Cultivation begins with harvest.

The growth environment required for the Tianxing Tiger Bee, besides a peaceful home on a meteorite, must be warm, well-ventilated, safe, and free from natural enemies. It also requires a certain concentration of spiritual energy and a high yield of nectar.

They particularly favor flowers that can produce a large amount of nectar from a single bloom, and do not have strict requirements for specific types of spiritual plants.

The amount of nectar collected by the Tianxing tiger bee is quite exaggerated, half for making honey and half for sustenance. When there is little nectar, even survival is a problem.

Chen Guang found that the cost of settling them in was relatively low. However, fire-attribute spiritual plants generally have short flowering periods and their nectar is thick but not abundant. It is necessary to supplement them with some water-attribute spiritual flowers and wood-attribute spiritual flowers. The former has a sufficient amount of nectar, while the latter is balanced in all aspects, has a longer flowering period, and its nectar is plentiful and viscous.

Chen Guang asked the innkeeper to deliver the three meteorites containing the Heavenly Star Tiger-Striped Bee to the branch building, specifically instructing that there be any living creatures among them. He then went to the Scripture Pavilion to pay back the more than 60,000 grains of silver he had paid this year, and inquired about the Star Gray Moss. He learned that this was a spiritual item on the rotation list even in the Purple Spirit Pavilion. This was because although it was not difficult to obtain, in non-Nine Heavens environments, it would often wither and die due to insufficient supply of stellar power. To cultivate it, one needed to specially draw stellar power from the Nine Heavens. The stellar power obtained in this way was actually of a high purity, which was beneficial to cultivators but harmful to the Star Gray Moss. It had too few impurities and could only be compensated for by quantity, making it unaffordable for ordinary people to cultivate. Those rogue cultivator families would not specially supply such a spiritual plant that was not particularly prominent in the market. Chen Guang only had these two plants available for the time being.

Such trouble was not a big deal for Chen Guang.

There are ways to deal with this, but they seem unorthodox. Using the "Variegated Wood," which has excellent tolerance, adaptability, and tolerance limits and can form its own small ecosystem, as the main material, adding some mixed pollution attributes can artificially create conditions that can pollute the power of stars.

Chen Guang happened to possess such things, and the Night Plague Bone was one of them.

Star Ash Moss draws upon the power of the stars, Variegated Wood pollutes the power of the stars, and then Star Ash Moss purifies it once more to obtain pure star power.

The whole process may seem a bit redundant, but it is precisely because of this extra step that we can obtain high-quality stellar power without killing the Star Ash Moss.

Even for cultivators, a little information can be of great help and bring about significant change.

The process of selecting Variegated Wood is very easy. This highly adaptable spiritual plant has a great market and can effectively restrain the spiritual energy centered on Variegated Wood from spreading outward. It is the first choice for cultivating many small ecosystems. Because its cultivation difficulty is not high, it has not been raised to an unacceptable price due to the market's popularity. However, it is not cheap either. A section of Variegated Wood that is thick and long enough is almost as expensive as a mid-grade spiritual weapon.

Upon returning to his courtyard, Chen Guang spent considerable effort clearing out a well-lit area to place the variegated wood.

The space in my own yard now feels a bit cramped.

The fire array flowerpots by the wall represent twenty fire-attribute spiritual plants, as well as the old Moon Rainbows that are still used to collect Moon Essence, although no new ones have been added, and a large number of cold-attribute, duckweed-like spiritual plants occupy the main position, along with the spiritual tools that hold them.

This once spacious courtyard is increasingly proving insufficient.

Carefully, they removed a bright red stone that resembled a broken organ or a strangely shaped chicken claw covered in skin and bones.

This is what Night Plague Bone looks like. As a water-attribute material, Night Plague Bone is highly polluting. In the absence of light, it can breed some highly contagious plague diseases. Accidental contact can harm oneself.

However, as long as it is placed in the variegated wood and other spiritual objects are used to weaken the Night Plague Bone, the conditions inside the variegated wood will naturally pollute the star power that is drawn in, and this power will be contained within the bones. The degree of pollution is not deep enough to make the Star Gray Moss grow strong, but it is enough to give the Star Gray Moss a good meal.

The Night Plague Bone, infused with variegated wood, immediately shimmered with a light blue hue, yet with faint pink edges, like a hazy glow. As it penetrated Chen Guang's arrangement, it finally transformed into wispy, thread-like spots of light, as if projected onto leaves, illuminating the variegated wood.

From the outside, it was hard to see any changes or anything special, but Chen Guang could already sense some spiritual energy permeating and changing the variegated wood.

After dealing with the Night Plague Bone, the grayish-black Star Gray Moss, which had little presence, was placed inside. Other arrangements were also made to guide the power of the stars to the extraterrestrial meteorite at the other end of the Variegated Wood. The final light-blocking treatment was also done, and only then was the task completed.

Stardust cannot be exposed to direct sunlight; only sufficiently high and open locations are conducive to its absorption of the stellar energy, hence the need for such treatment.

Then there's the Tianxing tiger bee, still holed up in the meteorite.

All you need to do is select the strongest one from this group of Heavenly Star Tiger-striped Bees, brand it with a contract, and then use the Beast Taming Skill [Spirit Crown] to give it the ability to command the other Heavenly Star Tiger-striped Bees.

This makes them wiser and stronger, and gives them the ability to command up to a hundred of their kind.

Like the Star Gray Moss, the area beyond the Nine Heavens is not the most suitable environment for their survival. Although it will not cause the Heavenly Star Tiger-striped Bees to lose their ability to reproduce, it does mean that a few meteorites from outer space are not enough for them to grow in size. The limit of this group of Heavenly Star Tiger-striped Bees will not exceed one hundred of the Imperial Spirit Crown.

The primary purpose of this swarm of Star Tiger Bees is to consume the surplus value of the flower sea in the Land of Supreme Yang and provide some of the raw materials for the chain amber needed by the water ginger. Only then can they produce Star Amber Honey to increase income.

Another hidden benefit was what Chen Guang valued.

As cultivation deepened, the intuition became increasingly clear that a rich ecosystem greatly benefited various spiritual plants. In a vibrant and harmonious environment, chaotic spiritual energy could be neutralized or even eliminated, so that the millet would not be lost to mitigate the damage. However, the effect was only barely adequate, merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause.

A self-consistent environment is more beneficial to high-level spiritual plants than other spiritual objects.

One of the difficulties in taming the Tianxing Tiger Bee is that although it is gentle in nature, it is extremely tense and sensitive when it curls up inside the meteorite. Being too violent will make it very easy for it to get injured in the struggle.

Healing insects and beasts was beyond Chen Guang's capabilities.

First, use the Ancestral Blood Seal to lower their guard, then proceed slowly. Feed them by sprinkling some nectar and spiritual liquid at the cave entrance every day. With time, they will naturally become familiar with it.

"Let's go to Yunlou."

When such thoughts arose, Chen Guang no longer suppressed his feelings. After arranging his family affairs, and because he was unsure of his return time, he gave Cao Fang a few words of advice before steer the Green Leaf Boat to the Array Cloud Tower.

As Chen Guang ventured deeper into the Cloud Tower, the mist that had been drifting over him naturally dissipated. A peach orchard so deep it was dizzying to look at, like a bloodstain, kept magnifying before his eyes. Only when he got close could he see the pink petals falling and carpeting the ground with a soft texture.

Silently, as a petal landed on Chen Guang, images of women appeared in his mind, extremely blurry yet very clearly trying to guide Chen Guang's thoughts in a certain direction.

"Is it used to create an array to block the petals from falling towards oneself?"

Chen Guang suddenly realized.