The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 2999 The Two Old Men's Frenzied Retreat
"Ah! Damn it, let's go!" There are just too many of these red bees. If they don't retreat in time, and their losses outpace their replenishment, then neither of them will be in a good situation.

Moreover, as the light swept across the scene, it seemed as if a huge number of red bees were still swarming towards them from afar.

In an instant, the entire area was filled with the buzzing of red bees, and the sound carried far throughout the valley. The light the two men used for illumination also became a guide for the red bees, and all of them rushed straight towards the light.

The sheer number was beyond description; a single bullet fired at that moment could bring down tens of thousands of red bees. One can only imagine just how vast the number was.

The crimson bees swarmed in, enveloping the area and relentlessly stabbing at the barrier. Countless crimson bees attacked frantically, utterly disregarding everything else; tonight, it was a fight to the death!

So many hives and an equal number of queen bees disappeared overnight last night. The remaining queen bees have no choice but to launch a frenzied retaliatory attack, fearing that they too will be taken away and disappear tonight.

The queen bee gave a death order, so the soldier bees naturally carried it out, and the two old bees' domain barriers were subjected to a frenzied attack.

Even the red bees beneath their feet began to riot. Although these red bees didn't have a queen to lead them, their symbiotic relationship allowed them to hear the queen's commands, so they attacked frantically as well.

Even the red wasps can attack targets at night, aided by a red marking.

Red bees are restricted at night, but red crickets are nocturnal, so marking them is perfectly acceptable.

The light from their respective domain barriers flickered and then dimmed instantly.

There were too many red bees, and their combined territory happened to cover the hive, which is why they were attacked by a massive number of red bees.

Sensing the rapid depletion of their innate power, the two old men looked rather grim, but they remained calm. Instead, they shrank their domains back to about one meter around themselves and then quickly ran towards the woods and bushes.

Therefore, the two had no choice but to immediately replenish their innate power and take pills to restore their own innate power. The surrounding innate power was no longer keeping pace with the domain's consumption, so they could only use pills to compensate for the rapid depletion of their innate power.

However, for some reason, perhaps it was nighttime, or perhaps it was due to insufficient light, and perhaps the bush passage was concealed in order to prevent the red bees from not being able to find it, so many bush branches covered the passage's exit.

In their haste, the two made a mistake and couldn't find the entrance to the bush passage.

"Damn it, we didn't mark the location when we left the bush passage. If we go looking for it again now, won't that waste time?" The two old men didn't dare to delay and quickly searched for the entrance.

Fortunately, we can still roughly guess the location, so it shouldn't take too much time.

The two ran towards the middle of the black soil area, and the entrance to the passage should be nearby.

The two old men had a good idea, but there were too many red bees, and because of their relentless and frenzied attacks, their innate power was rapidly decreasing as their domain barriers flickered.

The buzzing was incessant, and the two found it nearly impossible to move forward. The air and ground were swarming with red bees. Yes, the ground was covered in them; the space around them was limited, and the bees were densely packed, layer upon layer, all busy attacking with their stingers. Some were even unable to attack, so they could only wait for the bees in front of them to tire and be replaced.

So some of the red bees landed on the ground and then climbed onto the barrier to attack. In addition, there were also many red lines on the ground, densely packed with red lines, mixed with red bees.

The two old men had no way to find their way, so they could only quickly expand their domains, kill a large number of red bees and a line of red bees, and then instantly shrink them. Only then did they take advantage of this opening to see where they were.

Fortunately, they had already found the first beehive and harvested honey by following the edge of the forest. So now, even with poor visibility, they could still reach the edge of the forest by instinct and then follow it to the middle of the black soil, where the entrance was.

As a master of innate skill, the distance is only about five or six hundred meters, a place that can be reached in a flash, but now it has become a place where it is difficult to take even one step.

"Damn it, these red bees are attacking so recklessly in the dark! Weren't they supposed to stay indoors at night?" Qian Ying shouted. He needed to conserve his innate energy, so he couldn't use telepathy.

"Perhaps it's because we disturbed the queen bee!" Zhou Zixing thought of the queen bee and said hesitantly.

"Hmph, damn it, I must find out the truth about this when I get back!" Qian Ying shouted. He felt that Chen Mo hadn't explained things clearly, otherwise he wouldn't have been attacked like this just for getting royal jelly.

Now, if the two spoke, they wouldn't be heard unless they shouted. The surrounding area was filled with a buzzing sound, extremely piercing and loud. They moved forward step by step, constantly using their domains to sense the bushes and see if they had reached the cave entrance. Just then, Zhou Zixing's expression changed, and he shouted, "My domain is about to give way!"

While the attacks of the Red Bees were relatively weak, their sheer numbers overwhelmed the area.

Zhou Zixing, in particular, only possessed the cultivation of the peak of the second stage of the Innate Realm. Although he had taken recovery pills early on, he still couldn't keep up with the consumption of his Innate Qi. Especially in order to find the entrance to the bushes and see the path clearly, he needed to constantly expand his Innate Realm domain, killing the dense swarms of Red Bees and One-Line Red Bees around him, so that he could see where he was.

Each expansion also requires killing all the red bees that have flooded into the area, and these actions all consume innate energy, which is why it is said that the energy is consumed too quickly and cannot be sustained.

"Hang in there, we should be finding it soon." What could Qian Ying do but comfort Zhou Zixing?

Then, Qian Ying could only expand and shrink her innate domain herself, as Zhou Zixing beside her was no longer reliable. However, by frequently expanding and shrinking, and killing swarms of red bees, Qian Ying's innate energy was being consumed much faster than Zhou Zixing's.

Although they were right at the edge of the woods, neither of them had the idea of ​​jumping up into the trees and leaving from the heights of the forest.

After all, flying is prohibited in the valley. If they climbed into the trees, they would not only provide the red wasps with larger targets, but they would also have difficulty using their momentum. Running in the trees is not as efficient as running on the ground. The bushes are different. Once inside the bushes, the red wasps can only attack from behind. They cannot attack from other directions because of the cover provided by the bushes. This is why the two wanted to enter the bushes.

Upon hearing Qian Ying's call, Zhou Zixing immediately took another pill to replenish his rapidly depleted innate energy. Qian Ying did the same; although his cultivation was a level higher than Zhou Zixing's, facing such a large number of red bees was naturally very taxing on him.

"Found it!" Qian Ying's domain instantly probed the air, sensing the passage in the bushes, and she immediately shouted. Then, without hesitation, she rushed towards the bushes.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Zixing was overjoyed. He had finally found it and rushed over as well.

The two seemed to relax a little after finding the entrance, but they did not expect that their innate energy had reached its limit. Just as they were about to rush into the bushes, they collapsed and dissipated one after the other!
"Damn it!" Both of them were shocked at the same time. They immediately swallowed emergency pills and used the burst of innate energy to once again cast their innate domain to protect themselves. This time, of course, they wrapped their bodies tightly around their skin before escaping into the passage.

They had two kinds of pills that could restore one's innate energy. One kind was for immediate recovery after swallowing, and the other kind was for emergencies. Once swallowed, it would immediately unleash a powerful burst of innate energy, restoring some of one's innate energy in just a few breaths.

The former is harmless, but the rate of improvement is somewhat slow. The latter is for emergencies, instantly restoring some innate energy, but after the pill's effects are released, the innate power it contains can easily damage the meridians.

So, after swallowing the emergency pills, both of them felt a sharp pain all over their bodies, as if their meridians had been impacted and suffered considerable damage. However, given the dangerous situation they were in, they couldn't afford to worry about that now.

But in that short moment, the two of them had already been attacked by several red bees.

Suddenly, intense pain shot through parts of my body, head, and other areas.

The two rushed into the bushes, disregarding everything else, and took out the honey they had prepared earlier, gulping it down in one go.

The two remembered that Chen Mo had previously said that the stinger of the Red Bee was highly poisonous, and that once stung, one would die from the poison within a few breaths. The honey produced by the Red Bee was the antidote.

That's why the two of them took out honey and drank it down without a second thought.

At this moment, they no longer cared about anything else. While gulping down honey, they frantically retreated along the bush path to the other side.

Behind them, swarms of red bees and red streaks of light chased after them along the bush path, their buzzing like a death knell, relentlessly pursuing them.

However, after they entered the bush passage, the dense branches made it impossible for the red bees to surround them, and they attacked from all sides. Now, they were only able to attack from the front and back.

The two old men were quite fast, so the Red Bee could only chase after them relentlessly. Forget about catching up with them; no one could outrun them. Innate masters are not only powerful, but they are also incredibly fast at escaping.

After a frantic retreat, seemingly reaching a certain point, the Red Bees gradually stopped pursuing, and the buzzing sound in their ears gradually dissipated.

The two breathed a sigh of relief, finally having escaped.

Tonight was really tough.