You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 162 The Strongest Bee Colony Transformation Plan!
The sun rises and the moon sets, time flies, and soon more than half a year has passed.

During this period of time, the group of people in Qingshi County who were trying to wait for Qi Ping to show up have gone from being full of confidence to being completely desperate.

During this period they gained almost nothing in Qingshi County.

The only secret realm that was known was nothing more than a huge magic insect breeding nest. After everyone escaped from that secret realm, it was completely empty and there was nothing valuable left.

And they could never have imagined that the person they wanted to wait and look for would actually hide in a remote place in the Yunwu Mountains for more than half a year!
This is simply not something a normal cultivator would do. Even a cultivator who is determined to be good at playing bad would not choose to enter that kind of place.

While the monks from the Qing Yuan Sect's hostile sects were furious, Qi Ping had been living a relatively comfortable and pleasant life over the past six months.

He cultivates and practices, studies formations, and grows elixirs every day. When he's tired, he plays with the little flower fairy and the little fox. His life is quite fulfilling and comfortable.

Qi Ping also likes to immerse himself in this kind of spiritual life.

For him, this is the immortal life he longs for. Enlightenment of the Tao does not necessarily require killing. Understanding the laws of heaven and earth and studying the laws of nature can also help one get closer to the essence of the Tao.

During the past six months, Qi Ping cultivated five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Grass and Fire Ying Fruit, which have now been brewed into honey by the brewer Big-bellied Bee.

This is the spiritual medicine resource he prepared for himself to break through to the foundation-building stage.

The Star Spirit Wood also condensed five bottles of spiritual liquid, which Qi Ping planned to use when he ran out of spiritual energy to build his foundation.

During this half year, something happened that made Qi Ping happy. The two soul-nourishing herbs that Hongli from the Ningshan family gave him last time happened to be one male and one female!
After they matured and pollinated each other, they brought many new soul-nourishing grass seeds to Qi Ping.

Then, with the cultivation of plant growth, Qi Ping naturally had no shortage of soul-nourishing grass to use, especially after the [Plant Growth] skill was upgraded to level four. With Qi Ping's current spiritual strength, the speed of cultivating Qi Refining period spiritual medicine was very fast. It was no longer a time-consuming task for Qi Ping to cultivate spiritual medicine with first-level efficacy.

At least the cultivated elixir can not only support Qi Ping, but also support other animal companions besides Ya Ya.

Because Ya Ya has broken through to the second level, the spiritual medicine it needs is not something Qi Ping can easily cultivate now. Fortunately, Ya Ya can meet its own needs by basking in the sun, and Qi Ping does not need to spend more effort to cultivate it.

With sufficient soul-nourishing herbs, Qi Ping combined a honey with good effects based on his own "Compendium of the Properties of Spiritual Medicines" and "Notes on Alchemy", which can effectively increase the strength of the soul. As a result, Qi Ping's soul strength was greatly increased.

At this point, after Qi Ping's physical body, Qi Ping's soul also reached an extremely strong state. The only pity was that Qi Ping did not have a suitable method to cultivate his soul.

When it comes to the soul-nourishing grass, the ones who benefited the most are the little fox and the little flower demon.

They are now all first-level soul-type pets, so after obtaining enough soul-nourishing honey, the strength of their souls will increase rapidly.

So far, the little spirit fox has broken through from the middle first stage to the late first stage. Although it looks small, its soul attack is not weak at all. An ordinary Qi Refining Level 7 cultivator would probably be defeated by the attack of the little spirit fox.

However, the one who became the strongest was the little flower demon. Under the effect of [Plant Growth], he directly soared from the early stage of the first level to the perfect stage of the first level.

However, after breaking through the first level, there has been no opportunity to break through to the second level. The little flower demon has been stuck in this realm for more than half a year. The strength of its soul is estimated to be much higher than that of a normal first-level perfect hundred-eyed flower demon, but there is still no sign of a breakthrough.

Qi Ping was somewhat disappointed. [Plant Growth] could not help the little flower demon break the limit of the big level. It still depended on the little flower demon's own efforts. However, Qi Ping gradually understood more deeply why it was so difficult for the cultivators in the foundation building period to break through. Even creatures with heavy bloodlines like spirit beasts still found it difficult to break the shackles of the big level with sufficient spiritual power and resources.

Qi Ping slowly realized that he should find a suitable method to train spirit beasts. The little fox and the little flower demon were just young beasts after all. If the training method was not appropriate, it would still be difficult to take that last step even if the resources were in place.

Cultivation is difficult, both for humans and spiritual beasts.

However, Qi Ping is still quite confident about the breakthroughs of Crow and Bee.

As for Ya Ya, because Ya Ya's will and belief in cultivation are extremely firm, and he himself has experienced life and death and nirvana, he has worked extremely hard in cultivation. He is practicing and gaining insights almost every moment, as if he is tireless.

Therefore, Qi Ping believed that Ya Ya would be able to make rapid progress on the path of cultivation.

As for the bees, after the queen bee successfully transformed and advanced, the overall quality of the bee colony has greatly improved. With the support of elixirs provided by Qi Ping and the improvement in the success rate of transformation by [Beast King's Blessing], Qi Ping has no doubt that the bee colony can successfully transform.

After he successfully breaks through the foundation, the speed of using [Plant Growth] will be greatly improved. By then, as long as he can cultivate more five-hundred-year-old blood ginseng to prepare the blood alienation medicine, it will be a matter of time before the bee colony transforms into the second level.

As for the cultivation of second-order bee colonies, Qi Ping plans to select the best from the best. Qi Ping plans to cultivate multiple second-order mutants at a time, and then select three to five strongest bee species for cultivation according to the situation.

Only by controlling the number can we ensure that the queen bee undergoes the best quality metamorphosis.

As for the breakthrough, when the spirit insects break through to the second level, they select the best from the best. Only Qi Ping and a few others dare to do so.

Because the price of blood ginseng with 500-year medicinal effect is rarer and more expensive than many ordinary spiritual medicines in the Foundation Establishment Period, the average Insect Controlling Monk is considered lucky if he can transform two or three spiritual insects to the second stage. It is impossible for him to do such a thing as selecting the best from the best like Qi Ping.

But the slight loss is completely worth it in Qi Ping's eyes, because the queen bee has proved her potential after her self-transformation, so he naturally has to transform into the strongest bee species to allow the queen bee to continue to grow.

The corpse of the Demon Insect King is the super king bomb in Qi Ping's hand!
Qi Ping can be sure that once the bee colony successfully absorbs part of the Demon Insect King's bloodline, the bloodline quality of the bee colony will be raised to an incredible level!
It even surpasses Qi Ping's other three animal companions in terms of bloodline strength!
However, the corpses of the Demon Insect King are limited, and it is extremely difficult to absorb their blood. In order to ensure the success of the metamorphosis as much as possible, Qi Ping must cultivate the metamorphosis bee colony with the strongest foundation to ensure the completion of the metamorphosis.

Therefore, this plan of selecting the best from the best is extremely important to Qi Ping. Only in this way can Qi Ping ensure the cultivation of the best-qualified bee colonies.

The price Qi Ping paid for this was just two or three more months, which was completely worth it for him.

Of course, the most important thing for Qi Ping is that in the past six months or so, with an adequate supply of honey, Qi Ping's strength has finally been cultivated to the perfection of Qi Refining!

Qi Ping, who was sitting in the illusion array at the moment, felt a sense of perfection emanating from his body, and his realm finally reached the perfection of Qi Refining!

"It's really not easy. It's been more than a year since I last broke through to the ninth level of Qi Refining!"

Qi Ping found it difficult to calculate how many resources he had spent in the past year or so to cultivate his realm to the perfection of Qi Refining!

He was able to achieve such a speed even though his talent and comprehension of fire were already extremely high. In this light, it is not so difficult to understand why those who lack talent and resources are always stuck at the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining, because they really can't improve!
Qi Ping already had a vague premonition of how difficult it would be to practice in the foundation-building stage.

But the most important thing right now is to break through the foundation-building stage first, because once you break through the foundation-building stage, you can have a lifespan of more than 500 years!
(End of this chapter)