Neural Intrusion Technology in Practice
Yang Ning only wanted them to capture the Red-backed Armadillo, causing ecological imbalance on the island, and then naturally increasing the Black Ice Army Ant, thereby forcing the Three Character Sword Gate to leave.
No one will be injured during the entire process; even the Red-backed Armadillo will not die.
The red fairy on this thing's back is renewable; even if it's bought by Pill Workshop, it will only be fed and cared for.
Who would have thought that the first thing the four disciples on Red Leaf Island did after capturing the Red-backed Armadillo was to sell it for money and switch allegiances?
But this was also an unexpected surprise.
Since the only people who loved fishing were Ju Qingzi and Bai Bailin, and now that they've both left, we can start mining!
"They're quite ambitious!" Yang Ning could only shake his head, then issued an order to the Black Ice Army Ant to reproduce at full speed.
Even without his command, the Black Ice Army Ant would still multiply rapidly.
This is a species with extremely high collective intelligence. When there are natural enemies, they will suppress their reproductive urges to prevent their own population explosion from causing the number of natural enemies to increase as well.
Now that their natural enemies have disappeared, the Black Ice Army Ant were bound to reproduce explosively anyway.
However, the current method of breeding and manipulating ants to fight against the Three Character Sword Gate is not to drive people away, but to verify Neural Intrusion Technology.
Try it on ants a few times, and you'll naturally progress to larger insects, then smaller animals, and finally large animals.
Is an ant kingdom even a kingdom? And does the king of an ant kingdom have good fortune?
Ju Qingzi's prediction was correct. After waking up and washing up, Zhang Hongye went to play with her senior brothers. She soon discovered that all of them, from the eldest brother to the fourth brother, were gone, leaving only the fifth brother, Chun Xiu. But Chun Xiu was only 13 years old and not yet capable of helping!
We can't exactly go to Lang Bo!
She assumed her four fellow students had gone to eat or were training on the field, but after searching again, she still couldn't find them.
Sensing something was wrong, she rushed to the Seclusion Chamber and woke up her father, Zhang Qizi, who was in seclusion.
Zhang Qizi used his Qi Refining techniques to investigate and confirmed that all four of them had left Red Leaf Island.
He found traces left by the four men when they captured the Red-backed Armadillo, finally confirming that they must have discovered something in the forest, and then searched for it overnight.
Judging from the intact state of the morning dew, it must have been found before dawn, and then the person left Red Leaf Island with the items.
What's on the island?
Following the trail left by the four men, Zhang Qizi quickly discovered a cave. After some investigation, he confirmed that it was an armadillo's nest!
"Ordinary armadillos are only good for eating meat, and there's a risk of getting sick. These four shouldn't be like this, so this shouldn't be an ordinary armadillo! And the extremely valuable armadillo that can appear in the Red Leaf Island area is the Red-backed Armadillo?" After Zhang Qizi realized this, his face twitched, and then he left Red Leaf Island on his flying sword.
When he returned, his face was as black as ink.
"How did it go? Where did they go?" Yue Qiwei asked.
"Having made so much money, he must have betrayed his sect!" Zhang Qizi said irritably.
He went to the port city closest to Red Leaf Island and inquired at the alchemy workshop. He learned that his fourth disciple, Hao Ming, was selling a Red-backed Armadillo there!
Fifty thousand taels of silver! That's fifty thousand taels of silver!
"Oh no, what should we do?" Yue Qiwei was completely at a loss. She had never seen anything like this before.
"Hmph, what else can we do? A bunch of traitors. I've already sold the news that they have money to the Trafficking Market. They won't survive!" Zhang Qizi said coldly.
"This..." Yue Qiwei hesitated, sensing that this might not be a good thing.
But then I thought, since my disciples have already betrayed me, why should I pity them? It would be best if they died out there!
Red Leaf Island was a small, insignificant place with no extra manpower. Zhang Qizi was focused on his cultivation and didn't have the time to chase after people. He could only continue his seclusion, seething with anger.
Instead of going into seclusion, Yue Qiwei began teaching Chun Xiu the principles of loyalty and filial piety. She felt that her four disciples' betrayal of the sect for money was due to her lack of discipline.
However, after only two days of instruction, Zhang Qizi reappeared.
"What's wrong, husband?" Yue Qiwei asked.
"My mental state is disrupted, which hinders my cultivation!" Zhang Qizi shook his head. "Moreover, I sense there's a problem with the Spiritual Qi concentration on the island. I need to check the Spirit Vein!"
"Let's go together!" Yue Qiwei quickly followed after hearing that there was a problem with the Spirit Vein.
The two began using their night vision techniques and continued down the path from the secluded meditation room where they had been cultivating. It was a sloping cave with steps leading up to it, but behind that it was just a dirt path carved out by swords and blades.
After descending about forty meters, the sound of dripping water gradually began to echo in the cave.
Zhang Qizi quickened his pace, and after walking another ten meters or so, the space in front of him suddenly opened up, revealing a small hall with a diameter of more than ten meters!
In the center of the hall was a spring pool, with a layer of white mist floating on the water.
This is the Spirit Vein of Red Leaf Island.
Although the Spiritual Qi emitted by the Spirit Vein is of low concentration, its grade is not low; it is mid-grade Kui Water Spiritual Energy.
When Zhang Qizi saw the intact Spirit Vein, he was initially overjoyed, but then his face darkened.
It turned out that a layer of black ant corpses was floating on the surface of the spirit pool!
The Spirit Vein were contaminated by ant corpses; no wonder something felt off!
"Black Ice Ant!" Zhang Qizi frowned and quickly looked up, only to find a hole in the ceiling, from which ants were pouring out in droves.
Just as he was watching, a number of dead ants fell from above!
"Black Ice Ant!" Yue Qiwei screamed. Although she was Qi Refining cultivator, she was still afraid of ants.
"Damn beast!" Zhang Qizi immediately thought of the armadillo that had been captured by his four disciples. This creature was the natural enemy of the Black Ice Ant, and with the armadillo suppressing them, the Black Ice Ant would not multiply in large numbers.
As a result, the four people took the armadillo away, causing the Black Ice Ant to erupt unchecked, even managing to burrow to depths of fifty meters!
He pointed, and a line of fire shot out, spreading along the ant hole and burning away the ant nest. The fire even extended forty meters above the ground!
It was just a simple Fire Technique, yet an entire colony of ants was burned to ashes!
He reached in again and cleaned the ant corpses out of the Spirit Vein.
The area was quiet now, but Zhang Qizi wasn't much happier.
After all, it's common knowledge that when you find a nest of Black Ice Ant in your home, it means they're everywhere!
"You stay here and guard the house, I'll go buy a few armadillos!" Zhang Qizi didn't know how many Black Ice Ant there were on the island. Although killing them was easy for him, eliminating them all was practically impossible.
As long as one of these creatures survives, it can reproduce a whole litter!
If cultivating immortality could wipe out the Black Ice Ant, then the Yingzhou Black Ice Ant would have been extinct long ago.
How can a dignified cultivator engage in guerrilla warfare with ants? It would be better to buy a few armadillos to suppress them.
Red-backed Armadillo are expensive, but ordinary armadillos are very cheap; you can buy dozens for just one or two taels of silver.
"Okay!" Yue Qiwei nodded.
"So these ants are really that weak?" Yang Ning was speechless as he listened to Zhang Qizi's method of fighting them. Nature really is a strict hierarchy, with one thing subduing another.
So, will Taiheng also import some armadillos to suppress Black Ice Ant?
Fortunately, intelligent Black Ice Ant and unintelligent Black Ice Ant are two different kinds of creatures!