bookbashuk Chapter 388 The Advancement of the Soul-Devouring Bee Queen
Chapter 388 The Advancement of the Soul-Devouring Bee Queen
Chapter 392 The Advancement of the Soul-Devouring Bee Queen
Ever since Wang Menghan mentioned that the Soul-Devouring Bee Queen was about to advance, Zhang Lingyu couldn't care less about anything else and immediately went to the secret chamber to check.
When the door opened, the huge, secret room was empty, with only a white cocoon on the table.
The cocoon was about the size of an adult's fist. At first glance, there was not much difference, but it was different in the eyes of a cultivator. He could clearly feel a powerful life force inside the cocoon.
Moreover, the surface of the cocoon is constantly undulating with tiny ripples, as if the creature inside is about to break out of the cocoon at any moment.
"Finally, you're about to advance. All the effort I put into training you wasn't in vain..."
Seeing this scene, Zhang Lingyu's face was full of smiles.
In order to enable one of the queen bees to advance to the Golden Core level, Zhang Lingyu ruthlessly separated the six queen bees and the bee colony and locked them in a separate secret room before going into seclusion. His intention was to make them devour each other and give birth to a stronger being.
Even so, simply devouring one's own kind is still not enough.
He even offered them numerous rare and precious materials, as well as most of the flesh and blood of the two demon kings, the Purple Sable, to help the Queen Bee advance in rank.
The description of the Soul-Eating Bee in "The True Explanation of Controlling Insects of All Spirits" can be summed up in one word:
eat.
As long as there are abundant resources available for them to enjoy, they will naturally advance to a higher level.
Now it seems all that effort wasn't in vain. With a Soul-Devouring Bee Queen at the Golden Core level, I'll have another trump card to play when I go out...
According to Meng Han, the cocoon was formed only half a year ago, and judging from its condition, it should emerge in about two more months. There are some things that need to be prepared in advance.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Lingyu instantly filled the empty secret chamber with all sorts of rare and precious materials, including some monster corpses.
These are all for the queen bee to eat after she emerges from her cocoon.
After advancing to the next level, the queen bee will inevitably experience a period of weakness. During this time, she must constantly eat to consolidate her foundation. She doesn't want to see the spirit insect, which has finally advanced, go crazy because it has no food after emerging from its cocoon.
To make sure you're well-fed, I've used up all the remaining flesh and blood of the Purple Sable Demon King, so don't disappoint me!
Muttering to himself, Zhang Lingyu turned and walked out, sealing the secret room shut again.
After observing the queen bee about to advance, Zhang Lingyu did not return to his cave to cultivate. Instead, his gaze fell on another secret room not far away.
That's where the remaining Soul-Devouring Bee swarm is.
The loss of five queen bees necessitates a swift replacement, so the bee colony is being treated no worse than the queen bee about to be promoted.
However, the small secret room was divided into several areas. He wasn't distressed about the number of bee colonies lost due to the birth of the queen bee, but rather to raise them separately and encourage them to change in different directions.
After obtaining the "True Explanation of Controlling All Spirits and Insects", Zhang Lingyu learned several methods for cultivating spirit-devouring bees. Through some rare and precious materials and cultivation techniques, the spirit insects could be made to mutate in various fields to achieve different effects.
For example, feeding the bees with the second-tier spiritual herb Blood Black Grass for a long period of time will make the bees become extremely ferocious as soon as they smell blood, and they can smell the scent even from a great distance.
That's not all. The main thing is that it will cause mutations in the physical body, primarily in the mouthparts. Sharp mouthparts can often break through the enemy's defenses more quickly in combat, in order to achieve the goal of rapid devouring.
In addition, there are bee colonies suitable for scouting and bee colonies responsible for tracking by scent.
In essence, the purpose of mutation is to allow the bee colony to retain its original indiscriminate eating habits while simultaneously developing and enhancing other talents, leading it to evolve in various extreme directions...
Nearly half an hour later, Zhang Lingyu emerged from the secret chamber, satisfied.
In four years, all the mutated Soul-Devouring Bees mentioned in "The True Explanation of Controlling Insects of Ten Thousand Spirits" have completed their mutations. What delighted him even more was that a queen bee had already appeared among the Soul-Devouring Bees cultivated with Blood Black Grass.
Although it has the smallest number of bee swarms, they are very powerful in combat.
To put it bluntly, it alone could kill a swarm led by another ordinary queen bee.
If it weren't for the time constraint, this queen bee would most likely be the one advancing to the Golden Core level, which would further boost the overall combat power...
Zhang Lingyu felt a pang of regret, but as long as the food was in place, advancement was inevitable.
After understanding the current state of the Soul-Devouring Bees, he turned around and returned to his cave.
He sat cross-legged, a rare look of anticipation appearing on his face.
Intelligence system!
Since advancing to the Golden Core stage, the intelligence system's scope has expanded again, now covering the entire Southeast cultivation world, and even providing intelligence on the neighboring East Sea, Longnan, and Dongyun cultivation worlds.
One can imagine that once he breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, all the information about Donghua Continent, big and small, will be revealed.
Come on, let me see if any treasures have appeared in the world during my four years of seclusion!
After an hour and a half, Zhang Lingyu finally finished reading all the more than a thousand intelligence reports from the past four years.
Overall, after the great war, all the sects and factions in the southeastern cultivation world were recuperating and rebuilding. There were no major upheavals, only some news of vendettas and murders for treasure. The six kingdoms of Longnan and Dongyun were particularly quiet.
In the cultivation world of the East Sea, killing and robbing for treasures is commonplace. Although many treasures tempted Zhang Lingyu, he only glanced at them and then forgot about them.
He currently has no plans to go to the cultivation world in the East China Sea, and even if he did, he wouldn't be confident he could take the items from those cultivators.
That place is far too chaotic. The cultivators who can stand out from it have all fought their way out of the sea of blood. Going there now would be suicide. We should wait until at least the mid-stage or late-stage of the Golden Core realm before going to take a look.
After excluding outdated news such as murder and robbery, auctions, and trade fairs, he focused mainly on rare and precious natural treasures, secret realms, and cave dwellings left behind by cultivators that had not yet been discovered, and he even did not overlook news about finding bargains in the market.
[Level 5 Intelligence: In seven days, a thousand-year-old "Blood-Weeping Bodhi" will mature deep within the Dragon Abyss in Ziyun County, Yue Kingdom. A large number of demonic beasts will gather to fight for it. Those wishing to go should proceed with caution.]
[Level 5 Intelligence: ...]
After filtering the intelligence, there were 316 pieces of information that met the current conditions for me to explore, and 245 of them were concentrated in the Southeast Immortal Cultivation World.
The demonic forces are rampant in Chu, so it's best for me not to go too far for now. Yue is too far away, and all the good stuff in Wu has already been looted..."
Zhang Lingyu sighed softly, his gaze falling on the numerous intelligence reports concerning the Zhao state.
Although most of the rare and precious materials are concentrated in the core area of the Wanling Mountains and under the control of the Six Sects, a small number of spiritual objects remain undiscovered in some unclaimed spiritual mountains and blessed lands.
So he silently planned out his route, and set off once the Soul-Devouring Bee Queen had fully completed its advancement.
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