Chapter 429: Chapter 429

In Li Yi’s living room.

“The two of you have come from afar. Please take a seat,” Li Yi said lightly.

Xiao Jinting and Xu Muan sat down. Xu Lingfeng sat next to Li Yi without being invited.

Li Yi glanced at Xu Lingfeng and frowned, but he didn’t tell him off.

“Elder Xiao, I wonder why you come to visit me,” Li Yi said.

Xiao Jinting did not avoid Xu Lingfeng and directly took out more than a dozen Golden Bees. “My Golden Bees can’t make any advancement after they became Golden Cores. I heard that you are good at handling beasts, so I like to know if you have any methods that could help me.”

“Elder Xiao, it’s unusual to have so many Golden Bees. I guess you have plenty of royal jelly.” Li Yi smiled as he looked at the Golden Bees flying in the sky.

Xiao Jinting nodded and said, “Yes, but the royal jelly only works for Golden Cores. I heard that royal jelly produced by the queen bee helps Golden Cores advance to Nascent Soul. It’s a pity that the cultivation level of my bees doesn’t improve at all. It’s not easy to raise a queen bee.”

His words eased Xu Lingfeng a bit, who stared at Xiao Jinting’s bees with an interested expression.

“Royal jelly by the queen bee helps a lot when a Golden Core advances to Nascent Soul,” said Xu Lingfeng.

“Senior Xiao, you are lucky! I heard that you are powerful and have a Nascent Soul puppet. I didn’t expect you to have a group of Golden Core bees,” Li Yi said with admiration.

“The queen bee can’t be cultivated. It’s created by internal competition,” Li Yi continued.

Xiao Jinting asked curiously, “By competition?”

Li Yi nodded and said, “Yes. If a Golden Bee keeps eating other bees, it will become a queen bee.”

Xiao Jinting said, “Oh, I see. It sounds like raising venomous insects.”

“The spiritual beasts usually have to kill others to become the king. Generally speaking, a queen bee is made from a hundred Golden Core bees. You don’t have enough Golden Bees,” said Li Yi, shaking his head.

Xiao Jinting paused for a moment. He had thought there were too many bees in the space ring, but now he found he needed more of them.

Xiao Jinting looked at Li Yi and said, “Senior Li, I wonder if you have a special method.”

Li Yi only roughly pointed out the direction for Xiao Jinting, but the latter was not satisfied with that.

“Of course I have. But what are you going to pay for that?” Li Yi asked.

Xiao Jinting took out a jade box and handed it to Li Yi, who looked at it in surprise. “It’s Fruit of Life. I didn’t expect you to have such a precious treasure.”

Xu Lingfeng’s eyes lit up with excitement. Ever since Li Yi failed to advance to Nascent Soul, he had been suffering an internal injury. Xu Lingfeng tried all kinds of ways to heal him but in vain. It was getting more difficult for Li Yi to advance to Nascent Soul. If he failed again, he couldn’t possibly advance to Nascent Soul for the rest of his life.

Fruit of Life grew on the Immortal Wood and could heal the injuries from the failure to advance to Nascent Soul.

Xu Lingfeng looked at Xiao Jinting with suspicion. Immortal Wood had been extinct for years, and he was surprised to see Fruit of Life again.

“Senior Xiao, this is too precious,” Li Yi said.

Li Yi frowned. He did have some method to cultivate the queen bee, but it was not complete. If Xiao Jinting took out something ordinary to exchange, Li Yi would agree without hesitation. However, the Fruit of Life was too precious for him to do that.

Xiao Jinting said lightly, “If I can cultivate the queen bee out of the Golden Bees, I will have one more Nascent Soul friend. Mr. Li, please accept it.”

Li Yi shook his head and sighed, “Senior Xiao, you are too generous. But the method in my hand is not complete, and the success possibility is very low. It’s not worth exchanging…”

Li Yi’s refusal to take the Fruit of Life upset Xu Lingfeng, who said excitedly. “Mr. Xiao, don’t you want a seedling of the Tree of Spiritual Weapons? I’ll go steal it for you.”

Xiao Jinting was dumbfounded. Steal?

Li Yi turned to Xu Lingfeng and shouted softly, “Enough. Shut up.”

Xu Lingfeng looked at Li Yi with an aggrieved look and fell silent.

Xiao Jinting asked in bewilderment, “Does Mr. Xu need to steal the seedling from his family?”

“You don’t know?” Li Yi looked at Xiao Jinting in confusion.

“What do you mean?” asked Xiao Jinting.

“The Tree of Magical Weapons is the sacred tree of the Xu family, and selling the tree is a felony. Once found, he will be expelled from the Xu family,” Li Yi said.

Xiao Jinting recalled that Xu Lingfeng didn’t hesitate to agree when asked for the tree at the shop.

“Oh, I see.” Xiao Jinting was taken aback.

“I can sell the incomplete method to you, but I can’t exchange it for the Fruit of Life. If you like to have the method, I can sell it at the price of three thousand top-grade spiritual stones,” said Li Yi.

“Senior Li, I admire your integrity.” Xiao Jinting transferred three thousand top-grade spiritual stones to Li Yi’s account.

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