Chapter 1645: Beehive Strength
In fact, not only Qingyang has changed a lot, but also the changes in the Drunken Immortal Gourd are even greater. After 28 years, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey's cultivation has reached the level of a second-level Yuanying cultivator. Its overall strength is not much worse than that of the Qingling Demon King in Hengyun Mountain. Since refining the remains of the dragon, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey's bloodline has changed greatly, and its cultivation efficiency has increased a lot. In addition, Qingyang continues to provide him with cultivation resources, so the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey's cultivation speed is even slightly faster than Qingyang.
Today, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey is not lonely in the Drunken Immortal Gourd. Last time at Yehoupo, Qingyang took the remaining hundreds of demon monkeys of the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey tribe into the Drunken Immortal Gourd. After nearly 20 years of development, the number of demon monkeys has increased by 20 to 30, and the strongest has reached the third level.
There is a lot of free labor in brewing monkey spirit wine. The Iron Arm Spirit Monkey is completely freed and can spend most of his time on cultivation. Only when he needs to refine those high-level and difficult spirit wines occasionally, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey needs to do it himself.
The space of Zuixian Gourd is getting bigger and bigger. After more than a hundred years of development, it is now beautiful with beautiful mountains and rivers, especially the central area. It is not much worse than the cultivation holy places of some major sects outside. The huge space will not seem crowded. The Iron Arm Spirit Monkey and the Alcoholic Queen Bee can adapt to staying in it for a long time, so there is no need to take them out often.
Let alone the low-level spiritual herbs planted randomly around. They are not valuable and have little effect. Qingyang did not spend too much energy to take care of them. The reason for doing so is mainly to make the space of Zuixian Gourd look less empty and add some vitality to it.
The spiritual fruit forest by the lake is also getting bigger and bigger, mainly due to the continuous cultivation and introduction of the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey over the years. Of course, Qingyang sometimes transplants suitable spiritual fruit trees outside when he encounters them. Although most of the spiritual fruit trees in the spiritual fruit forest are low-level miscellaneous spiritual fruit trees, the number is large enough, covering hundreds of acres, with more than a thousand trees.
So many spiritual fruit trees not only provide a large amount of pollen and nectar for the alcoholic bee colony, but also the spiritual fruits can be used as raw materials for brewing monkey spirit wine, and also supply the demon monkey colony.
Among them, the more important spiritual objects are the Red Heart Charm Fruit Tree, the Pregnant God Fruit Tree and the four spiritual plants. After Qingyang formed the elixir, the Red Heart Charm Fruit Tree was no longer too important to him, and he never took care of it. Although it produced a few small fruits, it was unknown how many years it would take for it to mature.
The Pregnant God Fruit Tree is too important. There are still two fruits on it. The big one is more than 900 years old and less than 100 years away from maturity. The small one is also more than 300 years old. Because of the eight spiritual roots, Qingyang easily broke through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul Stage. It should not be difficult to achieve the God Transformation in the future. In fact, Qingyang may not be able to use this Pregnant God Fruit, but such a good thing, even if it is not used, it doesn’t matter. It can be taken directly to improve cultivation, or it can be exchanged with others. If those late Nascent Soul cultivators know that there is a Pregnant God Fruit, they will buy it even if they lose everything.
Although there were the Iron Arm Monkey and the Alcoholic Queen Bee in the Drunken Immortal Gourd, Qingyang was still worried. If the God-Pregnant Fruit was destroyed by those low-level demon monkeys who didn't know the seriousness of the matter, he would have nowhere to cry. In order to avoid accidents, Qingyang simply arranged some small formations outside.
Not only the God-Pregnant Fruit Tree was protected by the formation, but also the gourd vine, grape vine and peach tree. Only the Wannianhong tree bloomed all year round but did not bear fruit. Alcoholic bees often collected pollen and nectar, so it was not specially circled. Now the height of the Wannianhong tree is more than ten feet, and the trunk is three feet. The red flowers on the tree attracted countless alcoholic bees. From a distance, it looks like a fiery red hill.
That peach tree is much shorter than Wannianhong, but its canopy is larger, spreading out to a diameter of ten feet, covering an area of more than one mu of land. Seven or eight green peaches are hidden in the dense leaves. If you don't look carefully, you won't find them. These peaches can't grow in a short time, but the peach tree is so high, the peaches will definitely be extraordinary in the future.
The gourd on the gourd vine is much bigger than it was more than 20 years ago, but it seems to be a long time before it matures. I don't know if the gourd grows slower the later it is, or if the Drunken Immortal Gourd suppresses its growth after it is upgraded. It will probably take hundreds of years for this gourd to grow completely.
However, Qingyang can also see that the level of this gourd is obviously higher than the previous ones. It will definitely be a rare spiritual object after it grows up. This gourd seems to be of gold attribute, and now the attribute is more obvious. It even looks like a tingling feeling, which makes Qingyang look forward to it.
As for the grapevine, it has remained the same over the years, with flowers, small fruits, large fruits, and fruits that are about to mature. There are always more than a dozen bunches of grapes hanging, and the frequency of one bunch ripening every few years is basically maintained. Now that Qingyang's cultivation has improved, grapes still have an effect on his cultivation, but the effect is not as good as before, so he just eats these grapes as spiritual fruit snacks, tastes freshness, and satisfies his cravings. The rest are used as raw materials for brewing monkey spirit wine.
Because there is no shortage of spiritual pills and spiritual wine can be guaranteed, the cultivation of the alcoholic queen bee can basically keep up with the speed of Qingyang and the iron-armed spirit monkey. Recently, she has been practicing hard in seclusion. The blue-backed alcoholic bees are still the same six, and their current strength is about equivalent to that of a third-level Jindan cultivator. The number of blue-backed alcoholic bees, which is comparable to that of a foundation-building cultivator, has increased a lot. A rough count shows that there are as many as 70 or 80 of them. The number of purple-backed alcoholic bees, which is equivalent to that of a Qi-refining cultivator, has reached more than 1,000. If the more than 30,000 ordinary alcoholic bees are added, the overall strength of the bee colony is almost equivalent to that of a medium-sized sect on the Ancient Wind Continent.
In just over a hundred years, a group of spirit insects comparable to a medium-sized sect in the ancient continent was cultivated. If this were to be spread out, it would scare many people. It was because Qingyang had the mysterious treasure of the Drunken Immortal Gourd and had many adventures in recent years, and had collected a large amount of resources, that he could supply the consumption of the alcoholic bee colony. If it were anyone else, I'm afraid they would have been eaten out by this group of alcoholic bees long ago.
Now the space of the Drunken Immortal Gourd is getting bigger and bigger, with sufficient spiritual energy inside, and a large number of low-level spiritual flowers and herbs are planted. In addition, the spiritual fruit forest is used to brew monkey spirit wine, which can continuously provide food for the alcoholic bee colony, which can barely make up for the vast majority of the consumption of the alcoholic bee colony, so Qingyang doesn't need to find food for them separately, otherwise the bee colony would not grow so fast.
Calculating the time, it is not far from the preliminary selection of the Ten Thousand Spirits Association mentioned by the Crouching Tiger Master, and there is still a long way to go to the Ten Thousand Demons Valley, so preparations must be made in advance, so Qingyang simply packed up, ended his retreat and walked out of the courtyard, and went to find the Crouching Tiger Master to say goodbye.