Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 100: Practical Application of Neural Invasion Technique

Yang Ning only wanted them to capture the Red-Backed Fairy Armadillo, causing an ecological imbalance on the island, and then naturally expand the Black Ice Marching Ants, forcing the members of the Three-Word Sword Sect to leave.

Throughout the process, no one would be harmed, not even the Red-Backed Fairy Armadillo.

The red fairy on its back is renewable, even if it is bought by the Pill Refining Pavilion, it will only be well-fed and well-cared for.

Who would have thought that the four disciples on Red Leaf Island would sell the captured Red-Backed Fairy Armadillo for money and change their allegiance?

But this turned out to be an unexpected surprise.

Because the ones who loved fishing were Ju Qingzi and Bai Bolin, and now that they were gone, mining could begin!

"They really have dreams!" Yang Ning could only shake his head and then give instructions to the Black Ice Marching Ants to reproduce at full capacity.

Actually, even without his instructions, the Black Ice Marching Ants would still reproduce in large numbers.

They were an extremely intelligent collective organism. When they had natural enemies, they would suppress their reproductive impulses to prevent an explosion in their own numbers, which would lead to an increase in the number of natural enemies.

Now that the natural enemies had disappeared, the Black Ice Marching Ants were naturally going to reproduce explosively.

However, now the purpose of breeding and controlling the ants to confront the Three-Word Sword Sect was not to drive them away, but to test the neural invasion technique.

By experimenting on the ants, they could later upgrade to larger insects, then small animals, and finally large animals.

Speaking of which, does the ant kingdom count as a kingdom? Does the king of the ant kingdom have any luck?

Ju Qingzi's speculation was correct. When Zhang Hongye woke up, finished washing up, and went to find her senior brothers, she quickly discovered that none of them, from the eldest senior brother to the fourth junior brother, were present. Only the fifth junior brother, Chunxiu, remained, but he was only 13 years old this year and not very useful!

She thought the four senior brothers had gone to eat or were training on the training ground. After searching around again, she still couldn't find them.

Realizing that something was wrong, she hurried to the seclusion room and woke up her father, Zhang Qizi, who was in seclusion.

Using Qi Refining techniques, Zhang Qizi investigated and confirmed that the four had already left Red Leaf Island.

He also found the traces left by the four when they captured the Red-Backed Fairy Armadillo, finally confirming that they had found something in the forest and then searched for it overnight.

Judging from the dew, they should have finished searching before dawn and then left Red Leaf Island with something.

"What's on the island?"

Following the traces of the four's search, Zhang Qizi quickly discovered a cave. After investigating, he confirmed that it was the nest of the armadillo!

"Ordinary armadillos can only be used for meat and carry the risk of disease. The four of them wouldn't do this, so this shouldn't be an ordinary armadillo! And the Red Leaf Island is known for its highly valuable Red-Backed Fairy Armadillo," Zhang Qizi realized, his face suddenly changed, and he immediately left Red Leaf Island on his flying sword.

When he returned, his face was as black as ink.

"What happened? Where did they go?" Yue Qiwei asked.

"They made so much money, they must have defected!" Zhang Qizi said angrily.

He went to the nearest port city and inquired at the Pill Refining Pavilion, where he learned that his fourth disciple, Hao Ming, had sold a Red-Backed Fairy Armadillo here!

Fifty thousand taels, that's a lot of money!

"Ah, what should we do now?" Yue Qiwei suddenly panicked. She had never encountered such a situation before in her life.

"Hmph, what else can we do? A bunch of ungrateful people. I've already sold the information about the money they have to the Pass Pavilion. They won't survive!" Zhang Qizi said coldly.

Yue Qiwei's voice choked, feeling that this might not be right.

But then she thought again, the disciples had already betrayed them, so why bother showing mercy? It would be best if they died outside!

Red Leaf Island was small and had no extra manpower. Zhang Qizi's cultivation was important, and he didn't have the time or energy to chase after them. He could only continue his seclusion with a belly full of anger.

Yue Qiwei, on the other hand, stopped secluding herself and instead began teaching Chunxiu about loyalty and filial piety. She felt that her four disciples had betrayed the sect for money, which was a result of her lack of discipline.

However, after only teaching for a couple of days, Zhang Qizi came out again.

"What's wrong, husband?" Yue Qiwei asked.

"I'm feeling unsettled and my cultivation is not smooth!" Zhang Qizi shook his head. "And I feel that the concentration of spiritual energy on the island is also problematic. I need to go check the spiritual vein!"

"Let's go together!" Yue Qiwei hurriedly followed when she heard that there was a problem with the spiritual vein.

The two of them activated their night vision technique and descended through the quiet room where they had been secluding themselves. It was a sloping cave with a staircase in front and a dirt road carved by swords and knives behind.

After descending about forty meters, the sound of dripping water gradually echoed in the cave.

Zhang Qizi quickened his pace and walked for another ten meters. Suddenly, the front became clear and a small hall with a diameter of more than ten meters appeared!

In the center of the hall was a spring pool, with a layer of white mist floating on the water.

This was the spiritual vein on Hongye Island.

Although the concentration of spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual vein was low, its grade was not low. It was Middle Grade Kui Shui spiritual energy.

When Zhang Qizi saw the intact spiritual vein, he was initially delighted, but then his face turned dark.

It turned out that there were black ant corpses floating on the surface of the spiritual pool!

The spiritual vein had been contaminated by the black ice ants. No wonder things didn't feel right!

"Black Ice Ants!" Zhang Qizi frowned and quickly looked up, only to find that there was a hole somewhere above, and a continuous stream of ants was pouring out of it.

Just as he was observing, some ant corpses fell from above!

"Black Ice Ants!" Yue Qiwei screamed. Although she was a Qi Refining cultivator, she was still afraid of ants.

"Damn beasts!" Zhang Qizi immediately thought of the pangolin that had been taken away by the four disciples. This creature was the natural enemy of the black ice ants, and with the pangolin suppressing them, the black ice ants would not reproduce rampantly.

But now that the four disciples had taken the pangolin away, it had led to the unrestrained outbreak of the black ice ants, which could even burrow fifty meters underground!

He pointed his finger and a line of fire shot out, spreading along the ant hole. Not only did it burn the ant nest along the way, but the fire also spread up to forty meters, emerging from the ground!

With just a fire spell, the entire ant nest was completely burned!

He reached out and cleaned up the ant corpses in the spiritual vein.

The surroundings became quiet, but Zhang Qizi didn't feel much joy.

After all, it was well known that when you found a nest of black ice ants in your home, it meant they were everywhere!

"You stay here and guard the place. I'll go buy a few pangolins!" Zhang Qizi didn't know how many black ice ants there were on the island. Although it was easy for him to kill them, it was almost impossible to completely eliminate them.

As long as there was one left alive, it could reproduce a whole nest!

If cultivators could exterminate all the black ice ants, then the black ice ants in Yingzhou would have been extinct long ago.

How could a cultivator of his status play guerrilla warfare with ants? It would be better to buy a few pangolins to suppress them.

Red-Backed Immortal Pangolins were expensive, but ordinary pangolins were quite cheap. You could buy dozens of them for one or two silver coins.

"Alright!" Yue Qiwei nodded.

"So, these ants are so weak?" Yang Ning listened to Zhang Qizi's method of dealing with them and felt speechless. Nature really had a strict hierarchy, with one creature suppressing another.

So, would Extreme Eternal also import some pangolins to suppress the black ice ants?

Fortunately, there were intelligent black ice ants and non-intelligent black ice ants, which were two different creatures!

(End of this chapter)