl, and they were all pretty much the same as I had expected.

"Keep a few to knock out and hand them over to the association, kill the rest," Takagi said.

Normally, the Eroding Locust can be roasted and eaten, but that is the unevolved Eroding Locust. Once it evolves, these creatures will inject more racial insect toxins into their bodies due to their innate ability of 'swarm toxin'.

This insect venom not only promotes the evolution of locusts, but also significantly reduces their lifespan, eventually leading to their death.

It can be said that the lifespan of the grasshopper that is not cultivated by humans is at most one year.

Eating this stuff is like eating poison, and Takagi and the others clearly weren't too keen on it either.

"Alright, kill him and that'll settle things." Xu Xian nodded.

The locust has no other value besides being eaten.

Takagi's Firehound took action, spitting a burst of flame at the locusts on the ground.

Dying while unconscious is a kind of strange kind of luck for them.

Wang Qiang took out several very thick glass jars and put the still-living locusts into them.

After doing all this, Takagi and the other two looked Xu Xian up and down and at Wawa, who was sitting on the ground next to him, breathing slightly.

"Junior Xu, your frog junior is pretty amazing," Wang Qiang exclaimed.

"It works very hard and is very talented." Xu Xian smiled and bent down to stroke Wawa's smooth head.

He then asked, "Are we just going to wait for dawn like this?"

Takagi nodded. "That's good. We can wait until dawn, but we'll have two people patrol every two hours just in case."

No one had any objections to this.

The four returned to the village, to the village chief's house. Upon hearing that the four had led four beasts to kill the locusts that erode the rice plants, the village chief was overjoyed.

Although no one in the village was injured after the locusts appeared, people were filled with fear at night, worried that the blood monument would eventually fail to deter the locusts.

The four people were divided into two groups: Gao Mu Liu Mei and Xu Xian Wang Qiang.

When the former went to inspect the area first, Xu Xian found the village chief.

"Uncle Village Chief, have the locusts always been this big when they appear?" Xu Xian gestured with his hand, indicating the size of a fist.

Wang Qiang, standing to the side, also looked curious.

He didn't know much about the spirit beast, the Eroding Locust, but when he returned to the village, Liu Mei had already mentioned that there shouldn't be so many high-grade Eroding Locusts.

The appearance of nearly five or six hundred black iron mid-grade locusts in Songluo Village is quite strange.

The village chief gently stroked the giant dog beside him with his right hand and nodded, saying, "It was this big when it appeared a few days ago, it was really scary. It's not that there haven't been any before, but this year there are so many and they're so big, it almost scared Old Man Li to death."

Upon hearing the village chief's words, Xu Xian and Wang Qiang exchanged a glance.

There was definitely a problem!

For the Eroding Locust to break through from the lower grade to the middle grade of life, it is inherently a process of going against the current and constantly accumulating toxins in its body.

It's impossible for more than 500 to appear all at once.

After Gao Mu and Liu Mei returned, Xu Xian and Wang Qiang told them about the matter.

As the leader of this mission, Takagi reported the matter to the association.

The next day.

After having breakfast at the village chief's house, Xu Xian and his companions set off from the village.

"Liu Mei, record the whole thing," Takagi said.

Liu Mei nodded.

Xu Xian and Wang Qiang were at the back, with Gao Mu at the front. The fiery hound beside him twitched its nose and, following the scent, led the four of them and their three beasts into the forest path.

During this time, the rock wolf was on high alert, Vawa was extremely cautious, and the trumpet flower on the flower parrot's head seemed ready to bloom at any moment.

"We might encounter a large number of locusts next, so Junior Xu, you must not wander off." Gao Mutou didn't reply.

Wild animals are not stupid, and the principle of capturing the leader first applies everywhere.

Xu Xian is just a graduate, he only has one contracted spirit beast, and his mastery of beast taming techniques is probably limited to soul blood contracts.

If protection is not provided in time and the locusts target the rice-eating locusts, the consequences will be dire.

"Don't worry, senior, I won't wander off." Xu Xian glanced around.

There's not much to see in the mountains and forests.

It was overgrown with weeds or tree branches.

The sunlight in June is intense, but the mornings in the mountains and forests are still somewhat cool.

The four humans and four beasts walked for a full hour, trekking through mountains and rivers, slightly out of breath. Xu Xian and the others heard a faint flapping sound of wings, exactly the same as the annoying sound of a motor running last night.

"We've arrived!" Takagi's expression brightened, and Xu Xian and the other two also perked up.

The four players adjusted their formation.

The rock wolf is in the center, with the fire hound on the left and Vava on the right, while the flower parrot sits on the rock wolf's back.

They formed an arc-shaped formation, with Xu Xian and his companions in the middle, slowly advancing.

After a short while, Xu Xian and his companions passed through lush grass and entered a surrounded area that resembled dry land but was filled with piles of grass and plants.

The four people and four beasts looked down at the pile of grass and plants. In an instant, both Xu Xian and his companions and the four beasts were terrified, their scalps tingling and their eyes filled with shock.

"What...what is this?!" Wang Qiang murmured.

Xu Xian's heart pounded wildly as he saw columnar objects in the soil that resembled dry land yet was loose and fluffy.

They're not very big, only about the length of a thumb, and they're densely packed all over the ground and even underground.

The pillar-shaped object had a pair of scarlet pupils at the top, and its bright green body looked not at all cheerful, but rather indescribably ferocious and terrifying.

These are locust larvae or larvae.

At a rough estimate, it's at least tens of thousands, not even counting how many more are buried beneath the loose soil.

Fortunately, none of Xu Xian and the others had trypophobia, otherwise they would have fainted on the spot just from looking at them.

Besides the locust larvae, there were also a large number of green shadows wriggling and moving around in the grass pile.

Most of them seemed to be struggling externally, as if they had been poisoned by a paralyzing toxin.

"This is the passive talent of the insect swarm toxin taking effect. There must be an astonishing number of dead grasshoppers and toxins accumulated in that pile of grass. Only grasshoppers that have survived the toxin invasion can struggle to get out," Takagi said with a slight surprise.

"Oh no, we've been discovered!" Liu Mei suddenly exclaimed.

Xu Xian felt a chill and quickly squeezed together with the other three, crouching down.

Takagi took out four small spray cans from his backpack. "These things are really annoying to locusts. You can spray them when it's in a critical moment, but they adapt quickly. Once you spray them, they'll have to run away."

Xu Xian accepted it and nodded secretly.

Takagi-senpai is truly well-prepared; I'm ashamed of myself compared to him.

As the four men made their movements, a large number of locusts flew out of the haystack.

The number of them was much greater than the total number last night.

Xu Xian's rough estimate was at least a thousand.

Normally, considering the physical and energy consumption of their respective spirit beasts, they definitely shouldn't fight, but now there are three of them, including Takagi.

After entering university, he really wanted to learn about the secret technique that every beast tamer had to learn.