C401 Stalactite Milk
C401 Stalactite Milk
There were dozens of bees' nests in sight. They were all rooted on the rocks, on the walls, and on the bees' nests. There were too many bees.
"Why are there so many?" The further in they go, the more beehives there are. The temperature here is a little low, but the bees are still very active. Bai Xiaobei felt that the bees don't seem to be afraid of the cold.
This is simply impossible. The worker bees of Chinese bees can operate normally at about 7 ℃, while the worker bees of Aba subspecies in the Aba area of Sichuan province go out to harvest when the temperature is between 3 ℃ and 4 ℃.
When the temperature was below 14 ℃, the average worker bees collected by the middle colony were three times more than that of the eel bees. The temperature of safety-collecting wasp was 6.5 ℃, while that of wasp was 11.0 ℃. The temperature of collecting wasp was about 3 ℃ ～ 5 ℃ lower than that of wasp. If western bees replace Chinese bees, pollination of some species, such as Trichosanthes, Elsholtzia, Chrysanthemaceae and Cruciferae, which bloomed in lower temperatures in early spring and late autumn, was seriously affected.
The main reason was that they did not go out to harvest the honey. There were many wild chrysanthemums in the mountains, and there were also quite a few flowers, but these bees seemed to be collected from the walls of the cave.
Could honey be collected from the rock walls? Bai Xiaobei was in disbelief. His power was strong, and he could easily sense the bees collecting the rocks that were leaking some liquid into his stomach.
Stone Milk? The formation of Stalactite Stones often required tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years of time. Due to the long formation time, the Stalactite stone has an important research value for the ancient geological exploration. Inside the limestone, water containing carbon dioxide will seep into the limestone cracks and dissolve the calcium carbonate within. This dissolves the water of the calcium carbonate, and when it drops from the top of the hole, the dissolved calcium becomes solid again as the water evaporates and the carbon dioxide escapes. What gradually grew from top to bottom was called the "Stalactite Stone". Can be used for medicine.
The further down they went, the bigger the bees became. The color of the bees was a little pale, and the more cracks on the walls, the more bees crawled. Small Pangolin pounced on them and ate a dozen bees, and the bees next to them continued to gather as if they did not see anything.
Da Qing walked beside Bai Xiaobei and bellowed: "This was dug out by the Small Pangolin when it was searching for the Mountain Treasure. Originally, this place only had a few fist-sized holes, we smashed into them."
"I'm rich!" Bai Xiaobei was surprised, he understood why no one had discovered these bees, these could even be called bees. These could be considered wasps, he could feel a small amount of spirit energy within them, and under the Great Earth Pulse Arts's perception, was a stretch of Stalactite stones.
The karst caves are distributed in the limestone mountains. The main component of the limestone is calcium carbonate. When it encounters water containing carbon dioxide, it will react to form calcium bicarbonate with greater solubility.
When water containing calcium bicarbonate is heated or pressure suddenly becomes small, the calcium bicarbonate dissolved in the water dissolves, regaining calcium carbonate and releasing carbon dioxide. When the water at the top of the cave slowly seeped downwards, the calcium bicarbonate in the water would react as described above. Some would be deposited at the top of the cave, while some would be deposited at the bottom. The top of the cave would be formed into a Stalactite stone over a long period of time, while the bottom of the cave would form a bamboo shoot.
This was a scientific explanation, but in the world of cultivators, Stalactite Stones were all liquefied spirit materials. Maybe the low level Stalactite Stones formed over ten thousand years of age were not of high value, and the Stalactite s secreted would not be considered precious. However, the Stalactite Stones that were tens of thousands of years old or even millions of years old would be different!
Every drop of the Stalactite was a precious item that could be consumed directly. It could be used to concoct pills, but in this place, it was actually taken away by a bunch of bees!
However, what was fortunate was that the temperature underneath had reached -10 degrees Celsius. After Bai Xiaobei entered, the densely packed beehives also disappeared, leaving behind only the extremely sparse, enormous beehives. Every Stone Bee was about the size of a thumb.
No hostility, no means of attack. Even if his companion was eaten, it was as if he hadn't seen it.
The dissolving Cave Lord was formed from the destruction of the limestone by the groundwater. Due to the destruction of the groundwater and the collapse of the rock, the cave continued to expand. Later, due to the surface uplift or groundwater level drop, the karst cave dried up and exposed to the surface.
Rainwater and other water seeped into the cave through cracks in the roof rocks, so that water containing calcium carbonate solution would slowly drop down from the top of the cave bit by bit. At the same time, calcium carbonate would precipitate and form a long or milky precipitate like the suspending bell, the Stalactite or the stone of the Stalactite.
When water dripped from the lower part of the stone Stalactite to the bottom of the cave, the calcium carbonate precipitated to form a bamboo stalagmite, known as a stalagmite. As the stone Stalactite and the stalagmite continued to develop, they would eventually connect to form a stone pillar. But this sediment can form all sorts of irregular forms, people often like to follow their own rich imagination to give many moving names. In fact, these vivid forms are the result of the flow of water to the limestone of the eroded sculpture.
When Bai Xiaobei arrived below, his eyes immediately opened wide. The cave that produced the Stalactite Stones and stalagmites were all made of limestone. There were many crevices at the top of the cave, and there were water droplets seeping out from each crevice. Every time the water evaporated, it would leave behind a deposit of lime, which accumulated over time. The top of the cave would accumulate more and more ash, finally forming a nipple. After that, the outside of the nipple was wrapped in a layer of lime, and the longer it hung, the more Stalactite Stones were formed.
This place was not like the area where the temperature had dropped. It was like an ice mountain or a rock face, but a fiery red, vertical, different in size and posture from all kinds of Stalactite stones in front of Bai Xiaobei.
"The supernatural works of nature!"
Bai Xiaobei felt that this place was just like the other places in the Spirit Concentrating Formation, where the Spirit Energy were even fresher.
This piece of Stalactite stone looked like it had been here for a long time. Here, there was a lake, and all of them were Stone Milk s that had dripped onto the lake.
"The Spirit Liquid!" Bai Xiaobei cupped his hands and tried to drink a mouthful of it. Suddenly, a surge of spirit energy rushed through his entire body, and the effect of this mouthful felt better than cultivating for a month, as all the spirit energy in his body churned!
What the heck was the point of cultivating like this! Bai Xiaobei couldn't help but want to shout at the sky, but he finally stopped cultivating. In the future, wouldn't he be able to become an expert when he drank?
He immediately drank again, hoping that it was an illusion. But he realized that at the first mouthful, the absorption would be the best, and what he drank afterwards, he would not be able to absorb much!
It was no wonder that this group of little fellows didn't guard this place. Originally, after drinking a few mouthfuls, they had no effect, but the things here were too precious. One must know, once the spirit energy was consumed, it needed to be slowly recovered in this era, which was also why Liu Sansheng could fly using the Sword Kinesis Arts so little, but if there was such a thing, it could completely restore the Spirit Energy quickly.
The amount of Stalactite Stones accumulated here was several hundred thousand years, and the accumulated essence was enough to cause even in the era of the Ancient Cultivator s, to cause a sensation.
"Jade Bottle, I need some Jade Bottle!"
Bai Xiaobei was very excited, what if he sold these things? Selling it to the Immortal Sect, one must know that out of the Immortal Sect he came in contact with, there were only two true ones, Cloud Mist Mountain and Hundred Flowers Palace. As for the rest, even if it was Karakorum, he had never gone there, let alone the ten or so famous Immortal Sect s that he had come in contact with.
Within these Immortal Sect, there would definitely be treasures of their own. This kind of Stalactite, could be casually exchanged for a few useful things.
Furthermore, the quality of the jade could not be too poor. The better the jade was, the better it would be to keep it. Just like some trash of jade, the Jade Bottle that was created would be no different from glass bottles.
What Bai Xiaobei did not know was that to ordinary people, these Stone Milk could easily extend their lives and increase their exuberant vitality by a few years. After all, every so often, a drop of a treasure would gather on a Stalactite stone.
suddenly thought back to something that he had mentioned to him a while ago. There was a public plate in Myanmar that had an invitation to take a look, there were countless materials and materials there, he was lacking in jade, why would he need to buy them, it was just a casual trip, wouldn't that be easy?
He found three Jade Bottle s in his storage bag. These were the ones that used to store Pills s, after filling them up, one bottle with two mouthfuls would be good enough. Bai Xiaobei felt that after he went back, he would ask his father, Mom, to drink a little and improve his body.
A ten thousand year old stone Stalactite would be a waste even if it was used by an ordinary person, but a Stone Milk with a lake in front of it, it did not care if it was wasted or not.
He casually caught a few bees and broke off a piece of golden honey. The honey in this hive was different from other honey. It was as if the whole hive was made of honey.
He would go back and do some research to find out what kind of bees they were. They were definitely not Chinese bees, and the honey definitely had an extraordinary effect.
A group of worker bees, queen bees, and male bees. The worker bees were all tawny. The head was slightly triangular. Three segments of the chest. wing 2 pairs, membranous transparent. 3 pairs, having the structure to collect pollen. Abdominal conical, with poisonous glands and sting. There were 4 pairs of wax plates under the abdomen, containing wax glands and secreting wax.
The queen bee body is the largest, the wing is short, the abdomen is special long, the genitalia is developed, specializes in the reproduction spawning. The male wasps were slightly larger than the worker wasps. Their heads were spherical, their tails devoid of poisonous glands and stinging needles, their feet without pollen structure, and their stomachs devoid of wax plates and wax glands.
As for the bees here, their classification seemed to be different as well. The closer they were to the inside, the bigger they were. Each and every one of them was like a Queen Bee.
"Come on, let's go back and seal up the entrance. This place is not far from our home, we can find a way to seal it up when the time comes!"
The value of the things inside was too great, to the point that even Bai Xiaobei did not dare to be careless, as this might be the most crucial cultivation resource for him.