Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

Chapter 178: Cooperation to raise fruit and flower bee colonies in captivity (3200 words, please subscribe, there is also a two-in-one chapter)
After continuing on the road for five days and crossing tens of thousands of miles, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong finally 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.

Common 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 the family 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 a row.

"Yunhong, Pengyun, are you still safe when you return from Lingyun Mountain?"

"Did Yunliu reach 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 during the spirit testing conference held on January [-] this year in Lingyun Town, a mortal city next to Lingyun Mountain."

Ling Yunhong touched the head of the shy little Lingxin beside him and said with a smile.

"It's a good thing to have one more clan member with spiritual roots." Ling Jin heard the words first and looked at little Ling Xin. The smile on his face became even happier and he said kindly.

"Uncle Eleven, during the days I left, did anything major happen at home?" Ling Yunhong asked.

"There are no big things, but there are a lot of small things. The other tribes 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 haven't been in the clan for two years. At nightfall, I will summon you and the other elders in the clan to the meeting hall. You can talk to me together."

"Okay." Ling Ru nodded first.

"Uncle Eleven, 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 starting to chat.

"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 talked about his cultivation, and then told his appeal tell.

"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 anymore. I just want to apply to you for not going out to do missions for a long time. I am in the clan. In retreat.”

"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 been secretive about his cultivation. Only when his cultivation improves quickly will his family pay attention to it.

As for not accepting family tasks for a long time and staying in seclusion for a long time, this is something every Ling clan member can do.

However, only when a critical bottleneck is reached can one apply to the clan for long-term seclusion.

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 that you can 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 is too short of manpower, and the spiritual energy There are many more, 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 was given five years, he was 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 the qi training chapter of the Bihai Manual, 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 time. When I went to Lingyun Mountain two and a half years ago, your natal thorn vines were already in the late stage of Qi training. Have you made any progress in the Lingxiao Ripening Technique in the past two years?" Ling Jin asked first.

"Yes, now I use the third level of the Lingxiao Ripening Technique to barely raise the level of spiritual cultivation to the first level of high-level." Ling Pengyun said.

After hearing this, Ling Ruxian was immediately overjoyed. "Good boy, I really saw you right back then. You are a 26-year-old first-level Lingzhi husband. Your promotion speed in Lingzhi is far faster than that of me back then. You are even a few years faster than Yun Hong. The family I will feel relieved that Ling Zhi will be handed over to you in the future."

When Ling Ruxian said this, Ling Pengyun's eyes condensed and he mobilized his spiritual consciousness to scan Ling Ruxian.

Immediately, he noticed that Ling Ruxian's aura was somewhat empty, and his cultivation was also passing by very slowly.

This 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 has passed, 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 Jinxian smiled kindly and said.

"With my current physical condition, I will have no problem surviving for five or six years, nor will I have any problem for seven or eight years. Being able to live to such an age is a good start and a good end for us monks. Maybe we can still see you." Try building a foundation with that guy from Pengxing."

What Ling Jinxian said is correct. The lifespan limit of a Qi-training monk is generally around 120 years old.

However, 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.

Living for 110 five or six years is indeed a good start and a good end.

However, although this was true, Ling Pengyun felt uncomfortable after hearing that Ling Jin, who had given him a lot of help over the years, did not live long enough to live long.

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 store opened by his family 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 bee colony I raised in captivity is better than the first-grade low-grade fruit nectar I gave you originally. The nectar tastes much better, please don’t dislike it, Eleven Great-grandfather.”

"How could I dislike such a good thing? I'm so interested. Pengyun, where do you plan to settle your fruit flower bee swarm?" Ling Jin saw this first and was very satisfied. He reached out and took the bottle of fruit that was handed to him. After the nectar, the words asked.

"There is already a group of Caixia butterflies 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 small town of Lingxiao not far from the clan mountain. In the [-] acres of orchards outside." Before Ling Pengyun returned home, he had already thought of a place for the fruit and flower bee swarm to settle down, and spoke directly.

The Caixia Spirit Butterfly is an extremely rare spirit 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 Mysterious 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 were only a small number of Caixia Butterflies in this group, and many of them had low cultivation levels. Only in the early stage of Qi training, the family did not allocate spiritual beasts such as Caixia Spirit Butterflies that could perform illusions to the clan members. Instead, they assigned Caixia Spirit Butterflies to the tribe The Butterfly Clan is handed over to the five elders, 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 tracking array after activating the clan protection formation to cooperate with the group of Caixia Spirit Butterflies to cause some interference to the incoming enemy.

"Although there are many fruit trees planted in the [-] acres of orchard outside the small city of Lingxiao, and the captive fruit flower worker bees are completely enough, those fruit trees are just ordinary fruit trees, and there is not a spiritual fruit tree. If the group of fruit flower worker bees are If you keep it there, it may restrict the growth of the fruit flower bee colony."

"I have a suggestion, which is to release your group of Fruit Flower Bees into the Clan Mountain."

"There are many first-level spiritual trees planted in the clan mountain, and there is also a second-level low-grade stone spirit walnut tree. These spiritual fruit trees will bloom a lot of fruit flowers every spring. If your group of fruit flower bees can collect them from the mountain, The pollen in the flowers of those spiritual fruit trees is brewed into spiritual honey, which is of great benefit to the development of the bee colony and to you."

"However, if the fruit flower bees are allowed to swarm into the family mountain to collect pollen, it will inevitably slow down the cultivation progress of the family's captive group of Caixia Spirit Butterflies that also feed on flower pollen."

"Therefore, every year the fruit flower worker bees in your fruit flower bee colony need to hand over five taels of high-grade fruit flower honey to the family according to the number of birds, to make up for the slow progress of the Caixia Spirit Butterfly colony. You see Is that possible?"

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 in spring, or even the second-level low-level stone spirit walnut tree, it will definitely be able to brew superior fruit nectar. The five middle-stage Qi-training bees in the bee swarm Fruit flower worker bees can also brew first-level mid-grade fruit nectar.”

"At that time, there will be a large amount of superior first- and middle-grade fruit nectar fed back to the bee swarm, and the number of mid-stage Qi training worker bees in the bee swarm will definitely double."

"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 turned over to the family can be fully compensated by a large amount of high-grade fruit honey."

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 spiritual pollen from the flowers of spiritual fruit trees.

Without spiritual pollen, it would be difficult to brew fruit nectar above the first-level mid-grade.

(End of this chapter)