Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant

Chapter 1345: Chapter 26 Ding 22_3 Chapter 1345: Chapter 26 Ding 22_3 Wang Ba was delighted that his years of hard work had finally paid off, and he didn’t care about the actions of the Little Black Snake.

Just then, from within the crown of the Azure Fire Paulownia Tree, a bird head with a golden-red crown suddenly emerged, seemingly sensing something.

With a hint of confusion in its eyes, it looked downward.

When it saw the Little Black Snake in Wang Ba’s hands, its eyes suddenly lit up.

“Eat!”

The next moment, a vermillion bird, its body shimmering with a golden luster as splendid as trembling hearts, suddenly flew out from the crown and swiftly descended toward Wang Ba’s hands to snatch the Little Black Snake!

Although the Little Black Snake had just been born, its instincts allowed it to react instantly.

Its already small body shrank even more, becoming the size of an earthworm, and it turned into a gap in the snake den below.

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However, as fast as it changed, the vermillion bird transformed even faster, instantly shrinking to the size of a sparrow, swooping through the air.

Its sharp claws seized the Little Black Snake, and its beak was about to strike down.

“Erya!”

Erya arrived so quickly that Wang Ba couldn’t even react in time.

But once Erya had grabbed the Little Black Snake, he sensed something amiss.

He shouted out and instantly unfolded a massive mana hand to block under Erya’s beak.

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With his current cultivation base, even a Nascent Soul Perfect cultivator would find it extremely difficult to break through his massive hand.

However, with one peck from Erya, it was instantly pierced through!

But this momentary gap allowed Erya to hear Wang Ba’s voice.

She tilted her head slightly, looking at Wang Ba with slight confusion,

“No, is this what I eat?”

“No, I just hatched this one.”

Wang Ba, amused and exasperated, forcefully prised the Little Black Snake from under Erya’s claws, only to see the previously ferocious Little Black Snake now full of fear.

Seeing Wang Ba was like seeing a savior, and its body trembled as it burrowed toward his hand.

Clearly, in the presence of a natural predator, all boldness and ferocity meant nothing.

Wang Ba found it amusing, but then promptly tucked the Little Black Snake into his sleeve.

It had not been easy to personally rear a divine beast.

If Erya truly ate it, he would be incredibly heartbroken.

Of course, he could see clearly that the Little Black Snake was still a Class IV middle grade.

To genuinely transform into a Class V divine beast, it still required plenty of resources and careful nurturing.

Whilst comforting Erya—who had become even purer in bloodline over the years and had just recently advanced to Class IV upper grade—

he quietly contemplated in his mind,

“It’s not necessary to nurture it to Class V.

My main goal is to nurture a divine beast capable of containing Dao Secrets.

Class IV top grade, capable of extracting Dao Secrets, will suffice.”

This, too, was a time-consuming task, concerning the cultivation of the Little Black Snake and, more crucially, the reproduction of its species.

“Completely mysterious black, let’s name its species ‘Mystic Snake’ and call this one Ding Twenty-Two.”

“However, it appears I need to continue mating Ding Twenty-One with those Legless Stony Geckos to see if another Mystic Snake might emerge.”

If he could not cultivate a second Mystic Snake, then he would have to see if the offspring from Ding Twenty-Two mating with other Spirit Snakes could inherit the divine beast bloodline.

If that failed as well, it would just be a false hope.

After all, his goal was never to cultivate a single divine beast but to cultivate a staggering number of divine beast populations.

Only then would he have the chance to construct the ‘Taoist Field’ that could accommodate Immortal Ascension cultivators.

He casually fed Erya a flask of Class IV Wutong Dew, and she contently rubbed against Wang Ba’s hand before fluttering back up to the Fire Paulownia Tree.

With all the black eggs finally hatched, Wang Ba no longer sat idly but turned to visit the ‘Spirit Turtle Pond.’

The beast grounds in the Little Cang World had been divided by him into several areas.

These included the ‘Spirit Snake Den,’ the ‘Dragon Lizard Cave,’ the ‘Spirit Turtle Pond,’ ‘Spirit Chicken Mountain,’ ‘Spirit Tiger Cave,’ ‘Five Bug Platform,’ among others.

The first four were self-explanatory, while the Spirit Tiger Cave was specifically built for the Hybrid White Tiger.

He had recently brought back the Hybrid White Tiger as a breeding tiger, but unfortunately, the results had been very poor.

The desire to reproduce was there, but the ability was extremely poor, costing Wang Ba a lot of Yin-Yang energy, and so far, no offspring of the Hybrid White Tiger had been produced, leaving the Spirit Tiger Cave in a quasi-abandoned state.

The ‘Five Bug Platform’ did not specifically refer to bugs but represented a collection of ‘scales, hairs, feathers, and insects.’

Due to the extremely limited supply of Yin-Yang energy, he had to use it cautiously.

Over the past several decades, apart from individually cultivating the Spirit Snakes, he had not had time to thoroughly research too many spirit beast types.

Therefore, he had set aside the Five Bug Platform to accommodate these spirit beast types whose outcomes had not yet been studied.

It served as an important species repository for him.

However, before he had time to check the latest batch of hybrid Spirit Turtle eggs that had hatched, the re-appearance of Wang Qingyang required him to temporarily put aside his ongoing tasks.

“Master, the Sect Master asks to see you.”

“The Sect Master wants to see me?”

Wang Ba was slightly puzzled.

“The Sect Master hasn’t disturbed me for years; could there be something important?”

Thinking this, he dared not delay and immediately left Wanfa Peak.

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Chunyang Palace.

“The Sect Master means that the current Class VI Spiritual Lineage within the sect can no longer support the entire sect.

Do you intend to reduce the scope of the Sect?”

Sitting opposite Qu Shentong, Wang Ba couldn’t help but frown.

Qu Shentong sighed,

“This issue actually emerged decades ago.

The Diwu Hall had already reported it.

The consumption of the Spiritual Lineage mainly comes from the Sect Array, but at that time, with the situation drastically changing within the Little Cang World, the Sect’s Formation had to be kept operational.”