Chapter 288 - Chapter 288: Chapter 281 Cultivating Zombie Ants 1 (1/2)

Chapter 288: Chapter 281 Cultivating Zombie Ants 1

With Qin Niu’s current strength, he still doesn’t rank among the powers in Black Tiger Gang territory.

At most, he could make a name for himself in Jade Stream Town.

Auntie Hua, carrying such a large amount of silver money, would find it exceedingly difficult to recover it if it was really stolen.

The principle that wealth shouldn’t be flaunted is understood even by slightly smarter children, let alone Auntie Hua, a grown adult. Qin Niu’s well-intentioned reminder was just a precaution.

Having fifty silver notes stolen is a minor issue, but it’s a bad omen.

Moreover, if the other party had malicious intent to steal the silver notes, they might very well resort to violence and killing to silence any witnesses and eliminate future troubles.

That would be even more inauspicious.

Arriving at the mountain, Qin Niu first led Xiao Qing into the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze.

Having not visited for several days, the Ancient Banyan Tree was still lush and thriving.

Banyan trees are known for their longevity; it’s very common to see them live over a thousand years. This Ancient Banyan Tree was already akin to a creature of spirit-monster level.

Ordinary mortals truly felt like mere passersby in front of such ancient trees. A regular person has a lifespan of just fifty or sixty years, not even a tenth of its age.

“Once I’ve handled my affairs and have some spare time, I might be able to find out what kind of being this Ancient Banyan Tree is from those two botanical texts.”

Qin Niu didn’t stand on ceremony with it; he wielded his knife and carved a few wounds on the tree’s trunk, then placed jars to collect the blood.

Xiao Qing, who had been eagerly waiting, immediately sat down at the base of the tree to cultivate.

This place was a cultivation secret ground for the two of them, master and servant.

After that, Qin Niu didn’t rush to cultivate but went to nurture the newly hatched termites.

The ant colony not only gained a large number of poisonous ants with potent venom, but there were also six new demon ants.

The number of healing ants increased to eleven too.

The total number of zombie ants rose to one hundred and thirty-eight.

Three more elephantic ants were added as well.

All of these belonged to relatively scarce ant species and possessed strong special abilities.

The combat power of the demon ants goes without saying, extremely formidable, and with their primary self-healing ability, they fear no injury.

Qin Niu even felt that, once the demon ants were cultivated to a certain level, they’d definitely be like the Taiyin Yaoyao, able to rapidly reassemble even if chopped into several pieces.

By that time, the demon ants might be even stronger than the Taiyin Yaoyao. For they possess venom and stingers, as well as the special ability to demonize. “Fourth, you and the demon ants feed the corpse of this Taiyin Yaoyao to the Ant Queen,” said Qin Niu as he directly took out a corpse of the Taiyin Yaoyao. For feeding the Ant Queen.

Such high-level strategic resources, he wouldn’t possibly feed to ordinary termites.

Only Fourth and the demon ants had such privilege.

In the process of feeding the Ant Queen, they would eat a portion as well, thus obtaining benefits.

The huge corpse of the Taiyin Yaoyao was cut into pieces in the blink of an eye and dragged into the depths of the nest.

As it was the first time feeding a Taiyin Yaoyao corpse, and not knowing what the outcome would be, he didn’t rashly feed all nine Taiyin Yaoyao corpses at once but planned to feed them in batches.

The most powerful ability of the Taiyin Yaoyao was their strong self-healing capacity.

Qin Niu very much hoped that after the Ant Queen ate their corpses, the offspring produced would also possess this special ability.

Next, he began to nurture the newly hatched termites that had yet to be cultivated.

Including over a hundred zombie ants.

This ant species was already terrifying without being nurtured; after they consumed the Ancient Banyan Tree Blood, they were bound to be even more formidable.

Thousands of termites needed to be cultivated; the workload was quite heavy. Luckily, the supply of Ancient Banyan Tree Blood was abundant, nearly ensuring each termite got a chance to be nurtured.

After spending just over an hour, he finally finished cultivating the several thousand termites.

Using up most of a jar of Ancient Banyan Tree Blood.

What was now most lacking was the blood of the Thousand Eyes Tree.

Qin Niu was also in the process of cultivating the over four thousand puppet ants and ghost ants. A large quantity of ordinary insect corpses were used to feed them.

Normally, acquiring so many Grade Four insect corpses was not an easy task.

It was the recent battle with Elder Jiu Yin of the Nine Insect Gang and his twelve major disciples that yielded a large number of these Grade Three and Four insect corpses.

“Alright, you guys eat up! 1 need to go over there to cultivate,” said Qin Niu as he summoned Fourth and together they entered the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze.

Helpless, to this point, Fourth was the only one who could lead him out from the maze.

“Lazy Ox, why don’t you join me inside?”

Qin Niu called out to Xiao Niu, who was nearby nibbling on fresh grass and leaves.

“Moo!”