Chapter 95: Captive Breeding

1,000,000 souls.

2,000,000 souls.

3,000,000 souls.

5,000,000 souls.

……

He finally experienced the feeling of wealth, but also clearly felt that the Thousand Army Ant Mountain in front of him was gradually being squeezed dry.

The newly spawned black ants were becoming fewer and fewer.

Before, he could farm more than a hundred thousand souls in half a minute; now, even in a full minute, he could only farm fifty thousand souls.

Right now, these five million still felt far from enough.

Releasing Spirit Explosion 33 times at 150,000 souls each would use it all up.

At the very least, he would first farm up to one hundred million.

Only…

He always felt that the monster tide in this space had almost been drained dry.

This could not help but make Lu Cang think.

If this continued, could it still produce black ants?

Lu Cang looked toward the Ant Mountain.

Back when he was promoted to Death Priest, Lu Cang had already felt the world become more vivid, and the colors in his eyes were completely different from before his promotion.

He could see some things ordinary people could not see.

The monster tide had indeed thinned out a great deal.

“Haha, I’m back!”

Just as Lu Cang was worrying, a cheerful voice came from behind him.

He turned his head, and sure enough, it was Chicheng.

“Brother Chicheng, you finally came back. I was worried this place would be discovered by other adventurers.”

Chicheng laughed heartily and said, “Haha, don’t worry about that. When I went out just now, I blocked this place off.”

As he spoke, Chicheng also looked toward the Ant Mountain.

“Oh, the monster tide has become so thin. Truly worthy of being the Thousand Army Ant Mountain.”

Lu Cang said, “Yeah, I was worrying about this too. With the monster tide thinning, the black ants produced by the Thousand Army Ant Mountain can’t even form a proper force anymore.”

Chicheng looked at Lu Cang, whose brows were genuinely furrowed with worry.

Kid, why does this feel like the troubled worries of a villain…

“So, I found a place.”

As Chicheng’s voice fell, he had already lifted the Ant Mountain with one hand.

He stood in front of Lu Cang.

The black ants tried to approach Chicheng, but could not crawl onto him at all. They died on the spot, shattering into black dust.

Chicheng supported the Ant Mountain with one hand and lightly drew with his greatsword in the other.

The space ahead split open with a huge crack.

Holding up the Ant Mountain, he walked outside.

Lu Cang was stunned for a moment, then followed him out.

And as soon as he stepped out, he felt the back of his collar being grabbed.

“I just went out to make some arrangements. The route is quite distant, so I’ll just take you there directly.”

With that…

Bang!

Lu Cang only felt the world spin wildly, the surrounding scenery churning into nothing but phantoms.

His internal organs tumbled.

But this feeling did not last long. After just a few instants, he felt his feet step onto solid ground.

However, his head was still spinning.

Everything around him was rotating.

Lu Cang collapsed to the ground…

He only remembered that at the same time, he activated all the shields that enveloped his body.

Then he took out a pill from his storage space and swallowed it.

When buying medicine, Lu Cang tended to buy pills rather than liquid medicine.

Pills were more convenient to use, and could be held in the mouth and swallowed when needed.

Whereas with liquid medicine… at critical moments you still had to split your attention to open the bottle and drink.

After the experience of his Random Teleportation Scroll being torn last time, whenever Lu Cang stocked up now, he would deliberately consider the possibility of being interrupted.

Right now in his storage space, there were all kinds of potions, with over a hundred bottles of each type.

One hundred Random Teleportation Scrolls.

Monster corpses were sorted by category, and there were countless made into specimens.

It was just a pity that as for valuable magic tools, even with 210,000 gold coins he could not help spending; Lu Cang did not have much stocked up.

After Lu Cang swallowed the pill, his dizziness instantly recovered.

He stood up and looked around.

This looked like a man-made cave, because it was square and very orderly.

Behind him was a straight passage. Judging from the rocky walls of the passage, this should be inside a mountain body.

“I opened up this cave.”

“If we pen monsters, we lock them in here and cull them at set times; that should be fine.”

Lu Cang surveyed the surroundings.

The space here was quite large, probably several times bigger than the track field of his high school.

Moreover, the monster tide here was indeed dense.

“Brother Chicheng, you’re really intelligent!” Lu Cang praised.

Hearing this praise, Chicheng’s ears practically perked up.

His expression was radiant.

His head was about to tilt up to the sky.

“Haha, does your buddy’s wisdom even need you to say it?”

Oh~

It seemed this really hit him right in the heart.

Praising his intelligence clearly landed a critical hit.

He wiped his nose and said, “However, we also have to put proper safeguards in place, so it does not cause unnecessary destruction.”

Chicheng took out a cyan scroll from his backpack.

The scroll glowed faintly.

A mark shot out onto the Thousand Army Ant Mountain.

“Brother Chicheng, you use scrolls too?”

“Sigh, can’t be helped. In this world, there are always some things warriors are not good at.”

“Actually, for tracking marks like this, besides using tracking magic, an archer’s marking arrows, an observer’s gaze, and the fluorescent indicator agents refined by apothecaries can all do it.”

“It is just that the scrolls made by that fellow Iz are much better than other ordinary mass-market goods.”

“Of course, I am not saying that warriors are weaker than magicians.”

Chicheng, if you had not said that last sentence, I actually would not have thought that.

The tracking mark was applied.

Next, Chicheng took out many huge stone slabs from his storage space. These slabs were pitch black throughout.

They did not look cheap.

“I’ll cover the material cost for you. We’re buddies.”

“Next time we drink, it’s still on you.”

Whoosh!

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud thud—

No one even knew how he moved; slab after slab flew out and embedded themselves all over the inner walls of the cave.

In just a few seconds, the cave that had originally been wrapped in earth and stone became a secret room surrounded by black stone slabs.

“Hard Black Iron, able to withstand the attacks of tier 4 monsters.”

Only then did Chicheng set down the Ant Mountain.

Boom!

A dull rumble sounded.

The Ant Mountain sat firmly at the center of the field.

Next, Chicheng tossed out a red short sword, which stabbed into the ground in front of it.

A red magic circle unfolded, rising like a pillar of light and enclosing the Thousand Army Ant Mountain within.

“This is a forbidden-spirit short sword I had someone help enchant. With this, it should not be able to get out.”

“Even if it does, I will be able to sense it.”

It seemed that even as a warrior, he still kept all kinds of items on him.

Every profession ultimately has its own strengths and shortcomings.

Things one’s main class cannot do are often compensated for through items.

Chicheng’s series of operations left Lu Cang dazzled.

Once everything was formally secured, it meant that this Thousand Army Ant Mountain had officially become the monster they would pen.