Chapter 299 - Chapter 299: Chapter 292: Subduing the Exotic Insects of Heaven and Earth _1 (2/2)

They all belonged to the bee species, and their prototypes were evolved from hornets.

They were essentially of the same origin.

The success rate of having them devour each other should greatly increase.

And it would be Green Demon Bees taking the lead, exactly as Qin Niu had intended.

With this idea in mind, he began to study meticulously the insect breeding method recorded in the Spider Technique Scroll.

Reading into the night, waves of sleepiness washed over him, and he sat in the backyard, replacing sleep with spiritual practice.

As his cultivation improved, his spiritual power also recovered rapidly.

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The next morning, Qin Niu did not go to the mountains for cultivation or insect breeding.

Because he hadn’t yet found the method to raise Green Demon Bees.

He wondered if he should let the Worker Bees serve as nursemaids?

The main issue was that he did not know what food the young Green Demon Bees needed.

The Green Demon Bee Breeding Classics did not mention a word about it.

Qin Niu felt this issue was urgent and immediately started studying the Breeding Insects Secrets written by Elder Jiu Yin.

It detailed Elder Jiu Yin’s breeding processes for various insects.

Compared to Green Demons, Elder Jiu Yin did not hold back any secrets, recording the complete breeding processes and insights for every insect.

One book summed up Elder Jiu Yin’s three hundred years of familial history.

As long as Elder Jiu Yin had raised the insect, whether it was a Rabuja, a Bloodsucking Leech, or the Fire Ant, Taiyin Yaoyao, Four-Winged Demon Centipede… the breeding process for every insect was described in great detail.

Even how to obtain the original insect was thoroughly recorded.

For instance, the most formidable Four-Winged Demon Centipede was captured by Elder Jiu Yin by chance in the Poisonous Miasma Forest with at least a millennium’s history.

It started off as a Dual-Winged Flying Centipede.

After Elder Jiu Yin captured it with great difficulty, he thought of many ways to subjugate it, using more than thirty Advanced Contract Talismans alone.

When subduing this insect, Elder Jiu Yin adopted a war of attrition method.

He had his attendants and a host of enslaved insects use mid-tier Contract Charms to continuously wear down the Dual-Winged Flying Centipede’s energy.

Only when it was extremely weary did Elder Jiu Yin personally take action, subduing it at once.

To subdue it, Elder Jiu Yin endured a grueling three days and four nights, using thirty-four Advanced Contract Talismans. Only then did he manage to subdue it.

Of all the pets Qin Niu had tamed, the most difficult to subdue had been the War Bee Queen Bee.

He had never experienced paying such a huge price to subdue an insect like Elder Jiu Yin did.

However, he learned a lot from Elder Jiu Yin’s experiences.

In the future, when encountering particularly difficult insects or animals to tame, he could adopt a war of attrition or relentless harassment approach to subdue them.

In general, insects that require such effort to subdue are either of a high grade or are rare species of heaven and earth.

The Four-Winged Demon Centipede was one of those rare species.

Elder Jiu Yin’s Taiyin Yaoyao had a rather common origin.

At that time, Elder Jiu Yin was over thirty years old and still unmarried.

Lacking any special skills, penniless, short, and somewhat ugly, he epitomized the trifecta of poor, stubby, and unattractive.

Not a single maiden was willing to marry him.

It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, so Elder Jiu Yin used the money he had saved from working to buy a Low-grade Contract Charm and a popular Insect Control Book.

Then his reversal of fortune began.

Initially, he wanted to subdue a venomous spider. Since Elder Jiu Yin was a native to the Nine Insect Gang, he grew up in the deep mountains surrounded by forests.

The most common sight in the forests were spiders.

At that time, he could barely read and spent over half a year begging for help to learn how to read so that he could comprehend the insect control books.

Feeling somewhat confident in what he had learned, Elder Jiu Yin went into the deep forest full of ambition, searching for the most powerful venomous spider.

The result was that two days later, he crawled back home.

He didn’t catch a venomous spider; instead, he was bitten by one.