Chapter 485 Ding Twenty-Two

The crown of the Jade Fire Tung tree swayed slightly, and countless fire leaves rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound.

Wang Ba sat cross-legged under the tree, looking at the black eggs in front of him.

The black eggs were not big, each one was only two fingers wide, about the same as eggs in the mortal world.

But the eggshell was visibly soft.

One of the black eggs shook slightly.

Then it returned to calm again.

Wang Ba was not disappointed. This batch of eggs had been incubated for several years. He had always thought that this would be another dead fetus like the countless times he had encountered before, but he did not expect that until half a year ago, this batch of eggs showed signs of life one after another.

Because the parents of this batch of eggs were very special, even though Wang Ba had seen countless spirit beasts, he still had patience and waited here for half a year.

Thinking of this, Wang Ba's eyes swept across the top of the newly built "Spirit Snake Cave" in the distance, where a pure black snake was lazily wrapped around a stone.

In the ‘Dragon Lizard Cave’ in another place, there is a group of snake-like footless stone dragon lizards, slowly swallowing the white jade cockroaches that Wang Ba had just put in.

This big snake and the group of footless stone dragon lizards are the parents of this batch of black eggs.

The father is a fourth-level middle-grade spirit snake born by Wang Ba using the yin and yang energies to combine the mutant spirit snakes in the sect, many other snakes, and the fourth-level fierce beast Tenghai Monster Snake that Bing Daoren had hunted in the South China Sea. Wang Ba named it ‘Ding Twenty-one’.

It may be the influence of the bloodline of the fierce beast Tenghai Monster Snake, or it may be the congenital deficiency caused by the creation of yin and yang.

Even though Ding Twenty-one is already a fourth-level middle-grade spirit beast, it also has the same defects as many previous hybrids. Its brain is not very bright, like ordinary snakes, and it is more aggressive.

But apart from this, its rich bloodline type and strong body are second to none among its kind, making it the most ideal snake spirit beast in Wang Ba’s mind.

In order to facilitate the research and breeding, Wang Ba arranged for an enthusiastic Huangjizhou cultivator to take over the soul.

The mother line is the footless stone dragon lizard, a fourth-level low-grade spirit beast cultivated from the ghost-patterned stone dragon lizard line. From the appearance alone, it is almost the same as snakes. It also has no limbs and relies on the body to swim.

Of course, Wang Ba has been cultivating spirit beasts for many years, so it is not difficult to distinguish them. For example, the jaws of this footless stone dragon lizard cannot be opened as wide as those of snake spirit beasts, making them unable to swallow things larger than themselves. In addition, the footless stone dragon lizard has eyelids and can close its eyes, but snakes do not.

Although these two types of spirit beasts are very close in terms of blood, Wang Ba did not think of combining the two at first.

It was not until Wang Ba tried all the snake spirit beasts in his hand and had no other research materials that he accidentally saw the footless stone dragon lizard, and then his mind was opened and he tried to combine the two.

As expected, the reproductive isolation between the two also exists.

After trying, Wang Ba's solution is also very simple.

Relying on the yin and yang energy that has been nurtured over the years, when the two intersect, they turn into the intercourse, and then there is a chance of the fusion of each other's blood, thus giving birth to offspring.

The possibility here is related to the closeness of the blood of both parents.

For example, when a spirit chicken intersects with a spirit snake, even if the yin and yang energy is used, the possibility of blood fusion is very small.

This is because according to the division of all things in the world by the way of taming beasts, there are five categories: 蠃 (pronounced the same as "naked"), scales, hairs, and feathers. The spirit chicken belongs to the "feather" genus, and the spirit snake belongs to the "scale" genus. The two belong to different categories, and the blood difference is naturally huge.

At least Wang Ba tried several times, and except for cultivating a monster with a chicken head and a snake body, which is useless, there was no harvest.

On the contrary, the targeted cultivation between spirit beasts of the same genus that originally had a gap between them has a much higher success rate.

This also made Wang Ba realize that the way of creation of Yin and Yang Qi is not omnipotent, or perhaps he has not accumulated enough and has not yet fully understood Yin and Yang Qi.

But Yin and Yang Qi are hard to come by. After realizing this, he can only try to pick the ones with greater possibilities first.

He waited patiently for several days.

Several other black eggs also began to shake, which means that the little guys in the black eggs are finally about to break out of the shell.

Sure enough, that night, the black egg that shook the earliest cracked vertically.

Through the crack, you can vaguely see the spotted head inside, moving back and forth inside at a slow pace.

Soon, a half-snake, half-lizard monster with claws on one side of its body and an empty half crawled out of the black egg with difficulty.

Its tongue is forked, more similar to a spirit snake, but its upper and lower eyelids can be closed, just like a stone dragon lizard.

Seeing this strange-looking thing and the faint blood glow on the top, Wang Ba was a little disappointed.

This is the most common problem of spiritual beasts that are bred through the creation of yin and yang.

Either the fetus is stillborn.

Or the blood is indeed blended, but it does not develop in a good direction, but is weakened, or even cancels each other out.

There are very few bloods that can truly form a stable and better blood than the original.

"But this is expected."

The next day.

Wang Ba is still staring at the other black eggs.

While thinking about the cultivation of other spiritual beasts, he is also thinking about the solution to the problem of the source of yin and yang.

...

This day.

A graceful figure quickly fell in from outside the secret realm.

He glanced at the strange-looking spiritual beasts.

Chicken head and snake body, eagle head and suan body, half dragon and half cow, human-faced golden toad, horse with one horn, three-headed evil dog, lion, snake and sheep three-headed monster, scorpion-tailed suanni...

When she saw various snake-like spirit beasts, a trace of vigilance and fear flashed in her beautiful eyes unconsciously.

Sensing the movement, Wang Ba came back to his senses, saw the figure, and smiled:

"It's Qingyang, what's the matter?"

He was very satisfied with this disciple.

He has a good character, but not rigid.

He has a high level of cultivation and enough talent.

Now he has completed the golden elixir, and there is a great hope that he can achieve the Nascent Soul before the end of his life.

This may not be a big deal for cultivators of other inheritances of the Wanxiang Sect, but it is extremely rare for cultivators of the Wanfa vein.

Of course, it is mainly because the version of "Wanfa Yiyi Gong" cultivated by Wang Qingyang has been modified by Yao Wudi, and a lot of it has been reduced, and his own soul talent is different from that of ordinary people, which makes the difficulty much lower.

Wang Qingyang bowed and said respectfully:

"Master, the Landform Hall just sent someone to ask for your permission to preside over this year's 'Wendao Conference'."

"Wendao Conference?"

Wang Ba frowned slightly, counted with his fingers, and then suddenly realized:

"Yes, counting the days, it's going to be another Wendao Conference."

He was in a trance, thinking back to the Wendao Conference in the past, as if it was just yesterday.

In fact, there were two more conferences between the one he attended, but he didn't attend them again later.

After thinking for a while, he asked with some doubt:

"Wasn't it held by Shaoyin Mountain before? Why did it change to the Land and Things Hall this time? Did Palace Master Ma ask?"

Wang Qingyang nodded:

"It is said that Shaoyin Mountain didn't do well the last time, and the sect master and others were not very satisfied. This time it was changed back to the Land and Things Hall. The uncle who came to ask for instructions said that it was arranged by Palace Master Ma himself."

"Palace Master Ma arranged it personally..."

Wang Ba pondered for a moment. He didn't really want to participate in such occasions, but since it was arranged by Uncle Ma himself, although he was now the deputy sect master, he would not offend Uncle Ma's face. He nodded and said:

"I know, on that day, remember to remind me."

"Yes."

Wang Qingyang responded and hurriedly flew out of the secret realm.

Although she respected her master very much, she still found it difficult to adapt to her master's strange hobby of cultivating various strange spirit beasts.

Wang Ba once again focused her attention on the black egg in front of her.

Another half a day passed.

Finally, another black egg began to hatch.

Soon, a small snake with a triangular head and a golden ring and black body swam out.

The bloodline identification technique was almost instinctively used. After checking it out, Wang Ba was slightly disappointed.

"This one seems to have inherited the bloodline of the 'Rough-headed Golden Venomous Snake', but it seems to have also merged with other venomous snake bloodlines, which has been slightly improved. It is a fourth-level lower grade... okay."

A fourth-level lower grade spirit snake is not bad, but Wang Ba's goal is to cultivate a divine beast, and this venomous snake bloodline is far from enough for him.

However, it seems that the bloodline is rare and stable. Wang Ba simply fed it and named it 'Golden Ring Black Snake' by the way, and then placed it alone.

He waited patiently for a while.

Soon, another black egg hatched. To his surprise, this egg actually hatched another golden ring black snake that was exactly the same as the previous one.

"This is a coincidence. If they can be paired later, it will be good."

Wang Ba showed a little joy on his face.

The fusion of blood is not stable, and luck is a big factor. Even if a new variety with stable blood can be cultivated, it is often a single one. It is extremely difficult to reproduce it, and it is impossible to preserve the blood intact.

And these two golden ring black snakes represent the possibility of forming a tribe.

Wang Ba immediately placed the two golden ring black snakes together and took special care of them.

No matter how bad the fourth-level low-grade spirit beast is, it is still a fourth-level spirit beast. Even if he doesn't need it, it can add some foundation to the sect.

At this time, the remaining black eggs also broke open one after another.

"This one won't work."

"This one... What a pity."

"This one won't work either... Huh? The blood of this snake?"

When Wang Ba saw a dark black spirit snake that finally broke out of the black egg, he was suddenly startled.

On the top of the black spirit snake, the blood brilliance was like a canopy covering the sky. A huge black snake afterimage opened its bloody mouth in the air, and its scarlet eyes were full of brutality and killing!

Although the scene was different, how could Wang Ba be unfamiliar?

"Divine beast!"

"It's a divine beast!"

"This is the blood of a divine beast!"

Although the blood was obviously not pure enough, and compared to Erya's Suzaku blood, it was obviously a bit worse, he couldn't recognize what kind of descendant of a divine beast this little black snake was, but this was clearly a strange phenomenon that only divine beast blood could have.

Wang Ba looked at the ignorant little black snake in front of him with surprise and joy, and he couldn't help but raise his finger to touch the little black snake.

Sensing the approach of Wang Ba's finger, the originally ignorant little black snake's eyes suddenly rose with a violent and cruel look, and the body shot up and bit Wang Ba's finger.

But it had just been born after all, and even though it had the blood of a divine beast, the bite did not cause the slightest harm to Wang Ba. Instead, because its mouth was too small, the bite got stuck on Wang Ba's finger and it was unable to escape.

Wang Ba was delighted that his years of hard work had finally paid off, and he didn't care about the little black snake's behavior.

At this moment, a bird head with a golden red feather crown suddenly emerged from the crown of the Jade Fire Tung Tree. It seemed to have noticed something, and looked down with a hint of doubt in its eyes.

When he saw the little black snake in Wang Ba's hand, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Eat!"

The next moment, a scarlet bird with a brilliant luster like gold and breathtaking beauty suddenly flew out of the crown, quickly landed on Wang Ba's hand, and grabbed the little black snake!

Although the little black snake was just born, its instinct still made it react immediately. Its already small body shrank again, like the size of an earthworm, and turned towards the gap in the snake nest below.

However, as it became faster, the scarlet bird became faster, shrinking to the size of a sparrow in an instant, flying through the air, and its sharp claws strangled the little black snake, and it looked like its mouth was about to peck it down.

"Erya!"

Erya came too fast, Wang Ba couldn't react for a while, but when Erya caught the little black snake, he also realized that something was wrong, and he shouted, and at the same time, he quickly opened a magical hand to block Erya's mouth.

With his current cultivation, even a Yuanying Perfection cultivator would find it difficult to break his big hand, but under Erya's peck, it was pierced instantly!

However, with this gap, Erya also heard Wang Ba's voice, and tilted her head to look at Wang Ba with a little puzzlement:

"No, I ate it?"

"No, I just hatched it."

Wang Ba didn't know whether to laugh or cry and forcibly broke the little black snake from under Erya's claws, but saw that the little black snake, which was full of cruelty just now, was now full of fear in its eyes. Seeing Wang Ba was like seeing a savior, and its body was trembling as it drilled into Wang Ba's hand.

Obviously, in front of the natural enemy, no matter how stubborn and explosive the temper is, it is completely insignificant.

Wang Ba found it funny, but immediately put the little black snake into his sleeve.

He had cultivated the divine beast with great difficulty, but if it was really eaten by Erya, he would be heartbroken.

Of course, he could see clearly that the little black snake was still a fourth-level middle-grade beast. If it wanted to truly transform into a fifth-level divine beast, it would require a lot of resources and careful cultivation.

While comforting Erya, whose bloodline had become purer after careful cultivation over the years and who had just broken through to the fourth-level upper-grade beast not long ago.

While thinking secretly in his heart:

"It doesn't have to be cultivated to the fifth level. I mainly want to cultivate a divine beast that can contain the Dao machine. A fourth-level top-grade beast that can extract the Dao machine is enough."

This is also a very time-consuming task, the cultivation of the little black snake, and more importantly, the reproduction of the tribe.

"It's all black, so let's name it 'Black Snake', and call it Ding Twenty-Two."

"But it seems that we need to continue to breed Ding Twenty-One with those footless stone dragon lizards to see if a second Black Snake can appear."

If the second Black Snake cannot be bred, then we can only see whether the offspring of Ding Twenty-Two and other spirit snakes can inherit the blood of the divine beast.

If it doesn't work, it will be just a false joy.

After all, his goal has never been to breed a single divine beast, but to breed a surprising number of divine beasts.

Only in this way can there be a chance to build the 'Dojo' that can accommodate the Divine Transformation cultivators.

He stuffed a pot of fourth-level Wutong Dew into Erya, and Erya rubbed it on Wang Ba's hand with satisfaction, and then fluttered back to the Fire Tong Tree.

All these black eggs were finally hatched, and Wang Ba stopped sitting there, but turned around and went to the 'Spirit Turtle Pool'.

Now the Spirit Beast Field in the Pearl Secret Realm has been divided into several areas by him.

They are ‘Spirit Snake Cave’, ‘Dragon Lizard Cave’, ‘Spirit Turtle Pool’, ‘Spirit Chicken Mountain’, ‘Spirit Tiger Cave’, ‘Five Insects Terrace’, etc.

The first four are self-explanatory, and the Spirit Tiger Cave was built by Wang Ba specifically for the mixed-blood white tiger. Some time ago, he brought the mixed-blood white tiger back as a breeding tiger for sowing, but unfortunately the effect was very poor.

There is a desire to reproduce, but the ability is extremely poor, which consumes a lot of Wang Ba’s yin and yang energy. So far, no offspring of the mixed-blood white tiger has been left. Now this Spirit Tiger Cave is in a semi-abandoned state.

And the ‘Five Insects Terrace’ does not refer to insects alone, but refers to the collection of ‘spiders, scales, hairs, feathers and insects’.

Because the yin and yang are extremely limited, they must be used with caution.

In the past few decades, in addition to cultivating the spirit snake alone, he has not had time to study too many spirit beasts in detail.

Therefore, the Five Insects Terrace was set aside to house these spirit beasts that have not yet been studied.

It is considered an important species library for him.

However, before he had time to see the latest batch of hybrid turtle eggs hatching, Wang Qingyang's reappearance forced him to temporarily stop what he was doing.

"Master, the sect master asked you to see him."

"The sect master wants to see me?"

Wang Ba was slightly puzzled.

"The sect master has not disturbed me in these years. Is there something important?"

Thinking of this, he did not dare to neglect it and left Wanfa Peak immediately.

...

Chunyang Palace.

"The sect master means that the sixth-level spiritual vein in the sect can no longer supply the entire sect. Do you want to shrink the scope of the sect?"

Wang Ba sat opposite Qu Shentong and couldn't help frowning.

Qu Shentong sighed:

"In fact, there were signs of this matter decades ago, and the Earthly Monument Hall had already reported that the main consumption of spiritual veins was in the sect formation, but at that time, the situation in Xiaocang Realm changed drastically. Just in case, the sect’s formation must be opened.”

"Now that the sect's formation has been operating for decades, and as the world has become increasingly declining, the sixth-level spiritual veins have finally been unable to make ends meet. At present, we can only shrink the sect's territory and reduce the consumption of the formation, so as not to consume the spiritual veins. null."

Listening to Qu Shentong's words, Wang Yan couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

The sixth level spiritual vein is really too important to the sect.

It can be said that the Wanxiang Sect can still maintain the cultivation expenses of so many monks in the sect today when the world is declining. This sixth-level spiritual vein is the most important contributor.

Once the sixth level spiritual veins are exhausted, or the level falls.

Without the rich supply of spiritual energy, the cultivation and accumulation of spiritual plants, spiritual mines and many spiritual objects in the sect will be greatly slowed down.

The practice speed of Wanxiang Sect monks will also be greatly slowed down.

The combination of the two will be an unprecedented blow to the Wanxiang Sect, even more serious than the death of the cultivator.

Reducing the scope of the sect is also a nerve-wracking matter.

After all, although the sect is large, over the years, even if there is open space, it has already been used. No matter how much it is reduced, it will have huge implications.

"Where does the sect master plan to reduce?"

Wang Ba hesitated and then asked.

Qu Shentong had no need to hide anything from Wang Ba. He put his palms in front of him, and then an aerial view of the Wanxiang Sect appeared. He pointed at one of the peaks that accounted for nearly half of the sect's area and said:

"I have thought about it. The land used by the Four Mountains and the twenty-five divisions of the Five Elements Division cannot be reduced, so the only thing that can be moved is Wanfeng."

"I plan to withdraw from the peak, retaining only the inheritance of Nascent Soul cultivators in the past three generations, and placing the other inheritances in a unified manner."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Yan couldn't help but said:

"Absolutely not."

"Once we withdraw from the peak, our fellow disciples will be alienated. It is not an appropriate move."

Qu Shentong was not angry, but asked:

"Then do you have a better way?"

Wang Hao frowned and asked:

"In addition to reducing the scope, do the Diwu Palace have any other plans?"

"There are other plans."

Qu Shentong's tone was more helpless:

"The Spiritual Planting Department said that the sect should be filled with spiritual plants that can nourish spiritual veins, but if this method is to be effective, it will take at least a thousand years. The Spiritual Mineral Department proposed the method of 'returning the spiritual mines and returning the spiritual veins', but The cost of the spiritual mines in our sect is not small. Once the number of spiritual mines is reduced, at least half of the twenty-five departments will have no work to do. The Formation Department also provided me with one before, saying that at least five hundred spiritual beasts are needed. Or the monks are filling in the formation, they really dare to say, where can I find so many spiritual beasts, and Tianyuan Palace also made a suggestion before to grab..."

"Wait a minute," Wang Ba couldn't help but interrupt Qu Shentong's words and looked at Qu Shentong: "Just now did the sect master say that five hundred spiritual beasts are needed?"

Qu Shentong nodded with some confusion, but then he reacted and suddenly said:

"By the way, I remember that you are very good at cultivating spiritual beasts, so you should know how difficult it is."

"Furthermore, five hundred spirit beasts are the number needed to fill the formation in one go. They will last for several years. After they are withdrawn, a new batch of spirit beasts will be needed to continue filling the array. This means that the number will at least double."

Finally, he said helplessly:

"The fourth-level spirit beasts are not weeds in the field. Where can I get so many spirit beasts? So after thinking about it, I still think it might be easier to reduce the scope of the sect, so I called you here to discuss this. thing.”

Seeing that Qu Shentong was so troubled, Wang Yan didn't know what to say for a while.

Everyone knows that he is good at cultivating spiritual beasts. Why didn't he tell him about this kind of thing earlier?

However, he also knew that Qu Shen Tong was mostly to let him concentrate on his practice, and he didn't think he could solve the problem, so he never told him.

Thinking of this, he was really helpless, and he said softly:

"Sect Master, please wait a moment."

Then he ordered outside the palace:

"Qingyang, go back to Wanfa Peak, go to the secret realm, and get me the batch of spirit chickens and spirit turtles that are going to be made into spiritual food."

Outside the palace, Wang Qingyang heard Wang Ba's order and immediately left.

"Spiritual food?"

Qu Shentong was slightly startled, then frowned and said:

"Deputy Sect Leader, the numbers are too different. It's better to keep those spiritual chickens and continue to refine them into spiritual food. Don't delay your practice."

Wang Hao shook his head:

"Sect Master, wait a moment... By the way, I have been in retreat at Wanfa Peak in recent years, and I don't know much about many situations in Feng Linzhou. Is there any change in the original Demon Sect now?"

Speaking of Feng Linzhou and the original Demon Sect, Qu Shentong also came back to his senses and frowned:

"The Original Demon Sect has been quite strange in recent years. The sect's formation has always been open, but very few people have come out. Our people have been staring, but they can't tell the truth. We don't know what Han Xiangzi is trying to do. ...As for Feng Linzhou, Zhenwu Dao, which had been dormant for a while in the past few years, has become active again recently. Now it has occupied the former Guangling and northern Daqi. They respect the martial ancestor 'Wang Xu' and train ordinary people. Mortal, the momentum is not small."

"Next to the west, the Yuanci Disaster in Xihai Kingdom has become so troublesome that it has to be solved. At this conference, people from the Changsheng Sect and Youxian Temple will come, and we will take this opportunity to solve the problem."

"Zhenwu Wangxu... Yuanci..."

Wang Ba frowned slightly. Both of these are old problems.

The former has a lot to do with him.

Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of another question:

"What about the flood? How is it now?"

Mentioning this, Qu Shentong's face was a little more relieved:

"The sea level has completely receded. The current sea level is about the same as before the flood. Fortunately, the flood has receded. Otherwise, according to the previous speed, most of our Fenglinzhou would be..."

"Master, Master, the things are here."

Wang Qingyang's voice came from outside the hall.

Qu Shentong paused and looked at Wang Ba.

Wang Ba nodded, and then said loudly:

"Come in, give the things to the master."

As soon as the voice fell, Wang Qingyang moved slightly and walked into the hall.

Holding the spirit beast bag in his hand, he presented it to Qu Shentong.

Qu Shentong hesitated a little, but still took the spirit beast bag.

The divine sense probed into it.

At first, he was a little indifferent, but after seeing the number of them, his usually calm face was stunned, and then he looked up in disbelief and looked at Wang Ba:

"This, this is all..."

Wang Ba shook his head and said:

"The sect master should have told me earlier. Before, a batch of them were refined for cultivation. Now there are only more than 400 left. There should be some in the Beast Taming Department. They can be used first. After ten years, when the new batch is all hatched, it should be able to meet the needs of the formation."

"It's a pity that the higher the grade of the spirit beast, the worse the reproduction ability, otherwise it should be faster. During the vacant time in the middle, the sect master has to think of other ways."

"Enough, enough."

Qu Shentong said repeatedly.

Looking at Wang Ba, he suddenly had the idea of ​​handing over the position of sect master to him immediately.

But feeling that Wang Ba still had the aura of the early Nascent Soul stage, he retracted the idea, dismissed Wang Qingyang, and asked in a low voice:

"How long will it take for you to cultivate to the perfection of the Nascent Soul?"

Wang Ba was a little surprised, then he pondered for a moment and replied:

"After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, in addition to the accumulation of mana, my lineage of cultivation also needs to have a deeper understanding of each path that is cultivated. It is really difficult to say how long it will take. Maybe it will be touched and it will be perfected in two or three hundred years, or it may take a long time and may not be completed in a thousand years."

"In addition, I also want to see if I can integrate the incarnation into the main body."

"Integrate the incarnation into the main body?"

Qu Shentong was a little hesitant when he heard Wang Ba's words.

Wang Ba also noticed Qu Shentong's change and asked immediately: "Does the Sect Master have any arrangements?"

Qu Shentong shook his head:

"I'm just worried that I won't be able to hold on until the day when your Nascent Soul is perfect. Although I'm not old among my peers, I'm more than 1,200 years old now. It's only three or four hundred years away from the end of my life. It looks far away, but it's actually a blink of an eye."

"I just hope that before the end of your life, you can take over the important task of the sect without distraction."

Qu Shentong's words made Wang Ba silent for a while.

In his heart, he couldn't help but think of several other uncles, such as Qi Yan, Ling Weizi, Hu Zaixi and others.

They are older than Qu Shentong.

"I know, Sect Master, don't worry."

He said softly.

As for what he was thinking, no one knew.

After chatting for a while and understanding the situation in Huangjizhou, he immediately returned to the Pearl Secret Realm of Wanfa Peak.

He didn't have time to go to the Spirit Turtle Pool to check the situation of the Spirit Turtle Egg.

He was then attracted by the wailing of Jia Shiwu. (End of this chapter)