Chapter 48 - Chapter 48: Chapter 43 Bee Swarm i (1/2)

Chapter 48: Chapter 43 Bee Swarm i

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The young worker ant was dragged out by Fourth.

It still lay there, barely moving, but its antennae were more agile than the day before after consuming the banyan tree blood, capable of waving freely now.

Its abdomen had acquired a layer of light green color, and it was spreading to its hind legs and waist.

No other noticeable changes could be seen for the time being.

As long as it’s not dead, al! is well.

“Alright, Fourth, drag it back!1‘

Qin Niu didn’t experiment with other termites but instead rewarded them with a piece of bear meat.

He felt like he was disrupting the dietary habits of this group of termites, who would normally prefer tree trunks, tender leaves, and plant roots. Now, they were either eating bear meat or centipedes.

So far, Qin Niu had only found that feeding them bear blood and bear meat could produce strong termites.

Feeding them centipedes would result in poisonous ants.

After feeding them the bear meat and communicating with the termites for a while, his proficiency in the insect language had increased slightly.

Although the progression was slow, he didn’t mind.

As he practiced the Everlasting Spring Technique, he could feel that his spiritual power seemed to have slightly increased. Before, he would feel his head grow heavy and his spiritual power depleted after close communication with the termites about thirty to forty times.

Now, he could communicate with them around forty to fifty times.

However, the distance couldn’t be too great; it was best to be able to see them while communicating. That’s because if the distance was too far, the consumption of spiritual power with each communication would greatly increase.

When he felt it was about right, Qin Niu shouldered his basket and started wandering around the mountains.

He had two low-grade contract charms on his person and had learned the Green Demon’s beekeeping scripture, acquiring many extremely practical bee-taming skills. He wanted to see if he could find a suitable wild bee to subdue.

Based on his experience with taming termites, basically all Grade One insects were easy to tame.

As soon as they advanced to Grade Two, the difficulty of taming them would increase by more than tenfold.

To tame a wild bee, he definitely needed to find a female bee that hadn’t laid eggs.

As for whether to choose honeybees, hornets, bear bees, or wood bees, he hadn’t yet decided.

He planned to first observe and understand their habits and characteristics before making a decision.

As he continued to explore deeper into the mountains, the ancient banyan tree came into his sight again, looking from a distance like a dense forest.

The expression one tree makes a forest” referred to such ancient trees that had lived for hundreds or even a thousand years.

They had experienced at least a few hundred years of growth and expansion, completely crushing the plants around them and dominating that area.

In their shade, the plants beneath either slowly withered or lived in dependence, barely surviving.

The human world is much the same as the plant world.

For example, the villagers of Shuangfeng Village and those from the surrounding villages were all living uneasily under the shadow of the Yan Family.

Yan Family was the largest tree’ among the nearby villages.

Now it was broad daylight, bright and sunny, so Qin Niu wasn’t afraid of that ancient banyan tree.

Instead, he observed it from a distance.

From afar, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

But as he moved closer, he realized how clever the ancient banyan tree really was. The plants neighboring it were not affected at all.

This camouflage was too clever.

It did not let one notice any danger, and by the time one did, they were already within the canopy of the tree.

Having been tricked once before, Qin Niu stopped walking when he was about forty to fifty meters away.

From a distance, he could see some weeds and small bushes growing under the banyan tree.

As for anything else, it was completely invisible.

One had to enter to actually see its sturdy trunk.

“Buzz-!”

Qin Niu heard the sound of an insect fluttering its wings in his ears, resembling that of a bee.

Looking towards the sound, indeed, there was a bee.