Chapter 97 White Jade Queen Bee Advancement

After sending off his seventh uncle Zhang Mengyuan, Zhang Zhixuan continued to practice every day. With the help of the Water Spirit Pot, he was not short of resources for practice for the time being, and his mana was growing rapidly.

Starting this year, the family system began to change. Every year, the cultivators who completed the family tasks would receive a certain amount of family merits, and then use the merits in their hands to exchange for cultivation resources within the family.

Since returning from the Southern Wilderness, Taicheng County has been very peaceful.

Time passed quickly, and another five years passed in the blink of an eye.

In recent years, Zhang Zhixuan has been running around outside, and now he has finally settled down for a while.

In these rare years of stability, two years ago, Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation level advanced one step further and he became a second-level foundation cultivator.

Three years ago, the yellow bud grass matured again, and Zhang Zhixuan refined the golden bud pill again. Because his cultivation level had greatly increased, his mana was far beyond the past, and his alchemy skills were also upgraded to the second-level upper grade. This time, his success rate in alchemy was very high, almost exceeding the seventh level, and he refined more than 700 golden bud pills.

This batch of Jinya Dan entered the market, which immediately eased the family's tight finances.

Two years later, Xuanyou grass also matured one after another. Zhang Zhixuan kept five Xuanyou grass as seeds, and the remaining eight Xuanyou grass were all refined into Youhuan Dan.

Zhang Zhixuan's success rate in refining this second-level high-quality elixir also exceeded the fourth level, and he successfully refined four bottles of Youhuan Dan.

As Zhang Zhixuan brought Youhuan Dan to Taicheng County, this elixir also opened up sales in Xihefang. In recent years, this kind of elixir has become a common elixir in Taicheng County.

The large influx of Youhuan Dan has led to an oversupply, and the price of this elixir has also dropped a little, from fifteen spirit stones per pill to twelve spirit stones, which is only slightly more expensive than the Black Mountain Market.

In recent years, the family has made considerable profits from refining elixir twice on a large scale. The value of these two batches of elixir exceeds 2,500 spirit stones, which greatly alleviates the imbalance of the family's income and expenditure.

Last year, clan leader Zhang Leqian led the team and went to the southern wilderness to transport spiritual rice again, earning a profit of 500 spiritual stones.

With the experience of the last time, the journey was very safe this time, and the task was completed without any twists and turns.

In the past five years, Qingchan finally encountered a bottleneck in foundation building, and his magic power has not increased since three years ago.

And Aunt Hanyan also left the family three years ago and returned to Qingxuan Sect.

When she left, her mother was very sad. Her mother was nearly seventy years old. As a mortal, she didn't have much life left. This time they separated, and Hanyan had to wait another five years to come back.

This separation may be the last time the mother and daughter meet.

After Zhang Hanyan returned to Qingxuan Sect, letters came from time to time. While completing the task, she began to inquire about the cultivators who were good at treating soul injuries.

As soon as there was news, Zhang Zhixuan was ready to take Qingchan to Qingxuan Sect to have a look.

During these five years, Uncle Seven Zhang Mengyuan took a Youhuan Pill and successfully broke through the realm and became a ninth-level Qi training cultivator.

According to the family's rules, if you become a ninth-level Qi training cultivator, you will serve as the elder of the family and be responsible for the family's duties.

Although Uncle Qi was already over eighty years old and had no potential, the family still decided to abide by the system and let him serve as an elder to manage the cultivators who planted spiritual fields.

However, at the annual family elders' meeting, Zhang Zhixuan and the clan leader also changed the rules. From this day on, cultivators who broke through the ninth level of Qi training after the age of sixty could not serve as family elders, and would not have an annual salary of sixty spirit stones.

The reason why the family let the ninth-level Qi training cultivators serve as elders is, first, because they have high cultivation and are the backbone of the family, and second, because they are preparing to build a foundation and are extremely short of resources for cultivation. Letting them serve as elders is to subsidize them.

And a cultivator like Uncle Qi, who is in his seventies or eighties, can no longer help the family even if he breaks through to the ninth level of Qi training. Instead, he can only lie on the family and suck blood.

In order to maintain the prestige of the family system, everyone could only reluctantly let him become an elder, but at the elders' meeting that year, the elders' system was revised to plug this loophole.

However, after this incident, the seventh uncle Zhang Mengyuan also looked unhappy.

Among the elders of the family, his prestige was the lowest, and he was often secretly pointed at by the cultivators of the family.

Therefore, in recent years, he has been in the spiritual field almost all year round. Even in the elders' meeting of the family, he often finds excuses to ask for leave. Since he became a cultivator of the ninth level of Qi training, he rarely returns to Lushan.

In the past five years, Zhang Zhixuan has entered the Tianhuo Jindao Jue and has cultivated the second level of this technique, completely achieving attribute exchange.

The Samadhi True Fire he has cultivated now, once it is used, is already quite powerful.

Even the magical power of Purple Qi Divine Light has made some progress.

After several years of practice, Zhang Zhixuan has opened up the four spiritual orifices of Tanzhong, Yutang, Zigong, and Huagai. The progress of this practice is faster than he expected. Perhaps in less than 30 years, Zhang Zhixuan will be able to practice this magic.

One day, Zhang Zhixuan had just refined the purple air when a talisman flew into the cave.

Zhang Zhixuan took the talisman and saw that it was his seventh uncle Zhang Mengyuan who sent the talisman. Good news came from the spiritual field again. The white jade bee finally advanced today and became a second-level lower-grade spiritual insect.

The queen bee became the second level, and the production of royal jelly almost tripled. The number of insect eggs produced each year will also be more, and the number of beehives will also increase.

Hearing this good news, Zhang Zhixuan hurriedly stopped the practice and went to the spiritual field immediately.

Although Uncle Qi is already 86 years old, he is still energetic. He is busy in the spiritual field every day and looks quite capable.

Seeing Zhang Zhixuan coming, he hurriedly led Zhang Zhixuan to the beehive.

After more than ten years of cultivation, the white jade beehive has doubled in size, and the earliest white jade bees have died in recent years.

The current bee colonies are no longer the ones Zhang Zhixuan saw back then.

These newly born white jade bees are also much more ferocious and larger than the first generation of mutated wild bees.

In recent years, the monks who take care of the white jade bees have been stung frequently, and their noses and faces are swollen every day. Few people are willing to do this job.

Zhang Zhixuan took a closer look and found that the queen bee had grown three times in size, almost as big as an adult's fist.

The evolved queen bee has become very ferocious. As long as someone approaches the hive, it will command swarms of bees to chase.

Even Uncle Seven Zhang Mengyuan was stung by the white jade bee a few times when he was observing the beehive today, and the swelling on his hands has not dissipated yet.

Zhang Zhixuan shook his head with a wry smile. Although the advancement of the white jade queen bee is a good thing, from today on, cultivators can no longer get close to the beehive.

If a cultivator is not good enough and still wants to get close to the beehive, once he is besieged by the queen bee, his life will be in danger.

Zhang Zhixuan looked at everyone and said, "From today on, don't let anyone come within ten feet of the beehive to avoid being stung by the queen bee. The queen bee is already a second-level monster, and the toxicity of the tail sting has greatly increased. Once stung, it is very difficult to recover.

Wait a minute, let us think of a way, and after solving this hidden danger, everyone will go to collect honey."