You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 5: The First Animal Companion

Holding the long knife tightly in his hand, Qi Ping began to move forward carefully.

With his keen perception, Qi Ping avoided all kinds of thorns and dangers and moved forward carefully.

Fortunately, it didn't take Qi Ping long. After just a while, he found a golden marrow bee hiding at the roots of a large pine tree.

This is thanks to the jungle druid's keen perception in the mountains and forests, otherwise he might not be able to find this golden marrow bee in the dense forest.

"Found it!" Qi Ping was pleasantly surprised.

Things went smoothly without any accidents.

Seeing the figure of the golden marrow bee, Qi Ping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

If something suddenly appeared, his small body at the first level of Qi Refining wouldn't be able to withstand it.

At the same time, Qi Ping hurriedly put the knife into the small storage bag, so as to prevent the murderous intent from the knife from disturbing the golden marrow bee.

The golden marrow bee was collecting pine oil from the pine bark at the roots of the Chinese pine tree.

Pinus tabulaeformis trees that are over a hundred years old will produce a very small amount of special pine oil, which can reach the quality of elixir.

However, the number is too small. It takes Qi Ping half a month to collect a bottle. He also has to deal with the dangers in the mountains and forests. The income is far less than raising black bees.

The golden marrow bee is a relatively special species of bee, which is quite different from ordinary bees.

The reason why they collect pine oil is that they are not limited to flower nectar when making honey. They also collect many medicinal herbs and then mix them with nectar to make honey.

This is also one of the reasons why the honey produced by golden marrow bees is of higher quality.

Just when Qi Ping discovered the Golden Marrow Bee, the Golden Marrow Bee also sensed Qi Ping's presence.

Qi Ping also felt a little uneasy at this moment.

Under normal circumstances, when a golden bee encounters a bipedal creature like a human cultivator, it generally has two choices:

Either choose to attack or choose to run and hide!

No matter which one it is, it is not good news for Qi Ping.

The Golden Marrow Bee is very fast and poisonous, and its speed is no slower than that of a bee in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

Qi Ping couldn't catch up with him at all when he ran away.

Qi Ping would be in an even worse situation if a fight broke out. Even if this was just an ordinary little worker bee, it would be enough to make Qi Ping suffer a lot.

After Qi Ping was nervous for a while, he found that the golden marrow bee did not run away. Instead, it stopped collecting pine oil and looked at Qi Ping curiously, without showing any hostility in its actions.

This couldn't help but make Qi Ping happy.

"There's a show!"

So Qi Ping approached carefully with anticipation, and sure enough, the golden marrow bee did not run away.

"Buzz. (Who are you? Nice!)"

When the Golden Marrow Bee saw Qi Ping coming, it expressed its meaning vaguely, and at the same time circled around Qi Ping, looking at Qi Ping with more and more curiosity.

"I want to contract you and make you my animal companions. I can make your tribe stronger!" Qi Ping said honestly and directly.

For the bee colony, the reproduction and growth of their colony is above the individual will. For things that benefit the colony, they will choose to sacrifice themselves without fear.

This is all too familiar to beekeeper Qi Ping.

When facing a strong enemy, you can risk your life to attack the enemy. When you encounter good sources of nectar and elixirs, you can collect them without any hesitation or risk.

As long as the tribe can survive and become stronger, even death is an honor for them.

That's why Qi Ping chose to communicate with it based on their ethnicity.

As a Beastmaster Druid, he is fully confident in doing this.

"Buzz. (Contract.? The tribe becomes stronger.?)" "Yes, the tribe becomes stronger."

The Golden Marrow Bee seemed to be a little confused, so Qi Ping continued to repeat it.

After several times, the golden marrow bee finally understood what Qi Ping meant, and the whole bee became excited.

"Buzz buzz. (The two-legged beasts have no ill intentions. The bees trust you! Tell your companions. Tell the Queen Bee.)"

"Okay, then take me there!"

Hearing the Golden Marrow Bee's affirmative answer, Qi Ping breathed a sigh of relief!

This is the hardest step!
Yes, this is the hardest step.

Because the character and temperament of the entire bee colony are basically the same, this golden marrow bee is willing to trust Qi Ping so easily, so basically its entire colony will be similar.

In this way, the risk of Qi Ping's trip will be minimized and the probability of the contract being successful will be very high.

If this golden marrow bee showed hostility and distrust towards Qi Ping, Qi Ping would definitely run away.

Because that means the entire bee colony is likely to be hostile to him.

Facing an entire swarm of underground golden marrow bees, even a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refining would have a chance of dying, let alone Qi Ping, a rookie in the first level of Qi Refining.

Fortunately, the most difficult hurdle has passed. Not only did the golden marrow bees not show any hostility towards him, they also showed extraordinary trust in him!
"Beastmaster Druid is awesome!"

Qi Ping couldn't help but sigh.

Following the figure of the golden marrow bee, Qi Ping followed with full anticipation.

This time Qi Ping left with more peace of mind, as the life track of the golden marrow bees proved to be relatively safe.

After walking about two or three miles, we finally arrived at the nest of the golden marrow bees.

It was an ordinary-looking bush, no different from any other bush.

There is not even any sign of the life of the Golden Marrow Bees, which is enough to show how cautious the Golden Marrow Bees are.

There was a small hole covered by dead leaves in the bushes. If Qi Ping had not seen the golden marrow bee crawling in with his own eyes, he would not have discovered that there was a golden marrow bee cave there.

When scanning with spiritual sense, one could only sense a cave similar to a rat hole, which was everywhere in the mountains and forests.

A moment later, a large group of golden marrow bees buzzed out and surrounded Qi Ping to observe him.

Some of the braver ones even fell on Qi Ping.

If an ordinary cultivator saw this scene, he would be scared to death.

However, Qi Ping did not feel any fear when facing this scene, because he could sense that these golden marrow bees had no ill will towards him.

As time went on, finally about a thousand golden marrow bees flew out.

This number is much smaller than the nearly 10,000 black bees, but it is already a considerable number for golden marrow bees.

The higher the bloodline grade of the bee colony, the more difficult it is to reproduce, and more spiritual flowers and medicines are needed to support a large population.

In the center of the group of golden marrow bees in front of Qi Ping is the largest golden marrow bee, which is almost half the size of a fist and about three times the size of other worker bees.

The whole body is golden, with a black-gold ring on the dorsal plate of the abdominal segment. The axe-shaped black-gold upper jaw looks extremely powerful, and the wings also have a light gold color.

The drone is smaller than the queen bee, and its sharp mandibles are particularly prominent.

After all the golden marrow bees flew out, they started to communicate with Qi Ping in a buzzing manner, with the queen bee as the center.

The process was much easier than Qi Ping had imagined. He simply repeated the conversation he had with the little worker bee, and the bee colony agreed to be his animal companions.

"Buzz. (We. Are willing to be your animal companions!)"

(End of this chapter)