Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel

Li Ye's main spiritual material for sale now is honey.

The honey, whether sold internally to the Pill-Refining Hall or externally to the Merfolk, is always in short supply.

Moreover, at the Cloud Island trade fair, there were several alien races expressing interest in purchasing it.

However, the number of Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Trees is a limiting factor.

Additionally, the Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Trees sent over later are normal and do not require symbiotic binding.

Thus, Li Ye must think of other solutions.

"I have a total of one hundred thirty Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Trees now, but the amount of honey produced daily is decreasing, only one hundred thirty pounds, though the quality is much better than before."

Li Ye gazed at the Spirit Tree Forest, which had almost been fused by the Crystal Spirit Bees with beeswax, sparkling brilliantly under the sunlight, and began to ponder.

According to his thoughts:

The first method is naturally direct cutting propagation, increasing the count of Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Trees. With the Life Spirit Water from the Jianmu, Xuan Turtle shell powder and Earth Vein Spirit Milk, it should be enough to make the saplings grow instantly.

The second method is to help the Crystal Spirit Bees advance, and simultaneously integrate the bee colonies so they avoid the current situation of fighting individually, which should also boost production further.

But both methods have drawbacks.

The drawback of the first method is the simple increase in Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree count, which leads to a surge in bee colony numbers.

Bee reproduction is incredibly fast; even if he tries to control it, it's hard to suppress entirely.

The drawback of the second method might impact the binding effect.

— Currently, each Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree is bound to a queen bee in each colony, with the queen's commands relayed to each Spirit Bee, forming the current special situation.

If we integrate the bee colonies, will it lead to queen bee conflict? From what he knows, there can only be one queen bee per Crystal Spirit Bee colony.

But not integrating the colonies would be troublesome, as their rapid reproduction is already causing flower nectar competition. Simply increasing tree and bee colony count clearly won't work.

"Forget it, let's try it first."

This counts as an attempt to expand his Golden Finger.

He will surely in the future raise more spiritual insects or Spirit Plants and Spirit Beasts bound to large colonies.

Such issues are inevitable; rather than worry about it later, it's better to experiment now.

After deciding, he randomly selected two bee colonies for merging.

Merging these spiritual bees wasn't too troublesome, especially with his strong Divine Sense and control over the Crystal Bee colonies.

So, he simply shattered the barriers between their hives and forced them together.

During this process, inevitable fighting broke out among the colonies.

The Spirit Bees started buzzing and fighting, shooting out sharp light stings from their wings and tails, and soon, swarms of bees fell, struggling to their deaths on the ground.

Li Ye silently watched from the side.

This belonged to a very normal battle because the leader queen bee of the colony knows his intention; the colony must merge, so some weaker bees needed to be culled.

Strife among spiritual insects is inherently very brutal, survival of the fittest, naturally so.

Originally large swarms, after conflict, only a quarter remained in the end.

The queen bees were carried by their worker bees and sent into the jade cups of the same Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree.

No more barriers existed between them, they seemed to have communicated and were peacefully co-existing.

The remaining Crystal Spirit Bees busied themselves with repairing the damaged hive.

This time, while repairing the hive, they did not create a partition between the two colonies; instead, they connected directly.

It seemed to have succeeded.

"Will there be an impact?"

This should be the critical moment.

After merging, the queen bees leaving the originally bound Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Trees might affect the binding, and this is the moment to find out.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, he sensed the Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree devoid of a queen bee conveying a desire for his help—a general sense of hoping for his assistance in rapid growth.

This sudden transmission—was it due to the merging changes, or did something happen?

"As you wish."

After brief contemplation, Li Ye decisively scattered a handful of Water of Life.

With the aid of Life Spirit Water, the Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree began to grow ferociously, its branches bursting through the original hive, causing it to fall to the ground.

A loud "crash" echoed.

Then... it started to attack another Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree!

"This is."

Conflict among Spirit Plants is quite simple and direct.

Under Li Ye's Divine Sense, it was clearly visible, one Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree's roots entwined around those of another.

Like a Spirit Python, it began coiling, tightly holding them.

Thanks to the Life Spirit Water and Spiritual Power provided by Li Ye, it quickly surrounded the opponent's roots, inserting its own roots into the tree's body.

Yet this time, it was surprisingly gentle, even not disrupting the two queen bees living within the jade cup of another tree, while the other Spirit Bees could only fly around chaotically.

"..."

Indeed, changes occurred!