Chapter 49 - Chapter 49: Chapter 44 Comprehending Bee Language i (1/2)
Chapter 49: Chapter 44 Comprehending Bee Language i
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Unlike the nuptial flight of ants and termites, there are three ways for honey bees to produce a new queen bee.
One way is when the queen bee feels she is getting old and needs a successor, she will lay fully developed female eggs, which are fed royal jelly from a young age. Another way is when the bee colony grows so large that it needs to split, the queen bee will also reproduce a new queen.
The last method is quite special.
The queen bee doesn’t get the chance to reproduce a new queen and dies either naturally or from an enemy attack.
At this time, if the bee colony unexpectedly loses its queen and the conditions are right, it can use appropriately aged worker bee larvae to urgently construct a royal cell to rear a new queen.
What if the emergency construction of a royal cell fails?
It’s a bit tragic then.
Incompletely developed worker bees can also lay eggs, but they can only produce male bees, and the entire bee colony will perish.
There is a certain limit to the number of insects an Insect Master can tame.
This is related to the strength of the Insect Master’s spiritual power. However, compared to a Beast Tamer, an Insect Master has a clear advantage in the number of pets they can tame.
Most Beast Tamers can only tame one beast pet due to inadequate spiritual power.
The more powerful the beast pet, the higher the demand for the spiritual power of the Beast Tamer during taming.
With weak spiritual power, the success rate of taming powerful beasts like wolves, tigers, and bears will be terrifyingly low. And even those Beast Tamers with slightly stronger spiritual power can often only tame one powerful beast pet.
If they try for more, the failure rate of taming increases significantly, and they also can’t afford it.
Keeping a wolf might look prestigious, but the amount of meat it requires every day could bankrupt a modestly wealthy family like Wang Furen’s.
Qin Niu’s practice of the Everlasting Spring Technique enhances spiritual power, which is a significant advantage.
Now, still in the first realm, the main focus is on nourishing qi and blood and strengthening the physical body. Even so, he could still feel his spiritual power growing.
If he were to reach the second realm, the increase in spiritual power would be extremely terrifying.
Therefore, he hardly ever has to worry about not having enough spiritual power due to taming too many insects.
Also, the cost of raising insects is extremely low.
Raising that nest of termites is almost zero cost to keep.
Raising another hive of bees, if he continues to practice free-range apiculture, will also have nearly no cost to keep.
His purpose in beekeeping differs from that of Green Demon.
Green Demon kept bees as a means for revenge, while his primary reason for beekeeping is the quest for longevity.
Bees are an important medium for plant pollination.
If he could cultivate a special breed of bee colony, it might help him improve his planting skills. He could even direct the bee colony to collect some special pollen to make honey, which would be a hundred or even a thousand times more precious than royal jelly.
He read in a book that an Insect Master had built his fortune this way and had even managed to enter a sect.
Besides, because of their excellent flying ability, the bee colony can do many things for him.
Such as guarding, delivering messages, and aerial attacks.
Qin Niu was observing the beehive from a distance of several meters.
One particularly magical phenomenon was that despite the myriad bees coming and going, not one flew into the coverage area of the Ancient Banyan Tree.
It truly seemed that all things under heaven and earth have a spirit.
They were right at the edge of the Ancient Banyan Tree yet treated the area it covered as forbidden territory.
The termites went under the banyan tree and successfully rescued Qin Niu.
But would the bees be able to come out if they went in?
After observing for a while, he took out Green Demon’s beekeeping manual to study again.
Upon reading the book a hundred times, its meaning will naturally reveal itself.
The beekeeping manual left by Green Demon before his death is full of ingenious ideas, all of which have been verified by experiment.
This invaluable beekeeping experience could save Qin Niu from taking many detours.
It could even inspire him to apply the principles to the cultivation of other insects.
Staying in the mountains, nearly a whole day had passed.
He had been quietly observing the bees but had not approached them. If he got too close now, the bees would immediately come out and sting him into a pigheaded mess.
Having spent the whole day there, in addition to learning a lot from the beekeeping manual, he had also learned to distinguish the sounds made by the bees.
He was learning the Bee Language.
He didn’t expect to master it in one day and planned to come back here tomorrow.
With his reasonably good strength, ordinary wolves, bears, and wild boars in the mountains shouldn’t threaten his safety. If they dared to come, they would likely end up as an extra meal for Qin Niu.
As for a tiger, it’s uncertain whether he could win a fight against one. He had never tried.
With the Treasured Sword in hand and his cultivation nearing the human Onefold level 80, he was bold enough to fight a fierce tiger.
Seeing that evening was approaching and the Ancient Banyan Tree looked even more sinister and frightening, he stopped lingering and began to collect humus soil, preparing to carry a basket down the mountain to continue tormenting Wang Haikun.
He wanted to make it so that whenever Mr. Wang saw his humus soil, he would be scared.
If you want to buy fertilizer without spending money, this special fertilizer is the only option. Guaranteed to make your crops yellow and fail to produce.
“Wow, that’s a huge spider.”
While collecting humus soil, Qin Niu spotted a brightly colored spider. It had green and white patterns interwoven and was the size of an adult’s thumb.