If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1078 The Ten Most Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness
The Bee Taoist asked, "If I hand you over, you'll definitely let me go?"

But you just said that whether I survive or not depends entirely on luck.

—I'm not even sure I'll survive, and now I just wish I could take you down with me.

You think I'll give you the benefits in advance? Dream on!

Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, then sighed, "Fine, one shouldn't be too greedy. I'll take this lump of demonic essence first."

If you are still alive, then covet your secret method.

If you don't survive, your soul will be completely annihilated. I won't be greedy; I'll only take your dozens of nests of Blood Lotus Bees to study breeding techniques myself.

Upon hearing this, Bee Taoist panicked and became afraid.

Yu Fengxian was too greedy; she hoped his soul would be scattered so she could greedily obtain his twenty-seven nests of Blood Lotus Bees.

This is far more precious than the Five Poisons Manual or the Beekeeping Secrets!

—She will definitely find a chance to deliberately kill me!
"Fairy Yu, do you no longer value the integrity you upheld when interrogating immortals?" Bee Daoist shouted.

“Because of my excellent reputation, I won’t force you now. If you’re lucky enough to survive, then I’ll interrogate you about the immortal techniques,” Xiao Yu said.

"No, I will now impart immortal techniques to you, but you must keep your promise and not harm me in any way!" Bee Taoist said urgently.

The word "luck" is frightening to hear.

"Sigh, it concerns my reputation, and I can't refuse!" Xiaoyu sighed with a distressed expression.

After obtaining the secret method from the Bee Taoist, Xiao Yu deliberately avoided the Bee Taoist.

Upon reaching the other end of the demon god's remains, she unleashed the Demon Eye Technique to its limit.

The two eyeballs completely transformed into black vortexes, and a powerful suction force descended upon the surface of the "meteorite".

Wisps of black smoke, resembling the essence of the demon god, emerged from beneath the "meteorite".

The black smoke had just emerged when it stretched into a thin thread and entered Xiaoyu's swirling eye socket.

It's a million times easier and simpler than plundering the essence of the Rotten Eye back then.

Because the essence of the Rotten Demon Eye contains the incomplete will of a demon god, it will struggle and resist fiercely, even severely damaging her own spiritual will, and in turn plundering her spiritual essence.

In her dream, she was torn between the Rotten Eye and the Demon Eye several times.

At this moment, there was not a trace of the demon god's will in the demon god's skull; it was just a lump of energy slowly dissipating and decaying.

Even a heretical and eccentric person like Bee Taoist could plunder the essence from rotting flesh without suffering any backlash.

Not to mention Xiaoyu, who possesses the Demon Eye and can forcibly seize the essence from the Rotten Demon Eye.

As Xiaoyu continued to draw upon the essence of the demon god, her aura rapidly became sinister and ancient.

It's even more antiquated than when she used "Old Mother of Qiushan" to show off in front of the Four Friends of Qionglin.

The Old Mother of Qiushan was an ancient Qi cultivator.

"Primordial Demon Ancestor Xiaoyu" has some of the temperament of the Chaos Demon God before he was separated from the world.

The remains of the demon god beneath her were slowly shrinking.

Its surface of decaying flesh and bones, like ice crystals under the sunlight, was rapidly "evaporating" and disappearing.

After an unknown amount of time, the demon's remains shrank by one-third.

Xiaoyu closed her eyes, ending the plunder of the source.

She sat cross-legged and silently practiced the "Demon Eye Technique" to digest and absorb the newly grown demonic essence.

Having absorbed too much essence earlier, my "stomach" is a bit full.

About half a day after the dream ended, she floated in mid-air again and opened her eyes.

At this moment, the Demon Eye only emitted a faint, eerie light and did not turn into a black vortex.

However, the remnant skull of the demon god below was having its essence extracted even faster.

The efficiency is ten times faster than before.

When the remnant of the demon god shrank to half its original size, Bee Taoist also noticed something amiss.

"Fairy Yu, what are you doing? I feel my power disappearing, my magic and essence being drained by a strange force," he cried out in panic.

"Look down and look closely at the blood vessels and meridians that connect to your body," Xiaoyu reminded her.

When Bee Taoist looked down, he indeed discovered something unusual.

His upper body was like a tree growing on the remains of the demon god's skull, while the nerves and meridians in the rotting flesh were the roots of the tree.

At this moment, the "roots" that were clinging to him were rapidly withering away.

The speed at which it withered far exceeded the speed at which its own power disappeared into thin air.

About two hours later, Bee Taoist, like a "flesh monkey" coated with medicine, suddenly detached from the surface of the Demon God's skull.

He was free, but his magical power had almost completely disappeared, and his life force was nearly exhausted.

Xiaoyu casually created a dream and put him, who was unconscious, into it.

Without any reservations, she unleashed her full power, absorbing the remaining fragments of the demon god's skull until—

"Pfft~~"

Xiaoyu's vision blurred, and in a daze, she saw an indescribably huge divine axe coming straight at her, splitting her world in two.

It is the "axe intent" left behind by Pangu with his axe that created the world!
Xiaoyu had a bloody mark between her eyebrows; not only was her flesh cut open, but her bone was also cracked.

White brain matter seeped out.

She let out a muffled groan and involuntarily staggered back several dozen steps.

Looking down, he saw that his body had also split open, cut in two by a single stroke.

"Amazing!"

Xiaoyu used her own magic power as an adhesive to forcibly "glue" the two parts of her body together.

"From the creation of the world by Pangu to today, billions of years have passed, yet the wound still retains such a powerful killing intent! No wonder the great god Pangu could kill the Chaos Demon God as easily as cutting melons and vegetables."

Xiaoyu was both frightened and delighted.

This Pangu Axe Intent is also a priceless treasure!

Dou Gengyan's South China Sea Sword Sect, relying solely on a wall panel bearing the marks of Cihang's sword, comprehended multiple True Immortal techniques and established a vast empire.

If she takes this "stone slab" of Pangu's axe intent home and meditates on it every day to comprehend its meaning, her swordsmanship will surely advance by leaps and bounds to a new level.

Suppressing her excitement, Xiaoyu slowed down her absorption of the source, carefully avoiding the side where the Pangu Axe's intent was attached.

In the end, the demon's severed skull disappeared, leaving only a huge stone slab in its place.

The stone slabs are very natural, uncarved and uncut, with irregular shapes. The longest part is 150 zhang and the widest part is 100 zhang. The thickness is uniform, about 5 zhang thick, and both sides are very flat.

In fact, the stone slab still contained the essence of the demon god, but Xiaoyu gave up absorbing it.

The origin of the demon god is the stone slab itself, and the stone slab is the carrier of Pangu's axe intent.

Just like words written on paper, once the paper is absorbed, the writing has nowhere to adhere.

Since this place is the boundary of the dream dimension of the Pangu world, and the stone slab was originally an object of the dream dimension, Xiaoyu only built a dream called "Wujian Pavilion" and put the stone slab in to store it.

After doing all this, she activated the Dream God Technique again to build a bridge. The "golden platform" beneath her feet carried her across the infinite "dream space distance" in an instant, returning to her physical body and also to the City God's Divine Realm of the Yelang Kingdom.

"Feng Daoren, it seems that your current body is unable to return to the human world."

From the physical body... you no longer have a physical body at all, only a false body woven by the power of dreams remains.

Your soul has adapted to the dream dimension, becoming a dream creature, no longer suited to the rules of the human world. What are your plans?

She didn't treat Bee Taoist; he slowly awoke from his extreme weakness on his own.

He looked sickly and listless, like a half-corpse.

"You're willing to let me go?" Bee Taoist's eyes were filled with hope and trepidation.

Xiao Yu said, "You still have twenty-seven nests of Blood Lotus Bees. Give me a batch of young bees that haven't yet developed intelligence, and also give me ten queen bee stingers."

The Bee Taoist secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The young bees are fine, but the queen bee's stinger must be shot from the tail of a living queen bee to have the miraculous effect of poisoning an immortal."

Each queen bee can only have one stinger in her lifetime, and she dies immediately after it shoots it out.

If the stinger is pulled out, the queen bee will also die.

The toxicity of the tail needle dissipates rapidly, eventually rendering it useless.

Xiaoyu said, "I know the limitations of the queen bee's stinger. I need ten live puppets."

These are the 'princes' you chose to erase their own will from their bodies and minds.

The Bee Taoist hesitated and said, "I usually only use a thought to possess them when I need to possess an external body."

"We won't specially create a batch of corpse puppets to store." "Then withdraw your thoughts from your body and give me the living puppets you leave behind," Xiaoyu said.

“You cannot control the queen bee who is possessed by my thoughts, and you cannot refine your body into an external form again,” said the Bee Taoist.

Xiao Yu said calmly, "Don't worry about how I use them. Just give me ten living puppets, and you can leave."

The Bee Taoist quickly agreed, "No problem, I will summon my avatar right away."

Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, then said, "From now on, don't let your queen bee harm innocent human men again."

Humans and demons mate, producing numerous offspring, yet you keep them like animals. This is contrary to the laws of nature. Even if you don't care about the consequences, you should consider the great calamity of the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations.

The Bee Taoist hesitated and said, "I will sternly warn those queen bees to forbid them from arbitrarily abducting and playing with human youths."

However, the Blood Lotus Bee is a rare species from the Western Wilderness, wild and untamed, and extremely ferocious.

Pureblood Blood Lotus Bees can even be used as evil objects for nightmare suppression.

If they are not harmonized with human blood, they may turn on their owners at any time.

Even the humans chosen to mate with the queen bee cannot do so arbitrarily.

It must be a scholar who is blessed with good fortune, knowledgeable, and has cultivated a scholarly spirit.

Their essence contains 'bookish energy', which can suppress the malignancy in the bloodline of the Blood Lotus Bee.

If queen bees are used to create an external body, then they need to have human bloodlines even more.

It will be much easier to seize a demon's body in the future.

When a queen bee mates with a human, the resulting large number of worker bees are more likely to develop intelligence.

However, I wholeheartedly agree with Fairy Yu's wise words.

I will revise the "Great Emperor's Bible of the Netherworld," using religious indoctrination to ensure that the Queen Bee can only choose one suitable mate in her lifetime, and cannot be fickle or go against her mate's wishes. What do you think, Fairy?

Xiaoyu sighed, "You can't just see the benefits and ignore cause and effect and karma."

The Bee Taoist said, "There's no evil karma involved! Those human men have secret rendezvous with the 'princess' in their dreams, which neither harms their bodies nor their minds, and they even enjoy wealth and luxury in their dreams. So many people want it, but they don't have the chance yet!"

Xiao Yu said calmly, "Do you dare tell them the truth?"

The Bee Taoist said, "Dreams are all illusions. They know they are dreaming, so why would they pursue any truth?"
There are countless ordinary people in the world who are depressed and frustrated.

They were overwhelmed by the harsh reality of the world, wishing only that their dreams would never end. They even resorted to alcohol to cloud their judgment, seeking only a moment's escape from reality. Where did they need the truth?
I asked the queen bee to select human scholars, and most of them were of this type.

If I tell them the truth, they will only be grateful to me.

Besides, they only enter the Blood Lotus Bee Kingdom in their dreams. During the day, they are clear-headed and rational, and if they really want to pursue something, it won't waste any time.

Knowing full well that he was making excuses for his own interests, Xiaoyu was speechless.

The Bee Taoist probed, "From now on, Fairy Yu, when you raise bees, will you allow the queen bees to mate with men?"
If they are allowed to reproduce naturally, each generation will inevitably produce the purest and strongest queen bee, who will mate with the queen bee. If this continues for dozens of generations, they may revert to becoming the ferocious and untamed exotic species of the Western Wilderness.

"I'm not lying; they might really turn against you then."

—I can use my magic to directly neutralize the queen bee's stinger, so why would I be afraid of them turning on me?
Xiaoyu asked, "Will the bee venom of the exotic species in the Western Wilderness be stronger than it is now?"

If the wild blood lotus bees are stronger, she will specifically cultivate them in that direction.

The Bee Taoist shook his head and said, "No. Because my Blood Lotus Bee has devoured the flesh and blood of a demon god, its inherent qualities should be even stronger."

After undergoing specialized, secret training, it's as if the queen bee is practicing demonic arts, making her even stronger than a wild blood lotus bee.

Xiaoyu was somewhat disappointed, but upon reflection, she realized it made a lot of sense.

"I've heard that the Western Wilderness is at the edge of the Western world. Have you been there? Where did you catch the Blood Lotus Bees?" she asked.

The Bee Taoist said, "I have long coveted the 'Ten Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness.' My greatest wish in this life is to go to the Western Wilderness to find poisonous insects that I have never seen in the Pangu World."

But the Western Wilderness is too far away, the journey is long, and it is also very dangerous.

Even the Buddha dared not delve into such depths; how could I, with my meager cultivation, dare to seek my own death?
The first brood of Blood Lotus Bees was obtained through an exchange with an old monk.

"I traded him five kinds of Gu poisonous worms, unique to the Hundred Thousand Mountains of Yelang Kingdom, for a beehive the size of a gourd."

"What is the old monk's background?" Xiaoyu asked again.

"The old monk's Dharma name is 'Xihai,' which is probably a pseudonym. He said he came from the Western Sacred Mountain, but we don't know if that's true or not."

All I know is that he is extremely knowledgeable about and eager for the Ten Poisons of the Western Wilderness.

Yes, he and I are kindred spirits; we both love cultivating poisonous insects.

Besides the Blood Lotus Bees, the old monk also kept a pair of Nine-Tailed Earth Scorpions.

The Bee Taoist's face showed a mixture of envy and fear. "The Nine-Tailed Earth Scorpion's 'Horse-Falling Poison' is far more potent than the Queen Bee's tail sting."

The old monk said that even the Buddha of Lingshan was poisoned to death by the poison from the "Horse-Drowning Stake."

"It's actually the poison from the horse-falling stake!" Xiaoyu was both shocked and eager.

She had never heard of the Western Wilderness and the Ten Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness before in her life.

But the poison from the horse-falling stake is infamous; she knew about it even in her past life.

The Scorpion Demon, using the poison of the Horse-Reversing Stake, shattered the Buddha's sixteen-foot golden body and melted the Monkey King's skull.

"Can you still find the monk from the Western Sea?"

The Bee Taoist shook his head and said, "We met by chance back then, and only had one encounter. If he really is a monk from Mount Ling, perhaps we can find out about him there."

Even if the monk from the Western Sea lied, he was not practicing on Mount Ling.

"If we go to Mount Ling, we'll definitely be able to find out about the Ten Great Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness, and maybe even find them directly."

At this point, he gave Xiaoyu a strange look that said, "You should understand perfectly well."

Xiaoyu didn't quite understand. "You mean, someone from the Buddhist sect of Mount Ling is cultivating the Ten Great Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness?"

The Bee Taoist said, "Isn't it obvious? Doesn't Fairy Yu have a great enemy, whose Buddhist name is 'Golden Cicada'?"

That fellow is the Six-Winged Golden Cicada, ranked second among the Ten Most Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness.

Jin Chanzi has reincarnated several times and is now in human form.

However, since he had already become a Buddha, he was reincarnated with the supernatural powers from his previous life. In this life, these powers were transformed back into innate supernatural abilities, which in turn purified his magical power, making the supernatural powers of the poisonous cicada more compatible with Buddhist teachings, and making his supernatural powers even stronger.

The principle is similar to how I cultivate Blood Lotus Bees using the blood of mortals.

Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Besides Jin Chanzi, what other Bodhisattvas and Buddhas in the Lingshan Buddhist sect are reincarnations of poisonous insects?"

Although the Great Qin Treasury holds many secrets of the Three Realms, it is not as knowledgeable about poisonous insects as the "Five Poison Ancestors" and "Blood Bee Ancestors" before it.

This guy is an authority in the field of venomous insects.

The Bee Taoist thought for a moment and said, "I have heard that the Nine-Headed Insect and the Multi-Eyed Golden Centipede have appeared in Xiniu Hezhou."

They are suspected to have escaped from Lingshan, but it's unclear whether that's true or not.

But what is certain is that long before the Investiture of the Gods, Buddhist saints were secretly cultivating the most poisonous insect in the Western Wilderness, the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito!

Xiao Yu's heart stirred, and he said, "I read a secret in 'The Investiture of the Gods' that the Western Sect's Sage Zhunti released a black mosquito, which drained the Golden Immortal powerhouse Guiling Shengmu of the Jie Sect in the blink of an eye."

The essence of flesh and blood, along with the three souls and six spirits, were completely drained, leaving the soul utterly scattered.

Could that mosquito be the most venomous insect, the Bloodwing Black Mosquito?

Bee Taoist nodded and said, "That's right, it's that one! It can not only devour a Golden Immortal in one gulp, but it also bit off three grades of the Twelve-Grade Merit Golden Lotus, the treasure of the Western Sect."

Today, only nine grades of the lotus throne of merit that the Buddha sat on remain.

It can even devour the so-called "meritorious treasure" that supposedly allows one to "kill without incurring karmic consequences."

Fairy, tell me, what beings in the Three Realms can it not devour?
How terrifying!

If this humble Taoist priest had kept a blood-winged black mosquito, he wouldn't be in such a predicament.

Seeing Yu Fengxian opposite him, and remembering that he was not yet free, Feng Daoren quickly suppressed the longing on his face, coughed a few times, and continued, "The appearance of such an ominous creature in Lingshan is clearly a sign that Buddhism is intentionally raising Gu."

Like the sorcerers of our Yelang Kingdom, they are using secret methods to cultivate Gu worms.

Fairy Yu also saw it; my Blood Lotus Bee ranks last among the top ten poisonous insects.

Through my careful nurturing, they have now developed intelligence and can take human form.

The bloodwing black mosquito has been bred for hundreds of thousands of years.

"Now that we're here, do you think the Western church might be hiding a 'mosquito Taoist' or a 'mosquito bodhisattva'?"

Xiaoyu wholeheartedly agreed. If Jin Chanzi could become a Buddha, why couldn't Mosquito Taoist become a Bodhisattva?

—It seems I still have to make a trip to Mount Ling.

The Qin Dynasty's foundation is already astonishing, and Mount Ling is an even greater treasure trove!

(End of this chapter)