Chapter 74： The power of the ice formation

Chapter 74 The power of the ice formation

But this honey must be harvested no matter what. Long Xuan looked at the fist-sized queen bee in his palm, coughed slightly, and said kindly: "Bingbing, you said that your relatives live in my medicine garden. After so long, it’s time to pay taxes.”

“This medicine garden belongs to me. They live in my medicine garden. Do you think they should pay taxes?”

“I have worked hard to grow the elixirs here, and all the pollen they collect is mine. Since you have taken my things, should you pay taxes?”

“Their hive is protected by my ice formation and can be protected from natural enemies. It is 100% safe to live here. Should I pay protection tax?”

"I calculated it carefully for you, including scenery tax, safety tax, drinking water tax, single tax, honey tax, income tax, real estate tax, property tax, protection tax, head tax, breathing tax, sunbathing tax, and living and working tax , land value-added tax, farmland occupation tax, environmental protection tax..."

Long Xuan counted the taxes in detail while counting the taxes. Finally, he found that ten fingers were not enough, so he had to give up.

“Okay! That’s all I can think of for now, and I’ll add more later if I think of it.”

“These taxes together are not much. Each household only needs to pay half of the honey every month.”

“Go and collect taxes from door to door for me now. Anyone who dares to resist taxes will not be given royal jelly in the future.”

Long Xuan pointed excitedly, and suddenly his expression froze, wondering if he might be too harsh.

The swarm of spiritual bees are all addicted to honey. Harvesting their honey is like killing them, so they won't be forced to rebel.

Don’t forget that Bingbing was overthrown as soon as she succeeded to the position of Queen Bee.

He thought that since he wanted to increase the number of Ice Bees in large numbers and make them combat effective as soon as possible, he had to leave them with enough food. The more food, the faster they would reproduce.

What's more, I'm alone and have a limited appetite, so I can't eat so much honey. It would be a complete waste to have too much.

Out of these three considerations, Long Xuan changed his mind about charging an additional 50% tax rate and planned to only charge 20% and leave the tax collection to Bingbing.

 Bingbing seemed to be very interested in collecting honey from door to door. She swallowed hard and couldn't wait to do it.

With the bloodline suppression of the queen bee and the coercion and inducement of the royal jelly, all the spirit bees succumbed obediently.

There is no peasant uprising in the world of spirit beasts. Long Xuan is simply overthinking it.

But what he didn't expect was that this little clever ghost dared to go against his will and collect twice as much honey. As for the extra honey collected, all the extra honey was moved to his own home.

If Long Xuan knew what it had done, I don’t know if he would be angry to death.

After successfully collecting the honey, Long Xuan was in a good mood. He immediately made a cup of honey water, and used the Ice Divine Flame to make some crushed ice and put it into the honey water, and took a nice sip.

As the cool honey fell into his stomach, he immediately felt a chill all over his body. The sweetness was mixed with the fragrance of flowers, and it was cold and delicious. How could it be called refreshing?

The honey made from the fourth grade pollen was indeed delicious, and Long Xuan was not disappointed. After he drank a glass, he immediately showed an intoxicated expression.

“This is life, a cup of honey water makes you as happy as a god!”

“Sure enough! There is no place where I am more comfortable than staying at home, and no place is better than staying at home where I am the safest.” Long Xuan raised his glass and let out a sigh.

However, just as he finished his words, the ice formation suddenly started to vibrate crazily, as if it was being hit by something crazily.

Long Xuan was startled by this sudden turn of events, and his emotion was interrupted.

what happened? We just agreed to stay at home and be safe, but if we don’t go anywhere and there is still danger, could a meteorite fall from the sky? Long Xuan was shocked.

At this moment, the killing array of the Ice Formation seemed to be triggered by something, and ice-blue fireballs flew out of the sky and hit the distance.

“Huhuhu…”

Long Xuan only felt the sound of roaring fireballs coming one after another in his ears. Countless fireballs flew over his head. In an instant, the sky seemed to be on fire, and they smashed wildly outside the formation.

Soon there was a sound of indiscriminate bombing outside the formation. The dense explosions were heard continuously, as if they were bombarded by eight artillery regiments. The ground was shaking crazily.

“Is this Shulia’s firepower?” Seeing this terrifying scene, Long Xuan was stunned.

Although he had arranged this ice formation, he did not expect the ice formation's firepower to be so fierce. This was the first time he had activated the killing formation, and it was also the first time he had seen the ice formation's attack power. .

Long Xuan immediately ran in the direction of the fireball bombardment. When he reached the edge of the formation, he saw a group of spiritual beasts attacking his medicine garden. He finally understood what was going on.

Although the beast tide has been intercepted by the Gu cultivator coalition, it is simply impossible to intercept it 100%.

From time to time, small groups of beasts pass through the defense line and penetrate deep into the rear of the human world.

There is already news about the village being massacred by spirit beasts.

Obviously, this herd should be the fish that slipped through the front line. After passing through the heavy defense lines, they went deep into the hinterland and prepared to sack Dashi Village.

However, Long Xuan’s medicine garden is right in front of Dashi Village, which happens to be the only way for the spirit beast army to pass.

So his large medicine garden will naturally be violently attacked by the army of spirit beasts. The spirit beasts seem to want to wipe out this stronghold. This is really a disaster coming from the sky, and even staying at home is not safe.

Does this count as preventing disaster for Dashi Village?

Long Xuan was stunned for a moment, but even though his medicine garden was being attacked by an army of spiritual beasts, he was not panicked at all at this time.

In this world, the strength of Gu cultivators and the power of formations are completely unequal.

Even though he is just a small Gu cultivator in the Soul Gathering stage, the ice formation is far from the attack power of a Gu cultivator in the Spirit Gathering stage.

If the attack power of the formation was on the same level as the Gu cultivator's own realm, how could Master Jin dare to settle in the wild, and how could Di Xin dare to settle on the prairie?

The attack power of the spirit-gathering stage's formation will never give them such a sense of security.

Long Xuan's formation was inherited from Master Jin's cave-protecting formation, and with the addition of the Ice Divine Flame as the key treasure of the formation, its power was increased several times out of thin air. How could an ordinary herd of beasts be able to attack it? Attacked in?

Looking at the firepower in the sky is enough to show how powerful the attack power of this formation is.

“How can you defeat my master’s ice formation if you want to? You are really overestimating your capabilities. You have offended the wrong person! You are finished!”

Looking at the army of spirit beasts that were attacking the formation, Long Xuan showed disdain.

The fireballs in the sky were like rain. The dense rain of fireballs violently bombarded the herd, and the screams of the spiritual beasts came from the herd.

The ground is filled with unquenchable cold flames. Spiritual beasts engulfed by the cold flames are either burned to death or turned into ice sculptures.

The thin spiritual armor on their bodies is useless at all, just like paper, and the cold flames can easily burn through it.

What kind of power is the Ice Divine Flame? It is far better than Long Xuan's Flame Palm. Once hit by the Ice Divine Flame, let alone a first-order peak spiritual beast, even if you are a beast king, you will die without delay.

This army of spiritual beasts is also unlucky. It accidentally entered such a unique and dangerous formation. It is considered bad luck for eight lifetimes...

This herd of beasts is about 500 in size, and there are quite a lot of them. There are all kinds of spiritual beasts, including the air force flying in the sky. It is a motley army.

However, the firepower of the ice formation is too fierce, and this number of beasts is completely insufficient.

 Dense fireballs bombarded the center of the beast group, pouring on the heads of the beast group one after another. In the blink of an eye, most of the spirit beast army was killed and injured, and all the spirit beasts were stunned by the explosion.

Even the flying spirit beasts flying in the sky could not escape their misfortune. The dense fireballs were like anti-aircraft missiles, shooting wildly in the sky.

The flying spirit beast dodged flexibly, dodging one, and then the second...but in the end it couldn't dodge the tenth.

After being hit by the fireball, he screamed and was wrapped in blue fire. He fell from the sky and hit the ground heavily. If you are lucky, it will hit the back of a ground spirit beast directly, and the spirit beast will be burned to death together with it.

The scene was simply a purgatory on earth, with fire everywhere in the sky and on the ground, and there was no place to set foot. The fire fell on the ground for a long time, burning feet everywhere, and there were screams of spiritual beasts everywhere.

This army of spiritual beasts suffered heavy losses after just one encounter. Unknown how many spiritual beasts perished in the sea of ​​fire. The scene was horrific.

When the army of spirit beasts discovered that this was a forbidden area that could not be attacked, it was already too late to escape.

The attack range of the killing array is very large, and the firepower is too fierce. Even if the remaining spirit beasts run away like crazy, they will die in pieces. It is unknown how long it will take to escape the attack range of the killing array.

In the end, there were a lot of corpses left here. Only a few dozen spirit beasts were lucky enough to escape, and the rest of the entire army died here. It was simply miserable.

After all the spirit beasts died, the fireballs finally stopped pouring, and the formation moved slowly, returning to its original calm appearance.

If it weren’t for the fact that there were beast corpses and a sea of ​​fire here, telling what had just happened here, it would be hard to imagine that this place had just experienced a tragic battle, and that this stable formation could have such terrifying lethality.

Long Xuan couldn't come to his senses for a long time. The horrific scene of the sky and the sea of ​​fire just now was so visually impactful. It was so spectacular that it was even more powerful than the special effects in blockbusters. He was hooked.

After taking a deep breath, he quickly rushed out of the formation with excitement in his eyes.

There are five hundred animal carcasses outside, but there is a lot of materials left. Now I have made a fortune. I have made a lot of money.

You must know that his Ice Divine Flame is different from normal flames. Normal flames will burn out the spiritual beasts, leaving nothing behind, and the parasitic spiritual insects in the body will also be burned to death.

But his Ice Divine Flame is different. Most of the creatures burned by the Ice Divine Flame will turn into ice sculptures, and their animal body will be completely preserved.

Moreover, the frozen animal meat can last for a long time. He can sell the animal meat to Qian's Restaurant and make a small fortune.

There are five hundred animal carcasses here, and even if they just sell the animal meat, they will make a profit.

Long Xuan was overjoyed and called all the clones back to get a large number of storage bags, and then started picking up treasures all over the ground.

There were a total of five hundred animal carcasses, some large and some small. It would take him half a day to pick them up, and he didn't know if the storage bag would be enough.

When Long Xuan casually stuffed an elephant into his storage bag and saw the ice sculptures closest to him, he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

“Hey! Isn’t this the legendary beast king? Are you guys okay?”

Long Xuan laughed loudly. After seeing clearly what species the beast king in the ice sculpture was, his eyes suddenly lit up and his smile became even brighter.

Hey guys, this tiger king turns out to be a Tyrannosaurus rex.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex had abnormal defense power, but it still couldn't withstand the damage from the Ice Divine Flame. It was killed before it could even use its abilities. It was a bit unfair to die.

The most important thing is that after this year, the flame clone has almost collected the best spiritual insects and best animal materials needed for the dragon Gu recipe.

All that is needed is a top-quality tiger spiritual insect and a tiger king beast.

His Gu recipe only lacked one body part of the Tiger King's foot, and he could completely assemble the puzzle into a divine dragon.

And what you want comes to you, the Tiger King animal materials that the Flame Clone has not collected for a long time actually come to the door on its own initiative.

Not only did he deliver a perfect tiger paw, but coincidentally, there was also a top-quality spiritual insect in its spiritual core.

Having obtained two top-quality materials at the same time, all the most difficult-to-collect materials for the Dragon Gu Gu recipe can be considered completely collected.

Although the remaining large and small materials are huge in quantity, they can all be purchased with spirit stones, so there is no need to worry.

In other words, when he created the Dragon Gu recipe, he could refine the Gu on the same day, which was simply astonishingly efficient.

At the beginning, he was still worried about how to collect so many top-quality materials, and whether it would take ten years to collect them all.

I never expected that Gu Fang would have already prepared all the materials before he could create it. It was really unpredictable.

The elephant was a bit heavy. After putting the elephant into the storage bag, he felt a little tired, so he followed the old rules and handed all the dirty work to his clones, letting them exercise and supervising their exercise. .

After putting the tiger king who had turned into an ice sculpture into a storage bag, he showed a proud smile again. There were indeed a lot of happy things today.

However, just as he was walking towards the medicine garden, his eyes that had moved suddenly looked at the location he had just looked at again.

He couldn't help but rub his eyes and looked at that location again, his expression suddenly changed.

“Grass! Where is my spiritual stone!”

Long Xuan was completely confused. He quickly ran towards the center of the formation and hurriedly touched the empty air with his hands.

This is the backup energy source for the formation. There are obviously piles of spiritual stones used as energy for the formation to operate, but now it is empty, not even half of the spiritual stone.

“Where is my spiritual stone! I have such a big spiritual mountain!”

Long Xuan was about to collapse, and he still had the proud smile just now.

At this time, he had to recognize a terrible fact. People must believe in science and the law of conservation of energy.

The more terrifying the attack power produced by the formation, the more energy it needs to create such terrifying attack power.

Just now, the sky looked like it was on fire. It looked quite enjoyable, but in fact, the energy consumption was also quite enjoyable. Attack power and energy consumption were completely positively correlated.

As he expected, the reserve energy of the formation seemed to have been exhausted by the round of indiscriminate bombing just now.

This is tragic, extreme joy brings sorrow.

Things will inevitably turn against each other, and if the power of the formation is too great, it may not be a good thing.

 It seems that he harvested 500 pieces of animal materials without any effort, but if the consumption of the formation is included, he may not be able to earn much.

It was obviously too powerful just now, causing too much unnecessary waste.

This was also the first time that he was inexperienced and negligent. Sometimes he really couldn't let the formation process it automatically.

There are three sources of energy for the formation. One is from the spiritual power of nature. The formation is absorbing spiritual power from the air at all times to maintain the daily consumption of the formation, so that the formation is running all the time.

The second place comes from the spiritual power reserve at the center of the formation, which is also the place where spiritual stones are stored. Each formation must store a large amount of spiritual stones here. The higher the level of the spiritual stones, the better. Of course, if there are more advanced Energy is better.

If the spiritual power in the air cannot sustain the consumption of the large formation, then the formation will mobilize the spiritual power of the spiritual stones here.

The third energy source is the treasure from the formation eye. The energy level of this third energy source is the highest. It is related to the maximum attack power of the formation and the upper limit of the formation. It can provide the formation with the largest power.

When the killing array is activated, the energy consumption will inevitably increase. The thin spiritual power in the air will definitely not be enough, and the spiritual stones in the reserve must be used.

Just now, the sky was like a terrifying sight like fire. If the energy consumption is not large, then there is a ghost.

It is completely normal for the spirit stones to be exhausted...

(End of this chapter)