Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 164: Capturing the Queen Bee Alive and Returning Home with a Full Load

"Silver Scale, help me!"

Seeing that the time was ripe, Lin Qianfan communicated through the contract.

The master and servant were in perfect sync. Yin Lin immediately unleashed his full strength, breaking up the swarm to its limit and separating the second-level fighting demon bees.
Lin Qianfan, waiting for the opportunity, simultaneously manipulated the gold-attributed spell, the Thunder-Slaying Sword, and personally guided the psychic cannon to charge a strike;
The psychic cannon arrived first after firing, hitting the target accurately. Although it failed to completely break the defense, it interrupted the fire spell that the fighting bee was about to release and temporarily restricted its ability to move.

The Thunder-Slaying Sword moved like thunder, and immediately after, it struck the dense scales of the Fighting Bee Demon head-on, successfully breaking through the armor. It penetrated half an inch and tried to release the sword energy, but the Fighting Bee Demon decisively cut itself off, abandoning the lower half of its body, thus avoiding the sword energy from infusing its entire body.

Before the Fighting Demon Bee could successfully escape from the battle, a golden spell bombarded its entire body, especially the wound it had just inflicted on itself, which had no decent defense and was destroyed layer by layer by the spell, leaving only a hard head.

"There's still a queen bee that hasn't come out yet, don't slack off!"

Lin Qianfan, Wind Rider and Silver Scale worked together to kill so quickly that the opponent still had a second-level queen bee that had not appeared, so they were not in a hurry to collect the spoils.

hum~
Sure enough, the unexpected death of the Fighting Bee Demon completely enraged the Queen Bee, who was watching in the dark. The Queen Bee led all the remaining combatants in the hive to rush out.

The queen bee's aura has reached the peak of the early second stage, and her body is several times larger. However, Lin Qianfan knows that the queen bee is often not the most powerful existence in the bee colony. It just has the highest level in the clan, but rarely plays a combat role.

"Do it again according to the same coordination as before!"

Lin Qianfan wanted to use the same trick on Yinlin again.

However, the actual situation was not as smooth as planned. The number of magic bees led by the queen bee was larger, they were more powerful, and their aura was even stronger after gathering together.

Although water can overcome fire, it has its limits. Silver Scale's defense is no longer invincible, and he needs to be distracted to dodge attacks. His previous tricks are difficult to succeed, and sometimes he even needs to use the monster hunting ship to avoid being hurt by the fire poison.

But the battle took a turn quickly.
Mr. Ba cooperated with the Dolphin in a similar way to force the worker bees into a desperate situation, but the worker bees were fearless and even wanted to escape and merge with the queen bee.

"Delusion!"

Mr. Ba would rather use his long-hidden trump card to kill the worker demon bee than let it merge with the remaining demon bees into the mainstream and increase the difficulty of the mission.

hum~
The queen bee, who was fighting with Silver Scale and even trying to attack the Wind Rider from time to time, suddenly sensed the death of the worker demon bees and realized that this group of people was different from the previous ones. She was instantly shocked and woke up.

Compared with the previous demon-hunting ships that came here, the enemy's combat effectiveness this time has more than doubled, which has obviously exceeded the swarm's endurance limit.

The bee queen quickly regained consciousness and decisively tried to beg for mercy!
That’s right, intelligence shows that the queen of the extremely difficult to subdue Molten Demon Bee has led her tribe to beg for mercy!

Although the queen bee cannot speak, she can convey her thoughts through telepathy, and pure telepathic communication can transcend species.

"Oh? Surrender? So cowardly! This is the first time I've seen such a cowardly second-level monster, right?"

Lin Qianfan was a little surprised. It was rare for ordinary monsters to surrender to their mortal enemies, especially the spiritual insect monsters, whose intelligence developed slowly and they often couldn't adapt.

"Master Ba, do you want to contract this queen bee? She's quite powerful in special situations."

"Forget it. I don't have a mine at home and can't afford it."

Compared with other spirit bees that are gentle in temperament and can stably generate economic value, this demon bee seems to have only shortcomings.

"Then take it back and sell it. See if any insect cultivator likes it. If not, you can take it back to the family and give it to other elders to sign a contract. It can also be considered a second-level combat power."

The magic queen bee alone is not so good, and its strength is lower than the average level of the early second stage, but it is quite good after gathering, and can be used in some specific scenarios.

But Lin Qianfan did not plan to make a contract himself. This monster's upper limit was here, with no room for improvement. In a few years, it would become a pure burden.

They temporarily imprisoned the queen bee, put the remaining first-level magic bees into the spirit beast bag, salvaged the prey left in the sea, searched the magic bee nest, and captured a large number of magic bee larvae that were still in the pupae stage. Only then did the two boats continue to rush to the next target.

A few days later,
The two ships returned safely to Chiyan Immortal City.

I originally thought that it would be difficult to sell this nest of demon bees, after all, foundation-building insect cultivators are still rare, but I didn't expect that after hearing the news, many forces wanted this nest of demon bees.

"I never thought they could be used to assist in mining. Unfortunately, my Lin family's open-pit mine can't use them."

Beneath the molten ore, various dangers still exist. For example, the molten evil energy is a harmful force that can continuously corrode weak miners, eventually infecting them with fire poison. However, the molten evil bees, which feed on the molten evil energy, can reduce the molten evil energy in the working environment to a certain extent, increasing miners' daily effective working time and increasing mine production.

Since they have this special ability, it is not the turn of the two ships to destroy this nest of demon bees.

However, this kind of monster has an explosive temperament and will not respond to soft or hard tactics, so it is usually impossible to tame it. Unexpectedly, this queen bee learned one of the essential abilities of humans after only a few contacts with humans.

In the end, it was the Blazing Molten Ore that made the most generous move.

He gave Lin Qianfan two hundred medium-grade spirit stones and a piece of second-grade spirit gold that was enough to refine a second-grade phantom sword, and even had some left over.

One month later,
Both ships continued to carry out missions and cooperate in this cooperation model, making considerable profits and even becoming a little famous here.

"The bounty has hit rock bottom now, the average reward is ten mid-grade spirit stones, and the news is becoming less and less reliable. A lot of people have been injured recently, so there's no need to stay any longer."

"Indeed! It's time for us to go back."

Generally, small and medium-sized monster-hunting ships usually have the main task of capturing first-level targets. They will only take action when they encounter suitable second-level targets. Although they will not earn much this way, it is a guaranteed profit.

It is winter now and there is no guarantee of catching first-level prey in the sea. If the information from the fairy city is wrong, or if a trip fails to successfully kill the prey and there is no gain, there will be serious losses. Therefore, some monster hunting ships that have made money have chosen to leave.

"Well, it's time for us to go."

The Windrider made its maiden voyage during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now it is deep winter. It will not be long before we return to rest before we have to prepare to go out hunting. Now is the right time to withdraw, neither too early nor too late.

before leaving,
Lin Qianfan went to the Blazing Immortal City and the Fiery Molten Mine to buy up a lot of rare things from the Fish Dragon Islands, and exchanged all the extra cash on him for valuable/rare items.

The Wind Rider made a lot of money during this period. Apart from the expenses of the Wind Rider's hull itself, there were still more than a thousand medium-grade spirit stones left, as well as a small amount of spoils left by Lin Qianfan himself.

Don't think that these more than a thousand medium-grade spirit stones are too many.

The demon hunting ship is a joint venture, and the family needs to directly take half of the net profits;
Dozens of boatmen followed him out for several months and also had to share a lot of profits;
In addition, proper consideration needs to be given to Silver Scale;

So what Lin Qianfan finally got were only a few hundred medium-grade spirit stones and some materials.

However, this number is already a lot for an individual. You can purchase a few more handy spiritual weapons to improve your overall combat effectiveness.

It's only because the Wind Rider has a strong ability to make money. If an ordinary foundation-building cultivator wanted to earn so much money, it would probably take ten or even dozens of times longer.

Two days later,
The two ships successfully waited for the Sea Hunter and Heng'an to return to the dock together. All four ships were loaded with cargo and returned home together.

Judging from the value of the goods it transports, Fengfengzhe is unique because it has the highest capital.

It only takes the other ships more than a month to get here. Although the efficiency of completing the mission is very high, the bounty at this time is not high and the income is limited, but it is much better than taking a winter break at home.

"We'll come back next year! And every year! From now on, we'll only have the storm season off, and our profits will increase significantly!"

"There will be no bounties next year. These rewards are time-limited. Once a new ecological balance is formed, it will remain stable for many years."

"But we can still hunt in the warm, blazing seas, can't we?"

"The winter in the Blazing Sea is still cold, and there isn't much prey to catch in the sea."

"We can find more places like the Fire Iguana Islands, where regular harvesting is also good."

"We're not the only ship in the Blazing Sea. There are probably regulars in other places like this. It's not a good idea to intervene rashly."

"Well, I was too optimistic."

"We'll see next year! Even if the pay is lower during the winter, working is still better than just sitting at home. Overall, the ceiling of our family's monster hunting business has been raised significantly."

"That's right! That's exactly what I mean!"

(End of this chapter)