After confirming that the Qingyi Woman had indeed left, Qi Ping began to contemplate his future development plans.

Currently, he faces two issues:

The first is the increasing chaos in the Qingtian Realm, where even the Qingyi Woman of the Cyan Origin Sect at the Ninth-Layer of Qi Refining was seriously injured, and even the Murong Family lost a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to the Demonic Insect's poison.

The second is the patience of the Qingyi Woman, as the black-robed Tribulation Cultivator must have something important. If this continues, the Qingyi Woman might mobilize her forces for a large-scale search, exposing the Blood Ginseng growth area.

Qi Ping must prepare to tackle both issues.

"First, it's imperative to foster the Li Fire Crow quickly!"

"The Li Fire Crow is inherently at Tier One Perfection, so as long as there are enough fire-attributed spiritual objects, while Tier Two is uncertain, restoring it to Tier One Perfection should be swift, greatly enhancing short-term combat power..."

Li Fire Crow possesses a trace of Golden Crow Bloodline, and its Lifebound Spiritual Fire of Separation Flame is immensely potent, being a bane to most insect spirit beasts and demonic insects.

Most spirit insects and demonic insects have the advantage of high physical defense, high physical damage, high toxicity, and large numbers...

Attacks with intense spiritual power, thunder, or flames typically have a strong restraining effect on insects.

Li Fire Crow also has strong poison resistance, as most toxins cannot withstand the burning of the Separation Flame.

Currently, with the rampant demonic insects, the secrets beneath the Blood Ginseng growth area are also related to demonic insects.

At this point, raising the Li Fire Crow has numerous benefits and is very necessary.

Once the Li Fire Crow can recover to Tier One Perfection strength, along with the Golden Marrow Bee colony, Qi Ping could essentially walk horizontally at the Qi Refining Stage.

When encountering other Qi Refining Cultivators, if the Golden Marrow Bees are countered, the Li Fire Crow would serve as a trump card.

"Besides the Li Fire Crow, the bee colony has reached a thousand High-speed Ring-cutting Bees, and with about five hundred each of Ink Armor Bees, Highly Poisonous Bees, and Balanced Bees, it should be almost complete after another month..."

Qi Ping temporarily set the bee colony's numbers at this level, as any more would exceed the honey spiritual objects available on this mountain peak.

This is even with the mature bees primarily consuming ordinary Golden Marrow Honey, already competing with black little bees for ordinary flower nectar.

This bee colony represents the maximum capacity of this area; to cultivate more honey, Qi Ping needs a larger area and more spiritual lands to grow more flowers and spiritual medicine to ensure the bees' food supply.

Qi Ping already struggles significantly to supply high-quality spiritual medicine cultivated through plant growth for himself and the spirit beasts. If he needed to supply the bees' everyday food through plant-grown spirit plants, it would severely slow Qi Ping's cultivation and the growth of his animal companions.

Thus, acquiring larger space and more spiritual lands becomes essential in this situation.

Currently, almost all spiritual lands in the Qingtian Realm are either controlled by the Cyan Origin Sect or some Immortal Cultivation Clans, and there are virtually no ownerless spiritual lands.

This situation is similar in the Human Race territories, as spiritual lands have always been core resources rarely unclaimed since ancient times.

Even if they exist, exposure means they won't last long, quickly divided by rulers.

So for Qi Ping to acquire more spiritual land, he would need to either buy or rent.

The cost of buying spiritual land in spirit stones is more than a hundred times the rental, not within Qi Ping's consideration, so his best path moving forward is to spend a large rent to lease a larger mountain in Zone B of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, with more spiritual lands inside.

Among the four zones A, B, C, and D in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, the plots in Zone D have some areas where the spiritual qi concentration approaches that of Tier One low-level spiritual lands, suitable for breeding small amounts of barely Tier One spirit beasts.

For instance, black little bees, edible Black Spirit Ducks, Golden Feather Chickens, etc.

Zone D has the largest number of plots, being the choice for most Loose Cultivators.

Zone C contains some Tier One spiritual land areas; there are also many places near Tier One spiritual lands, suitable for relatively large-scale planting and breeding industries, typically handled by stronger Loose Cultivators or peripheral disciples within the three major families.

Zone B, compared to Zone C, has more intermediate Tier One spiritual lands and some low-level Tier One spiritual lands, with a higher overall spiritual qi concentration.

However, Zone B's rent is very expensive, manageable only by very strong Loose Cultivators and family disciples.

This is why Qi Ping has been holding onto the Blood Ginseng growth area: enjoying intermediate Tier One spiritual land benefits for the cost of Zone D rent!

Other than the place being relatively small and the overall spiritual qi being relatively low, this limits the number of bees.

If in Zone B, with enough space to plant spiritual medicine and flowers, natural planting could suffice for the bees' food, and also produce large amounts of honey for sale, letting Qi Ping earn more spirit stones.

This is also one reason Qi Ping considers exploring the secret below the Blood Ginseng growth area, as this place limits the overall development of the bee colony.

It can't earn spirit stones, only maintaining the bee colony's consumption.

Thus, to expand the bee colony and bring in income, leasing a better spiritual land is essential.

The plots in Zone A contain high-level Tier One spiritual lands, directly managed by the Cyan Origin Sect, usually rented by Loose Cultivators at Qi Refining Perfection or even Foundation Establishment, or by Elders from the three major families.

The top ten plots even reach Tier Two spiritual land levels with aid from a Spirit Gathering Array, which might be unreachable even with spirit stones for those outside core Bluestone County figures or Cyan Origin Sect disciples.

The inheritance cave mansion location provided to Qi Ping by Sister Nan is atop the seventh mountain in Zone A.

Zone A rent is very expensive, and access is quite difficult, which is why Qi Ping is currently considering Zone B instead of Zone A.

"Hopefully, whatever is beneath the Blood Ginseng growth area is something that, upon reaching Zone B, continues to provide spiritual qi, possibly allowing me to plant high-level Tier One spiritual medicine there!"

Of course, this is Qi Ping's hope; what exactly lies there is uncertain, potentially extremely dangerous, providing no benefits.

Were it not for necessity, Qi Ping wishes it were simply a spiritual land he could develop peacefully, not uselessly dig something out of curiosity.

But now circumstances are forcing this; the Qingyi Woman might not leave much time for Qi Ping, and the bee colony needs a larger spiritual land to expand.

"Let's settle on this: restore the Li Fire Crow to Tier One Perfection, then delve into underground secrets, lease a larger, more spiritually enriched plot in Zone B, start large-scale rapid flower planting, then expand the bee colony, brew honey for spirit stones..."

"Next, primarily cultivate Fire Spirit Grass, then attempt to research the honey version of Fire Spirit Body Tempering Pill, and figure out the best way to combine honey to bring out the Fire Spirit Grass's fire attribute medicinal effects perfectly..."

"The Li Fire Crow will consume both to swiftly regain strength, while I use the former for Body Refining and the latter for Qi Refining..."

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