Witch Wind

Chapter 88: The Way to Tame Beasts (Part )

Team after team of Xingtian clan members returned to the Business Office.

They brought with them a number of huge and ferocious creatures.

A giant lynx that is more than nine feet long and extremely agile.

The clouded leopard is over ten feet long, agile and brave.

A 15-foot-long, strong and ferocious forest lion.

There was also a team of several hundred Xingtian brothers who used a cart to drag back a group of nearly a hundred swamp crocodiles, nearly four feet long, with thick scales all over their bodies. The leader of this group of swamp crocodiles was nearly six feet long, and when it was brought back, it almost broke the keel of the cart.

Others include jungle tigers, big lizards, giant pythons, exotic venomous snakes, mountain gorillas, etc., all big creatures in the tropical jungle that are huge in size, have amazing combat power, or have magical effects. More than 2,000 of them were brought back.

What made Xing Tianli speechless was that a group of brothers actually brought back nearly 10,000 "gold-loving fire ants" unique to Black Borneo.

This thing is extremely vicious. It is the size of an average adult man's thumb. It is completely black, but has thin silver lines. They mainly feed on the flesh and blood of large animals, but occasionally they secrete venom to corrode some minerals, turning them into juice and sucking them to supplement their nutrition.

Therefore, the shells of the fire ants are extremely hard, and ordinary teenagers may not be able to split their bodies with a kitchen knife.

What's more terrifying is that their bite force is extremely amazing. If you are walking in the tropical jungle and hear the crisp "ding ding" sound of metal colliding, and there is no one around, then you should be careful. This is probably because you have mistakenly entered the territory of the gold-loving fire ants, and they are colliding their two large jaws to warn you.

Their hard jaws and extremely formidable bite force allow them to have a lethality almost as strong as a bullet. With one bite, they can bite off a large chunk of an ordinary cow thigh bone.

Their large jaws can secrete venom that can corrode and dissolve even metal ores. If an ordinary person is bitten by them, at least a bowl-sized piece of flesh will turn into pus, which is a fatal injury.

Thanks to these Xingtian brothers, they brought back such a bunch of troublesome and vicious guys!

The only weakness of these guys is that they are afraid of fire. When burned by fire, their body fluids will boil rapidly, and then their bodies will explode and die. However, in this tropical rainforest, it is extremely humid and rainy all year round, so it is not easy to use fire to deal with them.

Xing Tianli once again played tricks and helped his brothers to tame the ferocious beasts they brought back.

In ancient times, taming beasts was the most commonly used auxiliary combat method by the witches.

The ancient ferocious beasts themselves possess extremely terrifying fighting power.

On a daily basis, they can continuously feed back the powerful qi and blood of the witches, assisting them in their cultivation; when marching and fighting, if the witches are seriously injured, they can directly reap their lives and instantly repair their injuries.

If they are at their wit's end, the flesh and blood of these big guys can become marching fodder for the witches to fill their stomachs!

Their horns, skins, bones, and blood are turned into materials for refining weapons and formations; even their beast souls can be collected and become the main material for the 'Banner of Ten Thousand Beasts'.

In the hands of the great wizards, the effectiveness of the beast taming technique was fully exploited without any omissions.

Six hundred years into the Dharma Ending Age, these big guys from Black Borneo encountered their brothers led by Commander Xing Tianli, and they were in great misfortune.

And those nearly ten thousand gold-loving fire ants were refined by Xing Tianli himself.

For the brothers of Xingtian clan, a beast with a strong enough physique can help them quickly accumulate blood and qi at the current stage. However, these gold-loving fire ants are too small, and the blood and qi that each one can feed back is too weak.

Apart from Xing Tianli, none of Xing Tian's brothers had a soul strong enough to control more than ten gold-eating fire ants.

If these little guys cannot control thousands of them at a time, the blood and energy they give back will not even be as good as an ordinary tiger. But if any of the Xingtian brothers really want to control thousands of gold-loving fire ants, they will either be terrified or suffer from schizophrenia, becoming a typical psychopath!
For Xing Tianli, who possesses a celestial soul and whose total amount of soul has expanded dozens of times with the blessing of nine small tripods, controlling nearly ten thousand gold-eating fire ants is just like taking out a grain of rice from a granary of millions of dan. It is not a burden at all for him.

Even more, Xing Tianli was prepared to control more.

If there were a million fire ants rushing forward in an overwhelming manner, coupled with heavy rain and dense fog, even an army of 100,000 people would be wiped out if they encountered them head-on, right?

Thinking of that horrible scene, Xing Tianli shuddered.

"I almost had trypophobia." Xing Tianli muttered in a low voice. In his mind, "The Primitive Witch's Scripture" was swirling around and a witch's code called "The Primitive Strange Insects Scripture" quietly emerged in the Purple Mansion's spiritual platform.

"Hmm? The hybrid descendant of the 'Flying Golden Demon Ant', which ranks 23,972nd among the prehistoric insects?" Xing Tianli took a deep breath. "A product of the Dharma Ending Age, when the bloodline decayed and the wings degenerated?"

Xing Tianli's eyes were shining brightly.

Although the Flying Golden Demon Ant is only ranked over 20,000 in the "Honghuang Strange Insects Book", this witch book is extremely long, and the total number of types of various vicious and strange insects recorded in it is nearly 100 million!
Ranking more than 20,000 among 100 million alien insects, this ranking is already quite impressive.

Let’s take a look at the top hundreds of them. What are they all like? They can devour the void like chewing potato chips, travel through time like crossing a stream, and even the legendary Golden Immortal can be seriously injured if they are not careful. There are also those who can control the body of a Golden Immortal and turn it into a zombie puppet, and there are also those who can create an illusory world and make the Golden Immortal sink into it for millions of years without waking up...

All kinds of horrors are contained in this "Book of Strange Insects".

The Flying Golden Demon Ants may not seem to be ranked high, but they are actually extremely terrifying. If they can gather the blood of their ancestors and grow wings, they can fly away and devour metal. Any metal arts, even the immortal swords, can be easily chewed.

In contrast, the venom of these gold-eating fire ants is probably a new ability acquired after hybridization. In the original bloodline of the flying golden devil ants, they only need a pair of large jaws to wreak havoc on a place, and there is no need for such a "lowly" method as "poisoning".

"Difficult!" Xing Tianli flipped through the "Honghuang Strange Insects Classic" and found the method of cultivating the flying golden demon ants. Suddenly, he felt light all over.

Although the purple ribbon Taoist robe was filled with gold, silver, copper and iron, with a total amount of over one million tons, Xing Tianli also felt light all over at this moment - in fact, to cultivate the flying golden demon ants, they needed to devour huge amounts of pure spiritual gold rich in "Taichu Qi"!

Oh, how can we afford to raise a Xingtian carp nowadays?

Not to mention, where can he go to exchange for 'spiritual gold'?

In the Dharma Ending Age, you can’t find the ‘spiritual gold’ even if you search the sky hard!
However, it is still an extremely terrifying means, at least for dealing with various "miscellaneous soldiers", especially in jungle environments, for sneak attacks. There is nothing more terrifying than the gold-loving fire ants.

Xing Tianli pondered for a while and then gave an order to Xing Tianren.

While Xing Tian's brothers were out hunting ferocious beasts, they had an additional mission. Xing Tianli asked them to try their best to catch some strange insects such as scorpions, ants, and large beetles, and bring them back in nests as much as possible, and try to catch poisonous ones!

In the next few days, there were constant roars of beasts in Jinshan Town.

The residents of Jinshan Town lived in fear every day as they watched the descendants of Xingtian clan parading through the streets with ferocious beasts, giant pythons, giant crocodiles, or gorillas over ten feet tall.

They were still constantly capturing new ferocious beasts. Hundreds of He Duo and He Xi's clansmen, as well as Xing Tian's 15,000 brothers, had also ravaged the jungles within hundreds of miles in the past few days, capturing a large number of ferocious beasts and monsters, basically achieving the level of each person having one.

Among them, some have exceptional talents and strong bloodlines, such as He Xi, Xing Tianren and others. They have controlled more than one big beast.

For example, He Xi directly controlled three gorillas that were the largest, most ferocious, most violent, and even capable of tearing tigers and leopards apart alive.

In addition to the ten-meter-long giant python, Xing Tianren also controlled a giant turtle that was hiding in the deep pool of the waterfall. It took hundreds of Xing Tianren's brothers to barely capture it alive. The turtle had a carapace that was four meters square.

This giant turtle is over a thousand years old and is clearly an old monster from before the Dharma Ending Age.

It hid itself deep under a pool in this primeval jungle. Relying on the turtle's unique breathing technique, it restrained the blood and energy in its body and endured for a thousand years, finally surviving to this day.

After Xing Tianli injected a wisp of primordial Qi into it, the giant turtle, which had been extremely arrogant and refusing to surrender, knelt down instantly. It even took the initiative to recognize its master and knelt down and saluted Xing Tianren willingly.

Xing Tianli was so upset by what he saw.

In short, after a busy period, the basic combat effectiveness of the Wu brothers under Xing Tianli has been formed.

During this process, some armed guards of Yingjishi secretly asked the brothers of Xingtian clan how they could own such a majestic beast - and according to Xingtianli's instructions, the brothers of Xingtian clan all agreed - only by capturing the beast with their own hands could they conclude the closest 'comrade-in-arms' contract!
Well, just this one sentence made all the armed guards give up the idea. With the weapons in their hands, hunting these beasts is not a problem, but to capture them alive with their own hands? Haha, are you kidding?
In the past few days, Black Pearl Harbor has continuously sent out elite scouts to secretly scout out the movements of Jinshan Town. However, these scouts all ran into the descendants of the Xingtian clan who were riding wild beasts. Without a sound, these Dongyun scouts disappeared forever in the jungle.

After several days of this, when Black Pearl Harbor lost more than 500 elite scouts, this meaningless spying completely stopped.

However, the garrison at Black Pearl Harbor directly blocked the entrance and exit of Jinshan Town.

Supplies from outside cannot be transported into Jinshan Town.

Goods from the mines and plantations around Jinshan Town could not be shipped to Black Pearl Harbor.

Nearly a hundred large ocean-going cargo ships had stopped at the port, and the goods in the mines and plantations around Jinshan Town had piled up into small hills. The worried Yingji merchants once again approached Xing Tianli.

At this moment, Xing Tianli had already brought Beihe Cangyi and secretly sneaked into Black Pearl Harbor.

On the hillside overlooking the entire Black Pearl Harbor, small buildings with white walls and black tiles are surrounded by green trees. A three-story palace building made of pure wood with a strong Han and Tang Dynasty style is particularly eye-catching here.

Several years ago, this palace building, which looks like a soaring roc but has a simple and solemn temperament, was the naval club of the Black Borneo Expeditionary Force and the Black Pearl Harbor Squadron of the Dayu Dynasty.

Ten years ago, the Touno people captured Black Borneo, and this place became a geisha house for officers of the Touno garrison.

At dusk, the sound of a mixture of sad and desolate shamisen and shakuhachi tunes could be heard in the geisha house. Several thin women with sharp voices were singing extremely obscene tunes in their pinched voices.

There were several men who were obviously drunk and were clapping their hands and stamping their feet to cheer on these women.

Outside the geisha house, several sentries stretched their necks and peeked at what was going on inside with drooling mouths - with the salary of one penny a month and the requirement of buying their own military uniforms, including loincloths and foot bindings, even if they were squeezed dry, it would be impossible for them to enter the geisha house for even a drink.

Even the junior officers of the middle and lower ranks could only listen to the noises at the door and indulge in their daydreaming.

Only those with aristocratic backgrounds, who are at least aristocratic officers at the level of frontier governors on a small island among the nearly one thousand large and small islands of the Dongyun Island Union, and who have reached the rank of a thousand-man captain or above and have sufficient gray income, are qualified to enter here.

Kitakawa Cangyi was wearing a full set of the Kitakawa family's most formal hunting robe with a white background and black dragon pattern, which was only used when offering sacrifices to ancestors. On his head he wore a black gauze hat that was a foot and a half high, like a lightning rod. He had a sword hanging from his waist, a jade ruyi in his left hand, and a goose feather fan in his right hand. He kicked open the innermost private room in the geisha house.

In a rather large private room, a group of Dongyun people dressed in officer uniforms, with flushed faces, were clapping and stomping their feet to cheer.

In the middle of the private room, seven or eight Dongyun women, their faces painted like white ghosts, were bare-chested and performing various life skills such as pounding clothes, transplanting rice seedlings, picking tea, and making milk skin. However, there was no trace of the beauty of life in their every move, only pure shamelessness and vulgarity.

In the corner of the private room, several men wearing General Dongyun's uniforms were half-undressed and entangled with several maids.

The private room was filled with smoke.

The smell of alcohol, tobacco, and a very lingering strange aroma that went up your nostrils and penetrated your internal organs as soon as you smelled it mixed together, including the body odor of the Dongyun officers who had not showered for two days and had been suppressed by the hot and humid weather in Black Borneo. It was so pungent that it almost made you want to vomit.

Xing Tianli suddenly held his breath, pinched a seal with his left hand, and an invisible air barrier quietly formed around him.

That lingering strange aroma was clearly the fragrance of bliss, a vicious thing from the Dark Forest. Xing Tianli really didn't expect that among the Dongyun garrison in Black Borneo, there would be a senior officer who smoked this thing?
But this is a good thing!

Great thing!
Xing Tianli was even prepared to raise funds on his own to purchase three to five tons so that the Dongyun officers could have a good time.

An Dongyun general raised his head sharply and swore angrily.

Then, they all saw Kitagawa Cangyi wearing a large hunting robe. All the officers shuddered, let go of the Dongyun woman in their arms, and knelt on the ground, respectfully prostrating themselves: "Your Highness!"

Beihe Cangyi covered his mouth with a goose feather fan and laughed strangely: "Gentlemen, you are in a good mood. The sun is still in the sky and the moon has not risen, but you are already drinking and having fun."

Beihe Cangyi suddenly rushed to the front of a general with the highest military rank, and slapped him hard on the forehead with his left hand. With a "bang", the guy rolled over, and blood flowed down his forehead.

The slave nature in the bones of the Dongyun people flared up, and the general who was beaten had a satisfied smile on his face, and kowtowed to Beihe Cang repeatedly: "Ah, thank you for your reward. It is Beilin's greatest fortune to be able to feel the punishment from your highness in Black Borneo!"

Xing Tianli rolled his eyes again and again.

Even though they were enemies, he couldn't stand it. Are you still so happy after getting beaten? You have a knife with you, why don't you pull it out and cut Beihe Cangyi's kidney?
Uh, is Beihe Cangyi following my orders now?

Oh, then, put down the knife and be obedient.

Xing Tianli coughed lightly.

Beihe Cangyi snorted coldly and gently waved the goose feather fan in his right hand. More than 20 officers stood up and took the scantily clad Dongyun women to the next room.

The private room was quickly cleared. Beihe Cangyi sat behind a low table, Xing Tianli stood behind him, and several generals lined up and knelt in front of Beihe Cangyi.

Bei Hecang picked up a wine cup, took a sip of the wine, and said calmly: "You, have you been wronged?"

Several generals lowered their heads and remained silent.

With their military ranks and identities, even if they were bad bastards with poor military discipline, they wouldn't be half drunk in a geisha house just at dusk, flirting with a group of women, right?
"It's my fault that you've been implicated. Nanshan Manyue, that bastard, didn't care at all about our friendship since childhood and actually wanted to turn against me. Was it him who took away the military power from you?" After all, Beihe Cangyi is the eldest son of the Beihe family and has received a very strict elite education since childhood.

No matter how poorly he performed in front of Xing Tianli, his most basic abilities were still pretty good.

Several Dongyun generals shouted "Hi" in unison.

Xiao Lin, the one with the highest military rank, raised his head and said in a deep voice: "This is not your highness's fault. It is Nanshan Manyue's wolfish ambition. He wants to monopolize the military power of Black Pearl Harbor. Ah, those bastards of the Nanshan family, they want to monopolize the military power. This has been their ambition for many years!"

"This is a provocation from the Nanshan family to our Beihe family." Xiao Lin defined it with certainty.

"It's good that you think so." Beihe Cangyi said in a deep voice: "You guys are not convinced, right?"

Xiao Lin and the others looked at each other, and Xiao Lin said in a deep voice: "Yes, Your Highness, we are not convinced, but without the support of the main family, who can compete with the majesty of the Nanshan family in Black Pearl Harbor?"

Beihe Cangyi smiled: "So, I am here. I will support you. The adult behind me will support you."

"Let us destroy Nanshan Manyue's ambition!" Beihe Cangyi smiled brightly: "You guys, follow me, I guarantee you will get promoted, make a fortune, and have a bright future!"

Xing Tianli's mouth twitched and he almost burst out laughing.

Silent all night.

The next day, as the red sun was rising and the morning energy between heaven and earth was at its strongest, muffled groans were heard from dozens of sentry posts inside and outside Black Pearl Harbor.

The soldiers on guard duty were completely unaware that the fire ants were crawling up their bodies and biting their Adam's apples, neck arteries, hearts and other vital parts.

Blood splattered and then flowed into a river.

Teams of well-prepared soldiers loyal to the generals of the Beihe family took advantage of the opportunity when the sentries were killed, walked out of the barracks, ran to the armory, violently opened the warehouse door, and took out guns and ammunition.

At the same time, a group of elite Dongyun soldiers were rapidly approaching Nanshan Manyue's official residence.

There were muffled groans everywhere. The guards of Nanshan Manyue were also bitten in the fatal parts by the gold-eating fire ants. The highly toxic venom destroyed their Adam's apples in an instant. They could not even utter a scream before they fell to the ground and twitched wildly.

Soon, the entire residence was surrounded.

(End of this chapter)