After putting away the swarm of Gold-Eating Insects, Xiao Yu reached out and patted another Spirit Beast Bag. A flash of purple light revealed two purplish-red spiders, each twenty feet across-the two mutated Blood Jade Spiders.
At Xiao Yu's command, the spiders darted over to the pile of Ironfire Ant corpses, opened their enormous mouthparts, and began tearing into them and devouring them.
The reason Xiao Yu had forbidden the Gold-Eating Insects from eating the Ironfire Ants was that doing so would very likely cause them to mutate.
But this mutation would take them in a worse direction and offer no benefit whatsoever. Worse still, it had a fatal flaw: Gold-Eating Insects that mutated this way would completely lose the ability to advance any further and could never reach their mature form.
How could Xiao Yu possibly make such a losing bargain?
The Blood Jade Spiders were different. They had already mutated once. Perhaps they would be immune to this effect and could still continue advancing?
Even if they could not, that hardly mattered. He had nothing to lose by trying. Xiao Yu was only raising them for fun and did not expect them to be of much help, so he decided to experiment with these two Blood Jade Spiders.
"Brother Xiao, your spirit insects are amazing! How did you get them?" Yuan Yao came up beside Xiao Yu and asked, her face full of envy.
"Just a lucky find." Xiao Yu smiled.
"You certainly have a lot of lucky finds. If only I had half your ability, Brother Xiao. Then I wouldn't have to live with my heart in my throat, hiding all day long," Yuan Yao said with a sigh.
"Hehe, you will. I'll help you as much as I can from now on." Xiao Yu smiled. He