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Qingshi County, Yunwu Mountains.

In early spring, birds are singing and flowers are blooming.

This is the best season for bees. There is plenty of honey for bee breeding and honey collection.

At this moment, on the peak No. 007 in the Ding District of Yunwu Mountains, there stands a lush ancient pine. The warm sunlight gently sprinkles on it, reflecting a golden color.

On its lowest branch, there is a beehive made of pine wood. The box is not short, about five feet.

A group of bees are flying around the beehive in a panic, as if they are in trouble.

This scene happened to be seen by a handsome boy who just walked under the pine tree.

The boy wore a straw hat on his head, and his face was a little dark, probably because he was exposed to the sun for a long time.

"Huh... What's wrong with this box of bees?"

The boy in the straw hat looked at the messy bees with some surprise.

His name is Qi Ping, a beekeeper in Yunwu Mountains, and this box of bees belongs to him.

"Did they get attacked by golden hornets?" Qi Ping guessed.

There was a group of first-level golden hornets nearby, which loved to feed on bees. They would attack his beloved bees from time to time, which was a headache for him.

But after Qi Ping carefully checked, he did not find any trace of hornets.

"It seems that there is no trace of hornets? Strange..."

Then Qi Ping checked carefully again, but still found nothing.

Logically, even if the hornets completed the attack and left, there should be traces left at the scene, and the bees should have returned to normal long ago.

"Something is wrong... What happened?"

After Qi Ping's careful observation, he found that the flight trajectory of this group of bees was abnormally messy, unlike the flight trajectory when scouting the enemy.

It flew too chaotically, messy and without any rules.

"Could the bee swarm be preparing to escape?"

Thinking of this, Qi Ping's face suddenly changed.

The bees' messy and violent flying posture is likely a sign of escape.

This is not okay!

This group of bees is one of Qi Ping's few assets. If he loses a group, his already poor life will be even worse.

So in order to avoid this situation, Qi Ping hurriedly opened the beehive, cut off the queen bee's wings, and placed a queen excluder to prevent the queen bee from escaping.

However, this is only a temporary solution, and he must find out the reason why the bee colony is agitated or escapes.

"The reason why bees escape is generally because their survival is threatened, such as insufficient nectar source, interference from natural enemies, overheating of the beehive..."

Based on the beekeeping knowledge he has learned in the past two or three years, the beekeeper Qi Ping carefully checked it.

"The temperature of the beehive is normal..."

So the reason for the overheating of the beehive can be ruled out.

"Although a lot of first-level flowers have withered now, there are still many ordinary flowers. It should not be a problem of insufficient nectar source..."

This group of bees is the most common first-level black bees. The bee colony is much weaker than the cultivator of the first level of Qi Refining. The requirements for nectar source are not high, and ordinary flowers can meet them.

Especially now it is spring, there are many flowers in Yunwu Mountain, so it should not be a problem with the source of honey.

"The number of hornets has not appeared many times recently, so it should not cause the bees to escape..."

"Could it be bee mites and nest insects?"

Thinking of this, Qi Ping carefully opened the beehive again and checked it carefully.

Under normal circumstances, beehives cannot be opened frequently, otherwise it will affect the normal life and collection efficiency of bees, and may even cause escape, but now it can only be done this way.

But Qi Ping did not find any traces of bee mites and nest insects.

"The honeycombs are sufficient, and the honey as food is also sufficient, and this is not the reason..."

In the next half an hour, Qi Ping carefully checked inside and outside, up and down many times, but still did not find the root cause of the bees' restlessness.

"Strange, what's the problem?" Qi Ping was a little distressed.

After another half an hour, Qi Ping still did not find any clues.

At this point, he could only blame himself for not being good at learning.

"Alas, it seems that my skills are still not good enough..."

"Let's ask that stinky old man to come and have a look!"

After sighing, Qi Ping went down the mountain to seek help.

...

The stinky old man was called Old Man Zhou, and Qi Ping's beekeeping skills were inherited from him.

Five years ago, Qi Ping traveled from Blue Star to a seriously injured beggar.

When Qi Ping was about to die again, he was found by Old Man Zhou who passed by and saved him.

After curing Qi Ping's injuries, Old Man Zhou passed on the immortal cultivation skills he had learned to him.

In the following years, after a period of investigation, Old Man Zhou finally passed on all his beekeeping skills to Qi Ping.

Qi Ping once asked Old Man Zhou why he chose him as the successor.

Old man Zhou said to Qi Ping:

"Because you have the lowest quality wood spirit root."

"Because of this? You are targeting my low talent?"

"What else?"

"What's the good of having low talent? I don't even have the hope of breaking through the late stage of Qi Refining. I will never achieve anything in my life!"

"What's the point of having so much success? Even if you succeed in cultivation, you will never come back to see me once in your life. No one will buy me wine when I am old!"

"How is it possible? Who would be so heartless and ungrateful?"

"Who knows..."

...

Later, Qi Ping learned that Old Man Zhou had taken on a very talented disciple when he was young.

But one day, this disciple joined a powerful sect and never came back, nor did he send any message to Old Man Zhou.

However, in Qingshi County, news occasionally comes back that his disciple has gained some fame.

As for more past events, Qi Ping doesn't know.

All I know is that now Old Man Zhou has completely transformed into a rotten old man, and he doesn't care much about anything in the outside world.

Apart from drinking and reading travelogues every day, my biggest hobby is sleeping.

In the words of Old Man Zhou, there are not many days left, so you have to enjoy the last leisure time of your life.

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No, as soon as Qi Ping entered the courtyard, he saw a white-haired old man dressed casually and with a charitable face, snoring on a recliner made of purple bamboo.

On the red sandalwood table not far away was a plate of fresh fruits and a pot of fruity sake.

"Old man Zhou, wake up, something happened!" Qi Ping shouted in his ear.

The title of Old Man Zhou was his own request, saying that it sounded more relaxed, but Master made him feel uncomfortable.

"Something happened? What could happen?"

After the dazed old man Zhou woke up, he said with a comfortable look on his face. It seemed that he had slept very soundly just now.

When Qi Ping said something had happened, he didn't look nervous at all, as if he didn't care if the sky fell.

"There's something wrong with the beehive on the pine wood. The bees are a little restless and there seem to be signs of escaping."

"Escape? This season is usually caused by natural enemies and nest insects. You can just take care of it yourself..."

"By the way, after paying the rent for the spiritual stones sold by Honey, you can just keep them yourself. Don't keep giving them to me..."

After speaking, Old Man Zhou lay back down again, ready to sleep again.

Seeing this, Qi Ping had no choice but to say hurriedly:

"But I have carefully checked many times and can't find the cause. Hornets, varroa mites, brood worms, honey sources...all have been checked, and everything seems to be normal."

Qi Ping's words successfully caught the attention of Old Man Zhou. He has been raising bees for half his life, but there is something he has never seen before?

"There is nothing missing from what you said. Are you sure you have checked everything?"

"I've checked it four or five times!" Qi Ping looked helpless.

"This is quite interesting! Let me go and take a look, old man..."

…

After a while, under the lush ancient pines.

The gray-haired old man Zhou stood in front of the beehive, his brows furrowed into a huge Sichuan character, and he kept muttering:

"It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be..."

"What's the problem?"

He has been keeping bees for half his life, but he has never seen anything like this.

Half an hour later.

Old man Zhou's neat hair had been kneaded into a ball of weeds by himself.

Soon after, he hurriedly went down the mountain to check the classics.

This scene made Qi Ping find it quite strange.

It's rare to see this old man looking anxious. There aren't many things in the world that can interest him.

Last time Qi Ping gave Old Man Zhou a bag of spiritual stones, but he pushed them away in disgust, saying that too much wealth would bring disaster.

"Old man Zhou, who has been keeping bees for half his life, can't find the reason. Now he is really in trouble!"

Qi Ping feels a little uncomfortable now. The problem cannot be solved, and he is the one who suffers.

He is a low-grade wood spirit root cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining, and has no talent or skills. If he loses this box of bees, he may really have to drink the northwest wind.

With this box of first-level black bees, although the spiritual stones earned cannot buy many cultivation resources and there is no hope of immortality, they can at least ensure that they have enough food and clothing.

After saving a few years of money, he would marry a few well-educated, plump, beautiful, gentle and virtuous mortal women, and then build a big yard or something.

This kind of life can be regarded as a head start.

In the past few years, Qi Ping has long recognized the fact that without a golden finger, the second and third Qi Refining monks are his pinnacle.

In this case, inheriting Old Man Zhou's business, keeping bees with peace of mind to ensure that he has enough food and clothing, and marrying several beautiful wives are the best choices.

Rather than going out to explore (the probability of death is 99.999%, the probability of taking off is 0.001%), Qi Ping is still willing to stay on this small peak in the Yunwu Mountains and lie down as comfortably as Old Man Zhou for the rest of his life.

"God, are you trying to destroy my only job?" Qi Ping felt a little uncomfortable.

If this continues, the bees won't even collect honey. Where will the income of a capitalist come from? He couldn't even pay the rent to Qingyuan Sect.

The Yunwu Mountain Range is the territory of the Qingyuan Sect. It costs a lot of spiritual stones to rent this hilltop for a year.

Fortunately, when Qi Ping was worried, a voice that surprised Qi Ping suddenly sounded in his mind...

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On a screen of light in Qi Ping's mind, twelve career templates to choose from appeared:

Barbarian, bard, priest, druid, warrior, monk, paladin, ranger, rogue, blood warlock, warlock, wizard...