Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 357 Searching for Insects in the Snowfield [Please Subscribe]

The snow fell heavily, turning the world white.

This was a blizzard that Zhou Chun had never seen before.

The snowflakes falling from the sky were larger than goose feathers, drifting down like maple leaves.

He stood motionless somewhere on the snowfield, letting the falling snowflakes settle on him, slowly turning him into a snowman.

Under such a heavy blizzard, the naked eye could no longer see anything; only the divine sense could replace the eyes to see the surrounding situation clearly.

Zhou Chun remained physically still while spreading his divine sense to monitor the snowfield within a radius of several miles, waiting for the snow crystal insects to appear.

Yes, it's like waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump.

Based on information provided by many cultivators who have captured Snow Crystal Insects, the best way to capture them using normal methods is to wait for them to come to you.

This method also involves taking a chance, but it is more effective than wandering aimlessly and hoping for the best.

The stronger a cultivator's spiritual sense, the higher their chances of success using this method.

It just so happens that Zhou Chun's spiritual strength has always been stronger than that of most cultivators at the same level.

But ultimately, it's a matter of luck!

Just like today, Zhou Chun waited in the blizzard for most of the day, and the heavy snow almost buried him several times, but he still got nothing.

If Snow Crystal Worms were really that easy to catch, Snow Soul Palace wouldn't have offered such a high bounty.

This was already the third day that Zhou Chun had been catching snow crystal insects on the snowfield.

For three days, he, like most of the people searching for snow crystal insects on the snowfield, followed the footsteps of the blizzard.

Wherever a blizzard falls, there you'll find these people searching for snow crystal insects.

In just these three days, Zhou Chunguang has witnessed at least five other cultivators clashing for various reasons.

The snow-covered plains are now in utter chaos.

"Looks like I need to change my approach. Searching for Snow Crystal Insects by chance is too time-consuming, especially since my target is the Snow Crystal Insect King!"

On the snow-covered plain after the snowfall, Zhou Chun shook off the snow accumulated on his body and floated into the air. Looking at the pure white snowfield, a new idea came to his mind.

He had already inquired with the disciples of Snow Soul Palace that the Snow Crystal Insect King only appears in places where there are a large number of Snow Crystal Insects. If this creature hides in the snow without moving, even a Golden Core cultivator cannot detect it.

The last time someone from Snow Soul Palace caught something like this was over three hundred years ago.

It is precisely because the Snow Crystal Insects and the Snow Crystal Insect King are so difficult to capture that the Snow Soul Palace has made such a big effort to catch these demonic insects.

It's no exaggeration to say that half of the independent cultivators and small and medium-sized family cultivators from Yang Kingdom have come to the snowfield to try their luck, and cultivators from several neighboring countries have also been rushing here after hearing the news.

If it weren't for the current state of Yang Kingdom, where the Snow Soul Palace holds absolute power, other sects would definitely condemn the Snow Soul Palace's actions and would not allow them to mobilize such a large number of cultivators.

Although Zhou Chun had made up his mind to change his method to find the Snow Crystal Worm, he had not yet figured out which method would be more effective.

Originally, attractants would have been a good choice, but unfortunately, even the people of Snow Soul Palace didn't know what the Snow Crystal Insects liked to eat.

Moreover, the Snow Soul Palace has not yet successfully tamed the Snow Crystal Insect, which shows that this kind of demonic insect is not easy to tame.

Zhou Chun felt that he might need to obtain more detailed information in order to find a more effective way to locate the Snow Crystal Insects.

To learn more about the Snow Crystal Insects, we must approach the cultivators of the Snow Soul Palace.

After all, the Snow Soul Palace's mountain gate is located on this snowfield, and these Snow Soul Palace disciples used to come here often to look for Snow Crystal Insects, so they must know more.

However, to access this information that is not publicly available for free, he obviously needs to pay a certain price.

Zhou Chun is undoubtedly someone who is willing to invest heavily.

After determining the direction, he did not hesitate to use a second-grade low-level magic artifact as payment to exchange for relevant information from an old cultivator from the Snow Soul Palace who had lived for nearly two hundred years.

According to the old cultivators of the Snow Soul Palace, he had captured seventeen Snow Crystal Insects in his lifetime, and thus discovered some patterns in their appearance.

According to the old monk's own experience in catching insects, snow crystal insects are more often found not on high mountain peaks with deep snow, but rather on the mountainside.

Meanwhile, this old monk once discovered three snow crystal worms in an ice valley after a snowfall, and captured two of them at once.

If this is all the information available, it certainly isn't worth a second-tier low-grade magic weapon.

So the old monk also provided another useful piece of information.

According to the person in question, a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage from the Snow Soul Palace once discovered an ice cave on the snowfield, and deep within that ice cave, he found a cold jade vein. At the same time, a large swarm of snow crystal insects was also discovered, and it is even said that there was a snow crystal insect king among them.

It is said that in the past, Snow Crystal Insects were often found in the Frost Jade Veins discovered by Snow Soul Palace on the snowfield.

Therefore, it can be inferred that wherever there is a cold jade vein, there is a high probability that there are a large number of snow crystal insects.

It can also be seen that snow crystal insects not only appear on the snow, but may also appear in ice caves and ice holes that exist everywhere on the snowfield.

This intelligence information undoubtedly provided Zhou Chun with real assistance in his search for the Snow Crystal Insect.

To verify the authenticity of the information, Zhou Chun followed the advice of the old cultivator from Snow Soul Palace and continued to use the stakeout method to search for Snow Crystal Insects.

Whether it was good luck or the old monk's words were true, after searching for four days, he found a snow crystal worm on the mountainside of a snow-capped peak.

Just as a heavy snowfall had ended, Zhou Chun's divine sense suddenly detected a faint sound on the snow.

Once he focused his attention on the source of the sound, he quickly spotted a strangely shaped insect.

The strange insect was pure white, resembling an earthworm, with bristles on its body that were barely visible to the naked eye, and it was over a foot long.

It moves incredibly fast through the snow, covering several feet in the blink of an eye, almost like it's flying.

At the same time, it leaves no visible holes where it drills, which is also quite peculiar.

After discovering the snow crystal insect, Zhou Chun originally wanted to observe its activities more closely to see if he could learn more about its habits.

But he soon discovered that the little creature was trying to burrow deeper into the snow, so he had no choice but to capture it immediately.

Catching snow crystal worms is also a skill, because these things are very fast. If you are too slow, they will burrow into the deep snow and escape the range of a cultivator's divine sense.

However, if you go too far, you might accidentally kill it. The Snow Crystal Insect is completely unwanted by the Snow Soul Palace and can be considered worthless.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun has his own advantages in this regard.

His "Golden Cauldron Mystic Light" is extremely profound, capable of both hard and soft techniques, and is very useful when dealing with snow crystal insects, which have little combat power.

He raised his hand and unleashed a beam of golden light, instantly enveloping and imprisoning the snow crystal insect that had burrowed into the snow a foot deep.

Then Zhou Chun raised his hand and summoned the immobilized snow crystal insect.

After examining the small insect for a few moments, he put it away in a cold jade box that was inside a stone box.

Three Snow Crystal Worms are needed to exchange for one Foundation Establishment Pill, and Zhou Chun doesn't need to exchange for it right now.

After verifying the accuracy of the information he had purchased, he began exploring ice caves and ice grottoes everywhere.

There are countless ice caves and cavities on the snowfield, many of which are hundreds of miles deep.

Moreover, due to changes in the ice layer, new caves often appear while old caves disappear.

In this situation, even if you know that snow crystal worms exist in ice caves and ice grottoes, finding snow crystal worms is still largely a matter of luck.

However, given Zhou Chun's personality, when it comes to taking a chance, he would rather try his luck in an ice cave or icy grotto than wait for something to happen in a blizzard.

His target was the Snow Crystal Insect King, not the Snow Crystal Insects themselves.

The Snow Crystal Insect King, a type of demonic insect, is almost impossible to appear on snow.

For half a month, Zhou Chun explored ice caves and ice pits. During this time, he encountered several collapses caused by changes in the ice layer and was buried under the ice layer hundreds of feet deep several times.

Fortunately, he had the purification jar, so even if he was buried under the ice, as long as he wasn't seriously injured and unable to move, he could slowly dig out an escape route.

In the past two weeks, he hasn't even seen a single snow crystal insect, let alone caught one.

However, during this time, Zhou Chun encountered many other cultivators who were also exploring ice caves, and many of them were even wearing the standard robes of the Snow Soul Palace. This made him not doubt the authenticity of the information he had bought, and he simply thought it was just bad luck.

Day after day, Zhou Chun spent three months on the snowfield, and he acquired two snow crystal worms.

The snow crystal worm found in an ice cave gave Zhou Chun a huge boost of confidence to persevere.

The harvest of two snowflake worms in three months is by no means small.

After all, three Snow Crystal Worms can be exchanged for one Foundation Establishment Pill.

If other Foundation Establishment cultivators knew that Zhou Chun had such gains, they would probably be green with envy.

But this is something you can't envy, since they can't be like Zhou Chun, who can go for months on end without resting and resupplying at the cultivators' stronghold.

In the same three months, Zhou Chun went to many more places and put in many more efforts than they did.

That day, while Zhou Chun was searching for an ice cave on the snowfield, he suddenly heard the sounds of fierce fighting, accompanied by strange beast roars.

Out of curiosity, he went to look for the source of the sound.

After traveling for dozens of miles and rounding a snow-capped peak, Zhou Chun saw a man and a bear locked in fierce combat in a snow valley.

The cultivator was a female cultivator wearing the robes of the Snow Soul Palace, with a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivation level, and should be an inner disciple of the Snow Soul Palace.

The female cultivator's opponent was a second-tier high-grade demonic beast, specifically an ice-armored bear unique to the snowfields.

Although her cultivation level was a minor realm lower than that of the Ice Armor Bear, the female cultivator did not fall into much of a disadvantage in the battle.

The magical artifacts she possessed were all exquisite, of comparable quality to those used by Zhou Chun, and her ice-walking magic was also quite impressive.

I just don't know why this man and the bear are fighting here.

After standing on the snow-capped mountain and watching from afar for a while, Zhou Chun decided not to look any longer and prepared to take a detour to continue searching for the snow crystal insects.

Unexpectedly, the female cultivator seemed to have noticed him and suddenly spoke to him.

"Fellow Daoist on the mountain, please wait! If you are willing to help me drive away this Ice Armor Bear, I will offer you a Snow Crystal Worm as a reward!"

Upon hearing that cold voice, Zhou Chun, who was about to leave, paused and immediately turned to look at the female cultivator, asking, "Fellow Daoist, is what you say true?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator immediately replied without hesitation, "I swear to all the founders of our sect that what I just said is absolutely true!"

"Alright, then I, Zhou, will make a fool of myself!"

As Zhou Chun spoke, he immediately summoned his magical artifact and joined the battle.

He did not want to reveal his full strength, so he only used his magical artifact to participate in the battle.

Even so, after he joined the battle, the ice-armored bear was quickly no match for the two of them working together and could only reluctantly flee the snow valley.

After driving away the Ice Armor Bear, the female cultivator from Snow Soul Palace readily took out a porcelain bottle containing Snow Crystal Insects and threw it at Zhou Chun.

"This is the Snow Crystal Insect I promised you, fellow Daoist. Please accept it."

Then, Zhou Chun, who was about to examine the porcelain bottle, continued, "Furthermore, to thank you for your help earlier, I'd like to offer a word of advice: if you have any more Snow Crystal Insects, remember to exchange them for relevant spiritual items as soon as possible. Our sect has already acquired enough Snow Crystal Insects, and items like Foundation Establishment Pills will soon no longer be available for exchange!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun's expression immediately changed.

He didn't even bother to examine the Snow Crystal Insect anymore, and immediately looked at the female cultivator opposite him, asking, "Fellow Daoist, is what you say true? Even exchanging the Snow Crystal Insect King for the [Snow Soul Pill] is no longer possible?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator looked at him in surprise, then exclaimed with realization, "So you've come for the Snow Soul Pill, fellow Daoist!"

After saying that, he shook his head slightly and said, "That's alright, the exchange rate for the Snow Crystal Insect King to obtain the Snow Soul Pill will remain unchanged; it can be exchanged at any time!"

These words put Zhou Chun's mind at ease. He immediately bowed to the female cultivator and said, "Thank you for the reminder, fellow Daoist. I won't stay any longer. Farewell!"

"Farewell, fellow Daoist!"

The female cultivator returned the greeting, and then watched Zhou Chun ascend into the sky and disappear into the distance.

Once she was sure Zhou Chun was far enough away, she sighed softly and murmured in a voice only she could hear, "How could the Snow Crystal Insect King be caught by a Foundation Establishment cultivator? That's something even a Purple Mansion cultivator would have a hard time catching!"

She said "caught," not "found."

This shows that there are still some inside stories about the Snow Crystal Insect King that have not been revealed by the Snow Soul Palace.

Zhou Chun was still completely unaware of all this. After hearing the words of the female cultivator from Xuepo Palace, all he wanted to do was hurry to the nearby market under Xuepo Palace's jurisdiction to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills.

The second update is here!

(End of this chapter)