Chapter 335: Chapter 328: Cultivating a Group of Termite Breeding Experts_1

After examining the Ant Queen’s attributes, Qin Niu’s expectations for this nest of termites inadvertently rose a few notches.

The innate abilities of the Ant Queen were steadily growing stronger, and the termite offspring she could breed were also becoming increasingly formidable.

Moreover, the variety of ant species kept increasing.

As long as he raised this nest of termites well, even if he became an Immortal Master in the future, he could still rely on the termites to wreak havoc in all directions.

On the ground, there should not be many insects capable of battling the termites.

The termites could even leverage their numerical superiority to directly confront large fierce beasts. In an extremely short span of time, they could easily gnaw a beast down to its skeleton.

He began to nurture the newly hatched termites.

This task had now become quite easy, for as long as he provided enough Ancient Banyan Tree Blood, the worker ants could take care of it.

He even considered whether he could start feeding the worker ants Ancient Banyan Tree Blood from the moment the young ants hatched.

However, this matter needed to be conducted with a plan.

If done too hastily, it could easily result in major losses.

Firstly, he needed to train a batch of worker ants dedicated to feeding the young ants Banyan Tree Blood. They would only be responsible for this one task, without having to engage in other work.

In this way, they would become ‘nurturing experts.’

With accumulated experience in feeding each young ant, they could precisely control the amount.

They might even be safer than the dosages Qin Niu calculated.

The second point, currently he only allowed them to nurture ordinary worker and soldier ants. For precious ant species like Healing Ants, Elephantic Ants, and Demon Ants, it was more appropriate for Qin Niu to set the nurturing dosage one-on-one.

At least until these ‘nurturing experts’ gained sufficient experience, they must not be allowed to nurture at will.

Qin Niu was a man of action; as soon as he had the idea, he began to implement it.

He carefully selected a batch from the worker ants, a total of ten Grade Three Lightning Worker Ants, to be solely responsible for nurturing newly hatched ordinary young ants from now on.

Since it was the first experiment, he was extremely cautious.

If it didn’t work out, he would be able to stop the losses in time.

The ten carefully selected Lightning Worker Ants were not only gentle-natured and more patient than other termites but also slightly more intelligent than ordinary termites.

The experiment began swiftly.

The ten Lightning Worker Ants fed the newly hatched young ants.

After consuming the Ancient Banyan Tree Blood, seven young ants died on the spot from bodily explosion. Of the remaining three, two also succumbed to bodily explosion soon after.

Their bodies were too fragile.

Having just hatched, their skin was extremely tender.

They also had very little capacity to withstand pressure.

After taking the Ancient Banyan Tree Blood, their bodies simply couldn’t withstand that wild surge of energy.

The loss of nine young ants made Qin Niu quite distressed.

His gaze was firmly fixed on the last surviving young ant.

Its small body was expanding, and fine cracks could even be faintly seen on its nearly transparent skin.

Qin Niu had already braced himself for a total loss.

As time trickled by, that young ant miraculously pulled through the life-and-death threshold.

Once past that threshold, it could generally complete the evolution smoothly.

All that was left was to wait patiently for a day or two to see what level it would ultimately evolve to.

“The success rate of nurturing newly hatched young ants is terrifyingly low, but what if I nurture ants that hatched three days ago?”

Qin Niu was very clear that if a young ant was successfully nurtured in this way, it proved that this path was feasible.

In the future, his cultivation would grow higher, and he might need to enter seclusion for a month or two, even a year or two, during which time the cultivation of the termites would come to a halt.

Moreover, every time he personally nurtured young termites, it took up a considerable amount of time.

If he could save this time and cultivate under the Ancient Banyan Tree instead, his cultivation would certainly improve much faster.

The foundation of one’s own cultivation is the fundamental, and it’s certainly unwise to expend a large amount of time on pet breeding in the long run.

It feels a bit like neglecting the essentials for the sake of the trivial.

Qin Niu then had the ten Worker Ants nurture ten newly hatched young ants that were three days old.

It was evident that two of the Worker Ants were already summarizing the experience from last time, significantly reducing the amount of Ancient Banyan Tree Blood fed to them.

After feeding the ten young ants, two of them exploded and died on the spot.

One might have survived because the dose fed was too small, but its body only slightly swelled. According to Qin Niu’s breeding experience, although this Termite could survive, it would be very difficult for it to advance.

At most, it would evolve some special ability.

But it would be much weaker than a Termite that successfully advanced.

An hour later, of the ten three-day-old hatched young ants, five had died.

The remaining five survived successfully.

However, one of them had consumed so little Ancient Banyan Tree Blood that it was unlikely to advance.

Therefore, the actual survival rate was only four ants.

The successful breeding rate suddenly rose to 40%, which greatly exhilarated Qin Niu.

Moreover, since the newly hatched young ants were quite small, they consumed much less Ancient Banyan Tree Blood than the adult Termites did.

This was very cost-effective.

The Ancient Banyan Tree Blood is not unlimited, and Qin Niu did not dare to take too much at one time.

Especially after the last discovery that the Ancient Banyan Tree might have already awakened its spirit intelligence, he approached the mysterious old tree with a heart full of reverence.

If he took too much blood and it caused some unfavorable changes, Qin Niu might get counter-killed.

Or he might never be able to obtain Ancient Banyan Tree Blood again.

Like now, this should be the best state of harmonious coexistence.

The uses of Ancient Banyan Tree Blood are of great variety, besides being able to cultivate Termites, it can also be used to foster other pets.

He even suspected that Ancient Banyan Tree Blood could be used to nurture all kinds of pets.

On the contrary, the Subspecies Bodhi Tree Blood was greatly limited.

So far, it has only been experimented with for cultivating Termites.

Now that he had discovered a method of having Worker Ants nurture the young ants on their behalf, he could conserve a significant amount of Ancient Banyan Tree Blood and free himself from the laborious task of breeding.

This was indeed beneficial in many ways.

“In the future, Worker Ants can start nurturing them on the third day after the young ants hatch.”

He looked up at the sky, which still left a little time, so he took Fourth directly into the maze within the Ancient Banyan Tree.

The Ink Blade now consumes quite an amount of Ancient Banyan Tree Blood every day, and Qin Niu fulfills its needs wholeheartedly.

In this world, one must possess a powerful weapon.

With the Ink Blade, even if faced with a peak level expert of the Innate Realm or even a strong individual of the Spirit Qi Realm, he would be able to slay them with a single cut.

This would greatly enhance Qin Niu’s self-defense capabilities.

After he had made several cuts to the body of the Ancient Banyan Tree and collected the blood, he did not rush to cultivate. Instead, he climbed the tree to pluck its leaves.

Strangely, there were no fallen leaves from the Ancient Banyan Tree on the ground.

Perhaps this tree had become a spirit and stopped shedding leaves?

This was somewhat against the laws of nature.

He picked two leaves, intending to take them out for the mute girl Bei Bing to craft talismans.

These were the leaves of a Tree Demon and should be suitable for making some advanced talismans.

There was no anomaly when he plucked the leaves from the Ancient Banyan Tree.

Just that when plucked, they felt very tough.

Then, he took one leaf in his hand and placed another inside a copper box before taking them out with him.