A Record of A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Chapter 392: Insect Rearing

Although the "golddevourer worm" ranked high on the Exotic Insect List, according to the Jade Slip of that Imperial Spirit Sect cultivator, its individual ability was quite limited; it relied entirely on its enormous numbers to win.

If there were only a dozen or a few dozen of them, even after reaching adulthood, they wouldn’t be very useful.

Only when their numbers reached hundreds of thousands could they truly live up to their rank on the Exotic Insect List.

Just imagining countless worms swarming and attacking in the air, impossible to kill off, made Han Li shudder.

Therefore, what needed to be done now was to quickly accelerate the maturation of these golddevourer worms and let them produce offspring as soon as possible so their numbers could multiply rapidly.

But this was easier said than done!

As an exotic insect that existed since ancient times, the golddevourer worm had long been extinct in the Tian Nan immortal cultivation world.

The specific methods for breeding and rearing them had been lost for countless generations.

The insect-rearing Jade Slip from the Imperial Spirit Sect cultivator was compiled only from some ancient texts, summarizing a few habits of the worm but lacking detailed training techniques.

This frustrated Han Li for a long time.

In fact, not only the twelfth-ranked golddevourer worm but almost all thirty top-ranked exotic insects were species of insect or demonic beasts long extinct in the immortal cultivation world.

That Imperial Spirit Sect cultivator was originally an insect enthusiast who gathered and analyzed various ancient data and compiled these ancient insects into the Exotic Insect List.

Whether the rankings at the top of this list were reliable, only heaven knew!

Han Li’s acquisition of these supposedly extinct golddevourer worms was itself a coincidence.

Because these larvae-stage golddevourer worms, for some unknown reason, had been in a state of suspended animation deep underground beneath Little Huan Island since ancient times.

Logically, even if there were landslides or upheavals, these exotic insects wouldn’t easily awaken.

But Han Li gathered many other exotic insects inside his secluded mansion on Little Huan Island for feeding, and the scent of these insects gradually permeated underground, miraculously awakening the golddevourer worms which were originally driven by feeding instincts.

They were supposed to have launched their feeding attacks long ago, but since Han Li also had “blood jade spiders” among his exotic insects that were natural enemies, the worms, out of instinctive fear, dared not approach the mansion too closely.

So they lurked underground beneath Little Huan Island, staring fixedly at Han Li’s mansion.

When Han Li went out shopping and took the blood jade spiders away, the golddevourer worms finally got their chance.

As Han Li saw, these worms devoured all the exotic insects he had been feeding and settled in the mansion’s medicinal herb garden as their lair.

However, when Han Li secretly returned, he captured them all in one sweep.

Now, since Han Li didn’t have the insect-rearing cultivation method he used before, he had to experiment by himself.

First, Han Li tried throwing various kinds of insect feed into the Insect Chamber.

No matter what type of feed he used, the few hundred golddevourer worms devoured it all without the slightest pickiness, which made Han Li very happy.

But his happiness lasted only a few months before he realized that despite eating plenty, the worms showed no signs of growth or change.

This depressed Han Li, so he had to try other methods.

These worms loved to eat metals and spiritual energy, so Han Li tried feeding them some raw ore and low-grade spirit stones.

After ingestion, the worms again exhibited no notable changes, marking another failure.

Extremely frustrated, Han Li threw into the chamber a dozen or so dead eggs of the “goldback mantis” that he had kept all along.

After the golddevourer worms fed on them, their spiritual energy finally showed changes, and they seemed fiercer than before.