"Um--"

Inside the small cave, Shen Lian's mind surged subconsciously, and he felt as if something was growing in his brain again.

Countless characters gathered together to form information about beast taming and crowded into his thoughts.

The contracts and training of various spirit beasts, how to advance, and how to heal.

The selection, training and advancement of your natal spirit beast.

In short, the amount of information is huge, and 90% of it is about introductions to spiritual beasts.

The insights points that Shen Lian had accumulated could only allow him to be promoted to the level of a first-class intermediate beastmaster, and the introductions to these spirit beasts were not very detailed.

For example, there are hundreds of branches of the genus Jiaolong, but the relevant introduction information is just one sentence.

If you want to understand more deeply, you need to keep advancing little by little to pass on the knowledge.

There are many beast-taming sects in the world of immortal cultivation, but most of them are not orthodox beast-taming sects.

Most sects train a spirit beast by relying on its natural cultivation. This is not only slow, but can also cause the realm to get stuck due to bloodline problems.

The secret techniques mastered by a true Beast Taming Sect can be used through external means to configure corresponding elixirs, secret techniques, formations, etc. to increase the probability of advancement of spiritual beasts.

Just like human cultivators practicing Qi, building foundation, and making golden elixir, they need to swallow different proportions of elixirs and practice in different environments each time they advance. Only those who master these things can be orthodox beastmasters.

Not only that, but one also has to pay attention to the intimacy with the spirit beast and the coordination during the battle.

The levels of beastmasters and spirit beasts are not fixed. If a cultivator has a great opportunity, he can practice Qi and sign a contract with a golden elixir dragon and ride a dragon.

After accepting the relevant beast taming inheritance, Shen Lian digested it for a whole night.

The art of taming beasts includes all kinds of creatures, including insects, reptiles, hairs, and feathers, including humans. As long as you are open-minded, you can tam a cultivator for fun.

The ants and bees that Shen Lian likes belong to the insect family.

After obtaining the beast taming inheritance, Shen Lian eliminated the target bees and chose the ants instead.

There is no other reason. The advancement of bee-like monsters requires the cooperation of various spiritual flowers, but it is different for ants. Any carrion will do, the main thing is to be easy to raise.

After destroying the small cave and affixing the magic talisman and the breath-suppressing talisman, Shen Lian began to look for the queen ant.

There are many kinds of demon ants in the world of immortal cultivation. The most famous one is the mountain-moving ant, which has great strength and can carry mountains thousands of feet high.

There are also soul-eating ants, which appear in endless numbers every time, devouring everything and leaving thousands of miles of scorched earth wherever they pass.

There are rumors that a tide of soul-eating ants broke out in the world of immortal cultivation, and even swallowed up the gods.

From then on, there was an unwritten rule in the world of immortal cultivation that wherever soul-eating ants appeared, they had to be killed immediately to prevent them from growing.

Shen Lian would not do something so outrageous as to deal with the Soul-Eating Ants. He was also afraid that this thing would backfire on him.

Walking carefully in the rocky jungle in the mountains, exploring beneath the grass and mud.

There are a lot of insects and ants in the mountains and forests, but most of them are ordinary insects and ants that have not been transformed into monsters.

Shen Lian was like a monkey, jumping up and down in the mountains and forests, while also being on guard against possible dangers around him.

Every time they searched an area, they would first find a location and set up a talisman array in advance just in case.

The talisman array will be put away only after the search is complete and there is no danger.

When you go to the next place, make the same arrangements.

…

Five days later.

Within the scope of Qianyun Mountain, at the foot of a low hill.

"Push it up, push it up."

Shen Lian looked at the black-horned demon ant in front of him and signaled it to lift up the stone in front of it.

The black-horned demon ant in front of him was the size of a baby's fist and had a pair of horns that were as long as its body.

The demon race pays attention to bloodlines, and it is rumored that the black-horned demon ants have the bloodline of mountain-moving ants.

Under Shen Lian's command, the black-horned demon ant easily lifted up the stone in front of it.

After going through so many mountains, ravines and forests, the effort was finally not in vain, as I found the black-horned demon ant in front of me, which was at the first level of Qi training.

It's a pity that it's the first male's.

Fortunately, the problem is not serious. After being transformed into a monster, the creature’s strength has greatly increased and it can easily control other ant colonies.

Hiss——

The black-horned demon ant's two antennae under its horns collided with each other, making a hissing sound, and wanted to get close to Shen Lian.

Shen Lian used his spiritual power to communicate with the black-horned demon ant, but unfortunately the demon ant's brain was a little bit not working well, so he had to work very hard to pass on the order.

“Hiss—”

"Since I climbed over mountains and dug through mud to find you, I'll call you Dahei."

“Hiss.”

"Idiot, I'll replace you when I find someone with a better brain.

“Hiss—”

The black-horned demon ant Dahei rolled over in front of Shen Lian.

"Go, go, go—get your wife and children to keep watch."

…

Rustle...

Below the jungle filled with miasma, outside a narrow cave filled with rocks and dead leaves, a breath-suppressing formation was integrated with the rocks.

Passing through the narrow entrance, the scene inside suddenly became clear, turning into a cave about two meters in size, with several formation flags wedged in the four corners, emitting the same light as the surrounding soil and rocks.

Inside the cave, there was a bed, simple daily necessities, and a cushion for cultivation, with a few medicine bottles scattered around.

In the corner of the cave, underneath the seemingly flat and normal soil and rocks, there is a vertical hole going downwards.

On the four walls of the vertical cave, there are solidifying talismans that can solidify soil and rocks, breath-retaining talismans that can restrain breath, and divine thought talismans that can detect divine thoughts.

Below the vertical hole, Shen Lian was practicing with an earth escape talisman on his body, ready to escape at the slightest sign of trouble.

In front of him was an ant nest, crawling with densely packed black-horned ants. Outside the ant nest was a piece of monster meat that was filled with evil spirits.

Dense swarms of black-horned ants are scrambling to climb onto the monster's flesh to devour it.

But the dead monsters cannot be devoured by ordinary black-horned ants.

At the beginning, most of the black-horned ants were killed by the impact of the demonic energy before they could get close to the monster meat.

“Hiss.”

The black-horned demon ant Dahei let out a hissing sound, and the following black-horned ants continued to climb towards the demon beast's flesh.

With perseverance, some black-horned ants successfully bit the monster's flesh and exploded to death.

The outside of the ant nest was covered with a thick layer of black-horned ant corpses.

Dahei picked up the remains of the black-horned ants that had exploded after eating the monster's flesh and sent some of them into the ant nest to be devoured by the queen ant, and ate the rest himself.

There are hundreds of queen ants in the ant nest. In just half a month, no one knows how many black-horned ants were hatched.

Half a month later, after countless black-horned queen ants had died, a black-horned ant did not explode and die again after swallowing a mouthful of monster meat.

After rolling for a quarter of an hour, a trace of demonic aura emerged from his body.

It successfully transformed from an ordinary black-horned ant into a monster.

The moment the evil spirit appeared, Shen Lian, who was practicing, opened his eyes and saw this lucky ant stepping on the corpse of its own species.

The big black cat that was gnawing on a spiritual stone nearby also sensed the presence of its own kind and let out a low hiss.

The black-horned ant, which had just transformed into a demon, crawled in front of Dahei.

Dahei raised his head, wagging his two tentacles and hissing.

"It's only the first level of Qi training. I'm already at the seventh level of Qi training and I'm still drilling in the cave..."

Looking at the arrogant Dahei, Shen Lian grabbed him in a bad mood.

"Be steady, understand."

“Hiss.”

"You idiot, go get out and sow the seeds."

He threw Dahei into the ant nest.

Although this spirit beast is a bit stupid, it is very obedient. Shen Lian is quite satisfied with it.

Now, all the ant nests within three miles around this hill have been conquered by Dahei.

Unfortunately, the ordinary black-horned ant is not very smart and is not very clear about the external environment. The hill he named Anwen Mountain cannot be considered truly safe.

…

Half a year later.

Boom boom

Deep in the wilderness, the earth is shaking.

Deep in the ruins of Zhanyun Mountain, a dazzling spiritual light pierced through the sky like a beam of light.

After the light column was formed, it trembled slightly, and the terrifying spiritual light turned into ripples, sweeping in all directions.

The miasma within a thousand miles of the sky was instantly melted away by the impact of the spiritual light, like snowflakes under the scorching sun.

Under the spiritual light, three extremely large cracks appeared among the many cracks in the Zhanyun Mountain.

The spiritual light in the crack turned into a dragon and rushed along the direction of the crack.

Wherever he passed, mountains collapsed and jungles collapsed.

After just a few breaths, the three cracks reached the three major cities of Yunmeng, Nanjiang and Changhe respectively.

Three towns where cities were being built collapsed into ruins in the blink of an eye under the impact of the spiritual dragon.

An extremely rich spiritual energy enveloped the area of ​​the original market town.

…

"The earth dragon is moving!"

Inside the cave, Shen Lian, who was practicing quietly, suddenly woke up with a start. With a whoosh, the talismans all over his body lit up with a halo, reaching a critical excitation state.

He saw a group of black-horned demon ants gathering around him, hissing and trembling.

“Hiss—”

"Get out of here, don't get close to me..."

I forgot to schedule the release, so it’s a few minutes late. Please read it anyway.

(End of this chapter)