Gray iron mine cave, training room.
Zhang Changkong woke up from practicing. Today, the mana in his body finally broke through from thirty to thirty-one. The higher the cultivation level, the more difficult it is to practice. Cultivation is not simply about accumulating mana. Every time he practices, he not only absorbs vitality and accumulates mana, but also It is necessary to polish the mana in the body.
The more mana in the body, the more pure the mana is, and the longer it takes to polish it.
In fact, it is possible to simply increase the quantity of mana without polishing it, but improving the realm requires mana to undergo qualitative changes. If you do not polish your mana at ordinary times, when you reach the limit of cultivation and your mana is not up to standard, it may take much more time, unless you are a genius. Many warlocks find it difficult to improve their realm without the help of treasures and the like. Firstly, it is difficult to understand the cultivation techniques. Secondly, the quality of the magic power is not good enough and cannot meet the breakthrough requirements.
According to Zhang Changkong's estimation, it would take about four months for him to refine a spell in the middle stage of Warlock. This time it took more than half a year because various things wasted a lot of time on him.
"Theoretically, it only takes ten years to reach the sixty-level limit of a warlock's mid-term mana. However, in addition to cultivation, you also need to practice spells and deal with other trivial matters in life. This time may be extended to more than twenty years. , although even if it took twenty years, I was only thirty-eight years old at that time, and it was not bad to enter the late stage of warlock. However, the mana that needs to be cultivated in the late stage of warlock is forty, and it may take forty years to complete the training. This is an optimistic estimate. If you don't pay attention, it may take sixty years. I will be over a hundred years old by then, but it is still unclear whether I can live for a hundred years." Zhang Changkong considered the current situation, "It is definitely not possible to be the Shilipo Sword God with peace of mind. Well, for now, there are only two ways. One is to find the vitality node in the Sanhe Rainforest and practice in a place with a high concentration of vitality. It will definitely be much faster. It is almost certain to reach the level of a mage. The other is to return to the Xiangshan Sect. Internally, the structure of Xiangshan Sect is much larger than that of Sanhe Rainforest. The bigger the stage, the more opportunities there are. We just need to fight our way through many competitors."
Zhang Changkong made up his mind that if he didn't get the vitality node during the middle period of Warlock, he would go back to Xiangshan Sect.
Now he doesn't want to participate in the conflict of interests within the Xiangshan Sect because he doesn't have enough strength. If he waits until he reaches the later stage of the warlock, it won't matter if he is alone. He will let others know what it means to form an army with one person.
There are no years of cultivation, and five years have passed.
A lot of things have happened in the past five years. With the help of the bloodthirsty fruit, the steel ants in the gray iron mine cave became Zhang Changkong's first rare insect that can reproduce. In the favorable environment of the gray iron mine cave, Next, the scale of the steel ants has steadily increased to tens of thousands, becoming the largest combat power among Zhang Changkong's ground insect swarm. Three golden scarabs cannot replace it. However, one disadvantage is that the adult steel ants will eat Some gray iron ores have a great impact on the production of gray iron ore.
In addition, there is another important discovery, that is, the contractual relationship between Black Stone and insects has even reached the genetic level. As long as it is an insect contracted by Zhang Changkong, their descendants can be initially controlled without Zhang Changkong contracting again.
The fact of contract inheritance actually doesn't have much impact on Zhang Changkong, it just saves some time.
But it was different for the people on Miao Mountain. Their insects were initially processed by Zhang Changkong through the black stone and then contracted with blood. In other words, their insects were originally lost but could not be replenished by Zhang Changkong. will be lost forever.
After someone discovered contract inheritance, many people became extremely enthusiastic about the reproduction of their insects.
In more than five years, I don’t know what kind of deal Wan Gong and the City Lord’s Mansion reached. Many women came to Miao Mountain. Many of them formed families and even had descendants. Their descendants could also use their blood to establish a family with the descendants of their fathers’ contracted insects. With the contract, Miao Mountain has the prototype of a family that uses insects as its combat power.
Well, the reason why there are no large-scale families in Miaoshan is because Miaoshan strictly enforces monogamy. Even the general manager of Miaoshan only found a young and beautiful wife.
The enthusiasm of the masses is the biggest driving force. In just five years, Miaoshan's research on insects has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Not only have they developed methods for cultivating various bugs, but they have also developed various ways to eat bugs, using bugs as food.
In just five years, the number of people in Miaoshan increased from 50,000 to hundreds of thousands, close to 200,000.
Due to the emergence of Miao Mountain in Sanhe Rainforest, not only the pressure on the defense line was greatly reduced, but also an alternative insect economy was developed.
After many strongmen came to the Sanhe Rainforest to kill insects, they dug out the insect nests and obtained insect eggs, which could be sold to Miaoshan. Many insect corpses could also be divided into a little bit of edible insect meat.
And because of Miaoshan's success, many of the Stormstorm City's powerful families also became very interested in bugs. They mobilized manpower to destroy bug nests time and time again, obtained bug eggs, and tried every means to study how to control bugs.
It's just that Zhang Changkong is still confused about the mystery of Black Stone. Those families have spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but they have done nothing.
However, because of these actions, the insects in the direction of Heavy Rain City were dealt a devastating blow. Compared with five years ago, it was almost impossible to find an insect nest around the three major stations. The insect nests were destroyed by those crazy people because of the eggs. The strong men destroyed seven, seven, eight and eight.
The Gray Iron Mine Cave has been developed by the people of Miaoshan for more than five years. A large number of caves have been used. The number of permanent residents plus recruited miners has exceeded 40,000.
There are so many people here because the gray iron mine is used by Zhang Changkong as a breeding and growth base for his bugs. In addition, the land around the mine is relatively fertile, and thousands of acres of land have been reclaimed.
The entire Gray Iron Mine Territory is like a small country rooted in the Three Rivers Rainforest.
The fact that so many people can be fed here is inseparable from the expansion of the insect swarm under Zhang Changkong.
In addition to tens of thousands of steel ants, Zhang Changkong also has more than 10,000 various flying or crawling insects.
Although many of these bugs have not yet been developed to reproduce stably, they are still a powerful force under Zhang Changkong.
As for the zerg, except for one steel ant that mutated into a zerg, Zhang Changkong did not add any other zerg.
But there were two lucky people on Miao Mountain who each contracted a zerg.
In recent years, many people in Miaoshan have retrieved insect eggs from the Sanhe Rainforest. Based on their achievements, Zhang Changkong sometimes uses black stones to make preliminary contracts for the eggs.
Since the eggs had not hatched, Zhang Changkong was not sure whether the insects were zerg.
Therefore, Zhang Changkong unfortunately missed two zerg. If he had known earlier, he would definitely not have given the zerg to others.
At this moment, the Gray Iron Mine Cave, the meeting hall.
Zhang Changkong rarely attended this meeting.
Present were Wan Gong, Liu Hong, Yuan Shan, Kong Xiaoer, Zhao Xianxing and a series of Miaoshan stewards or deacons.
"You mean, someone else wants me to make a contract for insect eggs?"
Zhang Changkong said to Wan Gong, "And he also took out the Vitality Stone as the price."
"Yes, many people know that Master Immortal, you are not interested in money. The person who came to me this time is a big family in Sanhe Prefecture. Their family is not in Heavy Rain City." Wan Gong nodded.
Zhang Changkong didn't say anything when he heard this. To be honest, he was a little moved. Using black stones to make contracts with insect eggs was a waste of time for him, and the vitality stone was something he had always lacked. But in these years, besides giving it to Miao Shan When someone gave a contract to an insect egg, he didn't agree to any conditions offered by others. This was the rule. He didn't even agree to Lian Gu himself.
"It's better to exchange for vitality stones, the rules cannot be broken," Zhang Changkong said: "However, our Miaoshan is about to start the second large-scale development of the Sanhe Rainforest. This time it is not just on the periphery, but straight into the depths of the rainforest. If If you want me to make a contract for the insect eggs, you can join our team and use your military exploits in exchange."
In the past five years, Miaoshan has been preparing to enter the depths of the Sanhe Rainforest. The herbs needed to attract insects and other materials have been planted on countless hills. Most of the money from the sale of gray iron ore in these years has been invested in it.
Zhang Changkong believes that now is the best opportunity to find the vitality node.
Wan Gong and the others were not too surprised by Zhang Changkong's words. They had been preparing for this day for a long time.
Although they didn't know what Zhang Changkong wanted to find in the Sanhe Rainforest, they were at least ten times more prepared than five years ago, so there was nothing to worry about.
Zhang Changkong did not discuss with them how to enter the depths of the rainforest.
These past few days, his practice has been okay, but every time he comprehends the spell, he always has a strange feeling, and this feeling is getting stronger and stronger, giving him a sense of familiarity.
He had a hunch that, whether it was good or bad, he should be able to figure out what this feeling was about today.
