A top-grade second-level spiritual field, with careful care, can barely produce 80 kilograms of red pearl rice.
The spiritual fields in the small world were barely of the middle grade of the second level. Adding to that, the puppets had limited abilities, which resulted in the output of red pearl rice from a spiritual field being a pitiful thirty kilograms.
But there were so many spiritual fields in the small world that one piece was not enough, so they planted ten or a hundred pieces. Over the years, the output of red pearl rice was quite considerable.
During the previous ten years when she was training her body in the water, Xu Chunniang was too busy practicing to spare the time to process the red rice. Now that she had some free time, she started brewing red wine.
A pot of crimson wine could have restored 30% of her spiritual energy.
As her cultivation improved, she needed to drink more red wine to achieve the previous effect.
The small world today is completely different from what it used to be. Not only is its area vast, but the spiritual energy is more abundant than before, and spiritual fields can be easily cultivated.
But relying solely on the puppets under her command, she is already too busy to take care of the existing spiritual fields, and has no time or energy to open up new spiritual fields. She can only maintain the status quo for the time being.
Little Orange is free, but with its small body and claws, it's good enough if it doesn't come to cause trouble. We can't expect it to do this job.
After Xu Chunniang sealed the last jar of wine, she sensed a slight movement from the rove beetle eggs in the spirit beast's bag.
Her heart moved slightly, and she left the spiritual field and walked towards the cave.
Because this small world belongs to her alone, Xu Chunniang did not set up any formations or barriers in this cave.
At the moment, these rove beetle eggs seem to be about to hatch, but it will take some time to refine them.
In order to avoid accidents during the refining process, Xu Chunniang simply set up a formation in the cave in advance, just in case.
As for the huge amount of spiritual energy needed for the larvae to hatch, there is no need to make any other preparations.
The cave she was in now was the place with the most spiritual energy in the spiritual vein, which was more than enough to support the hatching of these larvae.
After everything was ready, she took out the insect eggs from the spirit beast's bag.
These insect eggs contained amazing vitality and had grown a lot since she first fed them with her essence and blood three years ago.
After three years of non-stop feeding, they are finally about to hatch.
Xu Chunniang looked cautious. She had to use the power of blood connection to completely refine these rove beetles in a unique way as soon as they hatched.
If something goes wrong in this process, it will be very troublesome to control them in the future.
She carefully covered the black insect eggs in front of her with her spiritual sense, waiting for that moment to come.
Finally, the first rove beetle hatched successfully!
Its body is black, less than half an inch long, and looks weak and tender.
Xu Chunniang's attention was highly concentrated, and her spiritual sense accurately captured the larvae, carefully leaving a spiritual imprint on them.
The newly hatched larvae were extremely fragile, not even at the first level of Qi training.
Because of the blood connection, the larva has a natural sense of closeness to Xu Chunniang.
However, at the moment when the spiritual mark was about to be left, it subconsciously resisted.
The result is predictable. In front of Xu Chunniang, who was at the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, the weak larva could only resist for a few breaths before dying.
Xu Chunniang frowned. It turned out to be not that easy to refine the rove beetle and leave a spiritual imprint in its soul.
The newly hatched larvae were too fragile. Although they had a natural affinity for her, they must have been uneasy having just arrived into this world.
She was too anxious just now and should have calmed it down first.
Moreover, the spiritual power she released towards it was too powerful, causing the larva to be in life and death crisis, which led to its fierce resistance.
Xu Chunniang was summing up her experience, and at this moment, the second larvae hatched.
She did not rush to brand it, but instead used the art of controlling insects to stimulate the power of her bloodline and continuously strengthen the connection between her and it.
She could feel that after activating the power of her bloodline, the larva's dependence and closeness to her had significantly increased.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Chunniang separated a trace of her spiritual consciousness and focused it on the larva.
This time it hesitated for only a moment, then relaxed, allowing the mark to be successfully imprinted in its soul.
Success!
Xu Chunniang was slightly delighted, but before she could relax, the third and fourth larvae hatched one after another...
She quickly concentrated and continued to hatch.
This process lasted for three days until the last rove beetle successfully hatched and was branded with the soul.
Xu Chunniang's tense mind finally relaxed.
These eggs hatched into more than 300 larvae in total, but after establishing a spiritual connection with her, only about a hundred of them survived.
Since she had left a soul mark on them, they could more or less sense some of their emotions.
For example, now, these rove beetles are obviously hungry and reveal a strong desire to eat.
The jade slips that Xu Chunniang had obtained earlier, which recorded the art of controlling insects, introduced some common insects and their living habits and attack characteristics, including the rove beetle.
The rove beetle is a top-grade, second-level poisonous insect with a high toxicity. Adult rove beetles can pose a certain threat to foundation-building monks.
Their wings are hidden under the sheath on their backs and are completely transparent, making them difficult to see, hence the name rove beetle.
They are stealthy, silent when flying, and poisonous, making them ideal for sneak attacks.
As for food, they will eat anything as long as it is rich in spiritual energy.
Xu Chunniang thought for a moment, took out a bag of pearl rice from her storage ring and scattered it on the ground.
She had an astonishing amount of pearl rice in her hand, which was perfect for feeding these rove beetles.
The rove beetle, which had been hungry for several days, smelled the spiritual energy and food, and rushed to the spiritual rice and started to eat it in big mouthfuls.
However, they were too weak. About a hundred larvae only ate a pound of pearl rice before they could eat no more.
Xu Chunniang put away the remaining pearl rice and sensed the state of the rove beetles for a while. She found that they grew slightly stronger after eating.
She withdrew her gaze and thought silently in her heart.
Three years and two months had passed since she fell into the belly of the Yuanying fish.
During this period, she had never left the small world, and she didn't know what the external environment was like, or whether the little walnut had left the belly of the big fish.
The rove beetles have hatched, but they are so fragile that even a cat from the mortal world can kill them.
It seems that we have to wait for some time before sending them out to investigate the situation.
Xu Chunniang's mood gradually calmed down. She had waited for three years and was no longer in a hurry.
But this time she was away from the sect for too long.