The Frenzied Bloodthirsty Bees
Translator: Cinder Translations
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Although the bloodthirsty bees are skilled at flying, they carry several blood sacs, which slows them down. After flying for over a day, they finally arrive at a mountainous region over three thousand miles away.
The mountains are steep, surrounded by dense forests.
Song Wen noticed that fewer and fewer bloodthirsty bees were flying.
"Daoist Zhu Yin, something seems off with these bloodthirsty bees," Song Wen quietly warned.
Zhu Yin, with an expression as if already expecting this, replied, "This is the difficult part of dealing with the bloodthirsty bees. This mountain range has nearly been hollowed out by them. Beneath the mountain, their nests are interconnected, with numerous entrances."
"So, what should we do now? Are we just going to watch as they return to their underground nests one by one?"
Zhu Yin said, "Of course not. Find a suitable place, and you focus on refining the Demon Attractant Incense. I, along with Jing Kai and the others, will use the scent to lure the demons. I don't believe we can't draw out the queen bee."
After scouting the entire area of the nest, Zhu Yin finally chose a small mountain peak in the central region as the place where Song Wen would refine pills.
The reason for choosing this mountain was that several entrances to bee nests had been discovered there.
These entrances varied in size, ranging from as small as a fist to as large as a wash basin.
Song Wen set up a temporary cave at the mountain peak to refine pills.
Meanwhile, Zhu Yin, along with six Foundation Establishment cultivators, went to a valley below, where they scattered the Demon Attractant Incense that Song Wen had previously created.
Before long, bloodthirsty bees were attracted by the scent and began emerging from nearby mountain caves.
Soon, thousands of bloodthirsty bees gathered in the narrow valley.
On a gentle slope beside the valley, in a formation that concealed their presence, Zhu Yin and the others were hiding.
Looking at the mass of bees above the valley, Jing Kai felt his scalp tingling. He whispered, "Zhu Yin, when do we move? These bees have gathered together, it's the perfect time to deal with them."
Jing Kai's master, Yu Qi, was a named disciple of Yin Shuo, and Zhu Yin was his direct disciple. Therefore, it was only natural for Jing Kai to call him "Shi Bo" (Master Uncle).
TL/N: To call her Master "Uncle" when she is a woman is a bit strange. So I will just keep it Shi Bo going forward.
"Don't act rashly. Wait a bit longer. These are just ordinary bloodthirsty bees, killing them won't have much of an impact. Let's see if this third-tier Demon Attractant Incense can lure out the queen bee," Zhu Yin instructed.
After waiting for a while, Jing Kai expressed his concern, "The effect of the scent might wear off after some time."
"With the Ji Yin here, do you still fear wasting a furnace of Demon Attractant Incense?" Zhu Yin responded.
Another half-hour passed, and the number of bloodthirsty bees above the valley exceeded ten thousand. Among them, a few were elite soldier bees of the second rank.
The sight of so many bees piled together was enough to make anyone's hair stand on end, and their hearts race in fear.
As Jing Kai had feared, the bloodthirsty bees stopped gathering and began to slowly retreat, heading back into their underground nests.
"It seems like the effect of the Demon Attractant Incense is waning," Zhu Yin murmured.
After two full hours, the scent completely lost its effect, and all the bloodthirsty bees left. Zhu Yin chose not to take action yet.
This batch of Demon Attractant Incense had been in effect for nearly two days, and its potency had greatly diminished. Thus, Zhu Yin decided to wait for the next batch of Demon Attractant Incense, which had just been refined. Only then would it be possible to successfully lure out the third-tier queen bee.
They waited for a full six days before the next batch of Demon Attractant Incense was finally ready. However, the first batch had failed to be refined.
After Zhu Yin took the Demon Attractant Incense, Song Wen didn't immediately start refining again. Instead, he quietly released a Shadow Gu.
The Shadow Gu circled around the valley where Zhu Yin and the others were hiding and randomly selected an entrance to a bee nest to enter.
The Shadow Gu was skilled in hiding its presence, and ordinary second-tier demon beasts would have difficulty detecting it. Song Wen wanted to test whether the Shadow Gu could find the location of the queen bee within the complex bee nest.
However, the situation was completely different from what Song Wen had expected.
The passage was narrow and winding, and the moment the Shadow Gu entered, a bloodthirsty bee noticed it and pounced.
The bees came in waves, one after another. When they realized the Shadow Gu was too strong for them, they did not retreat in fear but instead sprayed a black poisonous mist from their tails.
The poisonous mist quickly filled the narrow passage, causing the Shadow Gu great discomfort. As its presence was now exposed, further concealment was impossible. The Shadow Gu had no choice but to retreat from the passage.
"It seems like what Zhu Yin said is true—foreign spirits find it very hard to infiltrate the bee nests unnoticed," Song Wen murmured to himself.
On the Other Side
Zhu Yin and her six companions repeated their previous method, scattering the Demon Attractant Incense in the valley and then hiding within a formation to quietly wait for the bloodthirsty bees to arrive.
After a short while...
A large number of bloodthirsty bees began to flutter their wings and approach.
Soon, the entire sky above the valley was filled with the continuous buzzing sound.
This time, there were clearly far more bloodthirsty bees, no less than one hundred thousand, swarming into the narrow valley. It became a dark mass, blocking out the sunlight, and the light in the valley grew dim.
The Demon Attractant Incense was a powdery substance. After it was scattered, it stuck to the leaves and grass.
Countless bloodthirsty bees darted through the dense forest, eager to consume the powder from the leaves that carried the scent.
There were too many wolves and too little meat!
The bees in the sky wanted to descend into the dense forest below.
The bees in the forest, on the other hand, were eager to get closer to the areas where the alluring scent was strongest.
Conflict began to break out among the bloodthirsty bees.
At first, the chaos was on a small scale, but it quickly escalated into a massive battle.
They treated their own kind as they would treat any prey.
The lower-ranked bloodthirsty bees were the first to suffer. One by one, they fell from the air.
Only a few second-tier bees refrained from joining the battle.
They seemed to want to stop their kin from fighting each other, but the lower-ranked bees didn't heed their calls. In a panic, a dozen second-tier bees flew restlessly in the air.
After a while, the second-tier bees suddenly retreated into the underground nest, possibly to summon even more powerful kin.
However, after four or five hours, the Demon Attractant Incense completely lost its effect. The lower-ranked bees returned to normal, and the second-tier bees never appeared again.
Out of the one hundred thousand bloodthirsty bees, only a little over ten thousand survived, and even they were severely wounded. They dragged their battered bodies back into the nest.
Inside the formation...
Looking at the thick layer of dead bloodthirsty bees on the ground, Zhu Yin showed no signs of joy.
The third-tier queen bee never appeared.
Even the second-tier bees, after leaving, never returned.
The second-tier bees weren't particularly intelligent, and logically, they should have been unable to resist the allure of the third-tier Demon Attractant Incense.
"Could it be that the battle among the lower-ranked bees made the second-tier bees sense danger?" Zhu Yin furrowed her brow, deep in thought.
"Shi Bo, how should we deal with these dead bloodthirsty bees?" Jing Kai asked, his eyes barely concealing his eagerness.
The stingers of the bloodthirsty bees contain potent poison, making them an excellent material for refining low-level talismans.
Normally, when they hunt bloodthirsty bees, they go all out to quickly wipe out the swarm, leaving little chance of preserving the stingers intact.
But now, many of the bees had killed each other, and their bodies were mostly intact. Almost all the stingers were unharmed.
Although most of the bees were still at lower ranks and the stingers weren't worth much, the sheer number—at least a hundred thousand—made it a valuable harvest.
Zhu Yin replied, "You can handle it."
Jing Kai's face lit up with joy. "Yes, Shi Bo."
He then gave a look to the five other Foundation Establishment cultivators behind him.
Seeing the signal, all of them were visibly excited.
(End of the Chapter)
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