Chapter 323: Soul-Collecting Bee

Chapter 323: Chapter 323: Soul-Collecting Bee

On a steep cliff, inside a rocky cave.

A dense swarm of black insects was gathered around a fire, forming the shape of a person.

A closer look revealed that beneath the black insects, there was truly a person—or rather, a person’s body.

And all those black insects were biting the body, their needle-like mouthparts inserted into the flesh in a truly gruesome sight.

Suddenly, the body twitched and its eyes opened.

"I... I’m not dead?"

This voice belonged to none other than Yi Xiaoyao, whose soul had been shattered by the Second Lord before he fell from the cliff.

At this moment, Yi Xiaoyao could still feel an intense pain deep within his soul, along with a strange, intense itch.

The next moment, he suddenly discovered that his body was covered in a dense swarm of black insects!

Greatly alarmed, Yi Xiaoyao subconsciously prepared to summon a Flame to burn all these insects to death.

"Don’t move!"

A voice rang out. "These Soul-Collecting Bees are helping your soul heal."

Immediately after, the sound of footsteps came from behind.

Hearing the voice, Yi Xiaoyao’s expression changed, and he turned his head in astonishment.

"Xuan Mo!?"

Seeing the person behind him, Yi Xiaoyao called out his name in pleasant surprise.

It was Xuan Mo, another of Yi Xiaoyao’s good brothers, besides Jin Sanbao.

"Xiaoyao." Xuan Mo had always been a man of few words. Seeing Yi Xiaoyao again, although there was joy in his eyes, he still only said that one word.

Seeing Xuan Mo, and then the insects on his body, Yi Xiaoyao began to understand what had happened.

"Xuan Mo, did you save me?" he asked.

Xuan Mo shook his head. "I don’t have that kind of ability. It was my master."

Yi Xiaoyao nodded. He had long since heard from Jin Sanbao that Xuan Mo had been taken as a disciple by an Insect Cultivator and brought to the Great Xia.

"So that strange stirring I felt before... that was you?"

Yi Xiaoyao recalled the strange sensation he had felt somewhere in his body while fleeing for his life, and everything suddenly clicked into place.

Xuan Mo nodded. "It was the Qingfuzi I gave you. Because we hadn’t seen each other for so long, the child insect and the mother insect longed for each other. When they came within a certain distance, they had the urge to break out of their shells and reunite. I was the one who noticed the abnormality in the Green Cicada Mother Insect and asked my master to save you."

Yi Xiaoyao was touched. ’To think a tiny insect ended up saving my life.’

It had been a long time, and given their close relationship, even the reserved Xuan Mo couldn’t help but start chatting freely with Yi Xiaoyao.

It turned out that Xuan Mo and his master had been living here, waiting for an Insect Mother to be born within the cliff.

Xuan Mo’s master was not from the Great Xia Empire. He had come to this place in search of a new Insect Mother, but along the way, he had discovered Xuan Mo, a prodigy in the way of insects, and taken him as his disciple.

"My master is very strong, but I don’t know exactly how strong. All I know is that on that day, when I asked him to save you, he didn’t even have to show himself to scare off your pursuers," Xuan Mo said with a chuckle.

Yi Xiaoyao was inwardly shocked. ’There’s always someone stronger, and heavens beyond heaven.’

"Right, from what you’ve said, have I been unconscious here for a long time?"

Yi Xiaoyao suddenly remembered this and his expression changed as he asked.

"Seven days!"

Just then, a cold voice came from outside the cave. With a flicker of light at the entrance, a thin, middle-aged man in a purple robe walked in.

"Junior, you have been unconscious here for seven days. If I hadn’t used the Soul Honey of my Soul-Collecting Bees to mend your soul, you would have been long dead!"

"And besides me, Chong Li, I doubt there’s a second Insect Cultivator in this world who could produce Soul-Collecting Bees, let alone anyone who could have saved you!"

Chong Li took but a single step and appeared directly in front of Yi Xiaoyao.

"This junior thanks Senior for saving my life!"

Yi Xiaoyao immediately tried to get up to express his thanks, but Chong Li shouted, "Don’t move! These Soul-Collecting Bees are extremely weak when they release their Soul Honey. If they are disturbed, they will all die violently!"

"Soul-Collecting Bees?"

Yi Xiaoyao quickly lay back down and asked in confusion. He could only feel these insects on his body injecting a stream of pure soul energy into him, repairing his shattered soul. Not only that, but they also seemed to be faintly increasing his Cultivation Power.

Chong Li snorted coldly with great reluctance. "The Soul-Collecting Bees are a Secret Treasure I use for my own soul Cultivation. If my disciple hadn’t begged me to save you, why would I have wasted them on you?"

Yi Xiaoyao shot Xuan Mo a grateful look. Seeing how pained Chong Li looked, Xuan Mo must have had to plead extensively to get his master to save him.

"Master, after the Soul-Collecting Bees release their Soul Honey, they can just collect more soul energy. But Xiaoyao is my brother. I couldn’t just let him die," Xuan Mo said in a low voice.

Chong Li snorted again. "Easy for you to say. This was the Soul Honey I’ve been waiting three months to use for my own Cultivation breakthrough!"

Then, Chong Li sighed. "As your master, I did this for you, so you could leave this Great Xia with me without any worries."

Xuan Mo nodded silently.

Hearing that Xuan Mo was going to leave the Great Xia, Yi Xiaoyao didn’t say anything. After all, it was Xuan Mo’s own choice, and as his brother, his only role was to offer unconditional support.

Besides, now that Yi Xiaoyao knew he had been unconscious for seven days, he was starting to feel anxious.

’Without me these past few days, I wonder what’s happened to the Carefree Alliance.’

"Senior, when will I be fully recovered?" Yi Xiaoyao asked.

Chong Li frowned. "You can leave when all the Soul-Collecting Bees fly off of you on their own. In the meantime, you must not disturb them in any way. If even one of them dies, I’ll have you pay for it with your life!"

With that, Chong Li left the cave again.

The corner of Yi Xiaoyao’s mouth twitched. ’It seems I won’t be able to leave for a while.’

"Xiaoyao, you look worried. Are you concerned about something?" Xuan Mo asked.

Yi Xiaoyao sighed and told Xuan Mo about the Carefree Alliance.

When Xuan Mo heard that Jin Sanbao had become the Vice Alliance Leader of the Carefree Alliance, a smile spread across his lips.

"Three Treasures, is he doing well?"

Xuan Mo was naturally very concerned about Jin Sanbao, who had come here with him from another world.

Yi Xiaoyao’s worried expression deepened as he sighed. "Three Treasures was doing fine before, but now... and in the days to come, I can’t be so sure."

Although Yi Xiaoyao had survived, he was certain the Imperial Army Mansion would not let this matter rest. He was especially worried about the Carefree Alliance.

After all, how could the Imperial Army Mansion allow the forces in the Chaotic Alliance Domain to continue gathering under the banner of the Carefree Alliance and pose a threat to the Great Xia?

But Yi Xiaoyao didn’t know that what he feared was, at that very moment, happening in the Chaotic Alliance Domain.

During the seven days Yi Xiaoyao was unconscious, the Imperial Army Mansion had dispatched a large army into the Chaotic Alliance Domain. The Second Lord had even taken action personally, crushing the Carefree Alliance and causing all its constituent forces to fall apart.

Not only that, but the Imperial Army Mansion continued to suppress the former members of the Carefree Alliance and spread the news that Yi Xiaoyao had been killed by the Second Lord, causing all the Alliance Leaders who held Command tokens to lose heart.

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(P.S. The last few Chapters have been a bit slow, but we’re about to get to the exciting part~)