Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming

Chapter 564: Chapter 293: Hard to Agree, The Method to Exterminate Insects [Please Subscribe]_2

According to the autobiography of the tomb’s master, he was originally surnamed Han, with a single character given name, Yuan.

This Tomb Master named Han Yuan was not a native of Yang Kingdom but hailed from Di Country, born into a sect known as Thousand Spirit Sect.

The Thousand Spirit Sect was famous in Di Country for its Insect Expelling Technique, claiming to possess a thousand types of spiritual insects.

Although the Thousand Spirit Sect had a considerable reputation in Di Country, it had never produced a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator. It had always been a medium-sized sect, much like the Sanjue Sect.

Han Yuan was originally the Vice Sect Leader of the Thousand Spirit Sect and was expected to take over the leadership in the future.

However, his obsession with collecting the various strange and exotic insects recorded in the sect’s classics, and his passion for breeding them, led him to violate the sect’s taboos.

It is necessary to mention the origins of the Thousand Spirit Sect here.

The founder of the sect was a person with great ambitions.

He was a survivor of an insect catastrophe that engulfed his entire family, leaving him as the sole survivor.

From then on, he resolved to study various demon insects, and research methods to counter them, in order to prevent his own tragedy from befalling others.

With exceptional talent, he also came across other opportunities, acquiring inheritances of the Insect Expelling Technique.

After becoming a Golden Core Stage cultivator, he established the Thousand Spirit Sect, with the hope of nurturing people who could continue his grand vision and legacy.

Over a thousand years of inheritance and development, the subsequent generations of the sect continued to follow the founder’s will, further researching the Insect Expelling Technique while vigorously collecting strange and exotic insects in the Cultivation World for study.

Unknown to outsiders, the research process of the Thousand Spirit Sect had caused several small-scale insect disasters, resulting in no small number of disciples’ deaths.

The sect later established rules, prohibiting its members from studying certain taboo arts.

But Han Yuan, absorbed in the research of the Insect Expelling Technique and passionate about breeding strange and exotic insects, disregarded the sect’s rules and delved into forbidden arts.

An accident exposing his secret research on taboo arts eventually came to light.

As the accident caused significant loss to the Thousand Spirit Sect, even Han Yuan, being a Golden Core Stage cultivator and the Vice Sect Leader, could not escape punishment.

He was not only stripped of his Vice Sect Leader position, but he was also confined to seclusion for a hundred years, forbidden from continuing his research.

Naturally, this punishment was unbearable for Han Yuan!

So, to pursue his unfinished research, he chose to break away from the sect, taking many of the strange and exotic insects collected by the Thousand Spirit Sect and leaving both the sect and Di Country to live in seclusion and conduct his studies in Yang Kingdom.

Due to his excessive obsession with researching the art of insect taming, Han Yuan’s cultivation level eventually plateaued in the mid Golden Core phase.

Initially, he had planned to return to the Thousand Spirit Sect in Di Country to pass away before the end of his life span, in order to return all the treasures and research material he had collected throughout his life to his sect.

But to his surprise, by the time he made the decision, the Thousand Spirit Sect had already been exterminated for over a hundred years, and the power responsible was an overwhelming force that he could not possibly contend with.

Given these circumstances, other than feeling grief and sorrow, Han Yuan had no other recourse.

Thus, he returned to Yang Kingdom, found a suitable location to construct a tomb, built himself an underground mausoleum, and stored all his life’s knowledge in a storage pouch.

At that time, his feelings were complex; he did not wish to see the results of his lifelong efforts ruined, yet he also did not want to lightly hand them over to outsiders.

This led to the many designs within the underground mausoleum.

What shocked Zhou Mingde immensely was that after reading through Han Yuan’s autobiography and his notes on studying various strange and exotic insects, he found a direct link between the current insect calamity in Yang Kingdom and Han Yuan.

In Han Yuan’s research, he used a Taboo Art from the Thousand Spirit Sect to forcibly graft the bloodline of a demon insect called Thousand Variations Grub onto another demon insect known as Devouring Spirit Ant.

Although in Han Yuan’s own research notes, this experiment seemed to have failed.

However, after examining the illustrations of “Thousand Variations Grub” and “Devouring Spirit Ant,” Zhou Mingde found that both of these demon insects bore some resemblance to the type that was currently wreaking havoc in Yang Kingdom.

He further considered that no one had seen or recognized this kind of demon insect before, and that it possessed the “Thousand Variations Grub’s” formidable ability to mutate, as well as the “Devouring Spirit Ant’s” strong reproductive capability.

Zhou Mingde couldn’t help but boldly speculate that this demon insect might very well be a mutated variant bred by Han Yuan using a taboo art!

With this suspicion in mind, he was immensely shocked and immediately began to carefully study the classics and the autobiography left by Han Yuan.

After diligent research, Zhou Mingde at last found a clue.

According to Han Yuan’s records, on one occasion he bred one hundred mutated insect eggs using a taboo art, but had to leave for a while due to other matters.

When he returned, he discovered that his underground laboratory had been broken into, and many of his stored demon insects and their eggs had been devoured by an Earth Armored Dragon.

At that time, the one hundred mutated insect eggs were also completely missing.

Afterward, Han Yuan killed that Earth Armored Dragon and obtained a Dragon Egg.

At the time, he didn’t particularly care about the missing one hundred mutated insect eggs, assuming they had all been eaten by the Earth Armored Dragon.

After a few more experiments, which continued to be unsuccessful, he eventually abandoned this line of research.

If Zhou Mingde’s judgment wasn’t wrong, then the one hundred mutated insect eggs bred by Han Yuan were not completely devoured by the Earth Armored Dragon, and some of the insects might have successfully hatched!

According to Han Yuan’s own records of the experiment, if the breeding were successful, the new insects should exhibit powerful evolutionary abilities and possess extremely strong underground survival capabilities, though whether they could retain the “Devouring Spirit Ant’s” level of reproductive ability was uncertain.

Thus, it was deduced that the successfully hatched mutated insects must have had some reproductive defects, unable to breed on a large scale.

However, over recent years, these slowly breeding mutated insects might have repaired the defects in their bloodline through generations of reproduction and evolution, regaining the “Devouring Spirit Ant’s” formidable reproductive ability.

Therefore, these originally unknown mutated insects, which had been living underground, suddenly began to reproduce wildly and ultimately caused the insect disaster!

“If this is really the case, then there is indeed hope of eliminating this insect disaster!”

Zhou Mingde glanced at the pile of classics in front of him, his eyes brimming with intense joy.

Having thoroughly studied these classics, he of course knew that Han Yuan had prepared methods to deal with the mutated demon insects before commencing his experiments.

This was also a customary practice of Thousand Spirit Sect.

After several painful lessons, Thousand Spirit Sect instilled a philosophy in its disciples from a young age. Before researching and breeding new types of demon insects, whether successful or not, they should always prepare insect-annihilation strategies based on the original insects’ bloodline traits.

Thus, if they did breed a new variety of demon insects that could not be controlled, the preemptive strategies would serve as a rapid response.

The prepared methods might not be completely applicable, but they would certainly be useful to some degree.

Although Han Yuan had broken away from the sect, in his heart he still considered himself a member of Thousand Spirit Sect and followed these rules in his research and experimentation.

Therefore, Zhou Mingde, after searching through the materials, quickly found the annihilation strategies Han Yuan had prepared.

Whether by coincidence or sect tradition, the method Han Yuan had prepared was to use poison!

This poison recipe was specifically designed to target the bloodline traits of “Thousand Variations Grub” and “Devouring Spirit Ant.” It was a tried and true formula that could easily kill corresponding strength insects based on dosage when dealing with either species.

In other words, Zhou Mingde only needed to follow the several poison formulas prepared by Han Yuan to create the poison, and then test it on the captured demon insects to determine its effectiveness against them.

“This matter must still be discussed with Zhengchun; if it truly works, my Zhou Family has struck gold!”

With joy surging in his eyes, Zhou Mingde promptly called Zhou Chun into his quiet room, brimming with elation as he relayed his discoveries.