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 all 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, I'll add more later if I think of it."

"These taxes combined 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 the 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.

Each and every one of those swarm of spiritual bees is addicted to honey. Harvesting their honey is like killing them. You won't force them 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 ask for too much.

Due to these three considerations, Long Xuan changed his mind about charging an additional 50% tax rate and planned to only charge 20%, and left 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 was no peasant uprising in the world of spirit beasts. Long Xuan was simply overthinking it.

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

If Long Xuan knew what it had done, he didn't know if he would be angry to death.

After collecting the honey successfully, 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 suddenly 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 cup, he immediately showed an intoxicated expression.

"This is life. A glass of honey water makes you as happy as a god!"

"Sure enough! There is no place where it is more comfortable than staying at home, and there is no place where it is better to stay at home than where it is the safest." Long Xuan raised his glass and let out a sigh.

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

Long Xuan was startled by this sudden change, 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 from his ears one after another. Countless fireballs flew over his head. In an instant, the sky seemed to be on fire, and they smashed crazily outside the formation.

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

"Is this Shulia firepower?" Long Xuan was shocked when he saw this terrifying scene.

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 spirit beast massacre of the village.

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 big medicine garden will naturally be violently attacked by the army of spiritual beasts. The spiritual beasts seem to want to wipe out this stronghold. This is really a disaster that comes from the sky, and it is not safe to even stay at home.

Does this count as preventing disaster for Dashi Village?

Long Xuan was stunned, but even though his medicine garden was being attacked by a large army of spirit beasts, he was not panicked at all.

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

Although he is just a small Gu cultivator in the Gathering Spirit Stage, the Ice Formation is far from the attack power of Gu cultivators in the Gathering Spirit Stage.

If the attack power of the formation is equal to the Gu cultivator's own realm, how dare Master Jin settle down in the wild, and how dare Emperor Xin settle down in the prairie?

The formation with the attack power of the Gathering Spirit Stage will never give them such a great sense of security.

Long Xuan's formation inherited Master Jin's cave protection formation, plus the Ice Divine Flame as a treasure to suppress the formation, the power has doubled several times out of thin air. How can an ordinary group of beasts attack it?

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

"You can't just take down my great ice formation if you want to. You really overestimate your own abilities. You've messed with the wrong people! You're done!"

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

The fireballs in the sky were like rain, and the dense rain of fireballs hit the beasts fiercely, and the screams of spirit beasts came from the beasts.

The ground was full of unextinguished cold flames. The spirit beasts engulfed by the cold flames were either burned to death or turned into ice sculptures.

The thin spirit armor on their bodies was useless, just like paper, and the cold flames could easily burn through them.

What kind of power is the ice divine flame? It is far better than Long Xuan's flaming palm. Once you are hit by the ice divine flame head-on, don't say you are a first-level peak spirit beast, even if you are a beast king, you will die.

It was also bad luck for this army of spirit beasts. They accidentally entered such a fierce formation. It was a bloody misfortune for eight lifetimes...

This group of beasts was about 500 in size, and there were quite a lot of them. Moreover, there were all kinds of spirit beasts, even the air force flying in the sky. It was a ragtag army.

However, the firepower of the ice formation was too strong, and this number of beasts was not enough.

Dense fireballs bombarded the center of the herd, pouring down on the heads of the herd one after another. In a blink of an eye, most of the spirit beasts were killed or injured, and all the spirit beasts were stunned.

Even the flying spirit beasts in the sky could not escape the bad luck. The dense fireballs were like anti-aircraft missiles, sweeping wildly in the sky.

The flying spirit beasts dodged flexibly, dodging one, and then dodging the second... but they could not dodge the tenth.

After being hit by the fireball, they screamed, and their bodies were wrapped in blue fire. They fell from the sky and hit the ground heavily.

If you are lucky, you will hit a ground beast directly on its back, and the beast will be burned to death.

The scene is simply a purgatory on earth. The sky and the ground are full of fire. There is no place to step. The fire falls on the ground for a long time, burning feet everywhere, and the screams of beasts are everywhere.

This army of beasts suffered heavy losses in just one encounter. I don’t know how many beasts died in the sea of ​​fire. The scene is horrible.

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

The attack range of the killing array is extremely large, and the firepower is too strong. Even if the remaining beasts flee frantically, they will die in large numbers. It is unknown how long it will take to escape the attack range of the killing array.

In the end, there were corpses all over the ground. Only a few dozen beasts were lucky enough to escape. The rest of the entire army died here. It was miserable.

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

If there were no animal 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 this stable formation could actually have such a terrifying lethality.

Long Xuan couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. The terrifying scene of the sea of ​​fire in the sky just now was too visually impactful. It was simply spectacular to the extreme, even more powerful than the special effects of a blockbuster movie, and he was very addicted to it.

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

There were five hundred animal corpses outside, but the materials were left on the ground. This time he made a fortune.

You must know that his ice divine flame is different from normal flames. Normal flames will burn the spirit beasts, leaving nothing behind, and the spirit insects parasitic 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 become ice sculptures, and the animal materials will be completely preserved.

Moreover, the frozen animal meat can last for a long time without spoiling. He can sell the animal meat to Qian's restaurant and make a small fortune.

There are five hundred animal corpses here, and even if you just sell the animal meat, you will make a fortune.

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

There were a full five hundred animal corpses, some big and some small. He would have to pick them up for half a day, and he didn't know if the storage bags were enough.

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

"Hey! Isn't this the legendary beast king? Are you guys okay?"

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

Good guy, this tiger king turned out to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex had abnormal defense, but it still couldn't withstand the damage of the Ice God Flame. It was killed in seconds before it could exert its abilities. It was really 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 spiritual insect related to tigers and a beast like a tiger king.

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

And whatever he asked for came, the Tiger King animal materials that the Flame Clone had not collected for a long time were actually delivered to his door.

Not only was a perfect tiger paw sent, but coincidentally, there happened to be a top-quality spiritual insect in its spiritual core.

With the two top-quality materials obtained 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, they can all be purchased with spirit stones, so there is no need to worry.

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

At first, 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. Things are really unpredictable.

The elephant was really 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 the clones, letting them exercise and supervise 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 into 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 spirit 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's my spiritual stone! I have such a huge 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 generated by the formation, then the energy needed to create such terrifying attack power is naturally needed.

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.

If it wasn't as he expected, the formation's reserve energy seemed to have been exhausted by the round of indiscriminate bombing just now.

This is tragic, extreme joy brings sorrow.

When things go to extremes, they must turn against each other. If the power of the formation is too great, it may not be a good thing.

It seemed that he had harvested five hundred animal materials without any effort, but if the consumption of the formation was included, he might not have made 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 is definitely not 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’s completely normal for all the spirit stones to be consumed...