Gou Zai created a blessed land in the immortal abode

March flew by.

On this day, Li Chengming was in the alchemy room, staring at the furnace fire, his spiritual sense constantly monitoring the changes inside the furnace.

Inside the furnace, a round pill was slowly rotating in the flames, its surface gradually becoming smooth and round.

"It's done!"

A hint of joy flashed in Li Chengming's eyes. He changed his hand seals, and the furnace lid flew up. The pale blue pill flew out of the furnace and landed in the jade bottle he had prepared beforehand.

He poured one out and placed it in his palm, examining it carefully.

The pill had a glossy and lustrous surface. Although it wasn't particularly good, it was a great encouragement for a rogue cultivator like him who had only been practicing alchemy for three months.

"After more than sixty batches, I finally managed to make one."

Li Chengming muttered to himself, going over the results of the past three months in his mind.

The first twenty attempts all failed, and all the Spirit Gathering Grass turned to ashes.

The second batch of twenty furnaces barely managed to condense the elixir embryos, but most of them disintegrated halfway through.

By the third twenty-batch batch, they were finally able to produce a finished product, even if the quality was average, it was still a pill at least.

"Even with the 10% success rate bonus from this alchemy room, it's still this difficult. Without it, I'm afraid I would have wasted countless materials just to get started."

Li Chengming sighed, put away the pills, and got up to leave the alchemy room.

In the sacred field.

Each of the ginseng fruit trees had a fist-sized fruit hanging from its top.

The fruit is snow-white all over, with a subtle shimmering sheen on its surface, and it emits a refreshing fragrance that is so invigorating that just one whiff is enough to make you feel refreshed.

"Buzzing!"

Suddenly, a slight noise reached his ears.

Li Chengming immediately became alert:

"What's that commotion? Could there be other creatures inside this immortal abode?"

He turned his gaze toward the source of the sound, into the Spirit Field of the Root Fruit.

He dared not be careless, holding the Water Serpent Technique in his hand, and cautiously approached.

As they got closer, the full appearance of the mysterious creature in the spirit field was revealed.

They turned out to be tiny insects, each about the size of a thumb.

Li Chengming stared intently and saw that the spirit insect was pure white, with thin wings like gauze, and a faint spiritual light flowed between its flapping wings.

Its body was like solidified fat, its six legs below its abdomen were as thin as hair, and its mouth was as long and thin as a needle. It was lying on a root fruit and gently sucking.

"These are spirit insects? There are actually spirit insects in the immortal abode?"

Li Chengming was stunned. He had never imagined that there would be other creatures besides himself in the Immortal Abode.

"Could this immortal abode truly be another world?"

A guess couldn't help but arise in his mind.

However, now is not the time for him to think about these things, because these spirit insects are currently clinging to the Root-Nourishing Fruit. If he doesn't stop them soon, the spiritual energy of the Root-Nourishing Fruit will be completely drained.

Immediately, Li Chengming's spiritual energy surged, and a thin stream of water appeared at his fingertips, vaguely resembling a snake.

He used his spiritual sense to lock onto one of the spirit insects, then flung out the spell he was holding. The water snake slithered through the air and swallowed the spirit insects whole in one gulp.

The other spirit insects were immediately terrified and scattered.

Watching the dozens of spirit insects fly away, Li Chengming frowned:

"They run pretty fast."

He picked up the dead spirit insect, examined it, and muttered:

"I wonder what kind of spirit insect it is..."

He used to cultivate spiritual plants within the immortal abode, so he had never encountered spiritual insects and his knowledge in this area was truly limited.

"The appearance of such spiritual insects in the immortal abode suggests that we should take precautions in the future."

"Or, it's possible to subdue these spirit insects."

Li Chengming suddenly remembered the empty beast pen inside the immortal mansion. It would be very easy to subdue some small spirit insects at the first level of Qi Refining.

However, before that, we need to figure out what kind of spirit insect this is.

Li Chengming put the insect corpse into an empty jade bottle, checked the Yun Gen Fruit again, and seeing that there was nothing wrong, he left the immortal mansion.

He left the courtyard and walked along the mountain path towards another sacred field.

Uncle Zhou was in charge of looking after that spiritual field. He was a long-time retainer of the Kong family and had been cultivating spiritual plants for them for over twenty years, so he naturally had a wealth of knowledge in this area.

From afar, Li Chengming saw Uncle Zhou bending over, busy in the spirit field, holding a jade pot in his hand, carefully watering several spirit herbs.

"Uncle Zhou."

Li Chengming called out and quickened his pace to walk over.

Uncle Zhou looked up at the sound of the voice, saw it was Li Chengming, and a smile appeared on his face:

"Chengming, what brings you here today?"

He had purchased Huiqi San from Li Chengming many times.

The highly effective Qi-restoring powder allowed him, whose Qi and blood were gradually declining, to barely manage to take care of the four acres of spiritual fields.

"Uncle Zhou, do you recognize this kind of spirit insect?"

Li Chengming took the jade bottle out of his pocket and handed it over.

Uncle Zhou took the jade bottle, uncorked it, poured the insect corpses inside into his palm, squinted at it for a moment, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes:

"This...it's actually a cloud dew worm."

Uncle Zhou's tone held a hint of uncertainty as he brought the insect corpse closer for a closer look before stating with certainty:

"Indeed, it is the Cloud Dew Insect."

"Cloud dew worm?"

Li Chengming had never heard of this name before.

Seeing his confusion, Uncle Zhou slowly explained:

"For us plant masters, the Cloud Dew Insect is the best spirit beast, because it has the ability to absorb the moisture of heaven and earth and condense it into spirit dew. This spirit dew is excellent nourishment for spirit plants."

"Moreover, it is said that when the number of cloud dew insects reaches a certain level, it is enough to form clouds and fog, thus regulating the climate of a region."

"These cloud dew worms are rare treasures, extremely precious!"

Upon hearing about the abilities of this spirit insect, Li Chengming was greatly surprised, as he had assumed that all spirit insects were pests that ate spirit plants.

I never expected there to be such a powerful spirit insect.

After finishing speaking, Uncle Zhou returned the jade bottle to Li Chengming and added his instructions:

"If you encounter a Cloud Dew Insect, you must capture it. Such a fine spirit insect is hard to come by again."

Li Chengming nodded, then took his leave.

Along the way, Li Chengming pondered how to subdue all these spirit insects.

"There are at least twenty or thirty of those spirit insects, and I only have one animal pen."

A mortal beast pen can only hold a maximum of three spirit beasts, so it's impossible to catch all the Cloud Dew Insects.

After much thought, Li Chengming could only come up with one solution.

That is the principle: to catch the thief, first catch the king!

"If I capture the strongest Cloud Dew Worm, I should be able to control all of them."

Logically speaking, these kinds of spirit insects live in groups, and there must be a leader among them, similar to an ant queen or a bee queen.

Once the queen insect is captured, the rest of the ministers will naturally have to obey.

Having made up his mind, Li Chengming returned to his immortal abode and went straight to the beast pen.

The animal pen was built next to a dense forest, covering an area of ​​about two zhang square, and was surrounded by a fence made of spirit wood.

[Animal Pen: Common]

[Current effect: Can tame mid-stage Qi Refining level demonic beasts, and enhance their intelligence...]

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It can tame mid-stage Qi Refining demon beasts, and should be more than capable of dealing with a mid-stage Qi Refining spirit insect.