Douluo, my clone Groudon

Chapter 47 Honey, Moonlight Bugs
The flowering season had just ended, and the laurel forest was covered with a layer of dried laurel flowers. The air was filled with a fragrance. Several beehives were buzzing high up, and silver bees were flying into the distance.

Tang San introduced: "The Silver Ring Bee is named after the silver ring on its chest and abdomen. The silver honey brewed from it is full of energy, warming and nourishing, and can relieve pain and detoxify. It is an excellent tonic."

"But they are very fierce, and their tail stings are extremely poisonous. Two or three hundred-year-old silver ring bees can kill a great soul master of the same level. We should avoid them."

Xiao Wu looked at the beehive eagerly, recalling the taste of honey in the past. But things are different now. She can't afford to offend a group of silver-ringed bees and can only stay away from them.

It was getting dark, and the forest was gloomy.

"Rest for a while. Moonlight bugs will appear at night and draw the moonlight to cultivate. Don't make things complicated."

Gula was also a little craving for honey. He had never had the chance to taste it in his life, but now was not the time to be greedy.

The three of them found an open space, set up their tent, and hid on the ground to avoid disturbing the moonworms.

When the moon was at its highest point, silver light sprinkled on the forest, covering the laurel trees with a layer of silver gauze. From under some broad leaves, a few silvery-white insects emerged and crawled onto the leaves where the moonlight was bright.

The silvery-white bug was a moonworm, unlike the ugly and disgusting other bugs. The moonworm had an extraordinary bloodline and was very good-looking. Its silver skin was like a layer of gauze, and under the moonlight it had a hazy and cute feeling.

Gula activated his newly acquired Purple Demonic Pupil and opened the God-level Eye of Identification. The two pupil techniques underwent magical changes, combining the microscopic and macroscopic perspectives, and all the information about all things was taken into his eyes.

"Near the beehive, the tallest moonworms are five thousand years old. They seem to have formed a symbiotic relationship with the silver-ringed bees."

"The Silver Ring Bees provide honey, and the Moonlight Bugs draw moonlight at night to help the Silver Ring Bee Queen cultivate."

Gula recounted the information that the Eye of Identification had revealed, and raised his hand to point to the top of the two-meter-diameter beehive. A palm-sized silver-ringed queen bee was leaning against a five-thousand-year-old moonlight worm, and the fluctuations of soul power from their cultivation could be heard.

"The Silver Ring Queen Bee has mutated. Its antennae and fur have turned silver. It must have acquired moonlight properties."

Gula showed surprise on his face: "The Silver Ring Bee Queen has seven thousand years of cultivation. The moonlight attribute it mutated into is just right for Xiao Wu's third soul ring."

Tang San didn't expect that Gula could see so much information in just a few glances, and he couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

He thought he could surpass Gula because he had read many books about soul beasts, but he didn't expect that he was short-sighted. His temporary efforts were no match for Gula's talent.

"Big brother..."

Tang San shouted uncomfortably, but who could have made him unable to defeat Gula? In the foreseeable future, it would be difficult to surpass Gula, so he had to accept the reality of being the second brother.

"We are no match for the Silver Ring Bee Swarm. Should we remember the location of the Moonlight Bugs and wait for them to finish their training and relax, then sneak attack them?"

Gula wanted to say no, because he was confident that the Moonlight Bugs would be able to fight normally before reaching the ten-thousand-year mark. But then he changed his mind and decided that safety was paramount.

So he nodded and said, "Okay, tonight we will meditate instead of sleeping. Before the moonlight disappears, pay attention to where the moonlight bugs are hiding. We will hunt souls tomorrow morning."

So the three of them sat cross-legged in the tent, ate energy cubes and practiced, without saying a word all night.

At dawn, the Star Forest was quiet, the moonlight was dim, and a streak of white rose steadily in the east.

The moonlight worms ended their day's training, ate the honey brought by the silver-ringed bees, moved their mouthparts, drank the dew on the surface of their skin, crawled back to the back of the leaves, and returned to the wormhole in the dark.

"Do it!"

Gula let out a light shout and blasted out with telekinesis.

The giant leaf that had held the moonlight insect for 3,800 years broke apart, sending the silvery-white insect and the giant green leaf dancing in the air. Gula used telekinesis to control the moonlight insect, using thousands of kilograms of force to suppress its struggles.

Tang San threw out several projectiles, which exploded when they hit the trees, releasing yellow smoke.

The pungent smell made the moonlight bugs and silver-ringed bees dizzy, and their keen senses, which they depended on for survival, temporarily failed.

"go!"

Gula's telekinesis turned into needles, seriously injuring the moonlight bug.

Xiao Wu quickly packed up the tent and ran away first.

Gula followed closely behind, and Tang San was the rear guard.

He kept throwing out the smoke bombs he had made in his spare time while refining medicine to interfere with the soul beasts' vision and senses, and sprayed fragrance to confuse the silver ring bee colony.

With sufficient preparation, the three people successfully escaped the swarm of bees and arrived near a river.

This is the escape spot they have chosen. The swarm of bees cannot go into the water, so it can be used as a backup.

After running frantically for more than ten minutes, Gula threw out the dying moonlight bug without blushing or breathing hard, and said, "Third sister, I leave it to you."

Xiao Wu was mentally prepared and did not hesitate to attack her own kind. She took out a dagger from the storage soul guide and decisively killed the moonlight bug.

A purple soul ring slowly condensed and floated above the silver-white insect corpse.

Seeing how easy it was, Xiao Wu complained, "It feels so easy. Can such a weak soul beast really provide soul skills that can help my spirit evolve? Gula, are you reliable?"

Gula tapped Xiao Wu's forehead and said unhappily, "Call me big brother."

After Xiao Wu reluctantly called him "Big Brother", Gula said seriously:

"Most insect soul beasts don't possess strong combat power, but they are the soul beasts with the largest number and variety. With such a large base number, there will always be a few outliers."

"The moonworm is just such an anomaly. It can manipulate moonlight to attack, defend, control, and heal. It has almost no weaknesses. Its only drawback is that its bloodline is too powerful, making it difficult to reproduce."

"Thus, over the course of time, the Moonlight Worm, a spirit beast with a trace of Moon Worm blood, gradually emerged. Ten thousand years ago, this spirit beast's combat power was extremely weak, and it could be said to be a disgrace to spirit beasts."

"But this is merely the Moonlight Worm accumulating strength. After ten thousand years, it will utilize the mysterious power of moonlight to purify its bloodline and return to its ancestral form."

"Theoretically, every moonlight worm has the potential to become a moon worm. After cultivating for 50,000 years and undergoing five metamorphosis, it can almost certainly revert to its original form and become a moon worm."

Gula talked about it calmly. This was the secret information he saw through the Eye of Identification after he saw the moonlight worm with his own eyes.

Tang San listened with great interest and was very curious about the inheritance that Gula had obtained.

The inheritance will only be unlocked when encountering specific things. I don’t know why there is such a restriction.

Xiao Wu didn't take it seriously and found a loophole:
"Without combat power, how could it possibly cultivate for 50,000 years? With the way it accumulates moonlight for cultivation, it's likely that soon after reaching 10,000 years, it will be eaten by other 10,000-year soul beasts as a treasure."

But not everyone is like her and her mother Arou, who saved the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape when they were young, and with their protection, they cultivated safely to the level of 100,000 years.

(End of this chapter)