Chapter 156: Chapter 147: Insect Master’s Legacy, Spirit Fusion Technique

Han Ning’s expression flickered. He sent a thought via his Spiritual Power, ’You want to eat this?’

HISS~ The only response he received was a feeling of intense craving.

The All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm’s craving meant the bait was a success.

He extended a finger, and a sharp tendril emerged from it. Under everyone’s astonished gazes, it completely absorbed the dark green paste from the tip of the branch.

Immediately after, a feeling of satisfaction emanated from the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm within his body.

Although its Energy hadn’t increased much, the feeling was similar to the pleasure Egg Pancake got from eating canned meat, or Yin Yi from playing with a phone. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"Han Ning, is that the little bug you contracted this morning?" Dean Wu asked, examining the tendril on Han Ning’s fingertip with great interest.

Han Ning nodded. "Yes. I call it the All-Encompassing Spiritual Silkworm. It’s very interested in this Fragrant Bait. The fact that it feels pleasure after eating it proves that even though this stuff doesn’t look like much, it’s definitely highly attractive to insects."

"It’s a success? I thought it was a failure," Teacher Zhou said, sighing in relief.

Making this Fragrant Bait was resource-intensive, and they hadn’t gotten many materials from the three Insect-men. They couldn’t afford too many failures.

Dean Wu looked at the dark green paste and said, "Perhaps some of the details still need to be perfected. While Han Ning is here, we should run a few more trials and produce a good quantity of the Fragrant Bait. We can go out and look for the mother insect tomorrow."

"Okay."

Over the next while, the group gathered around the blender, repeating the process and slightly adjusting the steps.

After three more attempts, the Fragrant Bait they produced finally started to resemble the description in Taman’s notes, taking on a light green, crystalline appearance.

After five batches, the materials were completely used up, yielding a total of about 10 jin of finished Fragrant Bait.

...

After they finished producing the Fragrant Bait, Han Ning was about to head to the storeroom to deposit the Insect Crystals he had collected in the afternoon.

But he had barely taken two steps when Lena suddenly rushed out of the entrance to Building A, waving and shouting, "Han Ning, wait a moment!"

"Lady Lenna? What is it?" Han Ning stopped in his tracks.

Lena trotted over to him and handed him a booklet made of several dozen A4 pages stapled together.

"I’ve finished the translation. Lord Taman’s entire Insect Master legacy is in here."

"The entire Insect Master legacy?!" Han Ning looked down at the densely packed text and hand-drawn diagrams on the A4 pages, a grateful expression spreading across his face. He bowed to Lena and said, "Thank you so much. You’ve worked hard these past few days, Lady Lenna."

Lena shook her head.

"This is all I can do. If you truly want to gain a deeper understanding of Insect Master culture, you’ll still need to learn the language of the Insect-men. After all, my translation will be mixed with my own interpretations and may deviate slightly from the original."

Han Ning readily agreed. "I definitely need to learn it. Once you’ve finished translating the most important information and have some free time, I’ll bother you then."

"Okay. I’ll be starting a language class then. You’re welcome to join," Lena said with a smile.

Lena was very busy. After a brief chat with Han Ning, she hurried back to her room to continue translating more documents.

Han Ning watched her go. His plan to deposit the Insect Crystals forgotten, he clutched the stack of papers and hurried back to his dorm.

Nothing was more important than analyzing Taman’s Insect Master legacy.

Back in his dorm, he turned on the light and sat at his desk, carefully poring over the important documents.

Intelligent beings who can contract Soul Beasts and command them in battle are collectively known as Beast Masters.

Insect Masters are not just Beast Masters who are skilled at controlling insects.

Their bodies also contain a certain amount of insect bloodline.

As for where this insect bloodline came from, myths and legends say that when the Five Great Ancestors were born from the Queen’s womb, they carried the primordial bloodline of insects.

They then spread their descendants far and wide. It could be said that all Insect-men on the continent are, in fact, descendants of the Five Great Ancestors.

However, in the long river of history, some descendant Insect Masters had their own ideas and ambitions. Others, unwilling to live under the rule of the Ancestors, broke away from the Ancestor Families to establish their own young Insect Master Tribes.

The Yinsaike Family is most proficient at cultivating the following three types of insects:

Dragonflies, ants, and butterflies.

According to the legacy passed down by Yinsaike—or rather, by Taman—the first Clan Leader of the Yinsaike Race broke away from the Ancestor Ant Family to establish their own house.

Over generations, they intermarried with other Insect Master Families of similar strength, which included those with the bloodline of the butterfly ancestor.

As a result, members of the Yinsaike Race generally exhibit the physical traits of ants, dragonflies, and butterflies.

Take Nia, for example. She has a pair of ant-like antennae and a pair of small, dragonfly-like wings on her back.

Possessing an insect bloodline makes it much easier to control swarms of insects, especially species that align with one’s bloodline.

Han Ning’s eyes quickly skimmed past the sections on the insect cultivation methods exclusive to the Yinsaike Family’s Insect Masters, moving on to the Chapter about training Spiritual Power.

Because of the existence of the Ancestor Families, and because he already had three Soul Beasts, the Yinsaike Family’s methods for cultivating and contracting insects might have some reference value for him, but they weren’t the most important thing right now.

After browsing for a while, Han Ning finally found what he was looking for.

The Yinsaike Race’s method for training Spiritual Power was actually very rudimentary: just make Concentration Liquid and consume it repeatedly to gradually strengthen one’s Spiritual Power.