Mortal Seeking Immortal

Hearing that it was not allowed to eat the eggs of the centipede, the spirit beetle was immediately disheartened. All the claws under its body drooped straight, and it looked like it had lost all hope in life. Its little head kept looking in the direction of the eggs, as if it had not completely given up.

The eggs, which had been lying quietly in the middle of the small compartment, seemed to have sensed the breath of death, and secretly twisted and rolled towards the corner of the small compartment.

Ye Zhou could only hold the spirit beetle and quickly leave the insect breeding room.

When it arrived outside the cave, the spirit beetle, who had lost all hope in life, lay on Ye Zhou's shoulder and combed its wings, then cheered up again and flew away in one direction with a "whoosh".

The spirit beetle flew towards Ye Zhou with an inexplicable "excitement", urging Ye Zhou to follow it.

Ye Zhou took out the Wind Chaser Sword and quickly followed the spirit beetle with the sword. Wherever the spirit beetle passed, the birds, beasts, fish and insects on the ground all trembled on the ground.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Ye Zhou pasted several Qi-retaining talismans on the spirit beetle to cover up the breath of the spirit beetle, and the birds, beasts, fish and insects below returned to normal.

The spirit beetle flew all the way to the outside of the Blood Spirit Sect.

Ye Zhou had no intention of leaving the Blood Spirit Sect in the near future, but he was very curious about what attracted the spirit beetle so much, so he did not stop the spirit, but concealed his breath, changed his appearance, and flew out of the Blood Spirit Sect closely behind the spirit beetle.

After leaving the Blood Spirit Sect, Ye Zhou followed the spirit beetle all the way east for more than two hours, and arrived at a wasteland, where the spirit beetle stopped and landed on Ye Zhou's shoulder.

Ye Zhou slowly lowered his flying sword and stood on the wasteland. Looking around, the area within a radius of five miles was barren, with no grass growing on the ground, and the barren loess was exposed, without any spiritual energy. This wasteland was incompatible with the lush trees, vibrant and thin spiritual energy in the distance.

Ye Zhou was a little confused. What was the purpose of the spirit beetle bringing him to this place?

Ye Zhou walked forward a few steps casually, and suddenly stepped on some hard objects protruding from the ground. Ye Zhou moved his feet away, and under his feet was a long-dead tree root.

Ye Zhou seemed to understand something, and his spiritual consciousness was released instantly. From the large number of tree roots growing on this wasteland, it is not difficult to see that this wasteland was also a forest with lush trees and thin spiritual energy a long time ago.

Ye Zhou stared at the ground under his feet thoughtfully.

"It seems that the vitality and spiritual energy here seem to have been completely sucked dry by something."

Ye Zhou was thinking, and suddenly the spirit beetle that landed on his shoulder made a buzzing sound and flapped its wings to the ground. Its slender claws were still digging the soil, and soon a small hole was made.

Ye Zhou's eyes lit up, his breathing was rapid, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

"Could it be that the eggs of the spirit beetle came from this wasteland?!"

If so, it would explain why there was not even a trace of spiritual energy here.

They must have all been sucked dry by the eggs of the spirit beetle!

"According to ancient books, spirit beetles are social creatures. A group of them can swallow up an ancient sect. Since a spirit beetle egg has appeared here, it is very likely that there are still a group of spirit beetle eggs buried here!"

Ye Zhou had this guess before, but the world is so big that he didn't know where to start.

Ye Zhou quickly released his spiritual sense to explore the ground. A quarter of an hour later, in a hole deep underground that seemed to have been formed in ancient times, it was filled with dense spirit beetle eggs. Ye Zhou scanned it with his spiritual sense and roughly estimated that there were thousands of eggs in this area!

"If it weren't for this foodie who brought me here, no one would have thought that there would be so many spirit beetle eggs under this wasteland without any spiritual energy!"

Under normal circumstances, cultivators will use their spiritual sense to check when they find a place with lush trees, particularly strong trees, and abundant spiritual energy. Such a place may breed natural treasures.

In this kind of wasteland, the spiritual energy is so ethereal that it is difficult to sense. It is a place that even dogs don't need to scan with their spiritual sense.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Zhou can find so many spirit beetle eggs.

"I'm rich. If I cultivate all of them, I will have a thousand of these foodies. Even if they can't fight against the existence of the Jindan stage, they will definitely be invincible in the foundation building stage!"

Ye Zhou recalled the spirit beetle that dug the hole and gently touched the little head of the spirit beetle to show his praise.

The spirit beetle rubbed Ye Zhou's fingers intimately and expressed its desire for food to Ye Zhou.

"In view of your great contribution this time, when you return to the cave, you can eat super insect feeding pills and high-year spiritual plants."

Unexpectedly, the spirit beetle did not show any excitement, but began to bargain with Ye Zhou, pointing to the egg transformed from the centipede.

Looking at the greedy look of the spirit beetle and thinking about the black egg transformed from the centipede, Ye Zhou was quite speechless.

If it were an ordinary insect egg, the spirit beetle would eat it, but that was a mutant insect egg. Ye Zhou only had one, which was of great research value, so Ye Zhou could only ruthlessly refuse the spirit beetle.

"Except for this one, you can eat all the other spirit insect eggs."

The spirit beetle suddenly felt hopeless and lay down weakly, as if facing a dying state.

Ye Zhou felt a headache and quickly turned his eyes away, fearing that he could not help but agree to the spirit beetle.

Ye Zhou first threw out a series of formation flags to wrap up the entire wasteland, and soon set up a psychedelic formation. From the outside of the formation, Ye Zhou could not see him at all.

In this way, Ye Zhou could dig freely in this wasteland.

Ye Zhou slapped his storage bag and summoned three flying swords with spiritual light flowing at the same time to dig into the hole full of spirit beetle eggs in the ground. The soil flew up and soon a deep passage half a meter wide was dug out.

Two quarters of an hour later, the passage was dug through, leading directly to the underground cave. Ye Zhou put away his flying sword and escaped into the underground with the spirit beetle through the passage.

As soon as Ye Zhou's feet landed on the ground, the spirit beetle lying on his shoulder spread its wings and flew excitedly towards the large number of spirit beetle eggs attached to the hollow stone wall, flying slowly over each egg with familiarity.

Ye Zhou's spiritual sense quickly swept over the eggs. Although the shell of the spirit beetle eggs was dim, Ye Zhou felt the weak vitality emitted from most of the eggs.

"The spirit beetle is indeed an ancient spirit beetle. I don't know how many years this insect egg has been left here. There is still life in the insect egg. When I go back, I will place them on high-year spirit plants. They should be able to hatch quickly."

Ye Zhou thought while his hands did not stop. He quickly took out jade boxes from the storage bag, carefully removed the spirit beetle eggs firmly attached to the stone wall, and put them into the jade box.

Some of these spirit beetle eggs were so weak that they seemed to be there and not there. Ye Zhou was afraid that they would become bad eggs on the way back to the sect, so he took out some high-year spirit plants from the storage bag and put them into the jade box together with these insect eggs.