I Cultivate Longevity in the Cultivation Realm-Chapter 87: Gold-Devouring Spirit Bee

Came with high hopes, but returned disappointed.

Zhou Changwang truly felt the difficulty.

If it were just an ordinary cultivator, even one with a cultivation as high as the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation, he could still muster the courage to visit and bring up the matter of the Black Needle Poison Bees.

Even if the other party was unwilling, it wouldn’t necessarily result in significant repercussions.

In the absence of personal interests, Immortal Cultivators rarely turn their faces without pity, killing wantonly.

They’re not evil cultivators or demon cultivators who kill to gather materials and use evil techniques for artifact refining.

However, insect cultivators, due to their control over numerous spirit insects, often have their personalities unwittingly influenced by the violent and murderous emotions of spirit insects, becoming extremely eccentric and peculiar.

Not evil cultivators, but even more so than evil cultivators.

If he truly knocked on their door, the other party might very well pull him in to feed the insects... the elder’s tale of the young man not returning after knocking wasn’t something he believed to be mere conjecture.

"I must come up with a plan."

Zhou Changwang hesitated, slowly walking back to his courtyard.

Almost immediately, he thought of arrays.

With an array for protection, no spirit insects could come near; it could defend against the Black Needle Poison Bees and any other potential spirit insects.

But the five acres of Spirit Field, including the pond in the middle, covered too wide of an area.

At least forty-nine array flags and the setup of several arrays would be needed to encompass it all.

The problem is, he hadn’t even stepped onto the Array Path, and hiring someone to form an array was costly and risked exposing the Thunder Spirit Rice Tree.

...

The next day, Zhou Changwang first went to the backyard to inspect, killed two Black Needle Poison Bees by hand, and ordered the Little Spirit Dog to guard the backyard before hastily leaving the house.

After pondering for a long time the previous day, he decided to use poison to counter poison.

The Black Needle Poison Bees were too dangerous.

And the Spirit Gathering Grass, naturally possessing the ability to attract and gather Spiritual Qi, was incredibly attractive to all kinds of spirit insects.

Especially when the Spirit Gathering Grass was about to mature, thousands of stalks constantly inhaling and exhaling spiritual energy could double the concentration of Spiritual Qi in the surrounding area.

This was precisely why the Black Needle Poison Bees were attracted and continuously swarmed into his Spirit Field medicine garden.

Besides the Black Needle Poison Bees, as the concentration of Spiritual Qi kept increasing, more and stronger spirit insects were bound to fly in from outside.

The Spirit Farmer’s Manual records that the main reason for the yield reduction of Spirit Gathering Grass is the excessive number of spirit insects it attracts after gathering Spiritual Qi.

Even the century-old Elder Spirit Farmer, with his superior pest control skills, could only guarantee a seventy percent survival rate for the Spirit Gathering Grass, and many people couldn’t even maintain thirty percent.

And he couldn’t possibly stay in the Spirit Field all the time to guard against potential Black Needle Poison Bees and other spirit insects. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

So, after much thought, he came up with a method suitable for Spirit Farmers to nurture and prevent foreign spirit insects from harming spirit plants—that is, nurturing spirit insects.

Nurturing Gold-Devouring Spirit Bees!

These Gold-Devouring Spirit Bees, feeding on Metal Spirit Ore, have the ability to devour spirit ores, strengthening their limbs and shells. Though smaller than Black Needle Poison Bees, their combat power is intensely strong and fierce, with an astonishing bite force and a strong territorial sense, highly exclusive; any spirit insects daring to appear near their nest would be seen as enemies and relentlessly chased down to death...

Of course, nurturing these Gold-Devouring Spirit Bees has significant downsides.

Apart from the owner, if anyone dares to come close, they would spread out and attack.

In the Cultivation Realm, there have been many stories of Spirit Farmer friends being bitten or even killed by domesticated Gold-Devouring Spirit Bees... The fierce attack power of swarming Gold-Devouring Spirit Bees is something ordinary low-tier cultivators cannot handle.

Soon, Zhou Changwang arrived at the Independent Cultivator Marketplace.

A few days ago, the conflict at the Independent Cultivator Marketplace caused quite a stir, but as he came now, he saw people coming and going, the cries of vendors never ceasing, seemingly unaffected.

Just in time, someone at a stall was chatting about it, and Zhou Changwang learned that on the second day of the conflict, the Bai Family, the ruling cultivation clan of Fengming Dock Marketplace, had already taken action.

A Bai Family Elder, at the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation, arrived first at the Fire Crystal Geng Iron Ore Vein, taking away most of the Market Guard, then went to the Rakshasa Gang and Tiger Shark Gang headquarters, forcibly ordering the gangs to hand over the troublemakers of the past days for punishment, publicly executing them in front of both gang leaders.

This exerted a great deterrent effect on the two gangs.

And no one dared to cause trouble in the marketplace anymore.

Order was naturally restored.

"After all, the Bai Family is the owner of the marketplace, and just because they didn’t act before doesn’t mean they lack deterrence; if they truly mean business, the two gangs, despite their apparent momentum, wouldn’t dare act recklessly."

Zhou Changwang also made his judgment.

Even though the Bai Family’s ancestor Bai Dongxian has been more low-key since being injured, as long as Bai Dongxian is alive, the deterrence of an eighth-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator is enough to suppress many small-minded individuals.

Even the restless Chen Family dares not act rashly.

Let alone the Rakshasa Gang and Tiger Shark Gang, which at most have two or three late-stage Qi Cultivation practitioners.

This was good news for Zhou Changwang.

He didn’t want to be constantly worried every time he went out.

The safer the marketplace, the more at ease he felt.

With these thoughts, Zhou Changwang soon arrived at a stall.

This was a stall selling young spirit beasts, and the stall owner was his old acquaintance, ’Brother Xiu.’