SFS Chapter 48 Devouring Pattern Bees
Chapter 48 Devouring Pattern Bees
Chen Ye quickly stripped Zhao Shan's body of all its clothes, and then unleashed a series of Spirit Annihilation Finger strikes.
Puff puff!
After a barrage of bombardments, the mountain of flesh was completely reduced to a pile of mud.
"Squeak~~"
Just then, a short chirp suddenly rang out. Chen Ye looked over and saw that the Devouring Pattern Bee, which he had previously knocked away with his Spirit Annihilation Finger, had flown back from somewhere.
Its original six thin wings were now reduced to only four, and its back was also covered in blood and gore, clearly indicating that it had suffered a serious injury.
However, the Soul-Devouring Bees flapped their tattered wings and flew towards Zhao Shan's corpse against the sea breeze.
"This bee does have some intelligence," Chen Ye remarked approvingly.
Logically speaking, the intelligence of insect demons is inferior to that of beast demons.
After being tamed by cultivators, those highly intelligent demonic beasts can even recognize their masters on their own, and can develop feelings for their masters even without the means of beast taming.
But the demonic insects are different.
Limited by their innate nature, the weak souls of demonic insects cannot bear so many emotions. Even those high-level demonic insects can only act according to the art of insect control and have no intelligence whatsoever.
Just as Chen Ye was thinking about these common cultivation knowledge, the Devouring Pattern Bee pounced on Zhao Shan's corpse, then split open its ferocious mandibles and viciously bit into Zhao Shan's flesh.
stab~
The striped bee is much longer than an adult's finger. With one bite, it tears off a piece of flesh the size of a fingernail, then flaps its wings, looking quite pleased.
Chen Ye: "..."
Okay, he was overthinking it. It's just a demonic insect, how could it possibly develop feelings for its master?
The Devouring Pattern Bee is originally a mid-stage first-order demonic insect, equivalent to a human cultivator at the fourth to sixth level of Spiritual Condensation. Only the queen bee among them, after careful cultivation, has the potential to advance to the late-stage first-order demonic insect.
The bee in front of them was clearly a late-stage first-tier queen bee. Although it had no other means of attack besides its highly venomous stinger, it was still somewhat valuable and could be sold for at least two thousand spirit stones.
At this moment, Zhao Shan's spirit insect pouch had fallen into Chen Ye's hands, and he used his divine sense to erase the mark on it.
Under the cleansing of divine sense far exceeding that of a late-stage Spirit Gathering cultivator, Zhao Shan's remaining mark was quickly erased, and at the same time, Chen Ye's face turned slightly pale.
The Soul Suppression Technique had been used three times in a row, and even Chen Ye's powerful soul was struggling to withstand it.
Fortunately, this kind of thing doesn't consume much of his spiritual power. Chen Ye mustered his energy and probed into the spirit insect pouch. He saw that the pouch was buzzing and contained no less than two hundred striped bees.
However, these Devouring Pattern Bees were of a much lower level, mostly at the early stage of Tier 1, with only a dozen or so at the mid-stage.
"It's a pity I didn't get the insect-controlling technique from Zhao Shan." Chen Ye shook his head, then unleashed a burst of spiritual power, grabbed the queen bee who was still devouring the flesh of her original owner, and threw her into the insect sac.
After thinking for a moment, he took out another twenty or thirty spirit stones and threw them in as well.
The demon bee is ferocious and omnivorous, and can eat spirit flower pollen, flesh and blood, and spirit stones.
Afterwards, Chen Ye took the storage bags of the other two cultivators, picked up the magical artifacts that had fallen to the ground, and then quickly left.
By the time he returned to the shore, it was completely dark, and Chen Ye had changed his clothes.
The black robe he had worn earlier was stained with spirit locust flower pollen, and Chen Ye wasn't sure if Zhao Qingyuan still had any Devouring Pattern Bees. To be on the safe side, he simply threw the black robe into the woods, patted several cleansing talismans on his body, and changed into the mid-grade first-tier magic robe.
Dressed in a clean and tidy robe, Chen Ye looked refreshed and gentle, showing no trace of the fierce and ruthless demeanor he had displayed earlier when wielding a short pestle and smashing people.
The island was deserted, and the spirit ship remained unlost even after being anchored on the shore for almost half a day.
Chen Ye glanced at the spirit ship of Zhao Shan and the other two. This ship was obviously of a higher grade than his own, and was a mid-grade spirit ship.
But as I said before, there's no need to put yourself in danger for such a small benefit. Who knows if there are tracking arrays or something similar on the spirit ship?
So Chen Ye boarded his secondhand low-grade spirit ship, took out ten spirit stones from his storage bag, placed them into the water control array engraved in the cabin, and used the spirit stones to activate the array, steer the spirit ship away from the island quickly.
Chen Ye left about an hour later.
wow~~
A storm arose on the sea, and a medium-sized spirit ship, over twenty feet long, sailed toward the deserted island.
On the deck, Zhao Qingyuan stood with his hands behind his back, followed by more than a dozen rogue cultivators. One of them was carrying a circular array plate, inside which floated a jade-carved spirit fish magic artifact.
The spirit fish swam around in the array plate a few times, and then its lifelike head slowly pointed towards the deserted island.
"Boss, this is it! Brother Zhao Shan's spirit ship has a tracking array that I personally set up; there's no mistake!"
Seeing that the array plate had reacted, the rogue cultivator quickly reported to Zhao Qingyuan.
"Um."
Zhao Qingyuan nodded slightly, his expression seemingly calm and composed, but a deep worry was revealed in his eyes.
Since he ordered the two men to go out and intercept the target at noon, it's already late at night, and neither of them has returned!
The second brother was one thing, but Zhao Qingyuan had already sensed that he intended to leave alone, otherwise he wouldn't have used that as an excuse to forcibly seize those four Thunder Explosion Talismans.
But Zhao Shan was different; he was his compatriot!
"Could something have happened...?" Zhao Qingyuan muttered to himself, his unease growing stronger.
The spirit ship accelerated and soon approached the deserted island. Cultivators have sharp ears and eyes, and even though it was late at night, Zhao Qingyuan could spot the spirit ship moored on the shore a hundred feet away at a glance.
"It belongs to Zhao Shan!"
In a moment of panic, he disregarded everyone else and leaped from the deck. His magic boots glowed with magical light, and as if riding on clouds, he landed on the shore in a swift motion.
"As expected, the ship is still there, but the people are gone!"
Zhao Yuanqing's heart sank as he looked at the empty spirit ship.
"Boss..."
At this moment, a group of his men followed.
"Shut up!"
Zhao Qingyuan shouted with a stern face. Then, a flash of light appeared on the bronze bracelet on his wrist, and immediately afterward, a bee as long as an adult's palm flew out!
This bee has eight wings on its back and exudes an aura that has reached the peak of the first rank, equivalent to a cultivator at the perfection of the Spirit Gathering stage. He has been nurturing it for a full thirty years.
The striped bee in Zhao Shan's hand was a descendant of this bee.
The eight-winged striped bee circled around a few times before immediately flying towards the woods.
"Walk!"
At Zhao Yuanqing's command, he led several men into the woods, and soon, guided by the eight-winged bees, they discovered Chen Ye's abandoned black robe.
"It's that kid's."
Looking at the dried bloodstains on his black robe, Zhao Qingyuan's expression grew even more gloomy.
Finally, after traversing almost the entire deserted island, Zhao Qingyuan discovered his brother's body.