Chapter 72 - Chapter 72: Chapter 67: The Onset of the Insect Calamity_i (1/2)
Chapter 72: Chapter 67: The Onset of the Insect Calamity_i
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You should know that Blade Qi is dubbed the ‘King of Armor Breaking’; it’s nearly the bane of all shields, armors, and helmets.
Although Sword Qi is powerful too, it isn’t as domineering as Blade Qi.
The sword is known as the sovereign of weapons, renowned for its heft and ferocity, extremely domineering.
The Blade Qi nurtured similarly possesses some of the sword’s characteristics.
As for the spear, it is called the ‘thief of weaponry,’ with attributes similar to that of the staff. It really isn’t comparable to the sword and blade at all.
Ordinary martial warriors and fighters often use spears, but among cultivators of their level, spear wielders are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
The only two weapons that truly have outstanding potential and can be cultivated over the long term are the sword and the blade.
They are the mainstream weapons of ordinary cultivators.
The most widely known abilities include Sword Flight, wielding the sword to decapitate an enemy chieftain from thousands of miles away, and splitting Mount Hua with a single blow, and so on.
Qin Niu stowed the Treasured Sword carefully, taking a little Thousand Eyes Tree Blood and some Ancient Banyan Tree Blood with him, along with several large jars, ready to head into the mountains for cultivation.
On the way, he encountered the drunken Zhang Banzui, leaning against a poplar tree by the roadside, squinting his eyes, still clutching his beloved flask of liquor.
“The insect disaster is coming, the insect disaster is coming…”
He saw Qin Niu passing by and kept muttering these words.
“Uncle Zhang, what insect disaster is coming? Please be clearer.”
“Insects bring harm, disaster signifies difficulty, an insect disaster is an approaching calamity…” Zhang Banzui shook his head and swayed, sounding like a bookworm who had gone foolish from reading too much, speaking in a mix of arcane sayings.
Qin Niu knew that Zhang Banzui always spoke like this, telling half while leaving the other half unsaid.
This year saw abundant rainfall, while last year’s cold winter came without snow, all of which provided favorable conditions for the breeding of insects.
His corn field didn’t have nearly this many bugs last year.
The number of mature insects and eggs cleared this year was frightening.
This was all before the pest outbreak had taken form; otherwise, the number of insects would have been at least tenfold.
Where did Zhang Banzui even hear such news?
Now that Qin Niu had a termite colony and had subdued a Queen Bee, he wasn’t very afraid of the insect disaster.
At worst, he figured it would just take two more nights of effort to clear them out again.
What Qin Niu was most worried about was the possibility of a famine following the insect disaster, or even greater secondary calamities.
This also made him determined to accelerate the cultivation of the ant colony.
To assist them in evolving quickly.
After entering the mountains, he went straight to the front of the Ant Nest.
Almost unfailingly, the number of ants in the colony had increased by ten.
Eight Worker Ants, two Soldier Ants.
Which type of termite to breed is decided by the Ant Queen.
It possesses moderate intelligence and can flexibly adjust according to the current state of the colony. If there are too few Worker Ants, it will breed a large number of them. If it feels old or wants to expand the colony, it will produce Breeder Ants.
He called out the ant colony.
One by one, they lined up and crawled out.
The number of Swift Ants had increased to 11, the number of Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants had risen to 8, and the number of Grade Two Tiger-striped Soldier Ants had grown to 7.
These were the substantial results of Qin Niu’s mass cultivation efforts.
Currently, there are still five termites undergoing evolution.
They are two ordinary Worker Ants that were fed Ancient Banyan Tree Blood yesterday, one Strong Soldier Ant, and one Worker Ant and one Soldier Ant that were fed Thousand Eyes Tree Blood.
Their evolution requires time.
He could only wait patiently.
Based on Qin Niu’s insect breeding experience, the two termites fed with Thousand Eyes Tree Blood should have completed their evolution in just one day.
But they still hadn’t succeeded, which puzzled him greatly.
At the same time, it added to his anticipation.
Because the longer the evolution takes, theoretically, the stronger the new abilities they acquire will be.
Now that he had 11 Swift Ants, he planned to mass-cultivate another 19 to reach a total of 30 ants.
The work efficiency of Swift Ants was quite good, with one equating to several ordinary Worker Ants.
With the current insufficient number of Worker Ants, having a large number of Swift Ants would allow Qin Niu to take more Worker Ants to cultivate into Grade Two Lightning Worker Ants.
This way, he could quickly mass-produce Grade Two termites.