Chapter 31 Chapter 31 I usually do some farm work and also like to read some books...
Qin Zhou and his companions' trip to collect the fire-smelling grass did not go smoothly. They did not encounter many aggressive spirit beasts, but instead encountered the enemy of the Snow Flower Pavilion -
People from Qilinxuan.
Unlike the team of Xuehua Pavilion who were all dressed in silver armor, Qilin Pavilion was dressed in red, with more than a dozen cultivators protecting the alchemist in the middle.
As soon as the two teams met, the hatred was immediately filled to the limit.
"Isn't this the team from the Snow Flower Pavilion? Where are they going?" The people from Qilin Pavilion relied on their numbers to challenge them without hesitation, "The day when the spirit beasts will riot is coming soon, why don't you go home?"
"Do I need to report to Qilinxuan where I'm going?"
The faces of the people in Xuehua Pavilion all turned unhappy.
Qilinxuan and Xuehuage are sworn enemies. Compared with the discord between the alchemy merchants, the resentment between these herb-collecting teams has been going on for a long time.
The strength of Xuehua Pavilion is not weak, but Qilin Pavilion has more people.
"Of course not. We mean well and we care about you." The people from Qilinxuan spoke with a smile, but there was a hint of sarcasm in their tone.
“That’s right, we clearly care about you.”
"By the way, what are you here for? If it's on our way, maybe we can help you."
They said they were helping, but in fact, not causing any trouble was just kindness on their part.
The leader of the Snow Flower Pavilion guards said in a deep voice: "Qilin Xuan doesn't need to worry about this. Let's go."
"Boss..." Just left like that?
Several people from the Snow Flower Pavilion were a little unconvinced.
"Let's do our business first. Young Master Qin is waiting for us. If we want to fight, we can make an appointment at any time." The boss said as his eyes swept across the faces of the people in Qilinxuan one by one.
"Huh? You're the only ones who can fight?" The people from Qilinxuan immediately became annoyed.
Suddenly, a voice interrupted him——
"Liu Rui, I still have to go find my Nine Bee Needles. How long are you going to chat?" The young man walking among the people at Qilinxuan said impatiently.
Liu Rui, the captain of Qilinxuan who had just spoken provocatively, had his eyes sank. It was obvious that he was not comfortable being interrupted by "one of his own".
"Let's stop talking. It's more important to find the Nine Bee Needles." When I looked up again, he was already smiling, hiding that hint of darkness very well.
The two teams passed each other, and Liu Rui sneered: "We are looking for the Nine Bee Needles, you from the Snow Flower Pavilion shouldn't come to make trouble, right?"
Liu Rui's younger brother immediately responded: "Boss, you got it wrong. How can they have the ability to enter the inner circle? The inner circle is full of crises right now."
Over and over again.
"You..." The people from Xuehua Pavilion couldn't control themselves anymore.
Just as he was about to explode, Qin Zhou suddenly reached out and grabbed the man's shoulder.
He patted his hands twice and said, "It's time for us to go find our things."
The people in Xuehua Pavilion were stunned, but the hand pressing on their shoulders was very strong.
Isn't this Mr. Qin a weak alchemist? How can he be so strong?
At this time, Qin Zhou said again: "The Nine Queens are very powerful. If you can't beat them, you can bring them to us. We are in the area where fireweed is common."
His tone was calm, and every word seemed to reveal the truth.
It didn't sound like he was mocking them, but rather like he was really trying to persuade them.
There was a hint of viciousness in Liu Rui's eyes.
The people from Qilinxuan did not say anything back.
They can provoke the people from the Snow Flower Pavilion however they want, but they are unwilling to offend the alchemist.
Qilinxuan and his group watched them walk out of their sight.
"Let's go too." Qilinxuan's alchemist said lightly.
…
"Mr. Qin, you are really strong." The young man from Xuehua Pavilion turned his arms and felt that Qin Zhou was really strong.
Qin Zhou: “I usually do some farm work.”
youth:?
What kind of farm work does the alchemist do?
Everyone thought he was joking, so they just laughed it off.
“But Master Qin is quite a talker. He actually told them to bring the Queen Bees to find us. The Nine Queen Bees are inner circle spirit beasts, equivalent to the Golden Core Stage among cultivators. A Golden Core Stage spirit beast, let alone the people from Qilin Pavilion, may not be able to defeat it even if we add a few of us. The people from Qilin Pavilion actually dared to challenge the Nine Queen Bees…”
"They dare to challenge the Nine Bee Queens. There must be something on the alchemist." said the guard leader.
This is consistent with Qin Zhou's idea.
"Nine bee needles can be used to refine breakthrough pills from the foundation-building stage to the golden elixir stage, and they are even necessary ingredients for the elixir." Qin Zhou explained, "Nine bee beasts live in groups, with the queen bee as the queen. The strength of the bee group is comparable to that of a human cultivator in the middle stage of the golden elixir stage, but they are afraid of only one kind of smoke."
"What kind of cigarettes?"
"The poisonous smoke produced by burning a poisonous grass called stone hay has a very strong paralyzing effect. If a queen bee is poisoned by the smoke, even if she is in the middle stage of the golden elixir, she will be slaughtered at will."
"They want to target the queen bee with smoke?"
"Not sure." Qin Zhou added, "But the effect of the stone hay poison smoke is limited in time. If the amount is not enough to completely paralyze the Nine Bee Queen and make her faint, or if she escapes before she wakes up, then when the Nine Bee Queen wakes up, she will identify her enemy and go berserk."
After Qin Zhou finished speaking, he found that everyone in Xuehua Pavilion had stopped and was staring at him.
"...I read it in a book." Qin Zhou explained silently.
"What happens after you go berserk?"
"The strength will directly break through to the late Jindan stage. No one in the Jindan stage can defeat him."
"It sounds dangerous."
"The people from Qilinxuan are really brave. The spirit beasts are about to riot, yet they dare to capture the Nine Bee Queens at this time."
"If we don't catch it now, we don't know when we'll have to wait. Who knows what will happen during the riot? Maybe the Nine Bee Queen will be killed by other spirit beasts."
"That's true."
Qin Zhou finished his explanation and said nothing more. The others continued to move forward towards the territory of the fireweed.
But the head guard couldn't help but look at Qin Zhou a few more times.
The Nine Bee Needles were the material for the foundation-building breakthrough of the Golden Core. Even though he was an alchemist, he was only an alchemist at the Qi Refining stage. But from what he said, he seemed to know the process of obtaining the Nine Bee Needles very well, even... as if he had once captured the Queen Bee himself.
Is it really that detailed from what I read in the book?
Who is the person that Boss Zhou asked them to protect, Mr. Qin?
…
Not long after, Qin Zhou and others arrived at the territory of the fire-smelling grass.
There is almost no moisture around, the forest ends here, and the grass turns into dry stones. From a distance, it seems like you are in the desert Gobi.
This is the world of cultivating immortals.
Fixed climate regions do not necessarily form the same or similar ecological environment. Affected by spiritual energy, a desert may be found in a dense forest.
From afar, you can see red plants growing in the cracks between the dry stones.
This was also the first time Qin Zhou had seen the 'fire grass'. It was called the fire grass, but it looked more like a spiritual plant that had grown from the Fire Phoenix Feather in order to adapt to the environment after the 'Land of Flame' was gone.
"The areas where the fire-smelling grass grows are mostly the activity areas of giant rock beasts. Once we enter that area, the giant rock beasts will think we are invaders. We can lead the giant rock beasts away, and Mr. Qin can go get the fire-smelling grass."
"good."
Qin Zhou had no objection. The giant rock beast was a spiritual beast that was huge in size but actually clumsy in action and only at the Qi Refining Foundation Establishment stage. As long as they were not surrounded by a group, it would not be difficult to hold them back.
…
At the same time, going deep into the inner layer from the outer layer, Qilinxuan and his team successfully discovered the Nine Beehives.
What was surprising was that there was no spiritual energy fluctuation around the Nine Beehives.
"What's going on? There are no bee beasts around the hive today?"
"It may be related to the impending riot. Even the small creatures like ants on the border have started to stock up on food and move. The Nine-bee Beasts may have gone out to look for food as well."
"That's perfect. Let's just light the poisonous smoke to stun the queen bee. Then we can take out the nine bee needles and evacuate." The alchemist said calmly. The stone hay was very valuable, but he didn't have much of it.
If there were no extra bee beasts, the poisonous smoke on his body would be enough.
"Remember, go get the bee stinger right after lighting the cigarette. My cigarette can only last for the duration of an incense stick."
"Okay." Everyone from Qilinxuan replied.
Things went unexpectedly smoothly.
A group of people went deep into the hive with weapons in hand and almost easily found the queen bee whose movements were paralyzed by the poisonous smoke.
The queen bee in the Jindan stage is extremely large, as thick as two adult arms.
But at this moment he had no ability to resist, and fell into the nest with his eyes closed.
"Boss, is this thing really at the Jindan stage?" Some people in Qilinxuan didn't quite believe it.
"It should be."
Liu Rui was the first to step forward. He held his sword in front of him cautiously, fearing that the queen bee would deliberately show weakness to lure the enemy.
However, it was not until he stood completely in front of the queen bee and even poked the queen bee's butt with his sword and found that there was still no movement that Liu Rui completely relaxed.
The smoke lit by the alchemist really has a miraculous effect on the Nine-Bee Beast.
Without any hesitation, Liu Rui made a sword flower and dug out the queen bee's sting.
Wipe off the blood with a cloth. This is the Nine Bee Needle.
The legendary Nine Bee Needles, which are the most difficult to remove, are no more than this.
"That alchemist really has a way. The spirit beast in the Golden Core Stage looks like it's ready for us to slaughter."
Someone retorted, "These alchemists are not the ones we raised. We fight desperately to kill spirit beasts to get materials for our elixirs on the border, but they just need to make elixirs at home. And they are bossy and bossy."
The last sentence also touched everyone's heart.
"We can't do anything about them even if they boss us around. They are all our own alchemists, so forget it."
Liu Rui snorted coldly when he heard this. He couldn't touch Qilinxuan's alchemist no matter what. At most, he could go back and secretly trip him up and teach him a lesson.
But the Snow Flower Pavilion...
Didn’t that guy threaten that if they couldn’t subdue the queen bee, they would take her to him?
…
The alchemist heaved a sigh of relief as he watched a group of people successfully come out of the beehive. It was good enough that the Nine Bee Needles were successfully obtained.
But when he saw what Liu Rui was holding in his hand, his pupils shrank.
"Liu Rui! You are crazy!"
"Why did you bring out the queen bee?!"
He actually used the cage used to trap spiritual beasts to bring out the queen bee!
Liu Rui sneered, "Teach the people of Xuehua Pavilion a lesson. Don't you want to teach that alchemist a lesson? He is just a Qi Refining Stage, and he is too arrogant in front of you."
The alchemist paused and lowered his voice and said, "If you are not careful, someone could die."
"What are you afraid of? In this border area, it is not uncommon for spirit beasts to kill several people. Don't you have that cigarette? Let's throw the queen bee to him and run away."
The alchemist hesitated, "I don't have much stone hay left."
No matter what, this is also a spiritual beast with the cultivation level of Jindan stage.
"Boss, I know the area where the fireweed grows. Let's move forward as fast as we can. They must not have left yet." One of them said. The rock beasts are quite troublesome and will definitely hold them back for a while.
"What if we can't make it in time?" asked the alchemist. "Once my poisonous smoke loses its effect, we will all die!"
"If we can't catch up, we will definitely evacuate before your cigarette burns out." Liu Rui stared at his face and said, "If I were you, I wouldn't waste time here now. I heard that the Snow Flower Pavilion is selling a large number of low-level precious elixirs. The pressure from above is not small. Don't you have any resentment towards the Snow Flower Pavilion?"
Hearing this, the alchemist was startled, then, as if he was convinced, he gritted his teeth and said, "We must evacuate before the smoke burns out."
"Okay. Let's go."
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