Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat points

After consuming the Banyan Tree Blood, Qin Niu felt an unprecedented level of nervousness.

This was the first pet he had successfully nurtured, and also the one that helped him change his fate.

Without this nest of termites, he could never become an Insect Master, let alone enter the maze of the Ancient Banyan Tree.

He would not have survived.

Trapped beneath the banyan tree in the beginning, he had tried every possible method but had failed to break out.

In the end, it was the spiritual connection he established with the Ant Queen that allowed him to beg for its help.

It led the ant swarm through numerous obstacles and finally managed to rescue Qin Niu.

In terms of affection, he held deep feelings for this nest of termites.

Especially Fourth and the Ant Queen, whom he regarded as dear as his own heart.

The Banyan Tree Blood that the Ant Queen consumed was slowly taking effect, and its body was undergoing changes.

Its plump, white body gradually took on a faint green color.

The body continued to swell and grow larger.

Based on experience, as long as the body stopped swelling and stabilized, it would have survived the life-and-death threshold.

As time went by, the sky began to darken.

In the sky, the moon shone brightly with sparse stars.

Xiao Niu lay on the ground, ‘drunk as a lord¹.

Qin Niu was now fearless due to his prowess, and he was not afraid in the shallow areas of the mountains.

On the contrary, he was looking forward to predators coming to seek their doom.

With the Treasured Sword and his increasingly powerful Slash Martial Skill, his favorite thing to do now was “fishing law enforcement.”

He used himself as bait to lure those powerful carnivorous animals to hunt him. The Ant Queen’s body swelled to a certain extent and then began to lay eggs. It was truly a bit of a laughable situation.

The Queen Bee last time had even defecated due to the swelling; the Ant Queen was even more peculiar, directly expelling the offspring from its belly.

Every time it laid an egg, a worker ant would transport the egg back to the nest. They were certainly moving them into the nursery room.

The Ant Nest today might have been dug even more complexly than a maze.

After all, both the Ant Queen and Fourth possessed considerable intelligence.

Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows; they surely would have made the Ant Nest complicated and concealed.

At crucial moments, it could save lives.

Qin Niu stood by the Ant Nest, waiting patiently.

The Ant Queen enjoyed much better treatment than Xiao Niu. Fortunately, Xiao Niu was out of it now, or it might have been envious of the Ant Queen.

At that moment, Qin Niu heard the sounds of panting getting closer. Approaching this location.

With some hunting experience, he immediately recognized that it might be wild boars coming.

He remained silent immediately, waiting for the wild boars to appear. Listening to the sound, there was definitely more than one wild boar.

Recently, with the hot weather, lush vegetation, wild boars wouldn’t come out much during the day but began to move around in the forests at dusk.

At this moment, they roamed the mountains like patrolling emissaries, searching everywhere for delicious food.

Rotten meat and the roots and tubers of plants were their favorites.

If there really wasn’t much to eat, they would even dare to eat mice and poisonous snakes.

“One, two, three…”

Qin Niu silently counted the wild boars entering his field of vision, illuminated by the moonlight.

There were already more than thirty, of various sizes.

The smallest wild boar was only the size of a rabbit, following behind the larger boars, learning the skills of foraging and survival.

Just as his domestic supply of wild boar was running low, Qin Niu’s heart surged with excitement; today was a day for profit.

By killing one or two large wild boars, he and Xiao Qing would not have to worry about meat for the next month.

For primary cultivators like them, they must supplement their diet with blood- rich food.

The energy and nutrients contained in wild game were richer, making them one of the ideal food sources for cultivators.

“What a large troop of wild boars, there must be more than a hundred of them.”

Qin Niu, watching the continuously appearing wild boars, truly understood the abundance of resources in the mountains.

“My God, what is that? The Pig King?”

He saw an exceptionally huge wild boar among them, surrounded by five or six equally fierce-looking large wild boars.

They were like loyal guards, firmly protecting the Pig King by its side.

This formation, this aura, was like an emperor on an inspection tour, undoubtedly the Pig King.

Qin Niu carefully observed the Pig King and saw that its tusks were particularly sharp and long, like two fearsome curved swords. Even if it encountered lions or tigers, it would have the strength to fight.

Its coat was a deep brown color, faintly exuding a dark, bronze sheen.

Qin Niu remembered the owner of the Armor Shop telling him that Pig King hide was premium material for making armor. Firm, lightweight, and somewhat flexible. They would constantly rub against pine trees, allowing the resin to seep into their skin as if they were wearing a special suit of armor.

“Today, I will slaughter this Wild Boar King.”

He believed that the meat and blood of the Wild Boar King should be even more nourishing than that of ordinary wild boars.

Without any superfluous words, when the Wild Boar King passed by nearby, Qin Niu shot forth like an arrow released from its bow, charging directly at it.

He didn’t rush to show his weapon because he worried it would scare the Wild Boar King away.

Sensing the abnormality, the Wild Boar King looked over warily with its muscles tensed, ready to flee for its life at any moment.

A few Pig Guards that were protecting the Wild Boar King were ferociously confronting Qin Niu.

Wanting to kill the Wild Boar King really wasn’t an easy task.

The two Cultivation Techniques he practiced were not suitable for combat, which made his actual fighting strength far lower than that of a Ninefold ’ commoner.

Facing these powerful wild boars, he dared not be careless.

A moment of inattention, and it might be him eaten by the boars, instead of him eating pork.

“Die!”

He targeted a big pig, and directly slashed at its neck with his sword.

Although last time he had bought books on basic Blade Techniques, with such a short time to practice, it was not easy to achieve any significant results.

Basic Blade Technique consisted of eleven forms.

Flutter, chop, slash, sweep, and so on.

Currently, the only Blade Technique he had mastered was the Slash Martial Skill.

Pff!

A slash to the wild boar’s neck, it’s half neck was cut open, with blood splattering everywhere.

The Treasured Sword, having tasted blood, seemed extremely excited.

A soft humming sound could faintly be heard from it.

This wild boar must have weighed over four hundred pounds, a veritable giant Pig-

With Qin Niu’s current cultivation, plus the Slash Martial Skill and the Treasured Sword, the fact that he didn’t manage to sever its neck in one strike, cutting only a large part of it, showed that the boar’s hide was incredibly tough.

Its muscles were also very solid.

Under pain, the boar would instinctively contract its muscles, which increased the resistance against the sword’s slash.

“Augh…”

The wild boar let out a piercing squeal, like that of a pig being butchered.

After landing a hit, Qin Niu paid it no heed. He swiftly pulled out his sword and charged through the breach in the defense to his actual target.

His target was clear, going straight for the Wild Boar King.

Seeing the human killing his way towards it, the Wild Boar King appeared neither panicked nor fearful.

Like a sovereign used to the tumult of the storm, it remained incredibly composed, its presence extremely powerful.

“Ho ho!”

It made a series of short, strange calls.

Seemingly directing the other wild boars to work together against the enemy. The several Pig Guards guarding it quickly turned their heads and then charged towards Qin Niu.

Cold gleams shot from the Wild Boar King’s eyes as it observed Qin Niu’s reactions, and unlike the other wild boars, it didn’t lower its head to charge at Qin Niu.

“Look how capable you are!”

Qin Niu, to his irritation, found himself ‘sized up’ by a pig; naturally, he wouldn’t show any mercy.

Ignoring the several big wild boars charging from behind, he proceeded, unstoppable in his assault on the Wild Boar King.

When he was only about four or five meters away from the Wild Boar King, a vicious glint flashed in its eyes.

Finally, it lowered its head and initiated a charge towards Qin Niu.

This was to mount a joint attack with the several Pig Guards, planning to crush him to death.

The Wild Boar King, weighing at the very least seven to eight hundred pounds, had two sharp and long tusks protruding from its long snout, which would be enough to pierce Qin Niu’s body through and send him flying to the sky if it managed to gore him with just one thrust.

“Die!”

Without any fancy moves, it was another slash.

Brilliant Blade Qi burst forth from the blade, its ear-piercing howl echoing like the wails of ghosts in the dead of night.

Bang!

A slash landed on the Wild Boar King’s head.

Its tusks blocked the blow.

Bang!

Hitting its tusks, Qin Niu’s hand protested with pain.

The rebound force was substantial.

A crack could be seen where the boar’s tusk was struck by the blade.

In pain, the Wild Boar King grunted and squealed.

As the malevolent wind of the charging Pig Guards reached him from behind, swerving to the left or right would surely result in him being catapulted into flie sky. The Pig Guards might not be as strong as the Wild Boar King, but they were more than capable of severely wounding, or even killing, Qin Niu.

In the face of danger, he was well-prepared.