Chapter 48: Sun Shengmei Summons (Please Collect, Recommend, and Read)
At the beginning, Sun Mingsheng exchanged six first-grade medium-quality firebird charms for thirty black-striped ant eggs. It took three days to successfully hatch twenty-two black-striped ants, and the remaining eight eggs had lost their breath of life.
Black-striped ants are only first-grade low-quality, and the eggs they give birth to are just relatively ordinary life embryos. Being able to hatch most of them is already a good result.
These newly hatched black-striped ants are in a relatively weak state. Only after swallowing enough food can they be promoted to first-grade low-quality and have a certain combat effectiveness.
The eight unhatched eggs are naturally useful and become the first delicious meal for the first black-striped ant king.
After swallowing the nutritious eggs, the black-striped ant king also grew at a speed visible to the naked eye and became stronger.
Perhaps it was the natural recognition engraved in the blood, and the remaining twenty-one black-striped ants soon surrounded the ant king.
Because there is no spiritual beast bag for storage at the moment, under his control, the black-striped ants began to build an ant nest in an inconspicuous corner of the training room.
Of course, the construction of an ant nest is a long process. As the black-striped ant colony expands, the area and scale of the ant nest will also increase accordingly.
At present, the black-striped ants are still in the weak larval stage. Sun Mingsheng specifically exchanges some first-level low-grade spiritual beast flesh and blood from the family for feeding.
"You little guys are really big eaters. You are only less than one-third of your little finger, but you eat three or five pounds of blood food every meal." Looking at the black-striped ants eating frantically, Sun Mingsheng showed a look of pain.
Monster flesh and blood are widely used. Even if it is exchanged in the family, the price is not cheap. A first-level medium-grade firebird talisman can only exchange one pound of first-level low-grade spiritual beast flesh and blood.
Fortunately, the black-striped ants are not picky eaters. What he buys are some scraps of low value.
No wonder there aren't many cultivators who cultivate spirit beasts in the family. It's not that they don't want to or don't know the benefits of spirit beasts, but they just can't support it.
Three months passed in a flash while cultivating black ants.
Not only has the application to join the hunting team never been approved, but the second core seed member of the Ming generation that should be given after returning from the Qiuli Fruit Party is also far away, which makes people wait anxiously.
"Twelfth brother, are you cultivating?" A familiar voice appeared in my ears that day.
"Second sister, aren't you serving my great-aunt? How come you have time to come here today?" Sun Mingsheng showed a curious look.
Sun Mingxiu, the second in the Ming generation, is also a cultivator with three spiritual roots, with a sixth-level Qi training level, and has always been with Sun Shengmei, the only female cultivator in the family who is in the foundation-building stage.
"Today, I came here to convey the order of the ancestor. Follow me to the cave to pay respect to her." Sun Mingxiu had deep respect for this elder in the foundation-building stage.
Sun Shengmei, who was at the third level of the foundation-building stage, had a legendary experience.
There were more men than women in the cultivation world, especially among high-level cultivators. Most female cultivators would choose a suitable husband to marry under the selection of the family to enhance the influence of the family.
But this great-grandaunt never married in her life. She was firm in her Taoism and decisive in killing. She put all her energy on cultivation.
The spiritual object used for foundation-building was not the foundation-building pill. She almost endured great pain, risked her life, and hovered on the edge of life and death several times before she was lucky enough to be promoted to the foundation-building stage.
After that, she handled the family affairs for a long time as an elder in the foundation-building stage. She was ruthless and selfless, and had a great reputation in the whole family.
"What did the great-grandaunt call me for? Please tell me, second sister." Sun Mingsheng had some guesses in secret.
"It's a good thing that she came in person. Just follow me," Sun Mingxiu urged.
Soon the two left the cave, each casting spells to quickly head towards the cave of the foundation-building cultivator on the top of the mountain.
This is the area with the most abundant spiritual power on the entire Shenquan Mountain, and it is also the most essential area that the Sun family has inherited to this day.
The only second-level spiritual medicine garden in the family is also here. With the efforts of the family's ancestors, a second-level spiritual medicine matures every few years.
These second-level spiritual medicines can be traded with the outside world in exchange for some spiritual objects that the family urgently needs, or they can be used to find skilled alchemists to refine them into second-level spiritual pills to support the cultivation needs of the four foundation-building elders.
In addition, the autumn pear fruit seedlings they brought back from Yuquan Mountain were also planted on the top of Shenquan Mountain under the careful care of Sun Shenghong, the only first-level superior spiritual plant.
"My grandson Mingsheng, I came to pay my respects to my great-aunt." Outside the cave, Sun Mingsheng was quite nervous.
Over the years, except for some special circumstances, this was the first time that I had faced the summons and inquiries of the family's foundation-building elders alone.
"No need to be polite here, come in." An old, solemn but gentle voice appeared in my ears.
Led by Sun Mingxiu, the two stepped into the cave, and soon an old woman who looked about 70 years old sat on a wooden chair holding a snake-headed cane.
"Great-aunt, this is Mingsheng." Sun Mingxiu was quite familiar with this place, and ran to the old woman's ear and said.
"Xun Mudu has already said in detail, formally representing the family to recommend you as the second core seed member of the Ming character generation. This is a major event involving family inheritance, and you must be careful and cautious. Do you understand?" Sun Shengmei asked with a serious face.
"Grandson understands, please ask great-aunt to show me." Sun Mingsheng only has gratitude in his heart for the family, and he dare not have any resentment.
"There are only two core seed members of each character generation. In addition to the requirements for cultivation, qualifications, and combat effectiveness, morality and character are also the top priority."
"The family's strength is limited. If you arbitrarily provoke trouble outside, it may bring disaster to the entire family."
Sun Shengmei carefully reminded him tirelessly, and in the process, he was also constantly observing secretly, which was also a small test of his character.
If a core member who is about to be selected lacks the patience to accept the lectures of the elders, it is very likely to bring more troubles to the family in the future.
Sun Mingsheng will naturally not have such a situation. He maintains a respectful, serious and impeccable attitude from beginning to end.
"I heard that you are going to apply to join the beast hunting team?" Sun Shengmei has already asked another question.
"Report to my great-aunt, I just found out that I lack combat experience when I went to Yuquan Mountain this time. If I want to serve the family in the future, it is far from enough to just rely on hard practice and drawing talismans. Only those who grow up in the bloody battles can be considered true cultivators." When he said this, he was quite firm and decisive.
"At your age, it's good to have these understandings. Since you want to, go and experience it. Go down."
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