Having people under him certainly made things easier. In just two short months, when Qin Fengming appeared on the black flying boat again, each of the three storage rings before him contained tens of thousands of Brown Soul Bamboo leaves. There were also quite a number of stalks and branches.
When cultivators refined pills, they generally only needed Brown Soul Bamboo leaves. Thus, most cultivators merely plucked the leaves, leaving the roots and stalks where they were. After all, the soul-force toxins were stored in the leaves, while there was very little toxin in the bamboo joints.
The stalks and branches cost several times as much as the leaves, mainly because they grew slowly. Brown Soul Bamboo that was more than three or four hundred years old could be considered mature. In the same three or four hundred years, however, a great many leaves could already grow.
For Black Nether Ants, consuming Brown Soul Bamboo stalks and branches could not strengthen the yin poison in their bodies, but it could enhance their physical toughness.
Unfortunately, Myriad Spirits' Insights did not introduce any method for hastening the maturity of an ant queen.
An ant queen did not possess much offensive power, but if its cultivation increased greatly, the offspring it produced would advance with the times, rising as the tide lifted all boats. By then, even without hastening their maturity, its offspring would experience a tremendous increase in strength.
Ant spirit insects were different from others. Generally, they were directly related to their mother's cultivation. If their mother was only at the Nascent Soul stage, the offspring it gave birth to might possess only Foundation Establishment cultivation. To hasten the maturity of tens or hundreds of millions of Foundation Establishment spirit insects by one level, the materials required would be an