MTLNOVEL Chapter 97 - 13: Mid-grade Poisonous Insect (3rd Update)
Chapter 97: Chapter 13: Mid-grade Poisonous Insect (3rd Update)
Pig after pig, live sheep, yellow cattle, chickens, ducks, geese, and others were bled and slaughtered, filling the slaughterhouse with strong stenches of animal odors.
The range of the Soul Summoning Banner, capable of capturing souls, generously enveloped the entire slaughtering room.
Each type of animal produced a different soul. Su Jie watched the souls of the dead livestock fly out and get absorbed by the Soul Summoning Banner. He recorded the progress of the third Yin Soul on the banner and then made comparisons with his notes.
Taking the soul of an ordinary person as an example, the quality of an ordinary person’s soul was marked as 1.
Although there were differences in soul quality between individuals, the variance was not significant since they were not cultivators.
“Pig soul 0.033, sheep soul 0.005, cattle soul 0.012, chicken soul 0.0001…”
Su Jie recorded each piece of data, while also comparing the animal soul data he had gathered during his recent trips into the forests. Eventually, he came to a conclusion.
Apart from humans, elephants and primate gorillas had the highest ranking souls. Orca and other whale souls might also be of good quality, but Su Jie hadn’t had the chance to find them.
Beyond these animals, the soul quality of pigs was the highest, followed by cattle, sheep, and others.
Su Jie’s attention focused on pigs, creatures often associated with stupidity, yet possessing such high soul quality.
It seemed there was indeed a saying that pig intelligence was equivalent to that of a three or four-year-old child.
“It’s decided then, it will be you.”
Su Jie made a decision in his heart. Thirty pig souls equaled the soul of one ordinary person. Ten ordinary souls could condense into one Yin Soul, meaning he would need the souls of three hundred pigs to create a Yin Soul without having to kill any people.
As for other wild animals, even though they might have higher soul quality, their numbers were too few. Even driving them to extinction wouldn’t satisfy Su Jie’s needs.
From an efficiency standpoint, only pigs, the animal whose meat ranked second in human consumption after chicken, were most suitable for cultivating Yin Souls.
“We need to buy a big breeding company as soon as possible.”
Su Jie was impatient and eager to fully nurture the Soul Summoning Banner.
Once the banner was unfurled, tens of thousands of ghosts and souls would howl, significantly enhancing battle strength beyond comparison.
Meanwhile, the fifth Yin Soul had also condensed within the Soul Summoning Banner Su Jie was holding.
“Mr. Su, do you think these are enough?”
The factory manager jogged over and looked at the slaughtered animals that had already filled up the slaughterhouse.
“Alright, let these be for now.”
Su Jie nodded. The livestock in this small breeding farm were too few; even slaughtering them all would not produce many Yin Souls. They still needed those real large-scale breeding farms.
After instructing Liu Yingying briefly, Su Jie did not stay for the subsequent meat distribution event but instead took a car to Fumen Breeding Farm.
Fumen Breeding Farm was the largest insect breeding farm in the Mande Region, where various insects bought from farmers were mostly brought here.
Deep underground in Fumen Breeding Farm, a large batch of Tianyuan Poisonous Insects from Tianyuan World were continuously devouring the Blue Star Poisonous Insects, achieving evolution and transformation.
Su Jie took the elevator and arrived at the long-unvisited underground poisonous insect cultivation base.
At fifty meters underground, as soon as the elevator doors opened, a series of piercing buzzing sounds entered his ears.
After stepping out of the elevator, the view that met his eyes was a floor divided and sealed off by a layer of blue ice curtains. This was the Qiankun Xuanbing Formation Diagram that Su Jie had purchased.
Within the array map, many Tianyuan World poisonous insects, having benefited from the incalculable consumption of Blue Star Poison Insects every day, had undergone transformations, evolving from inferior poisonous insects to low-grade poisonous insects.
“Xiao Qian, come out, evolve right here.”
Su Jie released the thousand-hand centipede. The massive creature, over ten meters in length, stood upright, its head reaching the feed inlet.
Clattering sounds.
Huge quantities of spiders, centipedes, venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, and venomous wasps, all bred on the surface, were dumped down the large feed pipeline; these were regularly fed to the underground Tianyuan poisonous insects. The Jieke employees working there were oblivious, thinking that these poisons were merely being experimentally processed.
The thousand-hand centipede opened its vast mouth, and the sensation of food automatically entering its mouth was so delightful that it lingered long after eating its fill, reluctant to leave.
However, when it came to evolution, it wasn’t something the thousand-hand centipede could just stop when it wanted.
Su Jie took out several hundred Blood Marrow Crystals and personally fed them to the thousand-hand centipede to swallow.
The Spiritual Energy contained in the Blood Marrow Crystals allowed the thousand-hand centipede to achieve its final leap.
A thick Insect Cocoon formed from its outer shell and eventually covered the entire body of the thousand-hand centipede. The cocoon, over ten meters in length, was a deep red color, pulsing up and down like a beating heart, transforming into a mid-grade poisonous insect.
Squeak!
Buzz!
Squeal!
Perhaps sensing danger, various poisonous insects within the Qiankun Xuanbing Formation Diagram, alarmed by the scent of danger, became restless. They thrashed wildly within the array, trying to distance themselves from the thousand-hand centipede.
This transformation of the thousand-hand centipede progressed swiftly. Normally, evolving from a low-grade poisonous insect to a mid-grade one not only took a long time but also carried substantial risks.
Any slip-up and, at best, the transformation would fail, damaging the foundation; at worst, it would be fatal.
However, as a Low Grade Three Refinements poisonous insect, the power of the thousand-hand centipede far exceeded that of a typical mid-grade poisonous insect. This transformation was simply a natural progression, involving no difficulties whatsoever.
Compared to past transformations that could easily take ten-plus hours, this one took less than two hours for the thousand-hand centipede to complete its evolution.
When the Insect Cocoon split open, the emerged thousand-hand centipede was now twenty meters in length.
Its insect armor was lustrous and black, tougher than steel, and it had over two hundred pale corpse hands, each larger than the thigh of an ordinary person.
With the completion of the evolution, every capability of the thousand-hand centipede enhanced, with each of the pale corpse hands possessing an immense strength, easily crumpling steel into mud.
The capabilities of self-healing split and Purple Light Ray also were upgraded comprehensively as the thousand-hand centipede evolved into a mid-grade poisonous insect.
This was still not the limit of the thousand-hand centipede’s evolution. Su Jie patted its head and sequentially deactivated the Qiankun Xuanbing Formation Diagram, releasing the uneasy low-grade poisonous insects inside, smilingly said, “Go eat, all these are yours.”
With a shrill scream, numerous pale corpse hands emerged from underneath the thousand-hand centipede, charging ferociously at a low-grade poisonous insect, the Evil Eye Thunder Worm.
This Evil Eye Thunder Worm was the most powerful poisonous insect in the breeding base, its appearance being a basketball-sized solitary eye mounted on top of a pudgy maggot.
Boom boom!
The solo eye of the Evil Eye Thunder Worm blinked, bolts of lightning striking down, smashing onto the massive body of the thousand-hand centipede.
The electricity fizzed over its body surface, but the thousand-hand centipede was hardly affected, the disparity in strength between the two was too great; the next moment, the pudgy Evil Eye Thunder Worm was grasped by over ten pale corpse hands and dragged to the mouth of the thousand-hand centipede.