Royal Jelly

When Wang Wu woke again, the sky was beginning to brighten, dawn's radiance spreading from the peaks of the eastern mountains.

A flush of red, so bewitchingly beautiful.

Wait, had I been unconscious for a full day and night?

Wang Wu was surprised that he had not died, and also somewhat surprised by how sensitive he was to changes in the outside light.

After all, he was practically a mummy now.

Then he noticed that while he had been unconscious, many notifications had appeared.

At a thought, those messages automatically flashed through his mind again.

"Poison is being neutralized. A portion of bee venom has been extracted. You have obtained a trace amount of royal jelly. You have gained 30 Satiety points. You have gained 2 spiritual energy points."

"Because you consumed a trace amount of royal jelly, you have gained 0.2% Growth Rate."

"Your Level 4 Self-Healing Talent has activated automatically..."

"Poison is being neutralized. A portion of bee venom has been extracted. You have obtained a trace amount of royal jelly. You have gained 57 Satiety points. You have gained 3 spiritual energy points."

"Because you consumed a trace amount of royal jelly, you have gained 0.3% Growth Rate."

"Poison is being neutralized. A portion of Spider Toxin has been extracted. You have gained a slight anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving effect. You have gained 5 spiritual energy points. You have gained 0.4% Growth Rate."

There were dozens upon dozens of messages, all of them notifications of gains.

By the time he finished reading the last one, Wang Wu was dumbstruck.

The sheer scale of his harvest was simply beyond imagination.

First, he had gained two whole points of Bee Venom Resistance, displayed in his attribute panel as (2/10).

At the same time, he had gained two points of Spider Toxin Resistance, displayed in his attribute panel as (2/5).

Next, all 130 of his Health Points had been fully restored.

His Level 4 Self-Healing Talent had rendered another great service.

Meanwhile, he still had 270 Satiety points left. Wang Wu could not understand how he still had so much Satiety remaining. After turning it over and over in his mind, he figured it could only be related to that royal jelly substance.

After all, it was royal jelly!

Who could have imagined that royal jelly could actually be extracted from bee venom?

Still, it might also have something to do with the blood-dissolving properties of Spider Toxin.

Then, before and after, he had gained a total of 31 spiritual energy points.

It was hard to imagine, but poison was also a form of energy, and purified energy at that, so it was understandable.

Finally, his Growth Rate had soared by 3.8% in one go.

So his current Growth Rate had reached 23.8%, with a Special Growth Rate of 10%. Thanks, wild bees and spiders, you two best buddies. This really is true love.

That was right. If this did not count as love, what else could he possibly hope for?

Without hesitation, Wang Wu spent 20 spiritual energy points to raise his Health Points to 140.

He needed to invest more into his basic attributes. When his Health Points were too low, it was truly difficult to withstand unexpected events. Just like yesterday—if the Armed Bee Swarm had consisted not of twenty bees, but thirty, the accumulated poison alone could have poisoned him alive.

Because this stuff really stacked.

Just then, Wang Wu's heart stirred. His Level 5 Danger Sense detected the Black Spider clan scurrying up toward the canopy. The sunlight had emerged, and Violet Gold Three Minutes had begun.

Countless Golden Particles poured down within the sunlight. The Black Spider clan absorbed them to their hearts' content, yet neither noticed nor cared that some sunlight penetrated through the leaves and branches, allowing a small portion of Golden Particles to drift down as well.

But that was unavoidable. It had always been this way, and they would not think anything of it.

Yet for Wang Wu, hanging from the trunk more than thirty meters above the ground, it was truly a windfall fallen from heaven.

More than thirty meters above the ground—comparable to the height of that cliff. It was precisely the height reached by Violet Gold Three Minutes.

Though he had been wrapped into a rice dumpling, patches of sunlight still shone through. His Level 1 Spiritual Resonance Talent passed through the thick spider silk—hmm, this spider silk was actually transparent, and it truly looked beautiful beneath the sun.

Thus, those tiny specks of Golden Particles were naturally absorbed by him.

He had never imagined that he would get to enjoy the treatment of Violet Gold Three Minutes.

Wang Wu was incomparably moved.

Was this not why it was called true love?

During Violet Gold Three Minutes, Wang Wu absorbed and converted a full 35 spiritual energy points in one breath. That was even with layers upon layers of dense canopy blocking the light.

Its reputation was indeed well deserved. Violet Gold quality was truly worth having.

Then came Golden Three Minutes. It was obviously a tier lower, and Wang Wu only gained 18 spiritual energy points.

During the final Silver Three Minutes, he gained only 7 spiritual energy points.

But combined, it still came to as many as 60 points.

Adding what he had left from before, the total spiritual energy Wang Wu could now use had actually reached a staggering 75 points!

This was insane!

Wang Wu did not dare slack off, much less grow arrogant. He immediately divided 60 spiritual energy points into two portions, using 20 of them to raise his Defense attribute to 10 points.

He used the remaining 40 spiritual energy points to continue raising his Health Points, bringing them to exactly 160.

Whew, it had not been easy. His sense of security had finally moved forward by one decimal place...

But the slap to the face came too quickly. No one knew how that old widow spider the size of a round table had judged it, but it suddenly scuttled down and gave his body another injection, pumping in indescribable Spider Toxin.

Thus, in only a few seconds, he fell unconscious once more...

Damn it, damn it all!

Not long after Wang Wu fell into an unconscious, paralyzed state, that brown Giant Eagle returned. This time, however, a small, snow-white Silver Fox was sitting on its back.

The brown Giant Eagle first carried the Silver Fox to the low mountain eight hundred meters away. There, the Silver Fox jumped down, took out an object, and swept it in all directions. A faint bloody gleam flashed past, and a strange sigil was branded onto a Great Mountain Cat on that low mountain.

Immediately afterward, every leader of a group of Sprites near the low mountain was, without exception, stamped with a blood seal. It looked like some sort of mark, yet also like a brand placed on one's own livestock to prevent it from wandering off.

The Silver Fox appeared exceedingly shrewd, and its blood-red eyes were particularly sharp. Its search was even more meticulous.

It was like an official measuring land, conscientious and dutiful.

Every Sprite in this region with a certain degree of strength was stamped with a blood seal without exception. Those without strength but capable of forming groups and clans were all entered into a beast-hide register.

From birds flying in the sky, grasshoppers, mosquitoes, and wild bees, to spiders, ants, mantises, bedbugs, butterflies, rats, venomous snakes, scorpions, and centipedes, every last one was recorded with crystal clarity.

When it came to the great tree occupied by the Black Spider clan, the Silver Fox inspected it even more carefully. As for the old widow spider the size of a round table, it did not dare let out so much as a peep. It obediently allowed the blood seal to be branded onto its back, where it stood out conspicuously.

During this time, the Silver Fox's gaze also swept over the dozens of strips of air-dried meat hanging above the canopy. Wang Wu, who was not yet dead, was naturally among them. But whether he was dead or alive did not matter. He was already prey of the Black Spider clan and would die sooner or later, so there was no need to register him.

The entire stop lasted less than a minute before the brown Giant Eagle carried the Silver Fox straight toward the next location.

Downstream by the creek, that black Giant Eagle was also carrying a gray weasel and conducting the same registration. Apportioning households and registering every citizen—this was a great matter for the Demon Race.

As for the war Wang Wu had believed was about to erupt, it seemed not to exist at all.

Because the Silver Fox would even greet the weasel from afar, its attitude ninety percent friendly.