Chapter 170 - Chapter 170: Chapter 165 Green Silk Worm_1 (2/2)
The more he received from the Fang Family, the higher the likelihood of becoming subordinate to them.
Being a servant to others, this was definitely not the life he wanted.
Even being a king of grass in the countryside was much better than being a wealthy servant in the city.
Under the Ancient Banyan Tree, he cultivated until the afternoon, then he came out of the maze and checked on the bee population. There were twenty more new bees. He nurtured them on the spot with Banyan Tree Blood.
Even though these bees were still far inferior to the Corpse Bees after cultivation, he didn’t feel inferior.
He believed that Old Master Huang’s Corpse Bees must have become so powerful after many rounds of cultivation.
As long as he seriously summed up experience and learned more about controlling insects, the bees would certainly continue to be cultivated. One day they would surpass the Corpse Bees.
Besides, he hadn’t been raising this swarm of bees for combat in the first place.
Even the termite nest he was raising wasn’t for fighting.
He preferred to engage in planting and then constantly look for ways to enhance his cultivation level and extend his life.
Currently, he had already broken past a hundred years in age.
This was only a primary goal; his next target was to break through to a lifespan of a thousand years.
After cultivating the bees, he casually took some honey and put it into a basket.
Children all like to eat sweets, so he believed Xiao Qing would be particularly happy to see so much honey.
He arrived at the Ant Nest and there were no abnormalities.
The Ant Queen was still evolving.
He really hoped it would finish evolving soon.
Currently being targeted by a powerful enemy, the stronger his ant colony became, the more power he would have to fight back when facing formidable foes.
It also meant he would be safer.
He hadn’t been willing to feed the corpse of that Corpse Bee to the ordinary worker ants.
Instead, he planned to wait until the Ant Queen finished evolving and then use it to feed the queen.
After all, such good things were hard to come by.
Grade Four insects were already extremely rare.
Even Fourth, being such a rare species and having been cultivated with Banyan Tree Blood and ‘Thousand Eyes Tree’ Blood, such high-grade sustenance, was still only a Grade Three termite.
It was conceivable how difficult it was to cultivate Grade Four insects.
His calculations were precise, using such scarce resources to cultivate ordinary termites, even if successful, would only result in one special termite.
If he used it to cultivate the Ant Queen, allowing it to acquire special abilities, then special termites could be continuously produced.
Which would bring greater benefits, is clear at a glance.
After cultivating the newly molted termites into adults, Qin Niu then headed home.
He deliberately chose this time to return home because he was worried about Old Master Huang lurking in the village waiting for him.
“Master Qin, have you been hunting in the mountains again!”
Wang Furen walked with his hands behind his back; he should be inspecting the crops he had planted in the field.
” I’m just strolling around!”
Qin Niu obviously couldn’t tell the truth.
“Uncle Wang, there haven’t been any strangers in our village these past two days, have there?”
“No, with locust plagues everywhere, who has the mood to run around!”
“That’s true! Recently, I heard that some villains have set their sights on our village. Tell everyone, if a stranger enters the village, report to me immediately. And don’t get near that person, they’re all cold-blooded demons.”
Qin Niu wasn’t just trying to scare him.
Old Master Huang had a black heart and ruthless hands; he didn’t need to do the dirty work himself.
A single Corpse Bee could wipe out the entire Shuangfeng Village.
“Where did you get this information? My eyelids have been twitching lately, oh no, this won’t do, I have to hurry back and warn Wan Yan and the others not to go out recently.”
Wang Furen was very timid and feared death.
Once, when someone in the village contracted an epidemic, Wang Furen shut himself in at home and didn’t come out for over a month.
He lived a comfortable life and didn’t want to die.
When Qin Niu returned home, he carefully observed the ground and other places and didn’t find signs of intrusion.
Fortunately, he had headed into the mountains soon after coming back from the city.
If he had stayed at home all along, the Green Silkworm would have been undetected, and the Mu Kuai would have surely killed its way into his house at night.
They say a crafty rabbit has three burrows, and Qin Niu started contemplating contingency plans for various crises.
“Move that swarm of bees to be raised at home?”
They could serve as sentinels.
If a stranger invaded, they would soon detect it and warn Qin Niu.
The only drawback of the bees was that they did not work at night.
Because they cannot see.
The vision of the bees was naturally poor, and they couldn’t see anything at night. They could only act as sentinels during the day.
The Diamond Ink Turtle raised in the front yard pond was also a good sentinel.
Perhaps he could also consider learning from Old Master Huang and keep some other insects in the courtyard.
He was certain that Old Master Huang kept many insects in the lotus pond in the front yard, as well as in the grass and on the trees. For an Insect Master, insects could not only serve as sentinels but also as guards, attacking the invaders directly when necessary.
“Now that I have reached the first level of the Acquired Realm and the ant colony has grown to a certain size, perhaps it’s time to retrieve the Green Demon’s treasure.”
Qin Niu cared deeply about the treasure left by the Green Demon.
With so many formidable insect masters worshipping the Green Demon to such an extent, it indicated there must be something exceptional about him.
“Wait until Miaodan Pavilion helps me refine the Beast Core, and after taking it, I raise my cultivation level by a major realm, perhaps I will have a better chance. Both the Ant Queen and Xiao Nui are evolving, and being away from home for many days, I worry something might go wrong with them.”
He thought to himself.
Moreover, once the Ant Queen finished evolving, it might be able to produce even more formidable termites, allowing him to cultivate stronger special termites.
It would also make venturing into the mountains where the Green Demon once lived a little safer.