My dreams can simulate the future.

Chapter 96 Ancient Insects

During his years in the Golden Cauldron Sect, Jiang Chen frequently visited the Transmission Hall when simulating the future in his dreams.

He had read all sorts of common knowledge about the cultivation world on the first floor of the Transmission Tower, and also had some understanding of the secret realm.

Secret realms can be divided into three types: spiritual realms, blessed lands, and grotto heavens. Among them, spiritual realms cannot exist stably for a long time and are extremely difficult to see.

However, the level of a grotto-heaven is too high, and even the top forces in the cultivation world of Manglin Continent cannot all possess one.

Almost all the hidden realms that can be seen are blessed lands.

There are no sun, moon, or stars here, nor any changes in weather; it must be a blessed land.

Secret realms are rare and valuable resource areas for any faction.

This is not because the spiritual veins in the secret realm are of a high grade; in fact, the spiritual veins in the vast majority of secret realms are of a very low grade.

However, the secret realm is a basically enclosed space where spiritual energy can only enter and not leave.

Even if the spiritual veins within the secret realm are only the lowest-grade, first-level spiritual veins, they can still accumulate to the effect of second-grade or even third-grade spiritual veins within the secret realm.

Besides that, there's the issue of changing the environment.

Because different spiritual plants have very different environmental requirements, it is necessary to use formations to change the environment of the herb garden in order to cultivate some more delicate spiritual plants.

Therefore, the path of spiritual plants is divided into three levels: spiritual farmers, pharmacists, and Shennong.

Spirit farmers only know how to care for spirit plants; they have no other skills.

The apothecary is based on the spirit farmer and can cultivate spirit plants in a targeted manner, change the soil, and also know some formations.

Shennong, on the other hand, was proficient in formations on the basis of being a pharmacist, and was able to use formations to change the environment of a region.

To change the environment in the outside world, one would need to use formations to alter the influence of the sun, moon, stars, and the changing seasons, which is extremely difficult and costly.

But things are different in blessed lands. Generally speaking, secret realms do not have the sun, moon, stars, or the changing seasons.

The space inside blessed lands is generally not large. Small secret realms are only a few miles in circumference, and secret realms with a circumference of more than a hundred miles are extremely rare.

In such a small space, it is very easy to change the environment.

Therefore, the secret realm is an ideal place to cultivate various rare medicinal herbs.

In addition, the secret realm has excellent secrecy. Even if a major battle breaks out with other forces, there is no need to worry about the secret realm being destroyed.

The secluded realm isolates the inside from the outside, preventing the invasion of spirit insects or diseases.

Cultivating spiritual herbs in a secret realm is the perfect opportunity.

After surveying the surroundings, Jiang Chen said, "Then let's go to Shennong Garden as soon as possible."

While those loyalists dare not come over, let's seize the opportunity and take Shennong Garden in one fell swoop.

From now on, we outsiders will no longer have to worry about lacking Foundation Establishment spiritual items.

Then, the two followed the trail left by the monks of the Guardian Hall and headed deeper into the blessed land.

After walking only a hundred feet or so, the two saw a corpse lying by the roadside.

Judging from their attire, they were disciples of the Guardian Hall.

Jiang Chen cautiously approached and used his divine sense to examine the corpse, then quickly took a few steps back.

"He had a small wound on his neck, like it had been pricked by a needle, and there was a red swelling around it. He was probably stung to death by a poisonous insect like a bee."

"But strangely, there were no signs of pain or struggle on his body."

Having said that, he immediately activated a golden armor talisman.

A golden armored phantom appeared out of thin air, protecting him completely.

Zhao Changzhou followed suit and used the Golden Armor Talisman to protect himself.

He then breathed a sigh of relief: "For a person to die without struggling, it must be either an insect with extremely potent venom that kills instantly."

Either the venom of the poisonous insect had a paralyzing effect, causing him to die without realizing it.

Just then, a series of ghostly wails and howls came from ahead, and a guard hall cultivator was seen running frantically outside as if chased by a dog.

Seeing Jiang Chen and Zhao Changzhou from afar, he did not forget his camaraderie with his fellow disciples.

"My two junior brothers from the Talisman Hall, there are unseen poisonous insects chasing me. You must run!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen made a sword-finger gesture with his right hand, holding a silver-gray talisman between his fingers.

A flash of eerie blue light, and the talisman instantly turned to ashes, followed by a massive outpouring of white smoke.

Then, he took out a black gourd about the size of a palm.

When the gourd was opened, a plume of black smoke billowed out, but it quickly dissipated, leaving behind only a strong, nauseating aroma.

Looking at the smoke in front of him, Zhao Changzhou asked in confusion, "Junior Brother Jiang, what are you doing?"

Jiang Chen plugged the gourd's mouth again and put it into his storage bag.

He chuckled and said, "I've read quite a few books in the sect these past few years."

Venomous insects primarily use sight and smell to track their prey.

"The smoke emitted by my second-grade, initial-level Cloud Smoke Talisman can cover a space of a hundred feet in radius, and can remain for an hour even in a strong wind."

The black mist emanating from the gourd is a special insect-repelling incense that I refined.

It can both disrupt the sense of smell of poisonous insects and stun various poisonous insects.

I've tried it with more than ten kinds of spirit insects within the sect, and the results are excellent.

Ever since he was tricked by the Black Stone Society with the Black Blood Mosquitoes, he has been extremely wary of poisonous insects.

These methods were all prepared in advance by him.

Even if poisonous insects manage to get in, it would be difficult to find even one or two people within a radius of a hundred feet.

Moreover, it won't be long before the poisonous insects faint.

Seeing that the area was shrouded in smoke, the guard disciple immediately crawled inside.

Fortunately, although the smoke was extremely thick and even many eye techniques could not see through it, it did not have a significant impact on divine sense.

Using his divine sense to find his way, he quickly arrived at Jiang Chen's side.

He took a few deep breaths and bowed to Jiang Chen, saying, "Thank you both for saving my life. There are poisonous insects here that have never been seen in the outside world."

My fellow disciples who came in with me all died from the mouths of these poisonous insects.

Just as Jiang Chen was about to ask about the details of the poisonous insects, his divine sense suddenly detected an unusual disturbance fifty feet away, which was wandering aimlessly.

Under normal circumstances, such disturbances are difficult to detect.

But things are different now; the surroundings are filled with smoke, and the movement of the fog is still easy to detect.

But in the places where the fog was disturbed, there was nothing at all.

It seems there is something undetectable, flying around aimlessly in the fog.

A small golden sword suddenly flew out, heading towards the location of the disturbance.

Sizzle~~

A very faint sound rang out, and the disturbance disappeared.

Jiang Chen hurried over, and before he could even use his divine sense to search carefully, he saw a strange-looking bee-like spirit insect corpse on the ground.

This spirit bee looks very much like an ordinary wasp, with extremely intricate patterns on its body, and it seems to be able to evade divine sense detection.

He used a talisman to scoop up the corpse of the spirit bee.

Zhao Changzhou and the disciples of the Guard Hall also rushed over, and they were also puzzled when they saw the corpse of the spirit bee.

Jiang Chen immediately asked, "This should be the poisonous insect that attacked the senior brothers of the Guardian Hall."

"Senior Brother Zhao, you are very knowledgeable, do you know the name of this spirit bee?"

Zhao Changzhou shook his head: "It looks like a wasp, with intricate patterns made up of red, yellow and black on its body. Moreover, this thing can hide its form and evade divine sense detection."

"I've never even heard of this kind of poisonous insect, let alone seen it."

Jiang Chen immediately said, "It seems that this poisonous bee must be an ancient insect left over from ancient times."

This ancient ruin has been isolated from the world for who knows how many years, so it's not surprising that it has preserved some ancient, exotic insects.