With the passage of time, great changes have taken place in the cave.

The bee tripod composed of nearly 100,000 medicine bees has shrunk to one-third of its original size, the number of bee colonies has been reduced to about 10,000, and the rest of the medicine bees have turned into white flame anti-compensation swarm bees.

However, the rest of the medicine bees have obviously changed from before, their body size has become about twice as large, and the texture of their bodies has slowly begun to approach that of the red jade medicine bees, and the surface of their bodies has begun to have a layer of jade-like appearance.

The current bee colony no longer has first-order medicine bees, and it can be said that the strength of the entire bee colony has undergone a qualitative change.

However, Zhou Hanging Bee still did not stop, but continued to refine the bee colony by relying on the residual flame and the last thin red tripod.

Relying on the connection between the red jade medicine bee and the bee colony, Zhou Hangbee felt that there would be a medicine bee that would break through to the third order, so he relied on the last bit of Gu Yuan Baoding's power to continue refining the bee colony.

In order to maintain the residual Gu Source Baoding power, Zhou Xuanbee had to output his true qi extraordinarily.

When the white flame was about to be extinguished and the red tripod was about to disappear, Zhou Hanging Bee sensed that there were several medicine bees in the bee tripod as if they were about to break through, but they couldn't take the last step for a long time.

His face hesitated, his heart was horizontal, and a mouthful of essence blood spurted out, accurately falling on the red ding.

At the last moment, Chiding burst out beyond his previous strength and performed one last tempering on the bee colony.

When the white flame was extinguished, the red tripod disappeared, and now what was left was the quenched bee tripod.

Looking at the bee colony in front of him, panting between his mouth and nose, and the remnants of blood at the corners of his mouth, Zhou Hanging bees were still very satisfied with the results.

"Ahem."

Just after consuming a mouthful of essence blood, coupled with the continuous consumption of true qi, before carefully observing the changes in the bee colony, Zhou Hangbee let out a weak coughing sound.

I had to restore my true qi and damaged body first, and then I came to explore the changes in the bee colony, sensing the problems in my body, Zhou Xuanbee thought silently.

After a healing elixir was taken out of the storage bag, Zhou Xuanbee began to close his eyes and meditate.

Yin Fei, who was waiting outside the cave, saw that Senior Brother Zhou had not come out for a long time, and she had already begun to worry about Zhou Hanging Bee in her heart, this time she was not worried about whether the bee colony could be promoted, but worried about his safety.

According to what Zhou Hangbee told her before, it only took two or three days to refine the bee colony this time, but now it is the fifth day.

After all, monks may make mistakes when practicing or practicing spells, and some serious ones may even cause the monks to fall.

Yin Fei also decided that if Senior Brother Zhou hadn't come out yet, she would report it to the sect, and she wouldn't consider it if it had caused a misunderstanding.

An hour later, the stone door that closed the entrance to the cave was opened, and Zhou Hanging Bee slowly walked out of the stone cave.

"Senior Brother Zhou, are you alright?"

Looking at Senior Brother Zhou, who was a little haggard in front of him and his clothes were a little messy, Yin Fei hurriedly stepped forward to support Zhou Xuanbee.

At the same time, his mouth kept asking and caring about Zhou Hangbee.

"It's okay, it's just that the vitality is damaged."

Although Zhou Xuanbee was not weak enough to be supported, he did not refuse because of his maid's support.

After closing the hole again, Zhou Hangbee returned to the practice room in the small courtyard with Yin Fei's support.

"Fortunately, I knew that Yin Fei was worried about my safety and left the stone cave early."

Just when the two were talking on the way back to the courtyard, after Zhou Xuanbee learned of Yin Fei's plan, he was glad that he expected Yin Fei to come out early because he was worried that he might report to the door.

Shaking his head, he didn't continue to think about it, Zhou Hanging Bee patted the spirit gourd on his waist, and the bee swarm appeared in the practice room in an instant.

"It seems that the bee colony has changed quite a bit."

In addition to the body shape and strength, the aura of the bee colony has changed greatly from before.

The bee colony that has been collecting honey in the Bee Valley for three years is somewhat docile in its breath, but the current bee colony has a somewhat ferocious atmosphere.

"But there's an added takeaway this time."

With a thought in his mind, ten medicine bees that had reached the third order appeared in front of Zhou Hangbee's eyes, and compared to other medicine bees, these ten medicine bees were closer to his natal red jade medicine bee.

"Ahem, it seems that the spell of the Spirit Soldier Technique is also about to break through the Dacheng realm, and this mouthful of essence blood can be regarded as a return to the roots."

Zhou Xuanbee, who made a slight coughing sound, said thoughtfully.

The spell of Spirit Soldier Practice, there are already handsome and soldiers, and now there are still generals, and these ten third-order medicine bees are to fill this gap.

Previously, the spirit soldier exercise was unable to break through the Dacheng realm, and Zhou Xuanbee considered the problem, after all, it evolved from the method of military formation.

Previously, when he broke through the late stage of Qi refining, Zhou Xuanbee did not raise the spirit weapon method to the Dacheng realm, but he had some gains.

A mouthful of essence blood for ten third-order medicine bees, and the opportunity to break through the spirit soldier technique, no matter how you calculate it, it is worth it.

After observing the changes in the bee colony, Zhou Hanging Bee put the remaining more than 10,000 medicine bees back into the gourd, and began to make up for the previous loss of vitality.

This time, it was not only him, but the red jade medicine bee also consumed a lot, after all, he had to keep playing the magic trick, and in the future, the true qi was supported by his natal object.

The red jade medicine bee was still sleeping in his dantian, in order to avoid leaving future troubles, Zhou Xuanbee took out a piece of spirit crystal that he had used before, held the dantian with both hands and fell back into a state of meditation.

After two full days, Zhou Xuanbee opened his eyes and felt that his body had fully recovered before ending this cultivation.

"Well, it seems that the pure aura in the spirit crystal is still working well, and there is still so much aura left in the spirit crystal."

Looking at the two or three percent of the residual aura in his hand, Zhou Xuanbee also felt for the first time that the spirit crystal was of great help to cultivation.

There were pills and bee colonies before, and Zhou Hanging Bee never used spirit crystals.

After all, it was too extravagant to use spirit crystals for cultivation during the Qi refining period, and the two sets of formations owned by Zhou Xuanbee required spirit crystals to stimulate the maximum power, so they were never used.

"It seems that if you can't find a suitable pill in the future, you can use the spirit crystal to cultivate."

I was going to recover my vitality, but there was no suitable treasure, so I had to use spirit crystals to assist, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good.

In the late stage of qi refining, because the absorption of refining spiritual energy has already been connected with one's own three souls and seven spirits, ordinary monks in the late stage of qi refining rarely use low-grade or middle-grade elixirs.

And the suitable high-grade elixir is not easy to find, the spirit crystal can just be replaced, but there is still a gap compared with the pill that specializes in improving strength, and the only benefit is the purity of the aura.

Retracting the spirit crystal in his hand, Zhou Xuanbee didn't worry too much about the use of spirit crystals, and he had his own plans for the use of spirit crystals in the future.

"Senior Brother Zhou, you're all right."

Yin Fei, who was preparing new petals, saw the practice room open, and asked Zhou Xuanbee with concern.

"It's fine, I'm going to take a bath, you can help me put down the water."

Seeing Yin Fei collecting new petals, Zhou Hangbee said to her.

"Senior Brother Zhou, wait a minute."

After speaking, he entered the bath room to activate the formation and prepare hot water, and the newly collected flower petals were also sprinkled into the bath.

"Senior Brother Zhou, the water has been put away, I'll go down first."

"What are you going down for?"

"Senior Brother Zhou, your body..."

"How dare you doubt me?"

As he spoke, he pulled Yin Fei into the bathroom, and the splash was louder than before because of Yin Fei's skeptical tone.

Zhou Hangbee planned to leave the Red Refining Gate after the bee colony was promoted, so he cherished the last comfortable time.

Three days later...