Chapter 250: Black-striped Locusts in Three Years of Drought
The Lu family’s business with the Jinyuan Sect has never been interrupted in these years.
The Yanhe Crystal Sand and Tianyun Divine Iron produced in the underground magma river are of extremely high quality, and the quality of the magical instruments refined from this mineral is needless to say.
Jinyuan Sect has used these two kinds of minerals to refine magic weapons in the past nine years, which has brought a lot of income to the sect.
Jinyuan Sect and Linggu Sect are established Jindan sects, and they both have stable channels for obtaining foundation-building spiritual items.
In recent years, the connection between the Lu family and these two Jindan sects has become closer and closer. The two Jindan sects have helped a lot with the foundation-building spiritual objects purchased by the Lu family.
The Lu family has added eleven monks at the foundation-building realm, and the number of monks at the Qi-refining realm has also increased a lot, but in terms of proportion, it is lower than the monks at the foundation-building realm.
The reason for this is that the living environment of ordinary people has become worse and worse over the years.
This is because of the severe drought!
It has not rained in the Huanggu Sect for three years!
Rainfall in the Huanggu Sect is relatively scarce. If the common people in the territory receive the help of the monks, they don't have to worry about the crops they plant not harvesting.
But that is under normal circumstances. There has been a three-year drought in the Huanggu Sect, and even the Yuanying monks cannot force it to rain.
Nowadays, the severe drought has not had much impact on the monks for Jindan forces like the Lu family, but it has had a considerable impact on the common people raised below.
The Jindan forces are like this, let alone the Qi refining and foundation building forces.
What is even more pitiful are the ordinary people who have no monks to protect them. After the severe drought in the past three years, I don’t know how many such ordinary people have lost their lives.
The severe drought has not only caused these disasters, but also spawned many insect pests. The most serious one that is currently wreaking havoc in the Ancient Ancient Sect is the black-striped locust.
The black-striped locust was very weak when it was first born, not even a monster.
But the black-striped locusts grow extremely quickly. If everything goes well, they can become first-order monster insects within one year, and second-order monster insects within two years.
The speed at which they become third-order monster insects will be relatively slow, but it will only take three years at most for them to transform from second-order to third-order.
It will take at most five more years before they can transform into fourth-order monster insects.
And this is not the limit of the black-striped locusts. They still have a high possibility of being promoted to the fifth level, or even the sixth level monster insect.
If the number of black-striped locusts is large enough, their levels will increase faster.
The horror of demonic insects like the black-striped locust lies not only in their terrifying speed of increasing strength, but also in their astonishing reproduction speed and destructive ability.
A female worm can lay nearly 100,000 eggs in a month. If the conditions are right, these eggs have a very high hatching rate.
After these insect eggs hatch successfully, the insect swarm will take these new larvae to eat various items that can enhance their strength.
After the locusts pass through, they will not leave any living creatures or items containing spiritual energy behind!
In the inheritance classics left by the Fenyan Sect, there are records of demonic insects such as the black-striped celestial locust. These contents are recorded in the records of scenery and beast control classics.
There is a lot of content in Fengwu Zhi. The monks of the Lu family are indeed interested in Fengwu Zhi, but they are not too impressed by the black-striped locusts recorded in Fengwu Zhi.
The Lu family’s beast master Lu Chengyao was the one who discovered the black-striped locust.
Lu Chengyao is very talented in the field of beast control, and he is also willing to spend time and energy on it, studying various beast control classics left by the Fenyan Sect extremely hard.
After he saw the records of black-striped locusts in the classics, he was extremely interested. This was mainly because the black-striped locusts were too terrifying.
Because in the locust plague recorded in the classics, the highest grade of black-striped locusts reached the fifth level, and they directly caused the death of all living creatures in several states.
This includes powerful monks in the realm of gods!
When Lu Chengyao saw these records, he thought that the power of the black-striped locust was a little too exaggerated, until he actually saw a demonic insect that looked like the black-striped locust in the Burning Flame Mountains.
Regardless of whether the contents recorded in the classics can be taken seriously or not, after Lu Chengyao discovered this demonic insect that looked like a black-striped locust, he immediately passed the news to Lu Chengan and other senior monks of the Lu family, and asked Que Yun to immediately Take him back to the Lu family.
Lu Chengan has been cultivating in the underground magma river of the Burning Flame Mountains for these years. In these nine years of hard training, his cultivation has not reached the late stage of the Golden Core.
This is mainly because the higher the monk's cultivation level, the more difficult it is to improve his cultivation level. It often takes more than a Jiazi for a Jindan monk to improve his cultivation level to a small level.
Even if it takes a hundred years to improve to a small level, it is a very normal phenomenon!
Lu Chengan's own cultivation talent is not bad, and with the help of his panel, his cultivation level improves much faster than other monks.
Although his cultivation level in the past nine years of hard training has not reached the late stage of Jindan, the difference is not too far.
If he concentrates on practicing for another two or three years, there is a good chance that he will break through to the late stage of Jindan.
It’s just that the news delivered by Lu Chengyao was too shocking. If the black-striped locust appeared in the Burning Flame Mountains, the Lu family must deal with this threat as soon as possible.
Lu Chengan did not waste time. After receiving the summons from Lu Chengyao, he returned directly to the family.
Lu Chengyao's cultivation has just broken through to the late stage of foundation building, so naturally his speed cannot be compared with Lu Chengan.
But when he returned from the Burning Mountains this time, he was brought by Que Yun.
Que Yun is a mid-level third-level monster. He is extremely fast. Almost as soon as Lu Chengan returned to the Lu family, Que Yun brought Lu Chengyao back to the family.
What Lu Chengyao said was too shocking, so Lu Chengan and Lu Wenxing were not prepared to directly tell the other monks of the Lu family the news, but first confirmed it with Lu Chengyao before speaking.
"Supreme Elder, Patriarch, this jade slip contains an introduction to the black-striped locust. This is the black-striped locust I caught in the Burning Mountains. You can compare it!" Lu Chengyao Said in a deep voice.
He had already made preparations before returning to the family. He imprinted a detailed description of the black-striped locust in the beast-controlling inheritance book on the jade slips, and captured some black-striped locust belts. Return to the family.
The reason why Lu Chengyao did this was because he felt that his cultivation level was relatively low and his vision was not broad enough.
This black-striped locust had not appeared for a long time. Although the black-striped locust that appeared in the Burning Mountains was the same as what was recorded in the classics, he was still worried that his judgment would be wrong.
After Lu Chengyao took out the jade slip and the captured black-striped locust, he was immediately taken into his hands by Lu Chengan.
Lu Chengan took the lead in checking the contents recorded in the jade slips, and then he released several black-striped locusts that were imprisoned in the grass cage.
The strength of these black-striped locusts varies. Two of them have reached the early stage of the second level, and the remaining ones are all at the first level. After being imprisoned by Lu Chengyao for several days, they were released from the cage by Lu Chengan. They immediately flapped their dark brown wings and flew towards Lu Chengyao like lightning.
These black-striped locusts open their sharp mouthparts while flying, and wisps of black mist spread from their mouthparts.
These black mist are extremely corrosive, and they can easily break through the monk's defense.
If the number of black-striped locusts is large enough, relying on their numerical advantage, they can devour monks who are one level above them.
Lu Chengyao's cultivation is in the late stage of foundation building. The strength of these black-striped locusts is quite different from his, and they will not pose a threat to him.
However, he was a little confused now about what the Supreme Elder meant, so he did not take action to resist the attack of these black-striped locusts.
Lu Chengan has been observing the changes in these black-striped locusts since he released them.
When these black-striped locusts were less than half a foot away from Lu Chengyao, he suddenly took action and directly absorbed several black-striped locusts into the palm of his hand.
After that, he took out a palm-sized black-gold stone from the storage ring, which was a second-order mid-grade obsidian.
This is a very common weapon refining material. It can be used to refine a variety of second-level mid-grade magic weapons.
This mineral material has a very obvious characteristic, that is, it is extremely hard.
A second-level mid-grade weapon refiner would also need several days to refine a second-level mid-grade obsidian.
The highest level of these black-striped locusts is only the early stage of the second level. If they can refine and swallow this second-level mid-level obsidian stone and digest it, they will basically be able to They are the black-striped locusts.
After Lu Chengan took out the second-grade mid-grade obsidian, the black-striped locusts in his palm immediately swarmed up and instantly covered the second-grade mid-grade obsidian.
A moment later, along with a clicking sound, an early second-order black-striped locust bit off a small piece from the intact obsidian.
After that, another second-level early-stage black-striped locust followed closely and bit off a small piece of obsidian.
After Lu Wenxing saw this situation, a look of shock suddenly appeared on his face.
Obsidian is a relatively common weapon refining material, and he also has a certain understanding of obsidian.
These black-striped locusts can tear the obsidian apart in such a short period of time. Even if they are not black-striped locusts, they are still extremely powerful insect monsters.
The expression on Lu Chengyao's face was relatively calm, because he had done similar experiments when he suspected these black-striped locusts.
Lu Chengan released the power of his consciousness and locked it tightly on the bodies of the two early second-order black-striped locusts.
He detected through the power of his spiritual consciousness that after these two early second-order black-striped locusts bit open the obsidian and swallowed it into their bellies, an extremely strange power emerged from their bodies.
This power can easily refine obsidian and transform it into nutrients that nourish the bodies of black-striped locusts and enhance their cultivation.
"Cheng'an, what did you find? Can you confirm that this monster insect is the black-striped locust?"
After seeing the increasingly solemn expression on Lu Chengan's face, Lu Wenxing was filled with confusion. The shadow becomes more and more serious.
“Nine times out of ten, this kind of locust is the black-striped locust!”
A cold expression appeared on Lu Chengan's face, and he said in a deep voice: "Since monster insects like the black-striped locust have appeared in the Burning Flame Mountains, then there may be monster insects like this in other areas of our Lu family."
"Monster insects like the black-striped locust reproduce too fast, and they must be killed as soon as possible!" Lu Chengan said in a deep voice.
He has now seen the horror of this kind of monster insect. If enough food is provided to them, they can improve their cultivation level in a very short period of time.
In addition, there is their terrifying reproductive ability.
If they are not contained, they may soon develop enough to threaten the Lu family!
"Clan leader, I will leave it to you to deal with the black-striped locusts in the family. Lingxuan, Queyun and other third-order spirits and monsters can be dispatched at will!"
Lu Chengan glanced at Lu Wenxing. , said quickly: "I am going to the Alchemy Sect now to tell the monks of the Alchemy Sect the news. They are very close to our Lu family. I am afraid that there are also demonic insects like black-striped locusts in the Alchemy Sect. ”
After Lu Chengan hurriedly explained to Lu Wenxing, he immediately left the Lu family and rushed towards the Danding Sect.
Shi Ningyu has left the Alchemy Sect for a long time, but now the Alchemy Sect still has monks at the Golden Elixir realm sitting in charge. This is the main reason why Lu Chengan dares to travel without worries.
Shi Ningyu’s grandfather Shi Mingxin broke through to the Golden Elixir realm with the help of Lu Chengan. Coupled with the relationship between Lu Chengan and Shi Ningyu, Shi Mingxin was still very friendly to Lu Chengan.
Before Lu Chengan went to the Danding Sect, he quickly told Shi Mingxin about the news about the black-striped locust.
So when Lu Chengan arrived at Danding Sect, Shi Mingxin immediately began to ask Lu Chengan about the black-striped locusts.
"Cheng'an, are the monster insects you mentioned really that scary?" Shi Mingxin asked with a worried look on his face.
"Grandpa, please look, these are the black-striped locusts. These two early second-order black-striped locusts can easily swallow the second-order mid-grade obsidian refining..."
"It's not too early for these black-striped locusts to appear. There should be no third-level black-striped locusts born yet. Next, I would like to ask my grandfather to search for demonic insects like black-striped locusts in the Danding Sect as soon as possible. They kill them cleanly”
After Lu Chengan quickly explained to Shi Mingxin, he left him a black-striped locust, and also left him a copy of the jade slip introducing the black-striped locust.
After that, Lu Chengan quickly left the Danding Sect and galloped towards the Jinyuan Sect.
He has already informed the two Jindan sects, Jinyuan Sect and Linggu Sect, about the black-striped locusts.
Monster insects such as the black-striped locust were bred in a severe drought environment. It has not rained in the entire Huanggu Sect for three years.
Since the Black-striped Locust has been bred in the Burning Mountains, it is possible that such demonic insects could be bred in the entire Huanggu Sect.
Needless to say, the relationship between the Lu family and the Linggu Sect has also been established. In recent years, the Lu family has also established a deep friendship with the Jinyuan Sect due to their trading of mineral materials with the Jinyuan Sect.
That’s why Lu Chengan told the Jinyuan Sect and the Linggu Sect about the black-striped locust at the same time.
(End of this chapter)