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Chapter 305 Optimization of [Jade Bee] Bloodline [Subscription Request]

It turned out that Zhou Daoyi had practiced dual cultivation with Lin Hongyu a long time ago!

When Zhou Chun learned about this from Zhou Mingde, he was also extremely shocked.

His strong curiosity made him want to get to the bottom of the matter and ask for details.

But for Zhou Daoyi's sake, Zhou Mingde didn't dare to reveal the real details and only said that it was a special situation under unexpected circumstances.

Although he was unwilling to say it clearly, Zhou Chun recalled the previous interactions between his family and Lin Hongyu and roughly guessed the time when the incident happened.

Then his mood became a little complicated.

However, this also reminded me of how he and Su Yuzhen met.

In a sense, the emotional experiences of the two generations of Zhou family heads are quite similar.

No wonder Zhou Daoyi had no objection to his actions when he came back from the Su family.

With his intelligence, he certainly understood what Zhou Mingde meant by "I've figured it out".

I'm afraid it's the same as what happened to me before. Zhou Mingde has been doing a lot of ideological work on Zhou Daoyi over the years, trying to make Zhou Daoyi accept Lin Hongyu and marry her into the Zhou family.

Now it seems that Zhou Daoyi, like him, finally couldn't hold on any longer and chose to compromise.

Zhou Chun didn't know whether to be happy or sad about this.

If Lin Hongyu joins the Zhou family, it will undoubtedly be a good thing for the Zhou family.

In that case, apart from the Jindan family, the Zhou family will be considered a first-class existence among the immortal cultivation families in the future.

But for Zhou Daoyi personally, when he made this choice, he must have felt extremely uncomfortable!

But now that things have come to this, and Zhou Daoyi has made his decision, what can Zhou Chun say?

He could only watch Zhou Daoyi take Lin Wan'er away from the Zhou family and head to Chengguo to meet Lin Hongyu.

Less than half a month later, Lin Hongyu returned to Lanzhou with Zhou Daoyi.

It was just because the ancestor of the Su family was still in charge inside the Zhou family’s mountain gate, and in order to prevent the news from leaking out, Zhou Mingde had to go outside the family to meet her.

The meeting between the two went smoothly.

Lin Hongyu has agreed to become a Taoist partner with Zhou Daoyi and become the honorary supreme elder of the Zhou family.

At the same time, he also agreed to go to Yangguo to mine the [Tuyuan Crystal Jade] mine.

But she also made her own demands.

That is to take Lin Wan'er away to help her, and let the Zhou family fund the formations and some magical weapons and elixirs needed to build a stronghold.

Naturally, the Zhou family would not refuse such a request.

Zhou Mingde personally went to the You family to order relevant formation equipment, and also allocated some magic weapons and elixirs from the family treasury and gave them to her.

After getting all these things, Lin Hongyu did not delay at all and quickly took Lin Wan'er and set off.

By this time, the insect plague had been eradicated and the reconstruction of Yang State had begun. The sooner she went there, the easier it would be to turn the situation around.

After all, the original immortal cultivation forces of Yang State had suffered heavy losses, and many of them had their inheritance directly cut off.

Now that piece of land is almost blank, and whoever goes there first will be able to seize the opportunity.

If Lin Hongyu went to occupy the place where the [Earth Crystal Jade] mine was located at this time, it would seem very normal and would definitely not arouse suspicion.

After Lin Hongyu and the Earth Yuan Crystal Jade mines were settled and handled, the Zhou family no longer had any important matters that required Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun and other senior executives to worry about.

The entire Zhou family returned to its previous state of calm yet rapid development.

Soon half a year passed, and the ancestor of the Su family fulfilled his promise to the Zhou family and returned to the Su family with honor.

At his request, Su Yuzhen temporarily bid farewell to Zhou Chun and returned to the Su family to meditate.

Zhou Chun didn't feel too sad about Su Yuzhen's departure.

Although the relationship between him and Su Yuzhen has made considerable progress in the past two years, the two of them often discuss the way of dual cultivation together.

But perhaps due to his personality, it was really difficult for him to develop that kind of inseparable feelings towards a female cultivator.

Perhaps in the dead of night, he would miss and reminisce about the joy of his time in the boudoir with Su Yuzhen, but most of the time he was still devoted to his spiritual practice.

Now Zhou Chun is very focused on practicing the art of insect breeding, because recently he suddenly had an idea. He wants to use the art to cultivate the [Jade Spirit Bee] originally domesticated by the Zhou family and increase the population of this spirit bee.

Demonic bees are also a type of demonic insect that is commonly used by insect cultivators, but the demonic bees used in combat are usually carnivorous poisonous bees.

Honey-producing demon bees like the [Jade Spirit Bee] do not have strong combat power and are usually cultivated by insect cultivators as economical demon insects to earn spirit coins to support the insect colony.

The insect cultivator Han Yuan himself did not do much research on demon bees, and his research direction was not on bees and insects.

Fortunately, the Qianlingmen classics he left behind contained a lot of knowledge about the cultivation of honey-producing bees, which provided Zhou Chun with feasible material for reference.

In addition, the Zhou family has been domesticating the [Jade Spirit Bee] for so many years, and they have also recorded and studied the various situations of this kind of spirit bee, which can save Zhou Chun a lot of observation and recording time.

In fact, normally speaking, with the reproduction speed of bee-like monster insects, the Zhou family's [Jade Spirit Bee] colony should expand at an average rate of doubling every year.

But in fact, the expansion of the [Jade Bee] swarm is restricted by two factors.

One is the growth potential of the demon insect. Not all eggs laid by the Jade Spirit Bee will become demon bees when they grow up. In fact, most of the eggs laid will just be large bees when they grow up.

The second is the food supply of the bee colony. The Jade Bee mainly eats pollen, nectar and the produced nectar. The pollen comes preferably from the flowers of various elixirs and trees.

However, the number of magical herbs and trees is limited, and many species do not bloom once a year.

This results in the bee colonies having to consciously and actively control their numbers in order to avoid starvation, and they dare not reproduce too many offspring.

The second factor is easy to explain. The Zhou family is now on the rise. If they were to propose cooperation requests to some immortal cultivation families in Lanzhou and even in neighboring states according to the conditions they had offered to the Wang family of Hongyao Valley, I think not many would refuse.

In this way, raising bees by borrowing the medicinal fields and orchards of other families can expand the size of the bee colony several times, or even ten times!
The first factor is the direction Zhou Chun needs to focus on.

He had to use the insect-breeding technique passed down by the Qianling Sect to eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and actively promote the optimization of the [Jade Spirit Bee] population's bloodline, so that the appearance rate of demon bees in their offspring would be greatly increased.

In this regard, some secret medicines and secret techniques must be used to help.

It has to be said that Qianlingmen, as an expert in insect play, has indeed achieved a very high level of research and development in various insect repellent and insect breeding secret techniques.

In the art of raising insects, they have special secret techniques that can stimulate the appetite and estrus time of demon insects, and even prolong the dormancy time of demon insects. These secret techniques can greatly assist the growth of demon insects.

For example, one of the most common combinations is to use secret techniques to stimulate the appetite of the monster insect so that it can swallow a large amount of food at one time, and then use the secret techniques to extend the monster insect's hibernation time, allowing it to digest the nutrients contained in the food during hibernation and grow and mature faster.

These secret techniques may have some adverse effects on the lifespan of the demon insects, but they can indeed save a lot of time when doing certain research.

When Zhou Chun was doing research at that time, he took out thirty larvae from the hive and cultivated and grew them individually.

Under his individual cultivation, the larvae that originally took about three months to mature matured in just one month.

Whether the offspring of the Jade Spirit Bee can become demon bees will be revealed the moment they mature.

With very few exceptions, most demon bees complete their evolution after transforming from larvae to mature forms.

Under normal circumstances, the [Jade Spirit Bee] that evolves into a demon bee after maturity will be accepted by the bee colony and become one of its members.

Those bees that do not become demon bees will be driven away or killed.

I don’t know whether Zhou Chun was lucky or because he invested a lot of money in breeding these larvae.

The original evolution success rate of one in ten was almost doubled this time. A total of five [Jade Spirit Bees] were bred from thirty larvae.

These five [Jade Spirit Bees] are no different from normal spirit bees, but they are all worker bees.

Although worker bees can also lay eggs, the eggs laid by these worker bees are difficult to grow and evolve into demon bees after hatching.

What Zhou Chun has to do next is to make a queen bee emerge from among these five [Jade Spirit Bees].

According to Qianlingmen's research records, the most effective way to optimize the bloodline of a bee colony is to optimize the bloodline of the queen bee itself.

Because the other spirit bees in the bee colony are all born by the queen bee, as long as the queen bee's own bloodline is optimized, the bloodline of its offspring will naturally be stronger.

But there is only one queen bee in the Zhou family's beehive now. Zhou Chun cannot use that queen bee for the experiment. If the experiment fails and the queen bee dies, the loss will be huge.

Therefore, he could only breed a small bee colony again, breed a new queen bee, and then conduct experiments on the new queen bee.

Before obtaining the inheritance of Qianlingmen, it was extremely difficult for the Zhou family to cultivate a new queen bee.

But for Zhou Chun, who has now inherited the Qianling Sect, cultivating a new queen bee is not a difficult task.

In a natural bee colony, when the queen bee dies unexpectedly, a worker bee from among the other worker bees will take her place and become the new queen bee.

At the same time, when the bee colony is divided, the new queen bee is also created in this way.

[Jade Spirit Bee] As a demon bee, the birth of a queen bee is much more difficult than that of an ordinary bee, but the process is generally similar.

At this time, Zhou Chun fed a strong worker bee with a secret medicine made with royal jelly as the main ingredient, and used secret techniques to stimulate its growth.

It only took two months to cultivate a new queen bee.

However, this new queen bee cannot be used for experiments, because after all, it was bred by some means and its quality is relatively poor.

Its real use to Zhou Chun is to add bricks and tiles to the new bee colony and expand the number of bee colonies.

When it expands the bee colony to a certain size, Zhou Chun will kill it and let the bee colony automatically produce a new queen bee.

Only then can the new queen bee be used for experiments.

While conducting these insect breeding experiments, Zhou Chun also simultaneously started negotiating cooperation with other families.

Today, the Zhou family is on the rise and owns many special spiritual objects. As expected, most families did not object to the cooperation plan proposed by the Zhou family.

In just one year, the Zhou family signed cooperation contracts with 25 immortal cultivation families of all sizes. In the future, the Zhou family's [Jade Spirit Bee] groups can collect flowers and make honey in the mountain gates of these cooperative families, and then settle the payment with spiritual honey or spiritual coins.

At the same time, as part of the cooperation, the Zhou family will give priority to supplying these cooperative families with monster cubs such as the octagonal sambar deer and dragon-scale horse.

Of course, the monster cubs supplied will only be males, and they will be castrated.

The Zhou family would never sell real breeding animals to anyone.

The price of purchasing a breeding beast cannot be the price of an ordinary transportation mount.

Now, apart from the Zhou family, only the Su family, which had just helped the Zhou family a lot, owns the Eight-Angled Water Deer and Dragon-Scale Horse breeding animals given by the Zhou family, which were given as a betrothal gift by Zhou Chun when he proposed marriage.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, another three years had passed.

During these short three years, some changes have taken place in the Zhou family.

Several elderly cultivators of the "Jia" generation passed away, and a cultivator from the Zhou family failed to build his foundation after taking the foundation-building pill.

The cultivator who failed in building his foundation was Zhou Zhengtao, who was of the same generation as Zhou Chun.

Zhou Zhengtao was also a very outstanding member of the Zhou family among the "Zheng" generation. Thanks to the rapid development of the Zhou family over the years, he has also accumulated a lot of good deeds for the family.

This time, after he collected 5,000 points with borrowed good deeds, he exchanged them for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

It’s a pity that his luck was obviously not as good as Zhou Zhengyong’s, and he ultimately failed to build his foundation.

As the second person who took the Foundation Establishment Pill but failed after the Zhou family settled in Jiufengling, Zhou Zhengtao's failure this time had a much smaller impact than Zhou Jiacheng's failure.

This is of course because the current Zhou family is no longer what it used to be. Whether it is a Purple Mansion cultivator or a Foundation Establishment cultivator, there are successors.

Apart from Zhou Zhengtao himself who was depressed and upset, only the monks who lent him good deeds were affected.

After all, anyone who can lend him good deeds has a good relationship with him no matter what.

As the clan leader, Zhou Chun was quite open-minded about this matter, because he had also failed once before.

Therefore, he did not have any opinion about Zhou Zhengtao. Instead, he comforted Zhou Zhengtao very tolerantly and generously, just like Zhou Daoyi comforted Zhou Jiacheng at the beginning.

This action made Zhou Zhengtao, who used to be quite jealous and dissatisfied with him, feel ashamed and guilty, and from then on he was truly convinced by him.

However, the biggest change in the Zhou family over the past three years has come from Zhou Chun.

First, his spiritual pet, the golden-armored rock turtle, successfully broke through to the second-level intermediate grade, allowing his own strength to increase again.

Later, the optimization experiment of the [Jade Bee] that he led the research on also reached a critical moment.

At this time, the number of newly cultivated bee colonies has reached thirty, and the second-generation queen bee has been cultivated by him to a level that is not much worse than the queen bee in the current large bee colony.

Next, he can officially start the bloodline optimization experiment on this second-generation queen bee.

(End of this chapter)