Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 435 - 435 0308 Its Not Something You Can Be Just

Chapter 435: Chapter 0308: It’s Not Something You Can Be Just Because You Want To Be – Part 2 Chapter 435: Chapter 0308: It’s Not Something You Can Be Just Because You Want To Be – Part 2 The Locust Thief Bee that Qi Tian released to lead the way flew directly into the beehive. Soon, a swarm of Locust Thief Bees flew out of the hive, buzzing loudly. They cast a shadow over the sky and swarmed towards Qi Tian.

Qi Tian had already made full preparations. He not only put on several defensive items of clothing and armor once more but also did not plan on engaging in close combat with these Locust Thief Bees. He did not want to be stung by them again, even though he no longer had to worry about the toxins. Being stung still hurt a lot.

Qi Tian swiftly stretched out his hand and the void in his palm appeared. The Transporting Whirlwind flew out from the void and rolled directly towards the incoming Locust Thief Bees. These Locust Thief Bees were much weaker than the ones Qi Tian had initially encountered; there were no Half-Step Golden Core Level bees among them. Facing these continuously evolving Transporting Whirlwinds, the bees had virtually no power to resist and were all swept away and suppressed in the storage room.

There were still many Locust Thief Bees in the hive. Seeing their companions being taken away by Qi Tian, wave after wave of bees poured out of the hive and rushed towards Qi Tian. However, their actions were futile. All the Locust Thief Bees in the Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment Stages were taken away and suppressed by Qi Tian. A few Half-Step Golden Core Level bees received Qi Tian’s attention, and after being heavily beaten, they were also taken into the storage room and suppressed.

By the time no more Locust Thief Bees were flying out, Qi Tian had successively taken away more than 5000 bees. More than half were in the Qi Cultivation Stage, and the number in the Foundation Establishment Stage was a bit less, but there were still more than 1000, which made for a considerable number.

Qi Tian was not satisfied. He turned his gaze to the huge beehive. He remembered that in his previous life, things like bee larvae, honey, and queen bee jelly were all delicious delicacies. He wondered if the Locust Thief Bees would also have such things.

Qi Tian took out his mining shovel and began digging around the hive. He did not destroy the hive but began digging from the ground around the hive. He dug down three feet, then took the entire beehive.

When he observed the condition of the beehive in the storage room of the Heavenly Dao Engine, he found that due to the hive, more than half of the space in the storage room was occupied. There wasn’t much space left.

Qi Tian was ready to leave this place. However, before taking off, he whimsically decided to see if there were any spiritual stone veins nearby. He used the Heavenly Dao Engine to sense Spirit Qi in the surroundings and was startled to find an extremely strong Spirit Qi fluctuation emanating from beneath the place where he dug out the hive.

Qi Tian promptly began to dig. Before long, he found a cave underground. It was slightly smaller than the hive, but inside the cave were piles of spirit stones and other treasures filled with Spirit Qi.

Qi Tian’s eyes widened. Forgetting about other things, the spirit stones right here made him stunned. He didn’t even see a single low-grade spirit stone; they were all middle-grade and top-grade spirit stones, and there were even more than a dozen top-grade spirit stones. Qi Tian made a rough estimate and found that the number of middle-grade spirit stones was more than a million, and the number of top-grade spirit stones was also over ten thousand.

Qi Tian was certain that this place was not a spirit stone vein. In any vein, the spirit stones would not be piled up like this. Moreover, some were cut, and some were uncut. On top of that, there were all kinds of treasures rich in Spirit Qi in such large quantities.

Qi Tian remembered the habits of bees and wasps; they tend to save their best food to nourish their progeny. These spirit stones might have been left to nourish the next generation of queen bees by the Locust Thief Bees. Only now, with no sign of the next generation queen bee, and with the hive being swept away by Qi Tian, all these spirit stones fell into Qi Tian’s lap.

Qi Tian took out an empty storage bag and collected all the spirit stones and other treasures, then threw the storage bag into the storage room.

After he finished this action, Qi Tian let out a hearty laugh. With these spirit stones, he wouldn’t have to worry about spirit stones for a long time to come. Even top-grade spirit stones were now slightly abundant. In times of danger, he could use the immortal crane statue to save his life.

Although the harvest was good, Qi Tian did not plan to leave the secret realm just yet. From the time he entered the realm, the abundant harvests indicated that the spiritual stone veins in this realm were considerably rich. Even though the local natives had been mining for many years, it did not affect the reserves of the spiritual stone veins here at all.

Faced with such a treasure trove, Qi Tian naturally wanted to gather more spirit stones. His cultivation path was still long, and his current gains could only ensure he wouldn’t lack spirit stones for a short period. In a longer frame of time, he still would be short. He didn’t hope to extract enough spirit stones here to meet the needs of his decades or hundreds of years of cultivation, but since he had this opportunity, it was always right to dig more.

Qi Tian looked around. He had completely deviated from the direction he had chosen after entering the secret realm, and the distance to the map left by the Wanjie Commerce might be getting farther and farther. So, he just randomly picked a direction and started on his way.

This time, Qi Tian didn’t continue his sword-flying. Instead, he rode on Hu Niu’s back and let her carry him and gallop through the realm.

Hu Niu had not run so exhilaratingly with Qi Tian on her back for a long time. Seizing this opportunity, she was extremely excited. She carried Qi Tian steadily, crossed mountains and rivers, and ran thousands of miles in a day.

It was unknown if all his luck had been exhausted, but Qi Tian did not find any veins or encounter other people along the way. Whether it was the local natives or cultivators from Wanjie City, he didn’t see a single person.

At the beginning, Qi Tian was worried that he had intruded on another territory of the Locust Thief Bees. But after he found that there were beasts appearing, he realized he had overthought.

When it was evening, Qi Tian stopped his journey. After all, Hu Niu had run for a whole day and needed to rest. He also felt somewhat tired and wanted to rest. So, he found a place, let Hu Niu stop, then took out the camping equipment and started preparing for the night.

In camping here, the most important thing was to set up a defensive array. It didn’t need to be too powerful, but it had to buy Qi Tian ample time to ensure he wouldn’t be beheaded while meditating and resting.

Just as Qi Tian was halfway through setting up the Array Disk and Array Flag, Hu Niu, who had been patrolling around on guard duty, suddenly stopped. She raised her head to the sky and bellowed deeply.

Qi Tian immediately stopped his work and also looked up at the sky. Very quickly, he spotted several shadows in the sky. Under the bright moonlight, several cultivators were fighting in a fierce battle. At a glance, the cultivators were divided into two groups. One group was completely at a disadvantage and was being beaten down by the other group.

Because they were too far away, Qi Tian could only see an overview. He couldn’t see clearly what exactly was happening between the two groups of cultivators.

Qi Tian shook his head. He didn’t intend to meddle in other’s affairs by going over to check it out. In this secret realm, he didn’t have any friends. Whether they were the local cultivators or the ones from Wanjie City, none of them had anything to do with him. To put it bluntly, they all could be considered his enemies as they would covet the spirit stones he had. Unless he was really forced to, Qi Tian intended to be a spectator.

However, Qi Tian was oblivious to the fact that sometimes, it was not as easy to be a spectator as he thought, nor was it that he could successfully become one if he wished to.