On the second day, Li Xuangang woke up from his cultivation, and the spirit stone in his hand had already consumed most of his spiritual energy.

In a sense, the spirit stone is the product of the continuous accumulation and compression of the spiritual energy, and every spirit stone comes from the spirit stone mine, whether it is a low-grade spirit stone or a high-grade spirit stone.

Li Xuangang once saw the introduction of the spirit stone mine in the family's library pavilion, according to the records in the classics, each spirit stone mine has one or several source stones.

These source stones are the basis for the existence of this spirit stone mine, because the source stones can continuously absorb the free spiritual energy in the gathered air, and then condense it into ordinary spirit stones.

Generally speaking, a source stone can produce one to three high-grade spirit stones a year, and according to the number of spirit stones in the spirit stone mine, it can produce a different number of medium-grade spirit stones and low-grade spirit stones.

When the spirit stone ore contains more spirit stones, it can attract more free spiritual energy in the air, and the source stone can produce more medium-grade spirit stones and lower-grade spirit stones.

On the other hand, if the spirit stone ore contains fewer spirit stones, the less spirit stones will be produced by the source stone condensing the spiritual energy.

Therefore, as long as you can control a spirit stone mine and mine it reasonably, it is equivalent to obtaining a path that can stably produce spirit stones.

But Li Xuangang had only seen records about the spirit stone mine in the classics.

In his cognition, even the Ghoul Sect and the Immortal Yuan Sect in the north only had a small spirit stone mine.

In other words, there was only one source stone in their spirit stone mines.

Even if there is only one source stone, the spirit stone mine is the top vein, and there are only two in the eastern border of the entire Chaoyang Continent, which are held in the hands of the Ghoul Sect and the Immortal Yuan Sect respectively.

As for those spirit stone mines with more source stones, they are controlled by some incredibly large forces, and only this kind of force can stably hold the financial resources of large spirit stone mines.

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Putting the spirit stones that had consumed a lot of spiritual energy in his hands into the storage bag, Li Xuangang stood up and easily put the Sancai Spirit Array into it.

Seeing Li Xuangang stand up, his refining corpse also walked towards him, and then stood behind him.

Li Xuangang has already walked to the edge of the battlefield of the Ghoul Sect, and a little further north, he is about to enter the battlefield range of the Xianyuan Sect, although there is no major contradiction between the two major sects, but they are still in a state of competition with each other in the eastern border of the Chaoyang Continent.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Li Xuangang did not plan to continue to go north, but prepared to take another path back to Wujiangfang City.

The road to which I came has been almost searched by myself, and if I go back and walk this road again, it is unlikely that I will find the corpse of the demon beast that I left out.

Li Xuangang took out the map in the storage bag, and then studied it carefully, preparing to plan a reasonable route for himself.

After staring at the map for a long time, Li Xuangang finally decided to take a little risk, decided to go a little deeper into the Hengduan Mountains, and then walked back towards Wujiangfang City along the way.

Although Li Xuan is cautious by nature, he does not flinch. Now that this route has been decided, Li Xuangang no longer hesitates, and after destroying this temporary cave mansion, he will take the corpse to the deeper part of the Hengduan Mountain Range.

Going deeper into the Hengduan Mountains meant that he had a greater chance of encountering the rest of the monks, and he also had a greater chance of encountering the demon beasts in the Hengduan Mountains.

Therefore, Li Xuangang was more careful than before on the way back, holding the Eight Spider Blue Light Sword in his hand throughout the whole process, and always ready to take out the black water shield in the storage bag.

And the defensive power of his refining corpse was no worse than the Black Water Shield, so Li Xuangang kept it within three steps of him.

Li Xuangang maintained this state for two days. After that, he encountered the first group of demon beasts since he entered the Hengduan Mountain Range this time, and this time it was not a corpse.

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This is a swarm of jade bees.

Li Xuangang carefully hid his figure in a pile of weeds, and his refining corpse was lying next to him.

Li Xuangang looked at the Yuluo beehive not far in front of him, and he began to recall all the information about the Yuluo bee in his mind.

Strictly speaking, the Jade Luo Bee is only a first-order demon beast, and except for the queen bee, who can reach the second order, most of the rest of the worker bees are only of the first-order intermediate rank.

Although the Jade Luo Bee is not conspicuous to other demon beasts, it is of great value to monks.

Because the honey brewed by Yuluo Bee is an essential ingredient in many Danfang, this kind of honey is deeply loved by alchemists.

As for why Li Xuangang is so familiar with the jade bees, it is because the family had raised such a group of jade bees on a side peak of Taiqiu Mountain before, but later due to poor management, the group of jade bees did not last long.

At that time, this incident was a big blow to the Li family.

The secret technique of raising jade bees is still stored in the family's library.

Li Xuangang looked at the Yuluo bee colony not far in front of him, and his heart was filled with excitement.

Although he didn't know why this group of jade bees was not discovered by the other monks, Li Xuangang knew that no matter what, this was an opportunity that belonged to him.

But he didn't dare to move for the time being, because this group of jade bees was not raised by monks, so they were full of ambition and hostile to human monks.

Although Li Xuangang was not afraid of this group of jade bees, his purpose was not to kill the other party, but to take them away intact.

This is undoubtedly much more difficult than simply solving these jade bees.

Li Xuangang recalled the specific operation methods in the secret technique of domesticating jade bees, and carefully observed the details of this group of jade bees.

After lying on the spot for seven or eight hours, Li Xuangang finally determined that there were less than a hundred Yuluo bees not far in front of him, and it could only be regarded as a small Yuluo bee colony.

Just when Li Xuangang was still thinking hard about how to act, there were some unexpected scenes in the Yuluo bee colony.

I saw that this group of jade bees seemed to burst in an instant, and all the jade bees flew out of the hive, and then divided into two different forces.

One of the jade bees is obviously stronger, with more than 70 of them.

And the other jade bee that confronted it was a bit weak in comparison.

Two streams of jade bees gathered in the air outside the hive, countless pairs of wings kept dancing, and bursts of palpitating sounds were heard.

However, both sides were restraining something, although the scene was tense, but no one made the first move.

Li Xuangang, who saw this kind of scene, was stunned for a moment, how could such a strange scene suddenly appear, so he didn't dare to act rashly, but carefully hid his figure deeper.

The two jade bees confronted each other for a while, and finally something different appeared.

In Li Xuangang's sight, a queen bee three times the size of other ordinary jade bees came out of the hive, and then waved her wings and flew in front of the more powerful jade bees.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuangang seemed to understand something, and he focused all his attention on the remaining jade bees.

After some careful searching, he finally found what he expected, it was a newborn queen bee.

Li Xuangang realized that he might have just happened to meet the moment when the old and new kings of this group of jade bees alternated.

This phenomenon was also mentioned in the secret techniques of domesticating jade bees that he had seen.

A new queen bee will be randomly produced in the Yuluo bee colony, and there is no pattern to when and why it will be generated.

This phenomenon occurs in some large Yuluo bee colonies, as well as in some small Yuluo bee colonies.

And once the new queen reaches the second rank, there will be a break between the new queen and the old queen, and it will be a battle to decide who will rule the group of jade bees.

Because the new queen bee has often just entered the ranks of second-order demon beasts, her strength is generally not as good as that of the old queen bee, so in this kind of event, it usually ends in the failure of the new queen bee.

After the new queen bee failed, some were killed by the old queen bee, and some fled with the jade bees that followed it, and chose a new place to build their own hive.

Li Xuangang observed that the new queen bee he encountered was also as recorded in the classics, and it had only recently broken through the realm and become a second-order demon beast.

In terms of size, the new queen bee surrounded by the ordinary Yuluo bee was only half the size of the old queen bee.

Li Xuangang decided to stand still, staring closely at the development of the situation, while thinking about his own countermeasures in his mind.

And these two jade bees did not give Li Xuangang time to think, under the oppression of the old Yuluo queen bee, the new jade queen bee had to stand up, and then flew to the front of the bee colony and confronted the old Yuluo queen bee.

The emotions of the two Jade Luo Bees were ignited because of the actions of the queen bee they supported, their wings stirred faster, and their mouths began to make some sounds similar to chewing.

The battle was on the verge of breaking out.

didn't make Li Xuangang wait too long, the alternation of the old and new queen bees was the fate of Yuluo Bee, and the two queens knew that this battle was inevitable.

At a certain moment, this confrontation finally ended, and the two jade bees attacked each other at the same time.

Sometimes the battle between monsters is even more fierce than the battle between humans and monsters.

The two jade bees had barely come into contact head-on, and the battle had immediately fallen into a white-hot phase.

The two queens are also entangled, and the poisonous needle on the tail keeps looking for an opportunity to pierce each other's bodies.

It was the first time Li Xuangang had seen this kind of scene, and he saw that many jade bees had their wings bitten off, and then the jade bees that had lost their wings fell from the sky.

For the Jade Bee participating in the battle, losing its wings is a better ending, because there are more Jade Bees that have already become a corpse when they fall.

Due to the fierce battle between the two jade bees, the winner was quickly separated.

As Li Xuangang expected, this new queen bee who had just been born was no match for the old queen bee, and after a few rounds, its wings were already a little broken.

Although this will have some impact on the flight, it is good that you can still stumble and keep moving.

After the new queen bee showed her defeat, the jade bees who followed it also understood that they had lost the battle this time, so they broke away from the battle one after another, escorting the new queen bee to escape from here.

But the old queen bee didn't want to end there.

It let out a strange cry, and then led the jade bees that followed it and chased after the fleeing group of jade bees.

Li Xuangang waited here and understood that his opportunity had come.

He leapt from where he was hidden, and then cast the fireball spell he had prepared.

The sparks formed by the explosion of the huge fireball temporarily blocked the old queen bee's pursuit.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xuangang used a black cloth bag in the storage bag to directly put the group of bees led by King Xinfeng into it.

Then under the pursuit of the angry old peak king, Li Xuangang ran wildly with the refining corpse.

This kind of pursuit lasted for a long time, until the old peak king realized that he couldn't catch up with Li Xuangang, so he chose to give up.

Begin to lead the remaining Jade Luo Bees back to the hive.

Li Xuangang, who was temporarily safe, panted and held on to a big tree, and then he was relieved to see the old queen bee give up the pursuit.

It's no fun to be chased by dozens of angry jade bees.

Li Xuangang gasped, and then with a hint of excitement, he opened his cloth bag containing the new Yuluo Queen Bee.

Due to the rush of time, there were more than ten Yuluo bees that followed the new queen bee, but Li Xuangang only had time to take eight of them away.

The rest of them are estimated to have been solved by the old queen bee.

The few jade bees that were packed in the cloth bag no longer had the strength to resist, Li Xuangang took out a small jade box, put the nine jade bees including the new queen bee into it, and then sealed the jade box with a spirit sealing talisman.

Just when Li Xuangang was about to find a place to open a temporary cave mansion and consider how to place these jade bees.

A chilling voice came from behind him:

"Fellow Daoist, where are you going to take my Jade Luo Bee?"