Naturally, the first thing Chen Miao searched for was the kind of Emperor Scorpion Suo Kun had raised before.
He did find some, but none had particularly good sales.
More importantly, they weren't cheap!
A single scorpion cost at least a hundred yuan.
Chen Miao didn't need just one or two. One or two wouldn't be enough to cultivate a Ghost Scorpion.
As mentioned before, Ghost Scorpions had three ranks: ghost stripe, ghost face, and ghost fiend.
But those were the ranks of successfully cultivated Ghost Scorpions. To reach even the lowest rank, a Ghost Pattern Scorpion, he first had to breed a suitable scorpion.
A Ghost Scorpion needed the right aptitude to advance to ghost fiend rank, so the early cultivation stages were generally very important.
Cultivating ordinary scorpions wasn't difficult. First, he had to prepare Ghost Scorpion Tonic, pour it into a jar, earthenware pot, or similar container, then add forty-nine scorpions and let them fight to the death under the tonic's effects.
After a day, the fighting would end, leaving one scorpion alive.
That scorpion was only a first-stage scorpion.
A first-stage scorpion could be cultivated into a Ghost Pattern Scorpion, but that was as far as it would go. Trying to cultivate it any further wasn't worth it.
The second stage involved making forty-nine first-stage scorpions fight to the death. The survivor would be a Second Phase scorpion.
In theory, a scorpion at this stage could be cultivated into a Ghost Fiend Scorpion, but the odds were tiny. The vast majority would never advance beyond Ghost Face Scorpions.
After the second stage, there was a third.
That meant using forty-nine Second Phase scorpions to obtain a single third-stage scorpion.
The third stage was effectively the limit, because going any further consumed far too many scorpions.
Generally,