Junior sister, I really need to control you.

"Hehehe, this 'Ten Thousand Insects Nurturing Mother' method, which I created, is worthy of being recorded in the Thousand Insect Valley's superior secret techniques inheritance."

"First, raise thousands of offspring with mixed auras, then let them have a full meal and grow up completely, and then dedicate them all to the pure mother insect to help it grow stronger."

"The mother insect's own aura is extremely pure, but the quantity is a bit too small. After being nourished by thousands of offspring, although the quality will decrease somewhat, the quantity can increase several times."

Master Chongyun chuckled smugly, "Once my mother insect is fully grown, one can increase one's cultivation by sixty or seventy years. If raised well, it's not impossible to increase it by a hundred years! Moreover, as long as one cultivates the techniques of my Thousand Insect Valley, the cultivation gained from the mother insect will have a fairly solid foundation."

"Our ancestor is truly a genius!" Chen Rui quickly complimented.

"It's just a pity that this secret technique is not perfect and has many limitations; otherwise, why would I need to cooperate with you?"

Master Chongyun shook his head and sighed.

Chen Rui looked at Master Chongyun with a mixture of awe and curiosity, wondering what limitations this secret technique, which could grant someone an extra few decades or even centuries of cultivation, had.

But Master Chongyun only glanced at him and showed no intention of continuing.

It's perfectly fine to tell this junior how brilliant and powerful your unique secret techniques are; you can even enjoy the junior's compliments.

But how could the flaws of this secret method be easily revealed to outsiders?

This secret technique sounds powerful, but it actually has many limitations.

First of all, the female insect is extremely rare.

The pure aura emanating from the mother insect didn't fall from the sky. He had spent over a decade and invested a great deal of his savings just to raise such a mother insect, even neglecting his own cultivation.

The expenses he spent on the mother insect alone were almost enough for him to forge another new magic weapon for himself.

In addition, it takes about twenty years to cultivate these offspring insects, and that is under the premise of having spiritual energy and spiritual plants to nourish them.

He didn't need to worry too much about this process, and it wouldn't interfere with his cultivation. However, the problem was that after these offspring grew up, they would need to consume a large number of spiritual plants and then feed back to the mother insect in order to maximize the benefits.

This is also why he set his sights on the plain bamboo at Huangzhu Temple.

If he were to rely on buying or cultivating spiritual plants to raise the offspring, he wouldn't be able to raise many even if he went bankrupt.

What could be more convenient than simply taking what someone else has already grown?

Twenty years ago, taking advantage of the time when the Huangzhu Temple was relaxed after harvesting the training materials, he secretly sent the mother insect into the bamboo forest peak and sacrificed his magic treasure to cover the mother insect's aura.

The mother insect then lays tens of thousands of eggs. After hatching, the larvae crawl to the Spirit Eye and begin to spin cocoons and sleep, absorbing the life force of the surrounding Suyun bamboo to grow.

Now, the day has finally come when we are about to emerge from our cocoons.

It is precisely now that, in order to solidify and refine itself, each Suyun bamboo is filled with essence.

At that time, these larvae will directly lie on the roots of the Suyun bamboo, absorbing all the essence that the bamboo has stored for fruiting, turning it into their own nutrients, and then offering themselves to the mother insect.

In this way, the mother insect could probably directly increase his cultivation by 180 years.

However, another drawback of this secret method is that it cannot directly and precisely control the timing of the larvae emerging from their cocoons.

These larvae will emerge from their cocoons one after another within three to five days, and instinctively feed on the essence of the surrounding bamboo to nourish their mother.

That won't do.

Three to five days may not seem like a long time, but during that time a large number of Suyun bamboo withered. Unless everyone in Huangzhu Temple is mentally challenged, they would definitely realize that something was wrong.

At that time, he will either sit idly by and watch these people discover the mother worm, or he will take away the mother worm that has only absorbed some of the offspring worms in advance, leaving a large number of offspring worms that have not yet broken out of their cocoons to go to waste.

This is something he cannot accept.

After planning for so many years, how can we just end it so abruptly?

While he alone cannot remotely and precisely control the timing of each larva's emergence from its cocoon, it would be a different story if he had a large number of people assisting him.

Prior to this, he had already crafted hundreds of magical artifacts that could command larvae within a certain range to immediately break free from their cocoons.

As long as he has hundreds of people carrying magical artifacts scattered throughout the mountain, and he personally activates all the artifacts at once, all the larvae will immediately break out of their cocoons and absorb all the essence of the Suyun bamboo.

Even if these people are not evenly distributed, a small number of larvae will still be missed from the area where the magic weapon is effective, but the loss will be very small and within his acceptable range.

However, his disciples and followers in the Valley of a Thousand Insects were of no use in this matter.

He needed to find a group of cultivators who could infiltrate Bamboo Forest Peak. The number of them couldn't be small, and their identities couldn't arouse suspicion from Huangzhu Temple.

Shouyi Temple is the best choice; he had already reached a cooperation agreement with Shouyi Temple more than ten years ago.

With the cooperation of the disciples of Shouyi Temple, they will all be scattered on the mountain during tomorrow's patrol. Once he activates his magic weapon, he will be able to harvest all the Suyun bamboo on the mountain to feed the larvae.

Moreover, this matter itself is not something the disciples of Shouyi Temple need to know.

Let the young deacon in front of you carry his magical artifact, and instruct all the disciples of Shouyi Temple to wear it close to their bodies during patrols.

When he crafted the magical artifacts, he deliberately made them inconspicuous and without any markings of Thousand Insect Valley, so as not to arouse suspicion.

These magical artifacts do have some protective effect, although they are not even as good as the lowest-grade defensive artifacts. But no one would doubt that these artifacts are useless.

He had painstakingly planned every step of the process to raise a female insect over several decades.

He didn't even intend to let the offspring complete the process of feeding the mother insect on Bamboo Forest Peak.

This step would take at least half an hour to complete, which was too time-consuming, so he borrowed a spirit insect cage from his senior brother in advance.

After the larvae finished eating the Suyun bamboo, he summoned all of them, put them in the spirit insect cage, and then left with the mother insect and the Shadowless Flag.

If it weren't for the fact that the offspring would develop slowly if they were too far from the mother, he would have taken the mother from the bamboo forest peak long ago.

According to his plan, from the time the people in the bamboo grove noticed the anomaly to the time he left with all the offspring and the mother insect, it would take no more than a quarter of an hour.

He had also prepared a "divine escape talisman" in advance, which would allow him to use escape techniques at several times the normal speed to escape as quickly as possible.

Bamboo Forest Peak is located on the edge of the Zhengyang Dharma Lineage, so even if Huangzhu Temple has any means to directly connect with the Zhengyang Dharma Lineage, it will be useless.

The distance from the Dharma lineage to this Bamboo Forest Peak is quite far. Not to mention a Great True Person of the Divine Travel Realm, even a True Person of the Dharma Aspect Realm with an Imperial Title would need some time to arrive.

By the time the powerful figures from the Dharma lineage arrived, he had already escaped the territory of the Zhengyang Dharma lineage.

Unless a legendary immortal intervenes, no one will have time to capture him.

But what kind of celestial being would be so bored as to meddle in such a trivial matter?

Moreover, once he escapes further away and returns to the territory of his own Thousand Insect Valley, even the immortals of that lineage will be helpless.

Although Thousand Insect Valley cannot be compared with the entire Taihao Immortal Sect, it is not afraid of a mere Zhengyang lineage.

Their Thousand Insect Valley also has a lineage of immortals!

Once he has fully developed the mother insect, he will be able to raise his cultivation level to at least 240 years. After another 20 or 30 years, he will be able to eliminate the side effects.

Considering his remaining lifespan, there's at least an 80% chance he'll break through to the Divine Realm in the future.

If we can raise the mother insect a few more times in the future, then there may be hope of reaching the higher level of Dharma Aspect Realm, the title of True Person.

Thinking of this, Master Chongyun was in a great mood.

"Hey, young man," he patted Chen Rui's shoulder, "I'm in a good mood today, and I find you pleasing to the eye. How about I teach you a couple of moves?"

Chen Rui was overjoyed.

Although the person in front of me is a cultist practicing Gu magic, he is still a real person.

There's no harm in learning a few tricks from a real person, right?

Thinking of this, Chen Rui quickly kowtowed to express his gratitude.

"Of course, once you've learned my methods and are working for me, you'll have to always remember my kindness."

Chongyun patted Chen Rui on the head and handed him a Qiankun bag: "Before tomorrow's patrol, distribute these to the disciples guarding the temple and have them carry them with them."

"Yes, ancestor!" Chen Rui nodded.

Although he did not know all of Chongyun's secrets and plans, the things he was supposed to do had been explained very clearly to him by Guanzhong Zhenren and Chongyun.

Once all those damned broken bamboos at Huangzhu Temple are destroyed, they won't be able to pay their training fees, and the rent for Bamboo Forest Peak will become a huge debt.

Even if Huangzhu Temple wants to sell everything to renew the lease, the lineage will still doubt whether they can guarantee a return on their investment.

At that time, our own temple will have the opportunity to find the lineage and take over this Bamboo Forest Peak.

It would be a waste to use those tens of thousands of spiritual eyes to grow bamboo.

……

At the same time, Li Yinsheng had already set up a trapping formation consisting of 1,700 black and white chess pieces around the hole where the mother insect and the command flag magic weapon were located.

Countless black and white pieces were scattered around that small empty space, then disappeared and transformed into an array.

Tightening the air.

This is a trapping formation recorded in the Dongxuan Formation Manual. Although it is called a trapping formation, it can also have some suppressing and sealing effects when activated.

Li Yinsheng was unsure how closely the magical artifact inside was connected to its owner's mind, so he dared not make any moves lest he alert the enemy.

But he would never let go of that large, fleshy worm with its pure aura.

Aside from its difficulty in refining, this insect itself is enough to help a person increase their cultivation by twenty years.

If he were to give it to his junior sister... although he hadn't yet figured out how to get her to eat it.

However, if my junior sister takes it and fully refines it, her cultivation will be enough to reach about thirty years. At least in terms of cultivation, it will be enough to reach the level of Grade B in the Shaoyang Dao Examination!

This is no strange insect, it's clearly a rare treasure!

Moreover, there was another magical treasure next to this extraordinary treasure!

However, the situation was still unclear, and he didn't understand what was going on with those insects outside, so he couldn't just grab the big fleshy worm and the command flag and leave.

Putting everything else aside, he really wants to know whether the insects outside that his junior sister killed will be counted as a reward for his cultivation tribulation.

If we take that into account, how much cultivation time does that insect get?

If he were to take down the giant worm directly, would the alien insects remain unresponsive, go berserk, or die on the spot?

And the person who arranged these designs, in the cave's judgment, was he also part of this tribulation of cultivation?

These all require further consideration.

However, he was unsure when the person who had set up such an arrangement would arrive.

Therefore, in addition to setting up a tight formation to lock down the giant worm and the magic weapon, he also set up two other formations around it.

A technique called the Suppressing God Head is a method specifically designed to suppress powerful enemies. Once one enters it, their physical body, magical power, and divine consciousness will all be restricted.

Those with slightly lower cultivation levels will have their divine sense directly locked, and their physical body and magical power will naturally be unable to function.

Li Yinsheng didn't expect the formation to directly suppress the soul of a True Person, but he figured it would at least severely restrict him.

The other formation is called the Rising Ox Formation, which is purely a killing formation.

It would be best to capture him alive; if that's not possible, then just send him away.

Regardless of who that person is, there's no need to be polite to them for resorting to such underhanded and unethical methods.

In addition, there are those alien insects that are still huddled in their cocoons.

Although they are behaving themselves for now, Li Yinsheng doesn't believe they will stay behaving themselves forever.

Flying to the nearest cocoon, Li Yinsheng smiled slightly.

"Little worm, little worm, your cocoon is too thin, you don't feel safe. Let me help you thicken it."

He raised his hand and pointed, and three chess pieces—two white and one black—surrounded the cocoon. Then the pieces disappeared, and the formation was complete.

Two swallows flying together.

It's an extremely simple trap, but its strength lies in its practicality.

Next, Li Yinsheng spent some more time adding a layer of double swallows to all the cocoons in the entire mountain.

Now the thin cocoon shell no longer needs to be worried about breaking easily.