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

Now that the situation was in his grasp, the Golden Toad had no chance of escaping from his mighty clutches. Letting it struggle a bit more would make it realize Qin Niu’s strength.

That would make it easier to subdue later on.

To tame any formidable creature or beast, one must first overpower it.

Naturally, the Golden Toad wouldn’t submit easily and continued its attempts to break free with a stubborn disbelief.

This time, it chose a different direction.

But before long, it had bounced back again.

After repeating this process many times, the Golden Toad’s pride and temper were mostly tamed.

Qin Niu was waiting for just this moment.

“Submit to me, and you can become even stronger and possibly live much longer. I own an ant, which originally had a lifespan of only four years, but after becoming my pet, it now lives for thirty thousand years. I have a turtle that increased its lifespan by six hundred years after becoming my beast pet.” As he spoke, his gaze remained locked with the Golden Toad’s.

It was apparent that the toad was now on the brink of yielding.

For any living being, the prospect of prolonging life is a desirable one.

“Submit! After a hundred years, if one day you regret it, I might consider granting you freedom,” Qin Niu asserted with great confidence.

However, he left himself an out by adding the word “consider.”

It meant that in the end, whether to set it free was still up to Qin Niu to decide.

The Golden Toad’s resistance significantly waned, and under its hesitant compliance, the golden light from the Contractual Talisman seeped into the depths of its spirit. Eventually, a streak of golden light flew out and entered Qin Niu’s forehead.

His body trembled slightly as he closed his eyes and silently endured the backlash of the contractual power.

This was akin to the strong recoil felt when firing a gun.

The more powerful the gun, the stronger the recoil.

The same went for taming beast pets; the stronger the pet, the more intense the backlash.

That’s why it’s nearly impossible for an ordinary person to tame an overly powerful creature or beast.

Too great a disparity in strength leads to many obstacles.

A moment later, Qin Niu opened his eyes, his face somewhat pale.

“This Golden Toad is so strong!”

He had originally thought that the Golden Toad was at most a Grade Two or Three; now, it seemed its level was frighteningly high.

No wonder even Old Master Huang, despite his prowess, was unable to tame it.

Moreover, such rare and extraordinary species are inherently rebellious, contending with the heavens and battling with the earth, and supremely difficult to subdue.

Now that he had successfully tamed it, Qin Niu could finally check its attributes.

Red-eyed Golden Toad

Level: Grade Seven Tailless Golden Swallowing Toad, leveling experience 37440016/100000000

Lifespan: 800 years

Energy: 5700981

Skills: Swimming Grade Six 780003/1000000, Qi Defense Grade Six 102176/1000000, Predation Grade Six 871020/1000000, Hibernation Grade Three 109/1000

Innate Abilities: Swallowing, Defense, Partial Immunity to Venom

After reviewing its attributes, Qin Niu clicked his tongue in admiration.

Many of its skills overlapped with those of the Diamond Ink Turtle.

But the Golden Toad’s level was very high, having reached Grade Seven.

Despite Old Master Huang’s Corpse Bee being Grade Five, for insects and beasts, each step up in grade means a vast difference in capabilities and various properties.

Not to mention anything else, just the tenfold increase in their leveling experience signifies a transformation from quantity to quality.

No wonder its defensive capability was so strong; not only did it have defensive innate abilities, but it also possessed Qi Defense skills.

Besides, its predation skill was equally kick-ass.

With the Golden Toad by his side, Qin Niu could likely annihilate all insects below Grade Seven that he encountered.

Frogs and toads are predation experts, their tongues able to extend out of their mouths like lightning, coiling around their prey and pulling it into their mouths.

The Golden Toad had another badass ability—Swallowing.

As part of the Golden Swallowing Toad family, it should be able to consume gold and silver to continually strengthen its body.

But of course, he couldn’t possibly feed it those precious metals.

“Very well, from now on, you are officially my beast pet; I will devote myself to nurturing you and making you stronger and stronger,” Qin Niu expressed with satisfaction after successfully taming such a powerful pet.

He found that his spiritual power seemed to have become somewhat insufficient.

This was because the Golden Toad he had subdued was too powerful, occupying a large portion of his spirit space.

He must strive to enhance his spiritual power in order to contract more beast pets.

He was already in an overburdened state.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you out!”

Qin Niu picked up Old Master Huang’s Black Snake Sword, which was an extremely high-quality sword.

Those who used serpent-shaped swords were not many to begin with.

Black serpent-shaped swords were even rarer.

He felt that the material of the sword was somewhat like the legendary black iron.

Because it was not truly black, but dark red.

Hundred-Tempering Fine Iron is usually of a pale black color, with some white sheen.

Only the legendary black iron might exhibit a black color with a reddish hue, often called falling sky iron or red iron, among other names.

Qin Niu absolutely could not let the killing of Old Master Huang become known.

This Black Snake Sword was too distinctive, easily recognized by others.

Moreover, Qin Niu already had the Ink Blade and was not in need of weapons.

The best course of action was to have it reforged.

He was extremely cautious about this matter.

The waters in the city were deep; he might walk into the weapon shop with the serpent-shaped sword, and as soon as he left, someone would know.

“Golden Toad, can you eat it?”

Qin Niu looked towards the Golden Toad.

It was a Tailless Golden Swallowing Toad, so it should have the ability to devour various metals.

“I can’t eat it, I need to rise at least two levels before I could possibly digest it.”

“Then what can you eat?”

“When I see something I can eat, I’ll tell the master.”

It replied.

Qin Niu buried the Serpent-shaped Sword and the Nine Insect Command beneath the Ancient Banyan Tree.

Hiding things here was safer than in other places.

Because others who came in couldn’t leave.

He hardly needed to worry about his secrets being discovered.

On the other hand, he needed to think of a way to exchange those silver notes.

Now that Old Master Huang had been killed, and no one knew for the short term. As soon as the Nine Insect Gang realized they couldn’t get in touch, they would definitely begin a secret investigation.

At that time, although the silver notes weren’t named, their serial numbers were registered with the banks.

If Qin Niu spent them, he could still potentially face investigation.

He was always cautious in his actions; any potential loophole that could cause his downfall, he would try to fix.

The best course of action was to exchange these silver notes before the Nine Insect Gang started their investigation.

Exchanging silver notes was too easy.

Gold notes for silver notes, silver notes for gold notes, with a bit of a service fee, it could be easily settled.

With Golden Toad by his side, he walked out from the labyrinth within the Ancient Banyan Tree, the mountain still looked as it always did. Old Master Huang and that cat-faced woman would remain forever within the labyrinth of the Ancient Banyan Tree.

By tomorrow, their corpses would completely disappear, becoming nutrients for the Ancient Banyan Tree.

All the Corpse Bees had died, leaving only two bee eggs, which made Qin Niu feel somewhat regretful.

This species of bee was one he had encountered for the first time.

Although he didn’t know much about their abilities, he felt these Corpse Bees had many advantages.

Such as night vision, strong defensive capabilities, terrifying venom, and stingers powerful enough to penetrate copperhide…

These were advantages that other bee species rarely possessed.

Luckily, he had successfully acquired Old Master Huang’s notes, so those two bee eggs should be able to hatch successfully.

He had no plans to deal with that matter at the moment.

Because even if they hatched, his spirit space was already in an overburdened state, and he simply had no way to contract them.