Qi Ping set up a total of fifty combinations for the Bailing Honey brewing formula.
"With so many combinations, I should be able to find one that can completely mask the characteristics of the hundred spirit grass."
After configuring these combinations and handing them over to the Brewer Big Belly Bee, Qi Ping began to study the issue of Bee Swarm cultivation.
In this month, Qi Ping had newly cultivated approximately two thousand Bees, which was still far from Qi Ping's goal of ten thousand Combat Bee Species and three thousand Brewer Big Belly Bees.
The reason the Bee Swarm cultivation speed was slower than expected was not due to Qi Ping's blood ginseng cultivation speed, but rather due to the Bee Queen's strength.
A Bee Queen that was only First Order Intermediate, although its offspring could inherit the stronger Bloodline Power from the Bee Kings, its egg-laying speed was at most seventy to eighty eggs per day.
Previously, because Qi Ping's Spirit Medicine cultivation speed was limited, the Bee Queen's egg-laying speed was still greater than Qi Ping's Spirit Medicine cultivation speed.
Considering that the Bee Queen played a significant role in the stability of the Bee Swarm, and the Bee Swarm showed no intention of replacing the Bee Queen, Qi Ping did not consider replacing it.
Moreover, Qi Ping still had a thought in his mind: for insect swarms with Queens, similar to Bees, there were many records in the Demon Insect Breeding Handbook, and it even provided specific explanations regarding the replacement of insect swarm Queens.
For the Queen of an insect swarm, the Demon Insect Breeding Handbook's answer was that it was best not to replace it!
Because the more powerful a Spirit Beast, the more difficult it was for its Queen to be born, and it played an extremely high role in the stability of the insect swarm, holding extraordinary significance.
However, after a Bee King successfully molts, the Queen's strength will begin to fall behind the Bee King's strength; this is a very common problem in insect swarm cultivation.
After all, no Insect Cultivator would dare to risk the tiny chance of a Queen's metamorphosis, because the birth of an insect swarm Queen is too difficult, and even if it is successfully born, the integration with the original insect swarm would be a very big problem.
Therefore, in this situation, the best option is to provide the insect swarm Queen with the best resources and wait for the Queen to achieve self-metamorphosis and advancement!
There are many successful cases of Queens achieving self-metamorphosis and advancement in this way.
Moreover, an insect swarm Queen that completes its own advancement can further enhance the blood of the entire Bee Swarm, which is much better than directly giving birth to a new insect swarm Queen!
Because the insect swarm Queen, due to the special nature of its own blood, already has a higher success rate for metamorphosis.
Therefore, once a Bee King in the insect swarm transforms into a higher Rank existence, when these Bee Kings with stronger blood impregnate the insect swarm Queen, the insect swarm Queen can absorb a portion of the Advanced Bloodline Power from the insect eggs as nourishment to cultivate its own blood during the gestation process.
Under these circumstances, generally, as long as the insect swarm Queen's own Aptitude is sufficient, and given enough Advanced resources, there is a good chance for the Bee Queen to achieve metamorphosis and advancement.
Once such an insect swarm Queen completes its advancement, it allows the Bee Swarm's blood to maintain the highest stability.
Especially in some insect swarms where multiple Bee Kings have completed their metamorphosis and advancement, these insect swarm Queens, after advancing, may become even more powerful than Equilibrium Bees.
The offspring born from such an insect swarm Queen will also have a significantly higher chance of secondary metamorphosis than ordinary Equilibrium Bees, and their potential will be even greater.
This is the most important reason why Qi Ping has never considered replacing the Bee Queen!
He had also been having the Brewer Big Belly Bee brew the best royal jelly for the Bee Queen to consume, hoping that the Bee Queen could quickly complete its blood advancement and metamorphosis.
However, the limitation on the speed of troop production this month forced Qi Ping to consider cultivating a new Bee Queen.
But it was at this very moment that something surprising happened to Qi Ping!
At this moment, the Bee Queen stood quietly on a stone, its entire body covered by dense Spiritual Qi, and its Aura was continuously increasing.
This was a unique Bee Queen's Aura, far beyond what an ordinary Bee King's advancement could compare to.
Around the Bee Queen, thousands of Bees surrounded the entire mountain peak impenetrable, all entering the highest state of alert.
And Qi Ping, feeling the special Aura on the Bee Queen, was also secretly startled; the pressure and Aura of the Bee Queen's advancement were indeed far beyond what an ordinary Bee's advancement could compare to.
However, compared to the surprise, Qi Ping's heart was now filled with even more joy!
Immense joy!
"Finally, it has Advanced!"
This indicated that this Bee Queen's blood was definitely not bad!
Moreover, if this Bee Queen could advance once, it meant that in the future, as long as Bee Kings were successfully cultivated and sufficient Advanced resources were provided, the probability of further advancement would be much, much higher than for a Bee Queen that had never Advanced.
This is also one of the reasons why the Demon Insect Breeding Handbook highly recommends allowing the insect swarm Queen to advance on its own.
"After today, I finally won't have to worry about the speed of troop production anymore."
For a Bee Queen that has Advanced to First-Order High-level blood, increasing troop production speed by four or five times is definitely not a problem.
And Qi Ping was not very worried about the Bee Queen's advancement.
Because this Bee Queen's physical quality, nourished by the best royal jelly, had already reached a very solid and powerful level.
Coupled with the stable Aura during the advancement process and the extremely smooth metamorphosis, Qi Ping was not very worried about whether this Bee Queen could successfully advance.
What Qi Ping was more concerned about now was how much the Bee Queen could surpass Equilibrium Bees after its metamorphosis.
"Currently, the Bee Queen should have absorbed enough Advanced Bloodline Power during gestation, including the Bloodline Power of five types: High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee, Mo Jia Bee, Poisonous Bee, Equilibrium Bees, and Brewer Big Belly Bee."
"I wonder how much of these five types of Bloodline Power the Bee Queen can absorb."
In fact, how many excellent characteristics from the blood can be devoured and fused depends on the Bee Queen's own Aptitude.
The better the Bee Queen's Aptitude, the stronger its ability to fuse the excellent characteristics within the blood.
The more excellent blood characteristics the Bee Queen fuses, the higher its own and the Bee Swarm's overall potential will be in the future.
Of course, it's not to say that the more excellent blood the Bee Queen absorbs, the better; according to the data recorded in the Demon Insect Breeding Handbook, it is most suitable for an insect swarm Queen to devour between three and seven types of excellent blood, and the metamorphosis will also be more superior.
This is why some Insect Cultivators, even if they have mutated dozens of Bee Kings, will only choose three to seven types for cultivation.
And Qi Ping's five types of mutated Bee Species, perhaps due to the Beast King's Grace Talent, were actually all very excellent in their overall metamorphosis, except for the Equilibrium Bees which were mediocre.
The Blade Wings of the High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bee.
The defense, strength, and biting force of the Mo Jia Bee.
The potent venom of the Poisonous Bee.
The honey-brewing ability of the Brewer Big Belly Bee.
All four abilities were excellent.
"You are a Bee Queen blessed by the Beast King's Grace; even ordinary Bee Kings have such excellent metamorphosis. As the Bee Queen, you can't be worse, right?" Qi Ping secretly cheered on the Bee Queen.
"But no matter what, the honey-brewing ability must be inherited!"
Compared to offensive capabilities, the honey-brewing ability was what Qi Ping most anticipated.
Because the probability of Qi Ping's Combat Bee Species undergoing another metamorphosis was very high, but the probability of cultivating another Second Rank Brewer Big Belly Bee was very low.
Whether it was Blade Wings, Mo Jia Bee, or Poisonous Bee, as offensive means, their substitutability was relatively high; these characteristics were excellent, but not absolutely indispensable.
However, Qi Ping truly couldn't think of any substitute characteristic for the Brewer Big Belly Bee's honey-brewing ability.
It was amidst Qi Ping's somewhat anxious anticipation that the Bee Queen finally completed its final metamorphosis after a full six hours, and a unique, powerful Aura erupted from its body at that moment!
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