Xue Qingting nodded.

"Difficult, difficult."

"Breeding larvae will indeed cause me to lose energy essence, but it won't lead to a regression in my level. Only when all the larvae I've cultivated die will it affect my strength and level."

As expected.

Mingxi wasn't surprised. For collective pet beasts, the number of larvae is also part of its strength. Although energy essence is consumed, its strength will increase with the number of larvae.

So it's not like pulling up seedlings to help them grow.

However, because there's an upper limit to energy essence, it's impossible to cultivate larvae indefinitely.

"Do you need materials to cultivate larvae?"

Although Mingxi knew about collective Transcendent creatures, such Transcendent creatures are truly rare, and it's even rarer for Beast Tamers to contract collective Transcendent creatures.

So there aren't many related records.

Mingxi was a little curious.

"Difficult, difficult..."

"Besides the essential use of Insect Pregnancy Grass, other materials can be used or not used."

"When I first became a collective, I was weak and lacked resources."

"So the larvae cultivated in the early stages only used Insect Pregnancy Grass. However, larvae cultivated this way have limited combat abilities and offer less improvement to myself."

"To cultivate special larvae, other °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° materials must be used."

Mingxi understood.

"You've seen the Time Realm's storeroom and botanical garden. Just take whatever you need. I've already granted you storage permissions for the Time Realm. If you're short on materials or need more, just tell me, and we'll find a way to collect them for you."

"Difficult, difficult."

Xue Qingting was more than satisfied with her young but very interesting Beast Tamers.

After settling Xue Qingting, Mingxi herself lay down in the detection cabin.

There were no major changes, but quite a few minor ones.

For example, her brain development inexplicably reached 83.11%.

The degree of brain spiritualization was even more outrageous, soaring to 39%!

The 'Special Physique B' column changed from 'Unlocking' to 'You Wiong (Boundless Roaming/Infinite Travel)'.

At the same time, the You Wiong (Boundless Roaming/Infinite Travel) Sea also came with a note.

【Incomplete】

Mingxi: ¬_¬｀

How annoying.

She was given an awesome physique, but only half of it.

It's like someone specially prepared a Manchu Han Imperial Feast for you, but after you finished eating, they told you, "These dishes are actually molecular gastronomy."

It's not that molecular gastronomy isn't delicious, but it really has nothing to do with a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

Just ask if you're upset or not?

"Jinlan."

Seeing her Little Human looking downcast and dejected, Emerald Green smoothed her ruffled hair, promising to refine an even better awakening potion for her, allowing You Wiong (Boundless Roaming/Infinite Travel) to truly awaken.

"My A'Fei, you're so good, 嘤嘤~~"

Mingxi turned and hugged Emerald Green's arm, feigning tears.

Little Silver Flower and Black Pearl immediately followed suit, each tugging on one of Emerald Green's arms and pretending to cry.

Bright Crystal, however, rolled its eyes in disdain, then climbed onto Mingxi's head in a few quick movements, sprawled out~~

...?

Nan Luo looked at Golden Yuanbao, its old friend, who was crouching on the Beast Tamers' shoulder, its beautiful purple pupils full of question marks.

In the human world, do Beast Tamers and pet beasts interact like this?

...Should I learn?

"Yuan Shi."

"They're just playing around. You'll get used to it. Don't worry about it."

Golden Yuanbao smiled, comforting its old friend.

...

Staying in the Time Realm, external time also doesn't flow.

With the thought of 'the sooner the better,' Mingxi didn't stay long in the Time Realm.

So it was still that cramped rock crevice.

The sky in the extreme north had become a writhing, pale white graveyard.

Countless white hairs, like tentacles, densely covered the sky, like the claws of the grim reaper, remotely locking onto the earth.

The bone-chilling cold didn't just come from physical low temperatures, but also from the pressure and despair at the soul level.

This White-Hair Demonic Wind is truly demonic.

"Guangguang, since you're free anyway, why don't you try to analyze these white hairs?"

"I can, but it will consume reward time."

"Use it, use it! We're not short on money!"

These past few days, sweeping up the Descent' rabble, the most earned was reward time.

"Scanning... Interference level MAX!

Energy readings chaotic! Attributes chaotic!

Movement direction untraceable!

...Wait!"

Guangguang's voice suddenly became sharp to the point of breaking, "Detected... periodic fluctuation data! The writhing of the white-hair sky and the tentacles of the Blood Moon's light have a fixed frequency energy tide!"

Energy tide? Periodic fluctuations?

Mingxi's heart suddenly pounded!

She stared intently at the rolling white-hair sky, forcing herself to ignore the chilling, creepy feeling and focusing all her attention on the white hairs twisting and extending like living things, and the moon above, more vivid than blood.

Once... twice... thrice...

Like a pulse! Like breathing!

The crimson flashes and the surging white hairs were actually not chaotic!

They seemed to be simultaneously pulled by an invisible force, following a grand and eerie rhythm!

Not only that, but with each expansion of the White-Hair Demonic Wind, the moonlight deep within the sky would dim a bit, and with each contraction, the crimson color would intensify.

What does this feeling... resemble?

It's like... a heart pumping blood!

It's like... a node in an energy cycle!

"Could it be..."

Mingxi murmured, her gaze following the invisible energy tide upstream, piercing through layers of rolling white hairs, passing over the massive and sinister storm, and finally... fixating on the outline deep within the pale sky, which had been emitting an ominous dark red glow!

That Blood Moon!

It hung at the highest point of the extreme northern sky, its position unmoving, like a giant, rotten scab embedded in the sky!

"Blood Moon..."

Mingxi's pupils suddenly contracted!

She thought of the occasional dual moon phenomenon in the Abyss Secret Realm.

Then she thought of the situation in Shadow Abyss: the murky air, the untraceable Land of Birth and Death...

"Could this moon not be a natural celestial body?!"

Mingxi was startled by her own thought.

"Guangguang, focus scan the Blood Moon!"

"Yes."

Guangguang responded, automatically deducting reward time, and began scanning the Blood Moon.

Before this, they had indeed never thought of scanning a distant celestial body.

"Target lockable!"

Guangguang's voice suddenly doubled in volume.

"Master! You are right!

The Blood Moon's energy signature is highly homologous to Shadow Abyss, and I also detected a familiar energy fluctuation: it's the Stone of Birth and Death!"

Guangguang's voice trembled with the discovery of a terrifying truth, "Oh my goodness! This Blood Moon is actually the Land of Birth and Death of Shadow Abyss!"

A Land of Birth and Death detached from the Mystic Ground itself, unheard of, unseen.

No wonder humans spent over three hundred years and still couldn't find the Land of Birth and Death of this Shadow Abyss. They originally thought it was a spatial anomaly like Yue Ling No. 3 Secret Land.

They never expected the Land of Birth and Death wasn't even on the Shadow Abyss land!

Who could have thought of that?

Live long enough, see everything!

"So, the question is, do you think it was like this innately, or did it form later?"