SFS Chapter 15 Golden-backed Monster Mantis!
Chapter 15 Golden-backed Monster Mantis!
"I...I was taken in by the eldest sister?" Meng De's eyes widened slightly, this was something he was somewhat surprised by.
"Hmm...we'll talk about the rest after we meet Senior Sister." Yunxi nodded and led Mengde up the long staircase.
"Half a master..." Meng De followed behind Yunxi, his gaze flickering slightly as he looked at her retreating figure. For some reason, he felt that these words seemed somewhat important.
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Halfway up Jinxia Peak, after Mengde followed Yunxi out of the magnificent maple forest, a meadow came into view, in the center of which grew a towering golden ginkgo tree.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, Meng De subconsciously looked up towards the direction of the golden ginkgo tree. In the warm morning light, he seemed to see a blurry figure in the hazy light and shadow...
"Yunxi greets Senior Sister!" While Meng De was still in a daze, Yunxi beside him had already bowed respectfully towards the direction of the golden ginkgo tree in front of them.
"Mengde greets Senior Sister!" Realizing what had happened, Mengde quickly followed Yunxi's example and respectfully bowed to the blurry figure under the golden ginkgo tree.
"Come over here, all of you." A clear and detached voice rang out softly in the air.
Beneath the Golden Ginkgo Tree, Yunxi led Mengde across the grassland, and they bowed ten meters away from the tree.
"No need for formalities." The ethereal voice rang out again, and the beautiful figure who was meditating and breathing under the golden ginkgo tree slowly turned around. A girl wearing a white and red dress, with white hair and red eyes, but wearing a bamboo hat and light veil appeared in their eyes.
Qingli, the chief disciple of Fairy Qingling of Spirit Beast Mountain, is at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Realm!
"Senior Sister, the person has been brought." Yunxi said respectfully to Qingli.
"Yes, thank you for your hard work, Xiao Yun." The girl wearing a bamboo hat and light veil nodded slightly to Yun Xi, and Meng De was a little surprised by her affectionate address.
This name alone reveals that Qingli, who is at the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment Realm, has a close relationship with Yunxi, who is at the Thirteenth Level of the Qi Refining Realm.
"Mengde, right? Your growth has exceeded my expectations." The girl's red eyes looked at Mengde, her gaze calm yet curious.
"Mengde greets Senior Sister, and is grateful for Senior Sister's willingness to give Mengde the opportunity to cultivate immortality!" Mengde bowed to the red-eyed girl under the Golden Cloud Spirit Tree.
"The opportunity was indeed given by me, but it was you who seized it." A gentle smile appeared on Qingli's face. Her jade-like fingers lightly brushed across the air, and a bamboo scroll with neat and upright handwriting floated above her fingertips.
"This..." Meng De's gaze instinctively fell on the bamboo slips, then his pupils contracted slightly...
"Bloodline Inheritance and Breeding, it's clear you're quite interested in these things. I just didn't expect that in less than three months since arriving at Qingling Peak, you've already demonstrated your talent in cultivating spirit insects," Qing Li said in a clear, ethereal voice.
"Alright, you've proven that my choice back then wasn't wrong, so I should reward you accordingly." Qing Li didn't say anything more, and with a flick of her index finger, three insect eggs of different colors appeared in front of Meng De and Yun Xi.
"I have three kinds of spirit insects here. The one with blue-gold patterns on its body is the Golden-backed Demon Mantis."
The Golden-backed Demon Mantis, ranked seventy-third on the list of strange insects, has an extremely fierce personality!
"The one with pink patterns on its body is called the Enchanted Sky Butterfly."
The Enchanted Butterfly, ranked eighty-first on the list of strange insects, has scales on its wings that can create illusions that deceive the divine and even distort space.
"This green insect egg is called the Nine Netherworld Bee."
The Nine Netherworld Bee, ranked forty-seventh on the list of strange insects, is the king of deadly poisons. Its venom can even corrode divine consciousness and magical power!
As the second strongest cultivation sect in the Yue Kingdom after the Hidden Moon Sect, Spirit Beast Mountain has also collected quite a few extremely ferocious and strange spirit insects.
"As a gift, you are entitled to choose a spirit insect you desire," Qing Li's voice rang out softly.
"..." Meng De looked at the three spirit insect eggs floating in mid-air, a strange light flashing in the depths of his eyes... If he had been able to obtain one of them half a year ago, would he have been able to cultivate a brand new source blood species?
Meng De shook his head slightly. The breeding of spirit insects is extremely resource-intensive. Even if Meng De had spirit insect eggs in his hands back then, he would not have rashly chosen the strange insect as the first source blood species.
Meng De silently examined the three types of spirit insect eggs, then glanced at Yunxi, who was standing silently with her head down beside him, before finally bowing to Qing Li and saying:
"Senior Sister, I want the Golden-backed Demon Mantis!"
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"I thought you would choose the Nine Netherworld Bees, which are ranked higher." On the way back to Blackwater Manor, Yunxi piloted the shimmering white flying boat, looking at the white clouds ahead, and said calmly to Mengde behind her.
"Although the Nine Netherworld Bee ranks higher on the list of strange insects, it is not suitable for you, Senior Sister." Meng De took out the Golden-backed Demon Mantis egg from his storage bag and handed it to Yunxi.
"I've seen the list of strange insects. In terms of individual combat strength, even if the Golden-backed Demon Mantis has only recently hatched, it can still threaten cultivators below the Foundation Establishment stage."
As the insect peak in the Spirit Beast Mountain, Qingling Peak naturally made it easy for Meng De to access information about the Strange Insect Ranking.
The option "Nine Netherworld Bees" is, in a sense, a trap.
A swarm of bees must have a large enough number to unleash the dominance of the "Forty-Seven". A single Nine Nether Bee egg can't change anything at all.
As for the Enchanted Butterfly, Mengde felt that its abilities might not be suitable for Yunxi's needs.
"..." Yunxi looked at the spirit insect egg in front of her, paused for a moment, and then took it: "Yes, thank you."
The two then fell silent. After Yunxi escorted Mengde back to Blackwater Manor, she left immediately.
"I have a feeling... there's something strange about it that I can't quite put my finger on..." Inside Blackwater Manor, Meng De looked in the direction Yunxi had left, his deep black eyes flickering slightly.
During the past six months, although Mengde was a bit of a homebody, he would still passively learn some information every time he went to the Black Bee Palace to "refresh the quest list".
One of these is that his nominal master, the master of Qingling Peak, and the first spirit insect in the hands of Fairy Qingling, is the Nine Netherworld Bee.
"...Never mind, although it feels a bit strange...but it should have nothing to do with me..." Meng De shook his head slightly. The atmosphere inside Qingling Peak was indeed a little strange, but this was not something that Meng De, who only had the fifth level of Qi Refining cultivation, should be concerned about.
"The most urgent task is to breed new subspecies and find an opportunity to...wholesale" the Source Blood Flying Mosquitoes.
After returning from Jinxia Peak, Mengde had been pondering a question...
That is, how to find a suitable time to "publicly" release the source blood mosquitoes.
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Finally, a month later, Mengde successfully "evolved" a subspecies of source blood that was more suitable as "insect food" and took the initiative to contact Senior Sister Yunxi.