Chapter 210 Locust plague
Zhang Zhixuan used the Green Bull Flag and easily captured a third-level East Pole Locust. The other East Pole Locust was no match for him and was killed by Zhang Zhixuan using the Zhongyang Sword.
At this time, Liu Zixuan was also fighting with the two East Pole Locusts. Zhang Zhixuan freed up his hand, and the two of them joined forces to quickly kill the remaining two East Pole Locusts.
The two men removed the compound eyes of the East Pole Locust, then cut off the most valuable East Pole Locust’s blade and legs, took them away, and immediately returned to Yanlai Peak in a hurry.
As soon as he returned to Yanlai Peak, Zhang Zhixuan immediately prepared to start the alchemy furnace and continue to refine the Locust Spirit Powder.
The effect of the Locust Spirit Powder has been seen with one’s own eyes. With the Locust Spirit Powder, the speed at which they hunt the East Pole locusts has been increased by almost ten times.
With the help of Locust Spirit Powder, a foundation-building monk can kill a group of third-level East Pole locusts.
Yanlai Peak currently lacks experts, and there are dozens of East Pole Locusts coming down from the Black Mountains. Only by using the effect of Locust Spirit Powder can this locust plague be suppressed.
With the full support of the three major families of Wu, Zhang and Liu, hundreds of Qi-training monks took action to search for all the auxiliary elixirs for refining Locust Spirit Powder from their home warehouses, elixir gardens, Xihefang, vassal families, etc. When Zhang Zhixuan and Zhang Zhixuan returned, the auxiliary elixir for refining Locust Spirit Powder has been piled up on Yanlai Peak.
Even the other foundation-building monks killed the first two groups of third-order East Pole locusts that entered Taicheng County and brought back their compound eyes.
Refining Locust Spirit Powder is now a top priority. Zhang Zhixuan didn’t have time to rest and immediately threw himself into refining the elixir.
Liu Zixuan and other foundation-building monks were also divided into three teams and immediately set out to hunt the East Pole Locusts that entered Taicheng County.
Even Han Wangpeng from the Purple Mansion Stage also took action, patrolling Yanlai Peak, Tiantai Peak, Taibai Peak and other places to protect the territories of the three major families to prevent the East Pole Locust from breaking through the defense lines of the Foundation Establishment monks and killing a large number of mortals. causing irreparable losses.
With the last experience, the success rate of refining the Locust Spirit Powder is higher. With six furnaces of elixirs, except for an occasional failure, Zhang Zhixuan successfully refined five boxes of Locust Spirit Powder.
After refining the Locust Spirit Powder, the foundation-building monks on Yanlai Peak were even more powerful. They quickly suppressed the locust plague and wiped out the five groups of locusts that had just entered Taicheng County.
Every time a third-level Dongji Locust is hunted, a box of Locust Spirit Powder can be refined. With the help of the Locust Spirit Powder, the monks in Taicheng County have formed a virtuous cycle, and soon revealed their powerful advantages, and the Dongji Spirit Powder was The extremely locusts drove out of Taicheng County and pressed back into the Southern Wilderness.
Having gained the upper hand, the Taicheng County monks must of course continue their efforts to prevent the East Pole Locust from becoming a climate. They have gone deep into the southern wilderness, constantly looking for traces of the East Pole Locust, and nipping this terrible monster insect in the bud.
In this way, the battle to exterminate the locusts continued for more than a month. When the last third-order East Pole locusts in the southern wilderness were eliminated, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Now they have finally passed this disaster.
In order to thank Han Wangpeng for his help, each of the three families of Zhang, Wu and Liu gave Cheng Yi a thousand spirit stones to thank him for helping the three major families in southern Taicheng County survive this crisis.
Three thousand spirit stones are not a small amount of money even for a monk in the Zifu period. Qingxuanzong’s annual offerings to the Zifu monks were only eight hundred spiritual stones a year.
This time, Han Wangpeng didn’t take action himself. In just over a month, he only provided the prescription of Locust Spirit Powder and earned three thousand spirit stones.
Seeing that the Wu, Zhang, and Liu families were so on the road, his face showed a bit of joy.
Although this locust plague from Montenegro did not penetrate deep into Taicheng County and the population loss was minimal, it still cost the three major families of Zhang, Wu and Liu a lot to survive the disaster.
In order to thank Han Wangpeng and others for their help, the three of them took out four thousand spirit stones and refined dozens of boxes of locust spirit powder, consuming more than six thousand auxiliary materials.
In addition to the more than twenty third-level spiritual talismans lost in the battle with the third-level East Pole Locust, the total amount exceeds three thousand spiritual stones. These costs must be shared by the three families of Zhang, Wu, and Liu.
In order to eliminate this locust plague, each of the three families of Zhang, Wu and Liu must devote more than four thousand spiritual stones.
There are no good things in the East Pole Locust. Except for a few blade legs, other materials are not valuable at all.
As of now, in addition to the remaining seven boxes of Locust Spirit Powder, their spoils only have more than 200 East Pole Locust Blade Legs.
After all, the Dongji Locust is a third-level monster, and the materials from its blades and feet can still be used to refine second-level high-grade magic weapons. If the family’s weapon refiner can refine these swords and legs into magic weapons, it is estimated that half of the resources can be recovered.
The three heads of Zhang Zhixuan’s family settled the accounts and paid each other’s debts. Finally, each of them returned to their respective spiritual mountains with some East Pole Locust Blades.
In order to prevent the East Pole Locust from killing Lushan County and causing irreparable losses to Zhang family mortals, Qingchan has been staying in Lushan County with his family elders and backbones these days.
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan returned unscathed, Qingchan dismissed the family elders and asked them to perform their duties, and he and Zhang Zhixuan returned to Lingjing Mountain.
“Brother Zhixuan, how much resources have been lost this time?” After returning to the cave, Qing Chan asked with a worried look on his face.
She doesn’t like to take care of these chores. In recent years, the burden of the family has almost entirely fallen on Zhang Zhixuan. Ever since the patriarch went to Chaoyin Mountain, Zhang Zhixuan had to make decisions on all matters at home.
It’s a pity that Qingchan is one of the three foundation-building monks in the family. Zhang Zhixuan went to Yan Laifeng, and sometimes she needs to make the decision on important matters in the family. Seeing that his family was constantly allocating resources to Yanlaifeng, although Qingchan knew that it would be smoother to eliminate the locust plague, he also knew that a lot of resources were being consumed.
Zhang Zhixuan smiled bitterly and said: “It’s good to be able to suppress the locust plague. There was not much loss in terms of personnel. In terms of material, our family shared 4,800 in spiritual stones. However, there was some gain. I was given a box of Locust Spirit Powder, which cost 60 Tiao Dongji Locust Saber Foot, I will send Brother Jiu back in a few days, let him refine all the standard magic weapons, and throw them into the market in exchange for some spiritual stones.”
In recent years, with the mining of Lingshi Mine in Chaoyin Mountain, the opening of Xihefang Inn, and the successful domestication of golden silkworms, the Zhang family’s income has almost exploded. Compared with before the battle of Chaoyin Mountain, the income can increase by one thousand spirit stones every year.
Relying on the huge increase in income in recent years, the family has repaid the two debts of investing in Chaoyin Mountain Lingshi Mine and redeeming Jiuhua Mountain. Now that I have finally relaxed for a few days, I have encountered this kind of natural and man-made disaster again, and I will continue to suffer for another two years.
Fortunately, Zhang Zhixuan also brought back dozens of locust legs. Relying on the ninth brother Zhang Zhifan to refine the magic weapon, he should be able to recover some cultivation resources.
(End of chapter)