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Chapter 44: The Bee Army is formed! Formation Bees?

In a short period of time, all the blood-armored cicadas had their eyes and buttocks pierced by the stings of the golden marrow bees.
The venom on the golden marrow bee's highly poisonous stinger was released madly after it penetrated the body, without any reservation.

In an instant, a large amount of venom was poured into the stomach and head of the blood-armored cicada.

The toxicity of the Golden Marrow Bee's venom is quite high. If the amount is large, even a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining can be poisoned to death in a short period of time, let alone a small creature like the Blood-Armored Cricket.

So when these venoms enter the body of the blood cricket, they quickly and crazily start to cause damage.

The blood-armored cicada felt severe pain and tried to struggle frantically, but its force-generating organs were firmly controlled by six golden marrow bees, and one of its front legs was held tightly by a golden marrow bee at the cost of its own life.

After struggling for only a few breaths, all the blood-armored crickets died!

The power of the Blood-Armored Cricket lies in its defense and its front legs with extremely strong lethality. Even a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining would find it difficult to cause much damage to it using spells.

However, the blood-armored crickets can use their front paws to break through the spiritual energy and flesh and blood defenses of the monks, and even drill directly into their bodies.

But correspondingly, the blood and flesh under the blood armor of the blood-armored locust have very average resistance to poison, so after being injected with a large amount of bee venom, it cannot resist for long.

The battle process seemed complicated, but it only lasted for a few breaths.

From fighting, to sacrificing one's life to lure the enemy, to restricting movement, to injecting venom, all happened in a short period of time.

During this process, the Golden Marrow Bee also demonstrated super high execution ability and familiarity with the military formation.

You have to know that facing the extremely lethal forelegs of the blood-armored locust, even the golden marrow bee can only defend for a few breaths.

If the killing cannot be completed within this time, the number of casualties of the Golden Marrow Bees will increase exponentially!
Especially when the coordination between the bee colony groups is broken, they can be easily defeated one by one, and it will be difficult for the six golden marrow bees to restrict all the movement organs of the blood-armored cicada.

Fortunately, after training, the Golden Marrow Bees had a very high level of tacit cooperation in combat. This time, they directly targeted the weaknesses of the Blood Armor Crickets and quickly completed the killing mission.

But every time a blood-armored cicada is killed, a golden marrow bee must be sacrificed to achieve this result.

Because in just a few breaths, the bees that took the initiative to confront the blood-armored cicadas and attracted the blood-armored cicadas' thousand-foot firepower had their hard shells and spiritual defenses torn apart by the blood-armored cicadas, and most of their bodies were destroyed.

Some were even cut in half, but relying on their vitality that did not die immediately, they still used their movable organs to tightly restrain the blood-armored cicadas, buying time for their companions.

All fifty-six blood-armored cicadas died, but it was still at the cost of sacrificing fifty-six golden marrow bees.

Although it is already the best battle-to-damage ratio when facing ferocious demonic insects such as the Blood-Armored Crickets, if it were not for the effect of the military formation, the casualty rate of bees in a natural combat state would inevitably increase exponentially.

"The effect of the military formation used by the Golden Marrow Bee is indeed quite good. In the battle against the Blood Armored Crickets, being able to achieve such a casualty ratio is already very strong."

"It would be great if there were a bee species with a similar defense type as the blood-armored cricket! This way we can minimize casualties this time, or even eliminate them all."

This battle also made Qi Ping gradually realize the huge improvement that the battle formation had on the combat effectiveness of the bee colony. When targeting the enemy's weaknesses, the combat effectiveness was more than increased several times.

This also shows the role of battle formations and command in Zerg combat.

"If the battle formation can be improved, it should be effective even against the late stage first-order high-speed ring-cutting bees, or even the second-order bee swarms."

"I just wonder if there is any formation suitable for fighting insect swarms in the world of cultivation?"

Qi Ping guessed that there should be some. He knew that cultivators could form formations to fight the enemy, so a swarm of bees must be able to do so as well. It's just that the knowledge he had about the world of cultivation was too little.

However, this also planted a seed in Qi Ping's heart. If given the chance, he would definitely find a formation suitable for the bee colony, whether it be for defense, interference or offensive effects.

His advantage is that he can communicate with every bee, which is difficult for other insect-controlling monks to do, and it is the basis of setting up an array.

"And if there are more types of bee colonies, there seems to be a big advantage. If we can breed thick-armored bees with outstanding defense, highly toxic venomous bees, or other bee species with outstanding attack and strong interference capabilities, the combat capability and flexibility of the bee colony can be much higher."

"This way, we can adopt different fighting methods according to the fighting characteristics of different enemies such as demon insects, human monks, and beasts."

Qi Ping suddenly realized that if he kept the bee colony intact, it seemed that he could make the colony exert a combat power far beyond that of cultivators of the same level.

Who wouldn’t be scared when a swarm of bees appears in the sky?
If it can be combined with formations, the combat effectiveness can be greatly increased.

After realizing this problem, the importance of the bee colony immediately rose to a higher level in Qi Ping's mind.

It has extraordinary combat power and can also brew honey for cultivation. At least Qi Ping can't think of a more suitable early pet than this one. And with [Spiritual Beast Cultivation: Demon Insects], Qi Ping is not sure whether he can cultivate a third-level golden marrow bee, but he is absolutely sure of a second-level golden marrow bee.

Once the second-level golden marrow bee is born, and he can [transform into the wild] golden marrow bee, who in Qingshi County can kill him?
The Yunwu Mountains are his home ground!

"But the most important thing is to get through this difficult time first."

"Fifty or sixty Golden Marrow Bees were killed just now. Adding those that died a few days ago, the number of Golden Marrow Bees has dropped sharply from 1,500 to just over 1,400."

"It will take another ten days for the first batch of 200 high-speed ring-cutting bees to be born."

These ten days are the limit of what the bee colony can do, and this is the maximum speed that can only be achieved with twice the normal blood ginseng consumption.

Qi Ping is now somewhat unsure whether the more than 1,400 golden marrow bees can survive for ten days.

Because according to the status of these two waves of magic insects, the next attacking magic insects may become stronger and stronger.

Once the first-stage late-stage magic insects, or a large number of first-stage middle-stage magic insects appear, a battle will cause huge casualties, and may even lead to the annihilation of the entire army, which Qi Ping will never allow.

"If you can defend it within these ten days, then defend it. If you can't, then quickly evacuate with the bee colony and the spiritual medicine. Wait for the high-speed ring-cutting bees to mature, then come back and see if the spiritual land can be used."

"The battle formation of the Golden Marrow Bee Legion has taken shape. If they continue to improve their skills over the next few days, they may have a chance to survive these ten days. I estimate that in ten days, they may only face three or four waves of demon insects at most."

After making the decision, Qi Ping cleaned up the bodies of the blood-armored crickets. He could sell them for some spirit stones!

Then Qi Ping started to cultivate blood ginseng without stopping, just to accumulate as much spiritual medicine resources as possible.

Qi Ping cannot leave this place during this period of time, because once an irresistible enemy appears, Qi Ping must collect all the elixirs as quickly as possible and then flee from here.

After the incident with the blood-armored crickets, Qi Ping once again resumed his frantic state of cultivating spiritual medicines, working day and night just to accumulate more spiritual medicines and gain more druid experience!

Three days later again.

Qi Ping welcomed the third wave of demon insects.

"Again, blood-armored cicadas?"

But this time, the number of blood-clay crickets reached as high as 132.

However, such a lineup is not enough to make Qi Ping give up this place.

After choosing to start the battle, the battle mode was the same as last time, but this time the Golden Marrow Bee ended the battle more cleanly and efficiently.

However, the casualty ratio of 132 was unavoidable.

After this battle, the number of Golden Marrow Honeys was reduced to less than 1,300.

This made Qi Ping feel even more depressed.

On the sixth day, four days before the high-speed ring-cutting bees were formed, the fourth wave of magic insects attacked.

"Why another three days?"

This question arose in Qi Ping's mind, and he always felt that this was not a coincidence.

But what is more important now is how to deal with the fourth wave of magic insects with minimal casualties.

"There are 216 first-level intermediate thorn spiders. Although there are many of them, their weaknesses are obvious. We just need to trick them into the first wave of spider silk and then use this opportunity to kill them with all our strength."

Therefore, the Golden Marrow Bees, fighting in groups of five, actually eliminated all the Thorn Spiders at the cost of only losing three of them!
All the golden marrow bees tied up by spider silk were rescued later.

The fourth wave of magic insects caused almost no damage to the bee colony, but instead allowed Qi Ping to harvest more than two hundred corpses of thorny magic spiders.

Make a small profit!
On the ninth day, the day before the high-speed ring-cutting bees matured, the fifth wave of magic insects attacked!
"Three more days!"

But when he learned that this time it was a group of first-level advanced demon insects and bone bees, Qi Ping's heart sank.
(End of this chapter)