When Xu Chunniang saw the small world expanding outward, she finally realized that Little Walnut might have already taken possession of the underwater spiritual vein.
That is why such a big change can only occur in a small world.
Although Xu Chunniang discovered after a closer look that the spiritual vein obtained by Xiao Hetao was not complete, this was purely an unexpected surprise.
When she first saw the small walnut fall into the fish's belly, she thought it was also swallowed by the big fish and didn't think about the spiritual vein at all.
But now it seems that Little Walnut is really powerful. Under the nose of the Nascent Soul Demon, she not only snatched most of the spiritual veins, but also entered the fish's belly in time, saving her, Little Orange and Little Bai.
Although she was now in the belly of the big fish and was almost turned into a meal, she was temporarily out of danger and had gained half of the spiritual vein, so Xu Chunniang felt that she had made a profit!
After all, that is most of the spiritual vein, and this spiritual vein is located in the deep sea, has never been developed, and has extremely high quality.
If Xu Chunniang's cultivation was sufficient and she had the intention to establish a sect, she could even rely on this half of the spiritual vein to build a small sect in the Qianluo Realm.
Just thinking about it made her blood boil and it felt unreal.
If she had known in advance that there was a Nascent Soul demon beneath that spiritual vein, she would not have been so "suicidal" as to provoke it.
But the fact is that she didn't know it in advance. Not only did she provoke him, but Little Walnut also successfully snatched away the spiritual vein of the Nascent Soul cultivator. It was incredible to think about it.
However, after the spiritual vein was absorbed by the little walnut, it merged into this small world and turned into a huge spiritual stone mountain range.
Because of the addition of this spiritual vein, the small world has expanded five or six times and is still expanding outward.
Correspondingly, the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins was decreasing at a terrifying rate due to the expansion of the small world.
It was not until the spiritual energy in this spiritual vein was reduced to only one tenth of its original value that the small world slowly stopped expanding and became completely stabilized.
After this process was completed, the scope of the small world directly expanded tenfold.
If the small world before was like a small village, then it is now as big as a small town.
Although the expansion of this small world has caused a lot of loss of spiritual energy in the spirit stone veins, as long as the veins are still there, the spiritual energy can be slowly restored and condensed into many spirit stones.
Moreover, the previous small world was too small, and the concentration of spiritual energy had reached its limit. If it did not expand, it would not even be able to accommodate most of the spiritual vein.
After the small world settled down, Little Orange and Little White ran happily towards the spiritual vein, selected a place with the most abundant spiritual energy, and started digging a hole with their claws, as if they were planning to settle down there.
Xu Chunniang took a look and then looked away. This time the harvest was huge, but she did not forget that the entire walnut world was still trapped in the belly of that big fish.
It is indeed safe to hide in the small world, but she can't stay here forever without going out.
Although the small world is beautiful, the outside world is the real one.
We must find a way to confirm the situation outside.
However, the small world and the outside world are like two different worlds. When you are here, your spiritual consciousness cannot detect the movements of the outside world at all.
If I go out rashly, it would seem a bit risky.
After all, it is very likely that Little Walnut was soaked in the acid in the belly of the big fish.
As soon as she went out, she would be corroded and dissolved by the acid.
The acid was extremely strong, and she absolutely did not dare to take the risk.
Xu Chunniang frowned and thought hard for a while, then suddenly remembered something and walked towards a place where she used to store sundries.
Most of these sundries were obtained by her from other monks.
In addition to some things that she thought were useful, and materials that were difficult to sell and had no use, there were more things that were of little value but were a pity to throw away, and she had no time to deal with them.
Xu Chunniang remembered that she once killed a monk who controlled insects, and in the monk's spirit beast bag, there was a pile of unhatched insect eggs.
Moreover, it seemed that there were some related insect-controlling techniques in his storage ring.
Perhaps, she could find a way to drive these insects to test the danger for her.
Xu Chunniang searched according to her memory and indeed found the spirit beast bag. She also found the insect-controlling technique that the cultivator had learned.
However, before studying the jade slip and learning the art of controlling insects, she planned to first open up a cave on the spiritual vein.
When you are in a place with abundant spiritual energy, your body will automatically absorb the spiritual energy even if you don't practice cultivation.
When you practice, you will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
It would have been fine if she didn't have a spiritual vein before, but now that she has one, she naturally has to make good use of it.
After spending several days to open up a simple shelter on the main vein, Xu Chunniang took out the jade slip and read it carefully.
About two months later, Xu Chunniang finished reading all the contents on the jade slip and took out the insect eggs from the spirit beast's bag.
She followed the instructions in the jade slip, cut her finger, forced out her blood, and dripped it into the insect eggs.
The black insect eggs were stained with blood, looking a bit strange, but in less than half a breath, all the blood seeped into them.
She could feel that she seemed to have established some kind of connection with these insect eggs.
But this connection is too weak and I'm afraid it won't last long before disappearing.
It must be because she fed too little essence and blood.
Xu Chunniang did not hesitate to force out more blood and essence, which dripped onto the insect eggs.
The black insect eggs absorbed the blood silently, and she could feel that her connection with them was deepening.
After sucking all the blood, the black insect eggs grew noticeably larger, but they seemed far from hatching.
Xu Chunniang put away the black insect eggs. She knew a lot about insects through the jade slips and knew that these black insect eggs were the eggs of rove beetles, which were of the second-grade top quality.
These insect eggs are not easy to hatch. To successfully hatch the rove beetle, it may take three to five years at the shortest, or even ten to eight years at the longest.
The specific situation depends on the vitality of the eggs, the cultivation level of the person being fed, the purity of the blood and essence, etc.
In short, hatching a rove beetle is not something that can be done in a short period of time.
After Xu Chunniang finished feeding the insect eggs, she continued to practice.
Compared to adult insects, insect eggs are very weak. In addition to careful care, they should not be fed too much essence and blood.
Time passed quietly and silently. Every once in a while, Xu Chunniang would carefully feed the rove beetle eggs with her essence and blood to strengthen the connection between her and them.
The rest of her time was spent practicing and studying formations. Occasionally, she would check on the spiritual fields and brew wine with the newly harvested spiritual rice.
The second-level spiritual field is planted with red pearl rice, the raw material for brewing red wine.
As the best grade among the second grade spiritual rice, red pearl rice is extremely rich in spiritual energy, but its output is pitifully low.
Moreover, red pearl rice grows very slowly and matures only once a year.