Douluo Continent: I am a Hyperion larva, and I devour Xiao Wu at the start.

Chapter 26 Advanced Foraging Spot, Winged-tailed Bee Nest

As Jiang Chen's size continued to grow, his rate of absorption also increased rapidly.

Jiang Chen's current devouring speed, now at 3.7 meters tall, is definitely not comparable to when he was 2.5 meters tall.

"Buzz~ Buzz~"

At this moment, Jiang Chen is inside a beehive, devouring the Winged-Tailed Bee Soul Beast.

This is the dominant group of soul beasts in this Soul Hunting Forest: Winged-tailed Bees.

Jiang Chen not only devoured the winged bees, but also their nests and honey.

Perhaps because these winged bees are soul beasts, the honey they produce actually contains a considerable amount of energy.

While eating the honey brewed by the Winged-tailed Bee Soul Beast, Jiang Chen stretched out his claws and casually grabbed one or two Winged-tailed Bees from the sky to eat as snacks with his honey.

These ordinary worker bees, using the stingers at their tails, were completely unable to break through Jiang Chen's defenses and could only rage helplessly in the sky.

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!!!"

A large number of Winged-Tailed Bee Soul Beasts circled and attacked Jiang Chen's head, but they couldn't do anything to him.

They were truly helpless against Jiang Chen, this bandit, and could only watch helplessly as he kept eating the honey they had painstakingly produced.

Not only that, Jiang Chen, this bandit, would also occasionally reach out his claws to grab them from the sky and pull them down.

Unfortunately, their queen is now gone and not in the hive, leaving Jiang Chen to freely devour the honey.

With his head down, Jiang Chen kept eating large mouthfuls of honey, and he was amazed that there was such a magical place in this Soul Hunting Forest.

The energy from consuming this honey is surprisingly high; one bite is equivalent to the energy of a two- or three-hundred-year-old soul beast.

Don't be fooled by the fact that a single bite can last for two or three hundred years. There's a lot of honey in there, so a few more bites can last for thousands of years, and even more for tens of thousands of years!

Jiang Chen, who was eating honey with gusto, suddenly realized that he was experiencing another physical growth.

"Three meters and eight inches."

It smelled really good, so Jiang Chen sped up his eating of the honey. Not only that, he also sped up the speed at which he caught winged bees from the sky to eat.

Although these winged bees are not of a very high level, they are probably only about seven or eight hundred years old.

But the sheer number of them is overwhelming.

However, besides these winged bees that are mostly seven or eight hundred years old, there are also winged bees that are over a thousand years old.

But there were very few, except for the few that Jiang Chen caught and ate at the very beginning.

Later on, these thousand-year-old winged bees began to deliberately avoid Jiang Chen's claws.

Jiang Chen didn't care. There were so many honeys in the sky, he could catch one if he could. Once he had eaten enough, he would slowly look for these thousand-year-old winged bees.

Jiang Chen, who was engrossed in eating honey without a care in the world, suddenly noticed that the winged bees seemed to have suddenly quieted down.

Ok?

Sensing something was amiss, Jiang Chen slightly raised his head and glanced at the scene.

Jiang Chen immediately noticed something was wrong upon looking at him.

The winged bees that had been behind him, raging in a helpless frenzy, suddenly began to fly together in the sky.

Then they were arranged into two orderly queues, as if they were welcoming something.

Jiang Chen looked into the distance, following the line formed by the winged bees.

A gigantic winged bee, measuring a full three meters in length, was slowly flying toward the hive.

This winged bee was actually pure golden yellow, and its flapping wings shimmered with a firefly-like hue in the sunlight.

Moreover, the abdomen of this winged wasp is much larger than that of other winged wasps.

Surrounding this winged wasp were four smaller winged wasps, like a guard.

At the same time, there was another winged bee, only slightly smaller than the queen bee, following beside her.

This must be the queen bee.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen instantly understood:

"This one must be the queen bee, so the others are most likely her bodyguards and the queen herself."

"So they really left the hive. No wonder no powerful spirit beasts could stop me from eating honey for so long."

The queen bee and her guards, who had just returned to the hive from outside, were not surprised by Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen didn't believe that the most powerful soul beasts in this beehive were just those currently present, since they could produce honey with the energy of a soul beast that was hundreds of years old in a single bite.

Sure enough, the most powerful soul beast in this hive has now returned.

Jiang Chen stopped consuming the honey and stood up to look at the queen bee and her guards who were flying towards the hive.

Strangely, even though Jiang Chen and the Queen Bee had started looking at each other, the Queen Bee did not attack Jiang Chen.

At this moment, several strong worker bees suddenly approached the queen bee. These worker bees seemed to be conveying some kind of message to the queen bee.

While listening to the worker bees, the queen bee would occasionally glance at Jiang Chen, her compound eyes seeming to reveal some special meaning.

When Jiang Chen looked at the Queen Bee, although it sounded a bit eerie, he could indeed see from her compound eyes that she didn't seem to have much hostility towards him.

Just as Jiang Chen was wondering, the queen bee had already learned the whole story from the worker bees who stayed behind in the hive.

The queen bee, accompanied by her guards, slowly flew towards Jiang Chen.

Seeing the queen bee flying towards him, Jiang Chen was ready to make his move.

"Buzz~ Buzz~ Buzz~"

However, at that moment, the queen bee still conveyed her message to Jiang Chen.

As a soul beast of ten thousand years or more, the queen bee already possesses sufficient intelligence.

After learning about Jiang Chen's strength, and considering the current situation of these ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, the Queen Bee decided to recruit Jiang Chen.

After understanding the Queen Bee's intentions, Jiang Chen felt a little incredulous that this soul beast was actually trying to recruit him.

You have to understand that in Jiang Chen's eyes, soul beasts are just pure food. A mere food was actually trying to lure him, a predator.

Jiang Chen almost laughed in exasperation, shook his head helplessly, and then his aura changed.

The queen bee also sensed Jiang Chen's hungry aura and demeanor, and realized that this soul beast could not be recruited by her.

"Buzz!!"

The queen bee then gave the order directly.

In an instant, all the winged bees around him began to move in an orderly fashion, like an army, and under the queen's command, they began to surround and attack Jiang Chen.

Since Jiang Chen cannot be recruited by her, she will kill him and turn him into nourishment for her hive to make up for the losses he caused.

As the swarm of bees surged toward him, Jiang Chen sneered inwardly.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

The next moment, the orange crystal on Jiang Chen's back began to continuously release dark fireballs.

A continuous barrage of dark fireballs began to rain down on the swarm of bees that were closing in on him.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Jiang Chen's dark fireball landed in the swarm of bees and exploded instantly.

The worker bees struck by Jiang Chen's dark fireball were charred black and fell from the sky.

These ordinary worker bees, only a few hundred years old, were no match for the dark fireballs that Jiang Chen kept releasing.

(End of this chapter)