Chapter 271: Chapter 271

The search for the bee thief did not make any progress. The people who originally joined hands from several large sects to search fell into the situation of mutual suspicion, and soon fell out.

Although the honey of the golden bee was a good thing, there were many things in the secret realm that were good things. After a fruitless search, these cultivators did not continue to dwell on it.

About half a month later, Xiao Jingting followed Liu Jinrong’s group and left the island.

Xiao Jingting rubbed his chin and said, “Where are we going next?”

“We can go to the inner city.” Chen Xu said.

Xiao Jingting hesitated for a moment and said, “But there is still a year until the Inner City opens, right?”

Chen Xu nodded and said, “That’s right.”

Xiao Jingting was puzzled as he asked, “Then do we need to be in such a hurry?”

Chen Xu thought about it and said, “We need to prepare earlier. It will take two months to cross the swamp, if it goes smoothly, we can grab a good position by going earlier.”

Xiao Jingting rubbed his chin and said, “In my opinion, there is no need to rush.” The shot hits the bird that pokes its head out. (T/N: Chinese idiom – nonconformity gets punished) It was really meaningless for them to rush to the inner city so early only to be a thorn in the side of those big powers.

Chen Xu nodded and said, “If Uncle Xiao feels that there is no need to hurry, we can stay in the outer circle for a longer period of time.”

Xiao Jingting rubbed his chin and said, “I don’t think we need to be in such a hurry, young Chen, didn’t you say that there are many dangers in the swamp? It’s good to let those who are anxious to clear the obstacle ahead while we wait outside for a while.”

If there was no tiger in the mountains, monkeys could be called the king. When those guys from the big sects were gone, it would be his turn to reign as a king.

Chen Xu nodded and solemnly said, “Uncle Xiao is right, I can just use this time to cultivate a bit more.” Chen Xu thought: The swamp was very dangerous, so it would be good to take advantage of this time to cultivate a little harder, even if he could only raise his cultivation a little.

Xiao Jingting nodded and said, “Well, then it’s alright.”

Xiao Jingting and others left the island full of Prosperous Star Flowers and found a place to settle down.

After the rest, Xiao Jingting found an opportunity to enter the jade pendant space and contracted all the golden bees in the space.

After contracting the golden bees, Xiao Jingting often felt the lack of spiritual power.

Xiao Jingting scratched his forehead and could not help having some headache. To control contracted beasts, you needed to consume spiritual power, so in general cultivators only contracted beasts with the same cultivation level. But he all of sudden contracted a lot of Foundation building bees, although it was bees, it was also Foundation building bees!

If his problem of spiritual power could not be solved, Xiao Jingting himself would be in trouble at any time.

After entering the secret realm, Xiao Jingting collected a lot of spiritual plants and discovered many pills. One of these pills could increase spiritual power, so Xiao Jingting planned to spend some time and refine this pill to replenish his spiritual power.

Xiao Jingting and the others were in the outer circle of the secret realm recuperating for some time while other people one after another crossed the swamp and headed for the inner city.

Xu Muan on the other hand, mysteriously started a business of selling Prosperous Star Flowers and earned a lot of spirit stones from it.

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“Daddy, you are back?” Xiao Xiaodong asked.

Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes.”

“Daddy, how is the situation outside now?” Xiao Xiaodong asked.

Xu Muan narrowed his eyes and said, “There seems to be more than just miasma in the swamp but there are also many monsters. Those mud monsters will drag cultivators into the swamp, so many cultivators have already died. There were also many cultivators who turned back in the middle of the journey.”

Xiao Xiaodong squinted his eyes and said, “Is that so?”

Xu Muan smiled and said, “I see that many people from big powers have not taken action yet.”

Xiao Xiaodong nodded and said, “It’s still early, many people are not in a hurry. Although the things on the outside are not as good as this inside, there are still many good things.”

Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes! It is said that the Heavenly God Sect has produced two great geniuses, both of them are single spiritual roots. One of them is thunder spirit root while another is wind spiritual root, both of them are only in their early twenties but already at the late stage of Foundation Building. In the secret realm, they killed many demonic beasts, sweeping a lot of demon beasts’ nests while obtaining a lot of good things.”

“The Heavenly God Sect has the existence of the Soul Transformation realm, so they naturally are different from ordinary sects.” Chen Xu said.

“Soul Transformation realm.” Xiao Xiaodong tilted his head and showed some longing in his eyes.

Xiao Jingting knocked Xiao Xiaodong’s forehead and said, “Don’t think too much, be practical.”

Xiao Xiaodong flattened his mouth, nodded and said, “I know.”

After Xiao Xiaodong and Chen Xu left, the two people left in the cave were Xu Muan and Xiao Jingting.

“Went to sell Prosperous Star Flowers again?” Xiao Jingting asked.

Xu Muan nodded and responded, “Mm.”

“It’s too dangerous.” Xiao Jingting said.

Xu Muan nodded and said, “I know, I’m very careful, moreover, it’s of little use when you bring it out, but if you sell it, you can make a lot of money.”

Xiao Jingting helplessly said, “Money can be earned slowly and we can still earn money after going out.”

Xu Muan smiled and said, “In any case, to some extent this place is much safer than outside.”

Xiao Jingting smiled and thought: Indeed, even if the cultivators and demonic beasts in the Heavenly Haze Secret Realm were powerful, they couldn’t advance to the Golden Core because of secret realm’s restrictions. The place where the golden bees were located, if it existed in the outside world, it would have been already swept clean by those Nascent Soul realm cultivators. There would be no place for him to take advantage of.

“At present, we still have enough spirit stones to spend.” Xiao Jingting.

Xu Muan smiled bitterly and said, “We will need to spend a lot! If Xiaodong really likes Chen Xu, then we will have to spend a large amount of spirit stones.”

Xiao Jingting, “…” Xu Muan was really thinking about the future! But having said that, with Chen Xu’s status and background, they couldn’t be too stingy when it came to spending.