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"Plant demons are this ferocious. I'm really curious about what kind of thugs those cultivators who make a living by gathering spiritual plants are."

Su Yan muttered a curse in his heart, but still stepped forward to fight the fierce bean sprout.

I said I'd update at 3 AM yesterday, but I ended up updating too late and accidentally fell asleep on the carpet. My chest hurt all afternoon.

I'll update earlier today to catch up on yesterday's update.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 90 Hiccup

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"Snapped--"

The illusion of water condensed into arm armor, spreading from Su Yan's shoulders to the front of his arms, like a dragon that stretched over his shoulders. As Su Yan moved around, the viscous water was accelerated and transformed into a sturdy weapon like a meteor hammer.

Su Yan placed his arms horizontally in front of him, blocking the plant demon's mid-air kick with a shoulder-width stance. Meanwhile, his inner arm, used to protect his heart, struck the plant demon's chest with a swinging punch, using his weight and strength advantage to send it flying.

"Fox Wonton!"

Su Yan caught up without stopping, using her follow-up technique to strike its head, shattering the chrysanthemum stamen that it had been holding to its forehead into scattered petals.

The dragon-like arm armor, draped over the shoulder, was manipulated by Su Yan's water control ability. All the viscous water flowed backward from his left hand down his shoulder to his right fingertips, and the sandbag-sized contact surface slammed into the plant demon's landing body.

The water, mixed with a large amount of spiritual energy, now bound its body like shackles.

Su Yan was also affected by the backlash from the non-Newtonian fluid, flying back several meters and sliding a distance before finally coming to a stop.

"A cunning villain!"

The plant demon, bound in shackles, was furious. But the more it struggled, the tighter the water illusion binding its neck and limbs became, with each layer of its bindings stacking up. Finally, with the sound of several branches breaking, the plant demon collapsed to the ground, exhausted.

Most plant demons are of the wood or earth element, so when facing a water element cultivator of similar cultivation level, the plant demon can grow hardened roots to kill Su Yan, but the result is that it cannot break through the water flow around Su Yan!

Once it gets within three meters of Su Yan, the water flowing around it bites it several times like a venomous snake.

Su Yan followed his aunt to cultivate water magic. The water streams he used were all made by mixing a large amount of demonic power. The stronger the speed and power of the water streams, the more outrageous and solid the tension they formed on the surface of the water streams became. If they could be broken, the water streams around Su Yan would not scatter, but would shatter!

"Damn it, even if you use me to refine pills, remember to choose some excellent alchemists. I despise those incompetent alchemists whose success rate is less than 60%! Otherwise, I'll haunt you like a vengeful ghost even after I die!"

The plant demon, submerged on the ground by the water, saw Su Yan approaching to pick it up. Its face contorted with rage, and it sternly warned Su Yan that if he intended to use it for alchemy, he must choose a genius alchemist. The plant demon had already suffered enough humiliation in life, and it did not want to be ruined by incompetent alchemists after its death.

"What's the origin of this plant demon? I feel like its eloquence is comparable to Shan Huan's."

Su Yan picked up the spiritual plant from the ground and looked at the queen bees guarding the surroundings, asking them a question.

"Reporting to the young master, this is a Moon Lotus, a plant that contains toxins, but the toxicity is not high and it has little medicinal value."

"But it has some ornamental value," the queen bee honestly replied to Su Yan.

The Moon Lotus is a poisonous herb, but it won't kill people and has no medicinal value. Its only use is that it can gather some moonlight at night, allowing unintelligent beasts to quickly absorb some spiritual energy.

The Queen Bee's answer was simple and unpretentious. If this Moon Gathering Lotus really had any value, it wouldn't have been able to live in the territory ruled by the King of Qin Yuan Bee for so long without being picked by demons or humans.

"?!"

Su Yan didn't react much. He had been wondering how he could be so lucky to encounter a plant demon when he hadn't left Wenwen's hive that far. Now that the Queen Bee had explained, Su Yan nodded in understanding.

But Ju Yuelian clearly couldn't accept this explanation and immediately flew into a rage, saying, "How could it be worthless? I've cultivated for almost two hundred years! The spiritual energy was incredibly abundant when I was used as medicine! What do you know!"

“It is precisely because you have no value that no cultivator picks you, allowing you to cultivate intelligence and successfully live to the early stage of Foundation Establishment,” said the Bee King. “Unless it is like the Spirit Gathering Pill, which uses spirit stones as the main ingredient, low-level pills basically preserve the medicinal power and remove the spiritual power, so that low-level cultivators can refine them more easily.”

The Queen Bee spoke in a manner unlike that of a wild mountain demon, suggesting she had lived in a human city. Her words were clear, logical, and well-reasoned, reassuring the Gathering Moon Lotus Plant Demon that it need not worry about being captured by cultivators and turned into pills.

But Queen Bee's comforting words were of no use; instead, they caused the entire Echeveria elegans plant to wither.

"Waaah, I'm a weed. I've become a weed, a worthless weed."

Ju Yuelian clung to Su Yan's sleeve and wailed, the kind of crying that Su Yan couldn't soothe no matter what he did.

It thought that it was of a rare and precious species, sprouted from some kind of powerful plant spirit, and that it would dominate the region after its innate supernatural powers were awakened. However, the words of the Queen Bee Wen left Juyuelian dumbfounded.

It wasn't that I was lucky and no one noticed me picking it; it was simply because it wasn't worth picking. Others would just glance at it and move on, not even bothering to bend down and take a closer look.

"Wow"

The Moon Lotus, which doesn't cry even when its roots are broken, cries its heart out after it returns to its original form.

Despite its small size, its lung capacity was extraordinary. Helpless, Su Yan could only return to Wenwen's beehive first.

With Ju Yuelian's loud voice, she could scare away other demonic beasts from five miles away.

"Why did you bring home a weed?" Auntie glanced at the plant spirit in Su Yan's arms and said with a look of disgust, "Hurry up and throw it out, it's filthy. Let Qian Zhi treat the wound on your face for you."

In the battle against the Gathering Moon Lotus Demon, Su Yan won decisively, but the plant demon still left abrasions on his arms and cheeks caused by hardened roots.

"A Moon Lotus that was just dug up?" Qian Zhi leaned closer to admire the Moon Lotus. The Moon Lotus demon, still reeling from the blow, looked at the alchemist with hopeful eyes, wishing to hear a different answer from her:

"It's a pretty nice ornamental plant, but where's that flower on its head? Without that slightly poisonous flower, the Moonflower won't have any mosquito-repelling effect."

The flowers on the head of the Juyuelian (a type of lotus) are slightly poisonous. The wives of Emperor Yu of the Xia Dynasty would plant it in the garden to repel mosquitoes and sometimes prevent small animals from coming into their homes to defecate.

"Alright, there's no need to coax it anymore. The entire plant demon has completely lost its dreams."

Ju Yuelian had a peaceful expression on her face as she lay flat on Su Yan's palm, her tears finally dried.

"By the way, come with me for a moment. The Spirit Gathering Elixir has been refined today. Take it while it's still hot! It's at its most potent now."

"We're still missing three ingredients for the Marrow Cleansing Pill. We should be able to collect them all in a couple of days, right?"

Qian Zhi pointed to the brand-new bath tub next to the alchemy furnace and told Su Yan to drink the hot alchemical liquid.

There are several forms of pills. The pills that are commonly found in pharmacies are specially coated with a layer of elixir to make them easier to preserve.

Dan liquid is the original form of elixir, in which all the raw materials have been fully fused together. Drinking it has the same effect as elixir, except that because it is in liquid form, it is very susceptible to contamination by external substances.

Since the person taking the medicine was right next to her, Qian Zhi was too lazy to spend the time and effort to make the pills. She let Su Yan drink them down in big gulps. If he couldn't finish them, he could put them in his storage ring and drink a few sips when he was thirsty.

"Medicated bath?"

Looking at the bucket, which was even bigger than himself, Su Yan was filled with astonishment and asked the alchemist again to confirm the consumption procedure.

"For internal use!"

Qian Zhi bent down slightly, opened her mouth, and reached into her mouth with both hands, indicating that Su Yan should drink it in big gulps like this when she stood in front of the bathtub. Anyway, because of the senior's contribution, the Spirit Gathering Pill only costs money in terms of spirit stones, and the other spiritual plants don't cost a penny. It would be a waste not to drink it.

The price of Gathering Spirit Pills is very high; this bucket of pills is equivalent to the potency of more than 600 Gathering Spirit Pills.

However, the cost price is only a little over two hundred catties of spirit stones.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 91 The Queen Bee's Royal Jelly

"This little thing...it's got something."

Mei'er rested on the wine jar, tilting her head to look at the newly designated alchemy room not far away. Qian Zhi was using her spiritual sense as eyes to assist her in alchemy. Four of the six alchemy furnaces in front of her were burning red-hot, as if they were about to melt.

The remaining two were shrouded in wisps of smoke, exuding an air of leisurely contentment.

However, the Queen Bee of Qinyuan was not focused on her, but rather on manipulating the liquid in the bucket, which flew towards Su Yan in her mouth, and then she sat down to meditate and refine the medicinal power.

Mei'er had been watching Su Yan for several days and roughly knew the reason why the arrogant insect queen kicked down the cave.

Generally speaking, cultivators in the Body Refining and Qi Refining stages do not need to take pills to assist their cultivation. They only need to eat beast meat to supplement their nutrition and prevent themselves from becoming deficient in the body during the process of refining essence into qi.

When one reaches the Foundation Establishment stage, it is a realm that requires replenishing a large amount of spiritual energy in order to open up all the meridians in one's body more quickly and build an endless cycle in the body with the Golden Core as the foundation.

The proud insect queen's nephew had just reached the Foundation Establishment stage, so naturally he needed to consume a large number of pills to help him quickly break through the Foundation Establishment stage, which was as difficult as water dripping through stone, and advance to the Golden Core stage.

However, Su Yan's spiritual energy tolerance and actual usable demonic power reserves are inconsistent with Mei'er's cognition and common sense. She has more than a dozen children, either her own or those she picked up.

Mei'er has seen all kinds of Foundation Establishment stage children, both of the same variety but different colors, and all of different varieties but different colors, but she has never seen one as big-eater and physically strong as Su Yan.

"Furthermore, water-based cultivators shouldn't be able to control liquids unrelated to themselves, right?"

Mei'er couldn't help but lick her lips, developing a strong interest in the young-looking male beast before her:

"I wonder what it's like to taste the flavor of that arrogant nephew? He's always pouting his tender face in front of me, stirring up all the lust in Mei'er's heart."

These past few days have been incredibly frustrating for the former Queen Bee of the Mountain King. Before, she lived a life of revelry and debauchery in the Western Mountains, and the first thing she did every morning was think about whose little husband she would favor.

But ever since Jiaochong took over the mountain bee colony, because Jiaochong prefers a quiet life, all the frivolous and inappropriate programs for children have been stopped, and even the queen bee Meier of Qinyuan has become quite bland.

Although Su Yan was not quite full and was considered a cub-level beast in the eyes of the demon race, Mei'er, as the mountain queen, obviously wouldn't care about such trivial matters.

"Where's the big lecherous worm? I'll cure it for you." Auntie appeared silently behind Mei'er, looking at the queen bee whose face was flushed with desire but who wasn't producing royal jelly, and spoke softly.

The words "lewd insect" clearly triggered a key phrase, causing the aunt, who had been lying in the rocking chair with her eyes closed, to open them.

"No, there's only the Arrogant Insect King here." Mei'er's flirtatious expression froze, and she answered her aunt without turning her head. Then she obediently continued producing royal jelly for the Nascent Soul stage demon.

The aunt glanced at Mei'er, then looked at Su Yan who was refining pills, a conflicted expression on her face.

………………

"Here's the royal jelly you wanted."

Two days later, Mei'er finally carried a wine jar containing about forty catties of royal jelly to the alchemy room and handed it to Qian Zhi, her face full of pain.

Each queen bee's own offspring, only one, can drink a maximum of two catties of royal jelly produced by her in its lifetime.

The arrogant insect smashed a wine jar in front of her and ordered Mei'er to fill the jar. If she couldn't fill the jar, the arrogant insect would extract her demon core and refine it into pills to feed his nephew.

"Thank you for your kindness, Senior Qin Yuan."

A verdant glow swirled around her arm, and plant branches spread out, performing healing magic. Qianzhi, tending to the wound on Su Yan's chest, turned back to look at the Queen Bee of Qinyuan, who had just spoken, her face full of gratitude.

However, after she clearly saw the container, she stared at the wine jar in astonishment, then looked at the Queen Bee of Qinyuan:

"Is this whole jar of wine made with royal jelly?"

The amount of royal jelly needed to refine the Spirit Cleansing Pill is about five qian (approximately 15 grams).

"This is all royal jelly I produced myself. The king said that if we don't use it all, my little nephew can make it into a drink."

Mei'er sighed softly and asked, "How did the young master get injured? Was it because the concubines failed to protect him properly?"

In the days leading up to the preparation of the Spirit Cleansing Pill, Su Yan wandered around the mountains. The queen bees, following the instructions of the proud insect queen, found some opponents for Su Yan to train his spellcasting.

The queen bees naturally dared not slack off, and led Su Yan over mountains and valleys to find some equally matched enemies.

To be fair, the demon race is quite unrestrained. The queen bees directly stormed into people's caves, ganged up on those seemingly capable demons, beat them to a pulp, and then selected one or two Foundation Establishment stage demon beasts for Su Yan to fight.