Chapter 355 - Chapter 355: Chapter 348 Fully Collected_1 (2/2)
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Taking the gu and slipping away quickly was the best strategy.
More than an hour later, he returned to Shuangfeng Village with the jar.
To avoid bringing disaster upon himself, he didn’t take it home but brought it into the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze instead.
The mother gu inside the bucket was still sucking on the blood.
But when Qin Niu opened the jar, the mother gu in the bucket seemed more interested in the blood inside the jar.
It quickly crawled out of the bucket and actually climbed into the jar on its own.
Qin Niu also noticed it seemingly disliked the rooster’s blood in the jar’s storage trench.
As it passed by, it carefully avoided the rooster’s blood.
Once the mother gu entered the jar, he secured the lid back on top.
What to do with these few gu became a difficult problem.
Before Fourth had completely assimilated the gu, Qin Niu didn’t dare to experiment with a second insect.
In another two or three six hours, it would get dark.
At night, he definitely couldn’t leave these gu within the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze. Otherwise, by the next day, they would likely all become nutrients for the ancient banyan tree.
Leaving them outside, he was somewhat uneasy.
He was worried both about the gu inside escaping and about the perpetrator behind the scenes following the trail here.
If the secret of this Ancient Banyan Tree was discovered, his losses would be tremendous.
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Time flew by, and there were no abnormalities from the termites and bees lingering around the cut-down willow.
It meant the perpetrator behind the scenes had not yet appeared.
As the sky gradually darkened, Qin Niu had no choice but to bury the pickle jar containing several gu next to the Ancient Banyan Tree underground.
He went home for dinner, and utilizing his rare free time, he taught both his wives and Xiao Qing the Misty Rain Elusive Step together.
Now that they were a family, any cultivation resources Qin Niu had that could be useful to them, he provided openly and abundantly.
When he got to know his wives a bit better, he planned to take them to cultivate under the Ancient Banyan Tree.
By then, their cultivation levels would surely soar.
It’s just that women sometimes can’t keep secrets, and it’s easy for them to spill family affairs.
Wang Wanyan and Tang Caixian were both young, and at times, they still behaved like children.
They were completely unaware of how treacherous society could be.
Tang Caixian might be a bit better in this regard, having stayed in the city and encountered many nobles and young masters. She should have seen quite a bit of society’s dark side and the ugliness of human nature.
Wang Wanyan, on the other hand, rarely left home, a sheltered lady, and somewhat lacking in worldly experience.
In the middle of the night, as Qin Niu was sleeping with his wife, he detected movement from the termites near the willow tree.
“Wan Yan, I have to go out and handle something. Lock the door properly and wait for me to come back.”
“Where are you going at this late hour?”
She clung to Qin Niu, resting her face against his chest.
“There’s some activity with the gu I’m raising; I need to check it out. Be good! Wait for me at home.”
Qin Niu gently pushed her away, quickly got dressed, and put on his King Pig Leather Armor.
“Husband, be careful.”
Wang Wanyan looked at him with some concern.
“Mmm! Wait for me to come back.”
Qin Niu gave her a light kiss on her cherry lips, then went out the door.
He moved like a ghost on his way.
This tree was about twenty-four or twenty-five miles away from the willow’s location, so he hadn’t planned to go check it out.
Instead, he hurried to the mountains.
Now, this mountain was almost entirely his private territory, with termites placed everywhere as his eyes and ears. The moment someone intruded into the mountains, he would immediately know.
It was just a pity that the Green Demon Bee hadn’t metamorphosed into an adult insect yet; otherwise, he would have had yet another formidable method at his disposal.
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