Chapter 47: Beekeeping and Winemaking

It is less than a month before Qingyangcao and Shuixingcao are ready to be used as medicine.

In this case, Fang Yun naturally has to wait until they are fully mature before harvesting them.

The daily farming life continued, plus a new project, practicing by the fish pond of the Spirit Gathering Crucian Carp, with the help of the small Spirit Gathering Formation, made him feel that one day of practice now was worth the past three days.

Coupled with the help of various spiritual foods and spiritual objects, Fang Yun is even confident that he can reach the seventh level of Qi refining in half a year.

Late at night, Fang Yun went about his routine, combing and feeding the spiritual plants and beasts in the space, and then put in mana to hatch insect eggs.

I don't know if Fang Yun's hatching method was wrong or for other reasons. Only four blood-striped centipede eggs were still alive, and one wasp egg died.

However, as the hatching continued in recent days, Fang Yun was observing the strongest egg when he heard a click and a small crack opened in the white egg shell.

A blur of life appeared in the space, and a snow-white larva crawled out of the cocoon.

It is about half the length of a hand and as thick as a thumb. It is all white and has golden fangs on the top of its head. It looks very cute.

As soon as the larva was born, Fang Yun immediately escaped from the space with it, cut his fingers with a knife, released the blood, and carved runes on it.

After the runes were drawn and recorded, the blood was instantly absorbed by the larvae and flowed into the insect's body. At this time, Fang Yun also felt a special connection with it from the bottom of his heart.

There are many ways to control insects and beasts, the top ones are soul control, soul contract, etc. There are also blood contract control.

When it comes to controlling spiritual insects, it is said that the insect demons that roamed Longhu Bay thousands of years ago were the strongest.

He Hong is obviously also a typical insect cultivator, and his main method is to control insect attacks.

Unfortunately, Fang Yun did not find any method of controlling insects in him, only a manual on raising insects.

Coincidentally, there is a special method in Blood Spirit Dafa called Blood Spirit Seal, which uses the blood of cultivation to draw special runes and use blood to control strange beasts.

Although it is not as good as soul control, this method also has special miraculous effects. The blood source of the same species can make the alien beasts with runes engraved on it think that they are their relatives.

Low-level spiritual insects and beasts have simple minds, so this method is suitable for controlling them. Among secular martial arts masters, there are many who have the ability to breed rare and exotic animals, and they naturally have unique methods in martial arts.

The Blood Spirit Seal in the Blood Spirit Dafa is one of them.

Fang Yun spent so much effort to directly control the bees and insects, so of course he had his reasons.

The purpose of breeding spiritual bees is entirely to use the thorn forest to collect golden honey and increase profits.

If the bees are allowed to act according to their own instincts, it will definitely be detrimental to his breeding plan.

As for the production of honey and the control of the size of the bee colony, it is better for him to make the final decision himself.

Under the blood spirit seal contract, Fang Yun felt the thoughts of the bee insect, and his mood was a little depressed. It was marked by Fang Yun as soon as it hatched, so it was naturally a little uncomfortable.

Fang Yun immediately took out the royal jelly from the bottle and fed it a large spoonful of honey jelly.

It was indeed called golden honey, and it was also royal jelly. Even Fang Yun couldn't help drooling when he smelled it, and the air was filled with the sweet smell.

The larva's small body and fangs inserted into the spoon and started to feast.

"Eat it! Don't let me down." Fang Yun passed on the thought. There was only one last step left before the queen bee was born, pupation.

The larvae have to accumulate enough energy.

Fang Yun went to the outskirts of East Lake Island a few days ago and specifically went to find some farmers and craftsmen for questioning.

According to experienced beekeepers, the queen is usually developed by being fed special royal jelly by worker bees and placed in a special hive for incubation.

However, it should be noted that bee eggs must be fertilized. Fertilized bee eggs fed with enough royal jelly will develop into queen bees. If they are not fertilized, they can only develop into drone bees.

These are just common sense, but Fang Yun has never been exposed to them before and does not understand them. Only now does he know that the boss did not cheat him. The two bee eggs sold to him were both fertilized.

There is also an unfertilized one that will be used to hatch drones.

During the development process, drone bees must also be fed with royal jelly to enable them to develop into shape. Drone bees mainly mate with the queen bee to ensure the reproduction of the colony.

Several other eggs have not broken out of the cocoon, and royal jelly is limited. Fang Yun can only take care of this queen larva temporarily. After it gives birth to worker bees to build a nest and collect honey, he can hatch the remaining eggs. alright.

When the drones were also cultivated, a brand new bee colony was born in the Immortal Mansion space.

Moving again, with a spin, the mother bee larvae returned to space again. A beehive specially built for it in the thorn forest was hanging under the shade of a tree.

Fang Yun settled the mother bee larvae in it, without the care of other worker bees, and without establishing a complete hive. Under Fang Yun's order, it could only pupate on its own at this time.

Dongfangxi Yun has already prepared a queen bee platform purchased from those mortals. As long as it emerges from the pupa again, it will transform into a real queen bee, and then new worker bees will be born.

This time is not as long as the previous incubation, only ten days at most.

From now on, it will spend its whole life in this space until it dies.

After making arrangements for the spiritual bees, Fang Yun couldn't wait for the day when he would harvest the spiritual honey.

Instantly, he turned his gaze to the artificial icehouse in the corner of the space. The space was at a constant temperature all year round. The icehouse was next to the river, not far from the wooden dock.

There were no spiritual plants around, so Fang Yun put some of his storage here, including his private collection and the spoils he got from He Hong.

These things were not safe whether they were placed outside or in the storage bag.

For this reason, Fang Yun marked out a small piece of open space near the river dock to specifically store his miscellaneous items.

There was also an icehouse built here, with ice bricks on all sides. Ice condensation was just a use of mana, and it was not too difficult.

The dragon's breath fruit was stored inside. The dragon's breath fruit was not resistant to storage. Even if it was frozen, it would still slowly rot.

So most of the dragon's breath fruits were directly destroyed by Fang Yun. There were about twenty or so left, and he planned to use them to make wine.

Brewing spirit wine requires a special spirit wine recipe. Fang Yun did not have spirit stones to buy it, so he just brewed it with ordinary skills. But what is more worth mentioning is that there is a recipe for medicinal wine in the Blood Spirit Method, which is to brew blood wine with spirit objects of Qi and blood.

The brewed wine is not the spirit wine of immortals, but the Qi and blood medicinal wine needed by martial artists, which is a tonic specially prepared for the practice of Blood Spirit Method.

This wine recipe is also one of the key reasons why Fang Yun chose the Blood Spirit Method in the bookstore.