Chapter 161 Controlling Spiritual Insects
There are thousands of spiritual insects in the world, and it is impossible for every spiritual insect to be known by a cultivator. The alcoholic bee is relatively rare, and Qingyang has not found a method specifically for raising and controlling alcoholic bees. However, many principles are interlinked. He bought a lot of related books, and after comparing them with each other, he has a deep understanding of the raising and controlling of alcoholic bees.
The raising of alcoholic bees is relatively simple. They feed on nectar and pollen, as long as there are enough flowers for them to feed. However, the level of alcoholic bees is different, and the level of spiritual flowers required is also different, just like the cultivators of different realms need to take different levels of elixirs.
Ordinary nectar can only feed ordinary alcoholic bees. Purple-backed alcoholic bees need spiritual flowers, at least the flowers of spiritual herbs, spiritual medicines, and spiritual flowers that can be used to refine Qi Refining Elixirs. If the level of the alcoholic bee is higher, the level of spiritual flowers required will of course be higher.
If the spiritual flowers are of different levels, low-level alcoholic bees will eat high-level spiritual flowers, which will promote their evolution and eventually evolve into higher-level alcoholic bees. High-level alcoholic bees will gradually stop evolving when fed with low-level spiritual flowers, just like the stagnation of cultivators' cultivation.
If the living environment of alcoholic bees is too bad, and they often fight and consume their own spiritual power, they may even regress or die because of insufficient spiritual power.
Of course, alcoholic bees are crazy about alcohol, and spiritual wine has a great effect on them, so alcoholic bees have one more way to feed. When there are no spiritual flowers, they can be fed with spiritual wine, and the effect is similar to that of spiritual flowers.
Qingyang has not found a special method to control alcoholic bees, but he has consulted that in the world of immortal cultivation, most of the control methods of spiritual insects are universal, and they can refer to the control methods of other spiritual insects to control alcoholic bees.
There are many spiritual insects, and it is impossible to control each one, so the general method is to control the insect king first, and then command other spiritual insects through the insect king. There are a total of seven alcoholic bees in the Drunken Immortal Gourd. The strength of the other six is similar. No matter which one is controlled, it will not affect the other alcoholic bees. It seems that the only way is to control the queen bee that has not yet woken up.
The control of spiritual insects is more complicated. It requires the cultivator to use his own blood essence, including a trace of soul power, when the spiritual insect cannot resist, and then use a special technique to imprint it into the body of the spiritual insect, engrave the master-servant mark on their souls, so that the consciousness of both parties can communicate.
Low-level spiritual insects may only need one or two times, while high-level spiritual insects need many times. The purple-backed alcoholic bee is at least above the cultivation level of Qi training, which is much higher than Qingyang's cultivation level. I don’t know how many times it will take to completely control the queen bee.
Now Qingyang’s cultivation level is too low, and the soul power that can be divided is too little. He can only find a way to control the queen bee while she is not awake. When I become stronger in the future, or the colony of alcoholic bees grows, I will control the other six.
After mastering the method, Qingyang did not hesitate for a moment and flashed into the space of the Drunken Immortal Gourd. The jar of Lingtai old wine that was put in a few days ago had been drunk by the alcoholic bees. It was not known whether they were digesting the spiritual wine or they were really drunk. The six alcoholic bees all fell beside the wine jar and lay on the ground motionless, as if they were dead.
In order to avoid interference, Qingyang first sent the six alcoholic bees out of the Drunken Immortal Gourd space, and then tried to control the alcoholic queen bee according to the records in the materials.
The method recorded in the book seemed easy, but it was very difficult to do it in practice. Qingyang failed many times in a row, and his essence and blood consumed a wine cup. His spiritual thoughts made him dizzy and almost fainted. Finally, he succeeded once.
However, he looked at the alcoholic queen bee, and it seemed that there was no change at all. There was no way to talk about any consciousness communication. It was not possible to subdue it in a short time. Moreover, this method cannot be tried frequently. After each attempt, one must recover for a period of time, and must be done in a safe environment. It seems that he still has a long way to go to subdue the alcoholic queen bee.
After trying once, Qingyang continued to prepare for entering the mountain. He went to the street again and bought a lot of cooked meat and bacon from the forest beasts. Some of them were put in his bag and carried on his back, and the others were stored in the space of the Drunken Immortal Gourd, just in case.
Qingyang also took the time to go to the market again and bought back the seven jars of Baihua wine left by the old wine seller. However, he did not drink them, but buried them all in the space of the Drunken Immortal Gourd. He wanted to see what changes would happen if they were buried in the Drunken Immortal Gourd.
Moreover, these spiritual wines are not only useful for cultivators, but also for alcoholic bees. If more are stored, in case they cannot find spiritual flowers in the future, they can be temporarily fed with these spiritual wines.
In the past, Qingyang had no choice but to transplant some weeds and wild flowers in the Drunken Immortal Gourd for the bees to eat. Now that it is easier to buy things in Yuling City, it is not worth planting these. So he bought a lot of spiritual seeds of various spiritual objects, such as common spiritual flowers, spiritual grains, spiritual medicines, etc., and planted them all in the Drunken Immortal Gourd space.
Spiritual seeds are not as expensive as those grown spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines. You can plant a large area with one spiritual stone. Anyway, the Drunken Immortal Gourd space is idle anyway. Planting these things is like carrying a portable spiritual field. There is no need to worry about theft, and you don’t even have to worry about pollination.
Qingyang even made a small piece of land in the Zuixian Gourd space, which was used to grow spiritual grains. Spiritual grains can not only replace ordinary food, but also be used to refine the fasting pills for cultivators. The fasting pills contain sufficient spiritual power. Taking a fasting pill can make cultivators not need to eat for a long time. Moreover, there are very few impurities in the fasting pills, which not only helps to improve the cultivation level, but also does not need to frequently discharge impurities, which is very convenient.
However, spiritual grains are difficult to grow. They can only be harvested once every ten years, and the yield is not high. In addition, the effect of spiritual grains in improving cultivation is very slow. In layman's terms, the cost-effectiveness is not high, so spiritual grains are rarely used as food. As for the fasting pills, they are expensive, similar to the nature of spiritual grains, and only those high-level cultivators or the direct descendants of large forces can afford them.
As for Qingyang's plan to buy some jade spirit dew in Yuling City to water the four seeds obtained in the secret place, he can't do it for the time being, because his spiritual stones have been almost spent, and the price of jade spirit dew is too high, so he can't afford it for the time being. But this time when I enter the mountains, I can pay more attention to see if I can find some.