Chapter 7: Catching Insects

There are no pesticides like pesticides in the sect, and all insects must be caught by handymen. There are many insects that like to eat spirit grass, however, most of the insects have limited damage to spirit grass, and only one kind of insect is the most harmful.

This is a bug called the moon boon, which emerges from the ground before sunrise and climbs onto the stamens of the spirit grass to suck the essence of the spirit grass.

This is a kind of insect that cultivators love and hate, after they suck the stamen, the medicinal effect of the spirit grass will decrease, and the reduced medicinal effect means that the quality of the pill will decrease, and it will also reduce the rate of alchemy.

Normally, everyone in the Pill Pharmacy should hate it, but in fact it is not, because this bug is an extremely rare delicacy for cultivators. Because of its small size, it is rarely used as food directly, and is often only used as a seasoning, but even if it is only used as a seasoning, it can make a pot of ordinary food even more delicious than a fairy food.

Not only are low-level cultivators like it, but in the eyes of high-level cultivators, the popularity of the moon pig is even more extraordinary, which leads to a strange result, that is, the moon pig can help the pill pharmacy exchange for more spirit stones than the serious pill. Not only that, the Moon Pig is also a specialty of the Cloud Yin Sect, and the sects that have dealings with the Cloud Yin Sect are also very interested in the Moon Pig Insect, and through it, the Cloud Yin Sect has gained a lot of benefits. It's just a pity that the moon pig is a non-domesticated species and cannot be mass-produced.

For the elders and stewards of the Dan Pharmacy, the perception of Yuezhi is really very complicated. But no matter what, the pill is the basis for the survival of the sect, and the moon pig is just an additional harvest, and it is impossible for the sect to sacrifice the quality of the herbs to specifically cultivate the moon pig worms.

The moon pig appears for a short time every day, only within half an hour before sunrise, and it will not appear if it is a rainy day.

The handymen can use the mature spirit grass to turn in the sect tasks, or they can use the moon pig insects to turn in, depending on the choice of the herb garden disciples themselves. The reason why everyone is more willing to catch moon pigs is because this task is simpler and the harvest is greater.

Now, there is a bad phenomenon in the herb garden, and the disciples have begun to consciously raise them in order to obtain the moon insects for a long time, for example, a variety of spirit grasses that the moon pigs like, especially the spirit grass with huge petals, because of this reason, the quantity and quality of the spirit grass in the herb garden have been declining year by year.

"The quality of the spirit grass has declined, haven't the people in the alchemy room complained?" Wei Yuning couldn't help but ask.

At this time, Manniu was taking Wei Yuning to look for bugs in a Heavenly Star Herb Garden. The moon pig insect is very cunning, and at the slightest disturbance, it will immediately bounce out of the stamen and fall to the ground, and then quickly burrow into the ground. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, the bull didn't catch a single bug, but he was not discouraged, this should be the norm.

"I heard Xiao Fei say that it is the upper elders of the sect who decide this matter, so they don't care about the quality of the pills taken by ordinary disciples, and besides, the people in the alchemy room are not short of good pills, and they don't bother to make a big deal about it!" said Manniu.

"Oh, I see!" Wei Yuning nodded in understanding, but couldn't help but sigh in his heart, lazy government is a common disease in human society, and the cultivation world is no exception.

"Wait, there's a moon pig insect in the flower of that grass!" The two crossed an irrigation canal, and Wei Yuning immediately stopped and whispered to the wild cow.

"How do you know?" the brute stared at it with wide eyes, unable to see anything unusual at all.

This is a spiritual grass with flowers that look like peonies, with thick rhizomes, like a dwarf tree, and the petals are overlapping, much larger than the peony petals on the earth, and the whole flower presents an extremely bright red, and the surface of the flower is full of meaning, as if shrouded in a layer of mist.

"Feeling!" Wei Yuning leaned his face closer to the brute, shook his hand, and said mysteriously.

Of course, he couldn't say that he smelled the moon hog. Earlier, they had already lost two bugs, this strange bug had a strong aura and an intoxicating floral scent, and now it was the third time, and he couldn't smell it wrong.

"Okay, I'll believe you once! This is the Spirit Grass Poison Queen, very precious, but you can't spoil the flowers. Manniu said.

The disciples of the herb garden have been catching moon pigs all year round, and they have already invented simple tools. That's what is common on Earth. Of course, moon insects are different from ordinary butterflies and dragonflies, and ordinary nets can't hold them at all, and even hard rocks are as fragile as tofu to them.

The material used in the net pocket comes from a kind of silkworm, the golden silkworm produced by the spirit beast room, and the silk it spits out is extremely tough, which is an excellent material for catching the moon pig.

There are not many such tools, there are only five in the entire herb garden, and the disciples take turns using them. Because the golden silkworm is difficult to raise, and the golden silk is very precious, its best use is to make high-grade protective vestments for the refining room. These are the five that have been obtained through special channels by some elders who love food.

As the brute bull was about to approach to catch it, Wei Yuning pulled his arm and handed him a slender wooden stick and two vines. The bull understood, and the two quickly lengthened the handle of the net, then stood in place and stretched out the net bag to the flower.

The hunt went well, and when the net was fully buttoned with flowers, something jumped into the waiting net and struggled hard. The net pocket was very deep, slippery and soft, and the prey could not borrow strength, and the two of them did not worry about things jumping out.

When the two of them received the net in front of them, the wild cow stretched out his head to look at it, and his expression suddenly became strange: "Is this really a moon pig?"