Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 156 Insect Summary: New Goals, New Beginnings

The fourth type is special supplementary insects—medicinal insects: namely, insects that extract mycin, insects that extract adrenaline for mental stimulation, insects that extract human hormones, high-energy, high-protein, and highly saturated carnivorous insects, and soft, sticky slugs that are the raw material for insect soup.

Despite their seemingly simple functions, these insects are indispensable in the laboratory.

In particular, the carnivorous insects directly replaced the old-fashioned military rations, completely eliminating this outdated product, and sold extremely well in major ninja villages throughout the ninja world.

They have replaced almost 80% of the world's secret medicines and all military rations.

Ninjas from other countries have studied this method, but none of them have been able to crack it, simply because they lacked the key raw materials.

However, these insect-based supplies are so cheap that even if they wanted to abandon their use and produce their own military rations, it would be a losing proposition.

Regarding the pharmaceuticals: the effects of extracting human hormones from insects are extremely comprehensive.

As long as it exists, all kinds of medical products will emerge in an endless stream—such as anti-aging drugs that are very friendly to women, testosterone drugs that have significant effects on men, and stem cell drugs that are extremely useful for injury recovery, almost in an endless stream.

For nobles and ninjas, these potions were life-saving remedies, highly effective in maintaining health and restoring physical strength.

These medicines are not only inexpensive, but also have almost no side effects on the human body, since they are taken from people and used for people.

The emergence of these medicines also plunged the medical research in the ninja world into a state of intense competition.

No matter how much research is conducted, it will eventually be discovered that the core of these medicines seems to originate from the human body itself. This is like telling all the medical ninjas in the ninja world that everyone in the ninja world is a vast treasure trove.

Next is the fifth type of insect, which is called a special type of virus insect.

These include the gene-edited virus worm, the ancient original virus worm, the chakra-modified ancient original virus worm, and the evolutionary branches of the gene-edited worm—virus 1 and virus 8.

In addition, they produce byproducts: pseudo-Otsutsuki cells and white Zetsu purification nutrient solution.

There are also emotion manipulation bugs, also known as family harmony bugs, and second-generation grafted emotional amplification bugs.

The second-generation emotion-amplifying bug is a one-time failed product with limited cultivation potential. Aburame Shisei only accepted it and does not plan to continue cultivating it in the future.

The last group, also the seventh group, consists of the highest combat power insects currently under the control of Shisei Aburame.

Firstly, there are dragonflies from the sacred site of spiritual communication.

That sacred place is home to a divine tree that gives birth to water that gives birth to heroes. Although its natural energy concentration is not as high as that of the three great sacred places, hundreds of dragonflies there have already grown to enormous size and can use wind-style ninjutsu containing wind-attribute natural energy.

Xiaoqing, who merged with Aburame Shicheng, is the number one immortal insect. Even without assistance, its combat power alone is comparable to that of a Kage. Combined with its flight ability, most Kage-level masters are no match for it.

Secondly, it has seven tails.

Now it is more than four times larger than before, its intelligence is getting higher and higher, its mind is becoming more and more flexible, and it can perform more and more ninjutsu.

It simply doesn't act often anymore, truly regarding itself as the ancestor of the sacred land.

Thirdly, there is the giant rhinoceros beetle.

To this day, it still ignores Shisei Aburame. However, Shisei Aburame analyzes that it should belong to the Yang Release category. Because as long as it is there, even without releasing ninjutsu, the surrounding area will be full of vitality and everything will grow.

Moreover, this insect is extremely intelligent. Even when there are benefits right in front of it, it is almost unmoved and just stays in one corner of the golden finger.

Finally, there's the invisible scorpion, Xiao Lai.

That's right, Xiao Lai was the name given to it by Aburame Shicheng. As its intelligence continued to increase and its size grew, it also took the initiative to ask Aburame Shicheng to give it a name.

He pondered for several days and finally casually named it Xiao Lai. It was because in the past, whenever he called it, this invisible scorpion would come over on its own, so for convenience, he simply named it Xiao Lai.

Now, Xiao Lai's strength is not far behind. Although he has not yet integrated with natural energy and transformed into an insect capable of immortal magic, after a period of training, he can now barely speak human language.

It has stronger stealth capabilities, greater armor defense, and stronger toxicity. In terms of pure strength, it is no less than the salamander. It might be slightly weaker against a true ninja-level powerhouse, but it can definitely hold out for a while.

In addition, there are some insects that are still under research and development and have not yet succeeded, such as ice silkworms and ice moths. They are currently still in the semi-finished product stage, in a limbo. There are also those insects that have been gnawing on the Box of Bliss in preparation for mutation.

Ultimately, stuck on the original energy of the golden finger, without time for catalysis, these insects will evolve over decades or even centuries.

Yu Nu Zhicheng didn't have time to wait like this.

"We must find a new source of energy," Aburame Shisei pondered, stroking his chin.

But where to go?

Aburame Shisei began to recall places from the original work where a large amount of energy could be generated rapidly.

The meteorite from the Star Ninja Village is indeed feasible, but it's not suitable for providing energy; it's only suitable as a material. Perhaps in the future, he will incorporate it and build an insect hive there for research.

The spider clan of the Land of Fire—their lineage should be more suited to obtaining natural energy, which would be good for transforming immortal insects. However, he doesn't want to go to the Land of Fire right now.

Just then, Shisei Aburame thought of an energy stone from the movie, but unfortunately it was overseas and would probably take a long time to find.

Just as Shisei Aburame was hesitating about whether to go overseas to search, she suddenly remembered a piece of intelligence she had received before.

Three months ago, a spy infiltrated the Land of Hot Water sent back news: a coup had occurred in the Hidden Village of Hot Water, and a conflict broke out between two factions of ninja, resulting in more than a hundred deaths and injuries.

After the coup was suppressed, the remaining forces of the defeated side fled into the deep mountains, and it is said that people went missing every day.

"The Land of Hot Water is related to the Evil God Cult. We might be able to obtain some of the corpses, but that would only temporarily solve the energy crisis."

However, it's not a bad choice. The Land of Hot Springs is peaceful and far removed from the attention of the Five Great Nations. Even if it causes some trouble, it won't attract much attention.

What exactly are these evil gods? How do those evil god cults make people immortal? These are things worth studying.

Three hours later, the insect hive exited.

Aburame Shicheng was wearing a white robe, and her emerald green hair was tied up in the middle and hung diagonally in front of her chest.

On this trip, Xiaoqing remained perched on his shoulder, while the remaining common insects, such as the building insect, the corrosive insect, the stinking insect, the planktonic insect, the mimicry insect, and the mimicry information insect, were collected into a petri dish.

Then he stepped out of the wind and snow, and two gusts of wind behind him condensed into wings, carrying him into the sky.