After sorting through what he had gained in this retreat, Meng Zhou checked the status of the two mysterious turtles again.

Their strength has been significantly improved compared to before the retreat.

In just a few days, they have merged the best part of their father's bloodline with their own.

It not only completed the rapid accumulation of strength, but also further improved the potential of the bloodline.

For them now, taking care of thousands of acres of spiritual land is a piece of cake.

If the pond wasn't big enough and the water storage capacity was limited, they could do it more easily than they do now.

However, after confirming the status of the two turtles, Meng Zhou did not continue to enlarge the pond.

This is just right now. It allows them to have something to do every day, so they don't just sink to the bottom of the pond and pretend to be dead all day long.

This can also be regarded as a by-product of the intense special training he gave the two turtles.

For other beasts, whether wild monsters or spiritual beasts domesticated by contract, the pursuit of strength is the primary source of motivation imprinted in their blood.

As long as there is an opportunity to improve their strength, they will not hesitate even if they risk their lives.

But the two mysterious turtles I raised had embarked on a different path from other monsters as early as the turtle egg stage.

According to traditional standards, it was impossible for the two turtle eggs I just bought to successfully hatch a healthy and normal Xuanling turtle.

There is a high probability that it can only be cooked and eaten as a high-quality spiritual meal. Even if it is hatched by luck, it will be born with defects in the end. Missing arms and legs or becoming other deformities will not cause any surprise.

They were successfully hatched thanks to Meng Zhou's "protection" all the way, and there were no major problems.

Then, their growth trajectory is all under his control.

At the first level, it was completely spoon-feeding.

They only need to be responsible for eating and sleeping - well, that's not right, because both eating and sleeping are controlled by Meng Zhou.

The body seems to belong to them, but it also seems to have nothing to do with them.

Probably, the overwhelming pain every time Meng Zhou helped them break through, strengthen their bloodline quality, and activate their potential was the time when they were most closely connected with their bodies.

At other times, their bodies are actually the "factory" for the transformation of massive amounts of highly concentrated beast pills, storing the spiritual essence in those beast pills in a different way in the bloodline body of the mysterious turtle.

After their bloodline completed the breakthrough from the first to the second level, Meng Zhou discovered their true innate abilities, so he formulated a high-intensity special training plan for them.

In the process, their strength increased by leaps and bounds.

In just a few years, they have completed a journey that other wild tortoises may have taken hundreds of years to complete.

But this also caused a series of sequelae.

On the one hand, they grow too fast and too easily.

Except for Meng Zhou, they have neither come into contact with other human monks nor other monsters, and they have no idea what survival of the fittest is and the law of the jungle.

On the other hand, they have become accustomed to a way of survival where everything is controlled by Meng Zhou and their every step is strictly planned.

Although they all have good intelligence after being trained to the extreme, these intelligences are basically focused on lying down, cheating and slipping.

As a result, the two turtles formed very distorted values.

On the one hand, they are insensitive to strength.

Let them work hard and pursue stronger power. This is a matter of course for other monsters, but it really has no attraction for them.

When they hear this kind of chicken soup talk, they will most likely just turn the turtle shell over and find a more comfortable way of pretending to be dead.

"Becoming stronger? Why become stronger?"

On the other hand, they have long been accustomed to living under orders. They can calmly accept and strictly implement any difficult plan assigned to them by Meng Zhou.

It doesn't matter if it's difficult, it doesn't matter if it's very painful.

Even if there is a possibility of death, it doesn't matter. The main theme is that it doesn't matter.

"I'm already lying down, come on."

The price of rapid growth in a short period of time was that the original instincts in the blood of the two turtles were wiped out.

Under this situation, in order to ensure that the two turtles would not be idle, Meng Zhou had to spare a few hours to make a new work and rest schedule for the two mysterious turtles.

In addition to rainfall, other talents cannot be neglected, and the practice time, number of practice times, etc. must be accurately quantified every day.

Otherwise, with these two beasts looking so lazy now, if he dares to let them go, they will really dare to pretend to be dead and not move forward.

After doing this, Meng Zhou thought about his next arrangements.

Just as he was thinking about it, his consciousness scanned a few objects, and Meng Zhou thought: "It's time to deal with it."

There was a ring in Meng Zhou's hand. Inside, hundreds of strange-looking beetles were lying half-dead.

Through a classic book harvested from the Spirit Controller's Storage Ring, Meng Zhou already knew that this insect was called "Shadow Beetle".

Those black beetles, alone, have only the strength of a first-class top grade.

Even if there is only one such beetle, its threat to practitioners is much lower than that of the same first-level high-grade monsters.

But if hundreds of them form a group, it will not only be like a moving natural disaster to the Qi Practitioners.

Even for the foundation-building monks, turning around and running away to avoid being directly attacked by them is the most correct choice.

Because although this kind of shadow beetle has poor single attack power, it has very strong vitality. It can be understood as a practicing version of cockroach Xiaoqiang.

And it also has a very tricky talent, with very strong magic resistance!

It's not about the magic resistance of a certain type of spell, but the entire system's resistance to fire, cold, thunder, poison...

Therefore, in the face of this kind of insect, unless the strength is far beyond that, and there is powerful magic power to support it, and a single spell can form a hell of fire or a sea of ​​thunder, then don't think about using magic group attacks to clear the platform with one blow.

The most correct way to deal with them is to use a flying sword to chop them one by one, or use a hammer to smash them one by one.

And this is just the performance of this insect at the first level.

When its mutation evolves to the second level, it changes from a shadow beetle to a golden beetle, which becomes even more terrifying.

Transforming into a golden armor shell will not only make their magic resistance stronger, but their physical defense capabilities will also be greatly improved.

At this moment, if you want to use flying swords or other magic weapons to kill, the difficulty will skyrocket.

"However, they are not without their weaknesses. Whether they use sound attacks or soul attacks, they can be dealt with relatively easily."

Of course, the premise is that these two types of methods are mastered well enough. If they are only half-assed, they will become taunting skills to attract hatred.

and--

Meng Zhou held a first-order shadow beetle and a quasi-second-order golden beetle in his hands, and felt the changes in their magic resistance and physical defense capabilities.

He thought to himself that even if these hundreds of quasi-second-order golden beetles had completely transformed into second-order golden beetles, with his spell skills and sword-wielding skills, the damage to them would still be beyond their ability to withstand.

Among the hundreds of shadow beetles, more than a hundred have grown golden spots, which is a sign of the transformation from first-order shadow beetles to second-order golden beetles.

When these golden spots turn into pure golden armor, they become true second-level spiritual insects.

However, the death of their original owner not only interrupted their transformation, but also made them half-dead one by one.

The reason why they are still alive is because their strength is still too low, and the spirit insects they raise on a large scale are basically "fast-moving consumer goods" to the spirit controllers.

In order to avoid too much backlash from the death of spiritual insects, the level of spiritual master's sacrifice to spiritual insects is basically very low.

Therefore, after the owner dies, they suffer relatively little backlash;

On the other hand, it is due to their own strong vitality.

With a thought, Meng Zhou released all these spiritual insects.

Hundreds of thumb-sized spiritual insects floated half-dead in the void in front of him.

If it weren't for Meng Zhou's help, they would all have fallen to the ground.

Meng Zhou stretched out his right hand, and a ball of heart essence and blood as big as a fist flew out.

Then, hundreds of copies were scattered in the air, and they were accurately submerged into the bodies of first-level and almost second-level spiritual insects.

As the heart essence and blood of such a sufficient amount and of such high quality were frantically digested and absorbed by each spiritual insect, the soul imprint belonging to Meng Zhou naturally entered their already vacant life cores.

Soon, the spiritual insects that were half-dead a moment ago quickly became active and were in better condition than they were in their prime.

Those quasi-second-order spiritual insects have more golden spots.

Faint golden spots also began to appear on nearly a hundred first-order spiritual insects.

The auras of other first-order shadow beetles have also become more powerful.

Meng Zhou felt the state of his body.

For an ordinary ninth-level monk to take so much of the heart essence and blood just now, he would have to rest for at least a month before he could consider whether to continue.

But Meng Zhou didn't feel anything. The slight deficit just now was quickly filled by his majestic life energy.

This amount of consumption is not even as much as when he was cultivating the Red Blood Yuan Ti and Yan Luo Mi with all his strength.

And compared to that time, his strength has been greatly improved now.

So, after a little test of the water, Meng Zhou once again took out a ball of heart essence and blood that was the size of four adult fists.

Then, divide them into hundreds of parts and shoot at each spiritual insect.

As these spiritual insects digested the heart essence and blood again.

Meng Zhou felt that his connection with them had become closer, and their strength had once again improved.

Not to mention those spiritual insects that are already quasi-second level, the accumulation becomes even deeper.
To be continued...