Chapter 16 - 16 Chapter 15 The Meat Delivery Has Arrived_1 (1/2)

16 Chapter 15 The Meat Delivery Has Arrived_1

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Qin Niu did not leave, but stood guard over a few worker ants as they relocated, to prevent any accidents from happening again.

His insect communication skill proficiency was still very low, and it seemed that he could only communicate with Fourth and the Ant Queen for now.

For some reason, the other five young worker ants seemed to be completely unable to communicate with Qin Niu normally.

How to put it, it was like playing the lute to a cow.

It was possible that their intelligence was relatively low, or maybe they were not yet mature, possessing weak spiritual power.

This was the conclusion Qin Niu ultimately reached.

Perhaps once his insect communication skill as the master improved, he would be able to communicate with them normally.

While he leaned against the huge camphor tree, absorbed in watching the ants move, he suddenly felt his scalp tighten and a chill spread all over his body.

He had experienced this sensation once before.

That morning when he was targeted by an old wolf was exactly like this.

But this time, it was even more intense, enough to make his heart palpitate.

It meant that the predator targeting him was much more powerful than the old wolf.

“Is it a tiger?”

Generally, tigers preferred to hunt for food at dusk. However, when they hadn’t had their fill, or when they had young tigers to feed, they would often hunt until dawn.

They might even come out to hunt during the day.

Qin Niu felt both nervous and an uncontrollable excitement.

Eating coarse grains and vegetables was nothing new; he had long wished to catch some meat to improve his life.

The nearly stagnant state of his cultivation had made him somewhat restless.

People are like this, having experienced surges in cultivation, improving three or four points in a day, and now not even able to increase by 0.1 in a day, he naturally felt dissatisfied.

Now, he was still far from even reaching the peak of the ordinary mortal Onefold realm, let alone seeking immortality through cultivation.

In the city, people said that one needed to be at least at the pinnacle of the mortal Tenfold realm to be eligible to step into the true threshold of cultivation.

In such a rural place, the strongest person Qin Niu knew of was the protector of the landlord Yan Ruohai’s family.

Any of them could beat a group of grown men until they were searching for their teeth on the ground.

But the protectors of Yan Ruohai’s family generally had cultivations ranging from peak of the mortal Onefold realm to the early entry into the Twofold realm.

He still hadn’t moved, his back leaning against the camphor tree.

Because he worried that any large movement would scare off the ferocious beast lurking in the shadows.

A rare opportunity to eat meat had come, and he had to seize it.

He hoped that when he used his firewood knife for the Critical Chop, it wouldn’t fail him, and if he could execute Critical Chop with his first strike, that would be fantastic.

It would directly maim the beast, preventing it from fleeing and reducing the risk of Qin Niu being counter-killed.

When he had enough money, he could consider buying a thick-backed Horse-Cleaving Saber made of fine steel.

After all, a firewood knife was just forged from ordinary iron and was a common agricultural tool, completely incomparable to true weapons designed for combat.

But even the cheapest weapon made of fine steel would cost at least Two Silver Money and up.

Something he definitely couldn’t afford right now.

But with a little time, let alone a weapon forged from fine steel, even one made from Hundred-Tempering Fine Steel would be within his reach.

Now that he had learned the skills of Insect Trace Identification and insect communication, as long as he improved their proficiency, he would be capable of capturing valuable rare insects to sell.

Some insects could be sold for more than Hundred Taels of Silver Money, belonging to the category of priceless goods.

However, if he really captured extremely rare insects, he figured he would try to breed them himself.

After all, selling them would be a one-time deal, unable to generate revenue in the future.

If he bred them himself, they would continuously create income for the master.

His farming skills were also constantly improving, which could equally help him make a lot of money.

The true purpose of farming was never just about planting ordinary crops; with a higher level, one could even grow such things as Zhu fruits or Spiritual Medicines. Consuming them would lead to a surge in cultivation or break through bottlenecks, typically being worth a fortune.

Just growing one plant could make a person rich in the area.

Fourth seemed to also sense its master’s danger, as it abruptly dropped the young ant it was carrying, waving its only remaining antenna, with its mandibles slightly open, ready to attack at any moment.

It seemed never to know what fear was.

“Fourth, immediately move the young ants back into the tree hollow, and let the other five young worker ants go in as well, and don’t come out!”

Qin Niu sent the command to Fourth using his spiritual power.

This iron-headed guy, though loyal enough, was a bit too self-assertive.

“Don’t understand!”

Fourth’s response almost made him crumble.

“Return to the tree hollow!”

“Get all the worker ants back to the tree hollow!”