Chapter 237 Sudden locust plague [5K monthly votes requested]
With the two of them joining forces, they should be able to barely fight against a weak mid-stage golden elixir like Cang Yuebei.
Having said that, after the two women broke through, Ye Linyuan became more confident about the upcoming troubles.
In the following time, while he started to cultivate the spiritual field, he also began to improve his various skills of cultivation.
Time keeps passing by like this, and several years pass in the blink of an eye. Before you know it, Ye Linyuan has reached two hundred and forty-five years old.
By this year, Ye Linyuan couldn't wait any longer. If those people didn't plan as he expected, he might have to go to the deep sea to plan the soul of the sky whale for Shui Hanqing's breakthrough.
But also in this year, another major event happened in the Seven Domain Alliance.
A huge swarm of soul-eating locusts came from overseas. The locust plague swept across the entire Seven Domain Alliance. It began to sweep from the southwest archipelago, and the Star Mark Palace, which bore the brunt, was directly hit by the disaster.
There are countless demonic locusts in this locust plague. Among the demonic locusts that cover the sky, there are many demonic locusts that build foundations and even fake elixir realms.
The most important thing is that although these monster locusts are not strong, they are extremely talented. They can eat the spiritual energy in the formations and restrictions, and then enter the spiritual field to swallow the elixir.
It is said that all the major families in the entire sea area under the command of Xinghen Palace suffered great misfortune almost overnight.
The spiritual fields and medicinal gardens that major families and sects have operated for hundreds or thousands of years have been eaten up almost overnight.
Even the elixir garden of Xinghen Palace became a deserted island after seven days and seven nights.
There is really no way to do this, because there are too many demonic locusts. Wherever the countless demonic locusts pass, they cannot be killed.
Even the powerful Jindan of Xinghen Palace has no good way to face these monster locusts.
Because although the golden elixir is powerful, the soul-eating locust can swallow spiritual power and has a certain degree of immunity to spells and magical powers.
When hundreds of millions of soul-eating locusts gather together, even the power of the golden elixir's magic will be greatly reduced.
Only Ling Zhifu’s exclusive spell, the Golden Needle Technique, can exert great restraint and lethality against the soul-eating locusts.
However, the Seven Realms Alliance is located in the deep sea. Isolated by the vast deep sea, disasters such as insect plagues rarely occur, so most Ling Zhifu seldom masters this spell.
After all, Ling Zhifu is not good at fighting. When the life and death of the family clan really comes to a head, even if he masters the golden needle technique, he may not be able to save his life.
In their opinion, instead of wasting time practicing the Golden Needle Technique that is not needed, it is better to use energy on the Spiritual Rain Technique and the Spirit-nurturing Technique.
But now that there is a sudden locust plague, these major forces are in bad luck.
Those monks who are not good at golden needle skills have no good way to deal with these monster locusts. Even if they kill some, it will be a drop in the bucket to face the locust swarms.
Fortunately, the Xuanyuan Sea Area is located in the northeast of the Seven Domains Alliance and is more than 700,000 miles away from the Star Mark Palace in the southwest, so it did not suffer any immediate disaster.
But despite this, the first time Ye Linyuan learned the news, he still crossed the vast sea and came to the Xinghen Palace.
He traveled all the way across the vast sea, and when he arrived at the Xinghen Palace, his eyebrows could not help but wrinkle slightly.
But seeing the huge Xinghen Palace, 20% of the vast continent of nearly ten thousand miles has become bare, turning into a lifeless earthy color.
“What a domineering monster locust.”
Ye Linyuan frowned, showing a slightly dignified look.
At the same time, a man in green clothes flew out of the Star Hall. He cupped his hands with a blue complexion and said, "Fellow Taoist Xuanyuan, please come in and say something."
Ye Linyuan recognized this person's origin and understood that this person was Taoist Xingyu, the supreme elder of Xinghen Palace, so he bowed his hand and followed him.
Stepping into the main hall, Ye Linyuan found that the place was already overcrowded.
In addition to the Palace Master and Supreme Elder of Xinghen Palace, the demon tribe also has the Green Bull Demon King and the Black Dragon Demon King.
Old Qingyan from the Evergreen Immortal Sect, Tianhe Patriarch from the Sanyuan League, Taoist Minghu from the Canghai Sect, and Master Huangji Sword from the Tianxing Sword Sect.
In addition, Taoist Jingni, Master Luoxia, and the powerful golden elixir masters from various major forces have also come here.
Obviously, all major forces were greatly shocked by the sudden appearance of the Soul-Eating Locust, and attached great importance to this meeting.
At this time, seeing Ye Linyuan arriving, the Green Bull Demon King immediately said: "Fellow Daoist Xuanyuan from the farthest side is also here, and everyone is here. Let's start discussing."
After hearing this, everyone present suddenly showed serious expressions and looked at the master of Xinghen Palace.
The face of the master of the Xinghen Palace was heavy, and the corpses of more than a dozen demonic locusts were displayed in the blink of an eye. These demonic locusts were all in the realm of foundation building, and the strongest among them even reached the level of foundation building perfection.
Looking at these monster locusts, the master of Xinghen Palace said with extremely angry eyes: "These soul-devouring locusts are not strong, and they have no attack methods or killing powers. They basically cannot pose any threat to the same level. .”
"However, their natural spiritual devouring spell is very difficult to deal with. Once a large number of demonic locusts gather together, they will be able to swallow the spiritual power of our spells together, greatly reducing the power of our spells."
"Once a large number of demonic locusts gather together, they will be able to swallow the spiritual power of our spells."
" If thousands of locusts gather together, it will be very difficult for us and other powerful people to kill them.”
When everyone heard this, they couldn’t help but frown slightly.
The Soul-eating Locust has no means of attack, and its body is not as powerful and strong as the Iron-Eating Ant and Gold-eating Bee.
They are small in size and physically weak, and their stored mana is less than one percent of that of monks of the same level, so they are basically no threat to monks, and they rarely attack mortals and monks.
However, these monster locusts especially like to devour elixirs and spiritual plants. Wherever they pass, whether they are elixirs, spiritual trees, or spiritual rice, they will be devoured completely.
This is unacceptable to all the powerful golden elixirs present.
After all, elixirs and spiritual plants are their lifeblood. Once they are devoured, how can they practice in the future?
Thinking of this, everyone present showed a hint of murderous intent in their eyes.
The Green Bull Demon King's expression darkened. The Green Bull Demon Realm was very close to the Star Mark Palace. Once the Soul-Eating Locusts devoured this sea area, they would definitely be the next ones to suffer.
So his face was extremely solemn, and he couldn't help but ask: "These monster locusts are extremely difficult to deal with. Do you have any way to deal with them?"
Everyone present was silent for a moment, and the Taoist Master Jingni said: "Call All the spiritual cultivators in the Seven Realms Alliance use Geng Golden Needles to strangle these soul-eating locusts?”
“Is that so? Not enough."
Old man Qingyan shook his head, and then sighed and said: "There are very few monks who practice Geng Golden Needle in the Seven Realms Alliance, and there is no one who has cultivated the third level Geng Golden Needle."
< br>“Just relying on these foundation-building monks is probably not enough to kill all these soul-eating locusts.”
The Green Bull Demon King pondered slightly, and then said: "Then issue a reward order and summon all the monks of the Seven Domain Alliance to besiege these demonic locusts?"
"The demonic locusts are countless and can continue to reproduce. If We can't kill them quickly, and I'm afraid even if we empty out the reward, it won't help."
Old man Qing Yan shook his head repeatedly, and then sighed.
Hearing this, the Green Bull Demon King’s complexion suddenly changed. He couldn’t help but ask, “Isn’t there any way?”
“I have heard of two ways. .”
At this moment, the desolate sword master who had been silent for a long time suddenly spoke,
When everyone present heard the words, their eyes suddenly lit up. The Green Bull Demon King couldn't help but asked: "Your sect has been inherited for a long time, there must be someone to eliminate demons." Please tell us about the method of locust.”
The Master of Huangji Sword pondered for a moment, and then said: "It is recorded in the ancient books of our Tianxing Sword Sect that there are two ways to deal with the soul-eating locusts."
"The first way is to kill the demon king among them."< br>
“Demon King?” The master of Xinghen Palace’s eyes moved slightly.
"Yes." Master Huangji Sword nodded, and then said: "Whenever monster locusts are in trouble, there must be a monster king hiding among them."
"And a soul-eating locust of this size must at least have a golden elixir level The demon king is hiding in it."
"As long as we remove the soul-devouring demon king. Kill them. Without the leadership of the Demon King, these soul-devouring locusts will be leaderless."
"At that time, they will scatter and lose their powerful soul-devouring ability. It will be useless for us to kill them. It’s too difficult.”
Everyone present couldn’t help but nodded when they heard this. The reason why the soul-eating locusts are difficult to deal with is because of their soul-eating properties when they get together.
When hundreds of millions of soul-eating locusts gather together, their soul-eating properties will be infinitely amplified, and even the powerful golden elixir cannot defeat them.
But once these soul-eating locusts disperse, they will have nothing to worry about.
Ordinary soul-eating locusts are only one inch in size, have little attack power, and are very weak. A mortal can kill them with a hoe, let alone those monks.
After all, low-level soul-eating locusts are too small, and their stored mana is less than one-thousandth of that of monks of the same level. Even if they have the ability to eat souls, they cannot swallow too much mana, and they can feed the opponent to them. Feeding them alive.
Therefore, once the Soul-Eating Locusts cannot gather into a swarm, they will not be any threat to them. Thinking of this, everyone suddenly had the idea of killing the Soul-Eating Monster Locusts.
However, they were not in a hurry to take action. The Jingni Taoist could not help but look at the Master of the Desolate Sword and said, "May I ask the sword master, what is the second method?"
The Desolate Sword The Lord was silent for a moment, and finally said: "The second way is to let him eat."
"Take everything There are precious elixirs that are picked and put into storage bags, leaving low-level and empty spiritual fields for them, so that the soul-devouring locusts can eat enough."
"When they finish eating the elixirs in the entire sea area, When the number of ethnic groups expands to ten times or a hundred times, they will find that there is no longer any elixir to swallow.”
"At that time, hunger will cause them to devour each other, and once the demonic locusts begin to devour each other on a large scale, they will no longer be able to stop them. Only a handful of high-level demonic locusts will eventually die."
"Without the large-scale locust swarm, we may be able to kill all these monster locusts if we take action again."
When everyone heard this, their faces suddenly turned pale.
Once they do this, no matter whether they can kill the remaining demonic locusts in the end, they will definitely suffer heavy losses.
After all, it is difficult to transplant high-level elixirs, and except for a few means of sealing them, generally putting them in a storage bag before taking them out will greatly reduce the possibility of growing them.
Of course, if they mastered the high-level Golden Needle Technique, it might still be possible to protect their dojo.
For example, Ye Linyuan, with his golden needle skills in the pseudo-supernatural realm and his cultivation in the golden elixir realm, he should be more than enough to protect the hundred acres of spiritual fields on Xuanyuan Island.
So at this time, Ye Linyuan was watching all this without changing his expression.
“It’s better not to use this second method as much as possible.”
Old man Qingyan smiled bitterly, and then said: “It’s better for us to join forces and try to defeat the demon. Locusts beheaded.”
"Okay."
All the golden elixir masters present nodded and then left the hall one after another.
After leaving the hall, they flew all the way to the depths of the continent, and soon arrived at a mountain range.
After arriving at this mountain range, they found that countless demonic locusts were eating the vegetation in the mountains. Countless vegetation where these demonic locusts passed were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“These monster locusts are really unscrupulous in eating ordinary trees.”
Taoist Jingni's face was slightly cold, and he immediately sacrificed the purple flame lamp, a magic weapon. In an instant, the purple flames swept across the sky, and countless flames instantly submerged the mountains and rivers for dozens of miles around.
In an instant, countless demonic locusts were burned to ashes.
“簌簌簌簌!” The sky for hundreds of miles around was covered.
Jingni Taoist's complexion changed slightly, and he immediately activated the purple flames to sweep away again.
But this time, these flames rolled across the sky, but were absorbed by the spheres composed of countless demonic locusts, and were burned clean in an instant.
"Soul-eating locusts are good at devouring spiritual power. Although your purple flame sky fire is not weak, it is not enough to burn them to death."
Old man Qingyan slowly He spoke slowly, and then said with a solemn expression: "That soul-devouring demon king must be in the insect." Among the swarms, we will attack together to see if we can break through the swarm and kill them."
"Okay-"
The Sword Master of Desolation was the first to speak, and then. With a flick of his sleeves, a sword energy penetrated the sky, and he was the first to enter the vast sea of insects.
The Green Bull Demon King, the Master of the Xinghen Palace, and other major golden elixirs rose into the sky one after another, and each of them charged into the insect pests with unparalleled power.
Ye Linyuan also calmly entered the insect swarm, but after the initial fight, his brows furrowed slightly.
Because this swarm of soul-devouring insects is too extraordinary, swallowed by such a huge swarm of insects, even the magical power of the golden elixir present can only exert one or two percent of its power.
After absorbing most of the magical power, can they still deal with the soul-devouring demon king when they enter the formation?
You know, no matter how weak the Soul-Eating Locust is, if it can set foot in the realm of golden elixir, it may be able to gradually make up for its shortcomings.
After all, as a purely auxiliary type of spiritual insect, the water silkworm in the golden elixir realm also has fake elixir combat power. This soul-eating locust is fed with elixir, and its strength should be stronger than the water silkworm.
Furthermore, Ye Linyuan had always paid attention to Taoist Minghu, but found that this man did not seem to take action seriously, and only showed a small part of his strength. It seemed that he was not interested in destroying the soul-eating locust.
"Taoist Minghu has been away for a while, and this soul-eating insect appeared. It's too much of a coincidence. Is there some kind of connection behind it?"
"Or, this time, The locust plague is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster?"
Thinking of this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but slow down a step, and there was a bit of coldness in his eyes.
Just as Ye Linyuan was pondering, the battle ahead became more and more intense. Ye Linyuan could not see exactly what happened. He only knew that after the successive battles, the Sword Master Huangji and others in front made sounds of shock and anger.
Soon after, these golden elixir cultivators returned injured one by one and fled away from the locust swarm.
Ye Linyuan followed and flew out. When he got away from the locust swarm and looked at everyone, he realized that the master of the Desolate Sword was pale, and the Green Bull Demon King had a heavy look in his eyes.
Seeing this, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but ask: "Everyone, what is there in the center of the locust swarm that can make you retreat?"
"A mid-stage golden elixir soul-eating locust ." Old Man Qingyan spoke with an extremely solemn expression: "The strength of that insect king is at the bottom of the middle stage of the Golden Core. Anyone in the middle stage of the Golden Core can take it down."
"But at that time, there were a large number of soul-devouring locusts to help us. We could only use one-tenth of the power of our magical powers. Even if we fight with them, we would not be able to gain any advantage."
Hearing this, Ye Linyuan's brows couldn't help but frown slightly. Starting,
The offensive magical power of the golden elixir monk will be devoured by the soul-eating locusts, but the protective aura and protective magic weapons are condensed and not dispersed, and it is difficult to be swallowed by the low-level soul-eating locusts based on their numbers. Walking spiritually.
So facing the locust swarm, their offensive magical power can only be used at 10% or 20%, but it does not mean that they can only use 10% or 20% of their strength.
This is true, but it also has a great impact on them.
After all, it would be difficult for them to kill a demon king in the middle stage of the Golden Core among the insects. If they kept fighting inside, they would be in danger of being counterattacked when their mana was exhausted.
So this battle must not continue.
Even if Ye Linyuan cultivated the pseudo-magical Geng Golden Needle and had great restraint against the soul-eating insects, he could not say that he was sure to kill the soul-eating demon king in the middle stage of the golden elixir.
“The Geng Gold Needle is extremely sharp, it is best at breaking the surface, and is the best at restraining the soul-eating locust. If it can transform into a Mahayana minor magical power, it may be able to decide the world with one strike during a surprise attack.”< br>
Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart, and couldn't help but think of the black gold mine: "Counting the time, that black gold mine is about to take shape."
While his mind was wandering, Ye Linyuan quickly suppressed all his thoughts and looked at everyone present.
But I saw the desolate sword master glanced at everyone, and then said calmly: "Everyone, it seems that this soul-devouring demon king cannot be taken down. We can only deal with it according to the second method. "
"You'd better go back quickly and pick up the elixir as soon as possible."
After saying this, the desolate sword master stood up first and disappeared outside the vast sky.
At the same time, Ye Linyuan also flew across the sky, flying deep into the void, and soon caught up with the desolate sword master.
Seeing him following up, Master Huangji Sword immediately asked: "Fellow Taoist Xuanyuan, are you sure?"
"If you can get that treasure, maybe you can give it a try."
Ye Linyuan He spoke calmly, and then said with a solemn gaze: "But I feel that the origin of this soul-devouring demon king may be a little strange."
(End of this chapter)