You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 159: Spirit Gathering Technique, Contracting Tree Spirits
Fortunately, the bees followed Qi Ping's instructions and hid far away, so they were not discovered by the group of monks.

After the group of monks searched in vain and waited for many days, they took a very complicated route, passed through many deep caves, and sent the message back through different bees.

The reason they were so cautious was naturally because of Qi Ping's order.

What is to be avoided is the bees being monitored and marked.

Extremely deep and long burrows can effectively avoid tracking and spiritual detection, and delivering messages through multiple batches of bees can prevent the first bees from being tracked by subtle substances or marks that are not detected by anyone.

After completing the message delivery mission, the bees left Qingshi County completely with their honey rations.

It was because of Qi Ping's caution this time that he avoided two crises.

One reason was that there was a risk that the spoils would be tracked. If Qi Ping directly brought the spoils back to the territory, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The second time was because it avoided the risk of the bees being locked.

Because the group of monks found the storage bag where Qi Ping was hiding but did not discover the enemy, they directly released a lot of tracking substances around.

As monks from a large sect, they naturally have extraordinary knowledge. Demonic insects often appear on the battlefield in Qingshi County, so they are naturally on guard against others using insect-controlling methods to detect them.

Qi Ping's behavior of letting the bees dig tunnels and changing the bees many times to pass on messages directly blocked the possibility of these monks tracking him.

"Damn it! The enemy was too cautious and the tracking failed!"

"But it's not without results. At least we can confirm that there is a guy hiding very deeply in Qingshi County. We will search and observe carefully. All people and items must be covered with tracking marks regularly."

"I don't believe this won't reveal something! If it's exposed once, that's the end of his life!"

"Even the thing the sect is looking for may be on this person! So everyone, open your eyes and search for him!"

……

It's a pity that they were destined not to wait for Qi Ping to show up and fall into his trap, because Qi Ping planned not to leave the Yunwu Mountains at all before breaking through the foundation building, and even planned to stop selling honey first.

Moreover, Meng Yan had already left Qingshi County, and Sister Nan was arranged to hide deep in the Yunwu Mountains. Qi Ping had no reason to go out or take action.

"Is there really a trap in the loot?"

Qi Ping frowned when he heard the news.

At that time, Meng Yan had checked these spoils several times, and they were not around during the period when Meng Yan was recovering, but nothing happened for so long, but something happened now.

"It seems that I have to be more careful with the spoils of murder in the future."

Thinking of the risks involved, Qi Ping was still a little scared, but fortunately he was cautious enough.

Qi Ping then informed Meng Yan of the news and details of the spoils through a communication token.

Meng Yan replied that he had already left Qingshi County and had not found him. He would study how the enemy tracked him and would also inform Qi Ping of various common methods.

"As for the loss of about 7,000 spirit stones caused by the spoils of war, although it is not a small amount, it is also within an acceptable range. Safety is the most important thing!"

Qi Ping didn't have high hopes for this method of getting spirit stones by killing people and touching corpses. This method was full of risks. If Qi Ping hadn't been forced to do so, he would never have taken the initiative to try it.

Rather than killing people, Qi Ping would rather obtain spirit stones through farming, which is the most suitable method for a druid. "Speaking of which, I have already mastered the spirit gathering technique and can now contract my first spirit tree..."

After analyzing the issue of the spoils being used as bait and confirming that nothing was missing, Qi Ping no longer paid attention to it.

Even if Qingshi County is destroyed by a huge war, it has nothing to do with him. As long as he is not affected, he will make good use of the current resources to advance to the foundation-building stage.

As for the remaining spoils, for safety reasons, Qi Ping planned to wait until he was promoted to the Foundation Establishment stage and take them out to use when he needed spirit stones. Even if he needed to use them, he would not bring them back to the territory.

"Yes, from now on, except for the elixir, let the bees put all the other spoils farther away from here, so that even if they are baits, they won't harm me."

Yunwu Mountains, within Qi Ping’s territory.

Spirit gathering technique!
As Qi Ping cast this spell, spiritual energy from all directions, from the sky to the ground, immediately poured in continuously and gathered in Qi Ping's palm.

"The effect is not bad!"

Qi Ping performed this technique several times in succession, and after confirming that there was no problem, he came to a small sapling.

It was a tree as crystal clear as white jade, with a translucent white jade color all over.

If Qi Ping hadn't watched it grow, he wouldn't have recognized it as a tree.

And this tree that looks like white jade is the Star Spirit Wood that made Qi Ping decide to choose the profession of Tree Shepherd!
It is at the lower level of the second order and has the ability to gather spiritual energy. It can not only form a spiritual liquid at the roots, but also nourish the surrounding land, turning the land into spiritual soil rich in spiritual energy.

"Let's start the contract! How powerful the tree shepherd's tree spirit contract is in the world of immortal cultivation depends on the effect of the Star Spirit Wood today!"

[Tree Spirit Contract: As a tree shepherd, you can sign a contract with a tree and engrave the tree spirit mark on the contracted tree. (The number of trees that can be contracted with a tree spirit is related to your mental strength. The stronger your mental strength, the more trees you can contract with.)]

[Tree Spirit Mark: You can engrave a spell mark that matches the characteristics of the tree onto the tree spirit. The tree engraved with the tree spirit mark will have the ability of this spell.]

Then, Qi Ping directly activated the Tree Spirit Contract spell, and a contract mark emitting a faint green light quickly sank into the Star Spirit Tree.

Because the Star Wood has no consciousness and does not need to complete talent sharing, it is much simpler to make a contract with it.

As the dark green light on the Star Spirit Tree gradually became absorbed and disappeared, the Tree Spirit Contract was successfully completed.

After completing this contract, Qi Ping's perception of the Star Wood was different from before.

A special connection linked him and the Star Spirit Wood. In addition, Qi Ping could clearly sense that something similar to a soul appeared on the Star Spirit Wood.

Qi Ping tried to touch it lightly with his consciousness, and a strange thought appeared in Qi Ping's perception.

[Aura, aura, I need a lot of aura! This amount of aura is not enough! ]

[The speed of gathering spiritual energy is too slow. How can I gather more spiritual energy? ]

"Sure enough, the spell that matches the Star Spirit Wood is the Spirit Gathering Spell!"

"Since you want to gather more spiritual energy, there should be no spell more suitable for you than the Spirit Gathering Technique!"

(End of this chapter)