Longevity begins with alchemy

Chapter 90 Insect Nest
After accepting Bai Lan as their disciple, Su Yi and Shao Juan finally settled down in Wuzhai.

From then on, Su Yi's time was mainly divided into three parts: practicing "Tianyan Dao Jing", teaching Bai Lan basic alchemy knowledge, and studying "The Art of Raising Insects of the Ancestors"

Regarding the "Ancestors' Insect-Raising Technique", Su Yi was actually a little confused. After seeing the insect demon's inhuman appearance, he instinctively rejected this technique.

However, the "temptation" of the "ancestral insect-raising technique" for monks is huge. You must know that this is a method to assist monks in forming elixirs.

Form a pill!Even in the huge Luoxia Sect, there is only one alchemy monk.

Between the choices, Su Yi could only comfort himself by saying, whether you want to practice or not, it is always right to understand first!
One day after that, Su Yi finally followed the insect demon down to the underground for the first time. After walking down the crooked stairs for more than a hundred feet, the two came to a pure black space, where the air was filled with... There was a strange smell, a faint medicinal smell mixed with decay, but it didn't smell very good anyway.

With the permission of the insect demon, Su Yi activated the Sky Eye Technique, and as a result, he saw the stars in the sky!
Of course there will be no real stars here. According to the insect demon, this is an insect nest, and he cultivated the carrion silkworms here.

"Ancestors' Art of Raising Insects" has a brief introduction to the carrion silkworm. It ranks No. 60 and seventh on the "List of Strange Insects in the World". It is a truly aggressive monster insect, and its flesh and blood are fatally attracted to it.

Carrion silkworm larvae are born in living blood, but their larvae are very fragile and need to eat carrion to grow. They are wingless when they are born, and gain a pair of wings each time they advance to a higher level.

The carrion silkworms are cruel by nature, and they will devour each other even among the same kind, especially when they advance in level, they have no scruples...

The "stars all over the sky" that Su Yi saw through the Sky Eye Technique were the corpses of countless rotting corpses after silkworm death. Perhaps using "corpse" to describe them was not accurate, because these things that shimmered under the Sky Eye Technique were actually rotting corpses. The mana crystal in the silkworm's body is, in layman's terms, something like a bezoar dog treasure.

It's just that there are too many crystals. It can be described as "difficult to see". It looks like a huge "ant nest". Standing here feels like being in the vast universe. Su Yi estimates that the entire The underground of the basin was "hollowed out", and I don't know how many carrion silkworms this worm has bred.

Different from Su Yi's slight discomfort, the insect demon who came here seemed to have gone home. Well, this is indeed the "home" of the insect demon.

The insect demon's face was filled with an inexplicable sense of accomplishment, as if he was showing Su Yi his "great achievements!"

He brought Su Yi here today to let Su Yi feel the power of the "Insect God".

Su Yi did feel an inexplicable fluctuation of mana here. This inexplicable mana was different from the mana formed by Su Yi's practice of "Tianyan Dao Jing", and it was also different from the sword energy in the sword pill. It was what Su Yi had learned from before. A new "breath" that I have never felt before.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that the sculpture in the stone house was not a real image of a creature, but a simulation of the insect nest, and the heads, arms and the like were probably the result of imagination.

Perhaps in the consciousness of the cave dwellers, the insect nest represented the source of power, so they "deified" it, and sacrifices and worship arose from this.

Before Su Yi's emotions calmed down, the insect demon showed him a second scene, and this scene was truly unforgettable for Su Yi.

The insect demon took off the black robe that he had been wearing. Su Yi saw that there was no trace of flesh and blood from the chest to the abdomen, only bones were left, and the wounds spread all the way to the back.

Countless carrion silkworms are attached to various organs in its cavity, and there is a huge mana cyclone in its abdomen.

Su Yi was surprised, could it be that the insect demon was also a Qi-training monk?Seemingly seeing Su Yi's doubts, the insect demon said calmly: "Don't doubt it, I am indeed a foundation-building monk, but the foundation I built is different from ordinary people."

Then the insect demon asked Su Yi to take a closer look, and saw that countless carrion silkworms were flying into the cyclone at this time, but their flesh and blood were crushed under the pressure of huge mana, leaving only extremely small mana crystals sinking into the cyclone.

In the middle of the cyclone, there is a small piece of material similar to an "insect nest", which looks like an infinitely smaller version of the insect nest outside.

It seems that that thing is the foundation built by the insect demon, Su Yi thought this way, and he also found that although the insect demon's predecessor had no flesh and blood, it had a layer of skin as thin as cicada wings wrapped around it, just because it was too slender. It's thin and transparent, so I didn't see it at first.

At this time, the insect demon suddenly asked Su Yi: "Do you see the problem?"

After hearing this, Su Yi pondered for a moment and replied: "Is it because the level of your spiritual insect is not enough, so the foundation building effect is not ideal."

He had already seen that the cyclone crushed not only the flesh and blood of the demonic insect, but also almost crushed the mana crystals in the demonic insect into powder.

After hearing this, the insect demon nodded and said: "So I ask you to do your best to help my spirit insects upgrade. I want to condense the insect pill as soon as possible, and then I can absorb the endless mana here."

When he said these words, the insect demon's face was still calm, his tone was not very high, but there was a little bit of madness in his eyes.

Su Yi was speechless for a moment, and now he roughly understood the principle of "the art of raising insects by the ancestors".

It turns out that when this technique is running, it does not directly absorb the spiritual energy or evil energy between heaven and earth, but absorbs the existing mana in the insect nest.

This is a two-stage transformation. The monster insect first absorbs external spiritual energy and condenses it into mana crystals in its body. The insect owner then absorbs the ready-made mana from the mana crystals.

This is somewhat similar to absorbing mana from an elixir. Because it has been absorbed and refined by the demon insect, it will save much time and effort for the insect owner to absorb it again.

Raising demonic insects by an insect master is equivalent to planting elixirs, which can continuously produce mana crystals. The more spiritual insects they raise, the more mana they condense, and the faster the insect master's cultivation level improves.

It seems that this is an extremely quick and easy method, and it is no wonder that the insect demons admire their cave tribe's "art of raising insects" so much.

But Su Yi didn't want to make himself look like this just because he practiced a certain method.

He said calmly that he didn't know how to control beasts or raise insects. He only knew how to make elixirs. He could make the best level-building elixirs for insect demons. As for the other things, he was afraid that he was beyond his capabilities.

The insect demon did not get angry after hearing this, and said calmly: "Alchemy is definitely required, but you can't refuse the other things. If you don't understand, you can learn it. If you still don't understand, you can ask me."

Su Yi was speechless for a while. He saw that the insect demon was betting on him. Even if he was so thin that he was only skin and bones, he still had to fry a few ounces of oil.

ps: The Book of Control of Beasts has been renamed the Art of Raising Insects of the Ancestors!
(End of this chapter)