The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 2986 A Busy Evening

If it weren't for the First Line Red, the Red Bee, and other important resources like the beehive, Chen Mo probably wouldn't have taken out the Qiankun Pearl and used it in such a place.

After all, reducing exposure reduces the risk.

However, whether it's the First Line Red or the Red Bee, these resources are simply too important, which is why Chen Mo took out the Qiankun Pearl and moved these resources into it.

With the appearance of the Qiankun Pearl, Chen Mo once again channeled his true essence, drawing all the crimson figures covered by the array into the Qiankun Pearl, into a pre-planned area. All the crimson figures, already bewildered and unaware of their surroundings under the illusion of the array, were trapped deep within it after the array was activated.

Therefore, under Chen Mo's control and restriction, the streaks of red, along with the surrounding plants and a portion of the soil, all entered the Qiankun Pearl.

Of course, in order for Yixianhong to live well inside the Qiankun Pearl and not wander around, he should use the restrictions to delineate a living area, so that he can only move within this area, and it will be impossible to cross this area.

The area covered by the array in the valley was like the ground had been scraped bare. All the vegetation, soil, and some creatures, including red ones, had disappeared, leaving only a patch of dark soil.

The soil here had become extremely fertile over thousands of years, but Chen Mo had taken away a significant amount of it, as if he were scraping the land dry.

He then slipped into another area covered by a complex array and repeated the scraping motion. After finishing scraping, he darted into a third area covered by an array and continued scraping.

After finishing, the Qiankun Pearl was put away first, and then the array base was retrieved and deployed to another area. Next, the ground-scraping activity began.

Chen Mo didn't want to expand the array's coverage to cover the entire area, so he could collect all of these things at once.

Unfortunately, although the composite formation is quite powerful, it is still only a beginner to intermediate-level formation base. Therefore, the formation's level is not very high, and the area it covers is not very large. A single composite formation can only cover an area about the size of a football field.

The reason Chen Mo reused the three sets of formations was because he only had so many formation bases at his disposal. He had previously thought that having three sets of formation bases would be enough. However, he hadn't expected that today's events would prove him wrong; it simply wasn't enough. Moreover, operating all three formations simultaneously would consume an enormous amount of spiritual energy.

Chen Mo didn't want to waste spirit stones, so he could only move within the coverage area of ​​one array and then switch to another. In this way, as long as his spiritual power was sufficient, he could support the operation of the array without consuming spirit stones.

I simply don't have many spirit stones on hand, and I'm reluctant to use any of them, so I can only resort to this clumsy method of rotating through different areas. It's hard work, but it's better than wasting spirit stones.

Of course, Chen Mo controlled the complex array, and with all its functions fully activated to protect the aura of the Qiankun Pearl from leakage, which consumed a lot of his true essence. Fortunately, he had prepared diluted spiritual liquid in advance. Whenever his true essence was consumed, he would simply drink the diluted spiritual liquid to replenish the lost true essence.

Moreover, this process of consuming and replenishing one's spiritual energy can indirectly train one's own spiritual energy circulation, thus saving cultivation time and serving as a form of cultivation.

Looking at the streaks of red, the unknown flowers and plants, and the black soil—fertile soil so rich it seemed you could squeeze oil out of it—Chen Mo was overjoyed. Mine, all of it is mine, all of it is mine.

Because of this joy and the delight of the harvest, Chen Mo didn't feel tired and kept repeating the previous actions, changing locations over and over again. After repeating this process, patches of black soil gradually appeared in this sea of ​​flowers, like bald patches, leaving only soil.

The beehive was quite far away. Chen Mo harvested a lot of red spider lilies and other plants on the ground. After repeatedly scraping the ground, he finally arrived at an area with a beehive.

Because it was nighttime, most of the bees had already gone into the hive, which made Chen Mo's work much easier.

Of course, the closer one gets to the hive, the more numerous the Line-of-Reds become. Fortunately, as long as the array is deployed, even if these Line-of-Reds are incredibly fast, they can only surrender. Having no other choice, Chen Mo doesn't try to outrun them; instead, he focuses on mental control.

A tiny, red-skinned creature, though incredibly fast (like lightning) and highly venomous—a bite could be fatal in the time it takes to brew a cup of tea—was countered by Chen Mo's mental manipulation rather than direct confrontation. How could any of the red-skinned creatures possibly fight back?

Therefore, they could only be taken into the Qiankun Pearl by Chen Mo one by one, without any resistance.

As Chen Mo approached the hive, he realized just how enormous it was. From a distance, the hive didn't seem that big, but upon closer inspection, he discovered the terrifying power of visual illusion.

The beehive was the size of a basketball court, about ten meters high, appearing enormous to Chen Mo. The queen bee, about the size of a small dog, was lazily resting in the center of the hive. If it weren't for the array controlling the hive, Chen Mo would have had no chance of seeing it clearly using only his mental power.

My mental strength is currently only three and a half meters, while the diameter of the entire hive has reached thirty to forty meters.

Fortunately, with the array covering the area, one can have a clear grasp of the area covered by the array, so it becomes relatively easy to see the inside of the hive.

Of course, understanding the inside of the hive through the array is not very clear; one can only perceive an outline.

However, this is already quite good. As long as the situation can be sensed and the restrictions can be applied in a targeted manner, the red bees in the hive will not resist and can be directly absorbed into the Qiankun Pearl.

The queen bee in the hive suddenly awoke, seemingly sensing something, but under the illusion array set up by Chen Mo, she only struggled briefly before falling into the illusion. The soldier bees guarding the queen bee did the same, struggling only briefly before being trapped in the illusion as well.

Because of its enormous size and its location several meters underground, Chen Mo had to take a mental energy recovery pill before he could store the entire beehive inside the Qiankun Pearl while it was still in effect.

The mental energy consumption of storing a beehive into the Qiankun Pearl is relatively small. However, since he also needs to control the formation and keep all those controlled within it in an illusion, this consumes some mental energy.

There were over 100,000 red bees in one hive, which was too many, hence the significant energy consumption. This was why Chen Mo had to take a mental energy replenishment pill.

If it were just a single large beehive, storing it within the Qiankun Pearl wouldn't consume much mental energy. Collecting hundreds of them in one night wouldn't be a problem at all.

However, adding the Red Bees makes it a bit mentally taxing.

Fortunately, Chen Mo's spiritual sea was already powerful, and when he was in the canyon, his spiritual power increased again after he devoured the soul essence of Qingxuan Zhenren. Therefore, he had no problem controlling a beehive and the illusion of more than 100,000 red bees.

In addition, there are several thousand more red lines, which will consume mental energy.

Alas! The root of all this lies in Chen Mo's own strength. If he had already reached the Nascent Soul stage, he wouldn't even need the aid of formations. He could simply use his mental power to envelop everything in the entire sea of ​​flowers, and then, with a single restriction, move them all into the Qiankun Pearl without consuming much mental power.

Unfortunately, I am only at the sixth level of the Foundation Establishment stage, and I have just broken through. Therefore, I can only use such a clumsy method to collect all the first-line red and honeycomb.

Having learned from his previous experience, Chen Mo collected the beehives even faster.

However, this area contains hundreds of beehives throughout the flower sea, and each beehive is enormous, containing at least tens of thousands of red bees. Therefore, Chen Mo couldn't be lazy and had to collect them one by one.

Therefore, in order to facilitate subsequent operations, Chen Mo only collected the beehives along the route, leaving the beehives near the valley sides uncollected. As a result, he created a black, bald patch about 400 meters wide in the entire flower sea area, stretching from the edge of the forest all the way to the shore of a lake, with a length of nearly five kilometers.

The collection process had taken all night, and there wasn't much time left until dawn. Chen Mo sighed; he hadn't expected to collect less than two hundred beehives in just one night. The rest, due to distance and time constraints, he simply couldn't finish.

Across the lake lies a grassland-like area, and further ahead stands a massive mountain gate building.

Unfortunately, the memories belonging to this mountain gate were not preserved by Master Qingxuan. Therefore, Chen Mo could not make out anything from a distance while standing by the lake. He would only be able to see what kind of building it was after crossing the lake and getting closer.

Of course, there are some other buildings behind the mountain gate, but you can only see the general outline of them.

Chen Mo only glanced at the lake and the buildings opposite it, as it was not the time to explore these places. Instead, he retreated immediately, put away all the formations, and then ran quickly towards the canyon.

Tonight, he still needs to collect the Yellow Springs Flower from the bottom of the canyon, otherwise it will be delayed for another day, and he might not have time to collect it.

After all, nobody knows what will happen after tomorrow, so let's collect it tonight if we can.