In a short time, all the Blood Armor Beetles had their eyes and abdomens pierced rapidly by the stingers of the Golden Marrow Bees...

The venom on the highly poisonous tail spikes of the Golden Marrow Bees also crazily released after piercing, without holding back in the slightest.

In an instant, a considerable amount of venom was fiercely poured into the bodies and heads of the Blood Armor Beetles.

The toxicity of the Golden Marrow Bee's venom is not low. If the quantity is large enough, even a mid-stage Qi Refining Cultivator can be poisoned to death in a short time, let alone a small creature like the Blood Armor Beetle.

So when this venom entered the Blood Armor Beetle's body, it rapidly and wildly began to destroy it.

The Blood Armor Beetle felt excruciating pain and wanted to struggle madly, but its power organs were tightly controlled by six Golden Marrow Bees, and a front leg was firmly held back by one bee sacrificing its life.

After struggling for only a few breaths, all the Blood Armor Beetles died!

The strength of the Blood Armor Beetle lies in its defense and its extremely destructive front legs, which even a mid-stage Qi Refining Cultivator can hardly inflict significant damage by casting magic.

However, the Blood Armor Beetle can break through a cultivator's Spiritual Qi and flesh defenses with its front legs, and even drill directly into their bodies.

But correspondingly, the flesh beneath the Blood Armor Beetle's armor has a very average resistance to poison, so it can't withstand for long when injected with a large amount of bee poison.

This battle process seems complex, but it lasted only a few breaths.

From engaging, to sacrificing to lure the enemy, to restricting movement, and then to injecting venom, it all happened in a short time.

In the process, the Golden Marrow Bees also demonstrated a highly effective execution and familiarity with their battle formation.

Bear in mind that facing the extremely destructive front legs of the Blood Armor Beetle, even the Golden Marrow Bees' defense could last only a few breaths.

If they couldn't complete the kill within this time, the casualties of the Golden Marrow Bees would multiply!

Especially if the coordination between groups of bees was disrupted, they could be easily picked off, making it difficult to maintain the state where six Golden Marrow Bees restrict all the movement organs of the Blood Armor Beetle.

Fortunately, after training, the combat coordination of the Golden Marrow Bees was extremely high, and this time they directly targeted the weakness of the Blood Armor Beetle and quickly completed the kill task.

But to kill each Blood Armor Beetle, it required sacrificing one Golden Marrow Bee to achieve such a result.

Because in those few short breaths, the bees that actively approached the Blood Armor Beetle and attracted its frontal firepower had their hard shells and Spiritual Qi defenses torn apart, with most of their bodies damaged.

Some were even cut in half, merely relying on their life force that would not die immediately, still using their operational organs to firmly restrict the Blood Armor Beetle and buy time for their companions.

All fifty-six Blood Armor Beetles died, but at the cost of sacrificing fifty-six Golden Marrow Bees.

Although this is the best loss ratio when facing the ferocious Demonic Insect like the Blood Armor Beetle, without the effect of the battle array, the natural combat state would surely lead to a much higher casualty rate for the bees.

"The effect of the battle array used by the Golden Marrow Bees is indeed quite good, being able to achieve such a casualty ratio against the Blood Armor Beetle is already quite strong..."

"Sigh... If there were a bee species with a defense type similar to the Blood Armor Beetle, that would be great! This way, the casualties could be minimized, perhaps even achieved with no casualties..."

This battle also gradually made Qi Ping aware of the enormous enhancement the battle array provided to the combat strength of the bee swarm. When targeting the enemy's weakness, the strength was increased several times over.

From this, one can also see the role of the battle array and command in swarm combat.

"If the battle array can be further refined, even facing a late-stage Tier One High-speed Ring-cutting Bee or even Tier Two bee swarm should also be effective...."

"Just not sure if there are any battle arrays suitable for swarm combat in the Immortal Cultivation Realm?"

Qi Ping guessed there should be, knowing that cultivators can form arrays to confront enemies, so bee swarms must also be capable, but his current knowledge of the Immortal Cultivation Realm is still too limited.

However, this also planted a seed in Qi Ping's heart, with a determination to find a suitable array for the bee swarm, be it for defense, interference, or attack effects.

He could communicate with each bee, which is his advantage, something difficult for other Insect-Controlling Cultivators, and this is the basis of array formation.

"And if the bee species variety could be increased, it seems there are considerable advantages. If able to cultivate Thick-armored Bees with outstanding defense, Highly Poisonous Bees with strong toxicity... or other bee types with strong attack or interference capabilities, the combat ability and flexibility of the bee swarm can be greatly enhanced....."

"This way, different battle methods can be adopted based on the combat characteristics of different enemies such as demonic insects, human cultivators, or fierce beasts..."

Qi Ping suddenly realized that if he could keep the bee swarm intact, it seems he could enable the bee swarm to exert combat strength far surpassing cultivators of the same level.

When a swarm of bees emerges, who wouldn't fear it?

And if arrays can be coupled, the combat power could further increase significantly.

Upon realizing this issue, the importance of the bee swarm instantly rose another level in Qi Ping's heart.

With extraordinary combat power and the ability to produce honey for cultivation, Qi Ping couldn't think of a more suitable early-stage pet beast than this.

Moreover, with the "Spirit Beast Cultivation: Demon Insect Chapter" available, although Qi Ping was unsure about cultivating Tier Three Golden Marrow Bees, he was absolutely confident in cultivating Tier Two Golden Marrow Bees.

Once Tier Two Golden Marrow Bees come to be, combined with his ability to perform "Wilderness Transformation" with the Golden Marrow Bees, who in Qingshi County could kill him then?

The Cloud Mist Mountain Range would be his domain!

....

"Yet the most important thing now is to overcome the current challenge first.... "

"Just lost fifty-six Golden Marrow Bees, along with those lost a few days ago, now the number of Golden Marrow Bees has drastically reduced to just over fourteen hundred..."

"And now, there's still ten days before the first batch of two hundred High-speed Ring-cutting Bees emerge..."

These ten days are the extreme limit that the bee swarm can achieve, even with twice the normal consumption of Blood Ginseng.

Qi Ping was unsure whether the more than fourteen hundred Golden Marrow Bees could last until ten days later.

Because judging from the state of these past two waves of demonic insects, the attacking demonic insects might become increasingly stronger.

Once late-stage Tier One demonic insects or a large number of mid-stage Tier One demonic insects appear, a single battle could lead to huge casualties, possibly wiping out the entire force, which Qi Ping absolutely couldn't allow.

"For the next ten days, we'll hold the line as much as possible, if we can't hold it, retreat quickly with the bee swarm and Spiritual Medicine, wait for the High-speed Ring-cutting Bees to mature, then return to see if the Spiritual Land can be used..."

"The battle mode of the Golden Marrow Bee Legion's battle array has also taken initial shape. If we continue to practice for the next few days, it's not impossible to endure these ten days, estimating that during these ten days, there could be at most three or four waves of demonic insects like this..."

After making his decision, Qi Ping started to collect the corpses of the Blood Armor Beetles, which could be sold for some Spirit Stones!

Then Qi Ping tirelessly continued to cultivate Blood Ginseng, striving to accumulate Spiritual Medicine resources as much as possible.

During this time, Qi Ping couldn't leave this place because if an enemy hard to resist appeared, Qi Ping had to quickly collect all the Spiritual Medicines and escape from here.

...

After the affair with the Blood Armor Beetles, Qi Ping once again resumed his frenzied cultivation of Spiritual Medicines, day and night, all to accumulate more Spiritual Medicines and gain more Druid experience!

Another three days passed.

Qi Ping welcomed the third wave of demonic insects.

"Blood Armor Beetles again?"

But this time, the number of Blood Armor Beetles was as high as one hundred thirty-two.

However, such a lineup was not enough to make Qi Ping give up this place.

After deciding to engage in battle, using the same combat mode as last time, this time the Golden Marrow Bees completed the battle even more promptly and neatly.

Yet the casualty ratio of one hundred thirty-two was still unavoidable.

After this battle, the number of Golden Marrow Bees reduced to less than thirteen hundred.

This made Qi Ping's mood sink once more.

On the sixth day, with four days until the High-speed Ring-cutting Bees matured, the fourth wave of demonic insects attacked.

"Why every three days again?"

Qi Ping internally raised this question, feeling it unlikely to be just a coincidence.

But now, what's more important was how to deal with the fourth wave of demonic insects with minimal losses.

"Mid-tier Tier One Thorny Demon Spider, two hundred and sixteen of them. Although this number is large, their weakness is obvious. As long as the first wave of spider silk is dodged, then seizing this gap, go all out for the kill..."

So, under the combat mode of five bees per group, the Golden Marrow Bees managed to eliminate all the Thorny Demon Spiders at the mere cost of losing three Golden Marrow Bees!

The Golden Marrow Bees bound by spider silk were all rescued later.

The fourth wave of demonic insects almost cost the bee swarm nothing, yet Qi Ping gained over two hundred Thorny Demon Spider carcasses.

A small profit!

On the ninth day, the day before the High-speed Ring-cutting Bees would mature, the fifth wave of demonic insects attacked!

"Three days again!"

But upon learning it was a group of high-tier Tier One demonic insects, Bone Bees, Qi Ping's heart sank instantly...

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