Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 433 - 433 0307 Locust Thief Bee_2

Chapter 433: Chapter 0307: Locust Thief Bee_2 Chapter 433: Chapter 0307: Locust Thief Bee_2 Being Locust Thief Bees, though, they lacked the awareness for sustainable growth. Their only aim was destruction; they never built or protected anything.

Qi Tian hid at a distance within the Array, watching these bees with chills on his scalp. In his previous life, he held no affinity for wasps. The painful swell from the sting he received during his childhood was an unforgettable memory.

A chestnut color flushed on Qi Tian’s face. With a sudden pinch, the jade symbols previously embedded in the path exploded one after another. The path was bombed into ruins by the jade symbols, repaving the ground and blocking the path.

With Qi Tian’s action, his hiding place couldn’t be preserved. Dozens of Locust Thief Bees left outside the path flapped their wings angrily and swooped toward Qi Tian’s hiding spot.

Qi Tian quickly emerged from his hiding place. Before he could recover the Array Flag and Array Disk, the fastest Locust Thief Bee flew over, dove down like a miniature bomber, and pounced on Qi Tian.

Compared to ordinary wasps, these Locust Thief Bees are quite large. Still, in terms of Qi Tian, they’re rather small. Besides, they could fly quickly and were extremely agile, posing uncommon difficulty for Qi Tian.

At first, Qi Tian took out his Red Hoop Stick, intending to use his Eighteen Demonic Strokes against these Locust Thief Bees. But he quickly found that his tried-and-true stick-fighting techniques had surprisingly failed. Previously, whenever he swung the Red Hoop Stick, he rarely failed to hit his enemies. However, this time, even though he activated his Heavenly Dao Engine to speed mode, delivering his strikes with unparalleled speed and strength, the result remained the same. He would often throw ten blows and not even hit a single Locust Thief Bee.

Contrarily, these Locust Thief Bees were not the type to get hit without fighting back. While adroitly dodging the swings of Qi Tian’s Red Hoop Stick, they waited for the right opportunity to launch their own attacks at Qi Tian. In this brief encounter, Qi Tian was struck several times. If not for his decent defenses, maybe the steel needles from the tails of the Locust Thief Bees could have managed to puncture his body.

Despite his defenses, Qi Tian still got pricked a few times. While the needles from the tails of the Locust Thief Bees had not pierced through Qi Tian’s flesh, they still broke through his equipment’s defense, stabbing into his flesh. The poison from the Locust Thief Bees had been injected into Qi Tian, time and time again.

Qi Tian felt his body becoming heavier and his movements increasingly sluggish. His thinking also seemed to slow down.

The cold, ruthless eyes of the Locust Thief Bees were fixed on Qi Tian. They had dealt with numerous cultivators like Qi Tian before. No matter how powerful the opponent, as long as they were stung by their stingers, death was their only fate. The venom of the Locust Thief Bees had no known antidote. Even they, the Locust Thief Bees, did not know how to neutralize it, let alone the human cultivator.

Qi Tian bit down hard on his tongue. He knew he must pull himself together by any means necessary at this moment. If he allowed things to continue, he would die here.

These Locust Thief Bees were different from species that would burst their guts when stinging humans. Their stings didn’t have barbs and could stab into Qi Tian repeatedly, injecting poison into his body over and over again until Qi Tian fell. At that point, it would be mealtime for them.

The first thing Qi Tian needed to solve was the poison inside his body. The second was the stinging issue. He took out a bottle of medicine; regardless of what type of Detoxification Pill it was, he tossed one into his mouth, swallowing it down quickly.

Among these Detoxification Pills were some genuinely high-quality ones, but they did nothing to counteract the poison of the Locust Thief Bees. Qi Tian could feel his body growing heavier by the moment.

Qi Tian had run out of options, his only hope was to connect with the Heavenly Dao Engine and see if it could defend against these toxins. He hoped that these toxins were a form of energy, that could be absorbed by the Heavenly Dao Engine as fuel.

What happened next gave Qi Tian a pleasant surprise. After the Heavenly Dao Engine started, the toxins in his body were absorbed. The heavy feeling swirling around him quickly disappeared, and he regained his health.

Qi Tian was ecstatic. He raised his hand, and a black hole appeared in his palm. The Transporting Whirlwind rushed out, heading towards the Locust Thief Bees who were relentlessly attacking him.

These Locust Thief Bees were not weak cultivators, two of them were of the Half-step Golden Core Realm. This explained their ability to break through Qi Tian’s defenses and sting him with their tails. The rest of the Locust Thief Bees were very intelligent, all at the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

The moment the Transporting Whirlwind came out, the Locust Thief Bees instinctively sensed danger and turned to flee. However, the Transporting Whirlwind, which was specially designed to deliver fuel to the Heavenly Dao Engine, could not easily be escaped from.

Sure enough, the Locust Thief Bees at the late stage of Foundation Establishment couldn’t stand against the force of the Transporting Whirlwind and were sucked in, thrown directly to the Heavenly Dao Engine as fuel. Following swiftly, were those two half-step Golden Core Realm Locust Thief Bees.

The two Locust Thief Bees were particularly fierce, struggling desperately as the Transporting Whirlwind engulfed them. Qi Tian could feel that if they continued to flap their wings at such a high frequency, their wings would probably catch fire soon.

One of the half-step Golden Core Locust Thief Bees was extremely aggressive. It refused to give up and kept stinging the Transporting Whirlwind with its tail. Its body spurted toxins, as if it could destroy the whirlwind that way.

But they had ultimately underestimated the power of the Transporting Whirlwind. Those half-step Golden Core Realm Locust Thief Bees could not maintain their resistance and were finally sucked in by the whirlwind.

Only then did Qi Tian have time to take a breath. He touched the parts of his body where he had been stung by the Locust Thief Bees. Though the toxins were gone, the sting marks were still there, aching slightly when touched.

Qi Tian drew a cold breath. Before entering the secret realm, he was mentally prepared for the dangers therein. With his power equivalent to the Half-Step Golden Core Realm and his Red Hoop Stick in hand, he thought he could go anywhere and wouldn’t be held back. However, after his encounter with the Locust Thief Bees, he realized his naive thinking. The bees did not cast spells, but relied on physical and chemical attacks, and their well-honed tactics nearly defeated him.

It was due to Qi Tian’s last resort, the Heavenly Dao Engine, that he was able to use the Locust Thief Bees’ toxins as fuel. Otherwise, whether Qi Tian could see tomorrow’s sun was questionable.

Qi Tian thought of those buried Locust Thief Bees, all of which were valuable resources and could serve as fuel for his Heavenly Dao Engine. Let alone, he had not yet mined the underground spiritual stone veins.

Qi Tian didn’t waste any more time. He dug out his mining shovel and started digging again, carefully this time, fearing he might unbury the hungry bees that were still alive.

Qi Tian’s caution was not unfounded. These Locust Thief Bees were incredibly tenacious in life. Some had been killed by the force of the jade talisman explosion, and some had been suffocated by the soil. But more than half of them were still alive. However, most of them were seriously injured and didn’t have the strength to attack Qi Tian again for the time being.