Chapter 178: Cooperation to raise fruit and flower bee colonies in captivity (3200 words, please subscribe, there is also a two-in-one chapter)
Continuing on the road for five days, crossing tens of thousands of miles, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong... Then he returned to Lingxiao Mountain, the mountain of the Ling clan.
Because Ling Yunhong, a foundation-building monk, escorted him home, everything was peaceful all the way.
As soon as they returned to Lingxiao Mountain, the two went straight to the General Affairs Hall halfway up the mountain.
General Affairs Hall.
Ling Jin, the eldest elder of the Ling family, who was standing at the counter and checking the family's account books, looked happy when he saw Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun return to Clan Mountain.
But after a quick glance, he found a child he had never seen before standing next to them. There was a look of doubt on his face, and he asked three questions in succession.
"Yunhong and Pengyun, is it safe for you to return from Lingyun Mountain?"
"Did Yunliu make it to Lingyun Mountain safely?"
"Who is this child? ”
"Everything is safe. This child's name is Ling Xin. He has spiritual roots. He was found by Pengyun in the spirit testing conference held on January 1 this year in Lingyun Town, a mortal city next to Lingyun Mountain."
Ling Yun. Hong patted the shy little Lingxin's head and said with a smile.
"It would be a good thing to have one more clan member with spiritual roots." Ling Jin heard the words first and looked at Xiao Lingxin, with a smile on his face that became even happier and he said kindly.
"Eleventh Uncle, has anything happened at home during the days I've been away?" Ling Yunhong asked.
"There are no big things, but there are a lot of small things. The other ethnic groups in Huaishui County have also undergone some changes in the past two years. I can't finish them all in a while." Ling Jin said first.
Ling Yunhong frowned, thought about it carefully, and then suggested.
"I have not been in the clan for two years. At nightfall, I summon you and the other elders in the clan to the meeting hall. You can talk to me together."
< br>"Okay." Ling Ru nodded first.
"Eleventh Uncle, I have nothing to do, so I will leave here first." Ling Yunhong nodded and left the place.
Ling Ruxian, Ling Pengyun, and Xiao Lingxin watched Ling Yunhong leave before they started chatting.
"Peng Yun, I see that your aura is three points stronger than when I met you two years ago. Have you already entered the ninth level of Qi training?" Ling Jin first noticed a change in Ling Pengyun's aura and raised his eyebrows. , asked.
"Yes, two years ago I bought three bottles of evergreen spiritual water from Yunshui Xiaohui. Relying on these three bottles of evergreen spiritual water, my great-grandson made a breakthrough by chance." Ling Pengyun briefly told about his cultivation. things, and then express their demands.
“Eleventh great-grandfather, now I have reached the ninth level of Qi training, and I have also completed the five-year mission of stationing in Lingyun Mountain. I have no mission again, so I just want to apply for a long-term absence from you. Go out to do tasks and stay in seclusion in the clan.”
"The spiritual energy in the clan mountain is rich. If I can practice in the clan for a long time, it will be of great benefit to me in purifying my spiritual power and reaching the perfection of Qi training."
Ling Pengyun has never concealed his cultivation. Only when your cultivation level improves quickly will your family take it seriously.
As for not accepting family tasks for a long time and staying in seclusion for a long time, this is something that every Ling clan member can do.
However, only when a critical bottleneck is reached can one apply for long-term seclusion from the clan.
For example, it takes a long time to break through from the peak of the third level of Qi training to the fourth level of Qi training and enter the middle stage of Qi training, and it takes a long time to break through from the peak of the sixth level of Qi training to the seventh level of Qi training, etc. These are key bottlenecks.
"This is a good thing. I agree with you to stay in seclusion in the clan for a long time." Ling Jin heard this first, frowned slightly, hesitated and nodded in agreement.
“However, the maximum time for this retreat is ten years. Within ten years, if you have not purified all the spiritual power in your Dantian and reached the perfection of Qi training, you will need to work for the family again. The family manpower It’s too short, there are too many spiritual veins, and you are still a spiritual husband.”
"Ten years is enough." Ling Pengyun suddenly felt happy and thanked Ling Ruxian.
Not to mention ten years, even if he is given five years, he is sure to purify all the spiritual power in his Dantian and reach the stage of perfect Qi training.
There is a reason why Ling Pengyun can purify his spiritual power so quickly, which is often a problem that can trap ordinary ninth-level qi-training monks for ten or even decades in purifying their spiritual power.
The main reason is that the technique he practices is the Qi Training Chapter Bishui Jue of the Ling family's ancestral technique "Bi Hai Zhen Jing".
Although Bishui Jue is a qi training chapter of the Bihai Sutra, it is much better than ordinary qigong training methods.
During ordinary cultivation, the spiritual power produced by absorbing spiritual energy and purifying it is inherently more condensed than the spiritual power purified by ordinary monks.
Under such circumstances, it is naturally easier for Ling Pengyun to compress his spiritual power to the limit and enter the realm of perfection than for ordinary monks.
“Ten years is enough. When I went to Lingyun Mountain two and a half years ago, your natal spiritual plant thorn vines had already entered the late stage of Qi training. In the past two years, your Lingxiao Ripening Technique, Is there any progress?" Ling Jin asked first.
"Yes, now I use the third level of the Lingxiao Ripening Technique to barely raise the level of the spiritual plant to the first level of high-level." Ling Pengyun said.
Hearing this, Ling Ruxian was immediately overjoyed. "Good boy, I was right when I saw you. You are a twenty-six-year-old first-level Ling Zhifu. Your promotion speed in Ling Zhi is far faster than that of me back then. It is even several years faster than Yun Hong's. , I am relieved that the family spiritual plant will be handed over to you in the future.”
When Ling Ruxian said this, Ling Pengyun's eyes condensed and he mobilized his consciousness to scan Ling Ruxian.
Immediately noticed that Ling Ruxian's aura was a bit empty, and his cultivation was also passing by extremely slowly.
Such a situation, for a monk, means that his life is short, and now he is relying on his cultivation to delay his life.
Once all the cultivation is gone, the monks will not have a few good days to live.
"Eleventh great-grandfather, how is your body?" Ling Pengyun asked with a worried look on his brows.
Ling Ruxian smiled kindly and said.
“With my current physical condition, I will have no problem surviving for five or six years, and it will not be a problem for seven or eight years. Being able to live to such an age is considered a good start and a good end for us monks. Maybe we can see you and that boy Pengxing trying to build a foundation."
Ling Jinxian is right. The lifespan of a Qi Practitioner is generally around 120 years old.
Due to various factors in the world of immortality, it is considered a great achievement for ordinary monks to live to be a hundred years old.
To live one hundred and fifteen or six years is indeed a good start and a good end.
It’s just that although this is correct, it can be heard that Ling Ru, who has given me a lot of help over the years, has not long left to live, and Ling Pengyun feels uncomfortable in his heart.
This reminded him of his parents, including the elder Ling Rushui who was just like Ling Ruxian and treated him very well.
Although Ling Rushui's life is short, due to the family's shortage of manpower, he is still managing the family's shop in the Yunwu Market in the Yunwu Wen family's territory.
He felt something in his heart and was distracted for a moment.
When he came to his senses, he took out the bottle of fruit nectar that he had prepared for Yu Ling Ruxian from his storage bag and handed it to Ling Ruxian.
“Eleventh great-grandfather, I don’t have much to offer. This bottle of first-grade middle-grade fruit nectar produced by the fruit flower bees that I raised in captivity is better than what I originally gave you. Your first-grade low-grade fruit nectar tastes much better, please invite the eleventh great-grandfather Don't dislike it."
"How can I dislike such a good thing? If you are interested, Pengyun, where do you plan to settle the fruit flower bee swarm?" Ling Jin was greatly surprised when he saw this. Satisfied, he reached out to take the bottle of fruit nectar and asked in words.
“There is already a group of Caixia butterflies in captivity in the clan mountain, which need to feed on the pollen of the fruit trees in the clan. Under such circumstances, I plan to settle the group of fruit flower bees in the clan mountain. In the 100,000-acre orchard outside the small city of Lingxiao in the distance." Ling Pengyun had already thought about the place where the fruit and flower bee swarm would settle before returning home, and he spoke directly.
The Caixia Spirit Butterfly is an extremely rare spiritual butterfly that can enter the upper level. It feeds on the pollen of various flowers during the day to improve its cultivation.
Although it cannot brew spiritual honey from pollen, it is stronger than the fruit flower worker bees.
This butterfly can use illusions to confuse opponents, and it works wonders when combined with the Lost Formation mastered by Ling.
However, it is extremely difficult to reproduce Caixia Spirit Butterflies. The pair of Caixia Spirit Butterflies that Ling obtained a hundred years ago has only expanded the butterfly population to twenty.
Because there are only a small number of Caixia Butterflies, many of them have low cultivation levels. Only in the early stages of Qi training, the family did not allocate spiritual beasts such as Caixia Spirit Butterflies that can perform illusions to the clan members. , but handed over the Caixia Spirit Butterfly group to the fifth old man Ling Yunxi.
If there is an incoming enemy, Ling Yunxi, a first-level mid-level formation mage, can also set up the next first-level mid-level mysterious formation to cooperate with the group of Caixia Spirit Butterflies after activating the clan protection formation. The incoming enemy caused some disturbance.
"Although there are many fruit trees planted in the 100,000 acres of orchard outside the small town of Lingxiao, it is completely enough to raise fruit flower worker bees in captivity, but those fruit trees are just ordinary fruit trees, and there is not a single spiritual fruit tree. If those fruit flower worker bees are Keeping it there may restrict the growth of the fruit flower bee colony.”
“I have a suggestion, which is to put your group of Fruit Flower Bees into the Clan Mountain.”
“There are many first-order spiritual trees planted in the Clan Mountain, and there is also a second-order spiritual tree. The lower-grade Shiling walnut trees, these spiritual fruit trees will bloom a lot of fruit flowers every spring, if your group of fruit flower bees The pollen from the flowers of the spiritual fruit trees in the mountains can be collected and brewed into spiritual honey, which will be of great benefit to the development of the bee colony and to you."
"However, if you let the fruit flowers bloom. Bee swarms entering the family mountain to collect pollen will inevitably slow down the family's captive swarms that have also collected pollen from flowers. The cultivation speed of the Caixia Spirit Butterfly that feeds is increased. "
"Therefore, each of the fruit flower worker bees in your fruit flower bee colony must hand over five taels of high-grade fruit flowers each year. Honey is used by the family to make up for the slow progress of the Caixia Spirit Butterfly Group. Do you think it’s okay?”
Ling Pengyun was quite moved by this proposal and thought about it in his mind.
“If the fruit flower bee swarm can collect pollen from those first-level spiritual fruit trees in the clan mountain, or even the second-level low-level stone spirit walnut tree in the spring, they will definitely be able to brew superior fruit nectar. Those five are practicing Qi The early stage fruit flower worker bees can also brew first-order middle-grade fruit nectar. "
"At that time, there will be a large amount of superior first-order low-grade and medium-grade fruit nectar fed back to the bee colony, and the Qi of the bee colony will be refined. The number of worker bees will definitely double in the mid-term. "
"In the middle stage of Qi training, there are more worker bees, and the first-grade middle-grade fruit honey produced will also increase. The share of first-grade low-grade fruit honey handed over to the family can be fully compensated by a large amount of high-grade fruit honey. "< br>
No matter what level of fruit flower worker bees collect pollen from any fruit tree, they can only brew first-level low-grade spiritual honey. If you want to brew first-level medium or high-grade fruit flower honey, you need to brew pollen from the flowers of the spiritual fruit tree. of spiritual pollen.
Without spiritual pollen, it would be difficult to brew fruit nectar above the first-level mid-grade.
(End of this chapter)