After leaving the Qingyuan Sect, Qi Ping had the bees transport the Sky-Flame Midge corpse and the Dragon-Vein Remains back to his territory.
His own Treant Clone returned to the Qingyuan Sect.
The preparations for the bees' breakthrough could be handled by his main body; these tasks did not require too much energy.
However, Qi Ping had even more important matters within the Qingyuan Sect: preparing for his breakthrough to the Golden Core stage.
First, he needed to consult with Wang He regarding the experience of breaking through to the Golden Core and clarifying one's Dao-Heart.
Second, Qi Ping was only missing the final bit of the cultivation technique for the Golden Core breakthrough. Therefore, he needed to stay in the Manual Pavilion during this time to exchange for and consult various cultivation knowledge and materials.
Qi Ping estimated that within five years, he would begin his breakthrough to the Golden Core. After so many years of preparation, his Yin-Yang foundation had been cultivated to an extremely stable state. It was time to break through to the Golden Core and take the first step toward becoming a truly powerful expert!
Upon returning to the Qingyuan Sect, Qi Ping first went to visit Wang He...
On the other side, within the Natural Sanctuary in the Cloud-Mist Mountain Range.
Qi Ping first handed the Dragon-Vein Remains, which contained dense leyline origin, to the Earth-Vein Ant King.
Upon seeing the Dragon-Vein Remains Qi Ping produced, the Earth-Vein Ant King's eyes immediately lit up with incomparable excitement. It then turned into an afterimage and shot onto the remains.
"Squeak... (Boss, where did you get such a good thing!)" the Earth-Vein Ant King exclaimed excitedly.
"I exchanged it from the sect. It cost a lot of spirit stones. Can you nurture and cultivate this Dragon-Spirit Leyline?"
Qi Ping was also quite expectant regarding this question.
The spiritual vein beneath his territory had been stuck at the peak of the second rank for nearly twenty or thirty years.
During this period, Qi Ping did not know how much spiritual tree essence and Sun-Moon-Star essence he had fed it. However, it had never been able to complete the transformation to the third rank. Only the output of spiritual energy had increased slightly, barely satisfying the needs of Qi Ping and his animal companions.
This was one of the key reasons why Qi Ping had been so happy to see the Earth-Vein Ants.
He suspected it was because the territory's leyline was insufficient, as powerful spiritual veins in the cultivation world almost all required leylines to grow and become stronger.
In terms of leyline conditions, the Cloud-Mist Mountain Range was still too poor!
But Qi Ping had no way to solve this. Combing through leylines was something that not even the Qingyuan Sect could do, let alone him.
"Squeak... (It's a bit difficult, Boss... but it's not impossible to try...)"
"Squeak... (The spiritual vein below has very good potential. Its spirituality is exceptionally high; it's the first time I've seen a spiritual vein with such high spirituality! So I feel there is a chance! Furthermore, the quality of these Dragon-Vein Remains is also very good. With the two combined, we can do our best to try!)"
The Earth-Vein Ant King currently did not know just how many resources Qi Ping had poured into that spiritual vein. As for the Sun-Moon-Star essence, Qi Ping fed it whenever he had any. The thing in the territory that consumed the most resources was not Qi Ping or any of his animal companions, but that spiritual vein!
"Squeak... (However, this requires a relatively large underground space. Boss, you want the existence of the leyline to be kept secret, right?)" The Earth-Vein Ant King looked at Qi Ping seriously.
"Yes!" Qi Ping nodded solemnly and continued, "I hope this place remains undiscovered by anyone. So, can you avoid the Cloud-Mist Mountain Range's leylines and open a new leyline deep underground?"
"Squeak... (Opening a new leyline? Let me think...)"
Hearing Qi Ping's words, the Earth-Vein Ant King could not help but fall into deep thought.
The past experience of the Earth-Vein Ant colony was to continuously comb through the existing leylines of the Qingtian Domain. Basically, they would comb wherever they went, wandering through various places based on their bloodline instinct.
However, the speed at which the leylines weakened and were destroyed always exceeded the speed at which they could comb them.
Qi Ping's words suddenly opened up its thinking. Why comb through leylines everywhere?
Why not focus on combing the leyline of one place and raise it to a very high level?
Right! Start from here, arrange for the colony to collect resources from various places, and focus on nurturing one leyline well. Wouldn't that be more beneficial for the colony's reproduction and bloodline enhancement?
It simply didn't know why it had never thought of this before...
But now that it had thought it through, the Earth-Vein Ant King immediately became excited.
"Squeak... (We can try, Boss! I can start from here to slowly comb the leyline to perfection and then continuously expand! But Boss, the formations must keep up, otherwise combing the leyline will cause quite a stir and affect other places. It must be isolated with formations.)"
"Don't worry about the formations; just leave them to me. You just be responsible for combing the leyline well!"
Receiving the Earth-Vein Ant's reply, a spark of anticipation rose in Qi Ping's heart.
With the leyline as the foundation for the spiritual vein, now that he had the Earth-Vein Ants to comb through it, the spiritual vein he was nurturing finally had a chance to continue its promotion!
Having settled this matter, Qi Ping turned his attention to the bees' transformation.
To some extent, all of the bees' previous transformations were just minor skirmishes. They had been sharpening their sword for decades; this time was the true strike!
The mutagenic liquid for this time was also the final one from the Spirit Beast Cultivation: Demon Insect Chapter: the Triple Transcendent Evolution!
[Triple Transcendent Evolution Liquid: With the help of spiritual herbs and three bloodline baptisms, success means completely shedding the mortal insect shell and ascending to the heavens in one step. Failure means death, with not even a corpse remaining!]
As the finale of the Demon Insect Chapter, the Triple Transcendent Evolution was the most domineering in its effects and had the highest mortality rate. But the dragon gate it ascended was also the highest.
Whether the Triple Transcendent Evolution could succeed depended partly on luck and partly on the results of previous transformations. Only a bloodline that had undergone multiple transformations had a minuscule chance of withstanding the terrifying pressure of the Triple Transcendent Evolution!
[A colony that has not undergone tempering and transformation is not qualified for the Triple Transcendent Evolution!]
This was the highest ideal of the Demon Insect Chapter: starting from the first-rank bloodline and transforming it step by step was the only way to nurture an insect colony bloodline that could adapt to countless transformations!
Those who directly used demon insects that were originally second-rank for the Triple Transcendent Evolution had all died without exception!
Everything before was just a setup for this final leap over the dragon gate!
However, based on the contents of this demon insect cultivation manual, Qi Ping judged that there should be new chapters.
He estimated they might be inside that cave abode Sister Nan had mentioned to him. Once the bees completed this Triple Transcendent Evolution, it would likely be the perfect time to go there.
But for now, the most important thing was to complete this final leap, especially since the bloodline Qi Ping had chosen for the Triple Transcendent Evolution was too powerful.
Therefore, Qi Ping did not dare to be the least bit careless and immediately prepared with all his strength...