The two new insect eggs were very domineering. After absorbing the little demonic energy around them, they even forcibly devoured the surrounding demonic octopuses.
In the end, only the two black eggs were left in front of Jiang Yuebai and Bai Jiuyou.
Jiang Yuebai looked around, "Where are the other spirit insects?"
Bai Jiuyou held the black lightning-colored little thunder beast in his arms, tapped the insect eggs on the ground with his chin, and said casually, "They ate them all."
Jiang Yuebai:!!!
"They... ate it all? Why didn't you stop them?!"
Bai Jiuyou lowered his head and scratched the little Leihu's forehead without saying a word.
Jiang Yuebai understood immediately and said with bared teeth, "Bai Jiuyou! Your sneaky and cunning habits are exactly the same as Yu Chen's. Are you thinking that once all the spirit insects are eaten up, you don't have to bother raising them anymore?!"
"You already know the answer, why are you asking?" Bai Jiuyou rolled his eyes without showing any fear.
"You!" Jiang Yuebai gritted his teeth in anger, "Those were all given to me by Yun Shang!"
Bai Jiuyou put the little Leihu down and let it play by itself. He said to Jiang Yuebai, "You are already in the Nascent Soul stage. The growth cycle of those spiritual insects is too long and their potential is very limited. They can't keep up with your cultivation progress at all. This includes many spiritual beasts here."
"If you just let them grow naturally, then it won't matter. But if you are greedy and want to cultivate them all, you simply don't have the time or energy. Besides, it will cost a lot to refine the Soul Feeding Pill for them."
"It's better to keep the essence than to keep the quantity. Don't you understand this principle? You could have freed me to do more things that would be of greater use to you, but you kept me here raising these spiritual insects and spiritual beasts that you can't use in the end. Don't you think it's a waste?"
Jiang Yuebai was stunned, feeling like there were two of him arguing with each other, one emotional, the other rational.
In fact, she had already pondered over what Bai Jiuyou said in her mind. Perhaps she still couldn't get over the difficulties in her childhood, and she used Yun Shang's gift as an excuse, so she wanted to save everything and didn't want to waste anything.
Just like an empty medicine bottle, once the medicine is consumed, the bottle should be thrown away, but she will keep it, always thinking that she will be able to use it one day and save the money for a bottle.
Then the bottle took up space in her storage bag, preventing other things from being put in.
Especially after her last nirvana, the loss was too great, so she unconsciously fell into this vicious circle again.
I want to keep everything, whether useful or not. Even if I can't use it for the time being, I will make excuses for myself, saying that I can use it in the future. If I need it in the future, I will have to buy it if I don't have it.
She even added extra burden to herself in order to use this useless thing, just like these spiritual insects. She knew that they could not be used, but still let Bai Jiuyou raise them.
Some things can be kept, but some need to be cut off, given up, and left behind in a timely manner.
What you cut off are external interferences, what you give up are inner gains and losses, and what you leave behind are the bonds of desire.
Empty yourself first so that you can be as light as a swallow and fly fast.
Jiang Yuebai suddenly realized that at this moment, she needed to eat, the spirit rats she raised needed to eat, and the spirit insects and spirit beasts in the cave also needed to eat. No matter how much time and energy she spent and how many spirit stones she earned, she could not fill this bottomless pit.
Indeed, she should give up some things as soon as possible.
Taking a deep breath and exhaling the waste gas in his chest, Jiang Yuebai said to Bai Jiuyou, "I'm sorry, it's my fault. From now on, you just need to help me take care of the little Leihu and the two eggs. Leave the dragon egg to Hongye. Jixiang's family can take care of themselves. Let the others roam free and let the dragonfly demon take care of them."
Bai Jiuyou's expression turned from gloomy to bright, "That's about right. Among your spirit beasts, the dragon egg has the highest potential, but it will probably take a few years for it to hatch. Next is this little thunder beast, which has good potential. If you continue to feed it with Yin-Yang Thunder, it will soon be able to help you fight."
Jiang Yuebai nodded. Hongye was already in the early stage of Nascent Soul and could keep up with her cultivation. His combat power was also very strong.
Needless to say, the Jixiang family is relied upon for treasure hunting, digging holes and breaking formations, so it doesn't matter if they are weak in combat.
Moreover, the shit that Jixiang is pulling out is extraordinary. The concentration of the foul gas is so high that it can be used as a poison pill if it is thrown out directly.
It makes the person's mind confused, his spiritual energy violent, and he becomes possessed!
Speaking of this, Jiang Yuebai immediately sucked up the rat droppings and placed them next to one of the insect eggs. The insect egg immediately extended its slippery tentacles and rolled the rat droppings into the egg.
"What is this?" Bai Jiuyou asked while squatting beside Jiang Yuebai.
"It should be the shit that Jixiang took after eating the magic core. It absorbed the energy in the magic core and left behind a ball of turbid air."
At this time, the insect eggs that had just swallowed the mouse feces began to wriggle, and something inside grew rapidly and broke free from the eggs.
Two heads, one big and one small, came together to look over, and unexpectedly a green-armored bee queen with a shiny black body crawled out.
The queen bee shook her wings, turned her head and swallowed the egg shell clean, and then laid black bee eggs. She laid more than twenty eggs in a row before stopping.
Those bee eggs also hatched quickly, and the larvae broke out of their shells and grew quickly. Except for their black color and turbid air, they looked exactly like the green-armored bees.
When chaos first began, turbid air and clear air were born between heaven and earth. The clear air rose up to produce "clean" breath such as spiritual energy, while the turbid air sank down to produce "dirty" breath such as demonic energy.
Therefore, turbid air is a stronger and more advanced breath than demonic energy. The previous demon octopus carried demonic energy and very weak turbid air, but this time it was pure turbid air.
Jiang Yuebai had experienced the power of pure turbid air from the little water lily demon when he was a grass in the demon clan.
Water lilies belong to the blue lotus family and can gather puddles of foul air. Anything that approaches a puddle of foul air will be contaminated and corrupted by the foul air.
Jiang Yuebai didn’t know whether these black green-armored bees also had this ability, so she simply took out a small piece of Taixuan gold and threw it at the black queen bee.
The queen bee sensed danger, and the twenty or so black bees around her immediately gathered together, flapping their wings and buzzing to form a small black barrier, which was the same magic as the green-armored bee colony.
Taixuan gold was like falling into sticky water. It was submerged and corroded by the black barrier bit by bit, and finally turned into black water.
“Let me try!”
Bai Jiuyou used the Unfixed Ice to condense an ice thorn from his fingertips and stabbed the black barrier.
Before the ice spike got close, a black current surged in the black barrier, extending many tentacles to wrap around the ice spike and quickly attack Bai Jiuyou at the other end of the ice spike.
Bai Jiuyou did not dodge, allowing a strand of black current to enter her body. Then she suddenly retracted her hand, and black air immediately swirled around her face. The air around her body blew up her black hair.
"This turbid energy is so powerful that ordinary spiritual energy, demonic energy, and monster energy cannot suppress it. Unfixed icy energy is also at a disadvantage. However, the chaotic energy can assimilate it."
Bai Jiuyou frowned and merged the wisp of turbid air into the chaotic air.
"Is it really that amazing?"
Jiang Yuebai didn't believe it and directly ignited the Phoenix Fire and burned over.
"Don't!"
It was too late for Bai Jiuyou to stop it. He watched helplessly as the Phoenix True Fire devoured the black barrier. The twenty or so black bees were all burned to ashes, and the queen bee ran around in fear.
"So fragile?" Jiang Yuebai raised his eyebrows.
Bai Jiuyou drooped his eyelids, "Spiritual insects are different from poisonous insects. A single poisonous insect is powerful, but spirit insects need to gather in the hundreds of thousands or even millions to have the power to fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator. And you have the Phoenix True Fire, who can withstand such a burning?"
Jiang Yuebai put away the Phoenix True Fire and nodded, "I know, I know. I just want to test the defense of a single one of them. Even though it's a little weak, if we can really cultivate hundreds of thousands of them, there will definitely be no grass growing wherever they pass, and even Nascent Soul cultivators will be scared to death!"
"If we want to breed quickly, we have to let Jixiang come back to poop. I have figured out that these bees grow faster by eating poop."
Jiang Yuebai couldn't help but laugh and said, "Okay, I will give the magic cores I collected earlier to Jixiang and let it work hard to poop. This bee will be called the Black Armor Bee from now on."
"What a crappy name." Bai Jiuyou said unhappily.
Jiang Yuebai didn't bother with Bai Jiuyou, he stood up and said, "I'll go out and continue to watch over the mining and refine the Taixuan refined gold. You can come out and help after you have settled the black armor bees."
"good!"
I still owe you 5 chapters. I'll pay it back slowly. See you tomorrow. Hehe~
(End of this chapter)