Immortal Path Space

Chapter 68: Sect Mission

After returning to his residence, Wang Hong entered Space once again.

Last time, he cultivated around a hundred thousand male Spirit Bees, but after a great battle, only about twenty thousand remained.

However, twenty thousand male bees were still a bit too many. With other types of Spirit Bees included, there were around fifty thousand in total, and Space's Spirit Blossoms could barely provide enough food for them.

This led Wang Hong to enter the Qingxu Sect, where he saw countless Spirit Blossoms but no Spirit Bees collecting nectar. He felt it was a waste and immediately thought of moving some Spirit Bees out to cultivate.

Creating a new Bee Queen normally took years, but using the time difference in Space, it only took less than a month.

This time, cultivating the Bee Queen was even easier than before. He only needed to command the Bee Queen to let the bee colony cultivate a new one.

The colony would choose an egg with good qualifications, feed it with royal jelly daily, and once it matured, it would become the new Bee Queen.

When the new Bee Queen was born, it would lead a group of Spirit Bees out of the original hive, find a suitable place to build a new nest, and develop into another entirely new population.

Wang Hong directly issued the command to cultivate a new Bee Queen and didn't concern himself much with the affairs of the bee colony.

Flying in the air, he patrolled around in Space.

Now, Space covered eighteen acres, and inspecting the entire area took at least half an hour.

However, Wang Hong didn't find it tiresome at all. On the contrary, he enjoyed it very much. Every time he saw this vast expanse of thriving Spiritual Objects, he felt genuine joy.

Every time he entered Space, he liked to look at this plant, touch that one, and compare how much they had grown.

He carefully observed the veins on their leaves.

All of this had nothing to do with cultivation, Spirit Stones, purely the love of a farmer for the crops in his fields.

Seeing the crops he planted grow, a sense of accomplishment welled up in his heart.

Wang Hong patrolled to a spot and found the two Spiritual Medicines he obtained from Poisonwood Daoist Master's Storage Bag before: Red Beauty and Black Grass, one highly toxic and the other an antidote.

Red Beauty absorbed Spirit Qi, converting it into a deadly poison, becoming its nutrient. Black Grass, on the other hand, needed to absorb the poison and convert it into Spiritual Energy for its growth.

Within a yard around these two Spiritual Medicines, all other nearby Spiritual Medicines had withered and died. There were also many Spirit Bee corpses on the ground.

Wang Hong suddenly thought of a problem. What if the Spirit Bees collected poisonous nectar, brought it to the hive, turned it into Spirit Honey, and he unknowingly consumed it...

Well, during this time, he wouldn't dare to take Spirit Honey. However, according to the "Spirit Control Scripture," if Spirit Insects grew in a poisonous or other special environment for a long time, there was a certain probability of mutation.

But it wasn't possible now. He only had one poisonous flower, and he couldn't let a swarm of Spirit Bees circle around it all day.

He needed to wait until Space expanded before growing more poisonous flowers. Additionally, he had to cultivate another swarm of Spirit Bees for experimentation. If he accidentally killed all the Spirit Bees, it would be a big loss.

Wang Hong remembered that besides these two Spiritual Medicines, there was also a book called "Wood Poison Scripture" in Poisonwood Daoist Master's Storage Bag, which he hadn't seriously studied yet.

Now that he had time, he exited Space, hung a wooden plaque at the courtyard entrance indicating seclusion, and returned to Space.

Wang Hong entered Space again, holding a Jade Scroll and carefully studying it.

Like this, more than a month passed in Space. Wang Hong felt hunger signals from his physical body outside, so he stopped contemplating and left Space.

A day had already passed outside, and his physical body was starving. Wang Hong thought, if he immersed his mind a bit more, would he accidentally starve himself?

He took out more than a hundred fist-sized mutated Spirit Rice, soaked them in Spirit Spring Water, put them in Space to absorb water for a day.

After burning incense, Wang Hong took out the Spirit Rice from Space, placed them in a wooden steamer, and steamed them for half an hour. A tempting aroma wafted from the steamer, making Wang Hong even hungrier.

He took out a sealed earthen jar, opened the lid, heated it up, took a sip of the rich broth, then used chopsticks to pick up a grain of rice, swallowing it in three or four bites.

As for scalding, Body Cultivators were not afraid of it, let alone cutting with a knife.

He ate more than ten grains of rice in one breath, finally feeling full. He sealed the leftovers, ready to eat them next time.

Satisfied and replenished, he re-entered Space to contemplate the "Wood Poison Scripture."

Wang Hong spent two years in Space to fully comprehend the scripture, but complete mastery required extensive practice.

The scripture introduced several types of poison pills and the refinement of detoxifying Spirit Pills. However, he lacked most of the required Spiritual Medicines and needed to collect them gradually.

When Wang Hong exited Space, opened the courtyard gate, only a little over half a month had passed outside.

The Three Yang Melon Seeds he planted had just sprouted, with two plump and tender cotyledons pushing out of the soil, quite adorable.

The soil was still a bit moist, indicating recent watering, probably done by Zhang Chunfeng.

Wang Hong transplanted a Spirit Jujube tree from Space, over three zhang tall, covered with Spirit Jujubes, red and green. The red ones were ripe, and the green ones were not. Some branches still had jujube flowers.

Due to the long ripening period of spirit fruit, most spirit fruit trees continuously flowered and fruited during the ripening period, resulting in both flowers and fruits on the same tree.

After a few more days, a new Bee Queen finally emerged, leading thirty thousand Spirit Bees out of the original hive, including ten thousand male bees.

Wang Hong led the new bee colony out of Space and settled them, building a nest on the Spirit Jujube tree.

He saw countless Spirit Bees coming and going, searching for nectar. The nearest source was the jujube flowers, and further away were the surrounding large spirit fields, many of which were in bloom, providing abundant nectar.

After handling these matters, Wang Hong remembered that he had been in the sect for nearly a month and hadn't done any sect missions yet.

The main sect institutions were located on Heavenly Authority Peak, including the Task Hall, Enforcing Hall, Main Sect Hall, and Scripture Pavilion.

The journey to Heavenly Authority Peak took two to three hours. Wang Hong rode the Windsoar Boat, which, though not fast, could save a lot of time by avoiding detours.

He had noticed that Qi Cultivators in Qingxu Sect possessed flying Magical Weapons, and he wasn't the only one.

The Task Hall occupied an acre, with over a dozen desks lined up in a row, each with several people queuing in front.

Wang Hong randomly found a place at the back and waited for almost an incense stick's time before it was his turn.

An old man in the Qi Cultivation stage behind the desk directly handed him a book-shaped Magical Weapon with a light screen.

The screen displayed categories like Alchemy, Refining, Seeking Spiritual Medicine, Hunting Demonic Beasts, and Killing Evil Cultivators, each with various tasks.

Wang Hong tried touching the word "Alchemy" with his hand. As soon as his finger touched "Alchemy," the light screen changed.

Tasks like refining Fasting Pills, Condensing Qi Pills, and Hundred Flowers Spirit Dew appeared on the screen.

He lightly touched the line of refining Condensing Qi Pills, and the light screen displayed the specific task details.

It showed: Refine five batches of Condensing Qi Pills, with a requirement for a pill success rate of over forty percent. Each Elixir rewarded one contribution point. No reward for a success rate below forty percent, and if it fell below twenty percent, he needed to compensate twenty Spirit Stones for the raw materials.

Wang Hong opened other tasks and found that the contents of Alchemy tasks were mostly similar.

He then opened the Seeking Spiritual Medicine category, all of which involved submitting a specified Spiritual Medicine for contribution points.

Wang Hong found that he had many of the required Spiritual Medicines in his Space.

"Fellow Daoist, can I take multiple tasks at once?" Wang Hong thought that if he took several at once, he could complete all the tasks for the year in one go and not worry about it later.

"You can, but the tasks must be completed within three months, or you will be punished."

Wang Hong then directly took five Condensing Qi Pill refining tasks and seven Spirit Herb tasks.

The old man gave him twenty-five sets of Condensing Qi Pill Medicinal Herbs and registered him.

Leaving the Task Hall, Wang Hong saw that it was still early. Since he was already there, he decided to visit the Book Tower.

One of his purposes for joining the sect was the accumulated heritage of tens of thousands of years here, something that loose cultivators outside couldn't access.

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