Chapter 288: A Fleeting Thought

In order not to run into those people again on the way back, Lin Zhangqing took out three Hidden Spirit Masks from his storage bag, and the three of them each put one on.

Subsequently, the three of them split into two groups to avoid being too big a target. His younger sister and Lin Changlian walked in front, and Lin Zhangqing followed behind them.

At a distance of about fifty zhang, ensuring no one was following, they finally returned to the rented courtyard smoothly.

When entering the courtyard, Lin Zhangqing checked Lin Changjie and the other three's rooms by the way and found that they hadn't returned yet, so the three of them rested in the living room.

"Brother, just now at the Stall Square, how did you know we were being targeted?" Lin Changling asked curiously.

Lin Zhangqing looked at the two of them and explained: "This can be guessed! How many spirit stones can the members of the family's hunting team earn after working for a year, do you know?

It's probably about 800 to 1,000. After deducting various expenses, it's not easy to have half left! Then think for yourself, how many spirit stones did we spend just now? At least 7,000 or 8,000 spirit stones, right? So in the eyes of those robbers, if you aren't fat sheep, who is? Now you know how dangerous the outside is! These are still on the surface, there are more unscrupulous means!"

"Brother, when you roam outside, do you often encounter this kind of thing?" Lin Changling asked with some worry.

"However, it's not often that exaggerated! It's just occasionally encountering a few blind robbers who send me spirit stones, as well as spirit objects and dharma artifacts!" Lin Zhangqing explained.

Hearing Lin Zhangqing answer like this, his younger sister and Lin Changlian exchanged glances, and the thought in their hearts flashed by. Both of them saw little stars in each other's eyes.

Lin Zhangqing didn't guess what the two of them were thinking, but continued: "The Hidden Spirit Masks you are wearing, I have already tested them.

They can completely deceive the divine sense of Foundation Establishment cultivators, but they won't work against Purple Mansion stage ones!

I once wore this kind of mask and was found on the spot by Senior Chen Jieyi, the disciple of Great-Grandmother. So be careful when using them, I've given them to you now, use them well in the future."

His younger sister and Lin Changlian were overjoyed upon hearing this and hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you Brother, Brother is so good! Thank you Ninth Brother!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded and continued to say to Lin Changlian: "That Swift Wind Thunder Leopard is only less than half a month old. Although it has already opened its eyes, it might still need to be fed with some beast milk and the like. Only when it gets a little bigger can you feed it demon beast meat!

Lin Changling has the Master-Servant Contract, let her teach you!"

Lin Changlian nodded and said: "I know, Ninth Brother! But the problem now is, where do I go to get beast milk?"

Lin Zhangqing smiled and said: "In such a big market, there must be beast milk. If you don't know.

You can go ask the inn clerk. If he can help get it, then give him one or two spirit stones. This can save a lot of trouble, which is the best."

"Of course, if you really can't get it, you can also go ask Seventh Uncle directly. But if you want to leave the inn, you must tell me! Do you two understand?"

The two nodded, looking like they were already eager to try. Lin Zhangqing waved his hand, letting them go get the beast milk first.

After the two of them left, Lin Zhangqing also returned to his room, activated the Mystery Array, and then took out the net-shaped dharma artifact covering that nest of spirit bees from the Spirit Beast Bag.

After observing for a while, most of them on the outside were worker bees, with a small number of male bees. He probed his divine sense into the honeycomb again.

It was like a maze inside, extending in all directions. Lin Zhangqing also spent a little bit of time before finding the Queen Bee.

In the process of finding the Queen Bee, Lin Zhangqing also roughly counted them. There were about 500 mutated Yellow Jade Bees in this nest, including one First-Grade Mid-Stage Queen Bee, about 20 First-Grade Mid-Stage male bees, and the rest were First-Grade Early-Stage worker bees.

Carefully observing these mutated Yellow Jade Bees, there were some irregular golden spots on their foreheads, bodies, and wings.

Ordinary Yellow Jade Queen Bees could reach the peak of First-Grade Great Perfection at most, while mutated Yellow Jade Queen Bees had a great possibility of breaking through to the Second-Grade.

The honey produced by ordinary Yellow Jade Bees, one liang of honey is equal to one Upper-Grade Qi Gathering Pill, which is about 10 spirit stones. However, because honey belongs to natural spirit objects without pill poison, this price has to be doubled, which is about 20 spirit stones per liang of honey.

A nest of Yellow Jade Bees, if they can collect enough pollen every year, then besides the portion they consume themselves, they can probably produce two or three jin of honey.

That would be 500 spirit stones. If it were ordinary Yellow Jade Bees, a nest would be two or three thousand spirit stones, and it might take five or six years to earn back the cost.

Because these were mutated spirit bees, it cost 5,000 spirit stones to buy them, and it would take ten years to earn back the cost.

But if one day, the Queen Bee can advance to the Second-Grade, then it would be different. One liang of Second-Grade honey, the cheap ones are 50 or 60 spirit stones, and the better ones are over 100.

In fact, that stall owner grasped the selling point of mutated spirit bees, focusing on the future: this mutated Queen Bee has the possibility of advancing to the Second-Grade.

So he dared to double the price, which was also the reason why those people kept wanting to grind the price down, finally letting Lin Zhangqing find an opportunity to decisively pick up a small leak.

Now taking out these Yellow Jade Bees was to first contract the Queen Bee and let it restrain the worker bees and male bees under its command, so that Lin Zhangqing would dare to put them into the inner space.

Otherwise, without the Queen Bee's restraint, the people and spirit beasts in the inner space would probably be covered in bumps very soon.

He began to refine that net-shaped dharma artifact. Now Lin Zhangqing's divine sense was powerful, so he refined the dharma artifact in a while.

After considering it, the Queen Bee was hiding in the honeycomb, and it wouldn't be easy to get it out alone. So he simply refined the net-shaped dharma artifact together and put it into the Spirit Beast Bracelet.

Then he took back the net in the Spirit Beast Bracelet space. Suddenly, the whole Spirit Beast Bracelet space was filled with bees flying around.

However, Lin Zhangqing didn't care about them, sent a flying sword in directly, carefully cut the honeycomb into two halves, and then took the Queen Bee out.

Although the Queen Bee also had a stinger, it didn't have much attack power in Lin Zhangqing's hands.

Moreover, this time the Queen Bee was left alone, and it couldn't make any waves! Carefully observing this little guy, it was about three times the size of an ordinary worker bee, its wings were relatively short, and it had a relatively large abdomen, occupying about three-fifths of its body. There were many golden spots on many places on its body.

As the king of the entire group, the Queen Bee's spirituality was very high. Lin Zhangqing knew it must be able to understand, so he communicated with it directly using divine sense. There wasn't much resistance, and the Queen Bee was subdued very smoothly.

He directly recited the spell of the Master-Servant Contract, then used the Golden Thread Escape Light Needle to prick his finger, forced out a drop of small essence blood containing his own spiritual energy, and pointed it on the Queen Bee's forehead.

It was quickly absorbed into the Queen Bee's sea of consciousness. Between thoughts, he could immediately sense the existence of the Queen Bee, and through the contract, he also felt the waves of submission coming from the Queen Bee.

Putting this little guy in his palm, he decided to give it a name. Seeing that it was mainly yellow, dotted with many golden spots.

So, he decided to name it Golden Cloud (Golden Cloud). There was no special meaning, just hoping it would lay many eggs, and in the future, the bee colony would be as many as clouds.

Then he told it the name he gave it through the contract. Unexpectedly, this little guy was quite happy and danced in Lin Zhangqing's palm.

Lin Zhangqing took a look, and it was quite interesting. However, he let it perform next time, and passed a new order to Golden Cloud through the contract again.

After entering the inner space, it must restrain all worker bees and male bees, and must not attack the people and spirit beasts inside.

The Queen Bee Golden Cloud was very smart, and the meaning fed back was also very clear, so Lin Zhangqing felt relieved.

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