Chapter 216

With them only defending and not attacking, they could only delay it for a while and couldn't effectively kill the Iron-Armored Bee swarm. The Cyan Flame Cloud Smoke Array was bound to be broken through by the Iron-Armored Bee swarm sooner or later.

Looking at the second-tier bee king that had been eyeing them covetously in the array, Song Qingming turned to Huang Shengyue on the side and said:

"Fellow Daoist Huang, we can't hold on for long like this. Now that even the second-tier bee king has come out, there shouldn't be many Iron-Armored Bees left in the valley. Hurry up and ask if they have succeeded over there?"

As soon as Song Qingming's voice fell, a mass of yellow wolf smoke suddenly emerged from the valley entrance in the distance. After seeing this signal, Huang Shengyue, who was about to send a sound transmission, immediately stopped the action in her hand. Song Qingming and Hu Longhai, after seeing it, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This was the signal that the few had already agreed upon with Huang Shengxin beforehand. After seeing the yellow wolf smoke, it represented that he had succeeded. Song Qingming and the others could immediately choose to retreat at any time.

Just when Song Qingming and the three were fighting the Iron-Armored Bee swarm with all their might, Huang Shengxin, who had been lurking outside the diagonal valley for a long time, hesitated for a moment before decisively choosing to attack immediately and rushing into the diagonal valley alone.

After the bee king left, there were only a few dozen Iron-Armored Bees left patrolling near the nest. Huang Shengxin didn't choose to entangle with them too much and directly rushed toward those few spiritual herbs.

His goal was very clear, which was to come for these few spiritual herbs. This was also the strategy they had already set before they started.

Song Qingming and the three were responsible for attracting and weakening the Iron-Armored Bee swarm, while Huang Shengxin took the opportunity to forcibly enter the valley to pick the spiritual items they wanted.

Seeing the signal of success sent by Huang Shengxin, Song Qingming and Huang Shengyue and Hu Longhai looked at each other and directly withdrew the spiritual power in their hands.

As soon as the Cyan Flame Cloud Smoke Array stopped running, the white smoke covering the Iron-Armored Bee swarm in the array also quickly disappeared.

Just as the fog dissipated, a red spiritual talisman tightly held in Hu Longhai's hand had already been thrown in one direction.

This red spiritual talisman was a second-tier low-grade explosion talisman. Just as the spiritual talisman flew into the air, the surrounding Iron-Armored Bees didn't know what it was and directly surrounded it.

Only hearing a thunderous sound, that second-tier explosion talisman directly exploded in mid-air, and then a huge flame began to rush toward the surroundings.

"It's now, run!"

Hu Longhai saw that the explosion talisman had already blown a gap in the Iron-Armored Bee swarm and was the first to rush out directly from that position.

Huang Shengyue and Song Qingming, seeing this, were also not to be outdone and followed behind Hu Longhai. They didn't want to be left here alone.

Just as the three escaped from that gap, the Iron-Armored Bee King immediately noticed this side and chased after them with all the Iron-Armored Bees.

"Scatter and run first, it's easier to get away."

After the three flew for a distance, Hu Longhai saw that the flight speed of the Iron-Armored Bee King chasing from behind was not at all inferior to their escape speed, so he turned his head and shouted at Song Qingming and the two on the side, before being the first to change his forward direction.

Song Qingming, seeing this, didn't think much and also changed his forward direction, leaving only Huang Shengyue to move forward in the originally determined direction.

Seeing the few suddenly separate, the Iron-Armored Bee King circled on the spot and chased after Hu Longhai with most of the bee swarm.

After Song Qingming changed direction, he discovered that the Iron-Armored Bee King behind didn't chase after him, which made him let out a sigh of relief. His luck was considered good this time; without the bee king, he didn't take the two or three hundred Iron-Armored Bees behind seriously. If he didn't want to waste spiritual power and spiritual items, he would have wanted to turn back on the spot and kill these annoying things clean.

After circling around in the vicinity with the Iron-Armored Bee swarm and consuming several low-level spiritual talismans, Song Qingming finally completely shook them off.

Half an hour later, Song Qingming returned to a forest over ten miles away from the diagonal valley where the Iron-Armored Bee swarm was. Not far ahead was the meeting point they had set earlier.

"Eh! Fellow Daoist Hu hasn't returned yet?"

After Song Qingming arrived, he looked around carefully and discovered that there were only the two from the Huang family here, so he asked directly.

Huang Shengyue shook her head and said softly, "The bee king seemed to be aiming for him at the end. I don't know if Fellow Daoist Hu has gotten away now."

"You don't need to be too worried. With his ability, even if he is entangled by the bee king, he will spend more effort, but wanting to get away shouldn't be a big problem. Let's wait patiently."

Huang Shengxin was responsible for sneaking into the beehive to pick spiritual herbs this time, which was not an easy task. It was just that his luck was slightly better this time, and the bee king was successfully lured away by Song Qingming and the others. Otherwise, even if he could succeed, it would be impossible for him to appear so relaxed now.

The three waited in place for another half an hour, and Hu Longhai finally arrived here successfully.

At this moment, his face had already been bruised and swollen by the Iron-Armored Bees. Seeing Hu Longhai become this ugly, Song Qingming and the others almost laughed out loud. When they first saw him, the few almost didn't recognize him at all.

Come to think of it, Hu Longhai was unlucky enough. The reason the bee king would chase him, Song Qingming estimated, should be that the explosion talisman he finally used was too powerful, which attracted most of the Iron-Armored Bee King's hatred.

Being chased by the bee king and so many Iron-Armored Bees, him being able to get away could already be considered as having not-bad cultivation. If it had been Song Qingming who encountered the Iron-Armored Bee King, he wouldn't necessarily be able to stand here so quickly now.

After Hu Longhai took the detoxifying pills handed over by Huang Shengyue, the swelling on his face soon got much better.

Taking advantage of this time for everyone to rest, Huang Shengxin also took out the spiritual items he had obtained in the diagonal valley this time.

A total of three second-tier spiritual herbs were obtained, two second-tier high-grade and one second-tier low-grade, all of which were popular types on the market. These three spiritual herbs added together should be able to be exchanged for about two thousand spirit stones.

Although it wasn't much, with each person only getting a few hundred spirit stones, it was a victory in the first battle, making a good start. The secret realm had just opened not long ago, and being able to have a harvest was already a good omen for everyone.

These few spiritual herbs were basically what Huang Shengxin wanted, and Song Qingming and Hu Longhai didn't want to compete for them. The two each got a few hundred spirit stones. After the spiritual items were divided, everyone's mood was much better.

Especially Hu Longhai, who had been poor for the past few years in order to establish a family, after seeing the spiritual items in the secret realm, he was already impatient to set off again to search for spiritual items.

Huang Shengxin, as the leader of the few, was still relatively calm. Although he also wanted more spiritual items, he was very clear about the crisis in the secret realm. Compared to the various demon beasts in here, those fellow cultivators hidden in the dark were their greater danger.

"When I came in last time, I once found a third-tier spiritual herb not far from here. Let's go there to try our luck tomorrow! Traveling at night is more likely to encounter demon beasts. Let's rest here for a night and set off tomorrow."

"Let's listen to Fellow Daoist Huang. We are all entering for the first time and are not very familiar with this place, so being careful is always good."

Hearing Huang Shengxin's words, Song Qingming also hurriedly echoed. In fact, he was the one who least wanted to take risks here. If his own strength wasn't too meager, after entering the secret realm, Song Qingming would have wanted to find a remote corner to hide first.