Chapter 428: Golden Hearing Insect Control Record

After handling Song Xinde's matter, Song Qingming sat in meditation to rest for a while before taking out the several storage bags he had obtained not long ago.

Participating in the Tiandan Alliance auction this time, Song Qingming only harvested a few elixirs and did not obtain any good things. He didn't know if these storage bags he had accidentally obtained on the road could give him some surprises.

The restrictions on these three storage bags were not very complex. Song Qingming only spent a few days erasing the restrictions and opening them all one by one.

Inside the storage bags on the two mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, besides a few second-tier magic tools and a common Foundation Establishment stage cultivation technique, the rest were all sorts of messy low-tier spirit items and several hundred scattered spirit stones.

The combined wealth in these two people's storage bags was estimated to be only three or four thousand spirit stones. For mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, these two were truly a bit too poor.

However, this was about what Song Qingming had thought before opening their storage bags. In that great battle that day, the performance of these two was average, no different from ordinary rogue Foundation Establishment cultivators. They didn't have any powerful spirit items on them, and their combat strength wasn't even as good as that woman in green whose cultivation was lower than theirs.

When one of them finally realized Song Qingming's power and wanted to flee toward the purple-robed woman, facing the pursuit of Song Qingming's Invisible Escape Needles behind him, the greatest defensive means he could bring out at the critical moment of life and death was only a second-tier low-quality defensive spirit talisman. He lost his life without even being able to block one of Song Qingming's powerful spells.

Having risked so much effort to kill two Foundation Establishment cultivators only to get these things, Song Qingming was naturally somewhat disappointed.

It wasn't until he opened the storage bag on the late-stage Foundation Establishment old man that, looking at the spirit stones filling his vision, Song Qingming's expression finally showed a hint of joy.

This old man's storage bag not only contained three second-tier mid-quality magic tools, but the number of spirit stones he carried was also nearly two thousand, along with several second-tier spirit talismans of decent quality. Just these things alone already exceeded the total value of the spirit items in the previous two storage bags.

Besides this, Song Qingming also found several second-tier spirit items of decent quality and some cultivation techniques from inside. After searching through these cultivation techniques, Song Qingming finally flipped to the book he most wanted to find.

This book was named "Golden Hearing Insect Control Record". Song Qingming didn't know if the two characters "Golden Hearing" were the name of the old man who died at his hands that day, or if this book was recorded by the old man himself or obtained from elsewhere.

The "Golden Hearing Insect Control Record" recorded all the methods and insights for cultivating various spirit insects in the cultivation world, as well as introductions to the abilities of these spirit insects. Among these spirit insects, Song Qingming quickly found the Golden Illusion Butterfly recorded on it.

When Song Qingming fought the three of them that day, the Golden Illusion Butterflies controlled by that withered old man indeed caused him quite a bit of trouble. Every time Song Qingming had just beaten back the others and was preparing to counterattack, these fearless spirit insects would appear in swarms near him, making it difficult for him to be distracted.

Moreover, once these spirit insects got close, ordinary defensive shields were useless against them and were easily penetrated. Fortunately, although these Golden Illusion Butterflies had very powerful attack power, they were still in the larval stage and not very fast. Song Qingming was able to avoid their attacks in time by relying on the Wind-Riding Boots under his feet.

If Song Qingming's own strength hadn't already exceeded that of ordinary cultivators of the same tier, and if he hadn't been carrying quite a few second-tier Fire Explosion Talismans that countered spirit insects, he truly would have had no way to deal with these Golden Illusion Butterflies. If it had been someone else fighting, the one who fell in the end might have been himself.

It wasn't until he finished reading the detailed introduction to the Golden Illusion Butterfly in the "Golden Hearing Insect Control Record" that Song Qingming had a new understanding of those spirit insects, and he also felt a hint of admiration for the person who recorded this book.

The Golden Illusion Butterfly is already very rare in the current cultivation world. He didn't know where that old man found these spirit insects, and he had even cultivated so many of them. Although they were all still in the larval stage, these Golden Illusion Butterflies had already shown impressive power, enough to deal with an ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Having witnessed the power of the Golden Illusion Butterflies at that time, Song Qingming immediately felt a hint of interest. If he could also possess these powerful spirit insects, his ability to fight others in the future would certainly increase quite a bit.

However, after he carefully studied the "Golden Hearing Insect Control Record", Song Qingming's heart immediately cooled down. According to the records in the book, the Golden Illusion Butterfly cannot change owners once it recognizes a master. To make it recognize a master, it can only succeed when the spirit insect is still an egg.

After the battle ended that day, Xu Ziyuan's junior sister helped him collect the remaining Golden Illusion Butterflies. Song Qingming had thought that as long as he could find the insect control method in that old man's storage bag, the Golden Illusion Butterflies he brought back could possibly be used directly. He didn't expect that in the end, he had wasted all this effort.

According to the "Golden Hearing Insect Control Record", if Song Qingming wanted to cultivate this type of spirit insect from scratch, not only would it consume quite a lot of resources, but without decades of effort, these spirit insects would not be able to achieve anything. By the time they were cultivated to the point of being useful, Song Qingming himself would probably have already reached Core Formation, and these spirit insects would be of no great use to him.

Full of expectations only to be met with great disappointment, Song Qingming's interest in the Golden Illusion Butterflies in the spirit beast bag also dropped quite a bit. He found a large box in his cave dwelling, placed these spirit insects inside, and prepared to hand them all over to several clan members in the clan's back mountain who were good at beast taming.

Since they were useless to him now, let the younger generation of the clan try to see if they could cultivate new eggs. It didn't matter if he couldn't use them; as long as they could really be cultivated, there would always be other clan members who could use them in the future.

The reason spirit insects are not easy to cultivate is that they are different from ordinary spirit beasts. Generally, their lifespans are relatively short. Like the Golden Illusion Butterfly, if it cannot be cultivated to a high level, it usually only lives for a few decades from egg to natural death. Once the cultivation is improper during this period and the aging spirit insects do not hatch new eggs in time, all the spirit insects will soon disappear completely.

Although somewhat disappointed, overall Song Qingming was still very happy. Setting aside these currently useless spirit items, the spirit items Song Qingming scraped out from those three storage bags this time were worth nearly ten thousand spirit stones.

The surprise brought by this kind of spirit stone that was delivered to his door for free was much more exciting than the spirit talismans he painstakingly made while hiding at home. No wonder many people in the cultivation world like to engage in this kind of killing and looting.

First, an apology. When writing about Song Xinde in the two chapters yesterday, I inexplicably generated empathy, and it was a bit too watery.

This book has always had very poor results. It has been written for more than eight months without any results. Fortunately, I persisted, and with everyone's support and encouragement, the results are now slowly getting better.

Next, I will pay attention to pushing the rhythm of the plot and try to control the emotions well when writing the book. Everyone is also welcome to criticize and correct in time. Thank you very much again for your support for Xiaomeng.

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