After consuming the honey, the Gold Marrow Bee's aura gradually recovered.
The First Generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee, without the depletion of a Beast Heart, only suffered significant physical exertion from continuous slaughter, and recovered quickly after a short rest.
This made Qi Ping secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
Currently, there were less than two hundred Gold Marrow Bees that could maintain their peak condition, and the entire Bee Swarm's combat power was greatly reduced, but as long as the First Generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee was present, it was like having a small trump card.
The First Generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee's recent performance was enough to demonstrate its powerful strength.
For the remaining day, Qi Ping had to be extremely careful, repeatedly instructing the Gold Marrow Bees and Black Little Bees to monitor the entire mountain peak without leaving any corner unchecked.
On the last day, Qi Ping spent the entire time in anxiety.
To alleviate his inner worries and tension, Qi Ping could only try to drown his sorrows in hard work, choosing to immerse his thoughts as much as possible in comprehending the Plant Growth skill, because although Plant Growth was a skill, this special Law that accelerated Plant Growth truly existed in the Cultivation World; the improvement of the skill also required Qi Ping to genuinely comprehend this Law, and this state of comprehending rules could make Qi Ping feel more at ease.
Often, the closer one got to success, the more one feared an unexpected turn of events.
Because at this point, failure was the most regrettable; if such things happened at the beginning or in the middle, it would be easier to accept.
Fortunately, after a day… no accidents occurred…
This made Qi Ping greatly relieved and incredibly fortunate!
He finally made it through to this moment.
"High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees have formed!"
Qi Ping looked at the batch of High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees before him, whose wings were like sharp blades, and a strong sense of pleasant surprise, along with a feeling of hard work finally paying off, arose in his heart.
A total of thirty-two mature High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees emerged today, and approximately thirty High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees will form each day for the next week.
From the second week onwards, more than fifty High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees will form daily, because Qi Ping only decided to mass-produce Ring-Cutting Bees in the second week after they were cultivated; before that, he had also cultivated many Big Belly Bees and Equilibrium Bees.
At this moment, every single High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee in front of Qi Ping exuded a powerful and dangerous aura!
Although their strength seemed slightly weaker compared to the First Generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee, since they were only the second generation, the gap was not significant, and they could essentially perfectly replicate the First Generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee's combat power.
This was also the reason why Qi Ping had always protected the First Generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee.
"With thirty-two second-generation High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees born, plus one even stronger High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee, there's no need to worry about Demon Insects attacking for now."
"According to the previous strength of the Demon Insects, this number of High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees, combined with some Gold Marrow Bees, is enough to easily kill all incoming Demon Insects."
"Now, let the other Gold Marrow Bees take the High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees for battle formation training; the combat power unleashed by forming a battle formation is far stronger than fighting haphazardly."
"Now I can finally cultivate Spirit Medicine with peace of mind!"
This was what made Qi Ping happiest: how good it would be to cultivate Spirit Medicine steadily and improve his strength!
During this period, he slept only during the intervals when his Mental Energy was recovering, and his mind was exceptionally fatigued from the super-intensive use of [Plant Growth]; if he weren't a Cultivator, he probably would have died suddenly long ago!
Such a life was fine if it didn't last long; it was somewhat enjoyable, like grinding in a game, but over a long period, it was truly torture.
If it lasted longer, Qi Ping suspected that even as a Cultivator, he would not be able to bear it and would perish.
His ability to persevere until now was due to his strong will to survive and a desire to become stronger.
Next to the blood ginseng cultivation area, Qi Ping was carefully inventorying the items in his Storage Pouch, occasionally communicating with the golden Big Belly Bee beside him...
"Now I have accumulated quite a bit of blood ginseng; it can support continuous mass production of Bees for at least half a month."
"So next, I'll first cultivate a fifty-year-old flowing light grass, then refine the bloodline mutation potion to cultivate the transformed Bee Swarm, and incidentally raise my Druid Level to Rank three."
At this point, Qi Ping felt much more at ease, and the steps for cultivating Spirit Medicine gradually returned to a state that wouldn't harm his body.
Because when refining the bloodline mutation potion, Qi Ping had to maintain himself in peak condition.
Otherwise, given his current fatigued state, the probability of failure in refining the potion would be at least over fifty percent.
And once he failed, even if Qi Ping worked day and night, it would still take him almost half a month to gather the medicinal materials again.
This was something Qi Ping absolutely would not allow; delaying so much time under such circumstances would cause irreparable damage, and he might even pay the price of his life!
It is worth mentioning that the other common medicinal materials needed for refining the bloodline mutation potion were found for him by the Gold Marrow Bee, saving him a lot of effort, which was also one of the benefits of his contracted Animal Companion Bees.
"Well done!"
Taking the last common medicinal material from the Gold Marrow Bee's feet, Qi Ping couldn't help but praise him.
"Buzz buzz. (As long as Boss likes it!)"
After obtaining the last common medicinal material, Qi Ping lay down on the grass and fell asleep under the guard of the High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees; he hadn't had a good night's sleep for almost half a month.
So at this time, even sleeping on the cold, hard ground, Qi Ping quickly fell into a dream.
However, Qi Ping did not sleep very soundly in his dream; he dreamed that he encountered overwhelming Demon Insects and elusive robber cultivators, and even behind the robber cultivators and Demon Insects.
There were multiple Foundation Establishment and Golden Core powerhouses, disregarding the lives of ordinary Loose Cultivators in the entire Qingtian Domain, slaughtering until corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers.
And Old Zhou, Nan Jie, Wang Shan, Zhou Pangzi, Li Peng the thin man... and even Boss Gao, Meng Shanshan, and everyone else lay miserably in pools of blood.
This desperate scene and the death of his friends directly woke Qi Ping from his dream.
"Phew."
Waking up and realizing it was a dream, Qi Ping's tense mood gradually relaxed.
"Is my mind too tense lately? Why would I have such a dream?"
"Fortunately, my Mental Energy has recovered quite a bit. Let's continue cultivating the flowing light grass; getting the flowing light grass to fifty years old as soon as possible is the priority!"
Immediately after, Qi Ping skillfully cast the [Plant Growth] skill, pouring a special energy containing accelerated Plant Growth into the flowing light grass.
Watching the flowing light grass grow at a visible speed, Qi Ping's heart gradually settled.
Everything else was illusory; steadily accumulating resources and improving his strength was what Qi Ping was most willing to do.
By peacefully cultivating and accumulating little by little, he could also gradually become a powerful Cultivator with a long lifespan!
For the next week or so, Demon Insects still came every three days, but under the encirclement and slaughter of the battle-trained High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees, no Demon Insect could stir up trouble; instead, Qi Ping gained many Demon Insect corpses.
This gave Qi Ping more confidence to purchase Advanced Spirit Beasts.
One week later.
As Qi Ping infused the energy of [Plant Growth] into the flowing light grass, after a series of changes, streaks of dark golden flowing light appeared from the grass leaves… The flowing light grass was complete!
The medicinal materials needed for the bloodline mutation potion were finally gathered again!
"Next, I'll have to see if the new Talent from the transformation is powerful."
[Shared Talent: Brewing Artisan] → [Shared Talent: Grand Brewer]
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