Cultivation begins with harvest.

I boldly touched the cluster of insect eggs directly with my finger. The purplish-red toxicity immediately traveled to my finger, but it kept dissolving as soon as it passed my fingertip. Only some stinging and numbness remained on my fingertip.

Purple Poison Spider

Category: Monster/Gu Insect

Grade: First-tier superior (late stage of Qi Refining)

Attribute: Wood/Poison

Innate magical abilities: Purple Shadow Technique, Poisonous Miasma Armor Technique, Wooden Spike Array Killing Technique, Seal-Containing Spell, Poison Arrow Technique, Knowledge Technique, Wood-Merging Technique, Vertical Thread Spell

Hidden Spell: Hundred Poison Gu King Curse

Spirit Beast Artifacts: Purple Poison Pouch, Wood Sinensis Skin

Lifespan: 15 years under normal conditions

Description: A venomous insect that grows in miasma-filled jungles and possesses excellent movement and stealth abilities. Although small in size, it has a ferocious venom that can lignify the interior of its target and can continuously inject venom through extremely tough spider silk. It can reach adulthood in a maximum of twenty months.

Only adult purple venomous spiders can reproduce. During reproduction, the male spider will lose at least one-third of its essence to inject into the female spider, while the female spider will deplete all of its essence power when laying eggs. Individuals that need to fight for a long time should be prevented from reproducing.

The eggs can only hatch in a dry, enclosed environment under miasma, with an environment that is predominantly wood-elemental. Providing wood essence can increase the hatching success rate. It is necessary to separate the eggs of the same species for hatching, otherwise "wild growth" will occur, in which the eggs will absorb the life force and spiritual energy of their siblings to help them hatch. The purple spiders hatched in this way can only be forcibly enslaved and are extremely difficult to influence or obey. They are more ferocious and more venomous, but they are also less able to hide and move. The more rational the individual, the easier it is for its Wood Sin Curse Skin to expand.

It needs to feed on the nectar or fruit of poisonous spiritual plants during its growth process, and it is suitable to grow in the canopy of high-level spiritual trees.

Using one of the following—the fruit of [Water Prison], [Unripe Thorn], or the flower and leaf of [Entangling Weak Vine]—can prevent it from developing reproductive urges.

Adding [Wood Essence] can increase growth rate.

Adding [Remnant Glowwood] can increase the poison injection efficiency of spider silk, with its fruit being the most effective.

Adding tender leaves of spirit plants with wind and thunder attributes can increase the toughness of spider silk.

Adding [Red Nettle] can increase the tolerance limit of the Purple Poison Sac.

Simultaneously, the addition of spiritual plant juices and wood essences bearing traces of the universe can accelerate the expansion limit and speed of the Muxin Cursed Skin, which can expand its capabilities. The Muxin Cursed Skin can slightly improve the Purple Poison Spider's perception and comprehension of the Daoist rhyme of the wood attribute, slightly enhance its sensing and control of the wood attribute magic power, and has a small probability of comprehending the hidden spell Hundred Poison Gu King Curse before the Muxin Cursed Skin completely covers the body. If it has not comprehended the spell when it is completely covered, it will never be able to comprehend it. The bloodline aptitude of the Purple Poison Spider with the complete Muxin Cursed Skin will be permanently and slightly improved.

Providing True Qi with both Wood and Poison attributes can greatly increase the probability of breaking through to the second-tier demon beast.

Related Description (Hundred Poison Gu King Curse): It is condensed by devouring hundreds of insects. The stronger and more mixed the toxicity, the more likely it is to succeed. When fully condensed, it can form a pair of "spiritual wings" that cannot be maintained for long. It can provide the host with extremely fast flight ability and greatly weaken the toxicity of others while strengthening its own toxicity. It can directly appear in areas containing the toxicity of the individual within a range of up to nine zhang, but cannot appear inside any substance. It has a certain suppressive and dominating effect on its own kind that does not possess the Hundred Poison Gu King Curse. Insects and beasts that possess the Hundred Poison Gu King Curse can enhance the quantity and quality of their spiritual energy by consuming different kinds of toxicity, slightly increasing the possibility of growing into a second-tier demon beast.

"The purple venomous spider and the spider silk vasewood complement each other perfectly."

Although, in general, everything is taken from Aquarius wood and then used on Aquarius wood, it is still a mutually beneficial outcome.

But becoming the Spider King is ultimately a difficult task.

Only those who have mastered the Hundred Poison Gu King Curse can be called the Spider King.

Chen Guang activated Lin Miao with all his might, and the poison on the spider silk could no longer affect him in the slightest. Only then did he carefully peel away the two clumps of insect eggs. Most of them still retained their vitality, while a very small number of the insect eggs had become weak or even died.

In the center of these insect eggs, however, there are some plump insect eggs with bright red markings that look like they are about to burst open.

Those are traces of wild growth; normal purple venomous spiders have marks that are more purplish-red.

As a demonic beast, the Purple Poison Spider possesses a considerable number of innate magical abilities, making it seem more deserving of the name of a spirit beast than the Thousand Needle Wren.

However, Chen Guang clearly understood the essential difference between demon beasts and spirit beasts. Apart from the difference in physical bodies, it was also in intelligence: spirit beasts were born with fewer spells, making it easier for them to break free from constraints and learn new spells; while demon beasts were born with more spells, but it was almost impossible for them to learn new spells. Instead, they constantly practiced their limited spells until they could use them with greater ease and almost instinctively. In this aspect of spell application, even human cultivators dared not say that they could definitely defeat demon beasts. On the contrary, there were quite a few who "took demon beasts as their teachers." They were clearly masters of their own innate spells.

The advantages of demonic beasts over spirit beasts are very clear in the initial stage.

After a moment's thought, Chen Guang called out, and in an instant, two wrens landed on his shoulders, one heavy and one light.

The once domineering and somewhat fierce second brother, who bullied his brothers, is now adorable and somewhat chubby. He has even become gentler overall and is satisfied with his current affluent life. The speed at which his golden beak condenses has been affected.

On the contrary, the third one was more silent and meticulous, but he had a hidden ferocity. Just standing there, he had an aura that could make insect beasts tremble. The bright red marks on the surface of the plump insect eggs with cracks that were swept by his cloud-like eyes dimmed a little, as if they were avoiding something.

Chen Guang did not intend to "correct" his second son. Sometimes it is just his nature, so it is best to let nature take its course. Forcing them to make the best choice for themselves is also a kind of forced enslavement.

That would go against the original intention of the Beast Affinity School.

When the blood was dripped onto the selected insect eggs, the eggs struggled and shook violently as if scalded by boiling water. The blood, like molten lava, melted away the marks and spider silk on the eggs, leaving them in pieces.

The viability of the entire insect egg is declining.

The thousand-needle wren feeds on insects and naturally has some resistance to toxicity, but the spider silk was left by an adult purple venomous spider, and there was a fear that the thousand-needle wren might not be able to withstand too much of it, so it had to be killed off in advance.

"The insect eggs with bright red marks were destroyed."

At a command, the two thousand-needle wrens eagerly swooped down and swallowed one bright red marked insect egg after another.

However, after each of them ate more than ten, they chirped that they could no longer eat.

The eggs of the purple venomous spider are far more nutritious than any other poisonous insect they have tasted before; they are too delicious and too easy to overeat.

Seeing this, Chen Guang did not insist. He first sealed the remaining bright red insect eggs. There were about fifty intact insect eggs left. He picked out ten and prepared to put them into the Night Plague Bone-Spotted Wood.

Chen Guang's mastery of formations has now reached the point where he can refine hexagram objects without manipulating them to exert any influence. Hexagram objects are made from spiritual objects, and their spiritual energy interacts with the environment, so they should naturally exhibit some unique characteristics. It's just that he couldn't grasp them before, but now he can.

A large, round stone was crafted from Mangli wood and placed near the Night Plague Bone. Immediately, a gray-black mist with a hint of dark green rose up. The Night Plague Bone itself was already poisonous enough to cause contamination, and the addition of some wood-attribute spiritual energy created this miasma.

This was an experiment. Thanks to his experience in modifying duckweed, Chen Guang had some ideas about the eggs of the purple spider, but because he was unsure, he decided to try it out by testing ten eggs.

The arrangement was completed after placing ten Purple Poison Spider Eggs near the Night Plague Bone, leaving each egg spaced apart, and then replenishing them with sufficient Wood Spirit Essence.

Chen Guang will use more orthodox miasma to cultivate the remaining Purple Poison Spiders. Purple Poison Spiders need enclosed spaces and miasma environments, and are predominantly wood-based, all of which are suitable for construction using variegated wood as the main material.

After all that trouble today, it's already late, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow to finish.