[Species: Wind-Blade Bee]
[Bloodline: Second-Order High-Grade]
[Talents: Wind Armor, Wind Blade, Storm Convergence]
- Wind Armor: Can form a layer of wind-attribute spiritual power armor that flows at extreme speed over the body’s surface, greatly reducing damage taken.
- Wind Blade: Can condense a sharp wind-attribute spiritual power blade to strike at enemies.
- Storm Convergence: Can link with other Wind-Blade Bees as a unified whole, using spiritual power convergence to greatly enhance the strength of both Wind Armor and Wind Blade.
[Evaluation: You can easily handle a single Wind-Blade Bee, but if you run into a whole swarm, you’d better watch out.]
Normally, Qi Ping wouldn’t have gotten too excited over such a perfect evolution of the Wind-Blade Bees. After all, once they reached the late second-order stage, the bloodline power of the Gold-Marrow Honeybees was just too ordinary. Compared to Little Crow, Little Flower Sprite, or Little Immortal Tiger, they had no real advantages—their only use was relying on sheer numbers and battle formations to hold back enemies.
Even if the Wind-Blade Bee’s evolution was flawless, that still held true.
But with Storm Convergence, everything changed. The sheer power generated by a massive swarm of Wind-Blade Bees working together genuinely shocked Qi Ping.
So, drawing from his vast knowledge of battle formations and array techniques, Qi Ping developed a battle formation system that could truly bring out the best of the Wind-Blade Bees’ Storm Convergence trait.
Within this formation system, the Wind-Blade Bees fused into a colossal, unified entity. Using their incredible speed, they could rapidly shift into all sorts of different forms!
For example, there was the Super Wind Armor Formation for maximum defense, and the Super Wind Blade Formation for maximum offense. And depending on the situation, they could even split into multiple smaller formations on the fly!
Against different types of attacks—say, a concentrated sword cultivator’s strike versus scattered, widespread attacks—they could adopt entirely different countermeasures. For overwhelming attacks they couldn’t block, they could dodge or sacrifice a few bees; for weaker, spread-out attacks, they could form a gigantic Wind Armor Grand Formation!
With the Wind-Blade Bees’ speed and agility, the tactical possibilities were practically endless.
After fully perfecting the Wind-Blade Bee battle formations, Qi Ping was extremely satisfied.
“Now that I’ve got the Wind-Blade Bees in hand, I can finally say the name ‘Bee Daoist’ truly fits!”
“All that’s left now is to fully expand the swarm’s numbers.”
And as Qi Ping gazed upon the vast fields of second-order spiritual herbs on his territory—the air thick with spiritual energy and the rich fragrance of medicinal plants—he felt full of confidence.
Under the management of the Gold-Marrow Bee Queen and the blessing of the Natural Sanctuary, the development of his spiritual herb industry was thriving.
With this industry backing him, it was more than enough to build a terrifyingly massive bee army.
“Maybe, before long, the Wind-Blade Bees will give the Azure Sky Domain a huge surprise!”
After the swarm’s evolution and his breakthrough to the late Foundation Establishment stage, Qi Ping threw himself even more intently into his research—studying formation integration, water-fire cultivation techniques, and pushing his Druid level even higher.
Through his relentless efforts, in less than a year, Qi Ping had grinded his Druid level all the way up to Level 8!
[Druid Level: Lv7 (1/6400)] → [Druid Level: Lv8 (1/12800)]
“After my cultivation base reached late Foundation Establishment, the rate at which I gain Druid experience really did speed up quite a bit!”
By now, Qi Ping was completely certain that raising one’s cultivation realm does, in fact, accelerate Druid experience gain—the rate was never fixed to begin with.
“Maybe it’s because, at higher realms, it’s easier to comprehend the laws of the Dao and spells?”
He wasn’t entirely sure about the reason, but the fact that higher cultivation speeded up Druid leveling was definitely a good thing for him.
What Qi Ping cared about most right now, though, were the four skills that came with reaching Level 8 Druid.
From the Treant path, he got [Plant Monarch] and [Plant Prison] ; from the Beastmaster Druid path, he got [Wilderness True Form] and [Beast King Destruction] .
After scanning all four skills, Qi Ping immediately chose [Plant Monarch] and [Wilderness True Form] .
Because both of these skills were indispensable to him. As for [Plant Prison] and [Beast King Destruction] —while they were fairly decent active attack skills—given the sheer number of spells and techniques Qi Ping already had at his disposal, they simply didn’t appeal to him much.
But [Plant Monarch] and [Wilderness True Form] were irreplaceable in terms of their importance to him!
Among them, [Plant Monarch] was originally just a skill in the game that increased experience gain speed—pretty average in that context. But here in the world of cultivation, Qi Ping felt this skill’s value could easily be boosted by at least three whole tiers!
[Plant Monarch: The Plant Monarch continuously gains insights into power from contracted trees! Every so often, you will receive experience from your contracted trees. The more trees you contract, the faster you gain experience.]
On the surface, this was basically a passive experience boost that would greatly increase Qi Ping’s Druid experience gain rate—a decent little passive for him. The more spiritual trees he contracted, the better the experience returns.
But that alone wasn’t enough to truly excite Qi Ping. After all, he felt his current Druid leveling speed was already pretty good—not particularly slow. And for a cultivator with a long lifespan, the time investment was well within acceptable limits.
What really got his heart racing was the very first sentence of this skill: “The Plant Monarch continuously gains insights into power from contracted trees!”
This strongly suggested that Qi Ping could constantly receive insights into the powers of his contracted trees—for example, the Blazing Sun Power from the Blazing Sun Wood!
“If this effect really works as I think it does, then my speed at comprehending the Five Elemental Dao Laws will increase dramatically. And I might even have a chance to glimpse other Daos as well!”
Because Qi Ping could easily plant spiritual herbs and trees related to the Five Elements—or even Time, Space, Illusion, Dream Dao, and so on. By contracting such trees, he could continuously gain insights into those respective laws!
The path of the Five Elements was especially difficult, so if he could accelerate his comprehension of elemental forces by planting more elemental spiritual trees, [Plant Monarch] would become a truly god-tier skill!
And as Qi Ping’s cultivation realm and spiritual power continued to grow, the number of trees he could contract would keep increasing too—making the returns from Plant Monarch even greater over time.
“I’ll know the results soon enough!”
Thinking about the immense potential of this skill, a spark of anticipation rose in Qi Ping’s heart.
As for [Wilderness True Form] —it was an advanced evolution of the skill [Wilderness Transformation] .
If Wilderness Transformation was just a simple mechanical ability, then Wilderness True Form was a true, complete transformation state!
After upgrading Wilderness Transformation into Wilderness True Form, the transformed state would become a completely unrestricted, free-form cultivation mode—with no limitations holding it back!
