Junior sister, I really need to control you.

Chapter 80 Crimson Mosquito, Body Cultivation Divine Weapon

Late at night, in Li Yinsheng's bamboo house.

He had already sent his junior sister back to cultivate before dark, and was now leaning back in his recliner, examining the Qiankun bag and an exquisite metal cage that he had obtained from Chongyun.

The metal cage was a hollow metal ball, entirely silver, only the size of a walnut.

Although it doesn't look big, it has a lot of secrets inside, containing several kinds of strange insects that Li Yinsheng doesn't recognize.

The Qiankun Bag cannot be used to contain most living things; its existence must be specifically for raising insects.

However, as soon as the insect cloud died, it seemed that some kind of restriction was triggered on these insects, and they all died, leaving behind countless corpses.

Li Yinsheng directly put the insect corpses into the insect cloud's Qiankun bag, quite disappointed.

As he went through Chongyun's belongings, he wondered if he could find some tasty insects.

But this person was truly not on the right path; none of the insects in the cage looked edible, and their auras were all mixed up and unpleasant.

However, when he examined the spirit insect cage itself, he found that it seemed to have been refined by the insect cloud not long ago, and the refinement was very shallow. He didn't know where his insects had been stored before.

Li Yinsheng wasn't particularly interested in the spirit insect cage, since he didn't have any insects to raise.

But after looking through the insect cloud's storage bag, he changed his mind.

Gu Yun didn't seem to be wealthy; besides some materials, pills, and talismans that would be valuable to ordinary cultivators but were commonplace to True Immortals, his Qiankun bag contained only a few books of extraordinary material and a dozen or so red and white insect eggs, each the size of a sesame seed.

It seems that because the life force in the insect eggs is extremely weak and restrained, they can be placed in a Qiankun bag, but they probably won't survive after hatching.

Li Yinsheng flipped through several books.

It records the strange insects and large fleshy worms he saw, which were methods that Chongyun created himself based on some old and incomplete ancient books from the Thousand Insect Valley.

The books contain mostly information related to this insidious method.

It includes several failed experiences and reflections, methods for cultivating alien insects and mother insects, and various other miscellaneous related knowledge.

These were of little use to Li Yinsheng.

Even if we disregard the self-serving aspects, just considering the cultivation of the mother insect, it requires a large amount of precious materials and more than a decade of hard work.

With that kind of time and resources, Li Yinsheng could have used them to train his junior female students.

But aside from these largely useless items, he also discovered a self-created insect-controlling technique by Chongyun, as well as an illustrated book explaining various exotic insects.

This booklet appears to have been printed by Thousand Insect Valley and distributed to most of its disciples. Even if not everyone had a copy, it should have been quite widespread.

In addition to recording a large amount of knowledge about cultivating alien insects, it also contains the "Alien Insect Ranking" set by Thousand Insect Valley itself.

It is said that it was compiled by all the great masters of the Thousand Insect Valley over thousands of years and is the most authoritative ranking of strange insects in the entire Ten Thousand Mountains. It records all the strange insects in the top one hundred in the entire Ten Thousand Mountains.

It even specifically noted that several immortal ancestors from Thousand Insect Valley had provided guidance on the compilation of this list of strange insects.

The booklet concludes with a blood-red warning: any disciple who dares to question the ranking of the alien insects will be subjected to the punishment of being devoured by ten thousand insects.

Li Yinsheng checked the picture book to confirm the insects in the insect cloud.

The giant face that formed on the mountain peak was probably the "Mist Bug," ranked seventy-first on the list of alien insects. A single one could conjure up a large cloud of mist to confuse the enemy.

A large number of mist insects gathered together and transformed into that giant face.

The one directly killed by the Zhen Shen Tou was the "Smoke Poison Insect," ranked thirty-eighth.

However, according to the records of the Strange Insect List, if the Smoke Poison Insect is cultivated well, true fire will be born in its body. It is both fire and poison. The true fire in the body of a single Smoke Poison Insect is enough to melt tens of thousands of kilograms of boulder into magma.

If the Tobacco Poison Insects cannot be cultivated to produce true fire, their ranking will drop to outside the top fifty.

The remaining insects that turned into corpses with the death of the insect cloud were ranked between sixty and forty.

Finally, Li Yinsheng also found information about the dozen or so red and white insect eggs.

The thirty-sixth on the list of unusual insects is the Red Yao Mosquito.

Although it ranks only two places higher than the tobacco poison insect, it is extremely peculiar, with a huge gap between its upper and lower limits.

The red stag mosquito has only females, feeds on blood, and possesses many unique abilities.

First, it is incredibly fast and adept at evading divine sense, making it extremely difficult to detect and impossible to defend against.

Secondly, the Crimson Yao Mosquito can be considered a body cultivator among insects. Not only is its defensive ability quite strong, but its mouthparts are also extremely sharp. If properly cultivated, it can even pierce the skin of a real human body cultivator and drink its blood.

Moreover, although the red slug mosquito itself is not poisonous, people who are bitten by it will experience unbearable itching.

Neither magic nor elixirs can relieve this itching; one can only wait for it to subside on its own.

As for the time involved—it depends on the level of cultivation of the Crimson Yao Mosquitoes and the cultivation level of the cultivator who was bitten; it can take anywhere from half a day to several months.

Aside from causing itching, the Crimson Mosquito, while able to move silently, can also unleash a sonic spell that interferes with a cultivator's consciousness.

Although the Crimson Mosquito can only interfere with a cultivator's consciousness and cannot cause any real harm, it can easily make them mentally disturbed and restless.

It is incredibly effective in disrupting opponents during combat.

Of course, if only these disgusting methods existed, the list of alien insects would never have ranked the Crimson Mosquito at number thirty-six.

Aside from these basic abilities, the most terrifying thing about the Crimson Mosquito is its ability to gather together, condense into a phantom shape, and transform into a physical form resembling ruby.

This is also the origin of the "Chiyao" in its name.

The power of this physical manifestation of a swarm of Red Yao mosquitoes depends on the number of Red Yao mosquitoes that merge into it.

A hundred mature Crimson Yao Mosquitoes transformed into physical forms are enough to crush most cultivators with fifty or sixty years of cultivation.

According to the records of the Strange Insect Ranking, if thousands of mature Crimson Yao Mosquitoes gather together, in the hands of a powerful cultivator, their power is no less than that of a magical artifact with offensive capabilities.

However, as a unique insect, the Red Yao Mosquito is extremely difficult to cultivate, which is why the True Man of Insect Cloud has never hatched these eggs.

The reason why the list of exotic insects emphasizes the huge gap between the upper and lower limits of the red stag mosquito is that the red stag mosquito must be soaked in blood of extremely high quality to hatch, and the quality of this blood also determines the upper limit of the red stag mosquito after it is born.

If the blood of ordinary demons or cultivators is used to soak the Crimson Yao Mosquito eggs, the Crimson Yao Mosquitoes will be extremely weak after hatching, and their actual ranking should be below sixty or seventy, making them useless.

If soaked in the blood of a demon with over fifty years of cultivation, the offspring will be much better, but still not up to the standard expected of the Crimson Yao Mosquito; its true ranking should be around forty or fifty.

Only when a demon or cultivator has cultivated for seventy or eighty years can the Crimson Yao Mosquito, born from their blood, be ranked thirty-sixth among the strange insects.

Therefore, the number of red stag mosquitoes is extremely small.

For the Crimson Mosquitoes, if they want to breed powerful offspring, they must swarm together and kill a powerful demon or cultivator in order to use its blood to hatch their offspring.

But if there aren't enough Red Yao Mosquitoes, how can they kill a powerful monster that's been around for seventy or eighty years?

Of course, for Chongyun, monsters of this level are neither hard to find nor hard to kill.

But since he had kept these insect eggs for so long, he naturally looked down on the blood of mere demons.

According to the records of the Extraordinary Insect Ranking, if the Crimson Yao Mosquito could be hatched using the ordinary blood of a True Immortal Cultivator, the actual ranking of the born Crimson Yao Mosquito should be close to 30th.

If the Crimson Yao Mosquito were hatched using the blood of a Body Cultivator, it could rank close to twentieth.

If we could go a step further, we could use the essence and blood of a true human cultivator to hatch the Crimson Yao Mosquito.

The hatched Red Yao mosquitoes are ranked close to the top fifteen of the alien insects!

Li Yinsheng guessed that the insect cloud probably wanted to obtain the blood and even the essence of a body cultivator in order to hatch an extremely powerful Crimson Yao Mosquito.

After all, Chongyun himself is a True Person. If he intends to use the blood of a non-physical cultivator to hatch, then he himself will do it.

Using one's own blood to hatch Crimson Mosquitoes allows the creation of a restriction at the same time as the mosquitoes hatch, making the insect-controlling restriction and the Crimson Mosquitoes born simultaneously, thus making them easier to control.

The fact that Insect Cloud did not do so must mean that it was pursuing a path that, while not as easy to control, would allow it to hatch Crimson Yao Mosquitoes from the essence blood of a Body Cultivator, a path that is far more powerful.

But this is clearly a very difficult and dangerous task.

After all, body cultivators are not only rare and powerful, but they also tend to have bad tempers.

If you rashly go to their door and ask for their blood essence in exchange, saying you plan to use their blood essence to hatch and raise some mosquitoes, you're more likely to be used as a mosquito swatter by the body cultivator.

Therefore, it's not hard to understand why the Chiyao mosquito eggs, including the insect cloud, remained in the Qiankun bag.

But Li Yinsheng didn't have these worries.

He doesn't need to look for any body cultivator; he is one himself.

Moreover, for someone who cultivates the True Blood Secret Manual, essence blood is really not a precious thing.

At this moment, 30% of the blood in his body has turned into true blood, which is about 38,000 drops of true blood, each drop of which is more effective than essence blood.

It takes only five drops of true blood to hatch a single Red Yao mosquito egg.

The eggs of a mere dozen or so Red Yao mosquitoes require no more than a hundred drops of real blood.

Even if he cultivates thousands of Crimson Yao Mosquitoes in the future, it will only amount to a few thousand drops of true blood.

Even if he consumes several times his true blood to accelerate the growth of the Crimson Mosquito, the consumption of tens of thousands of drops is not too much. He still needs to go into seclusion in the cave often, and seclusion will replenish his true blood.

Moreover, by the time he has cultivated thousands of Crimson Yao Mosquitoes, it's hard to say what level his physical cultivation will have reached, and his true blood will only increase.

Li Yinsheng felt that these Chiyao mosquitoes were practically tailor-made for him!

The Crimson Mosquitoes he hatched and cultivated with his own true blood are not only naturally restricted, but also easier to control, and their combat power should surpass those hatched with the essence blood of ordinary body cultivators.

It might even be close to the top ten of the Zerg rankings.

Most importantly, the Crimson Yao form that the Crimson Yao Mosquito transforms into after solidifying is described in the list of alien insects as being compared to magical artifacts used for attack.

However, it is not difficult to infer from other records that the red form formed by the red mosquitoes is simply due to extremely high physical strength.

After all, a single Crimson Mosquito is known as the "body cultivator among insects," possessing formidable defense, astonishing speed, and the ability to pierce through the defenses of a true human cultivator.

Once they solidify and take shape, their strength is naturally astonishing.

Then—if we condense them into swords, spears, and halberds, wouldn't that be the best weapons?

As a body cultivator, what Li Yinsheng lacked most was a suitable weapon.

The weapons transformed from the Crimson Mosquitoes are highly powerful, can change shape, are extremely intelligent, and can even grow with his nurturing.

As long as he continues to cultivate it, the Crimson Mosquito will eventually be transformed into a top-tier divine weapon!

Compared to searching around for a weapon that might soon become obsolete, cultivating Crimson Mosquitoes seems to be a more reliable option.

Moreover, even disregarding its use as a weapon, a single Crimson Mosquito is enough to drive an ordinary cultivator to the brink of death.

It's fast, can evade divine sense, and leaves an unbearable itching sensation after being bitten, while also disturbing one's divine sense.

Anyone who offends him from now on will never get a good night's sleep in their lifetime!

After making up his mind, Li Yinsheng worked tirelessly and in one night, he mastered the basic insect control techniques left behind by Master Chongyun.

As expected of a spell created by a real person, even though it is a heretical method, after entering the basics, Li Yinsheng felt that this spell was profound and extensive.

Whether it's difficult or not is a minor issue; at worst, after receiving the reward for cultivating magic, I can spend some time practicing the insect control technique as well.

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