Inside the cave mansion by Qinglian Pool, Lin Shiming took out the jade box containing the Spirit-Devouring Ants.
Through the surface of the jade box, it could be easily seen that the dozens of ants inside were all listless.
Spirit-Devouring Ants could devour any form of spiritual energy, swallow spirit weapons and spirit formations with ease, but Spirit Jade was their greatest weakness.
At this moment, the ferocity of these ants had been mostly ground away.
Lin Shiming took out a Seduction Demon Pill and quickly placed it into the jade box.
The ants instantly reacted as if stimulated, screeching frantically before crawling towards the Seduction Demon Pill and slowly beginning to gnaw at it.
The other ants quickly swarmed over as well, and to Lin Shiming's shock, they began to devour each other in a struggle for the pill.
The largest one was particularly vicious, its sharp teeth killing three or four other ants in the blink of an eye before continuing to nibble at the Seduction Demon Pill.
Half a quarter of an hour later, only four extremely agitated Spirit-Devouring Ants remained in the jade box, as if the box could no longer contain them, they flew around inside, biting at everything.
They even started biting the jade box, but after doing so, that particular ant would violently spit it out and continue to move crazily within the box.
Seeing this, Lin Shiming felt bewildered and even doubted if the Seduction Demon Pill had any effect on these ants.
But then he remembered that both the Red-haired Demon Monkey and the Golden Winged Mantis had gone through a mad frenzy of devouring spiritual flesh and Beast Nurturing Pills during their evolution.
So, he also took out some Spirit Beast meat, still in Spirit Water, and threw in some Beast Nurturing Pills into the jade box.
Sure enough, the four Spirit-Devouring Ants began to frenziedly consume various spiritual objects and their energy.
Lin Shiming watched with eyes wide and tongue-tied, unable to comprehend how such small ants could devour so many spiritual objects.
After another hour had passed, the Spirit-Devouring Ants finally began to calm down, ceased their biting, and started to pair up tranquilly.
Seeing this, Lin Shiming finally let go of his worries.
The Seduction Demon Pill was effective.
After dealing with the Spirit-Devouring Ants, Lin Shiming returned to his meditation cushion and once again began to meditate.
After one complete cycle of the Purple Wood Heart Sutra, he felt his spirit highly focused once again, his True Yuan abundant, and his body bursting with vitality.
He then took out another jade slip, the Split Spirit Decision.
And the Swallowing Spirit Ants were still laying eggs.
This made Lin Shiming extremely satisfied once again.
With these spirit eggs, once hatched into Swallowing Spirit Ants, no Spirit Formation would be able to stop him. For instance, the Formation at the Purple Mansion Cave Mansion previously, he wouldn't need to gather five Foundation Establishment cultivators. Instead, he could use the Swallowing Spirit Ants to enter and take the treasures.
As Lin Shiming was excited, he also took out a substantial amount of spirit beast meat and Spirit Water Beast Nurturing Pills, and placed them into the Jade Box, ensuring that the queen had enough Spiritual Power to lay as many eggs as possible.
After the laying of eggs, Lin Shiming once again tended to various Spirit Plants, cultivating them.
After cultivation, he began practicing the Mountain Ape Body Refining Technique. Later on, he even started fighting hand-to-hand with the Red-haired Demon Monkey.
His days became extremely full, and as for the family affairs, he had entrusted them all to the various branches.
...
Three years quietly passed!
By the Qinglian Pool, Qinglian Lake had been divided into two lakes: the left lake was used for cultivating Green Lotus and Red Spirit Fish, and the right lake for breeding Spirit Crocodiles.
At this moment, numerous cultivators were catching Spirit Fish.
However, at the next moment, a thunderous roar was heard, and far away on the mountain, two figures, one red and one green, were constantly wrestling with each other.
Each punch they exchanged created a tremendous momentum.
And the shadow of their punches was quite similar too.
Only the red figure was clearly in the upper hand.
"The Family Head's Body Refinement technique is becoming more inscrutable!"
As for the practice of the Body Refinement technique, Lin Shiming didn't hide it from the family's cultivators; indeed, he couldn't.
As he and the Red-haired Demon Monkey sparred, the whole Fangmu Mountain could hear the momentum.
On the mountain, as the Red-haired Demon Monkey leapt up and punched, Lin Shiming was finally smashed into the mountain.
The Red-haired Demon Monkey was extremely excited and even lifted the Profound Spirit Mountain, howling non-stop.
Lin Shiming climbed out of the mountain as well. Today, at thirty-four, his cultivation level was still at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, but his Body Refinement realm was terrifyingly at the seventh layer. Even now, he was barely able to fight with the Red-haired Demon Monkey.
However, it was clear he was mostly on the receiving end of the beatings, but reaching the sixth layer of Body Refinement in three years also showed how terrifying his cultivation speed was. Of course, the reason he could spar was that his Divine Sense had also broken through to the Foundation Establishment's middle stage.
His ability to predict each move was far superior to that of the Red-haired Demon Monkey, and he had also convinced the Red-haired Demon Monkey to control its strength, which allowed him to barely spar.