I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 221: Spirit Bees and Bee King

When it comes to various spells, Lin Qing didn't put too much effort into practicing them during the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages. At that time, his age was still young, and breaking through his cultivation was the most important thing for him. After entering the Purple Mansion, Lin Qing also practiced some spells, big or small, with varying degrees of power. What surprised him was that these spells were extremely simple, and he was able to master them after only a few attempts.

Lin Qing didn't find it difficult to figure out the reason. One was his abundant spiritual power during the Purple Mansion stage, so these spells didn't pose any threshold for him. Another reason could be his talent. With his current Heavenly Water Spirit Root talent, he dared to say that he was the best in this Zhao country.

Having superior talent also greatly helped in mastering spells, as there wouldn't be any problems with impure spiritual power due to a complicated spiritual root.

After making this discovery, Lin Qing practiced many spells in succession, from concealment spells to freezing spells, earth transformation spells, and even various offensive or defensive spells like the Fire Dragon Technique, Earth Spike Technique, and Gale Technique. It could be said that this was a compensation for what he lacked before.

Of course, these spells were not very useful to him at present. Even if he used them, it would only be in rare occasions.

For future battles against Purple Mansion stage cultivators, he still had to rely on the Water Condensation Divine Ability cultivated through his cultivation technique. This Divine Ability became even more powerful after he reached the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion. With his talent, he could be said to be invincible among cultivators of the same level.

Moreover, he also made use of his understanding to develop several water-based spells, which were more useful to him compared to ordinary spells.

These spirit bees had almost finished collecting nectar. Their two-inch-long bodies were covered in pollen as they flew in a line towards the distance, followed by more ordinary bees carrying spiritual honey.

When the spirit bees flew a little further away, Lin Qing extended his hand and a water curtain appeared out of thin air. Lin Qing entered the water curtain, and his figure disappeared instantly.

When he reappeared, he was already a hundred zhang away.

This spell was a small spell developed by Lin Qing using other escape techniques. It allowed him to instantly escape a hundred zhang away using water.

A hundred zhang was not the limit of this escape technique, but it was enough for now.

These spirit bees didn't fly very fast, after all, their bodies were limited, unlike eagles that could fly dozens of zhang in one flap of their wings. Restricted by their size, they could only fly at this speed.

With the help of water escape and his constant concealment, these spirit bees couldn't detect Lin Qing at all.

After leaving the Lin family mountain, these spirit bees slowly flew towards a certain location. Lin Qing nodded as he followed behind them, knowing that the location of these spirit bees should not be far from his Lin family mountain.

After a while, Lin Qing stood in front of a rock wall.

Looking at this rock wall, he felt a headache.

Just now, several spirit bees carrying a large number of ordinary bees flew into the cracks of this rock wall. Although he knew that their beehive was behind it, the cracks in the rock wall were only two fingers wide. How could Lin Qing follow them in?

With a thought, Lin Qing released his divine sense and felt his way into the cracks of the rock wall.

The Divine Water Technique that Lin Qing cultivated also had a certain nurturing effect on his divine sense after the Purple Mansion stage. Lin Qing's divine sense could extend up to three hundred zhang, which was difficult for ordinary cultivators in the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion to achieve.

But even so, as he went deeper into the cracks of the rock wall, his divine sense had already extended a hundred zhang, but it still hadn't reached the end.

"It's really deep."

Lin Qing was somewhat astonished.

Looking at this rock wall that is only a little over a hundred zhang high, Lin Qing couldn't help but wonder if it had been hollowed out inside.

As his divine sense continued to penetrate deeper, Lin Qing was relieved to come into contact with a beehive at around a hundred and fifty zhang. He was initially startled, as although the beehive couldn't be seen, when he probed it with his divine sense, it covered an area of about one zhang in diameter.

To have such a large beehive, Lin Qing wondered when it was built. It was probably not there before he came to this place, but was only discovered because of the Purple Jade Peach Blossom that attracted him.

While Lin Qing was thinking about this, he suddenly felt a sharp pain.

This pain was caused by something piercing his divine sense.

The pain made Lin Qing immediately retract most of his divine sense, and he looked at the rock wall in disbelief.

"These spiritual bees inside can actually attack divine sense!"

To be honest, Lin Qing had never thought about this. In the cultivation world, there were indeed artifacts that could attack divine sense, but they were extremely precious and made from rare materials that were difficult to obtain. Generally speaking, even a Purple Mansion stage cultivator would find it difficult to possess such artifacts, and it was rare to create an artifact solely for attacking divine sense using these precious materials.

Usually, during the Golden Core stage, cultivators would add certain materials to their treasures that could attack or restrain divine sense. They wouldn't create a separate artifact specifically for attacking divine sense.

But the spiritual bees inside this beehive were able to attack his divine sense, which made Lin Qing put away his slight sense of contempt.

However, this kind of attack was not a big deal for Lin Qing. Apart from the pain, it didn't have much impact on him.

Facing this beehive, Lin Qing took a deep breath and continued to penetrate with his divine sense.

As a result, he faced a series of attacks one after another, but Lin Qing gritted his teeth and persevered. Gradually, these attacks weakened, as if the bees behind them knew that they couldn't affect Lin Qing.

Using his divine sense, Lin Qing thoroughly explored the beehive. When he touched a certain spot, he smiled.

He had found a bee queen that was nearly two chi long.

This bee queen was different from ordinary spiritual bees. It didn't fly, but was served by a group of worker bees and constantly gave birth to offspring. What surprised Lin Qing was that the strength of this bee queen was almost at the peak of Qi Refining stage, which was quite extraordinary. However, it seemed to have no attacking power. At this moment, facing Lin Qing who had discovered it, it even had a faint thought of surrendering and begging for mercy.

Lin Qing sent a signal of goodwill. He didn't want to kill this group of bees or just look at the tempting honey in the beehive. He wanted to tame this group of bees.

Lin Qing used his divine sense to gently stroke the bee queen, and the bee queen greatly enjoyed it. Under Lin Qing's powerful divine sense, it was like a cherished child.

It seemed that although it had a faint thought, this thought actually helped Lin Qing.

Then, using the method of a contract, Lin Qing tried to tame this bee queen.

To Lin Qing's surprise, taming the bee queen was even smoother. This bee queen didn't resist much and became Lin Qing's spiritual beast, possibly due to the large difference in strength. Afterwards, Lin Qing established a faint connection with it and could give it commands.

And the bee queen could command a group of spiritual bees and ordinary honey bees. It could be said that through the bee queen, Lin Qing gained control over these bees.

After taming the bee queen, Lin Qing learned that this beehive had a history of three hundred years, and the bee queen had been the leader of this beehive from the beginning.

Now, there were countless ordinary honey bees in the beehive, too many for the bee queen to remember. As for the spiritual bees, there were about a hundred, all in the early stage of Qi Refining. There were only three in the middle stage of Qi Refining, which were the spiritual bees that had attacked Lin Qing's divine sense earlier. After reaching the middle stage of Qi Refining, they could attack divine sense compared to the spiritual bees in the early stage of Qi Refining.

(End of this chapter)