Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 100 Royal Bee Honey

Long-term task: Collecting Frost Jade Queen Bee Honey
Quest Level: Lower Grade C (Recommended for early Foundation Establishment cultivators)

Task issuer: Alchemy Hall

Task Description: "The sect recently needs a large amount of royal jelly to refine the third-tier low-grade treasure pill [Three Frost Jade Dew] and the second-tier high-grade spirit pill [Ice Dew Pill]."

Frost Jade Bees inhabit the depths of Qing Shuang Valley, north of Buji Island in the Mirror Moon Sea. Cultivators who accept the mission must venture deep into the Frost Jade Bee nest to collect them.

Note: Frost Jade Bees gather in swarms, and their stingers can carry Frost Jade Cold Poison, freezing the cultivator's meridians and mana.

Task Reward: 800 Contribution Points / 2 Jin of Royal Honey

Extra Reward: For every additional kilogram of royal jelly submitted, an additional 300 contribution points will be awarded.
'This task is not bad,' Chen Beiwu thought to himself.

Judging from the mission description, this lower-level Class C mission is quite dangerous and could pose a threat to cultivators in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

Because the Frost Jade Bee Queen is a second-tier demon beast with a cultivation level equivalent to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, if she were to drive the swarm into a direct battle, she might even be able to surround and kill a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.

But for Chen Beiwu, this task was extremely simple.

Unlike the Southern Wilderness, which reveres the natural world, the Immortal Alliance excels in the art of beast taming.

In layman's terms, cultivators in the Southern Wilderness prefer to find a suitable spiritual land for the Frost Jade Bee Queen to raise the Frost Jade Bee colony, allowing it to develop freely, thereby producing higher quality queen bee honey.

Immortal Alliance cultivators typically tame Frost Jade Bee swarms by contracting with the Frost Jade Bee Queen, thereby obtaining a continuous supply of royal jewels honey, without needing to risk their lives to collect honey.

There is no superiority or inferiority between the two; they are simply different ways of choosing.

After all, the former only requires sowing some seeds to reap the harvest, while the latter requires cultivators to spend their time and effort raising the queen bee and the bee colony.

'A pound of royal jelly would only cost around two hundred spirit coins on the Immortal Alliance's official website, so the profit margin is huge,' Chen Beiwu thought to himself.

The ratio of sect contribution points to low-grade spirit stones is one to one.

However, the former can be exchanged for the latter, but the latter cannot be exchanged for the former.

Because sect contribution points are a monetary system used by the Mirror Moon Sect to harvest resources from affiliated sects and sect disciples.

Its significance is similar to that of the Immortal Alliance's Spirit Essence, except that the Mirror Moon Sect is more powerful and does not allow its disciples to trade privately.

Some outer disciples of the Mirror Moon Sect are willing to buy contribution points at a ratio of three to one, or even higher, in order to accumulate enough contribution points to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills, but very few cultivators are willing to take the risk of selling them.

He only needs to use 400 spirit yuan to buy two catties of royal jelly from the Immortal Alliance's official website and hand it over to the sect to get 800 contribution points. This is the advantage of having access to the channels between the two realms.

Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu walked to the front desk of the mission hall without hesitation and took out his identity jade slip.

"Senior sister, I'd like to take on the task of collecting royal jelly."

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator, dressed in a moon-white flowing cloud-patterned dress with her black hair tied in a high bun, looked up in surprise and glanced at Chen Beiwu.

"Junior brother, are you sure you want to take on this Class C mission?" Ma Dongmei asked.

This Rank C, lower-tier quest has been hanging in the quest hall for over a month.

However, because collecting royal jelly is too risky and the sect doesn't offer enough contribution points, few Foundation Establishment cultivators are willing to take on the task.

"Yes." Chen Beiwu nodded.

"But this is a task that only Foundation Establishment cultivators can accept," Ma Dongmei gently reminded her.

It’s true that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!

Based on her observation, the junior brother in front of her had not yet reached the Foundation Establishment stage, and accepting such a task was tantamount to courting death.

"This task is just a suggestion; there are no restrictions on cultivation level," Chen Beiwu said calmly.

Ma Dongmei shook her head and didn't say anything more.

Good words can't persuade a damn ghost.

Since this junior brother insisted on taking the risk, he has no one to blame but himself for dying.

'What a pity for such a young life!' Ma Dongmei sighed inwardly, then immediately noticed something amiss with the jade slip. Golden-patterned jade pendant!

This is the identifier for the candidate sequence.

Ma Dongmei couldn't help but look up and examine Chen Beiwu closely.

"Senior sister, is something wrong?" Chen Beiwu frowned slightly.

Others can accept a task with just one sentence, but he drags his feet on the task procedures.

"No, the mission has already been accepted." Ma Dongmei handed the identity jade slip back to Chen Beiwu, still marveling at it in her heart.

When did the sect gain another new candidate for entry?

He kept calling her "senior sister," which almost caused her to misunderstand and embarrass herself.

After retrieving the jade slip, Chen Beiwu turned and left.

……

Mirror Moon Sea, Buji Island Ferry Terminal.

Chen Beiwu urged the wind on and leaped onto the beach.

The sect's sea-going vessel is fast, but the fare is not low; it costs ten low-grade spirit stones for a half-hour journey.

No wonder outer sect disciples usually take on sect missions that are relatively close and don't require them to go out.

Otherwise, the travel expenses alone would leave outer disciples penniless.

Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu looked up at the towering mountains in the distance.

As one of the six veins and seventy-two islands of Jingyue, Buji Island is located in the northern part of the main island, with a terrain that is high in the east and low in the west, and high up on the north and south sides.

Deep in the southern part of the island lies a fourth-order spiritual vein, which, with the help of the terrain, forms a natural spiritual lake called Buji Lake.

Buji Lake is a core treasure land where the sect raises precious fish. It is heavily guarded, and sect disciples are not allowed to enter without a Golden Core cultivator's decree.

Fortunately, his gathering mission was located in Qing Shuang Valley, which was far from Buji Lake. The ice-type spiritual veins contained in the valley were only at the third level, so entry and exit were relatively easy, requiring only the presentation of mission credentials.

After spending most of the day to reach Qing Shuang Valley, Chen Beiwu deliberately showed his face to a few fellow disciples he happened to meet near the valley. Then, he randomly found a place and activated the Ten Directions Chaos Gate to return to the Immortal Alliance.

……

Take a night's rest.

Chen Beiwu put on the concealing spiritual artifact, maintained his cultivation level at the eighth level of Qi Refining, pushed open the door of the cultivation room and walked downstairs.

There was no way around it; his current cultivation progress was too frightening. He broke through from the eighth level of Qi Refining to the ninth level in just nearly two months.

This incredible speed of progress is really hard to explain to parents.

You know, the last time he broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, his father thought he was too eager for quick success and took the Tanxi Pill.

The best course of action for him now is to delay for a month or two before revealing his true cultivation level to his parents.

After all, even before the availability of cultivation resources, Chen Beiwu's cultivation speed far surpassed that of his peers.

Now that he has earned a lot of spiritual energy from live-streaming sales, he has no shortage of spiritual stones to buy cultivation resources, so it is reasonable that he can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi Refining in just four or five months.

Hearing the noise, Huang Xiaoling quickly got up and went over to ask, "Beiwu, would you like something to eat?"

This is the first time my son has ever secluded himself for such a long time in his cultivation.

If she weren't afraid of disturbing the child's cultivation, she would have long since been unable to suppress her worries.

“Sure, it’s been a long time since I’ve had your cooking, Mom.” Chen Beiwu smiled.

(End of this chapter)