After leaving the Law Enforcement Hall, Chu Liang did not immediately return to Silver Sword Peak.

Today was the first day Liu Xiaoyu moved in, and they were building a house for her on the mountain. There were disciples on Shu Mountain specifically responsible for building these ordinary wooden houses. As long as you paid some sword coins, three to five people would come and finish building it in no time.

But the process of construction was still noisy, so Chu Liang flew on his sword and arrived at the bank of the Jinhua River.

As soon as he landed, he saw people walking along the riverbank in groups of two or three, with flowers and green willows, creating a beautiful spring scenery.

Chu Liang was lost in thought and didn’t approach.

What’s going on?

Where are my venomous bees?

Those ugly little cuties that can fly and have a bad temper?

He walked along the river for a while, and finally couldn’t help but ask passersby. He confirmed that the venomous bees hadn’t appeared in this area for several days, so he reluctantly turned back.

He thought it was just a temporary absence, but who would have thought it was a permanent farewell?

The most lonely thing is wanting to stay but not being able to…

The venomous bees were completely gone this time. He didn’t know when he would find another lucrative business like selling fruit tea.

Speaking of which, according to past experience, rewards from the same kind of demonic beast seemed to be the same. If that was the case, did it mean that if he wanted another reward, he just needed to kill another of the same demonic beast?

Perhaps this was only the case for lower-level demonic beasts.

Evil creatures like the lantern monster and venomous bees were naturally easy to be similar. But as they grew, they would definitely change.

For example, the giant lizard from last time. If it had a sibling, they might look the same when they were young, but when they grew up to become fourth or fifth realm demonic beasts, they would be different. Killing one would yield the Zhan Hongming Sword, but it was unlikely to get the second sword by killing another one.

But…

If it was an evil creature like the human-faced demon with relatively low cultivation, they should be quite similar, right?

He thought that if he killed another human-faced demon, would it be possible to obtain two Zhou Tian puppets… or even kill a few more to have a row of big-headed dolls, lined up together to help him cultivate.

Just thinking about that scene was exciting.

Unfortunately, human-faced demons like this were still quite rare and couldn’t be easily found just by asking around. He would have to rely on fate to encounter them again.

Lost in his thoughts, Chu Liang returned to Silver Sword Peak.

…

The small wooden house for Liu Xiaoyu had already been completed. It was not far from Chu Liang’s house, located on the slope he had just passed. He went over to take a look and saw his master and Liu Xiaoyu chatting.

When Chu Liang walked in, Di Nvfeng had a worried expression on her face. “I was just listening to Xiaoyu telling me about her past experiences. Poor little thing.”

“It’s not that bad…” Liu Xiaoyu didn’t seem unhappy and said, “My sister, our tribe, and I used to live underwater, and it was quite carefree. If we hadn’t encountered that big villain, we wouldn’t have had any troubles in our lives…”

“The Jinhua River where you lived is at the foot of Shu Mountain. That villain you mentioned, could it be a disciple of Shu Mountain?” Di Nvfeng asked, “Can you recognize him? I can help you seek revenge when the time comes.”

“Yes!” Liu Xiaoyu nodded vigorously. “As long as I see him again, I will definitely recognize him!”

“That’s good.” Di Nvfeng said angrily, “I don’t know which peak’s disciple has so much free time to go and kill venomous bees for fun…”

“Huh?” Chu Liang, who had been silently listening, suddenly looked up.

“You don’t know, Xiaoyu just said that her sister summoned some venomous bees to protect their tribe. But there was a cultivator with an extremely ugly and twisted appearance who would come every day to kill those venomous bees,” Di Nvfeng said, “Who do you think is killing those things?”

“…I guess, it’s just a guess… Is it possible that those venomous bees harmed the nearby villagers, and that cultivator was just commissioned to eliminate the demons…” Chu Liang calmly blinked his eyes and slowly said, “In the wilderness, if there are venomous bees, just avoid them.”

“Ridiculous!” Di Nvfeng retorted, “In my opinion, that person is probably just a pervert.”

“Yes!” Liu Xiaoyu nodded again.

“As an outsider, I can only say what I think…” Chu Liang said, “I still don’t think he’s necessarily that bad…”

…

After chatting for a while, Di Nvfeng went back to her own residence, and Chu Liang secretly pulled Liu Xiaoyu over.

“Xiaoyu, do you know where your sister summoned those venomous bees from?” he asked directly.

“Well… it was in a dense mountain valley upstream…” the little girl recalled and then turned her head to ask, “Why?”

“It’s nothing, I’m just curious.” Chu Liang smiled and said, “I wonder what those venomous bees look like…”

“Baby venomous bees are very cute.” Liu Xiaoyu said confidently.

“I guess so too.” Chu Liang nodded.

Having obtained the location, he didn’t say anything more.

The next day, he left Silver Sword Peak and went to the Jinhua River again, searching for the venomous bee babies he had been thinking about.Arriving at the usual landing spot, Chu Liang then flew upstream along the river. After a while, he noticed the river gradually veering off, turning into the mountains, with the surrounding terrain becoming increasingly secluded and narrow.

The path was blocked by trees and rocks, so Chu Liang began to clear the way with his flying sword. He was essentially going upstream in the water, and it was unlikely that anyone on land could find this path.

After a good while, he finally saw the dense valley that Liu Xiaoyu had mentioned.

The area was filled with lush trees, a verdant sight indeed. It was truly an untouched valley. There were no birds, beasts, insects, or butterflies in the valley, only buzzing poisonous bees dancing chaotically, and their number was extremely large.

It seemed that this was indeed their nest.

As soon as Chu Liang entered, several poisonous bees immediately buzzed and charged at him, intending to punish this uninvited guest.

With a sweep of his flying sword, he cut down the bees that were charging at him.

With a loud bang, the surrounding bees scattered and avoided him.

The sky was filled with these little creatures that he had been longing for, but Chu Liang did not rush to chase them. He vaguely saw that deep in the valley, there seemed to be a hidden cave. Most of these bees were going in and out of it.

Chu Liang couldn’t help but feel curious, sensing something extraordinary within the cave. He flew forward, clearing the way with his Hundred Swords Art, blocking the aggressive bees that wanted to attack him, and charged into the cave.

The cave was deep and the path was quite long. He went straight in, but didn’t reach the end for a while. The smell in his nose was a pungent, bitter scent, not the sweetness he had imagined.

Slowly moving forward, deep in the cave, he finally saw the bees’ hive.

It was actually a golden skeleton that was almost completely covered!

Countless bees were crawling on it, densely packed, seemingly gnawing at the skeleton, as if it was their nest!

Chu Liang finally understood where these bees came from. It turned out that they gained their spiritual nature by gnawing on this skeleton!

The dark cave, the ferocious bees, the golden skeleton, the whole scene was shocking!

Just as he was secretly shocked, he heard a “boom boom” dull buzzing sound from straight ahead, followed by a strange roar.

Bang—

A giant bee, much larger than the others, pushed aside the smaller bees and crawled out from under the skeleton!

The queen bee!