Chapter 74: The Power of the Cold Ice Great Array

However, this honey had to be collected no matter what. Long Xuan looked at the fist-sized bee king in his palm, coughed lightly, and said kindly: "Bing Bing, you say your relatives have lived in my medicine garden for so long, it's time to pay taxes."

"This medicine garden is mine. They have lived in my medicine garden. You say, should they pay taxes?"

"The spirit medicine here is all planted by me with hard work, and the pollen they collect is also all mine. Since they took my things, should they pay taxes?"

"Their beehive is protected by my Cold Ice Great Array, which can avoid the harassment of natural enemies. Living here is 100% safe. Should they pay protection taxes?"

"I calculated it for you carefully. What scenery tax, peace tax, drinking water tax, bachelor tax, honey collection tax, income tax, property tax, wealth tax, protection tax, head tax, breathing tax, sunbathing tax, living and working in peace tax, land appreciation tax, farmland occupation tax, environmental protection tax..."

Long Xuan counted the tax types while counting his fingers, and finally found that ten fingers were completely insufficient, so he had to give up.

"Alright! I'll think of these for now, and I'll continue to add them later."

"These taxes added together are not much. Every household only needs to hand over half of the honey every month."

"You go and collect taxes for me from door to door now. Whoever dares to resist taxes will not be given Bee Royal Jelly to drink in the future."

Long Xuan pointed and gestured excitedly, but suddenly his expression froze, thinking whether he was collecting a bit too harshly.

That group of spirit bees was all honey-addicted. Collecting their honey was like wanting their "life-saving bump." Wouldn't it force them to rebel?

Don't let Bing Bing be overthrown just after succeeding to the position of bee king.

He thought that since he wanted to develop the number of Ice Bees in large quantities to make them form combat power as soon as possible, he must leave them with sufficient food. The more food, the faster the reproduction speed.

What's more, he was just one person, his appetite was limited, and he couldn't eat that much honey. Taking too much was completely a waste.

Out of these three considerations, Long Xuan changed his idea of increasing the tax rate by 50%, intending to only take 20%, and handed the matter of tax collection to Bing Bing.

Bing Bing seemed very interested in collecting honey from door to door. After swallowing hard, it couldn't wait to do it.

With the bloodline suppression of the bee king, plus the coercion and inducement of Bee Royal Jelly, all the spirit bees obediently surrendered.

Where in the spirit beast world was there any peasant uprising? Long Xuan was completely overthinking.

But what he didn't expect was that this little clever ghost dared to violate his decree and collect twice as much honey. As for the extra honey collected, it was all moved to its own home.

If Long Xuan knew what it did, he didn't know if he would be angered to death.

After successfully collecting the honey, Long Xuan was in a great mood. He immediately brewed a cup of honey water, used the Cold Ice Divine Flame to make a little crushed ice and put it into the honey water, and took a beautiful sip.

After the cool honey water went down his stomach, he suddenly felt a coolness all over his body, mixed with the fragrance of flowers in the sweetness, and it was cold and delicious. How could it be described just by the word "cool"?

The honey made from Fourth-Rank pollen was indeed delicious and didn't disappoint Long Xuan. After he drank a cup, he immediately showed an intoxicated expression.

"This is life. A cup of honey water, as happy as a god!"

"Sure enough! Nowhere is as comfortable as staying at home, and nowhere is as safe as staying at home." Long Xuan raised his cup and sighed.

However, just as his voice fell, the Cold Ice Great Array suddenly shook crazily, as if it were being crazily hit by something.

Long Xuan was startled by this sudden change, which also interrupted his sigh.

What's going on? Just said it was safe to stay at home, and there could be danger without going anywhere. Could it be that a meteorite fell from the sky? Long Xuan was shocked.

Just at this time, the killing array of the Cold Ice Great Array seemed to be triggered by something, and ice-blue fireballs flew out from the sky and smashed toward the distance.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Long Xuan only felt the sound of fireballs whistling past his ears one after another. Countless fireballs flew over his head. In an instant, it was like fire falling from the sky, crazily smashing outside the array.

Soon, the sound of crazy bombing rang out outside the array, and the dense explosion sound was endless, as if it were being bombarded by eight artillery regiments in succession, and the earth was shaking crazily.

"Is this Shuliya firepower?" Seeing this terrifying scene, Long Xuan was stunned.

Although this Cold Ice Great Array was arranged by him, he didn't expect the firepower of the Cold Ice Great Array to be so fierce. This was the first time the killing array was activated, and it was also the first time he saw the attack power of the Cold Ice Great Array.

Long Xuan immediately ran in the direction where the fireballs were bombarding. When he ran to the edge of the array and saw a group of spirit beasts crazily attacking his medicine garden, he finally understood what was going on.

Although the beast tide had been intercepted by the Gu Cultivator Alliance, it was completely impossible to intercept 100%.

There were still small beast flocks passing through the defense line from time to time, penetrating into the rear of the human world.

Now there was news of spirit beasts slaughtering villages.

Obviously, this beast flock should be the "fish that slipped through the net" that broke through the front line. After passing through heavy defense lines, they penetrated deep into the hinterland, preparing to loot Big Stone Village.

However, Long Xuan's big medicine garden was just in front of Big Stone Village, which happened to be the only way for the spirit beast army.

Therefore, his big medicine garden would naturally be fiercely attacked by the spirit beast army. The spirit beasts seemed to want to wipe out this stronghold by the way. This was truly a disaster from heaven; even staying at home was not safe.

Is this me blocking the disaster for Big Stone Village?

Long Xuan was stunned. However, although his medicine garden was being fiercely attacked by the spirit beast army, he was not panicked at all at this time.

In this world, the strength of Gu cultivators and the power of arrays were completely unequal.

Don't look at him as just a small Gu cultivator at the Spirit Gathering Stage, but the Cold Ice Great Array was far from the attack power of a Spirit Gathering Stage Gu cultivator.

If the attack power of the array was on the same level as the Gu cultivator's own realm, how would Master Jin dare to settle in the wild, and how would Di Xin dare to settle in the Great Grassland?

An array with the attack power of the Spirit Gathering Stage would never give them such a great sense of security.

Long Xuan's array was inherited from Master Jin's cave-protecting array, plus the treasure that suppressed the array eye, the Cold Ice Divine Flame, its power had increased by several folds out of thin air. How could it be something that an ordinary beast flock could attack and enter just because they wanted to?

Looking at the firepower in the sky, one could see how strong the attack power of this array was.

"My Cold Ice Great Array is not something you can take down just because you want to. You are really overestimating yourselves. You have provoked the wrong person! You are finished!"

Looking at the spirit beast army that was crazily attacking the array, Long Xuan showed a look of disdain.

The fireballs in the sky were like rain, and the dense fireball rain fiercely bombarded the beast flock, and a chorus of miserable shrieks from spirit beasts erupted from the beast flock.

On the ground, there were unextinguished cold flames everywhere. The spirit beasts swallowed by the cold flames were either burned to death or turned into ice sculptures.

The thin Spirit Armor on their skin didn't work at all, just like paper paste. The cold flames could easily burn through it.

What kind of power was the Cold Ice Divine Flame? It was far superior to Long Xuan's Blazing Flame Palm. Once hit head-on by the Cold Ice Divine Flame, then don't say you are a First Rank Peak spirit beast; even if you are a beast king, it won't delay your death.

It was also that this spirit beast army was unlucky to have stumbled into such a peerless fierce array, which could be considered as having bad luck for eight lifetimes...

This spirit beast army had a scale of about 500, and the number was not small. Moreover, there were spirit beasts of all kinds, even including the air force flying in the sky. It was a miscellaneous army.

However, the firepower of the Cold Ice Great Array was too fierce, and this amount of beast flock was completely not enough to look at.

Dense fireballs bombarded the center of the beast flock, pouring onto the heads of the beast flock one after another. In the blink of an eye, this spirit beast army suffered heavy casualties, and all the spirit beasts were bombed into a daze.

Even the flying spirit beasts flying in the sky couldn't escape the bad luck. The dense fireballs were like anti-aircraft missiles, crazily strafing in the sky.

The flying spirit beasts dodged flexibly, dodged one, and dodged the second... but in the end, they couldn't dodge the tenth.

After being hit by a fireball, they screamed, their whole bodies wrapped in blue fire, falling from the sky and smashing heavily on the ground.

If they were lucky, they would smash directly onto the back of a ground spirit beast, and the spirit beast would also be burned to death together.

The scene was simply a purgatory on earth. There was fire everywhere in the sky and on the ground, and there was no place to step. The fire fell on the ground and lasted for a long time. There were miserable shrieks of spirit beasts everywhere.

This spirit beast army suffered heavy casualties in just one encounter. I don't know how many spirit beasts lost their lives in the sea of fire. The scene was unbearable to look at.

When the spirit beast army discovered that this was a forbidden area that could not be attacked, it was already too late to escape.

The attack range of the killing array was extremely large, and the firepower was too fierce. Even if the remaining spirit beasts fled crazily, they died in droves. I don't know how long they would have to run before escaping the attack range of the killing array.

Finally, a pile of corpses was left here. Only a few dozen spirit beasts luckily escaped, and the rest of the entire main force lost their lives here. It was simply miserable.

After the spirit beasts died out, the fireballs finally stopped pouring. The great array operated slowly and returned to its original calm appearance again.

If it weren't for the pile of beast corpses and the sea of fire here telling what had just happened, it would be hard to imagine that a fierce battle had just taken place here, and that this stable great array had such terrifying lethality.

Long Xuan couldn't recover for a long time. The terrifying scene of the sea of fire falling from the sky just now had too much visual impact, simply spectacular to the extreme, fiercer than the special effects of big movies, making him feel very satisfied.

After taking a deep breath, an excited light appeared in his eyes, and he quickly rushed out of the array.

Outside, there were 500 beast corpses, and a pile of materials was left on the ground. This time, he had made a fortune, made a huge fortune.

One had to know that his Cold Ice Divine Flame was different from normal flames. Normal flames would burn the spirit beasts to nothing, leaving nothing behind, and the spirit insects parasitizing in the body would also be burned to death together.

But his Cold Ice Divine Flame was different. Most of the creatures burned by the Cold Ice Divine Flame would turn into ice sculptures, and the beast materials on their bodies would be completely preserved.

Moreover, the frozen beast meat could be kept for a long time without spoiling. He could completely sell the beast meat to the Qian Family Restaurant to make a small fortune.

There were 500 beast corpses here. Even if he just sold the beast meat, he would make a fortune.

Long Xuan was ecstatic, greeted a group of clones to go back and take a large number of storage bags, and then began to pick up treasures all over the ground.

A full 500 beast corpses, some big and some small, he would have to pick them up for half a day, and he didn't know if the storage bags were enough.

When Long Xuan casually stuffed an elephant into a storage bag and saw the few ice sculptures closest to him, his mouth couldn't close from joy.

"Yo! Isn't this the legendary beast king? Are you guys okay?"

Long Xuan laughed loudly. After seeing what species the beast king in the ice sculpture was, his eyes shone, and his smile became even brighter.

Good fellow, this tiger king was actually an Overlord Tiger.

The Overlord Tiger had abnormal defensive power, but it still couldn't withstand the damage of the Cold Ice Divine Flame. Its entire ability hadn't been exerted before it was killed in seconds. It died truly a bit unjustly.

Most importantly, after this year, the Flame Clone had collected almost all the top-grade spirit insects and top-grade beast materials needed for the Dragon Gu formula.

Only one top-grade spirit insect related to a tiger and the beast material of a tiger king were missing.

His Gu formula only lacked the body part of a tiger king's paw to completely complete the puzzle of the Divine Dragon.

And what he wanted came. The tiger king beast material that the Flame Clone hadn't collected for a long time actually came to his door on its own.

Not only did it bring a perfect tiger paw, but coincidentally, there was also a top-grade spirit insect at its spirit core.

Two types of top-grade materials were obtained at the same time. All the most difficult materials to collect for the Dragon Gu formula were completely collected.

Although the remaining large and small materials were numerous, they could all be bought with spirit stones, so there was no need to worry.

In other words, when he created the Dragon Gu formula, he could refine Gu on the same day. It was simply amazing efficiency.

At first, he was worried about how to collect so many top-grade materials and whether it would take ten years to collect them all.

Never expected that before the Gu formula was created, the materials had already been prepared first. It was truly unpredictable.

The elephant was really a bit heavy. After putting the elephant into the storage bag, he felt a bit tired, so he followed the old rules: all the dirty and tiring work was handed over to the clones to do, letting them exercise their bodies, while he supervised them exercising.

After putting the tiger king that turned into an ice sculpture into the storage bag, he showed a proud smile again. There were truly a bit too many happy things today.

However, just as he was walking toward the medicine garden, his already moved gaze suddenly looked at the position he had just looked at again.

He couldn't help but rub his eyes and look at that position again, his face changing instantly.

"Grass! Where are my spirit stones!"

Long Xuan was completely bewildered, running toward the array eye at the center of the array at high speed, hurriedly touching the empty air with his hand.

This was the backup energy of the array. There was clearly a mountain of spirit stones as energy for the array's operation, but now it was empty here. There wasn't even half a spirit stone.

"Where are my spirit stones! Where is my huge spirit mountain!"

Long Xuan was about to collapse. Where was the proud smile just now?

At this time, he had to recognize a terrible fact: one must believe in science and believe in the law of conservation of energy.

The more terrifying the attack power produced by the array, the more energy naturally needed to create this terrifying attack power.

Just now, fire was falling like rain in the sky. It looked very satisfying, but in fact, the energy consumption was also satisfying. Attack power and energy consumption were completely positively correlated.

If his guess was correct, the array's reserve energy seemed to have been exhausted by the crazy bombing just now.

This was a tragedy. Joy turned into sorrow.

Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme. If the array power is too great, it may not necessarily be a good thing.

It seemed that he harvested 500 beast materials without any effort, but if the array consumption was calculated, he might not necessarily earn much.

Just now, it was clearly an excess of power, causing too much unnecessary waste.

It was also his first time without experience, and he was negligent. Sometimes, one really couldn't let the array handle everything automatically.

There were three sources of energy for the array. One came from the spiritual power of the natural world. The array absorbed the spiritual power in the air every moment to maintain the daily consumption of the great array, making the great array operate all the time.

The second came from the spiritual power reserve library at the center of the array, which was also the place where spirit stones were stored. Every kind of array had to store a massive amount of spirit stones here. The higher the grade of the spirit stones, the better. Of course, if there was a higher-level energy source, that would be even better.

If the spiritual power in the air couldn't maintain the consumption of the array, then the array would mobilize the spiritual power of the spirit stones here.

The third source of energy came from the treasure that suppressed the array eye. The energy level of this third source of energy was the highest, relating to the highest attack power of the array and the upper limit of the array, and could provide the most massive power for the array.

Activating the killing array would inevitably increase energy consumption. Relying only on the thin spiritual power in the air was definitely not enough, and it was inevitable to mobilize the spirit stones in the reserve library.

The terrifying scene of fire falling like rain in the sky just now, it would be a ghost if the energy consumption wasn't large.

It was completely normal for the spirit stones to be exhausted...

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