This time, Li Yan had accepted a mission to find a "Purple Star Flower" that was over three hundred years old. Such medicinal herbs were usually guarded by companion Demon Beasts.
And a "Purple Star Flower" over three hundred years old would be guarded by at least a fourth-tier Demon Beast.
The reward for this mission had no fixed limit. It would ultimately be determined by the age of the "Purple Star Flower."
Although this herb was not particularly difficult to find, it often grew in places occupied by a colony of social Demon Beasts known as "Double-Eyed Mystic Bees."
Aside from their strongest member, the queen bee, these Demon Beasts were most terrifying for their swarm attacks. Once those bee swarms that blotted out the sky descended, the vast majority of cultivators did not dare face them.
Li Yan had lurked in hiding for over a month before finding a suitable opportunity. Yet when he finally plucked the flower, he was discovered because he had gotten too close.
He was instantly surrounded and attacked by tens of thousands of bees. Among them were three fifth-tier "Double-Eyed Mystic Bees," and the queen bee, which had been lying beneath the flower, reacted with incredible speed.
He was even stung once by that incomparably swift queen bee. Despite the toughness of his body, his skin was still pierced.
Although the other party took the chance to inject potent poison into him, Li Yan's Fragmented Poison Body withstood it.
It was precisely because of this that the queen bee made an irreparable error in judgment. The "Double-Eyed Mystic Bees" believed that even if Li Yan did not die, he would surely show signs of poisoning.
Thus, Li Yan seized that fleeting instant. As though nothing had happened, he shot through the sliver of