Your hard earned Qi is on the verge of dispersing if you don't cultivate soon. Despite other pressing issues, you do not want to be shunted back into a lower realm.
Besides, you'd just gotten a wealth of food from obliterating the ladybug, so it was best to make use of it.
However, the breakthrough gunk still made it impossible to cultivate inside your lair. You're forced to cultivate outside where you can still smell what the ladybug has marked as its territory.
You ignore the awful stench for now. You'll be able to get rid of it later, or perhaps it'll go away the next time it rains. Although the latter is doubtful as the stench is filled with Ladybug Qi. Even after death, the ladybug continues to pose problems for you, huh?
Regardless, your cultivation goes smoothly.
Initial 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 7/60 > 20/60
You are Wounded and will consume *1.1 more food. You will recover 6 HP REGARDLESS of your hunger level. You currently have 52/60 HP
You have consumed 1.1 food, bringing your total to 5.9 food
A red mold is preventing your fungus farm from producing food
With the most pressing matter done, you turn your attention to the red mold that has spread in your farm.
This is the kind of infection that can ruin a farm, forcing ants to abandon and create new farms. However, for a cultivator like yourself, removing a mortal mold like this is as simple as using your Qi and willing it to get rid of the infection.
However, what should have been a simple operation goes wrong. Although you have successfully killed the mold and saved your farm... the Qi from the mold has to go somewhere.
Unfortunately, that somewhere seems to be inside your meridians.
You see, all beings hold qi. Even mortal beings have qi. And for an ant like you, even the qi of a mortal mold like that can prove dangerous. Especially since you had to clear your whole farm of the fungus.
Purging the poisonous qi should be an effort of will, not even worth mentioning. However, it will still take at least a day to clear it. Annoying.
Purge the red mold from your farm 0/5 > 10/5
You have 1 Poison Qi flowing in your meridians. Predators are repulsed by you.
You are Wounded and will consume *1.1 more food. You will recover 6 HP REGARDLESS of your hunger level. You currently have 58/60 HP
You have consumed 1.1 food, bringing your total to 4.8 food.
You have 1 Fungus Farm, which will produce 1 food in 5 turns
You have gone 1 day without churning your qi. If you go 4 days without churning your qi, the qi will disperse, setting your cultivation back to the Initial 1st Realm of Qi Gathering.
Select 3 actions to be taken over the next 3 turns
You may use your techniques. Include them as a subvote for an action if you want to use them
[] Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (1/10)
[] Clear away the Ladybug's scent (0/?)
[] Try to expand your meager shelter (9/30)
[] Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (Not enough inventory space for a second farm)
[] Purge the Poison Qi from your Meridians (0/?)
[] Cultivate the Poison Qi (0/?)(Spends 10 Cultivation XP per action)(Gains 1 Poison Qi per completion)
-[] (Why would you do this? Are you a suicidal ant?)
[] Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Initial 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 20/60)(You cannot cultivate in your lair without first getting rid of the black tarry substance)
[] Cultivate outside your lair (Medium chance of summoning a ?? Level predator)
[]Seek out Qi Vein (0/???)
[] Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
[] Deposit the black tarry substance far from your lair (0/??)(Medium chance of encountering ??? Level predator. Predator encountered will fight to the death)
[] Train the (QiBlood) technique, Qi Burst (Initiate 0/???)
[] Train the (Lightness) technique, Beetle Charge. (Initiate 0/???)
[] Try to integrate into a new colony (0/??)
[] Take over another colony (0/???)
