Chapter 375 - 220: Contract: Blood Bone Mayfly

Chapter 375: Chapter 220: Contract: Blood Bone Mayfly

Now that the Dragon Emperor had stolen her resources again, Flower Venerable wouldn’t go so far as to say her already low sense of belonging to the Xin Xia Alliance had diminished because of him.

The Xin Xia Federation wasn’t the Dragon Emperor’s private property, after all, but Flower Venerable felt an exceptional hatred for him in her heart.

Flower Venerable was now considering finding a backer for her future.

Moreover, she also wanted to do her part to aid Zhong Yi’s growth.

Although Zhong Yi was quite surprised to hear Flower Venerable say this, he didn’t feign politeness and refuse her offer.

Right now, Zhong Yi was desperate for talent. Soul Soil lacked both high-end combat power and excellent managers.

Flower Venerable was a top-tier combatant on the verge of advancing to the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations.

And Ren Suxin was a top-tier managerial talent who had built the Hua Kuo Trading Company despite her poor health.

Zhong Yi had always entertained the thought of bringing Flower Venerable and Ren Suxin into Soul Soil.

’I just didn’t expect it to happen so smoothly!’

"Aunt Ying, if you want to join Soul Soil, of course I welcome you."

"Once you’re here, you can just focus on peacefully improving your strength for a while."

"I have some of the main ingredients for a Sixth Level Potion, but I don’t have a large stockpile of other materials."

"You’ll need to take care of the other materials for concocting the Sixth Level Potion yourself, Aunt Ying."

Hearing this, Flower Venerable hurriedly replied.

"Xiaoyi, I’ve already prepared the materials I need to strengthen my Guardian Beasts."

"What kind of person asks the Six-finger Creator to help concoct a Potion without preparing the materials first?"

"Suxin has developed the Hua Kuo Trading Company quite well. She told me you’re preparing to establish a chamber of commerce."

"Now that I’m a member of Soul Soil, I’ll have Suxin use the Hua Kuo Trading Company’s resources to give you her full support in establishing it."

"The Hua Kuo Trading Company can provide all the funding for establishing the chamber and acquiring resources."

"Otherwise, I’d be too embarrassed to keep asking Grandmaster Tao En for help in the future."

After inviting Flower Venerable, Zhong Yi sent a message to Star Night.

He told Star Night that Flower Venerable would be arriving in Starlight City tomorrow.

Star Night had business to attend to and needed to leave Starlight City, so once Flower Venerable arrived, Star Night could depart without worry.

Having finished all the necessary arrangements, Zhong Yi picked up the White Jade Porcelain Bottle that Cui Heng had entrusted to Star Night to deliver to him.

Upon opening the bottle, a tiny, red-and-white insect, not even the size of a sesame seed, flew out.

Before being put under a Contract, this Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect was not the least bit friendly toward Zhong Yi.

Sensing the unfamiliar aura coming from Zhong Yi, the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect tried to flee.

After Zhong Yi caught it in his hand, the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect viciously tried to bite his finger and burrow into his body.

An ordinary Mortal Beast Tier Guardian Beast Master would have found it difficult to control this Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect, whose strength had already reached the Mortal Beast Tier.

Although the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect was small, it was very strong, and its teeth were exceptionally sharp.

But thanks to the constant feedback from his Soul-Controlling Flower, Zhong Yi’s strength was far beyond that of an ordinary Mortal Beast Tier Guardian Beast Master.

Zhong Yi pinned the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect’s body firmly with his fingernail and used All Things Exploration to inspect it.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Blood Bone Mayfly

[Guardian Beast Species]: Mayfly Species/Mayfly Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Mortal Beast Level (3/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Spiritual Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: None

Skills:

[Bone Body Aggregation]: The Sub-Worms produced by the Mother Insect are tightly linked together by their skeletal bodies. After they combine, the Spiritual Power of each individual can be converted into its own Defense Power.

After just one look, Zhong Yi completely understood how the Blood Bone Mayfly had become a Guardian Beast in Cui Heng’s hands worthy of being called a National Treasure.

The secret stemmed from the Blood Bone Mayfly’s Basic Skill, Bone Body Aggregation.

After a Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect gnaws on a corpse, it lays its Insect Eggs within the remains.

After the Insect Eggs hatch, they feed on the corpse and grow to adulthood in a very short time.

The Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect’s reproductive ability is astonishing. However, if the Mother Insect’s own strength is insufficient, it will deliberately limit the size of the swarm.

If the Mother Insect actively limited the swarm’s size, then logically, no new mother insects should have been born.

The frequent birth of new mother insects was because Cui Heng, in order to guarantee the strength of the Blood Bone Great Wall, had made his contracted Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect produce a swarm far beyond what it could control on its own.

If not for Cui Heng himself constantly maintaining the swarm’s stability and actively clearing out destabilizing factors—such as the newly born mother insects—it would have immediately disintegrated. Once multiple adult mother insects existed within the swarm and a new one released its pheromones, the swarm would instantly fall apart.

If it weren’t for the fact that Cui Heng’s strength was only at the Eternal Tier and he had not yet reached the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations, the Blood Bone Great Wall he built with the Blood Bone Mayflies would be far more majestic than it was now.

Relying on the Basic Skill, Bone Body Aggregation, did more than just allow the Blood Bone Mayfly Sub-Worms to gather together. The Spiritual Power contained within these clustered Sub-Worms would interweave as tightly as a great net, converting that Spiritual Power into Defense Power.

Cui Heng’s Blood Bone Great Wall was formed by countless trillions of Blood Bone Mayflies gathered together.

The combined Spiritual Power of these Blood Bone Mayflies allowed the Blood Bone Great Wall to block attacks even from experts at the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations.

The more Zhong Yi looked at the tiny Blood Bone Mayfly on his fingertip, smaller than a sesame seed, the more he liked it.

Zhong Yi was about to take out a Soul Taming Seed to form a Contract with the Blood Bone Mayfly when he noticed the insect on his fingertip seemed very interested in an iron box not far away on the desk. The box contained several Iron-Eating Insects.

No matter how fast the Blood Bone Mayfly moved, it was still very simple for Zhong Yi to catch the Mortal Beast Tier insect.

So, Zhong Yi simply placed the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect on top of the iron box.

He was curious as to why the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect, despite being captured and afraid, was also showing such strong interest in something.

Zhong Yi wasn’t sure if it was the iron box itself that attracted the Blood Bone Mayfly, or if the Iron-Eating Insects inside had caught its attention.

Zhong Yi released the Blood Bone Mayfly, and it landed directly on the iron box.

Zhong Yi saw the Blood Bone Mayfly’s mouthparts constantly scraping against the iron box.

The Blood Bone Mayfly had the ability to gnaw on animal bones, but gnawing on metal should have been somewhat difficult for it.

To test whether the Iron-Eating Insects were what attracted the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect, Zhong Yi deliberately took one out of the box.

Faced with an Iron-Eating Insect much larger than itself, the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect appeared extremely wary.

As the Iron-Eating Insect crawled on the lid of the box, the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect consistently maintained a safe distance from it.

This meant it was the iron box itself that interested the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect, and the box was just made of ordinary Hundred-forged Refined Iron.

Zhong Yi studied it for a long while but couldn’t figure out why the Blood Bone Mayfly was so interested in metal.

Since he couldn’t figure it out, Zhong Yi decided not to dwell on it.

He took out a Soul Taming Seed. Its attraction to the Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect was far greater than the iron box’s.

The Blood Bone Mayfly immediately flew to Zhong Yi’s fingertip, shooting like a streak of light toward the Soul Taming Seed to devour it.

The Blood Bone Mayfly’s body was incredibly small. Zhong Yi could feel the Mother Insect swallow the Soul Taming Seed.

Its body shattered and regrew repeatedly, becoming much larger each time, growing from the size of a sesame seed to that of a green bean.

Even so, Zhong Yi still found it difficult to see any obvious changes in the Blood Bone Mayfly’s appearance.

After staring at the Blood Bone Mayfly for several minutes, Zhong Yi felt his eyes starting to blur.

After the Blood Bone Mayfly completed its Evolution, Zhong Yi vaguely noticed a silvery, metallic luster emerge on its carapace.

In addition, the Blood Bone Mayfly’s partially exposed teeth now glinted with a cold light.

They were countless times sharper than they had been before the Evolution.

The newly evolved Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect immediately flew from Zhong Yi’s fingertip toward the iron box that had so intrigued it.

Its teeth scraped against the lid of the iron box, and in just a few moments, the evolved Blood Bone Mayfly Mother Insect had gnawed a hole the size of a fingernail through it.