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27 Chapter 24 The Noble Young Master and the Dragon Chant Technique_1
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Martial Arts Pavilion, Secret Technique Hall, Cultivation Technique Storage…
Looking at the stores selling martial arts techniques and cultivation technique manuals, Qin Niu casually chose the most popular store and walked in.
He had heard that even the most common cultivation techniques sold for no less than Two Silver Money.
In the past, he had only dared to stand outside and enviously gaze in.
The cultivation technique manual store he entered was called “Supreme Sea,” and unlike other stores that usually had just one storefront, it boasted five. Its scale was five times larger than that of a regular store, surely housing a much richer collection of books.
After entering, Qin Niu saw rows of specially made bookshelves.
On them were locked oval crystal covers, within which sat individual manuals, with some content introductions engraved on the outside of the casings.
At the prominent spot of each bookshelf, there was an exquisitely made wooden sign, with white background and red characters, listing the type of manuals.
Martial Arts, Cultivation Techniques, Insect Control Techniques, Beast Taming Techniques, Planting Techniques.
These were roughly the five categories.
Cultivation Techniques and Insect Control Techniques each only occupied one bookshelf, making these two categories the scarcest.
The profession of an Insect Master was already somewhat obscure, deemed a poor man’s job.
While breeding insects was cheap, the difficulty of nurturing and evolving them was high, and their combat strength relatively weak. Compared to beast taming, the chances of rising to prominence were much lower.
For instance, to subdue a female termite within Qin Niu’s termite colony, it was essential to seize the most opportune moment, forming a contract with her right after her nuptial flight but before she laid her eggs. Otherwise, the moment she started laying eggs, she would instantly upgrade to a Grade Two insect, and the cost to subdue her would increase tenfold.
If her first batch of eggs were allowed to hatch, subduing her would become nearly impossible.
Subduing a Grade One female termite and subduing an entire termite colony were not the same concept at all.
After great hardship, the third female termite Qin Niu subdued finally advanced to an Ant Queen, forming a low-level ant colony. The success rate of such an event was roughly three in ten thousand.
Even so, his ant colony was now so weak that a three-year-old child could easily crush them.
If what you subdued was a wolf, it could immediately guard the home and protect the yard, and dealing with one or two grown men would be no trouble at all.
Subduing insects, with their low success and return rates and short lifespans, were reasons why the profession of an Insect Master was lesser-known.
Those who become Insect Masters or Beast Tamers do so with the intention of earning money or battling with the help of their pets.
No poor person would be foolish enough to spend a few Silver Money on raising insects for fun.
That being said, although raising insects was hard to succeed in, there were countless examples of insects that, once cultivated well, increased their master’s worth by a thousand or ten thousand times.
Qin Niu approached the cultivation technique bookshelf, where many people were already gathered to choose and buy cultivation techniques.
A boy around ten years old stood nearby, with a broad forehead and a square face, wearing a white long shirt made from satin. His eyes casually swept over the crystal casings.
When Qin Niu stood beside this boy, he actually felt a terrifying aura that made him shiver.
It was even more dreadful than the pressure brought on by the soldiers at the city gates.
He couldn’t help but take a astonished look at the boy.
Despite the boy’s serene composure, his expression exuded confidence that seemed to come naturally from the heart.
This was a display of confidence built on great strength and solid backing.
He wondered whose noble son this was, to have such formidable cultivation at such a young age.
It was said that the children of the wealthy began cultivating while still in the womb.
Not only would the pregnant women consume various tonic goods and Spiritual Medicines, but they would also employ experts to expend their cultivation energy to clear the meridians in the fetus and nurture its sinews, bones, and internal organs. Such a child would be born with extraordinary talent.
Once they were weaned after birth, they would be supplied with all sorts of blood food and Spiritual Medicines, and have personal tutors to teach them breathing exercises and cultivation methods.
Children of poor families might still be naive and ignorant at ten years old, helping their parents with farm work every day or working for landlords as Attendant Students.