262: Adult Soul-Eating Queen Bee

Nearly five hours had passed, and the members of the Harem had all been successively sent back to Jinling City by Huang Chen, depending on their individual talents.

After several hours of devastation by dozens of people, the originally near-hundred-billion strong Soul Devouring Bee Swarm was estimated to have only a few hundred million left.

By this time, Huang Chen's backpack already contained over seventy thousand pieces of soul honey.

Something like soul honey, even a small piece, could likely fetch an astronomical price on the market.

However, Huang Chen did not intend to release these items.

After so many events, he understood that it was far from enough for only him and the few dozen people in his Harem to be strong throughout the Forbidden City.

Therefore, he planned to use this soul honey to cultivate the more than one thousand people who followed him first, as well as Tie Shengnan's Womens Army.

These people were trustworthy in terms of both loyalty and emotional connection.

Huang Chen slowly approached the hive.

At present, the casualties of the Soul Devouring Bees had already exceeded 99%, yet the Bee King had not appeared; this could only mean that the creature was still laying eggs and could not free itself.

With a thought, the demon slayer appeared in his hand.

"Returning Wind Falling Goose!"

Huang Chen let out a loud shout, and the demon slayer traced an arc, smashing heavily onto the four-story-high hive.

"Boom!"

However, the expected scene of destruction did not occur.

An extremely dull, loud sound exploded, vibrating Huang Chen's hand gripping the halberd until it felt slightly numb.

The toughness of the hive's outer shell far exceeded his imagination! The immense impact force only caused the entire hive to tremble violently, and where the demon slayer struck, it only left a few winding, hair-thin cracks.

"What a hard shell!" Huang Chen's eyes narrowed, revealing an expression of disbelief.

You must know that after the skill level improvement and this wave of rewards, his attack power had more than increased tenfold compared to the original ten-plus million!

A simple calculation would make it clear.

He himself had 1711 points of bone structure at level 60, resulting in 100,949 potential points.

The 4 top-grade Goddesses had bone structure: Consort Shu 600, Tie Shengnan 500, Liu Ruyan 400, and Phoenix Chant 700. They were all level 56, meaning they contributed 121,000 potential points.

Feng Wu had 1500 potential points at level 57, contributing 84,000 potential points.

Finally, there were 27 level 56 ordinary Bonded Goddesses with an average bone structure of 245, contributing 377,190 potential points.

The total number of potential points was 683,139.

Excluding 10,000 for resistance, 11,100 for Movement Skill, 100,000 for internal energy, and 200,000 for physical stamina, Huang Chen had added nearly 360,000 potential points to strength.

The mastered Returning Wind Falling Goose provided a 15x attack bonus, and combined with various miscellaneous Halo effects, his attack power at this moment was approaching one hundred million.

Excluding absolute damage immunity from resistance and proportional damage, his damage to the hive should have been at least twenty million.

Yet, this damage of up to twenty million could only cause cracks in the hive.

"Come again!"

He let out a low roar, and the three skills: Returning Wind Falling Goose, Three-Fold Sun Strike, and Blood Battle in Eight Directions were unleashed by him and his clone with dazzling skill. Combined with the claw attacks of the six dragon claws, the entire hive shook violently, emitting groans of being unable to bear the burden.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under Huang Chen's frantic attacks, the cracks slowly grew larger, extending, expanding, and deepening bit by bit.

Debris and fragments of the ruptured hive shell were constantly splattering outward.

"Open... for me!"

Just as the cracks on the hive expanded like a spider web across the entire structure, Huang Chen and his clone shouted simultaneously, and two Returning Wind Falling Goose strikes smashed heavily onto the hive once more.

"Crack!"

A clear tearing sound rang out!

That deepest and longest crack, which Huang Chen had focused his attacks on for a full minute, suddenly spread wildly toward the upper and lower ends, like rotten wood split by a giant axe!

The crack instantly expanded to several meters wide, and immediately afterward, with this main crack as the center, more spider-web-like fissures instantly covered the surrounding area!

"Rumble!"

After a minute of crazy attacks, the hive finally could not bear the burden any longer. Amidst rumbling sounds, it shattered into several large pieces and collapsed onto the ground with a crash, with dense clusters of bee pupae falling all over the floor.

"Collect!" Huang Chen gave a light shout, and the backpack pickup function enveloped the entire shattered hive.

The hive vanished instantly and appeared in his backpack, where the nest structure itself, the soul honey, and the bee king soul slurry were instantly sorted and stacked into different slots.

"Huh?" Huang Chen looked at his backpack and muttered in confusion, "Where are the bee pupae?"

"Idiot... Bee pupae are living things; how could they possibly be collected into your backpack." Zi Han's voice came through.

Only then did Huang Chen realize that countless dense bee pupae were scattered all over the ground, many of which were still squirming, looking extremely disgusting.

Since they were living things, he could only grab a handful and fly back slowly.

With a thought, his clone took a container and landed beside the bee pupae, and just as he was about to collect them.

"Hum!"

A soul shriek, a hundred times stronger than the one from Xiao Hu back then, carrying monstrous anger and insane brutality, emanated from the pile of bee pupae and pierced straight into Huang Chen's mind.

"Ah!!" Huang Chen's body shook violently. Even with his current soul strength, under this soul shriek, he felt a faint sensation that his soul was about to be torn apart.

The mental impact of the mature Bee King was too strong!

Huang Chen immediately swallowed a mouthful of bee king soul slurry, and the pain slightly subsided.

"Hum! Hum~"

The egg-sized old Bee King vibrated its transparent wings and slowly flew into the air, its two compound eyes staring fixedly at Huang Chen.

Suddenly, the Soul-Devouring Bee King moved and charged straight at Huang Chen.

The Bee King's speed was extremely fast. Huang Chen relied on his return-to-basics basic Movement Skill to forcibly twist his body, narrowly dodging the Bee King's metallic-lustered tail stinger.

Just when Huang Chen thought he had dodged the Bee King's attack, the Bee King suddenly made a sharp turn and crashed directly into Huang Chen.

"Bang~"

-1,523,212!

Huang Chen's body immediately flew outward like a kite with a broken string, and at the same time, a damage figure of over one million appeared above his head.

At this moment, he was completely stunned!

He hadn't expected that small body to actually burst out with such immense power.

He couldn't beat it!

While still in the air, Huang Chen directly used teleportation to arrive at the spot where he had originally laid an ambush, ten kilometers away.

Seeing Huang Chen disappear, the Bee King just paused for a moment, then looked toward Huang Chen's direction.

"How does it know I'm here?" A look of confusion flashed across Huang Chen's face.

"Nonsense, Soul Devouring Bees feed on souls. Locking onto your soul is just their simplest move." Zi Han smiled faintly in the pet space.

"Locking onto my soul?" Huang Chen asked, puzzled.

"Hehe!" Zi Han continued to laugh, "Simply put, it means leaving a mark on your soul; even if you flee to the ends of the earth, it can easily find you!"

Hearing Zi Han's words, Huang Chen's expression changed drastically, and then he cursed loudly, "Damn it... you set me up!!"