Chapter 214

Huang Shengxin and Huang Shengyue, after seeing the person who arrived, both revealed a hint of a smile on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist Song, has the journey been smooth?"

Song Qingming, who was walking toward the two, sighed and said, "I truly didn't expect there to be so many demon beasts in this secret realm. I also had to take quite a few detours to get here."

"This time the secret realm opened, there are indeed more demon beasts inside than in the past. I also encountered a group of Iron-Armored Bees as soon as I came in and was chased by them all the way before I could get away." Huang Shengxin looked at his wounds that hadn't healed yet and shook his head with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Hu hasn't arrived yet, let's rest here for a while! The secret realm won't close until a month later, so we don't need to be too anxious." Huang Shengyue pointed to a relatively clean open space beside her and greeted Song Qingming.

After walking closer, Song Qingming also saw that Huang Shengxin seemed to have some injuries on his body, and he was also greatly shocked in his heart. He hadn't expected that the one among the several people to encounter danger first would actually be Huang Shengxin, who had the highest cultivation.

Seeing Song Qingming's expression change slightly, Huang Shengyue on the side hurriedly explained a few sentences and told him about Huang Shengxin's previous encounter again.

After she finished speaking, Song Qingming finally understood the reason and said in a low voice, "I didn't expect there to be such troublesome demon beasts as Iron-Armored Bees in here. If it had been me who encountered such a crisis, I fear I wouldn't have the life to see you Fellow Daoists again today."

Huang Shengxin shook his head and said, "Fellow Daoist Song, don't be too panicked. Danger and opportunity always coexist in here. After Fellow Daoist Hu arrives, we will go together to meet this group of demon bees."

"What? Fellow Daoist Huang still wants to go and move that group of Iron-Armored Bees? I didn't hear wrong, did I!"

Hearing Huang Shengxin's words just now, Song Qingming almost thought his ears had gone wrong. Having been chased for hundreds of miles by Iron-Armored Bees, yet still daring to go back and have designs on them—could it be that this old thing Huang Shengxin's brain had been stung bad?

Him being able to escape safely didn't mean others could do it too. If Huang Shengxin patted his butt and left, throwing them to the bee swarm, that would be a loss that outweighed the gain. Thinking of this, Song Qingming's face was already filled with displeasure.

"When I was fleeing from the Iron-Armored Bee nest, I inadvertently saw that there was also a second-tier high-grade 'Five-Colored Flower' there. Such a spiritual item growing next to the Iron-Armored Bee nest certainly won't be taken away by anyone yet. We will rush over directly after reuniting with Fellow Daoist Hu; it will certainly still be in time."

"A second-tier high-grade Five-Colored Flower—this is a rare item. Ninth Brother, you didn't see wrong, did you?" Huang Shengyue immediately revealed a hint of joy after hearing this.

"Even with Fellow Daoist Huang's cultivation, you couldn't deal with those Iron-Armored Bees. What use is it to add us few people? Although the Five-Colored Flower is good, it's a pity it just happened to grow next to the Iron-Armored Bee nest. Even if we have the heart, we are very powerless!"

Song Qingming saw that the two from the Huang family were full of passion after seeing the Five-Colored Flower and seemed to have truly made up their minds to provoke the Iron-Armored Bees, so he couldn't help but want to retreat in his heart and hurriedly persuaded them again, hoping Huang Shengxin could dispel this dangerous idea.

Huang Shengxin saw that Song Qingming didn't seem to have much confidence and hurriedly said to him, "Fellow Daoist Song, rest assured. I know a thing or two about demon insects like Iron-Armored Bees. This time, I also brought several second-tier arrays with me. As long as you few rely on the arrays and cooperate properly, you will certainly be able to hold back most of the swarm. As for taking the medicine, leave it to me."

Hearing Huang Shengxin's full confidence and his taking the initiative to take on the most dangerous task, Song Qingming couldn't say anything more and could only nod slightly to agree to the matter.

After the few discussed it, they rested in place for another night. Until the morning of the second day, Hu Longhai, who was also a bit wretched, arrived here.

The reason he arrived so late was because he inadvertently ran into a second-tier spiritual herb on the road. His luck was also a bit poor. After driving away the demon beasts guarding the spiritual herb, just as he wanted to step forward to pick it, someone had gotten there first.

In a fit of anger, Hu Longhai fought a battle with this person. In the end, neither of the two with equivalent cultivation took any advantage, and in the end, the person escaped, making him busy for nothing. Now, his heart was still filled with indignation.

Regarding this, Song Qingming and the others were also powerless. Even if they had the heart to help him stand up for himself, there were a full several hundred cultivators in the secret realm; where was it so easy to find one person? They could only comfort him with words.

Hu Longhai was already holding back a breath of anger. Hearing Huang Shengxin's proposal to deal with the Iron-Armored Bees, he didn't think much and nodded in agreement. The group of four flew east for several hundred miles and soon found the position Huang Shengxin had mentioned.

This was a diagonal valley between two mountains. Looking up from the bottom of the mountain, it felt like the shape of the entire mountain peak was like a chair.

The group observed outside the diagonal valley and soon saw many Iron-Armored Bees flying out from inside, and also some flying in from outside.

Huang Shengxin took out a set of array flags and handed them to Song Qingming and the three, letting them find a suitable place to set up the array. He himself circled around the diagonal valley, looking for a suitable place to rush in.

Song Qingming was originally an array master, and setting up this kind of array was very handy for him. The three of them together only spent less than two hours to complete the setup of this array.

This array was called the "Cyan Flame Cloud Smoke Array"; it was also a trap array that could emit thick white fog over a very large range, interfering with the demon beasts' vision, causing them to lose their sense of direction, and could also emit very powerful cyan flames to attack the demon beasts trapped in the array, especially restraining demon beasts or demon insects that could fly.

After setting up the array, Hu Longhai and Huang Shengyue were responsible for taking turns to appear to lure the Iron-Armored Bees into the array, while Song Qingming helped to operate the array well, trying his best to trap more demon bees, facilitating Huang Shengxin, who was hiding in the dark, to sneak into the diagonal valley.

After the few assigned their respective tasks, Hu Longhai set off first, directly releasing his flying sword beside the mountain valley to kill four or five low-level Iron-Armored Bees.

Following a buzzing sound, soon a bee swarm composed of over a hundred Iron-Armored Bees surrounded him. Hu Longhai, seeing the Iron-Armored Bees rushing toward him, hurriedly ran back, releasing several spells toward the bee swarm behind him while running.

Soon, several hundred bees followed behind Hu Longhai, and he also successfully ran into the array that had just been set up. Following the rising of bursts of white smoke around the array, except for a very small part that escaped in time, the remaining Iron-Armored Bees were all trapped in the white fog.

"Fellow Daoist Hu, well done!" Seeing Hu Longhai's action of luring the Iron-Armored Bees was so skilled, Song Qingming also couldn't help but sigh in admiration. For a cultivator who reached Foundation Establishment from a rogue cultivator background like him, it was indeed easier to cooperate than ordinary cultivators.