The bloodline optimization required was in fact to advance the strength of the Demon Insect.
Just as a low-level Demon Beast once evolved into a mid-level Demon Beast, its bloodline was naturally optimized.
However, the advancement of Demon Insects is somewhat different from that of Demon Beasts.
Especially for Demon Insects like bees and ants, because of the presence of the Bee King and Ant Queen, the ordinary Demon Insects within their colonies inherently have incomplete bloodlines.
Within a swarm of bees or ants, there will never be another Demon Insect that is stronger than the Bee King or Ant Queen, nor will there be another Demon Insect whose evolution is more advanced than that of the Bee King or Ant Queen.
Therefore, to optimize the bloodline of such Demon Insects, one only needs to enhance the strength of the Bee King or Ant Queen within them and facilitate their advancement.
In this regard, the Bee King and Ant Queen have advantages that normal Demon Beasts do not possess.
Generally speaking, the evolutionary potential of a Bee King or Ant Queen is far greater than that of a same-tier Demon Beast, as they can generally evolve once more on top of their current ranking.
In certain situations, as the insect colony expands, it can even feed back into existences like the Bee King and Ant Queen, prompting them to advance again.
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Zhou Chun was using his own cultivated Second Generation Bee Queen for experiments, employing secret medicine to forcibly promote its growth and evolution, just as he did with the Golden Armor Rock Turtle using Spiritual Objects in the beginning.
However, the Bee King’s strength could not compare with that of a same-tier Demon Beast; its frail body had an even harder time withstanding the medicinal power of secret medicines and Spiritual Objects.
The risks associated with such advancement were far greater than with same-tier Demon Beasts.
It was precisely for this reason that Zhou Chun first used the Bee King he had cultivated himself for experimentation.
Unfortunately, his first experiment ended in failure.
The Bee King, after consuming the secret medicine and herbal medicines he had prepared, suddenly lost its wings and cracked body and died within seven days.
With the death of this Bee King, Zhou Chun’s first experiment was declared a failure.
He would then have to continue cultivating a new Bee King and begin new experiments on it.
This required a significant amount of time, but Zhou Chun was entirely willing to wait.
After all, aside from consuming some materials and time, these experiments did not pose any danger to his own cultivation or the Zhou Family.
Even while conducting such experiments, Zhou Chun still had enough energy to cultivate the three kinds of Demon Insects he had contracted.
Several years passed and the three kinds of Demon Insects had all been cultivated to the point where they could reproduce offspring.
It needs to be explained that there are four stages in the life of a Demon Insect: larval stage, growth stage, adult stage, and mature stage.
Only Demon Insects in the adult stage have the ability to reproduce, while the mature stage represents the peak of the Demon Insect’s own state, with its abilities developed to the utmost.
It’s worth mentioning that the mature stage is not something every Demon Insect can reach.
Because it is not a stage that can be reached simply with age, but rather a stage that can be reached only with an increase in strength.
A Demon Insect in the mature stage often has several times, if not tens of times, the strength of one in the adult stage.
The three kinds of Demon Insects contracted by Zhou Chun, even though they all received his meticulous cultivation, could only reach the adult stage due to time constraints.
And it should be noted that many Demon Insects, after reaching the adult stage and mating to lay eggs, essentially can’t advance to the mature stage anymore.
Because the act of mating and laying eggs results in a great expenditure for the Demon Insects, with many types dying after producing offspring.
The "Blue Moon Butterfly" among the three kinds of Demon Insects Zhou Chun was raising was such an example.
The male "Blue Moon Butterfly" would die within three days after mating, and the female "Blue Moon Butterfly" would also die within three days after laying eggs.
Zhou Chun, in order to expand the numbers of these Demon Insect colonies, had allowed them to mate and lay eggs as soon as they reached adulthood.
Now, the amount of eggs laid by the three kinds of Demon Insects outnumbered their colonies by several times.
Although a Demon Insect lays a large number of eggs at one time, only about sixty to seventy percent are viable.
Among these viable eggs, there are some of inferior quality due to innate developmental impairments, and these too must be culled.
Therefore, the actual number of Demon Insects that hatch out is not as exaggerated as it appears.
On this day, after completing his usual meditation and cultivating, Zhou Chun returned to the Central Peace Hall to handle affairs, when he suddenly received a summons from Zhou Daoyi.
It was only after meeting Zhou Daoyi that he found out that the Zhou Family’s first self-cultivated Dragon Descendant Demon Beast had appeared!
Ever since Zhou Daoyi’s Spirit Pet, Qingqing, evolved into the Flood Dragon, the Zhou Family had extremely high expectations for it.
For a cultivation family, a third-tier Flood Dragon didn’t just represent a formidable fighting force; it also had powerful productive capabilities.
The aura of dragon’s majesty from a third-tier Flood Dragon was sufficient to immerse and alter ordinary Spiritual Objects and low-level Demon Beasts, gradually changing them into Dragon Blood Spirit Items and Dragon Descendant Demon Beasts.
However, this process could be lengthy and wasn’t something that could be accomplished quickly.
Yet counting carefully, it had been almost twenty years since Qingqing, the Green Flood Dragon, established its Flood Dragon Nest.
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The appearance of the first kind of altered Dragon Descendant Demon Beast was not surprising at this point.
Of course, this lack of surprise simply means that such an outcome was normal.
But for the Zhou Family, this was undoubtedly a joyous event worth celebrating.
Because where there’s a first, there will be a second; now that the first kind of altered Dragon Descendant Demon Beast had appeared, then it was possible for a second and third kind to emerge!