Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 490: Chapter 278: The Sprouting Blood-Brewing Grape Vine

Zhong Yi helped Funnie up after she bowed to him, then asked her.

"With the strength of your current Blood Race Count bloodline, how long will it take you to reach the Third Level?"

Funnie pondered for a moment before replying with certainty.

"Master, with my current bloodline strength, it will only take me three to five days to reach the Third Level."

"If you allow me to eat a few Blood Demon Litchis each day, you won’t even need to provide any other resources. I can reach the Peak of the Fourth Level within a month."

"However, before I reach the Fourth Level, I’ll need to choose a creature of the Bat Species and form a Contract with it."

"And refine it into my Lifebound Blood Bat."

Zhong Yi’s face filled with shock upon hearing this.

Previously, everything he knew about the Blood Race’s Talents came from Fang Ze. Zhong Yi had never had a tangible grasp of just how powerful the Blood Race was.

But Funnie’s words made him realize just how monstrously powerful the Blood Race was.

After all, the Fourth Level on the Virtual Source Network didn’t just correspond to the Guardian Beast World’s Mythical Tier; it corresponded to both the Mythical and Immortal Tiers.

A Blood Race Count could reach Immortal Peak in less than a month.

This rate of growth far exceeded Zhong Yi’s expectations.

However, the speed at which the Blood Race increased its strength gave Zhong Yi an idea of how to quickly bolster the Soul Soil’s combat strength.

Zhong Yi didn’t actually have many trump cards.

His main trump card had always been his ability to nurture other creatures using the Soul Taming Seed and Flowing Soul Soil.

Previously, Zhong Yi had considered finding exceptional Guardian Beast Masters in the Guardian Beast World and pairing them with the Thorny Sparrow Hunters that had formed Contracts with the Sun Splendor Thorn.

He would use this combination to build the Soul Soil’s combat division.

But now, Zhong Yi realized he could have the Blood Race replace the Guardian Beast Masters and pair them with the Thorny Sparrow Hunters instead.

After all, once the Thorny Sparrow Hunters were contracted by the Sun Splendor Thorn, they would obey its commands.

"Funnie, for the next few days, you can move about freely in this Ruins World. Focus on increasing your strength as quickly as possible."

With that, Zhong Yi gave Funnie all the Blood Demon Litchis he had in his Soul Base, letting her use them as she saw fit.

Meanwhile, while Zhong Yi had been strengthening Funnie, the Celestial Craft Ant Queen had already produced over ten Celestial Craft Ants. These ants were nearly two meters long and possessed construction abilities.

In a normal ant colony, Celestial Craft Ants with this construction ability would be considered worker ants, responsible for building the nest.

These construction-focused Celestial Craft Ants didn’t have a single superfluous hair on their bodies.

Their carapaces were smooth and shiny. Two of their limbs were specialized—thick, powerful, and able to extend with the flexibility of human arms.

They could easily lift objects dozens of times their own weight.

Their long, sharp mandibles contained dozens of mouthparts, which acted like files of various sizes, helping the Celestial Craft Ants process the building materials held in their limbs.

In truth, the Celestial Craft Ant Queen could not only produce specialized nursing ants to feed it and Building Ants to construct its nest, but it could also produce Combat Ants. These Combat Ants had mandibles that took up half their bodies, were covered in fine hairs, and had two rear limbs specialized into stingers.

Each of these Combat Ants could easily kill dozens of the Celestial Craft Ants responsible for construction.

These Guard Ants protected the Ant Nest and were fundamental to the Celestial Craft Ant Queen’s survival.

Normally, in the wild, once a female nuptial-flight Celestial Craft Ant transformed into a Celestial Craft Ant Queen, it would first produce enough nursing ants to sustain itself, then prioritize hatching a few Combat Ants to fight and ensure its own safety.

But now that the Celestial Craft Ant Queen was contracted to Zhong Yi, he forbade it from hatching even a single Combat Ant.

In Zhong Yi’s opinion, these Combat Ants weren’t particularly strong.

’Rather than waste Energy on Combat Ants, I’ll just protect the Celestial Craft Ant Queen myself in the future.’

Zhong Yi spent the next few days in the Ruins World quite leisurely.

Whenever the Soul-Controlling Flower secreted Flowing Soul Soil, Zhong Yi would feed it to Funnie.

For now, Zhong Yi was giving all the Flowing Soul Soil to Funnie to secure a good ranking in the Creation Martial Arts Demonstration and earn a spot on the Creation Sequence.

After the Creation Martial Arts Demonstration ended, Zhong Yi planned to prioritize using the Flowing Soul Soil from the Soul-Controlling Flower to nurture the Dragon-Speaking Minks. These minks had consumed the Fairy Flashing Phosphorus Flood Dragon Crystal, and he wanted them to evolve into Dragon-Brewed Immortal Minks.

Once all the Dragon-Brewed Immortal Minks were cultivated, Zhong Yi would set aside one thousand milliliters of Flowing Soul Soil for emergencies.

Zhong Yi would still give the remaining Flowing Soul Soil to Funnie.

He aimed to further enhance her bloodline strength, raising her from a Blood Race Count to a Blood Race Marquis.

Seeing Funnie constantly getting to drink Flowing Soul Soil, the Celestial Craft Ant Queen looked at Zhong Yi pitifully, all while continuing to produce Ant Successors.

Despite its ferocious appearance, it emanated the emotions of a dejected, unpetted puppy.

It was as if this puppy had just been caught in the rain.

And this was a downpour of melodramatic proportions...

The Celestial Craft Ant Queen was also one of Zhong Yi’s Guardian Beasts, so he relented and fed it five milliliters of Flowing Soul Soil.

After drinking the five milliliters of Flowing Soul Soil, the Celestial Craft Ant Queen immediately began to sway its body in satisfaction.

Immediately after, as if a constipated person had just consumed an industrial-strength laxative, the Celestial Craft Ant Queen suddenly popped out over twenty Insect Eggs that would hatch into Building Ants.

There were now five days left until the end of the Creation Martial Arts Demonstration.