novelraw Chapter 1974: Insect Extermination Technique
Chapter 1974: Insect Extermination Technique
Looking at the Storage Ring in his hand, Zhou Yu felt extremely excited.
Actually, he had long noticed this Storage Ring.
The other items in the Heavenly Origin World he might not have seen before, but this Storage Ring wasn’t too different from those in the Human Clan Plane.
This was the first Storage Ring he obtained from a cultivator.
He was very curious about what was inside.
Zhou Yu adeptly merged his Divine Thought Aura into the Storage Ring, and momentarily, he opened it.
Zhou Yu’s Divine Sense probed inside and started to examine its contents.
Before long, a look of shock flashed through Zhou Yu’s eyes, followed by confusion, and then not long after, turned into excitement, even ecstasy.
He never expected there would be such a valuable item inside this cultivator’s Storage Ring.
Nearby, Que’er watched Zhou Yu’s changing expressions, trembling with fear.
She had just witnessed Zhou Yu kill Elder Niu.
One must know, Elder Niu was a top figure in their Skywind Mercenary Corps.
He was always looking down upon others, and even her father treated him with utmost respect.
Yet, he was unexpectedly killed by an injured Zhou Yu.
Que’er didn’t know what had happened.
But having been born and raised in the Mercenary Corps, she knew many things.
Such as the life-and-death struggles between cultivators.
For anyone able to embark on the path of cultivation, they usually have some connections.
Killing one might lead to many complications, and as one’s cultivation level gets higher, things can become very troublesome.
Generally, cultivators don’t really kill each other.
But once a killing occurs, they would usually erase all traces to avoid further trouble.
For instance, utterly destroying the opponent’s Primordial Spirit and killing all witnesses.
Thus making it very difficult to find the killer, except through some rare secret techniques.
It was for this reason that Que’er was filled with fear at this moment.
Zhou Yu killed Elder Niu, and she was the only witness.
Moreover, Zhou Yu’s background was so mysterious.
Even if she were naive, she could guess that the chance Zhou Yu might kill her to keep the secret was very high.
She wanted to escape, but was trapped by the Formation, and Elder Niu had sealed her Meridians so she couldn’t speak.
In desperation, Que’er could only hide as far away as possible, constantly praying for Zhou Yu to spare her life.
Zhou Yu, however, paid no attention to Que’er.
At this moment, two items appeared in his hand.
The first was an ancient book.
Zhou Yu flipped through it briefly and discovered it was a body refining technique called the ’Heavenly Gang Body’.
This ’Heavenly Gang Body’ was divided into seven layers.
According to the records in the ancient book, if the Heavenly Gang Body could be cultivated to the seventh layer, one could confront Nascent Soul Stage cultivators with sheer physical strength.
This alone wasn’t enough to shock Zhou Yu.
What shocked him the most was that the cultivation techniques for the initial layers of this Heavenly Gang Body were very similar to the Body Refinement Realm taught to him by his senior sister, Mo Xiaoqing.
Upon closer comparison, Zhou Yu discovered that the Body Refinement Realm taught by Mo Xiaoqing was much cruder than this Heavenly Gang Body.
Some crucial parts were missing.
So naturally, its power during cultivation was inferior to the Heavenly Gang Body.
After detailed study, Zhou Yu concluded that the Body Refinement Realm taught to him by Mo Xiaoqing was derived from this ’Heavenly Gang Body’.
Previously, his Body Refinement Realm reached the Five Realms Cave Heaven under Mo Xiaoqing’s guidance.
But later on, his Body Refinement Realm completely stagnated.
The main reason was that the cultivation method Mo Xiaoqing gave him was very obscure and clearly incomplete, making it impossible for him to continue cultivating.
This wasn’t Mo Xiaoqing’s intention.
When Mo Xiaoqing initially taught him this Body Refinement Realm, she didn’t expect Zhou Yu would be able to cultivate it to this extent.
Even if she had known, she couldn’t have helped, because the Body Refinement Realm she obtained consisted only of these parts.
But now it’s different.
Zhou Yu obtained the complete cultivation method for the ’Heavenly Gang Body’ and can now retrain in it, remedying the previous deficiencies, and continue cultivating until reaching the seventh layer of the Heavenly Gang Body.
Zhou Yu felt both excited and incredulous at this moment.
It was so coincidental that right after arriving in the Heavenly Origin World, he obtained this body refining technique, which was the complete version of the fragment he had been cultivating before.
However, Zhou Yu later found out that this ’Heavenly Gang Body’ was originally the most widely circulated body refining technique in the Heavenly Origin World.
Its cultivation method wasn’t secretive at all.
The real difficulty lies in that most people can only cultivate it up to the third layer, hitting a bottleneck.
Only a very few can manage to cultivate it to the fourth layer.
As for the last three layers, historically, almost no one has managed to succeed.
But that’s a story for another time.
Apart from the ’Heavenly Gang Body’ cultivation technique, Zhou Yu’s hand held a mysterious Jade Talisman.
Initially, Zhou Yu didn’t know the purpose of the Jade Talisman.
After studying it for a long time, he finally discovered that the Jade Talisman was a treasure that recorded a secret technique.
When Zhou Yu probed into it with his Divine Sense, he immediately discovered its contents.
The Jade Talisman contained a technique called Insect Extermination Technique.
At first glance, Zhou Yu didn’t pay much attention to it.
The name suggested to Zhou Yu that it was a trivial technique.
At the moment, with his Meridians injured and cultivation realm not recovered, he had no time for irrelevant techniques.
But after reading through it, he was completely stupefied.
This Insect Extermination Technique completely overturned his understanding.
The Insect Extermination Technique wasn’t about repelling pests, but a secret technique to drive Spiritual Insects.
It comprised three sections: identification, cultivation, and commanding them to fight.
The identification section documented the most formidable insects known throughout the universe, compiling an Insect King List.
Among the top thirty ranked spiritual insects, it was recorded that once fully matured, they could rival Transcendence Tribulation Stage and Mahayana Realm cultivators.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu was deeply astonished.
He never imagined that insects could be so powerful.
Instantly, he developed a profound interest in the Insect Extermination Technique.
As he delved deeper, he found most species from the Insect King List had disappeared for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
However, when he saw the seventy-ninth ranked Fire-Eyed Ant King, his pupils shrank suddenly.
This Fire-Eyed Ant King had also made it to the Insect King List.
Zhou Yu immediately read further.
After finishing, he was shocked, followed by sheer joy.
The Jade Talisman recorded the Fire-Eyed Ant King as a rare ancient alien species.
Its intrinsic strength was very weak, even as an Ant King, it only possessed the power of a Golden Core Stage cultivator.
Yet, the Fire-Eyed Ant King had very powerful innate abilities.
One was reproduction.
The Fire-Eyed Ant King had extremely fast reproduction rates.
It could produce thousands upon thousands of offspring in no time, with a significant probability of reproducing fire-eyed flying ants.
The Fire-Eyed Ant King held absolute control over its progeny.
Meaning, once you can command the Fire-Eyed Ant King, you can command all its offspring.
At that moment, Zhou Yu suddenly recalled the terrifying scene of the fortress attack when the Black Sand City defense array was besieged.
If he could tame this Fire-Eyed Ant King one day, he could use it to recreate that scenario.
Imagining this scene, Zhou Yu’s heart began pounding rapidly.
Meanwhile, he looked towards the distant flame-encased flying ants trapped in the Formation.
His eyes burned with intensity.
Isn’t there a Fire-Eyed Ant King over there?