Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 294 A Method of Insect Extermination That Is Difficult to Disagree With [Please Subscribe]

Shen Borong's storage bag didn't contain much.

This is also normal.

After all, their journey to Yang Kingdom was an adventure in itself, and apart from some essential items, they couldn't possibly bring too many spirit coins or other useless precious items.

However, Zhou Mingde had already gained a great deal from the relics of the Golden Core cultivator, so he didn't care much about this.

After rummaging through his storage bag, he quickly found what he was looking for.

It was a jade box, the same jade box that Shen Borong had previously used to store talismans.

When the jade box was opened, the contents inside surprised Zhou Mingde slightly.

He found that the jade box contained no talisman he had expected; it was just an empty box.

It wouldn't be accurate to say it was an empty box, because there was still a little bit of ash inside.

Zhou Mingde knew perfectly well where the ashes came from.

After all, he had used talisman treasures before and knew exactly what would happen after their power was exhausted.

Recalling Shen Borong's hasty act of putting the talisman into the jade box at that time seems to confirm this point.

However, this result was undoubtedly far from what Zhou Mingde had anticipated.

He originally thought there would be a talisman inside!

When he saw Shen Borong display the powerful abilities of the talisman, he was surprised that Shen Borong refused to use it again to suppress the blue-faced zombie. He suspected that Shen Borong was intentionally saving the talisman for when he would turn against him later.

Therefore, when dealing with the green-faced zombie, he felt that his strength was no match for Shen Borong and Ruan Hongzhuang, so he chose to strike first and launch a sneak attack on Shen Borong.

However, in retrospect, Shen Borong's actions at the time were nothing but a bluff.

The reason he hastily put the exhausted talisman into the jade box was probably because he wanted to use the talisman's reputation to gain more benefits for himself when the treasure was distributed later!

After figuring all this out, Zhou Mingde sighed with a complex expression, "So, it seems I've acted like a petty person!"

Shen Borong may not be considered a gentleman.

But in reality, his act of ambushing Shen Borong was undoubtedly a truly despicable act.

It's impossible for him not to feel remorse.

But now that things have been done, even if I know I was wrong, there's nothing I can do.

After a brief moment of self-reproach, Zhou Mingde calmly packed everything up and left the secret room.

He has been cultivating for nearly three hundred years, and has seen many storms and waves. He has also done more than one bad thing in the eyes of ordinary people.

There is no longer that feeling of guilt and inability to forgive oneself after doing something wrong.

In his eyes, as long as the profit is big enough, he would do things like murder and arson.

This is also the thought of most cultivators in the cultivation world.

People like Zhou Chun, who adhere to their principles, are extremely rare exceptions in the cultivation world.

After leaving the secret room, Zhou Mingde quickly called Zhou Chun into the quiet room and answered Zhou Chun's previous questions.

However, when answering Zhou Chun, he did not tell the whole truth.

Although he also mentioned that he attacked Shen Borong based on mere conjecture, he remained silent about the fact that he never discovered the talisman.

He was, after all, Zhou Chun's elder, and even if he had done something wrong, he didn't want Zhou Chun to know too much about it.

Moreover, he understood Zhou Chun's personality; if he told the truth, Zhou Chun might find it difficult to accept.

In fact, even what he said had already made Zhou Chun frown.

"Elder, I find it difficult to agree with your approach!"

After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Chun finally looked at Zhou Mingde and spoke his mind.

Zhou Chun would never do something like launching a sneak attack on a teammate who is fighting alongside him based solely on his own speculation and conjecture.

Even if he had the same suspicions, he would at most withdraw from the team in advance or take relevant precautions, and then strike back after the other party actually took action.

In such matters, actively harming others and passively defending oneself are two completely different concepts.

The former is standard wrongdoing, while the latter is a perfectly just and blameless act that no one can find fault with.

Faced with Zhou Chun's opposition, Zhou Mingde was not angry. He simply looked at him calmly and said, "Zhengchun, it's normal for you to have your own ideas. I don't necessarily need you to agree with my approach or follow my example."

He said this in a very relaxed and casual manner, as if he had not done anything wrong.

This made Zhou Chun feel quite uncomfortable.

Perhaps this is the cruelty of this world!

Most of the time, people who do bad things or make mistakes will not be punished or judged.

That's why many people don't feel much psychological burden when doing bad things; they just do it and that's it.

"This junior understands!"

With a sigh, Zhou Chun nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

He couldn't possibly learn from Zhou Mingde, but he also couldn't impose his own ideas on Zhou Mingde.

Perhaps sensing Zhou Chun's bad mood, Zhou Mingde didn't immediately talk to him about the harvest, but instead told him to go back and rest first.

Then he himself sorted out the books he had obtained and began reading the techniques for controlling beasts and repelling insects left behind by the tomb owner.

During the process of organizing the classics, Zhou Mingde soon made an astonishing discovery.

It turned out that he found the tomb owner's autobiography among the ancient books.

According to the tomb owner's autobiography, his original surname was Han, and his given name was Yuan.

The tomb owner, named Han Yuan, was not from Yang State, but from Di State, and came from a sect called Qianlingmen in Di State.

The Thousand Spirits Sect is famous throughout the Di Kingdom for its insect-repelling techniques, and the sect is said to have a thousand kinds of spirit insects.

Although the Thousand Spirits Sect is quite famous in the Di Kingdom, it has never produced a Nascent Soul stage cultivator and has always been a medium-sized sect, similar in size to the Three Absolutes Sect.

Han Yuan was originally the deputy sect leader of Qianling Sect, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will take over the leadership of Qianling Sect in the future.

However, his excessive obsession with collecting and cultivating various strange and unusual insects recorded in the Qianling Sect's books led him to violate the Qianling Sect's taboos.

Here, we must mention the origin of the Thousand Spirits Sect.

The founder of this sect was also a person with great aspirations.

He was a victim of a certain insect plague; his entire family was swallowed up by the plague, and he was the only survivor.

From that time on, he resolved to study all kinds of demonic insects and find ways to deal with them, so that his tragedy would not be repeated in others.

He himself was exceptionally talented, and later had other opportunities to inherit some insect-repelling techniques.

After becoming a Golden Core cultivator, he founded the Thousand Spirits Sect, hoping to cultivate those who could inherit his grand ambitions and mantle.

After thousands of years of inheritance and development, the descendants of the Thousand Spirits Sect not only inherited the legacy of their ancestors and continued to study the art of insect control, but also vigorously collected various strange and unusual insects in the cultivation world as research subjects.

What outsiders don't know is that during the research process of the Thousand Spirits Sect, there were several small-scale insect plagues, resulting in the deaths of quite a few sect members.

Therefore, the Thousand Spirits Sect later established rules prohibiting its members from engaging in the research of certain forbidden techniques.

However, Han Yuan was so obsessed with the research of insect control techniques and the cultivation of strange and unusual insects that he disregarded the sect rules and began to study certain forbidden techniques.

An accident exposed his secret research into forbidden techniques.

The accident caused considerable losses to the Thousand Spirits Sect, and even though Han Yuan was a Golden Core cultivator and the deputy sect leader, he could not escape punishment.

He was not only stripped of his position as deputy sect leader, but also imprisoned for a century, forbidden from continuing his related research.

This punishment was naturally unacceptable to Han Yuan!

So, in order to continue his unfinished research, he chose to break out of the gate and leave the Thousand Spirits Sect and the Di Kingdom with many strange and exotic insects collected by the Thousand Spirits Sect. He fled to the Yang Kingdom to live in seclusion and conduct research.

Because he was too obsessed with researching insect breeding techniques, Han Yuan's cultivation ultimately stopped at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.

Before he passed away, he planned to return to the Thousand Spirits Sect of the Di Kingdom to die in meditation, returning all the treasures and research materials he had collected throughout his life to the sect.

However, to his surprise, the Thousand Spirits Sect had been wiped out over a hundred years ago, and the one who destroyed the Thousand Spirits Sect was a powerful force that he could not possibly contend with.

Now that things have come to this, Han Yuan has no choice but to grieve and be heartbroken.

So he returned to Yang State, found a suitable place to build a tomb, constructed an underground tomb for himself, and stored all his life's knowledge in a storage bag.

He had mixed feelings at the time. He didn't want his life's work to be ruined, but he also didn't want to let outsiders benefit too easily.

That's why there are so many designs inside the underground tombs.

What shocked Zhou Mingde was that after reading Han Yuan's autobiography and reviewing his notes on various strange and unusual insects, he was shocked to discover that the insect plague that was wreaking havoc in Yang Kingdom was likely directly related to Han Yuan.

In Han Yuan's research, he used a forbidden technique of the Thousand Spirits Sect to forcibly graft the bloodline of a demonic insect called "Thousand Transformation Cricket" onto a demonic insect called "Spirit Devouring Ant".

Although, according to Han Yuan's own notes and reflections, these experiments all seemed to have failed.

However, after Zhou Mingde looked at the illustrations of the "Thousand-Transformation Cricket" and the "Spirit-Devouring Ant," he found that the appearance of these two demonic insects was somewhat similar to the demonic insects that were now ravaging the Yang Kingdom.

Considering that no one had ever seen or recognized this kind of demonic insect before, and that it possesses the powerful mutation ability of the "Thousand Transformation Cricket" and the powerful reproductive ability of the "Spirit Devouring Ant," and further considering that no one had ever seen or recognized this kind of demonic insect before, and that it possesses the powerful mutation ability of the "Thousand Transformation Cricket" and the powerful reproductive ability of the "Spirit Devouring Ant," and considering that no one had ever seen or recognized this kind of demonic insect before,

Zhou Mingde had no choice but to make a bold guess: this kind of demonic insect was very likely the mutated demonic insect that Han Yuan had cultivated using forbidden techniques!

Upon having this conjecture, he was extremely shocked and then hurriedly began to carefully study the classics and autobiography left by Han Yuan.

After another careful reading, Zhou Mingde finally found a clue.

According to Han Yuan's records, once he used forbidden techniques to cultivate one hundred alien insect eggs, but then had to leave for a while due to unforeseen circumstances.

When he returned, he found that his underground research lab had been breached, and many of his collected demonic insects and their eggs had been devoured by an earth-armored dragon.

And those one hundred alien eggs had completely disappeared by then.

Afterwards, Han Yuan killed the earth-armored dragon and obtained an earth-armored dragon egg.

At the time, he didn't pay much attention to the missing hundred alien insect eggs, assuming they had all been eaten by the earth-armored dragon.

He tried it several more times, but seeing that no one had succeeded, he gave up on the experiment.

If Zhou Mingde's judgment is correct, it is likely that the hundred alien insect eggs that Han Yuan cultivated were not all devoured by the Earth Armor Dragon, and some alien insects even successfully hatched!

According to Han Yuan's own record of this experiment, if the breeding is successful, the new alien insect should have a strong evolutionary ability and an extremely strong ability to survive underground. However, it is uncertain whether its reproductive ability can maintain the level of the "Spirit Devouring Ant".

Therefore, it can be inferred that the alien insects that successfully hatched back then must have had some reproductive defects and could not reproduce on a large scale.

In recent years, these alien insects, which have been slowly multiplying, may have made up for the defects in their bloodline through generations of reproduction and evolution, and restored the powerful reproductive ability of the "Spirit Devouring Ants".

As a result, these unknown alien insects, which had always lived underground, suddenly multiplied and grew wildly, eventually causing an insect plague!

"If that's the case, then there's really hope of eradicating this insect plague!"

Zhou Mingde looked at the pile of books in front of him, and his eyes filled with joy.

Having already studied these classic texts, he naturally knew that Han Yuan had prepared methods to deal with the mutated demonic insects before the experiment.

This is also a common practice of the Thousand Spirits Sect.

After many lessons learned, the Thousand Spirits Sect instilled relevant concepts in its disciples from a young age: before researching and cultivating new types of demonic insects, regardless of whether they can succeed, they must take appropriate measures to exterminate the insects based on their original bloodline characteristics.

If a new variety of demonic insect is successfully bred and cannot be controlled, the pre-prepared insect extermination methods can be put to use quickly.

The methods prepared in advance may not be entirely applicable, but they are certainly useful in a relative sense.

Although Han Yuan broke out of the gate at that time, he still considered himself a member of the Thousand Spirits Sect in his heart, and he always followed this rule when conducting related research and experiments.

Therefore, after searching, Zhou Mingde quickly found the pest control methods that Han Yuan had prepared.

Whether it's a coincidence or a tradition of the Thousand Spirits Sect, I don't know.

Han Yuan's prepared method for exterminating the insects was to use poison!

This poison formula was prepared specifically for the bloodline characteristics of the two demonic insects, the "Thousand-Transformation Cricket" and the "Spirit-Devouring Ant." It is invariably effective against both types of demonic insects, and can easily kill demonic insects of corresponding strength depending on the dosage.

In other words, Zhou Mingde only needs to prepare the poisons according to the several poison formulas prepared by Han Yuan, and then test the poisons on the captured demon insects to find out whether the poison formulas are effective against the demon insects.

"We still need to discuss this with Zheng Chun. If it really works, the Zhou family will be rich!"

Overjoyed, Zhou Mingde quickly and excitedly called Zhou Chun to the quiet room and told her about his discovery.

(End of this chapter)