In a blink of an eye, it has been nearly twenty years since Yang Qi left Zichen Continent and more than ten years since he left the Wilderness. After more than ten years of traveling, he has traveled nearly half of the distance to the star field where Emperor Wu Shi is located.
Over the past ten years, Yang Qi has discovered the difference between the cultivation world outside the Wilderness and that inside the Wilderness. Not only are there more and stronger top masters outside the Wilderness, but the ratio of martial king-level practitioners is also incomparable to that in the Wilderness. On this journey, Yang Qi even passed by several star regions where martial emperors were born. Although there are no martial emperors in those star regions now, their foundation is still far superior to those star regions where high-level martial emperors are in charge!
In addition to what he had seen and heard along the way, Yang Qi's biggest change was his improvement in strength. He was now at the peak of a four-star martial master, and only one step away from breaking through to the five-star martial king level. His level of fusion had also improved significantly, and even the Wood Dao that was inherited by Emperor Tianfeng, Yang Qi was only one step away from comprehending the level of the Tao.
In the starry sky, a spaceship was flying very fast, but unfortunately, no one in the nearby starry sky could recognize the origin of this spaceship.
In the training room inside the spaceship, Yang Qi was staring at the insect beast egg. The egg was already covered with cracks. The spiritual medicines placed around it turned into wisps of mist and continuously merged into the insect beast egg through these cracks. As the medicinal power was absorbed by the insect beast egg, the cracks continued to expand.
Yes, the insect beast eggs in front of him were a sign of hatching. More than ten years ago, the spacecraft's intelligent brain told him that the insect beast eggs were about to hatch, but this "will" lasted for more than ten years. And now, the insect beast eggs were not about to hatch, but had already started to hatch!
Looking at the insect beast eggs that were constantly flashing with dark red light, Yang Qi couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "It's been seven days, and it hasn't hatched yet."
Seven days, a full seven days. After learning that the insect-beast eggs had begun to hatch, Yang Qi had been waiting in front of the insect-beast eggs. However, seven days had passed and the insect-beast eggs had not actually hatched.
Buzz~Buzz~
The dark red light flickered continuously, and a faint aura emanated from the insect beast egg, which was the aura of the Martial King Realm. As Yang Qi guessed, this was a powerful insect beast egg. Once hatched, the insect beast would directly possess the strength of the Martial King Realm.
Looking at the dark red light flashing on the insect beast egg, Yang Qi smiled bitterly and cut a blood mark with his fingertips. Drops of bright red blood fell on the insect beast egg, and passed through the cracks in the insect beast egg and were continuously absorbed by the insect beast egg.
Yang Qi originally didn't know how to recognize a bug beast of this level, until he stayed in a star field where a martial emperor was born, and learned how to recognize a master through the information sold there. If you want to recognize a bug beast of this level, you need to feed it with blood when it hatches, and you need to imprint the soul mark on the bug beast when it hatches, so that you can complete the initial recognition.
Therefore, after learning that the insect beast eggs began to hatch, Yang Qi immediately guarded the insect beast eggs and began the process of recognizing the insect beast as his master. Insect beasts are a good helper. Even if you are not a cultivator who follows the path of insect beasts, you will choose to recognize some insect beasts as your master. If the previous eight-winged golden cicada had not broken through to the Martial King Realm, Yang Qi would not have left it in Zichen Continent.
After absorbing Yang Qi's blood, the dark red light flashing on the insect beast egg quickly slowed down, and then dimmed, as if nothing had happened, but it was still absorbing the medicinal power of the surrounding elixirs.
“Insect beasts of this level may be powerful, but the cost of cultivating them is too high.” Looking at the elixir that was constantly being absorbed by the insect beast eggs, Yang Qi’s face was filled with pain.
In these seven days alone, the value of the spiritual medicine absorbed by the insect beast eggs exceeded that of a pseudo-Taoist soldier. Adding the spiritual medicine consumed in the previous decades of cultivation, the price Yang Qi paid was almost close to the value of a Taoist soldier.
This is because he started to cultivate the insect beast eggs when they were about to hatch. If he had started to cultivate them from the moment the insect beast eggs were born, he would have spent a lot of resources. No wonder the great devil Fike had to occupy a cultivation world to plunder resources. If he had to cultivate them himself, he would not have enough even if he sold himself!
Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was the eighth day. Yang Qi once again fed the insect beast eggs with his own blood, but the insect beast eggs showed no signs of hatching, and the consumption of the elixir continued.
Looking at the insect beast egg whose cracks were getting bigger, Yang Qi murmured to himself, "I hope you won't let me down."
After spending so much energy and resources, if the insect beasts he cultivated were too bad, it would be a big loss. After all, he himself was not a cultivator of the insect beast path. For him, insect beasts only played a supporting role, not like the insect beast cultivators, where insect beasts were their path!
In a blink of an eye, it was the ninth day.
Buzz~Buzz~
The insect beast eggs were flashing dark red light again, but this time, it was more rapid than before, and the dark red light was also more intense.
Poof!
Yang Qi's fingertips cut a hole, and bright red blood dripped onto the insect beast eggs. As soon as the blood touched the insect beast eggs, it was immediately absorbed, much faster than the previous times.
Snap!
As the insect beast egg continued to absorb Yang Qi's blood, the cracks on the insect beast egg expanded rapidly, and even faint cracking sounds could be heard.
Bang!
Suddenly, the insect egg split into four pieces, and a dark red beetle half the size of a fist appeared in front of Yang Qi. As soon as the dark red beetle appeared, the surrounding space seemed to be solidified in an instant.
“What an amazing talent.”
Yang Qi's face changed slightly. He had such means just after being born. This was definitely not something a low-level Martial King could possess. The insect beast in front of him was obviously only a one-star Martial King, and his talent and potential were obvious.
While Yang Qi was shocked by the powerful talent and potential of the insect beast, he could also feel that the insect beast had a special blood connection with him, which was the connection imprinted by the blood he had fed the insect beast before.
Buzz~
At this moment, the dark red beetle suddenly opened its eyes, and a terrifying power burst out, and golden lines flowed on the beetle's body.
As the beetle opened its eyes, Yang Qi's expression suddenly changed, and he was shocked. "Not good, the blood connection is weakening, I must recognize the master as soon as possible!"
Wow~
Almost instantly, a powerful soul force surged out from Yang Qi's body and attacked the beetle directly, trying to leave a soul mark on it.
"This is… "
However, just as Yang Qi's soul power came into contact with the beetle's soul power, his expression changed again, "Damn it, this insect beast is actually good at souls!" (To be continued)