Free Web NovelChapter 588: Chapter 536: Black Armor Bee
The two new insect eggs were quite aggressive, absorbing all the nearby Demonic Qi and even forcibly devouring other Demon Octopus around them.
In the end, only the two pitch-black eggs were left in front of Jiang Yuebai and Bai Jiuyou.
Jiang Yuebai looked around, "Where are the other Spiritual Insects?"
Bai Jiuyou, holding the Little Thunder Hound that was black and occasionally sparked, nodded at the insect eggs on the ground with his chin and casually said, "They were all eaten by them."
Jiang Yuebai: !!!
"All... all eaten? Why didn’t you stop them!"
Bai Jiuyou lowered his head, scratched the forehead of the Little Thunder Hound, and remained silent.
Jiang Yuebai suddenly realized, gritting her teeth, and said, "Bai Jiuyou! You’re as sneaky and sly as Yuchen. Were you thinking that with the spiritual insects all gone, you wouldn’t have to bother nurturing them anymore?!"
"Why ask if you already know." Bai Jiuyou rolled his eyes, completely unafraid.
"You!" Jiang Yuebai was so angry she gritted her teeth, "They were all gifts from Yun Shang!"
Bai Jiuyou set down the Little Thunder Hound, letting it play by itself, and said to Jiang Yuebai, "You’re already at the Nascent Soul Stage, and the growth cycle of those Spiritual Insects is too long with very limited potential, they can’t keep up with your cultivation progress, and this includes many of the Spiritual Beasts here."
"If you let them grow naturally, that’s fine, but if you greedily want to nurture them all, you simply don’t have the time or energy, and refining Spirit Feeding Elixirs for them costs a lot."
"Better to have quality than quantity, don’t you understand? You’re clearly capable of freeing me up to do more useful things for you, yet you insist on having me nurture these spiritual creatures you’ll ultimately have no use for. Don’t you think it’s a waste?"
Jiang Yuebai paused, feeling like two versions of herself were arguing, one emotional and one rational.
These things Bai Jiuyou was saying had actually been thoughts she had pondered over many times in her heart, yet she couldn’t get over her childhood hurdles. She used Yun Shang’s gifts as an excuse, wanting to hold on to everything and save it without wasting anything.
Like an empty Elixir Bottle—once the elixirs were gone, the bottle should be discarded, yet she would still keep it, always feeling that someday she’d need it, saving the cost of buying a new bottle.
But the bottle occupied space in her storage bag, preventing other things from being stored inside.
Especially after her last Nirvana, the losses were so significant that she unconsciously fell back into this vicious cycle.
She wanted to hold onto anything useful or not, even if they weren’t immediately usable, she would find excuses, telling herself she might need them in the future, and she would have to buy them if she didn’t have them later.
She even burdened herself to use these useless things, like these Spiritual Insects, knowing they wouldn’t be useful but still insisting Bai Jiuyou nurture them.
Some things can be kept, but others need to be timely snapped, let go, and detached.
Break away from external distractions, let go of inner gains and losses, and detach from desires’ entanglement.
Only by clearing her mind can she be as light as a swallow and swiftly advance.
Jiang Yuebai suddenly realized that at this moment she needed food, the Spiritual Rats needed food, and the Spiritual Insects and Spiritual Beasts in the Grotto Heaven also needed food. She expended time and energy, and no matter how many Spirit Stones she earned, she couldn’t fill this bottomless pit.
Indeed, she should rid of some things early.
Taking a deep breath and expelling the waste gas from her chest, Jiang Yuebai said to Bai Jiuyou, "I’m sorry, I was wrong. Just help me look after the Little Thunder Hound and these two insect eggs, leave the Dragon Egg to Hongye, the Jixiang family can take care of themselves, let the Dragonfly Little Demon handle menial tasks."
Bai Jiuyou’s mood shifted from cloudy to sunny, "That’s more like it. Among your spiritual beasts, the Dragon Egg has the most potential, but it might take a few more years to break the shell, followed closely by this Little Thunder Hound with decent potential. Feeding it with Yin Yang Thunder continuously, it’ll be able to help in battles soon."
Jiang Yuebai nodded, Hongye is already at the Early-Stage Nascent Soul, able to keep up with her cultivation, with considerable combat strength.
As for the Jixiang family, needless to say, they’re crucial for treasure hunting, burrowing, and breaking arrays, and their weak combat capabilities aren’t a big deal.
And currently, Jixiang even craps unusually, with the concentration of Muddy Qi powerful enough to be used as Poison Elixirs if thrown directly at others.
Causing a disruption of mind, a frenzy of Spiritual Energy, leading to Deviation!
Speaking of which, Jiang Yuebai immediately attracted the piece of rat feces from earlier, placing it beside one of the insect eggs, which immediately extended slippery tentacles to roll the feces into the egg.
"What’s this?" Bai Jiuyou squatted beside Jiang Yuebai and asked.
"It should be the feces Jixiang excreted after consuming a Demon Core, it absorbed the energy from the Demon Core, leaving a clump of Muddy Qi."
Bai Jiuyou grinned, "You’re actually feeding feces to these two insect eggs?"
At this moment, the egg that had just swallowed the rat feces started to squirm, and something inside grew rapidly, breaking free from the egg.
One big and one small head gathered together watching, and crawling out from inside was a shiny black Green Armor Bee Queen.
The Queen Bee flapped its wings, turned around, and devoured the eggshell, then immediately produced black bee eggs, laying over twenty before stopping.
Those bee eggs quickly hatched, with larvae breaking free from the shells, growing rapidly. Apart from their black color and carrying Muddy Qi, they looked just like the Green Armor Bees.
At the dawn of Chaos Opening, Muddy Qi and Pure Qi were born between heaven and earth; Pure Qi ascended forming Spiritual Energy and other ’clean’ auras, whereas Muddy Qi descended forming Demonic Qi and other ’corrupt’ auras.
So Muddy Qi is a superior kind of aura compared to Demonic Qi, earlier the Demon Octopus had Demonic Qi and very weak Muddy Qi, but now it’s pure Muddy Qi. Jiang Yuebai had experienced the power of pure Muddy Qi when she was serving the Demon Clan, facing the Sleeping Lotus Demon.
The Sleeping Lotus belonged to the Green Lotus Clan and could gather Muddy Qi in ponds, anything approaching the pond of Muddy Qi would be polluted and corroded by it.
Jiang Yuebai didn’t know if these black Green Armor Bees had the same capability, so she directly took a small piece of Taixuan Gold and threw it at the black Queen Bee.
The Queen Bee sensed danger, and the two dozen black bees immediately gathered, vibrating their wings to form a small black barrier, quite similar to the Green Armor Bee Swarm’s Demon Art.
The Taixuan Gold submerged into the barrier like it fell into viscous water, being slowly eroded and eventually turning into black water.
"Let me try!"
Bai Jiuyou condensed an Ice Spike from Undetermined Cold Ice at his fingertips and stabbed toward the black barrier.
The Ice Spike hadn’t yet reached when the black barrier seethed with black flows extending tentacles towards the Ice Spike, rapidly attacking Bai Jiuyou along the way.
Bai Jiuyou didn’t evade, letting a wisp of black flow enter her body, then abruptly retracting her hand caused black energy to surge around her, with air currents swirling, lifting her head full of black hair.
"This Muddy Qi is formidable, ordinary Spiritual Energy, Demonic Qi, and Demon Energy can’t suppress it, Undetermined Cold Ice Qi is at a disadvantage, but Chaos Qi can assimilate it."
Bai Jiuyou furrowed her brow, integrating the wisp of Muddy Qi into Chaos Qi.
"Really that powerful?"
Jiang Yuebai, skeptical, directly lit Phoenix True Fire on the barrier.
"No!"
Bai Jiuyou tried to stop her, but it was too late. She could only watch as the Phoenix True Fire consumed the black barrier, reducing all two dozen black bees to ashes, causing the Queen Bee to frantically flee.
"Can’t withstand a burn?" Jiang Yuebai raised her eyebrows.
Bai Jiuyou lowered her eyelids, "Spiritual Insects and Gu Worms are different; Gu Worms wield great power individually. Spiritual Insects require tens or even hundreds of thousands gathered to contend with a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and that’s Phoenix True Fire you’re using—who could withstand that?"
Jiang Yuebai retracted the Phoenix True Fire and nodded, "I know, I know, I just wanted to test their individual defensive power. Although a bit lacking, cultivating hundreds of thousands could wipe out everything in their path, even terrifying a Nascent Soul Cultivator!"
"To cultivate them quickly, Jixiang has to come back and, well, defecate. I see these bees grow faster on feces."
Jiang Yuebai couldn’t help but laugh, "Alright, I’ll distribute the collected Demon Cores to Jixiang and encourage it to defecate—henceforth, call these bees the Black Armor Bees."
"What a rubbish name." Bai Jiuyou said irritably.
Jiang Yuebai didn’t argue with Bai Jiuyou, standing up, "I’m heading out to continue supervising the mining and refining Taixuan Pure Gold, you deal with the Black Armor Bees and come out to assist."
"Alright!"
