Chapter 169: Spirit Worm

Since the seventh senior sister and the senior brother left, Xu Chen rarely went to the medicine garden, and the thirteenth senior sister Zhao Xuan was also ready to start building the foundation, and she also rarely came to the medicine garden.

But fortunately, the two-headed golden toad has fallen into a deep sleep since eating a pill of Taiyuan Soul Pill, which makes Xu Chen worry a lot.

The two golden toads were lying in the vine branches and leaves under the soul tree all day long, huddled together motionless, Xu Chen was a little worried at first, but after checking it a few times, he found that the aura of the two golden toads was slowly growing, and even the skin color became more vivid.

This gave him a lot of surprises in his busyness.

In other words, with the help of the Taiyuan Soul Pill, the bloodlines of the two golden toads seemed to be slowly increasing, and when they woke up from dormancy, it was estimated that the medicinal properties would be stronger.

The little fox likes the breath of the medicine garden very much, except for the fact that after Xu Chen goes home at night, it will run back to sleep together, almost all of them stay in the medicine garden during the day, of course, it also shoulders the task of helping to take care of the two golden toads, and it makes Xu Chen a lot more relaxed by watching the two golden toads every day.

On this day, Xu Chen came back with a breath of Dan dust and fireworks after refining a few furnaces of Qi Gathering Pill from the Dan Courtyard, and when he was about to leave to the front of the hut, he thought that he hadn't taken a good look at the medicine garden for a few days, so the flying sword fell into the medicine garden with a limp.

"Woo Ya~"

Xiao Bai happily rushed out of the medicine garden, shouted excitedly around his feet, and bit his robe and pulled it to the position of the Soul Restoration Tree.

"Okay, okay, I know that you take good care of the two golden toads, this is your reward!"

Xu Chen smiled and bent down to touch Xiao Bai's soft fur, and then threw a Taiyuan Soul Pill.

Xiao Bai jumped up and swallowed the elixir in one gulp, and then continued to drag him away, so Xu Chen curiously followed him to the Soul Restoration Tree and found that the two golden toads had woken up.

"Gollum~"

Seeing Xu Chen, the two golden toads actually crawled out together excitedly.

Xu Chen was pleasantly surprised and a little strange, because he felt that the color of the two golden toads seemed to have suddenly changed a lot of moisture today, as if he had changed a layer of skin, his heart moved, and his divine sense probed into the dense grape leaves, and he found that where the two golden toads were lying on their stomachs, there were really two more golden toads.

"I went, and I really molted!"

Xu Chen was overjoyed, and hurriedly picked up the green and purple grape leaves, and grabbed the two toads out.

The wet and soft stepping on it should have just faded down, and it still exuded a faint aura.

The overall appearance of the toad is complete, but the color on the four legs is not golden yellow, but with red and green patterns.

But when he compared the two molted golden toads, he found that all four feet seemed to have turned golden.

This time Xu Chen became even happier.

In other words, the Taiyuan Soul Entering Pill had indeed caused the two golden toads that had begun to degenerate to have a great mutation, and they had begun to evolve into the real seven-star golden toad.

"Quack~Quack~"

The two golden toads crawled in front of Xu Chen and let out a deafening cry.

Xu Chen took out the jade bottle and threw out two Taiyuan Soul Pills, only to see two long tongue phantoms flashing, and the two spirit pills disappeared in the blink of an eye.

However, after eating the elixir, the two golden toads didn't seem to be satisfied, and they didn't look like they were lying on their stomachs and napping after eating, they seemed to be even more impatient, and they still stared at him with wide eyes and made a croaking sound.

Xu Chen hesitated, put away the jade bottle, and stood up.

In the Golden Toad Palace of the Yuqing Palace, the old Taoist priest who was in charge of breeding the golden toad said that although the golden toad needs to be fed with a special elixir to maintain its spirituality every day, the staple food is still spirit insects and specially configured food.

Xu Chen was a little depressed, the spirit pill was good to say, he could now refine seven or eight furnaces in a day, which was enough to kill the two golden toads, but it was difficult to find food with spiritual energy, and it had to be at the level of a demon beast.

Although there are many poisonous snakes and poisonous insects with aura in the southern territory, it is not easy to find them every day, and it is also a huge burden for a long time.

And the sun has set at this time, even if you want to find it, it is not very convenient, after all, snakes and insects are dormant in the deep soil of the tree hole at night, and it is still unknown whether they can be found.

Just as he looked up at the sky, Xiao Bai ran into the colorful plants with a puff of smoke, and after a while, a big insect the size of a thumb with a blue and red intertwined pattern came out of his mouth.

"What is this?"

Looking at the big insect that was still stubbornly struggling in Xiaobai's mouth, Xu Chen was startled.

"Woo Ya~" Xiaobai threw the insect on the ground, and the two golden toads pounced at the same time, and the two big tongues wrapped one end of the insect and began to pull it up, and soon, the big insect was dragged into two, and the two golden toads each swallowed half of it, and then licked their mouths with an unfinished look, looking at Xiaobai with antiquity.

"Woo~Woo~" Xiaobai jumped up and kept calling at the place where he came out just now.

Xu Chen let go of his divine sense and shrouded the entire medicine garden, but he didn't find anything, just when he wondered where Xiaobai caught the bug, suddenly his divine sense froze slightly, and instantly focused on the leaves of a plant that looked like rice, and at the same time showed an extremely shocked look on his face.

A big fat insect that was almost exactly the same as Fang Cai Xiaobai caught was lying on the leaf, and the leaf had been gnawed out of a palm-sized hole, although it was not big compared to the huge leaf, but he was stunned.

Because in his divine consciousness, he couldn't even feel the existence of this insect, but he could really see it, and what made him even more strange was that this insect, like these colorful strange plants, was not at all like the things of this world, and he couldn't feel the slightest aura, but there was still a faint flow of spiritual light in his body.

And after he saw this insect clearly, his divine sense carefully searched the vicinity, which made him even more shocked, because there are still many such insects, almost every plant that looks like rice has them, not to mention many holes in the leaves, and even at the root of a certain leaf, there is even one that is spinning silk and forming cocoons.

Xu Chen took three steps and made two steps into the bushes of plants that were already more than a person tall at his moment, and soon came to the side of the cocooned insect.

This one is a little different from other insects, not to mention the slightly larger size, the head is red and purple, and the whole body is covered with dark cyan fine lines, and it looks very weird like scales.

At this moment, the big insect dangled its head, spit out purple filaments, and wrapped its body in it.

Xu Chen's divine sense fell on the insects and filaments, and the expression on his face slowly became more surprised.

This filament has a strange aura fluctuation, and there is a cyan aura flickering and wandering inside.

According to his cognition of various spiritual materials and spiritual objects, this filament is afraid that it will not be lower than that of second-order spiritual materials.

In other words, these insects that can't be seen are not only pests that destroy these plants, but also a high-level spirit insect, and the silk they spit out is still a good spiritual material.

There are many silk-spinning insects in nature, but there are very few spirit insects, especially the varieties that can spin silk, as far as Xu Chen knows now, the only one he has ever seen that can spin silk is the giant spider soul beast, but it is not the original product of the mortal realm, but from the netherworld.

Of course, on the list of spiritual objects and some spiritual objects compiled by the fairy world, there are still spirit insects and demon insects such as ice silkworms, fire silkworms and blood evil poisonous spiders, but the living environment of these insects is very sinister, and they are all highly poisonous things, but they are just heard, and they can't be seen at all.

These very rare insect silks are very valuable, and they are very good for making magic robes or flexible magic weapons, and they are very popular with female cultivators, such as some female cultivators like to use these filaments to weave into cloth and refine them into clothing or accessories for close wear.

It's just that the number of surviving people is scarce, and it is not easy to get together one, and if you are not a monk with strong strength and sufficient wealth, you can't afford it at all.

Xu Chen was a little entangled in an instant.

He'd always wanted to grow up these strange plants and see what they were.

But the appearance of these bugs greatly threatens the growth of plants.

If it weren't for the little fox catching a bug today, he wouldn't have noticed this change for a long time.

But if there are enough of these insects, they may be able to make a good robe if they are collected in the future.

However, these are obviously pests, and if they are allowed to continue to multiply, it is estimated that it will not be long before these rice-like plants will be wiped out.

What to do?

Xu Chen thought about it and felt that it was still mainly plants at the moment, so he searched for a while, caught two more insects and went back to feed the Seven Star Golden Toad, but the big insect that was spinning silk and forming cocoons, he specially left.

He also wanted to see what kind of strange thing this insect would turn into when it came out after it cocooned.

According to the common sense of nature, it must be a scale insect that can fly such as moths or butterflies.

Since the beginning of heaven and earth, countless species have been born one after another, in addition to the gods and demons and other innate species, the rest of the acquired flesh and blood genera, are all insects, respectively, the scales, hair, feathers, Kun five species.

Silverfish refers to a naked, hairless, armorless, and featherless creature, and a human being is the head of a silverfish.

Scale insects refer to scales, snakes, lizards, moths, butterflies and other scales and lepidopteras, and dragons are the length of scales.

The rest of the categories are furry beasts, feathered birds, and Jiejia kun.

The five insects do not have a high or low bloodline, each has a strong breed, and they can also give birth to strong people who roam the world.

For example, the legendary four holy beasts, the green dragon, the vermilion bird, the white tiger, and the Xuanwu, belong to the head of the scale insects, feather insects, caterpillars and insects respectively.

Of course, the insects in front of him that gnawed at the medicine garden were definitely far from reaching the height of the legendary holy beasts, but like these plants, they must have come from some unknown world, perhaps the species of those caves above the legendary Nine Heavens, which were naturally worthy of Xu Chen's careful attention.

And the sudden appearance of these spirit insects in the medicine garden also made Xu Chen suddenly solve a big problem, that is, it seemed that he didn't have to worry about the food of the seven-star golden toad for the time being.

(End of chapter)