Chapter 297 - Chapter 297: Chapter 290 The Goodwill of the Ancient Banyan Tree_1 (1/2)

Chapter 297: Chapter 290 The Goodwill of the Ancient Banyan Tree_1

Qin Niu was rather efficient, having proposed to the Wang Family, he went straight to the mountain to cultivate and breed termites.

He left Xiao Qing in charge of supervising and directing the workers at home.

If the opportunity arose, he planned to buy two more servants.

With servants to take care of the trivial matters at home, both he and Xiao Qing would be able to focus entirely on cultivation.

In time, when he married Wang Wanyan and Tang Caixian, that would be even more the case.

Managing the daily needs of a household would be a problem in itself.

Both wives were not accustomed to menial labor; he couldn’t possibly have them suffer hardship after marriage, could he?

Xiao Qing was still a child, and Qin Niu never treated her as a servant.

Instead, he planned to train her into a powerful assistant.

Moreover, he now had the financial ability to keep a few servants, so he could certainly afford to have a few to make life more comfortable for the family.

Carrying a basket on his back, he went into the mountains where the termites were still increasing at a rate of a thousand per day.

The Ant Queen had consumed the corpse of a Taiyin Yaoyao.

So far, no anomalies had been observed.

Nor had there been any evolution or promotion.

Qin Niu was not discouraged; after all, there were eight more Taiyin Yaoyao corpses, along with many other high-grade insect corpses, including that of a Four-Winged Demon Centipede, which could all be used to feed the Ant Queen.

He intended to use the Four-Winged Demon Centipede’s corpse as a crucial cultivation resource in the end.

Centipedes were naturally wingless terrestrial creatures.

A centipede that grew four wings was considered an exceptional being in heaven and earth.

Having personally experienced the terrifying power of the Four-Winged Demon Centipede, Qin Niu knew how high-grade such an insect corpse was and that it should be reserved for the most crucial moments.

Quality steel should be used on the edge of the blade.

Whether it was the Ant Queen or the Green Demon Bee approaching a bottleneck above Grade Six, he would not hesitate to use it.

Termites had one great advantage: they were not picky eaters.

They could consume almost anything.

Unlike bees, with their singular diet, making them difficult to raise.

“Fourth, take the Demon Ants and feed this Taiyin Yaoyao corpse to the Ant Queen,” Qin Niu ordered.

These high-grade insect corpses were extremely precious, akin to superior elixirs for humans, and had to be utilized properly.

After feeding one Taiyin Yaoyao corpse, he fed the Ant Queen a large number of ordinary Grade Three and Four insect corpses.

Puppet Ants and Ghost Ants also were on his list to cultivate.

But due to limited resources, he could only feed them living Fire Ants.

After acquiring Elder Jiu Yin’s Hundred Treasures Insect Bag, which mostly contained Three and Four Grade Fire Ants, their Ant Queen had died, leaving the colony in disarray.

They either had to select a new Ant Queen or the entire colony would gradually head toward destruction.

With termites in his possession, Qin Niu had no intention of cultivating a colony of Fire Ants.

Biting off more than one could chew often led to trouble.

The growth potential of Fire Ants was weaker than that of termites.

Besides, the current termite Ant Queen had long since ceased to be the ordinary termite she once was and was likely awakening an ancient lineage as a Four-Winged Yin Ant.

Typical insects or beast pets couldn’t possibly live up to thirty thousand years.

The lifespan of an Ant Queen was originally only a few decades, but after promotion, it skyrocketed to an astonishing thirty thousand years. Qin Niu could only think of one possibility: the awakening of an ancient bloodline.

Just as the horned water buffalo, after awakening the Green Ox bloodline, had its lifespan reach 9,999 years.

Only one year short of ten thousand years.

Despite the high-ranking species of Green Ox having such a lifespan, it hadn’t broken past ten thousand, yet the Ant Queen easily exceeded that mark, reaching thirty thousand years. This further emphasized its extraordinary nature.

Qin Niu was unclear about the final stage the Ant Queen could reach.

One thing was certain: he would treat the Ant Queen as a core pet for cultivation.

If its performance continued to be outstanding, it might even be chosen by Qin Niu as his life-bound insect.

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After cultivating all the termites, Qin Niu, accompanied by Fourth, entered the labyrinth within the Ancient Banyan Tree.

The corpses thrown in the previous night had disappeared.

Only some cloth and shattered armor remained, proving that Elder Jiu Yin’s body had indeed been tossed inside.

The Ancient Banyan Tree seemed more lush and verdant than before.

It appeared that the stronger the cultivation of the corpses thrown in, the greater the benefit to the tree.