Late at night, various affectionate beast roars sounded from the back mountain of Beast-Taming Sect.
That night, a lot of cross-species love happened.
The people of Beast-Taming Sect were all dumbfounded!
After being dumbfounded came wild joy!
What troubled them most was how to make spirit beasts reproduce. The higher the rank of the demon beast, the more picky it was about mates, so the output of spirit beast eggs had always failed to increase.
If they could find the reason why these low-rank spirit beasts suddenly became passionate, Beast-Taming Sect might very well rise to a new level!
They didn't even care about the unhatched spirit beast eggs anymore. The entire sect began investigating the root cause of the love among the free-range spirit beasts on the back mountain.
They searched and searched, and finally found the answer.
The spirit beasts had become passionately enthusiastic because they ate the waste residue of pills!
Because the pill residue had been mixed together, there was no way at the moment to distinguish whose discarded residue had caused this result.
Of course, there was another possibility. That only after many kinds of pill residues were mixed together did they produce such an effect.
The alchemists of the Alchemy Hall now had work to do!
They stopped their current tasks and began studying those residues.
However, this matter involved the core interests of the Beast-Taming Sect and could even produce far-reaching effects, so Hu Wankui ordered a strict blockade of information.
To the outside world, they said that yesterday a high-rank spirit beast had escaped from the beast stable, causing agitation among the free-range spirit beasts on the back mountain.
He also especially instructed Xing Wu that this matter must not be mentioned to the three from Xuantian Sect, otherwise, he would expel him from Beast-Taming Sect.
Xing Wu didn't dare refuse, so when Feng Xi asked about it, he repeated Hu Wankui's fabricated story.
Feng Xi also didn't take it seriously, and since it was Beast-Taming Sect's matter, it wasn't appropriate to ask too much.
For the next two days, Feng Xi followed Xing Wu eating, drinking, and having fun, feeling delighted.
Seeing that Hu Wankui didn't mention the spirit beast eggs again, Xiao Baidao was happy to act ignorant. One more day of eating was one more day!
He even considered whether to… pack some up?
Does he want face or want good food?
Or let Little Five pack it?
In any case, he had no shame, so carrying the blame wouldn't matter much.
…
Perhaps the matter of the pill residues gave the people of Beast-Taming Sect confidence, so they became somewhat more open-minded about that batch of unhatched spirit beast eggs.
In addition, Xing Wu kept talking in front of Hu Wankui, so Hu Wankui decided to let Feng Xi try.
Of course, it was impossible to let Feng Xi ruin all the spirit beast eggs. They only took out one spirit beast egg and placed it in a separate incubation room.
Feng Xi immediately clasped her hands behind her back and circled the spirit beast egg three times.
"Little thing, I'm not from your Beast-Taming Sect, so whether you live or die is not important to me.
Whether you can keep your little life depends on whether you know what's good for you!"
After speaking, a small flame emerged at her fingertip and roasted the spirit beast egg.
Elder Jiao clutched his chest as he watched.
He truly felt heartache!
This is an Earth-rank spirit beast egg!
Heaven knew how much effort he had spent to bring those Earth-rank spirit beasts together!
To put it this way, if he had put this much effort back then, he would've long been surrounded by wives and concubines, instead of still being an old bachelor now!
But no matter how heartbroken he was, there was nothing he could do. He could only let Feng Xi toss about.
Seeing that the spirit beast egg had no reaction, Feng Xi added another small flame.
Still no reaction, she added another.
The crowd even smelled the fragrance of roasted egg.
They all became discouraged!
It seemed that Feng Xi's so-called extraordinary method was useless!
Indeed, no matter how many clever ideas she had, she's still an outsider. All she came up with were bad ideas!
Just then, a faint cracking sound appeared inside the incubation room.
Everyone looked at the spirit beast egg in disbelief, a crack had appeared on it.
Immediately followed a second, a third…
Finally, the eggshell split open, and a streak of blue light shot out.
Xiao Baidao reacted the fastest, his spiritual power formed into a net and covered the streak of blue light.
Hu Wankui followed closely behind and overlaid another layer of spiritual power net on top.
Only then did the others react. When they saw what was inside the spiritual power net clearly, Elder Jiao cried out in disbelief, "Th-this is Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid! Wasn't this thing already extinct?! How could it appear in our Beast-Taming Sect?"
All present were high-level members of Beast-Taming Sect. Hearing the words Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid, their expressions all changed.
Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid, one of the ancient strange insects.
It parasitizes within unhatched beast hatchlings. Because it absorbs a large amount of nutrients, the beast hatchling will delay hatching for a long time.
After hatching, the Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid will slowly devour the beast's brain marrow, turning it into a puppet under its control.
Once the mother insect matures, it will lay a large number of eggs and then spread.
Within a short amount of time, it can infect a large number of beasts…
Hu Wankui's face turned pale.
There was a Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid inside this spirit beast egg, then what about the others?
Nine out of ten of the eggs likely had them as well.
If Feng Xi hadn't accidentally discovered it, before long all the spirit beasts of the entire Beast-Taming Sect would've been infected.
If the spirit beasts were controlled by the Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid and attacked them…
Hu Wankui's clothes were instantly soaked with cold sweat.
Not only him, all the people of Beast-Taming Sect present were filled with lingering fear.
The three from Xuantian Sect only half understood, but seeing the expressions of the people from Beast-Taming Sect, they could guess that the matter was very serious.
Feng Xi was somewhat dissatisfied with the jade slip in her sea of consciousness because it didn't record this strange insect.
This was actually normal, the contents recorded in this jade slip were mainly about alchemy. The Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid was neither an alchemy material nor a poisonous insect, so naturally it wasn't included.
After calming down, Hu Wankui began handling the aftermath.
The Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid absolutely couldn't be kept, it was completely burned awat with spiritual fire.
Then he briefly explained the relevant situation of the Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid to Xiao Baidao and the other two.
Xiao Baidao was also filled with shock and lingering fear.
Hu Wankui then had Feng Xi use the same method to force out the Ghostfire Xuanming Aphids from the remaining spirit beast eggs.
Although everyone knew the Fire Incantation, for safety's sake it was still Feng Xi who did it.
After all, they weren't as good as Feng Xi at… talking nonstop, and might not be able to deceive the parasitic Ghostfire Xuanming Aphids.
After forcing out and burning all the Ghostfire Xuanming Aphids from the spirit beast eggs, everyone finally let out a slight sigh of relief.
Just then, spirit beast hatchlings crawled out one after another from the cracked eggs.
However, they were all very thin and weak, as if they couldn't survive.
This was also normal, because the nutrients had all been absorbed by the Ghostfire Xuanming Aphids.
Hu Wankui frowned. Although according to records only one Ghostfire Xuanming Aphid would parasitize a demon beast egg, but what if?
So, how should these Earth-rank spirit beast hatchlings be dealt with?
Kill or keep?
Although these Earth-rank spirit beast hatchlings had just broken out of their shells, they already had spiritual awareness. After sensing killing intent, they instinctively gathered beside Feng Xi and looked at her pleadingly.
Feng Xi: "..."