When noon passed and the sun gradually sank to the west, Jiang Yan woke up leisurely.

After a period of recuperation, his mental strength had returned to 1.6, and although he was still a long way from fully recovering, it was irrelevant.

After this period of time, the blood crystal energy in his body had been refined, and Jiang Yan asked the bee swarm to send him more than forty grams of red jade blood crystals, and swallowed them all unceremoniously.

In the red jade hive on the tree above his head, there were still a lot of red jade blood crystals in the swarm's inventory, enough for him to squander a lot of time in a row.

However, considering the future demand, Jiang Yan still decided to stock up as much as possible, as for how to increase the inventory of blood crystals, of course, to hunt foreign beasts, the main raw materials of blood crystals came from their flesh and blood.

The ruby blood bee collects materials like ordinary bees to make food for the bee colony, and its body has a unique transformation system, which can quench and transform the flesh and blood of various alien beasts absorbed into it, and refine the most essential parts, just like a processing factory to make it into blood crystals.

Originally, after Jiang Yan finished hunting the alien beast by himself, there was always some inconvenience when handling the prey, and due to his own weight, he could not pack the entire prey and take it away, so he could only spend a period of time digesting the flesh and blood of the alien beast as soon as possible, which seriously affected the efficiency of hunting.

But now with the Ruby Blood Bee, it's a lot more convenient.

Jiang Yan took down the basketball-sized hive of the red jade blood bee and stuffed it directly into the spare space in his backpack that was deliberately set aside for emergencies in addition to the necessary supplies.

Although this made the weight of the backpack increase a lot all of a sudden, Jiang Yan's cultivation had improved a lot compared to when he first entered the Black Wood Forest, especially the significant increase in his physique after cultivating the Blood Turning Sutra, which allowed him to bear this weight very easily, and it would not have an adverse effect on the battle.

He released the ground rat that had completed its mission and returned it to freedom, and then swept through the depths of the black wood forest with the Black Iron Eagle and the Ruby Blood Bee, and began a hunt with unprecedented efficiency.

Compared to before, Jiang Yan's hunting process has become much easier now.

They carried out a large-scale exploration by the Black Iron Eagle at high altitude, first locked the location of the prey, and then Jiang Yan rushed over with the red jade blood bee, and drew his sword for a while, and at the same time, a large group of red jade blood bees also flew over and followed him to cooperate with him to besiege the prey, and it can even be said that the red jade blood bees are the main force, their ferocious killing speed is much more effective than Jiang Yan, and often the prey will be killed in less than half a minute after being besieged.

Jiang Yan found that he only needed to use his sword to create more wounds on the prey, so that it would be easier for the ruby blood bees to break through the prey's defense and attack the prey, and then the prey would be quickly eliminated by the swarm without his effort.

Moreover, after hunting, there is almost no need to even clean up the spoils, and the flesh and blood of the prey besieged by the ruby blood bees will be 'collected' by them, and only the parts of the minions, bones, scales, and armor that are very hard and not easy to digest and refine into blood crystals can be spared.

And not every prey needs Jiang Yan to participate in the hunt, he is more often just running around with the hive in his backpack, so as to facilitate the red jade blood bees to scatter to a certain range with the hive as the center for activities, only occasionally encounter a few difficult beasts with strong armor and thick armor, will Jiang Yan need to work together to find the weakness of the prey and break through its defensive armor.

Basically, Jiang Yan only needed to walk around with the hive like a transport, and this relaxed and leisurely feeling made him think about whether to find a mount to make it easier for him.

Originally, when Jiang Yan needed to hunt by himself, in order to make it easier to act covertly in the dark woods, he didn't have the heart to find a mount, but now it's different, he doesn't need to stealthily hide.

It just so happened that during this hunt, Jiang Yan saw a horse-shaped beast named 'Red Horned Horse' with red horns on its head and a tall and handsome body through the perspective of the Black Iron Eagle.

The red wildebeest has a docile temperament, and its combat effectiveness ranks lower among the other beasts of the same level, but it is superior in foot strength and endurance is also very good. Because of its good strength and relatively easy to tame, many generals in the human kingdom like to use this kind of horse-shaped beast as a mount.

For these reasons, the red wildebeest was once captured by the forces of the human state, and now they are rarely seen in the wild near the town, and there is a daily task in the mercenary guild of Tianyun City to capture the red wildebeest alive, and the pay is very good.

Jiang Yan was obviously very lucky to meet a horse here, and when he saw that Hunter was happy, he simply rushed over and subdued it with his ability as a mount for travel.

"Uh, wait a minute, this guy has the brand of recognition engraved on his body?" After subduing, Jiang Yan noticed that on the butt of the red wildebeest, there was a strange mark that had been burned with a soldering iron, in the shape of a flower vine wrapped around a short sword.

The unforgettable memory made Jiang Yan easily recognize the origin of the pattern, which was the emblem of the Tianyun City City Lord's Mansion, which meant that this red wildebeest originally had an owner.

However, according to Black Iron Eagle's reconnaissance, there are no other humans in the vicinity, indicating that this should be a lost red wildebeest.

"What, I thought it was rare to meet a wild red wildebeest!"

Jiang Yan patted the red wildebeest on the neck curiously, then hung all the luggage on it, sat on it himself, and rode it leisurely with the red jade blood bees around looking for prey, looking very relaxed.

Obviously, he wanted to take the red wildebeest for himself.

As for its original owner, but who cares so much!

This red wildebeest has the strength of the day after tomorrow, and it is obvious that it was originally bred very well, and Jiang Yan will not easily return what he has in his hands.

It's a big deal that he does some cover-up work, anyway, with the alchemist skills he has, it is not too difficult to erase the brand of recognition on the red wildebeest.

So Jiang Yan rode on the red wildebeest and comfortably continued to drive the swarm of bees to hunt strange beasts in the depths of this black wood.

The red jade blood bee is centered on the hive, and the activity distance is more than ten kilometers away, and if it is completely dispersed, it can basically cover all the field of vision of the black iron eagle in the high altitude, but unfortunately the total number of red jade blood bees is only more than 100,000, and if it is too scattered, it will make the bee colony less lethal, so Jiang Yan only let them hunt within a radius of a kilometer with him as the center.

In just half an hour, the bee colony has hunted more than fifty alien beasts, of which more than ten are at the level of five or more in the day after tomorrow, and have completed the 'collection' task outside, and batches of worker bees full of blood and red will fly back to the hive, and halfway through, the flesh and blood of the alien beasts absorbed into the body will be refined, converted into blood crystals rich in energy and conducive to preservation, and then transported back to the hive for storage.

"With such an all-out hunt, at this rate, it won't take long for the blood crystal inventory in the hive to reach full capacity!"

Jiang Yan was very satisfied with the efficiency of the swarm, his own cultivation progress had been maintained in the best state since he had a continuous and sufficient supply of blood crystals, and with the foundation he had laid before, the value of his internal force cultivation had basically returned to the level before cultivating the Blood Transformation Sutra.