Chapter 444 Hatching, bloodthirsty mosquitoes! [Subscribe please]
"Fellow Daoist, what kind of insect eggs are these?"
Wei Hong walked to the stall selling insect eggs and asked.
Since he had already determined that his method of breeding spiritual insects was feasible, he naturally had to find out the types of various spiritual insects and how to cultivate them.
The stall owner was selling spiritual insects, so wasn't he the best person to consult?
The middle-aged man with a somewhat distressed look at Wei Hong, and then said in a muffled voice: "There are iron crystal ants, green flies, blood-sucking mosquitoes, yellow flies and flying locusts. Which one do you want?"
"Oh?"
Wei Hong's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that there would be so many varieties of spiritual insects in this stall. He squatted down and asked: "What are the prices? These are the eggs of first-grade low-grade spiritual insects?"
Seeing that Wei Hong seemed to really want to buy, the middle-aged man with a distressed face took it a little more seriously and said: "Yes, the ones I just mentioned are all first-grade low-grade spiritual insects, and these are their eggs."
"As for the price, all the eggs are one spirit stone for one hundred eggs, you can pick as many as you want."
The stall was filled with densely packed eggs, with a number of tens of thousands.
However, Wei Hong did not answer immediately, but asked again: "Daoyou, how fast do the spirit insects you mentioned reproduce? How long is the reproduction period? How many eggs can they produce each time? What should I pay attention to when feeding these spirit insects?"
Faced with these questions, the middle-aged man with a worried face couldn't help but feel a little confused.
"Daoyou, are you here to buy eggs or to inquire about things?"
"Haha, Daoyou, don't blame me!" Wei Hong laughed, and then replied: "I want to buy eggs, and I also want to talk to Daoyou about spirit insects. I hope Daoyou can give me some advice!"
"I don't deserve your advice!" The middle-aged stall owner seemed to rarely see people interested in spirit insects. He didn't care what Wei Hong's purpose was. He immediately said excitedly as if he had found a confidant: "But Daoyou, you asked the right person. I have been raising spirit insects for five or six years. "
"Generally speaking, the reproduction speeds of various spiritual insects are different. For example, the iron crystal ant can lay hundreds of eggs each time, but the reproduction interval is relatively long, as long as two months. "
"Spiritual insects like yellow-striped flies are a little different. This kind of spiritual insect reproduces the fastest, reproducing once every half a month or so, and each yellow-striped fly lays 20 to 30 eggs each time."
The middle-aged stall owner looked a little less sad at this time, and he talked to Wei Hong.
Wei Hong, with an open-minded attitude, wrote down all the information the middle-aged stall owner said.
From time to time, he asked a few more questions, all of which were questions he didn't understand.
The middle-aged stall owner was really generous with his advice, and he solved many of Wei Hong's doubts during the chat.
Of course, those were just common sense questions.
If you want to have a deeper understanding of spiritual insects, or even cultivate spiritual insects, it is not something that can be explained clearly in a few simple sentences. You must have experience in breeding.
For this reason, Wei Hong decisively bought a book on insect control from the middle-aged stall owner.
At the same time, he bought thousands of eggs of all kinds of insects on the stall.
He planned to use these eggs as an experiment to see if his idea could work. He also needed to test which kind of spiritual insects were most suitable for cultivation. After the test, he would specialize in cultivating one kind of spiritual insects.
"Haha, thank you for your help!"
Wei Hong smiled and stood up.
The middle-aged stall owner waved his hand indifferently and said, "You are too polite. Come often when you are free!"
"Okay!"
Wei Hong nodded and turned away.
He had learned from the middle-aged stall owner that as long as the monster meat could be continuously provided and the spiritual insects could continue to eat, the spiritual insects would grow rapidly and continue to lay eggs.
Of course, if you want to cultivate the spiritual insects to the extent that they can help in fighting, it is not just a little monster meat that can be achieved. The resources and energy required are very large. This is why few cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation use spiritual insects as a means of fighting.
However, Wei Hong did not need to cultivate those spirit insects, he just needed to let those eggs hatch.
Such investment would be much simpler and acceptable to him.
After returning to the courtyard, Wei Hong first carefully studied the secret book of insect control. After absorbing the various information and experience on it, he began to experiment with cultivating spirit insects.
He first opened up an area in the courtyard specifically for cultivating spirit insects, and separated five locations, and put five kinds of insect eggs, namely iron crystal ants, green flies, blood-sucking mosquitoes, yellow-striped flies and flying locusts, respectively, with 100 eggs of each kind.
Since it is an experiment, it must be carried out in batches to compare detailed data.
According to the method recorded in the secret book of insect control, he first arranged a special formation, and then bled, soaking each insect egg in blood as soon as possible.
This is the first step to hatch spirit insects. Blood can make the hatched spirit insects recognize the master directly.
After all, the types he chose are the most common ordinary spirit insects, so naturally there is no need for complicated means of recognizing the master.
After placing all the insect eggs in the blood, Wei Hong didn't need to do anything else for the time being.
The insect eggs would slowly absorb the blood, and he only needed to continue to replenish the blood.
Five days later.
Wei Hong only replenished the blood once, and the five spirit insects began to hatch one after another.
"Well, the first to hatch is the panic fly, which takes three days, followed by the green fly, the flying locust and the blood-sucking mosquito, which take three and a half to four days respectively. The last to hatch is the iron crystal ant, which takes five days."
When those spiritual insects hatched one after another, Wei Hong also recorded their hatching time in detail.
Looking at those white and fat spiritual insects, Wei Hong's eyes flashed with eagerness to try.
He thought about it, picked up an iron crystal ant and crushed it directly.
[Ding! Life Points +0.01! ]
Wei Hong was not disappointed at all, but thought: "A newly hatched iron crystal ant has so little vitality, what if it grows up?"
After recording this data, he crushed all the other four spiritual insects to death one by one.
[Ding! Life Points +0.01! ]
[Ding! Life Points +0.05! ]
[Ding! Life Points +0.07! ]
[Ding! Life Points +0.1! 】
Except for the flying locust, which also adds 0.1 vitality points, the other three spirit insects are less than 0.1.
"Well, the numerical difference is not big, and the other data still need further testing."
Wei Hong nodded secretly, and he had a preliminary understanding of these spirit insects.
