Although the "gold-eating insects" are at the top of the list of strange insects, according to the jade slip written by the Yulingzong monk, their individual abilities are very limited, and they rely entirely on their large numbers to win. If there are only a dozen or dozens of them, they will not be of much use even when they become adults. Only when the number reaches hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands, is it truly worthy of its ranking on the Strange Bug List.
Thinking of the countless insects flying in the sky, attacking, and killing them all, Han Li himself felt a little shivering.
So what we need to do now is to ripen these gold-eating insects as soon as possible, and then let them give birth to offspring as soon as possible, so that the number can roll up.
But it's easier said than done! Gold-eating insects, as strange insects that existed in ancient times, have long been extinct in the Tiannan Immortal Cultivation Realm, and the specific breeding methods have also been lost for countless generations. The worm-raising jade slip written by the monk of Yulingzong only sorted out some habits of the worm based on some ancient books, and there was no detailed training method at all.
This annoyed Han Li for a long time.
In fact, not only the twelfth-ranked "gold-eating worms", but almost all the strange worms in the top 30 are insect-type monsters that have been extinct in the world of cultivating immortals for many years. The monk of Yulingzong was originally an insect idiot. After collecting various ancient materials for analysis, he ranked these ancient insects into the list of strange insects. Whether the ranking at the top of the Strange Bug List is reliable or not, only God knows!
It was also a coincidence that Han Li got these gold-eating bugs that should be extinct.
Because these gold-eating insects, which are still larvae, have been in a long sleep of suspended animation in the depths of Xiaohuan Island since ancient times for unknown reasons.
It stands to reason that even if landslides and landslides, rivers and seas are turned upside down, these strange insects will not wake up easily. However, Han Li gathered many other strange insects together in the cave of Xiaohuan Island to feed them. As a result, the smell of these insects slowly spread to the ground, and miraculously woke up the gold-eating insects out of eating instincts. .
They should have launched a feeding attack long ago, but among Han Li's strange insects, there were "Blood Jade Spiders" that could resist them. Out of natural fear, they did not dare to get too close to Han Li's cave. So, while lurking in the underground of Xiaohuan Island, they stared at Han Li's cave.
And when Han Li went shopping, he took the blood jade spider away, which gave the gold-eating insects a chance.
As Han Li saw, these gold-eating insects devoured all the strange insects he fed, and settled there with the medicine garden in the cave. As a result, Han Li, who had sneaked back, wiped out all of them.
Now, since Han Li didn't have the previous method of breeding insects, he could only slowly explore by himself.
First of all, Han Li tried to put all kinds of insect food into the insect room, but no matter what type of insect food, these hundreds of gold-eating insects wiped them all out, and they were not picky at all. This made Han Li very happy .
But Han Li's happiness only lasted for a few months, and he found that no matter how much food these gold-eating insects ate, there was no sign of growth or change. This made Han Li depressed, so he had to find another way.
This bug likes to eat hardware and spiritual energy, so Han Li tried to feed them some raw metal ores and some low-level spiritual stones. As a result, after swallowing, these bugs also showed no abnormal changes. Failed again.
Extremely depressed, Han Li simply threw the dozen or so dead eggs of the "Golden Backed Saber Beetle" into the worm room. After being eaten by the gold-eating bugs, the spiritual energy of these bugs finally changed, and it seemed to be a little more ferocious than before eating.
This surprised Han Li, but also made him feel worried. Could it be that these gold-eating insects will only mature if they devour other strange insects? This is difficult! Apart from two "Blood Jade Spiders", there are no strange insects here.
In desperation, Han Li simply bought some pig and sheep blood food from outside and threw it into the worm room. But apart from making these gold-eating bugs more ferocious and irritable, it also has no effect on promoting their maturity.
In desperation, Han Li finally ripened enough spirit grass to start refining the "Spiritual Feed Pill".
In the past, I patronized to refine the elixir to increase mana for myself, but I never had time to refine this elixir, so now I just have a chance to give it a try.
In a few days, the first batch of feeding pills was successfully refined. Han Li immediately let the "Gold Devourer" and the two "Blood Jade Spiders" eat part of it. As a result, the effect of the feeding pill made Han Li half happy and half worried!
The joy is that the elixir that raises the level of monsters is also effective for these strange insects. What is worrying is that the effect of feeding this pill to "Gold Devourer" and "Blood Jade Spider" is too far apart.
Once the two blood jade spiders took four or five pills of feeding spirits, the spiritual energy increased by a small amount the next day, and the effect was extremely obvious. And the gold-eating worms who also ate a few feeding spirit pills, although the effect is there, but compared with the blood jade spider, it is really insignificant, there is only a slight increase.
It is estimated that because the number of gold-eating bugs is too large, a score of several hundred will naturally not make a big increase.
There were only a few hundred of them. Thinking of the fact that only tens of thousands of them would be able to exert their power in the future, Han Li immediately lost his confidence in continuing to breed insects. He used all the green liquid produced in the vial to refine the feeding pills, and it was impossible to cultivate such a large army of "gold-eating insects" in more than a hundred years.
After reaching this conclusion, Han Li lost interest in training the gold-eating worms. After feeding the remaining feeding spirit pills to the blood jade spiders, he only threw some food into the gold-eating worms every day.
At this time, Han Li had already been in Skystar City for half a year.
For the rest of the day, he retreated and crazily made second-level puppets and various talismans.
Not to mention the talismans, he still couldn't master intermediate spells without forming a pill, and naturally he couldn't make intermediate talismans either. After making so many talismans, the only benefit he got was that the talisman-making level of primary talismans had greatly increased. Even the elementary and high-level talismans had a success rate close to half, which saved him a lot of talisman-making materials.
The main raw material of the second-level puppet is hundreds of years of iron wood, and Han Li can ripen it by himself, so the cost of making a puppet has been reduced by more than half.
As for the souls needed to refine the puppets, it happened that the "soul gathering bowl" he had obtained before contained a lot of lonely souls and wild ghosts who had lost their spiritual consciousness, and Han Li directly used them without hesitation. After all, without spiritual consciousness, these souls also lose their qualifications for reincarnation, and can only be used as ordinary sacrifice materials.
More than two hundred puppets were finally completed, all of which were animal-shaped puppets, which made Han Li extremely satisfied.
But the appearance of these puppets also meant that part of the spirit stones in Han Li's pocket had disappeared. Because the cost of one puppet may not be very high, but more than two hundred, plus those scrapped materials due to manufacturing failure, the price is staggering.
At this time, Han Li had been in seclusion for two full years.
In addition, in the past two years, the "Feiling Pill" refined by Han Li was used to feed the blood jade spiders. Under the urging of the powerful medicinal power, the two monsters were promoted again, and entered the ranks of the first-level top monsters.
At the same time, Qu Hun had finally refined the "Hunyuan Bowl" in more than two years. Although it is limited to not being the original owner of this magic weapon, it is still impossible to achieve the unity of mind and mind, but finally it can be absorbed into the body and exert its seven-point power.
It's not that Han Li never thought about letting Qu Hun refine his own magic weapon, but firstly, the materials for the magic weapon are really expensive, and with the remaining spirit stones he may not even be able to gather the most common materials. Secondly, the refining of magic weapons cannot be developed in the primordial spirit in a short time, at least it will take twenty or thirty years of hard work to gain initial power. Han Li doesn't have so much time to waste!
He urgently needs to get a large number of monster inner alchemy to refine the elixir, and is ready to start the second turn of the "Three-turn Chongyuan Gong".
Previously, whether it was training strange insects or refining a large number of puppets, they were all in preparation for going to sea to hunt and kill monsters. He thought to himself that with the puppet, the blood jade spider, the magic weapon of the formation, and the soul of Qu as the main force, with his assistance at the side, it should not be difficult to hunt and kill the fifth-level monsters.
Thinking about it this way, Han Li finally left the cave that day, and took Qu Hun to the square city of Tianxing City. Since he was going to hunt high-level monsters in the open sea, he naturally needed some information about monsters and the alien sea islands on the teleportation array. All of these should be found in Fangshi.
The Square City of Tianxing City is located on the first floor of the holy mountain, and its scale is so large that it almost occupies more than half of the area on the first floor.
Every day, many monks come here to buy and sell various instruments and materials. In terms of scale and prosperity, it is far beyond the comparison of any market that Han Li has seen before.