Chapter 214 - Chapter 214: Chapter 209 A decent harvest_1 (2/2)

Qin Niu dispatched his enemy with a single blow.

Concerned that allies of the enemies might still be hidden inside the house, he had already sent several termites to scout it out.

Meanwhile, he was quickly looting the spoils of battle and dealing with the bodies.

His movements were actually quite adept.

Do this a few times, and you naturally get used to it.

The corpse clad in the black-crowned bow outfit was a treasure; feeding it to the Ant Queen should help her progress significantly.

Because when he had the ants launch a mental attack on the small snake earlier, it was somewhat effective, but they were unable to control it.

This suggested that its level might have reached Grade Six.

Moreover, its scales were as hard as steel, and the pure force of the Ink Blade had almost failed to kill it.

This indicated that its defense was incredibly abnormal.

Therefore, Qin Niu estimated that its level should be Grade Six.

Packing the snake’s corpse into a jar, he began searching the bodies.

He found a gold note of a hundred taels and about six or seven silver notes of varying denominations.

The smallest was a silver note of fifty taels each.

Added up, the total was precisely nine hundred and fifty taels.

A gold note of a hundred taels could be exchanged for a thousand Silver Money.

The wealth of this man didn’t even amount to two thousand taels.

“Poor devil!”

Qin Niu pocketed the man’s entire possessions and still had to curse him.

In addition, he found a Nine Insect Command.

Inner disciple: Wu Hao.

So he was just an inner disciple; no wonder his cultivation level wasn’t as good as Old Master Huang’s, and his net worth was even worse.

This was the second member of the Nine Insect Gang that Qin Niu had killed.

Beyond that, he found three insect pouches and a bamboo tube on the man.

The insects inside were all dead.

One of the pouches contained two Green-footed Centipedes, one large and one small.

The larger one was nearly half a foot long, its shell was hard, and even though it was dead, its fangs looked frightening.

He felt that these two centipedes might be a mother and child.

The larger one was at least a Grade Five insect.

The smaller one was much weaker, around a Grade Three.

The second pouch contained a grey moth. He couldn’t identify the specific species but could roughly estimate that its level was around Grade Four. He felt that the scale powder on its body was poisonous.

The third pouch contained a scorpion.

It had an unusual pair of eyes on the shell on its back. This was a Four-eyed Poison Scorpion, a very common species.

It could often be found for sale in the Insect Market, where one could buy one for five pieces of silver.

But raising it to this size was no easy feat.

When he opened the bamboo tube, the corpse of a Black Venomous Spider rolled out.

Its abdomen looked like a human face.

This spider was a Human-faced Spider, a variant of the Black Widow.

Its venom was extremely domineering; not only did it possess a venom that could paralyze an enemy, it also had another type of venom that could directly dissolve and digest an enemy’s body.

Moreover, its silk was tough, light, and colorless.

People who bought it at a high price would use its silk to make threads sharper than a blade. By setting them up in the woods or at home, enemies who trespassed would easily be sliced into pieces.

Aside from territories controlled by the Nine Insect Gang, many government offices had issued notices prohibiting the use of Human-faced Spider silk to make lethal weapons.

The risk it posed was simply too great.

People often set it up in the mountains, and whether it was wild animals, woodcutters going up the mountain, or Hunters, they could easily be decapitated.

But with market demand, official announcements do little.

The more it was forbidden, the more people secretly bought and raised them.

Specifically to harvest the silk.

A qian of silk could sell for ten taels of silver. With such profits, naturally, some people will take the risk.

The dead Human-faced Spider was almost as big as a child’s fist, its belly round, and its silk-spinning end was extremely developed. It must have been that the disciple named Wu Hao was raising it specifically to sell the silk.

He also unexpectedly found a Sword Technique Manual on the man.

Named the Seven-Star Sword Technique, with one strike, points of cold starlight would aim for the enemy’s vitals.

The highest realm of the Seven-Star Sword Technique was rumored to be where a single stab transformed into seven points of cold starlight, covering the enemy’s vital spots with the constellation of the Big Dipper, leaving no room for evasion.

This sword technique was also for sale in the Supreme Sea.

Qin Niu hadn’t paid attention to its price at the time, just glanced over it.

Since it was placed at the very top, it certainly wouldn’t be cheap.

It must be at least five hundred taels of silver or more.

“Xiao Qing, this Sword Technique Manual is for your cultivation. Once you’ve mastered it, give it back to me.”

Qin Niu had always been extremely good to the people around him.

Xiao Qing had just witnessed her master skillfully kill a powerful enemy with one strike, her heart full of horror. She still looked like she hadn’t quite recovered.

“Take it, what are you thinking about?”

Qin Niu turned his head to look at her.

“Oh, oh, yes, thank you, master!”

Xiao Qing took over the Seven-Star Sword Technique Manual, still looking a bit dazed.

“I need to deal with the bodies; you go home and wait for me.”

After ensuring there were no other enemies nearby, Qin Niu told her to go home first.

“Remember, don’t talk about what happened here to anyone.”

“Understood!”

She naturally understood the serious implications.

Qin Niu carried the bodies and threw them directly into the maze of the Ancient Banyan Tree, and after coming back, he cleaned up the scene once again.

The Nine Insect Gang didn’t know how many people they had infiltrated into the territory of the Black Tiger Gang.

The death of the disciple called Wu Hao would definitely prompt an investigation by the Nine Insect Gang.

Fortunately, the Nine Insect Gang, being the guilty party, couldn’t investigate openly.

As long as he was careful and cautious, he shouldn’t have any major problems.