What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

This Dharma teaching is extremely complex and detailed, and is divided into two main parts.

The first part focuses on cultivating spirit beasts. From the most basic identification of spirit beast habits and taboos in raising them, to advanced methods of enhancing bloodlines, techniques for improving rank, and ways to tame wildness, every aspect is described in great detail. Even the emotional fluctuations of different species of spirit beasts under different seasons and spiritual energy concentrations are recorded in detail.

The second part is about cultivating spirit insects. Insect egg hatching, insect swarm reproduction, control methods, spiritual connection, insect array arrangement, insect venom extraction—the range of categories and the depth of the levels involved far exceed Lin Yuan's previous superficial understanding of the term "insect control".

The chapter on "Insect Egg Hatching" alone details the hatching conditions and precautions for thirty-seven different types of insects. The types of spiritual energy, temperature ranges, blood-feed ratios, and patterns of the hatching array required for each type of insect are all different.

In addition to the basic techniques of cultivation and manipulation, the jade slip also contains several extremely precious elixir formulas.

For example, the Lingzhi Pill.

A special supplementary elixir crafted for spirit beasts and spirit insects. It can significantly accelerate their daily growth rate, purify their demonic energy, and strengthen their physique. Ordinary spirit insects typically take several years to grow from larvae to combat-ready adults. However, after consuming the Spirit-Feeding Pill, this cycle can be greatly shortened.

In addition to the four, there is also a blood-inducing pill.

This is a life-or-death pill that forcibly stimulates the dormant potential deep within the bloodline of a spirit insect at the cost of overdrawing its life force.

After consumption, the spirit insect's combat power will double in a very short time, its size will increase dramatically, and its aggression will surge to the point of being out of control.

However, the side effects are equally terrifying. After the effects of the medicine wear off, the spirit insects will fall into a long-term state of weakness due to the excessive depletion of their vitality, and in severe cases, they may even die on the spot.

Lin Yuan quickly scanned through this information, his brows furrowing slightly at times and raising slightly at others.

The value of this "Record of Taming All Beasts and Insects" far exceeded his expectations.

When Shen Guiyan said "show some sincerity," she was really not just being polite.

Even if you have money, you can't buy this in the market.

This level of beast-taming manual is either a sect's closely guarded treasure or the culmination of a great master's life's work.

However, to be fair, for an ordinary cultivator to truly understand this, just identifying the habits of thousands of spirit beasts and insects, memorizing the arrangement and combination of hundreds of array patterns, and figuring out the mutual generation and restraint relationships between different types of insects would require years or even decades of hard work.

Not to mention the countless trials and errors in actual operation.

Lin Yuan looked at the row of small golden characters that appeared in his eyes, and a slow smile appeared on his lips.

[Spirit Master: Unranked (0/10) (Points can be added)]

Available attribute points: 406658

Without the slightest hesitation.

Without the slightest hesitation, 111,110 attribute points were directly deducted.

The tiny golden characters under his eyes began to pulsate wildly.

Not yet approved.

Ninth rank.

Rank 8.

......

Fifth rank.

With each tick of the numbers, it was as if a thunderclap exploded in Lin Yuan's mind, and a massive, suffocating torrent of memories forcibly poured into his consciousness.

The moment of promotion to the ninth rank—

A complete ecological map of hundreds and thousands of low-level spirit insects was forcibly etched into the depths of his memory. Snakes, centipedes, ants, scorpions, bees, moths, spiders, butterflies—the living habits, reproductive cycles, dietary preferences, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities of each insect…

Promoted to the eighth rank —

The basic beast-controlling techniques whirled and operated within his sea of ​​consciousness. He learned how his divine sense differentiated into dozens of fine threads, simultaneously connecting to the simple consciousness of dozens of spirit insects. He learned how to issue basic commands like "attack," "retreat," "disperse," and "encircle" to the swarm through changes in the frequency of spiritual energy fluctuations…

……

Finally—he was promoted to the fifth rank.

boom.

This memory infusion was the most intense and the most thrilling.

A fifth-grade Spirit Master has already delved into the bloodline mysteries of high-level demonic beasts and exotic spirit insects.

How to analyze the bloodline composition of a spirit insect and find the hidden ancient ancestral bloodline within it.

How can we activate these dormant genes through special breeding methods to induce mutations in the insects?

How to precisely micromanage tens of thousands of insect swarms amidst the chaos of battle.

Countless combat experiences of controlling thousands of insects to devour the enemy's protective aura amidst flashing blades and bloodshed are like a replay of one bloody war after another.

If an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator were to receive such a terrifying information infusion, they would likely suffer a splitting headache at best, and possibly even damage to their soul at worst.

However, Lin Yuan's Thousand Evolutions Corpse Control Technique had already reached perfection.

His spiritual strength far surpasses that of other cultivators of the same level.

The immense power of the divine soul transformed into an incomparably resilient barrier, like a towering dam, firmly holding back these raging torrents of memories. No matter how the information surged, the dam remained unmoved.

Subsequently, the vast amount of knowledge was systematically categorized and archived by his divine sense in the corresponding areas deep within his sea of ​​consciousness. Everything was orderly and perfectly organized.

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

A deep, eerie glint flashed in the depths of his eyes, like the fleeting vertical pupils of a beast in the dark night, before disappearing into the blackness of his gaze.

He took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled.

In the world of cultivation, reaching a high level in any of the various arts requires a long period of trial and error, accumulation of knowledge, and countless failures in exchange for even the slightest progress.

The same principle applies to alchemy, weapon crafting, formations, and especially the art of spirit control.

In the entire cultivation world of the Chu Kingdom, the Xuan Yin Sect, as one of the five top forces, has a considerable number of disciples who cultivate spirit beasts and spirit insects. Among them are many inner sect elites with outstanding talent and abundant resources.

But those who can truly reach the fifth-grade Spirit Master realm—

No more than five fingers' worth.

Every fifth-grade Spirit Master is raised by feeding them massive amounts of spiritual materials, insect eggs, monster corpses, and rare blood food. The resources consumed behind the scenes are unimaginable.

This is why fifth-grade spirit masters are of extremely high strategic value to sects. In certain specific battlefield environments, their strategic value to a sect can sometimes be no less than that of a high-level alchemist.

Lin Yuan stepped to the side of the stone chamber and pushed open the stone door of the spirit beast chamber.

"No wonder he's been half-dead for so long."

A mocking smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. Not mocking others, but mocking his own ignorant and fearless self from three months ago.

Shen Guiyan's description of his house as "shabby and crude" was not meant to be an insult.

To give an example, it's like someone wanting to hatch chicks, but instead of using a mother hen or an incubator, they put the eggs on the windowsill to bask in the sun and then say to the eggs every day, "Hatch them quickly, hatch them quickly."

It would be a miracle if it hatched.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Insect is an ancient and exotic species, with the bloodline of ferocious insects from ancient times flowing in its veins.

These things are born to devour spiritual energy.

The spirit-gathering array alone can only keep them alive by providing gentle spiritual energy.

In order to hatch the Soul-Devouring Demon Insects, in addition to spiritual energy, there is one more crucial element required.

blood.

To be precise, it is the essence and blood of cultivators, containing abundant vitality and vital energy.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Insects are able to keenly detect the life force contained in blood. When a certain concentration of essence blood comes into contact with the surface of the eggshell, it activates the ancient instincts dormant deep within the egg.

Just like newborn animals smelling their mother's milk, they instinctively and frantically want to break free of their shells to devour, plunder, and possess that vibrant power.