The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 146: Queen Bee Transforms into a Demon, Refined in an Instant (First Update)
In the spiritual platform, green light rises, mixed with gorgeous colors such as light purple, crimson blue, bright yellow, and rose red, creating a splendid scene.

Under the reflection of the rosy clouds, the cyan-gold Taihao Palace flickered, adding a sense of substance.

Even the banyan tree forest below became more ancient and profound. The light points reflected by the will of the spirit world floated in it, like a fairy tale.

Li Qing's eyes lit up slightly. His sudden increase in consciousness made it impossible for him to completely restrain it. If he looked into someone's eyes, it would be enough to confuse their consciousness.

He finished his training and stood up, looking at the sky full of blue clouds: "This essence of rosy clouds is really a good thing."

Suddenly, a feeling of being stabbed in the back arose in his heart.

Li Qing was busy circulating his true energy, turning it into a protective shield. He suddenly turned around and saw a group of hornets with overlapping circles of dark green and light blue, with their stingers raised under their abdomens, attacking him like a torrential rain.

"Da da da da..."

The bee was incredibly strong and its stinger was very sharp. It hit the Zhenyuan shield and actually made a shallow dent.

Li Qing flicked his hand, and the spiritual fire turned into a cauldron, covering the swarm of bees. Then he used strong fire to roast the bees, causing them to run around in panic.

After a while, the tempting aroma of burnt food wafted out from the spiritual fire cauldron.

Li Qing swept his spiritual sense over the area and saw that there was no one alive, so he dispersed the spiritual fire and rolled up his true energy to gather the roasted bees in front of him.

He used a medicinal identification technique to determine that it was non-toxic after being cooked. He then used his spiritual sense to observe and found no traces of human blood. Then he picked one up, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it carefully.

"Well, twenty years later, the wasps from the Qingxia Secret Realm still taste great!"

He looked around, channeling his true energy into his eyes. His eyes were bright and he looked around: "Hey, I didn't dare to touch your nest back then. This time I want to poke a hornet's nest..."

This hornet is the overlord of the Qingxia Secret Realm. The sting of a living wasp has the effect of breaking magic. The protective shield formed by ordinary magic power cannot withstand a sting at all.

If they gather in groups, even cultivators in the late stage of Qi training will have to retreat.

When Li Qing entered the secret realm, he suffered from them. Now that he is revisiting the old place in the foundation building stage, he naturally wants to find trouble with them.

Soon, Li Qing's spiritual sense captured the location of the beehive.

He held his breath and searched over, and found a hornet's nest that was as tall as a person and as big as two people could hug in an area surrounded by a large group of green lotuses.

The green hornets either go in and out alone or in groups. They go out empty-footed and come back with small fish or shrimps, or chunks of fish meat, to feed the queen bee and drones in the nest.

In the beehive, greenish-white larvae would occasionally break out of their pupae and compete directly with the adult bees for meat, each one of them being very ferocious.

"Huh? There's an evil spirit!"

Li Qing felt as if his consciousness was being pricked by a needle. Upon closer inspection, the entire beehive was faintly emitting a faint demonic aura, which even stained the surrounding green lotus.

In the beehive, half of the adult bees have been contaminated by the evil spirit, and the unborn bee pupae have all been transformed into evil spirits.

He looked closely and saw that the three simple eyes of the queen bee in the hive were closed, but her pair of compound eyes were actually shining with wisdom.

Judging from its momentum, although it has not reached the second level, it has also faintly broken through the limit of the first level.

"Wow! This queen bee has turned into a demon! Given time, there will probably be another second-level demon beast in this Qingxia Secret Realm!"

In the world of cultivation, there is a clear boundary between spiritual beasts and demon beasts.

Spirit beasts live by absorbing and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and can grow without meat. When they reach the third stage, a spiritual core will condense in their bodies, which can nourish spiritual energy and improve the feng shui of an area.

The monster beasts refine their spiritual energy into demonic energy, craving for blood. If they become intelligent, they will actively pollute the surroundings with demonic energy, and the place they are in will become a demon domain.

This evil spirit can pollute the cultivator's mana and true essence, which can hinder cultivation at the least and cause people to go astray or even die. Of course, there are also monsters and even transformed monsters who admire the truth and take the initiative to cultivate immortality and transform evil spirits into mana and true essence. Because of its special nature, it is several times more powerful than ordinary cultivators.

The half-demon that Yanling Valley had previously adopted was the best among them, and was chosen by its former master to be the successor.

Unfortunately, this guy was an ungrateful person. He eventually betrayed his teacher and ancestors and broke out.

"I originally only intended to dig out some bee pupae as a retribution for you. Now that you have turned into a demon, I can only slay the demon!"

In the Xuanjing Secret Realm, with Xuanjing, a Buddhist second-level spirit beast, any cultivator in the late stage of Qi training who enters there will feel as if they are walking on thin ice.

If there is a violent second-level monster in the Qingxia Secret Realm, letting anyone in from now on would be courting death.

Li Qing waved his hand casually, and his true energy turned into a whirlwind, sweeping away the swarms of bees busy hunting around him. He picked out those that were not contaminated by evil spirits and put them into the spirit beast bag.

"Cry—" The queen bee reacted and let out a sharp cry. The sound wave rushed straight to Li Qing's spiritual platform with a force that shocked the mind.

In the spiritual platform, the big banyan tree swayed slightly, and it could destroy everything without even disturbing the Taihao Palace.

Li Qing laughed loudly, and his true energy turned into a three-meter-long wind blade, splitting the entire beehive in half.

Countless adult bees were cut by the sharp rays of air, and fell onto the green lotus and clear water, and were swallowed by the greedy fish.

The queen bee became more and more furious, and she led the other adult bees to form a formation: "Buzz buzz buzz buzz—"

The power to break the law from the bee's tail stinger also condensed into a beam and attacked Li Qing fiercely.

Li Qing used the same trick again, and the spiritual fire turned into a three-meter-high alchemy furnace, sealing all the demon bees inside, and then he used his minor magical power to continuously refine them.

With the queen bee in command, this group of bees will naturally not run around aimlessly. Instead, they will use their power to break the law to chisel through the furnace.

Fortunately, Li Qing had anticipated this. There was another layer of spiritual fire outside, which turned into a larger alchemy furnace, with rings inside each other, endless, so much so that even the queen bee hesitated.

As soon as the queen bee's breath stagnated, the entire bee colony fell into chaos.

Li Qing opened a hole in the stove and let the wind in. Suddenly, the wind helped the fire, and the fire took advantage of the wind and burned fiercely.

Those bees that were only slightly infected with the evil spirit could not withstand this and were quickly roasted.

Li Qing then used his magical power of spiritual fire to help refine the evil spirit, leaving only a faint burnt fragrance.

He casually opened a hole at the bottom of the stove and broke off a lotus leaf to catch the fire. Suddenly, there was a "crackling" sound, and the crispy bees fell on it like raindrops hitting banana leaves.

When the queen bee saw this, she became anxious and her three eyes that were originally closed finally opened one by one.

"Shhhhh-"

Three misty lights burst out from the bee's eyes.

A method of breaking the spell to make a hole in the stove.

A single blow was enough to freeze the magic power of a Qi-cultivating cultivator, but unfortunately Li Qing's true essence was so deep and strong that it was not affected at all.

A chaotic sound, just like the previous cry, was dissipated by the banyan tree.

Seeing that it had used up all its three tricks and had finally run out of tricks, Li Qing stopped tolerating it and pointed his finger. His true energy turned into wooden spikes and picked out its three eyes.

Then, the magical power of spiritual fire shone on the queen bee and refined it in an instant.

(End of this chapter)