Beast Taming: Becoming a Bug-type Elite Four Member Starting with Silkworm Raising

Chapter 181 The Secret KeyChapter 181 The Secret Key
Facing Russell’s series of promises, He Qiuer was stunned for several minutes.

Seeing that He Qiu’er was deep in thought, Russell was not in a hurry to urge her to make a decision, but continued to guide a few strands of the chaotic energy in He Xia’s body to dissipate outward.

His actions were not an attack of the Holy Mother’s Heart. Seeing that the Gu Insect Master clan was being troubled by the backlash, the siblings were having a hard time, so he rushed to help them.

In fact, as long as we don’t go all out to cultivate the parasitic Gu, this kind of backlash will not happen soon.

Although he had no choice but to be raped by the clan’s elders since he was a child, the backlash occurred in his twenties, which was partly due to his eagerness for success.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with pursuing strength in the beast-controlling world where strength is paramount, but there are only gains and losses.

The overall strength of the parasitic Gu is stronger than most purple-gold-level pet beasts. With the unique cultivation method of this kind of pet beast, it is impossible to say how miserable the Gu insect master clan is.

Russell’s offer of an olive branch to He Qiu’er was also carefully considered.

Although the battle just now successfully solved the hidden danger of the Fire Stealing Group’s exploration team, Chen Yuan was also seriously injured.

Except for Jiang Xue, who is a pure support, now the only person the team can fight is himself.

And Dui did agree to accompany him for the time being, but after all, he was sleeping in the secret realm following the ”King’s” order. If he really wanted to fight with other lords’ pets, he might not be willing to take action.

Being able to get the help of a reliable fifth-level combat power like He Qiuer will naturally be of great help to subsequent explorations.

As for the other party’s betrayal, Russell is not worried at all.

The Gu insect master clan has been forced to compete with the fire thieves and the tigers for skin. They are obviously desperate and seek medical treatment in a hurry.

I just showed my hand and relieved He Xia’s discomfort in the body. It is not difficult to see from He Qiu’er’s shocked expression that this is an effect that even the so-called ancient medicines of the Stealing Fire Group cannot achieve.

And the fact is just as Russell guessed, although the ancient medicine provided by the Stealing Fire Group can also alleviate the backlash of the Gu insects, it is actually more of a suppression than a real solution.

As the number of times you take it increases, the effectiveness of the ancient medicine will continue to decrease.

When the ancient medicine completely fails, the death of those Gu insects who cannot control the chaotic energy in their bodies is often extremely painful.

Some of them with strong talents may even choose to join the Shadow Order in order to survive, transforming their parasitic Gu into death shadows or bone puppets.

However, the parasitic Gu is highly bound to the Gu master’s soul, and after being transformed, the master’s spirit will also mutate, often going crazy or turning into a killing machine, which is no different from death.

”Can you really cure my brother’s poison?”

Therefore, after struggling in his heart, He Qiuer decided to bet on this kind-hearted young man in front of him.

”I can’t guarantee it, but with the Fire Thief Group, you’re also trying your luck.”

Regarding He Qiuer’s question, Russell did not directly commit to it, but no matter what, his credibility was still much higher than that of the Fire Pirates.

In other words, there are really not many people in this world whose reputation is worse than that of the Fire Pirates...

”Sister, I feel really comfortable...”

At the same time, He Xia also said weakly next to him.

As someone who has personally experienced taking the ancient potions of the Stealing Fire Group many times, he knows these two states better than anyone else.

Every time after taking the so-called ancient medicine, He Xia would not really feel relaxed, but would obviously feel that it was treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.

After a brief period of relief, he would not only feel energy stagnation in his body, but his forehead and abdomen would also swell from time to time, as if there was a mass of intertwined energy surging there.

It is not difficult to imagine what terrible things would happen if the energy group in the body completely exploded.

And Russell’s operation without knowing the principle just now, although the change brought about was relatively slight, it felt like it had truly relieved the chaotic energy.

This gave He Xia, who had originally planned to break the pot, work with the Fire Pirates a few more times in his lifetime, and earn some money to leave to his sister, he regained hope.

”What do you want me to do?”

Hearing what his brother said, He Qiuer let go of the last entanglement in his heart and turned to ask Russell about the reward for his promise.

She has been involved with organizations like the Fire Pirates since she was a teenager, and she has long known that there is no free lunch in the world.

No matter how kind the young man in front of him seems, he can’t really be a philanthropist and provide such great help to his siblings for free.

”First, let’s talk about the information you got in the secret realm and the progress of cracking it.”

Seeing that He Qiuer finally figured it out, Russell didn’t hide it and directly asked her about the most important thing of the trip.

”We wandered around the secret realm for several days and encountered four or five different waves of secret beasts...”

And He Qiuer was very happy after making up her mind. Without too much hesitation, she told all the results of her exploration.

The so-called cracking of the secret realm is nothing more than exploring the deepest part of the secret realm and obtaining the rarest resources, or simply mastering the entire secret realm for subsequent development.

The former is mainly aimed at small secret realms. This kind of secret realm does not have much specialness in the environment, and even the fragile spatial structure cannot support multiple openings, so treasure hunting is the absolute core purpose.

For a huge secret realm like the Black Dew Secret Realm, the independent space itself is a huge wealth, so both the Beast Control Alliance and the Fire Stealing Group attach great importance to the final control of the secret realm.

Therefore, after entering the secret realm, He Qiuer also followed the method of first understanding the terrain distribution and explored every place he could pass as much as possible.

”This is the map we walked through before, and the three keys to the secret realm we got,”

As he spoke, He Qiuer took out a scroll and three warm yellow ambers that were about the size of a human fist from his pocket.

Wrapped in the amber were some strange-looking things, like dead branches.

Drawing half of the map of the secret realm was an important gain, but Russell still focused his attention on the three ”secret realm keys” first.

”This...is the body of some kind of pet animal?”

After observing for a moment, he made an uncertain judgment.

Judging from the appearance of the three items, they seemed to correspond to the three pairs of legs, tentacles and breastplate of an insect.

But, how could this thing be the key to the secret realm?It feels weird no matter how you look at it...

”We found a door deep in the tunnel. The insect energy there is particularly strong. It should be the center of the secret realm. There is a gap in the shape of a flying insect in the amber inlaid on the door.”

Seeing Russell’s doubts, He Qiuer continued to explain to him.

Based on this clue, the two siblings wandered around in the secret realm for several days, and found many pet body parts stored in broken amber.

Some of these secret realm keys are hidden among the pet beasts, and some are hidden behind some mechanism.However, the locations where secret realm keys appear have one thing in common, that is, they are near lord-level pet beasts.

Taking advantage of the parasitic Gu’s ability to parasitize pet beasts in the secret realm, He Qiuer did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and changed the target of parasitism many times to fish in troubled waters. He only got three keys by relying on his younger brother who pretended to be the lord.

After this operation, her parasitic Gu lost more than a year of cultivation progress, which can be said to have cost her life.

During this period, He Qiuer also encountered a very large slug-like pet, and took out an amber with insect legs from its mucus.

That’s why she speculated that Ah-Dai also had a key to the secret realm.

However, not every lord’s pet beast is followed by a younger brother, who can approach quietly through parasitic disguise.

Facing those lord pet beasts that are above the sixth or seventh level of strength, live alone, and are still highly vigilant, even He Qiuer, who has reached the mid-level fifth level after parasitism, can only give up temporarily.

”It seems that if you want to enter the core area of ​​the secret realm, you need at least three keys.”

After hearing this explanation, Russell finally had a comprehensive understanding of the progress and methods of cracking the Black Dew Secret Realm.

The body of a flying insect is basically composed of a head, chest, tail, three pairs of legs, and tentacles and wings.

Now it has insect legs, chest armor and tentacles, which means that the remaining parts include wings, head and tail.

”Dai, do you have something like this on you?”

Thinking that He Qiu’er had just mentioned that the giant pet beast might directly carry the key to the secret realm, he quickly asked Ah-Dai.

”Well... there is one, do you want it? Here it is...”

Hearing this, Ah-Dai not only admitted generously that he also had amber on his body, but even directly said that he could give it to Russell.

As it spoke, the insect beetle on its back moved slightly, revealing a bright yellow amber from the gap.

”...Why can you command this secret realm lord?”

Although he had seen this mausoleum beetle using mausoleum guard tombstones to block roads before, He Qiuer couldn’t help but exclaimed when he saw the scene in front of him of actively offering treasures.

”My talent is the Insect Whisperer. This tomb beetle has a docile temperament. I only communicate, not give orders, and the secret trial realm rarely refuses people thousands of miles away.”

Looking at He Qiuer, Russell smiled and explained.

Most of the artificially created trial secret realms are for people to explore, but they only set a certain threshold to screen out unqualified explorers.

The builders who put so much effort into creating a secret realm certainly didn’t really want explorers to have no way out and enter the core area forever.

Besides, the core area is not necessarily the treasure house directly. It is probably the most difficult level to pass in the secret realm.

These ambers are just keys to enter the secret realm, so it is not surprising that they are easy to obtain.

After getting the amber hidden on Dumb’s back, Russell put it under the light of a light and looked at it. Sure enough, there was an inverted triangle-shaped insect head sealed inside.

”It looks like an ant. Is it also an ancient species?”

Observing the appearance of this insect head, Russell felt that it looked very similar to an ant.

Could it be that the Black Dew Secret Realm is actually a huge ant nest?

However, ant-like beasts have always relied on the strength of the group to survive and thrive, and their individual strength is not outstanding.

The queen of an ant nest should not be able to let an eighth-order purple-gold pet beast like the mausoleum beetle call it her ”king”...

After thinking for a moment with no result, Russell quickly put aside the problem temporarily.

After all, before the insect body is completely assembled, it is difficult to tell what category it is, let alone confirm its specific race.

The most important thing now is not to determine the identity of the pet beast in the secret realm key, but to find all the remaining keys.

After getting the key to the secret realm kept by Dui, Russell asked it again if it knew about other lord-level pet beasts.

Unfortunately, Dui seemed to have only received orders to keep the amber and sleep in that large cave, and was ignorant of other issues.

Fortunately, the king also said that after Ah-Dai is awakened, he can wander around in the secret realm by himself. As long as the tunnel is large enough to pass, it can still serve as mounts and bodyguards for Russell and the others.

”Everyone is not in good condition. Let’s stay here and rest today.”

After thinking about the next exploration ideas, Russell was not in a hurry to set off immediately.

After the fighter Unicorn was seriously injured by the sword-footed centipede, Chen Yuan’s face had been looking bad and he obviously needed a good rest.

He Qiu’er used the Gu Insect’s violent talent, and was slightly corroded by the Nether Poison, so his current condition is not very good.

What’s more, before finding a new parasitic target, her main parasitic Gu is basically idle, and its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of a Chihuahua.

As for the sick He Xia, Russell’s treatment of the chaotic energy in his body was not enough to solve the problem immediately. He is still not an effective combatant.

If we rush forward blindly now, if we suddenly encounter a secret beast that has been transferred to Dumb’s back, Russell will have to bear the responsibility of the entire team’s output by himself.

Anyway, the secret realm is only opened once every three days. Even if the fire thieves come back and steal the camp, it will take at least two days before they can let anyone in.

Moreover, the reason why they found foreign aid like He Qiuer, who did not truly believe in the purpose of the Fire Stealing Group, was because there were no powerful insect masters within the organization.

Now that He Qiu’er has cooperated with him, even if the Fire Stealing Group finds some third- and fourth-level insect masters from other places to send them in, it will only be a gift.

Naturally, the two injured men, Chen Yuan and He Qiuer, had no objections to the decision to take a night’s rest.

Being on Ah-Dai’s back armor, they also saved a lot of camping and guarding tasks. They only needed to simply set up a tent and let Ah-Dai and Daolang sleep next to the tent, which was enough to ensure safety.

After being woken up by the alarm clock the next day, the first thing Russell did was to find a new parasitic target for He Qiuer.

According to He Qiuer’s opinion, there are not many purely combat-type pet beasts in the secret realm. The sword-footed centipede is very cost-effective. She still hopes to continue to use this pet beast.

Moreover, the sword-footed centipede has the characteristic of being greedy for fishy smell, so it can be regarded as a secret beast that is relatively easy to encounter at a certain location.

Everyone asked Ah-Dai to stay where he was, and walked back to the cave to trap him with fishy cultivation materials, which soon attracted a sword-footed centipede.

With Daolang as a restraint, using the two-pronged attack of Shadow Sewing Arrows and Paralysis Flying Needles, the blade-footed centipede soon fell to the ground unable to move, and could only let the parasitic Gu take over its body.

When He Qiuer completely controlled the sword-footed centipede, Russell gave an order and directed Ah-Dai to rush towards the area marked with ”×” on the map she drew, indicating that it could not be explored because it was guarded by the lord’s pet beast.