Since they had already touched on the matter, Wen Qingfei simply told Fang Qianyuan the whole story.
As it turned out, after they parted following the gathering at Flowing Cloud Grotto, she had returned to the Wen clan and resumed her life as a sheltered young lady of an aristocratic clan, never venturing beyond the inner gates.
Then one day, while studying the Blackwood Beehive, she unexpectedly discovered that the queen bee raised inside was no ordinary creature, but a peculiar variant known as the "Desolate God Thunderflame Bee"!
Fang Qianyuan was momentarily taken aback by the name. In the Spirit-Taming World, there was an unwritten convention: most creatures or objects whose names bore prefixes such as "desolate" or "ancient" possessed remnants of Dao implication from antiquity, or even the more distant ancient ages and the Primordial Era. Their origins were anything but ordinary.
Sure enough, Wen Qingfei told Fang Qianyuan that this Desolate God Thunderflame Bee was descended from a vicious exotic insect of the Primordial Era.
According to legend, during the age of the Immortal Kingdom, there had even been tragedies in which immortals were stung to death by these venomous bees, their very souls scattered into oblivion.
However, these venomous bees had always been rare and mostly inhabited places seldom visited by humans. Only a few widely traveled, knowledgeable people had encountered them by chance and left information in travelogues, notes, and other records, allowing later generations to learn of them.
Later still, Heaven and Earth underwent a great upheaval. After repeated changes to their population, they gradually degenerated into a species suited to an entirely new age, becoming almost unrecognizable.
Moreover, from antiquity to the recent past, it had always been the age of the ancient cultivators of the Dharma Dao. Few had studied such inconspicuous