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Chapter 280: Shocking News of Insect Plague [Subscription Request]

The north wind blows, and the autumn wind is cool.

Soon another autumn is here.

This is the fortieth autumn since Zhou Chun came to this world, and also the fortieth year since the Zhou family took root in Jiufengling.

Yes, before they knew it, the Zhou family had been in Jingguo for forty years.

Zhou Chun has also been in this world for forty years.

Forty years have passed, and Zhou Chun has changed a lot, and the Zhou family has also changed a lot.

During these forty years, many of the elders Zhou Chun was familiar with passed away for various reasons, and many younger generations grew up under his watch.

He lost some elders and gained more younger generations.

The latest statistical results show that the current population of the Zhou family has reached 247 people, which is more than a hundred people more than the number of Zhou family members forty years ago.

At the same time, the Zhou family now has more than 97,000 spiritual coins in stock.

Some people are rich, and the Zhou family is so arrogant now!

Of course, the changes in Zhou Chun himself are even greater.

Forty years have passed. He, who was only at the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage at that time, has now reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment Stage.

And he is only sixty-one years old this year, and it is very likely that he will break through to the late stage of foundation building before he turns eighty.

If he succeeds, it won't be difficult for him to open up the Purple Palace before he turns a hundred years old.

Therefore, the person who can be really promising in the future of the Zhou family is actually him.

Autumn is the season of harvest.

Many pregnant female animals in the Zhou Family Beast Garden gave birth to their offspring during this season, so that their offspring would be able to survive the winter before the winter snow arrived.

Zhou Chun was also ordering people to select various materials for exchange, preparing to go to Longyuan Lake to trade with the scaly frog tribe led by Lu Ran before the winter snow arrived.

Now, with the comprehensive withdrawal of the Dragon Transformation Sect and its return to the main temple, the alien tribe of scaled frogs by the Longyuan Lake has also entered a period of rapid development.

The trade with the Zhou family allowed the scaly frog aliens who surrendered to Lu Ran to obtain a large number of high-quality weapons. They all benefited greatly from this in conquering other tribes and obtaining food, and the number of tribal people increased year by year.

The Zhou family also benefited greatly from the large number of rare aquatic treasures they obtained from the scaly frog aliens.

The only drawback is that the precious treasures from these waters will be picked up by Qinglian Temple, and the price they pay is not high.

On this day, after all the materials for exchange were prepared, Zhou Chun personally took the things and went to Longyuanze with Zhou Daoquan.

The silver electric thunder python Baibai was now able to travel between the two places. If it went downstream, it would only take it one day to bring Zhou Chun to Longyuanze.

Because this was not the first time the two parties had traded, the relevant procedures went very quickly.

After Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan arrived at Longyuanze, they quickly contacted Lu Ran, handed over the things they brought to the other party, and then obtained the corresponding amount of aquatic treasures from the other party based on the approximate value of the goods.

In fact, in this kind of trade, the truly valuable things are those that Lu Ran himself needs.

Spiritual tea, spiritual wine, spiritual incense, and all kinds of things enjoyed by high-level cultivators are all things that Lu Ran has reserved for a long time.

When it comes to enjoying life, he now knows how to enjoy it better than any Jindan stage cultivator.

In order to buy some new varieties that had never been used for him, the Zhou family even asked people to do something or sent people to Fengguo and Chengguo to buy them.

However, for the Zhou family, they are not afraid of Lu Ran enjoying himself, but they are afraid of Lu Ran not enjoying himself.

If Lu Ran is wholeheartedly thinking about strengthening the power of the Scaled Frog race through this kind of trade, then the Zhou family will probably have to think twice and be cautious about this kind of trade.

But now, no matter what kind of spiritual tea or spiritual wine Lu Ran wants, the Zhou family will find ways to get it for him, as long as he can afford an exchange item of equal value.

After the trade was over, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan went upstream along the underground river with the treasures they had harvested, and returned to Lanzhou in two days.

Afterwards, according to the rules, Zhou Chun sent the items directly to Qinglian Temple for selection.

The Taoist priest in charge of selecting rare treasures from the waters at Qinglian Temple is a cultivator in the Purple Mansion Stage. He has extensive knowledge and a strong appreciation for all kinds of rare treasures from the waters.

There were many rare treasures in the water that even Lu Ran and the Zhou family didn't know the names and uses of, but he was able to tell them all, and the Zhou family also learned a lot of new knowledge in the process.

As usual, after letting the Taoist priests of Qinglian Temple select the rare water treasures, Zhou Chun prepared to leave and return to his family with the remaining water treasures and spiritual coins.

Unexpectedly, before he left the Qinglian Temple's mountain gate, he was suddenly stopped and told that the temple master Qingweizi was calling him.

Ever since he suffered a great loss at the hands of the Su family's ancestor, Zhou Chun no longer dared to neglect these Jindan stage cultivators.

Upon learning that it was Qing Weizi who summoned him, he hurried back to the master's hall to pay his respects.

"Junior Zhou Zhengchun, I pay my respects to the senior temple master."

In the main hall of the sect leader, when Zhou Chun saw Qing Weizi sitting at the top, he immediately bowed respectfully.

Seeing this, Qing Weizi waved the whisk in his hand and said, "Young friend Zhou, there is no need to be polite. I called you here today because I learned that you are in our sect, and I just happened to have something I want to ask you."

Hearing his words, Zhou Chun immediately looked terrified and bowed, saying, "Senior, you are too kind. I am not worthy of your advice. If you need my help, please let me know."

"I know that your Zhou family is good at taming beasts and has made unique achievements in this area. I wonder if you have done any research on the art of repelling insects?"

Qing Weizi narrowed her eyes and asked softly.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun did not have time to think about it and immediately replied respectfully: "Master, please understand that the art of taming beasts and the art of expelling insects do have something in common, but my Zhou family does not know any art of expelling insects, and our understanding of various monster insects is limited to what is recorded in the monster beast illustrations."

He didn't know why Qing Weizi asked about the art of expelling insects, but his intuition told him that it was best not to say too much about such matters. But Qing Weizi didn't seem to want to let him off easily.

After listening to Zhou Chun's answer, Qing Weizi's eyes flashed slightly, and then he suddenly waved his sleeves and handed something to Zhou Chun.

"Then take a look at this thing. Do you recognize this kind of monster insect?"

Zhou Chun looked carefully and saw that the thing Qing Weizi handed to him was actually a fist-sized, khaki-colored corpse of a strange insect.

This strange insect looks a bit like an ant and somewhat similar to a mole cricket, with a sharp mouthpart and a pair of claws.

This was the first time Zhou Chun had seen such a strange monster insect.

He took the corpse of the strange insect in his hand, and after carefully examining it from top to bottom, he shook his head and said to Qing Weizi, "Master, please understand. I don't recognize this kind of monster insect. The monster insect illustrations in our family don't include information about this kind of monster insect."

I thought that after answering like this, the matter would end here.

However, what Zhou Chun did not expect was that after Qing Weizi heard his words, she started talking about the origin of the demon insect in his hand.

"You don't know this monster insect, and I don't know this monster insect either, but now this monster insect has gathered in groups and is spreading all over Yang Country. Now half of Yang Country has been destroyed by this insect plague, and countless civilians and monks have been devoured by this monster insect!"

"It is estimated that there are now hundreds of millions of these monster insects in Yang Country. Their population is so large that even Yuanying stage cultivators cannot eliminate them!"

"Now Yang State is unable to contain the insect plague. It can only send people to seek help everywhere and collect good strategies for pest control. At the same time, it has also issued humanitarian help orders to all countries and factions around it, requesting them to send people to Yang State to help resist the insect plague!"

Even the Nascent Soul cultivators are helpless?

Zhou Chun's face changed. He looked at the insect corpse in his hand and suddenly felt that it was very hot.

Only then did he understand why Qing Weizi had suddenly summoned him to ask about the art of expelling insects.

If what Qing Weizi said was not an exaggeration, then this matter was really terrible.

Zhou Chun had seen many records about the power of insect plagues in ancient books.

According to records in ancient books, the largest insect plague in this world was the "Soul-Eating Locust Plague" that occurred ten thousand years ago.

At that time, a demon insect called "Soul-Eating Demon Locust" suddenly appeared. This insect was born with the ability to devour all spiritual power to evolve, and its reproduction speed was very fast.

Because at the beginning this kind of evil insect only appeared in the territory of a certain alien race and failed to attract the attention of the human race's immortal cultivation world. By the time this kind of evil insect became powerful, it was already difficult to control.

At that time, a powerful alien race was almost wiped out by this evil insect. Later, the human countries also suffered heavy losses in the invasion of this evil insect, and more than a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators died!
Later, it was said that a sixth-level alien warrior displayed his amazing magical powers and forcibly killed the most powerful insect king and many fifth- and fourth-level demon insects in the swarm, and then gathered the power of the human race and several major alien races to forcibly put out the insect plague.

Since then, all the evil insects evolved from locusts have been wiped out by humans and various alien races, and any signs of them will be nipped in the bud.

That kind of "Soul-Eating Demonic Locust" was completely wiped out!
In addition to this "Soul-Eating Locust Plague", there have been many smaller-scale insect plagues in the history of the immortal cultivation world. Those insect plagues that are worth recording in the classics have taken away countless lives every time they broke out.

There is no doubt that the insect plague that broke out in Yang State at this time has already shown signs worthy of being recorded in history.

“Master, can you tell me about the ability of this monster insect? What exactly does it have that even a Yuanying-stage master with great magical powers can hardly extinguish it!”

Zhou Chun couldn't help but ask Qing Weizi for information about the demon insect in his hand, and he also took the matter very seriously.

"According to the people of Yang State, this kind of demon insect has a very strong ability to adapt to growth. When they are born, they are just ordinary insects, only slightly larger than ordinary ants. But as long as they have enough food, they can grow to the size of the demon insect in your hand within a month."

"They are born with the ability to burrow into the ground. After their first evolution, they will develop wings and be able to fly. At the same time, their teeth are extremely sharp and can bite through flying swords of the same level. Their claws also have extremely strong cutting abilities. Many of them will also evolve the ability to spit venom."

"And the most noteworthy thing about this kind of demon insect is that as long as they devour a spiritual object of a certain attribute before their first mutation and evolution, they will be able to awaken and master the magical power of that attribute, and continue to evolve at an extremely fast speed."

"The most terrifying thing is that when they advance to become a second-level demon insect, they have a high probability of evolving a second attribute power, making them even more powerful and more difficult to eliminate after evolution!"

"At present, Yang Country has even seen the emergence of an Insect King who is equivalent to an early Nascent Soul cultivator. With the power of the insect swarm, even a late Nascent Soul cultivator would find it difficult to kill him!"

Qing Weizi was not at all secretive and quickly told Zhou Chun the information she had learned from the envoy from Yang State.

Just by listening to his retelling, Zhou Chun could feel the horror of it.

It grows and evolves quickly, can burrow into the ground and fly, reproduces very quickly, and has a strong mutation ability!
When all these abilities are combined in one demon insect, it becomes extremely terrifying.

He could not help but say, "According to what the senior temple master said, the power of the insect plague is so huge that ordinary disaster-fighting methods may not be effective. Even if we can find a way to restrain those ordinary monster insects, it will be difficult to deal with those high-level monster insects!"

But after hearing what he said, Qing Weizi shook her head slightly and said, "You are wrong. If we can find a way to eliminate ordinary demon insects, we can fundamentally prevent the demon insect population from continuing to expand, and then prevent more demon insects from evolving into high-level demon insects."

"As long as the number of high-level demon insects does not continue to increase, and the size of the insect swarm is continuously eliminated and reduced, it will not be difficult to eliminate the insect plague!"

Having said that, Qing Weizi finally revealed the real reason why she summoned Zhou Chun.

"Since Yangguo has already issued a humanitarian request for help, then for the sake of the overall interests of the human race, our sect, the Moon Wheel Sect, and the Yanyang Sect must all send people to Yangguo to help eliminate the disaster."

"My dear Zhou, since your family is proficient in the art of taming beasts and has done research on monster beasts and monster insects, you might as well send a few people to accompany our monks to Yang Country."

"If the Zhou family can really play a big role in eliminating the insect plague, the seniors of Yang State will definitely reward us generously afterwards!"

It turned out that he wanted the Zhou family to send people to join the team supporting Yang State. He wanted to use the Zhou family's attainments in the art of taming beasts to try to find a way to eliminate the insect plague.

I have to say that Qing Weizi’s plan was very good.

As an immortal cultivation family under the jurisdiction of Qinglian Temple, if the Zhou family can really make considerable contributions in eliminating the insect plague, then the benefits obtained by Qinglian Temple will definitely be no less than those of the Zhou family.

Even if the Zhou family did not contribute anything, Qinglian Temple would not suffer any losses.

Fortunately, Qing Weizi's tone was not harsh, but rather a negotiating tone, which made Zhou Chun feel a lot more at ease.

He immediately replied respectfully: "I understand what you mean, Master. I will talk to the elders about this matter after I return to the family to see what you mean."

First update today, there will be another update in the evening!
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