265: Is the "friendliness" feature just a marketing tactic used by Pinduoduo?

Chapter 265

"Refine souls and seize spirits, the Five Elements revolve, suppress!"

A clear, cold voice, imbued with indifferent majesty, resounded within the formation.

Buzz~!

The Five Elements array diagram instantly burst forth with unprecedented dazzling light!

The five pagodas vibrated violently, and the gray threads connecting them suddenly became as thick as an adult man's middle finger, their color also changing to the five colors representing the Five Elements.

"Jie~~!"

The Soul-Devouring Bee King let out an unprecedentedly shrill shriek, its voice filled with pain, anger, and a deep fear.

This soul impact far surpassed any before! It was as if it were the Soul-Devouring Bee King's final desperate struggle.

However, after this shriek, Huang Chen didn't feel the slightest soul fluctuation.

The shriek was as if trapped in place by an invisible barrier.

The Bee King's tiny body twitched and struggled violently. Its transparent wings flapped frantically but couldn't move an inch; its stinger, gleaming with metallic cold light, swung futilely but couldn't pierce Zi Han's fair, jade-like hand.

Huang Chen was surprised to find that he actually saw a hint of despair in the Soul-Devouring Bee King's compound eyes.

At this moment, its vast Soul Power was being frantically extracted and torn away by those five terrifying multicolored light rays!

Zi Han's lips curled into a cold arc, and the hand holding the Bee King merely tightened slightly.

"Jiejiejie~~!!"

The Soul-Devouring Bee King let out an even weaker but more desperate wail in Zi Han's palm.

"Begging for mercy?" Zi Han smiled. "You're not worthy enough to be my battle pet."

"Five Elements Soul Refinement! Refine for me!" Zi Han's eyes sharpened, and her five fingers suddenly tightened!

Boom—!

The light of the entire Five Elements array instantly collapsed inward, converging on Zi Han's clenched fist!

The five pagodas erupted with an ear-splitting roar, and the five multicolored chains connecting to the Bee King glowed to the extreme, like five roaring energy light dragons, frantically absorbing and refining the Bee King's primordial Soul Power!

Visibly, wisps of pure Soul Power, like fine sand held in a hand, seeped out from between Zi Han's clenched fingers. They were then drawn by the power of the Five Elements array, converging at the center of the formation to form a large, continuously rotating and condensing multicolored Soul Power light sphere!

The soul fluctuations emitted by that light sphere were even purer than all the soul honey and bee king soul slurry combined!

"What vast Soul Power!" Huang Chen, who had cultivated the Soul Forging Treasure Codex, was extremely sensitive to Soul Power. At this moment, just the escaping aura made Huang Chen's soul feel an indescribable comfort and longing.

"Good stuff!"

Huang Chen's eyes instantly lit up. Without hesitation, he rushed to the center of the formation, sat down cross-legged, and fully activated the Soul Forging Treasure Codex!

Buzz!

The pure Soul Power, guided by the Soul Forging Treasure Codex, surged wildly towards Huang Chen.

"Hey! Little rascal, leave some for me!"

Seeing this, Zi Han let out a coquettish cry, then her figure appeared beside Huang Chen. With the Soul Forging Treasure Codex activated, the vast Soul Power immediately split into two paths, absorbed by the two of them.

However, the path of Soul Power Zi Han attracted seemed to be at least ten times larger than Huang Chen's.

Time flowed by amidst the frantic surge of Soul Power.

After an unknown period, the faint struggles of the Soul-Devouring Bee King in Zi Han's palm completely vanished, and its tiny body turned into ashes and dissipated.

The light of the Five Elements array also gradually dimmed, and the five pagodas retracted their brilliance. The multicolored Soul Power light sphere at the center of the formation was finally divided and absorbed by Huang Chen and Zi Han.

Huang Chen slowly opened his eyes, and a multicolored glow seemed to flash in the depths of his pupils.

He felt his soul become clear, condensed, and powerful once again!

He immediately called up his attribute panel to check:

Gold-attribute elemental affinity 99.6

Wood-attribute elemental affinity 99.5

Water-attribute elemental affinity 99.4

Fire-attribute elemental affinity 99.5

Earth-attribute elemental affinity 99.5

"????"

Huang Chen looked at the string of numbers, his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

"Decimals are showing up. After 99.9, will there be 99.99?" A very familiar sense of a 'routine' emerged in his heart.

"Damn it! This...could it really be like Pinduoduo's bargaining? Infinite nesting dolls, with the final cut?" He couldn't help but complain aloud to the air, his expression a mix of immense joy from his gains and deep resentment towards that 'final cut'.

"Pfft!"

Zi Han, who had just finished absorbing Soul Power and whose face was rosy and aura significantly stronger, burst into laughter upon hearing his complaint.

She glanced at Huang Chen with silken, charming eyes and teased, "Little brother, don't be so ungrateful! Do you know the concept of 99.5? It means that in this place, you're relatively close to the Source Universe, and comprehending laws is easier. Otherwise, if you went to the main universe, you wouldn't know how many hundreds of millions of years it would take to increase it by 0.1."

She stretched her graceful figure, feeling the much fuller power within her, in a great mood. Seeing Huang Chen's depressed expression, she found it even more amusing.

And at this moment, with the Bee King's complete annihilation, the remaining hundreds of millions of Soul Devouring Bees were no longer a threat. Huang Chen instantly teleported to the side of the bee pupae.

Looking at the densely packed, wriggling bee pupae, a hint of heartache flashed across Huang Chen's face.

These were living beings and couldn't be stored in his backpack, so he was destined not to be able to take too many.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something and asked Zi Han in the battle pet space, "How many Bee Kings do you think the bee king soul slurry in my space can cultivate?"

"If it's just to hatch bee pupae into Bee Kings, you could probably hatch a thousand," Zi Han said. "But if you want to cultivate complete Soul-Devouring Bee Kings, like when you first saw Xiao Hu, you can only hatch a maximum of 10..."

"Only... 10?" Huang Chen confirmed with Zi Han again, uncertain.

"What do you mean, 'only'?" Zi Han rolled her eyes and said, "To cultivate a Bee King until it can lay eggs itself will take at least a month. During this time, the Bee King cannot eat soul honey; it can only eat bee king soul slurry."

"Haven't you heard the saying, 'a half-grown boy eats his father poor'? Raising ten young Bee Kings, even the old Bee King wouldn't have dared to think of it before it died..."

Huang Chen nodded; he had indeed been too greedy.

Summoning Old Six and his clone, and clearing out the remaining Soul Devouring Bees, Huang Chen flew directly back to Jinling City and teleported Tie Shengnan, Xie Chunyan, Lan Ling, Bai Zhaoning... ten people who were relatively practical in the Forbidden City, to the original beehive.

As soon as the ten women landed, they saw the densely packed, constantly wriggling white bee pupae on the ground. Although they didn't scream, they all showed disgusted expressions.

Then Huang Chen's clone walked over to them, opened his hand, and ten pinprick-sized bee pupae appeared in his palm.

These were the ten most powerful in terms of Soul Power that Huang Chen had asked Zi Han to help him select from the hundreds of millions of pupae before teleporting to Jinling City.

"Each of you choose one and sign a contract," Huang Chen said to the ten women.

Since the Soul Devouring Bees were just pupae, signing a master-servant contract was completely effortless.

After the ten women completed their contracts, Huang Chen divided the beehive, soul honey, and bee king soul slurry from his backpack into ten portions. He first explained the precautions to everyone, then told them to go back and find a place to properly cultivate their Soul-Devouring Bee Kings.

Now that there were ready-made nests, after the Soul-Devouring Bee Kings produced, the Soul Devouring Bees could directly be put into battle, without spending time rebuilding nests.

After sending All the women back to Jinling City, Huang Chen went directly to Xiao Hu's beehive next to the Zuma Temple in Sakura Country.

"Xiao Hu!" Huang Chen called softly.

"Master, I am here."

"Are you laying eggs?"

"Yes."

"How much longer until this batch is done?"

"Replying to Master, it will take a little over an hour."

Looking back at the beehive, which was already five or six meters tall, Huang Chen nodded faintly and said, "Gather all the Soul Devouring Bees back. After this batch is done, don't produce any more for now. I'll take you to fight in the arena."

The guild arena competition starts tomorrow, and Cang Yue of the Illusion Clan has also entered the top eight.

"I won't give you a chance to surrender..." Huang Chen's lips curled into a sinister, cold smile.

Soon, the Soul Devouring Bee Swarm, summoned by Xiao Hu, flew out from various Japanese dungeons and headed straight for the beehive.

During this time, the Soul Devouring Bees, under Xiao Hu's control, constantly searched for Japanese players leveling up in various dungeons.

Once the Japanese players encountered the Soul Devouring Bee Swarm, it was definitely a tragic story.

Later, the Japanese players directly went to the main city lord to complain, hoping that the main city lord could contact experts from Central City to subdue this group of Soul Devouring Bees.

Soon, a Main God-level NPC arrived at the Sakura Country main city.

But when he glanced at the Soul Devouring Bees, he directly said to Okamoto Yuji, "These are battle pets, not wild bees..."

And then he directly returned to Central City.

At this, the Japanese players in Sakura Country collapsed... no one dared to leave the city to level up.

The entire Sakura Clan public chat was filled with wails of sorrow.

The night quickly passed, and at exactly eight o'clock in the morning, the Guild Ladder Arena Competition began, watched by millions.