Chapter 122 - Chapter 122: Chapter 117 Locust Plague Appears, Great (2/2)

The efficiency of pest control this time should be very high.

After checking the pest situation in his own fields and then the neighboring fields, the situation was equally severe.

He couldn’t help but feel worried.

If the pests in his own fields could be dealt with, but those in others’ fields couldn’t, then it would definitely affect him, the neighbor.

Carrying a basket, he hurriedly headed into the mountains.

Upon arriving at the Ant Nest, the ant colony was as steadfast as ever, with less than ten new members added each day.

“Wow, another Poisonous Ant has emerged! And nine regular Soldier Ants!”

Qin Niu was thrilled.

Currently, his ant colony had a total of three Poisonous Ants, but the white termites with great strength were too rare.

It was mainly because of the small base number.

If there could be an increase of ten thousand white termites a day, surely there would be a few, or even dozens with exceptional strength.

He fed all ten Soldier Ants with Banyan Tree Blood.

Now, whenever a new member appeared in the ant colony, he would immediately feed them Banyan Tree Blood to help them evolve.

Due to more enriched experience in cultivation and high-level Insect Trace Identification skills, the death rate had become extremely low.

Of the ten Soldier Ants, only one exploded and died.

The other nine managed to survive the most dangerous phase.

This success rate was indeed very pleasing.

The trip of Qin Niu, Fourth, and the Ant Queen to the old pine tree where the bee nest was located goes without saying.

Arriving below the bee nest, after settling the Ant Queen, he checked on the eight Worker Bees that had consumed Banyan Tree Blood yesterday. They were still evolving.

Another ten new Worker Bees had broken out of their cocoons.

However, they had not yet completed the hardening of their bodies, so they needed to wait a while longer.

Qin Niu, of course, was not going to wait idly and chose to enter cultivation under the Ancient Banyan Tree.

After entering, he could feel an immensely terrifying energy.

“This… could it be because I’ve cultivated the Medicine King Sutra, which allows me to sense the energy within the Ancient Banyan Tree?”

Qin Niu’s Medicine King Sutra was still at the preliminary stage.

He could not perceive the energy contained within ordinary herbs at all.

This Ancient Banyan Tree was equivalent to a thousand-year-old demon, containing unimaginable energy, which he could sense.

Moreover, he found that this Ancient Banyan Tree was particularly cunning.

Its aura couldn’t be felt from the outside at all; only within its maze could he sense the terrifying energy contained in the tree.

If the bit of Medicine King Technique Qin Niu had cultivated in his body were compared to a drop of water, then the energy contained within the Ancient Banyan Tree would be an ocean.

“What would happen if I cultivate the Medicine King Sutra under its trunk?”

Qin Niu thought of a question that excited him.

However, he wasn’t in a hurry to cultivate, choosing instead to reliably extract every bit of value from it.

First, he made several cuts in it to bleed it.

His Treasured Sword, now better nurtured, emitted a Blade Qi that was more solid and powerful.

And with his cultivation having reached the Fivefold Mortal level, his strength had doubled.

With one cut, the wound he inflicted was much deeper than before.

Still, it was impossible to cut down the Ancient Banyan Tree.

The deeper the cut, the faster it would heal.

Qin Niu suspected that it wouldn’t simply allow itself to be doomed. Once injured to a critical extent, it would likely engage in some form of self- protective counterattack.

Nowadays, this Ancient Banyan Tree was his super treasure, and naturally, he wouldn’t do something foolish like trying to cut it down.

Far from doing that, once his power grew, he would even find ways to protect it.

This Ancient Banyan Tree had essentially become his private property.

After he finished collecting its blood, he sat cross-legged under the tree to cultivate the Medicine King Technique.

As he closed his eyes and focused, he gradually sensed a vast sea of terrifying medicinal energy. It boiled up like water from within the tree, shooting up towards the sky. Yet at about two meters from the treetop, it was firmly locked in place.

Its survival for at least a thousand years without being discovered by powerful cultivators, was likely due to this method of world-secluding blockade, lurking in the mountains.

Even if passersby traveled nearby, they would treat it as an ordinary ancient tree.

All things in the world have a spirit.

Though this Ancient Banyan Tree couldn’t think like humans, it had its own wisdom for survival.

Qin Niu didn’t hold back.

Compared to the medicinal energy emitted by his own Dogtail Grass, it was akin to comparing the light of a grain of rice to the bright moon in the sky.

As he continued his closed-eyed cultivation, the medicinal energy, vast and terrifying, was attracted to him, gradually fusing into his body.

This rate of cultivation was at least a hundred times faster than sitting in the backyard absorbing energy from those ordinary herbs.

And this was still because he was new to the Medicine King Sutra, with eighty percent of the medicinal energy dissipating into the air, a tragic waste.

Only about twenty percent was absorbed into his body and transformed into the Medicine King Technique’s power.

This hundredfold speed of cultivation was simply too enchanting.

Qin Niu felt his Medicine King Technique’s power growing at an astonishing rate.

After about six hours of cultivation, he felt a surge of pain in his head.

The torrential medicinal energy needed enormous effort to draw even a bit of it. It was due to his spiritual power being overexerted and nearing depletion.

He promptly stopped cultivating.

And opened his eyes.

At this moment, his heart was incredibly excited.

In his eyes, every part of this Ancient Banyan Tree was a treasure.

Even the medicinal energy it emitted had become an incomparable treasure.

Qin Niu had personally witnessed Xiao Qing’s grandfather’s death. The old man had consumed a large amount of Elixirs, yet he died without breaking through to the Fivefold Mortal level.

The reason was the inability to absorb enough medicinal energy.