Chapter 206 - Chapter 206: Chapter 201 Breakthrough i (1/2)
Chapter 206: Chapter 201 Breakthrough i
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As long as there is a sufficient supply of Thousand Eyes Tree Blood, it’s possible to endlessly cultivate termites with long-range spirit control or mental attack capabilities.
In actual combat, the ability to launch mental attacks and perform spirit control is incredibly strong.
Not only can they kill enemies beyond their own level, but few insects can withstand such strange modes of attack.
The enemy often falls victim without a sound or a sign.
Moreover, as termites are social insects, they exhibit a high degree of unity, whether there are ten or ten million. As long as they belong to the same colony, they can act as one. During group combat, the stacking of mental attacks is particularly terrifying.
Even a Grade Five Bee General could be taken down silently and swiftly.
With such an important special ability, Qin Niu naturally wanted to find ways to preserve it.
After contemplation, he decided to start from two approaches.
The first approach was to feed the Ant Queen with Thousand Eyes Tree Blood.
The risk of termites consuming Thousand Eyes Tree Blood was almost nonexistent; if the Ant Queen hadn’t been fed before, it was because it hadn’t completed its initial cultivation.
Comparatively, evolving through consuming Ancient Banyan Tree Blood was most crucial.
It could transform the termites completely.
While evolving spirit control or attack abilities by consuming Thousand Eyes Tree Blood was also important, it certainly couldn’t compare to the former.
Up to now, the Ant Queen remained Qin Niu’s core insect pet, and naturally, he aimed for perfect cultivation. He did his utmost to cultivate it as strongly and perfectly as possible.
Now, having completed its initial cultivation, he could consider the second cultivation for the Ant Queen.
The only downside was that the egg-laying of the Ant Queen would be temporarily suspended during the second cultivation period.
The current situation was unstable, with undercurrents swirling, and Qin Niu needed more termites to ensure he could face danger with composure.
Therefore, he planned to postpone the second cultivation of the Ant Queen appropriately.
Currently laying a thousand eggs a day was an extremely tempting situation.
He truly did not wish to interrupt it.
The second cultivation approach: planting the Thousand Eyes Tree to increase its blood production.
The Ancient Banyan Tree was extremely mysterious; any plants taken from the maze would immediately wither and die upon transplantation. And they would die for good, not even the Everlasting Spring Technique could revive them.
This gave him an unconventional idea, to proactively plant the Thousand Eyes Tree within the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze.
Since he now treated the Ancient Banyan Tree as his ‘private property,’ it was entirely reasonable for him to develop the land under its cover.
This was an idea he had been considering for a long time.
Now, with the rapid growth of the termite colony, the Thousand Eyes Tree Blood was no longer sufficient, forcing him to find ways to increase the production of the blood.
This plant was extremely special, and up to this point, he had only seen it under the Ancient Banyan Tree.
He even suspected that it was a symbiotic plant of the Ancient Banyan Tree.
It might not be found at all in the outside world.
After cultivating the termites, he directly entered the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze.
Today’s tasks were quite heavy: collecting Banyan Tree Blood, taking the Boundary-breaking Elixir to enhance his cultivation level, and planting the Thousand Eyes Tree.
First was collecting Banyan Tree Blood. As usual, he swung the Ink Blade mercilessly, striking the Ancient Banyan Tree harshly to create wounds, then collecting the blood with a jar.
This Ancient Banyan Tree really seemed to be cursed, having to endure several cuts every day.
Fortunately, its self-healing ability was extremely strong; it had become accustomed to the cuts. Each time, it would heal quickly and return to its original state.
Next, Qin Niu cleared a space beside its trunk and transplanted a few seedlings of the Thousand Eyes Tree. He specifically chose small saplings.
After planting them, he didn’t notice anything unusual.
This filled Qin Niu with silent joy; the plan seemed very likely to work.
He sat down cross-legged beside the newly planted Thousand Eyes Trees, took out the Boundary-breaking Elixir, didn’t think much of it, peeled off the wax seal, and swallowed it in one go.
It didn’t melt in his mouth as the legends suggested but instead was quite chewy.
The taste was slightly odd, a little bitter.
It also carried a hint of earthy scent along with a rich medicinal fragrance from a mixture of various herbs.
After consuming it, he didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary.
It was as if what he had eaten was just ordinary food.
Having some experience in cultivation, he immediately closed his eyes and concentrated, starting to cultivate the Everlasting Spring Technique.
His thoughts were simple: break through to the Acquired Realm first.
The Everlasting Spring Technique seemed more suitable for his cultivation, and advancing to the next level seemed relatively easier. The experience of breaking through from the Mortal Realm to the Acquired Realm with the Medicine King Sutra had left him with a deep psychological shadow.
The difficulty of leveling up was not to be underestimated.
But this was also a test for his cultivation spirit, granting him a preliminary understanding of the Dao heart.
At this moment, as he began to cultivate the Everlasting Spring Technique, the power within his body also grew rapidly.
At first, he didn’t feel anything special, but gradually, his internal power felt as if it was possessed by a deity, increasing at an amazing pace.
Qin Niu clearly absorbed only a trace of power from the outside, but it was enough to double his internal power.
And this was just the beginning.
The growth rate of his power was like a rolling snowball.
By now, absorbing a trace of power from the surroundings, his internal power could increase by more than tenfold.
The shocking rate of cultivation growth even scared him.
And it seemed to be just the beginning.
Eleven times.
Twelve times…
It seemed to have no end.
To think that cultivating the Everlasting Spring Technique under the Ancient Banyan Tree was already twenty times faster than outside.
Now after consuming the Boundary-breaking Elixir, the speed of cultivation continued to amplify.