Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 297 The List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth and Three Kinds of Demonic Insects [Please Subscribe]

The insect-repelling technique left behind by Han Yuan of the Thousand Spirits Sect is indeed very exquisite and profound.

This so-called insect-driving technique not only includes secret methods for controlling demonic insects in battle, but also many secret techniques for raising insects.

While beast taming and insect repelling may seem similar, there are actually significant differences between the two when broken down into specific categories.

For beast-taming cultivators, as long as the bloodline of the beast is high enough, they do not need to put much effort into raising the beast.

But deworming is completely different.

Except for a very few types of demonic insects with extremely strange and powerful individual abilities, most demonic insects rely on sheer numbers to unleash their full combat potential.

However, how to expand the population of demonic insects and how to control more demonic insects are the true tests of an insect-controlling cultivator's insect-breeding ability.

Throughout the history of the Thousand Spirits Sect, there have been numerous instances of individuals using their exceptional insect breeding skills to transform ordinary, unremarkable demonic insects into powerful new ones through meticulous selection and breeding of their offspring.

Compared to demonic beasts, demonic insects undoubtedly have a much stronger reproductive ability, and their larvae mature in a much shorter time.

In a hundred years, a high-level demon beast might only give birth to one offspring, or even less.

However, the reproduction interval of the vast majority of demonic insects will not exceed five years.

In other words, a hundred years is enough time for the demonic insects to reproduce for twenty generations!

In the hands of cultivators skilled in insect breeding, this kind of generational propagation is more than enough for them to select the best insect species and use various methods to strengthen them to their strongest state.

Just like Han Yuan, he used his excellent insect breeding skills to continuously improve and mutate a kind of demonic insect called "Golden Spotted Iron-Eating Insect" and eventually cultivated a light golden demonic insect that he named "Mysterious Armor Golden Feather", which was the kind of demonic insect that caused Zhou Mingde and the others a lot of trouble.

In fact, Zhou Mingde and his group were lucky at the time. Those "Black Armor Golden Feathers" had been sealed for too long, and their strength had dropped to less than half of their peak.

Otherwise, with just the three of them being cultivators at the Purple Mansion stage, there would have been no way they could have survived the siege of so many "Mysterious Armor Golden Feathers".

At this moment, Zhou Chun compared the various notes and insights left by Han Yuan with the secret techniques specifically used for breeding insects. He found his horizons broadened and gained a great deal.

This even sparked some inspiration in him, and he wanted to apply some of these methods to the cultivation of demonic beasts.

That's right. Compared to insect demons, beast demons have a more stable bloodline and a longer reproduction and growth cycle.

But there is still a chance to change things!

Using the same techniques as insect breeding to cultivate demonic beasts may not yield immediate results, but it is definitely a viable path.

If this path can be successfully followed, the gains will undoubtedly be enormous.

However, although he was inspired and had many ideas, he never thought of doing such a thing himself.

He simply wrote down these ideas, intending to hand them over to Zhou Daoquan, the Supreme Elder of the Zhou family, along with the techniques for raising insects, to try in the future.

For Zhou Chun, cultivation was the top priority, followed by how to strengthen his own power and expand the influence of his family.

As for those skills and such, if he really has talent, that's fine, but if he doesn't have any obvious extraordinary talent, he doesn't want to spend any more effort getting involved.

Unless he stops being the clan leader and becomes less busy, he might not have time to get involved.

Therefore, after reviewing all the insect breeding techniques, Zhou Chun turned his attention back to the insect-repelling techniques that could help improve the combat power of cultivators.

The Thousand Spirits Sect's insect-repelling techniques are quite sophisticated. Different types of demonic insects have corresponding secret techniques that can maximize their power.

For example, demonic insects with extremely strong defensive capabilities, such as the "Mysterious Armor Golden Feather," are suitable for use with the "Insect Armor Technique" to condense them into a special "Insect Armor" to protect themselves.

Alternatively, you can use the "Insect Spear Technique" to condense them into a single "Insect Spear" and shoot it out, then quickly explode in front of the target, allowing the swarm of insects to surround the enemy at the fastest speed.

For example, moth-like demons like the "Poison Flame Moth" release poisonous flames with extremely strong corrosive properties. The "Spirit Fusion Technique" can be used to merge the poisonous flames released by thousands of "Poison Flame Moths" into a torrent of poisonous flames, forming a sea of ​​poisonous flames to attack the enemy.

There is also a secret technique called "Insect Explosion Technique," which involves pre-marking certain runes on certain demonic insects so that they can self-destruct at a critical moment.

This secret technique is very suitable for use on those venomous insects whose bodily fluids and blood are poisonous; when they self-destruct in groups, the power is enormous.

There is also a secret technique called "Insect Puppet Technique," which can refine demonic insects into puppet clones for reconnaissance or combat.

To be honest, compared to the Zhou family's still not fully developed beast-taming technique, the insect-controlling technique of the Thousand Spirits Sect left behind by Han Yuan is undoubtedly much more complete.

If these insect-repelling techniques can be used effectively, the Zhou family may have a chance to become a force like the Thousand Spirits Sect in the future.

Of course, while insect repellent techniques have many benefits and advantages, their drawbacks are equally obvious.

Firstly, just like the art of beast taming, the art of insect control requires some excellent demonic insects as objects to be controlled in order to exert sufficient power.

Secondly, feeding a large number of demonic insects requires a huge amount of resources, far exceeding the resources needed to feed demonic beasts.

Third, apart from some extremely rare and exotic insects, the vast majority of demonic insects are not very strong.

Even the demonic insects carefully cultivated by the Golden Core stage cultivators of the Thousand Spirits Sect would find it difficult to withstand the power of magic weapons.

In battles between cultivators of the same cultivation level and those at the Golden Core stage of the Thousand Spirits Sect, very few can win solely by relying on insect-repelling techniques.

No matter how many insect swarms they raise, it's the same!

Similarly, the demonic insects that can threaten Nascent Soul stage cultivators are basically only recorded in certain ancient texts of the Thousand Spirits Sect, and the vast majority of them have long been declared extinct.

In other words, the insect-repelling technique is a very powerful combat technique for those below the Golden Core stage.

However, once you reach the Golden Core stage, the effectiveness of this insect-repelling technique will be greatly reduced if there are no particularly powerful alien insects to use.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this flaw that a Golden Core cultivator like Han Yuan from the Thousand Spirits Sect is obsessed with the research of forbidden techniques, attempting to cultivate powerful demonic insects that could threaten the lives of Golden Core cultivators through these forbidden techniques.

In a sense, he really did achieve it.

The monstrous insects that are now ravaging the Yang Kingdom are the product of his experiments.

But Zhou Chun knew that the current state of this demonic insect was not what Han Yuan wanted.

The reason why the demonic insects can cause such a plague that even Nascent Soul stage cultivators cannot eradicate them is because of their unrestricted expansion of their massive population and the powerful insect kings that have emerged from among them.

However, any cultivator who tries to use this demonic insect as a tool will surely regret it.

Because the demonic insect species driven by cultivators could never give birth to a true king of their race.

At the same time, cultivators have limited spiritual sense. Even a Golden Core cultivator can only control a few hundred thousand first-order demonic insects at the same time.

Tens of thousands of first-tier demonic insects pose absolutely no threat to a Golden Core cultivator.

Therefore, the kind of demonic insect that can truly satisfy a Golden Core stage insect cultivator like Han Yuan should be one that is strong individually and can also reproduce into a small swarm.

For example, there is a strange insect recorded in the Qianlingmen's classic texts, a strange insect called "Heavenly Fire Purple Centipede".

Once this strange insect reaches maturity, it grows to nine feet long, can fly and burrow underground, and the purple flames it spews are so powerful that even Golden Core cultivators cannot be touched by them, and they can even burn magical treasures!

If any Golden Core cultivator could cultivate a hundred or so of these mature "Heavenly Fire Purple Centipedes," they would be invincible among Golden Core cultivators, and could easily take on ten opponents at once!

Unfortunately, let alone alien insects like the "Heavenly Fire Purple Centipede," whose existence in this world is unknown, even those alien insects with slightly weaker strength are now as rare as finding a needle in a haystack.

Han Yuan even wrote in his personal autobiography that his biggest regret in life was not being able to return to his sect before the Thousand Spirits Sect was destroyed, and his second biggest regret was not being able to find a kind of strange insect on the "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth".

The so-called "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth" is also a strange book left behind by Han Yuan. The compiler of this strange book is said to be a Nascent Soul stage cultivator named "Master of a Hundred Insects".

The founder of the Thousand Spirits Sect received a portion of the Daoist lineage from the "Master of a Hundred Insects".

The "Master of a Hundred Insects" compiled a list of one hundred powerful and wondrous insects from various ancient texts based on his own observations and collected information from them. He then ranked these insects according to his own understanding.

Even a powerful demonic insect like the "Heavenly Fire Purple Centipede" only ranks fifty-third on the "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth".

Most of the demonic insects listed in this strange book have been confirmed to be extinct in this world, and most of the remaining ones are on the verge of extinction. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator like "Master of a Hundred Insects" has never seen one with his own eyes.

Only a small fraction of them have been confirmed to still exist, and traces have been found in some remote and forbidden wilderness areas.

Zhou Chun had also read the "List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth". The various strange insects recorded in it, with their powerful strength and bizarre supernatural abilities, broadened his horizons and even made him doubt whether they had ever really existed.

For example, the strange insect called "Void Concealment Crystal Cicada" is said to have the ability to become invisible in space, making it difficult for even Nascent Soul stage cultivators to detect its existence.

This strange insect has a pair of cicada wings, which are sharp enough to cut through space and can cut off the head of a Nascent Soul cultivator without anyone noticing!

There is another strange insect called the "Dragon-Eating Spider," which is said to be able to trap and kill even dragons in its webs.

These incredibly powerful and strange insects, every time they appeared, caused a huge tragedy in the cultivation world, killing and injuring many high-level cultivators.

Unfortunately, it is unknown whether it is because they are too powerful, so powerful that they have disrupted the balance of the natural order of this world, making it impossible for this world to tolerate them.

Gradually, they all disappeared, and it became difficult to see them alive again. Only some ancient texts about them were passed down to later generations, letting cultivators know that such powerful demonic insects once existed in this world.

When Zhou Chun was reading "The List of Strange Insects of Heaven and Earth", he was simply reading it as a story.

He knew in his heart that regardless of whether the various strange insects on it actually existed, he would most likely never have the chance to verify it, let alone encounter them.

His current cultivation level is far from being at a point where he should be thinking about those strange insects on it.

"Fortunately, my cultivation level isn't high yet. These insect eggs left behind by Senior Han Yuan should be enough for me until I reach the Golden Core stage!"

Zhou Chun's mind stirred, and he looked at the jade boxes inside the storage bag.

Zhou Mingde valued him highly, and gave him all the insect eggs he had obtained, letting him use them as he pleased.

It seems that Zhou Mingde had no intention of being distracted by the study of insect repellent techniques.

Zhou Chun, however, did not mind having another method.

At this moment, by referring to the monster insect illustrations left by Han Yuan, he easily identified the origins of all the insect eggs left behind.

Without a doubt, these insect eggs that Han Yuan deliberately left behind were the finest he possessed at the time.

These might seem somewhat useless to a Golden Core cultivator like Han Yuan.

However, for a Foundation Establishment cultivator like Zhou Chun, it was a great treasure.

Among them, the most precious insect eggs are the unique demonic insect "Xuanjia Jinyu" cultivated by Han Yuan himself, and a demonic insect called "Yinsi Can".

Needless to say, the "Mysterious Armored Golden Feather" possesses the strength to harm even a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage once it is fully cultivated. If several thousand mature "Mysterious Armored Golden Feathers" can be cultivated, Zhou Chun, even with his Foundation Establishment stage cultivation, will have the ability to fight against a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage.

The "Silver Silkworm" is actually an economically valuable type of magical insect.

The silk spun by this insect is incredibly tough, resistant to water, fire, and strong acids. When woven into a robe, it is equivalent to a low-grade second-tier robe. If it is crafted by a skilled cultivator, it can easily become a high-grade second-tier robe.

In order to support their massive swarms of insects, cultivators like Han Yuan from the Thousand Spirits Sect often raise economically valuable demonic insects such as "Silver Silkworms" to earn spirit coins.

Zhou Chun had other ways to make money, so he didn't need to raise these "silver silkworms" himself to generate income.

However, for the Zhou family, possessing this "Silver Silkworm" undoubtedly means having another unique spiritual product and another source of economic growth.

After identifying all the various demon insect eggs, he put away the ones he didn't need for the time being, leaving only three types in front of him.

These three types of demonic insect eggs are "Mysterious Armor Golden Feather", "Flying Fire Scorpion", and "Blue Moon Butterfly".

These three types of demonic insects each have their own unique characteristics, and if properly nurtured, they will greatly enhance his combat power.

P.S.: It was snowing while I was writing, which slowed me down and made it a bit late. I'm going to a housewarming party tomorrow, so I won't be taking the day off. I'll try to update twice the day after tomorrow!

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