In the world of cultivation, one grinds for proficiency and longevity.

Having experience dealing with wasps in his previous life, Chen Changqing didn't have time to think. In a flash, he grabbed Li Erniu, who had just fallen off his horse, and the two quickly lay down, holding their breath.

This tactic worked.

The poisonous bees in the cultivation world are also more sensitive to moving targets; stationary objects seem like inanimate objects to them.

"—Ouch! I got stung! It hurts so much, and my skin is swollen..."

Screams echoed throughout the room.

Several panicked fairy seedlings fled in all directions, instantly becoming live targets for the wolf-tooth bees, being stung and rolling on the ground, their cries of pain echoing everywhere.

"My god, the cultivation world is absolutely terrifying!"

Li Erniu trembled with fear, almost wetting himself.

"Don't panic! These are just low-level wolf-tooth bees; their venom is potent, but not fatal!"

Zhou Dezheng patted the storage bag at his waist as he hurried over.

However, the situation was far more complicated than he had anticipated.

Within the dark cloud of bees in the sky, hovered a giant bee of enormous size and vibrant color—that was none other than the first-order wolf-tooth queen bee who commanded the swarm!

Its combat strength is comparable to that of a cultivator at the early stage of the fourth level of Qi Refining, and the poison in its mouthparts is enough to kill.

The bee swarms on site are under its control.

Fortunately, it only directed and issued orders on-site and did not personally launch an attack.

"Hahaha, Zhou Dezheng! I'm your opponent!"

A loud shout exploded like a thunderclap.

A meteor hammer wreathed in eerie flames shot into the air at an even faster speed, striking the large net precisely and deflecting it.

A figure followed closely behind, his magical power surging, seemingly on par with Zhou Dezheng.

"Want to take these seedlings away? Have you even asked the Ye family?"

From the dense forest on the right, seven cultivators filed out, each wielding a magical weapon and exuding a murderous aura.

"Patriarch Ye! Ye Mantis!" The expressions of several cultivators from the Zhou family changed drastically.

"Mantis Leaf! How dare you ambush us in front of Emerald Lake? Aren't you afraid that when my Zhou family's reinforcements arrive, they will annihilate you all?"

Zhou Dezheng was both shocked and furious, and shouted sternly.

He had been escorting the fairy seedling all the way, already walking on thin ice, but he never expected to be ambushed like this just as they were about to reach their destination.

"Time is running out, we need to finish this quickly!"

Ye Mantis snorted coldly, activated his magic, and the flames on the meteor hammer intensified, carrying a scorching shockwave as it slammed fiercely towards Zhou Dezheng.

A chaotic battle erupted instantly.

The six cultivators from the Ye family were all at the mid-stage of Qi Refining when they faced off against the Zhou family's retainers.

The last woman, a beauty at the seventh level of Qi Refining, even used her seductive arts to try and distract Zhou Dezheng.

Her clothes were half off, revealing her bare shoulders, and her eyes were full of allure.

"Using superior numbers to overwhelm the weak, and resorting to underhanded tactics—it's utterly shameless!"

"Once the elders of the Zhou family arrive, none of you will escape!"

Zhou Dezheng seemed to have learned his lesson from the beautiful woman in front of him, and the moment she tore open her clothes, he popped a pill with calming and soothing effects into his mouth.

Immediately afterwards, he crushed a defensive talisman, and a blue light instantly enveloped his entire body!

puff!puff!

Facing two opponents alone, Zhou Dezheng quickly fell into a disadvantageous position, and his cyan light shield teetered on the brink of collapse under the attack of the meteor hammer.

Despite being outnumbered, Zhou's five retainers were also caught in a fierce battle and found it difficult to break free.

The remaining seedlings were left unprotected. Apart from Chen Changqing and Li Erniu, who remained lying motionless on the ground, the rest were chased by the swarm of bees and howled in agony.

The situation is extremely critical!

"We can't just sit here and wait to die!"

Chen Changqing, lying on the ground, narrowed his eyes, locking onto the wolf-tooth bee queen in the air like a hawk.

He slowly raised his hand, spiritual energy gathering at his fingertips, and three specially made poison-quenched steel beads were quietly placed between his fingers.

The Ye family cultivator in charge of controlling the bee swarm keenly noticed Chen Changqing's unusual behavior. He glanced at him and, seeing that he was only at the first level of Qi Refining, snorted disdainfully and ignored him.

In his view, the combat power of a first-tier demon beast was enough to crush cultivators below the early stage of Qi Refining. A mere first-stage Qi Refining cultivator was nothing more than an ant trying to shake a tree.

However, the next moment, he paid the price for his underestimation of his opponent.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three poisoned steel balls shot out of the air at such a speed that they seemed to tear the air apart.

The queen bee reacted quickly, dodging two of the bullets, but the third one struck her abdomen precisely.

The steel ball failed to penetrate its hard shell, but the highly toxic substance coated on it seeped into the wound.

"What?!"

The Ye family cultivators were shocked. "How could someone at the first level of Qi Refining unleash such an attack?"

"You're dead, kid! The injured queen bee will go berserk; you're doomed!"

After a moment of stunned silence, he roared angrily and gave the queen bee an attack command.

However, the anticipated fierce counterattack did not occur.

The queen bee, the size of a fist, struggled in the air for a few moments before plummeting straight down like a kite with a broken string.

After convulsing a few times, it stopped breathing.

The remaining swarm of bees, leaderless, finally stopped attacking any targets and scattered.

"Oh no! That hidden weapon is poisoned!" The Ye family cultivator's face turned pale.

"It's over... That first-tier wolf fang bee queen is the elder's beloved, my life is over!"

That being the case...

Kid, take your head as atonement!

On the chaotic battlefield, a Ye family cultivator, acting like a madman, charged straight at Chen Changqing!

This person is at the sixth level of Qi Refining. If Chen Changqing were to face him, he would surely die!

"Hold him back and protect the seedling!"

Among the Zhou family cultivators, one shouted loudly and then bravely stopped the Ye family cultivator who was about to commit the crime.

Chen Changqing recognized this person; he was Zhou Chengjun from the Zhou family, both at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and he was also a skilled barbecue enthusiast.

"Hurry! Let's go to Emerald Lake!" he urged anxiously to the others via telepathy.

"Yes, we'd only be a burden if we stayed." The boys reacted quickly and immediately ran towards Emerald Lake.

"Based on my experience in the martial world, there might be an ambush ahead." Chen Changqing's eyes narrowed slightly as he grabbed Li Erniu, who was trying to escape.

Despite having a significant numerical advantage, the Ye family cultivators only engaged in prolonged combat without launching an attack, clearly indicating they had ulterior motives.

Now that the Queen Wolf Fang Bee has been eliminated, we should divide our forces to hunt down the Fairy Seedling.

Sure enough, the boys ran for more than a hundred meters.

scoff!

A slender, flexible sword sliced ​​through the sky, passing by the boy running in the lead.

Before he could even scream, the boy was already decapitated.

hiss!

The group of teenagers suddenly stopped and gasped in shock!

"There's an ambush!"

The Zhou family head and his five retainers looked extremely grim.

Two monks emerged from behind a large rock on one side of the road.

An ugly woman at the fourth level of Qi Refining, and a young man.

"Ah Jiang, this is your first battle in the cultivation world! Follow me to slay the remaining immortal seedlings, and do not be careless!"

"Don't worry, sister-in-law!"

"With our magical artifacts at our disposal, killing these fledgling immortals is no different than slaughtering chickens and dogs!"

Although the young man was only at the third level of Qi Refining, he showed no fear and was eager to try.

Clearly, this ugly woman wanted to use these magical seedlings to temper her brother-in-law's character.

Indeed, these young men before us have shallow cultivation, know almost no magic, and have no magical weapons at their disposal, making them excellent whetstones.

"kill!"

The ugly woman struck first, without even using her magic weapon, and casually cleaved a young man in half at the waist with a gust of wind.

However, she did not indulge in killing; instead, she took good care of the young cultivators.

"Sister-in-law, killing... and you feel so satisfied!"

A young man sighed after easily taking the life of a teenager with a magical artifact.

"Brother Chen, what should we do?"

I'm so scared!

The cultivation world is too... too dangerous, I want to go home and farm...

Li Erniu was so frightened that his legs trembled and his teeth chattered.

call out!call out!

Chen Changqing remained silent and then flicked out two steel balls in succession.

[Flick of spiritual power, experience points +1]

[Flick of spiritual power, experience points +1]

puff!puff!

"Ouch! That hurts! I've been hit by a hidden weapon!"

"Sister-in-law, I can't go on."

"Watch out... the hidden weapon is poisoned..."

Two poisoned steel balls accurately struck the young cultivator of the Ye family, saving the only girl among the Immortal Seedlings.

The girl, named Liu Feifei, was curvaceous with a good figure, and her appearance was above average. She possessed mixed spiritual roots.

The chosen skill is one of the hundred arts of cultivating immortality.

It is said that her father was once an apprentice of a talisman master and could draw several low-level talismans.