Chapter 93
Qi Ping had prepared a total of fifty different formula combinations for brewing Hundred Spirit Honey.
“With this many combinations, we should be able to find one that completely masks the characteristics of the Hundred Spirit Grass…”
After configuring these combinations and handing them over to the brewer Honeybell bees, Qi Ping turned his attention to the issue of cultivating the bee colony.
Over the past month, Qi Ping had newly cultivated and matured about two thousand bees. This was still far from his goal of ten thousand combat bees and three thousand brewer Honeybell bees.
The reason for the slower-than-expected colony growth wasn’t due to the speed of his Blood Ginseng cultivation, but rather, it was limited by the Queen Bee’s strength.
Being only Middle Tier-1, the Queen Bee, although capable of producing offspring that inherited the stronger bloodlines from the drones, could only lay a maximum of seventy to eighty eggs per day.
Previously, because Qi Ping’s ability to cultivate spiritual herbs was limited, the Queen’s egg-laying rate still exceeded his herb cultivation speed. Additionally, considering the Queen Bee’s crucial role in maintaining the stability of the hive, and the fact that the colony itself showed no inclination to replace her, Qi Ping hadn’t considered changing the Queen.
Moreover, Qi Ping held onto another idea. For insect colonies with queens, like bees, the Demonic Insect Cultivation Manual contained numerous records, even including specific explanations on the issue of replacing the colony’s queen.
Regarding the queen of an insect colony, the Demonic Insect Cultivation Manual’s best advice was generally: don’t replace her!