Chapter 886 - Breeding Cycle And Finding The Spirit Herb (1/2)

Lin Mu and the rest had to travel for a few more kilometers beyond that place where they had burned the Bile Cask Beetles. On the way, they encountered more of the beasts, but they got rid of them the same way.

”There has certainly been some kind of a change. The Bile Cask beetles have all gathered in here. Usually there shouldn't be such high numbers of them.” Hua Yi stated after Lin Mu burned down the fourth such group.

”Hmm… do you think that sentient spirit herb might have something to do with it?” Lin Mu questioned.

”That may be possible. Other than that, I don't know what else could cause something like this.” Hua Yi replied. ”Though… there is also a chance that it might be their breeding season?” he guessed.

”Their breeding season? Oh yeah, insect and other beasts do have that don't they?” Lin Mu realized.

”Indeed. But I don't know what that is for the Bile Cask Beetles.” Hua Yi replied.

”Let me check if I have anything about them.” Lin Mu said before taking out a few records and going through them.

He had already checked a few of them before coming here, thus knew which ones to skip and which ones he had already read.

”Should we take a break, then? It's already sun set and the beasts will start getting more active. It's best we form a camp.” Hua Yi spoke.

”Yeah, we should do that.” Lin Mu agreed.

”I'll set up a defensive circle while Senior can find the information about the bile Cask Beetles till then.” Hua Yi offered.

”Sure.” Lin Mu agreed. ”And Little Shrubby can make some dinner for us.” He added.

~Grrr~

Little Shrubby replied with a growl, agreeing to the work. It was something he did out of his own desire everyday thus he didn't mind it at all.

”I have some new beasts I caught, that I wanted to cook. I can use them now,” Little Shrubby said and took out a few beast corpses from his own storage and prepared them.

Hua Yi went on to set up the defensive circle which was just a formation array that was per built using components. It was a common one that was used for camping by many cultivators and was available in many versions, depending on the level of defense one wanted.

The one that Hua Yi set up was enough to repel beasts up to the Nascent soul realm and defend up to Core condensation realm. After all, they didn't really have a need for a defensive array as much as they needed something that could hide them.

All three of them were strong enough to kill the Bile Cask beetles with ease, but what they didn't want was for them to overwhelm them with their bile. Thus, it was better for them to just hide in a formation array like this where they won't be detected by the insect beasts.

Hua Yi was done setting it up in just ten minutes and then watched Little Shrubby cook instead.