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Chapter 281 Heading to Yang State, the insect plague is fierce [Subscribe]

After hurriedly leaving Qinglian Temple, Zhou Chun quickly returned to the family’s mountain gate with a lot on his mind.

When he arrived at the family home, he immediately told Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan what Qing Weizi had told him about the insect plague in Yang State.

Then several people started discussing the matter.

"There are two countries between Yangguo and Jingguo. Even if the insect plague really spreads, it is unlikely to spread to Jingguo, so the family does not need to worry about the threat of insect plague."

As soon as Zhou Mingde opened his mouth, he talked about the threat of insect plague and determined that the Zhou family would not be threatened by this insect plague.

The other people basically agreed with his statement.

Then Zhou Daoyi also quickly expressed his opinion and said, "Insect plagues are often rare in a thousand years. If safety can be guaranteed, it is not a bad idea for the family to send a few people to study it. Even if they cannot find any useful methods to deal with insect plagues, it can broaden their horizons and learn more about the situation of insect plagues."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but say, "That's true, but now that we've gone to Yang Country, facing the overwhelming demon insects, who can guarantee safety? If we're surrounded by a large group of demon insects, even a Jindan-stage cultivator may not be able to escape unscathed!"

"This is easy to handle. Even if we send people to Yangguo, they should not be under anyone's command and should have the right to act freely. In this way, as long as we do not go deep into the area where the insect plague is rampant, we can basically eliminate the danger of being surrounded by evil insects!"

The person who said this was Zhou Daoquan. The angle he found was very unique. With just one word, he resolved Zhou Mingde's worries, causing several people to applaud.

"Daoquan is right. If we really want to send people to Yangguo, we must do this and take the initiative into our own hands!"

Zhou Mingde nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Zhou Daoquan's statement.

When Zhou Chun heard what they said, he also expressed his opinion and said, "Although the abbot of Qingweizi Temple did not directly issue a decree, since he mentioned this matter, it is reasonable for us to consider his face and send a few people to go, even if it is just for show!"

"Then Zhengchun, who do you think should be sent?"

Zhou Daoyi looked at Zhou Chun and asked softly.

"If it's up to me, Uncle Fourteen must be brought along. He has made great achievements in poisons, and he has also made some minor improvements to the family's anti-worm prescriptions. It can be said that no one in the family can match his skills in this area."

"One of the other three great elders must also go, otherwise it will take an unknown amount of time just to travel back and forth."

"If possible, I would like to go there in person to broaden my horizons."

Facing the gazes of the three supreme elders, Zhou Chun expressed his own views in a calm tone.

Hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi immediately frowned and said, "Zhengchun, there is no need for you to go. Not to mention the danger of going to Yangguo, even the family will have a hard time running without you."

"You are wrong. In the past few years, I have consciously trained several assistants to assist in handling family affairs, and re-compiled the manual for handling related common affairs. Now, no matter who replaces me, at least the daily operation of the family will not have any problems."

Zhou Chun shook his head slightly and softly denied Zhou Daoyi's opinion.

He has been committed to reforming and optimizing the Zhou family's institutional structure, and has optimized and adjusted the personnel structure in certain aspects many times over the years.

He has now expanded the number of mortal scribes in Zhongping Hall to twenty-four, who can work in two shifts.

At the same time, three new family monks were added as assistants to the patriarch to assist the patriarch in handling various family affairs.

Now, after several years of training by him, the three clan chief assistants have become fully proficient in handling the daily affairs of the family and can help him save a lot of energy.

Many times, Zhou Chun could even think of himself as a stamp stamper, responsible for stamping the sorted documents and notices.

The Patriarch's Handbook he compiled was a magical tool he prepared for the person who would act as his agent for the affairs of the Patriarch in the future.

This manual clearly states the methods and standards for handling most family affairs. As long as anyone follows the instructions in the manual when encountering a problem, they will basically not do anything wrong.

Therefore, even if he leaves the family again like before and stays away for several years, the family elders who act as the patriarch will no longer need to take the trouble to handle various family affairs as before.

After hearing Zhou Chun's words, Zhou Daoyi hadn't said anything yet, but Zhou Mingde spoke again: "It's good to let him go out for a walk and gain some experience. Besides, with me by his side, there's no need to worry about anything happening to him."

"Are you going there yourself?"

Zhou Daoyi was slightly stunned. He didn't expect him to say that.

Zhou Mingde waved his hand slightly and said, "It is most appropriate for me to go. Daoyi is more important to the family than I am now, and is more suitable to be in charge of the family. As for Daoquan, after all, he has only been in the Purple Mansion for a short time, and he also needs to practice more to improve his strength."

"If you, the Supreme Elder, go there in person, then this trip will be the safest."

Zhou Chun smiled and immediately expressed his agreement.

Seeing this, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan had nothing more to say and could only agree.

After some discussion and after soliciting Zhou Jiawei's opinion, the Zhou family decided on the person to go to Yangguo.

The team will be led by Zhou Mingde, accompanied by Zhou Chun, Zhou Jiapeng, Zhou Jiawei and Zhou Zhengqing.

Zhou Zhengqing is the youngest of the Zhou family's "Zheng" generation. He is only 27 years old this year and has only reached the sixth level of Qi Refining Stage. His father is a cultivator of the Zhou family's "Jia" generation.

He is the successor trained by Zhou Jiawei and also Zhou Jiawei's right-hand man.

After the team members were confirmed, they immediately set out for the Qinglian Temple's mountain gate, preparing to take a ride on Qinglian Temple's bus to Yang State.

Qing Weizi did not object to the Zhou family's decision to act alone, and she also agreed to the Zhou family's plan to hitch a ride at Qinglian Temple.

This time, in order to respond to the "humanitarian rescue order" issued by Yang State, Qinglian Temple also sent a luxurious team to provide assistance.

The team was led by two Jindan-stage cultivators and included six Zifu-stage cultivators and thirty-six Foundation Establishment-stage cultivators.

What surprised Zhou Chun was that Liu Shiyun was also among those thirty-six people.

It is said that ever since he realized that Liu Shiyun was interested in him and began to actively reduce contact with her, the contact between the two has become less and less.

Especially after Liu Qingshan found out that Su Yuzhen had moved into his yard, Liu Shiyun never wrote him a private letter again.

However, Liu Shiyun continued to accept the spiritual honey, spiritual tea and other items that Zhou Chun sent to her. It would be useless if they didn't have true friends.

When they were about to set off, the two met again. After a little hesitation, Zhou Chun took the initiative to greet him.

But in response to his greeting, Liu Shiyun responded coldly.

After being rejected like this, Zhou Chun knew what to do and didn't say anything more.

They were led by two Jindan-stage cultivators and after flying for almost two days, they finally arrived at the border of Yang State.

The area where Yangguo is located is somewhat unique. One third of the country is covered by snow-capped mountains and plateaus. There are more mountains and fewer plains in the country. The population is far less than that of Jingguo. However, the strength of Yangguo's cultivation world is much stronger than that of Jingguo.

This is mainly because there are many sacred mountains and sacred places in the territory of Yang State, and the spiritual mineral resources are also rich.

These abundant resources naturally attracted many powerful immortal cultivators to establish their mountain gates and settlements there.

Before this insect plague, Yang State was one of the most powerful countries among the nearby ones. Some sects in the country would even recruit disciples from neighboring countries.

However, this sudden outbreak of insect plague dealt a heavy blow to the immortal cultivation world of Yang Kingdom. Many small and medium-sized forces were directly destroyed in the plague, and even some large forces suffered heavy losses, and even their mountain gate bases were abandoned.

Now the essence of Yang Kingdom's immortal cultivation world is concentrated on the snowy mountain plateau.

It is said that the low-level monster insects in the insect plague were unable to adapt to the icy and snowy environment, so they were able to temporarily preserve this territory.

However, as a result, the direction of the insect plague's attack began to shift towards the countries surrounding Yang State.

Now, the people who most want to eliminate the insect plague have turned out to be the countries surrounding Yang State.

After Zhou Chun and his companions followed the people from Qinglian Temple to the border of Yang State, they separated from them.

For the five members of the Zhou family, directly entering Yang State, which was already infested with insects, was undoubtedly a dangerous thing.

They now just want to stay in Yangguo for the time being, collect as much information as possible about the insect plague, and get some living low-level demon insects for research.

The place where the five members of the Zhou family settled was Dayun State, located in the southeast of Yang State. This country was relatively weak and not as strong as Jing State.

At this time, in order to defend the national border, various sects and families in Dayun Kingdom sent most of their troops to the border areas to set up camp, and continuously sent people across the border to the territory of Yang Kingdom to eliminate the evil insects.

Before finding a way to eliminate the evil insects on a large scale, cultivators can only use this most primitive method to weaken the power of the insect plague.

Although this method is primitive, it is really effective.

Thanks to a large number of immortal cultivators who killed the insects day and night, the expansion of the insect plague was slightly curbed, preventing them from rushing out of Yang State so quickly.

Otherwise, if the insect plague is allowed to spread in all directions in various countries, it may become a disaster on the level of a "soul-eating locust plague".

At this time, after the five people from the Zhou family separated from the group from Qinglian Temple, they went to the nearby Dayun Kingdom market to inquire about the situation.

At this time, all forces in Dayun Kingdom were unprecedentedly united, and all markets and strongholds were open free of charge and under certain conditions to cultivators who were willing to eliminate the evil insects.

As long as you hand in the corpse of a first-grade low-grade demon insect, you can practice for two hours for free.

Moreover, this free training time can be accumulated and stacked, that is, even if the insect plague is eliminated in the future, the training time accumulated through this method can continue to be used.

It is precisely because of this that, even though they knew that the insect plague was severe, the vast majority of the independent cultivators from Dayun Kingdom still stayed to defend the country and worked hard to go to the territory of Yang Kingdom to eliminate the evil insects.

When they learned that the five members of the Zhou family had come all the way from Jing Kingdom to Dayun Kingdom for assistance, the monks guarding the market town were very enthusiastic towards them. They not only helped them contact a place for them to rest, but also were willing to provide them with information about the insect plague for free.

This was an unexpected surprise for the five members of the Zhou family, and it also made them feel the impact of the insect plague even more.

Through conversations with the monks from Dayun Country, Zhou Chun and his companions soon learned a lot of information that Qing Weizi had never mentioned.

For example, before the arrival of the Zhou family, cultivators from countries such as Yang State and Dayun State had also gathered a large number of alchemists and cultivators who used poisons to develop poisons against the evil insects.

At the beginning, quite a few useful poisons were indeed developed.

However, everyone soon discovered that because the insect swarm was too large, it was difficult to find enough raw materials for the poison in order to eradicate it on a large scale.

Moreover, the monster insects in the insect plague have extremely strong adaptability. After a poison kills a large number of monster insects, those that survive will develop resistance, and this resistance will be passed on to the next generation of monster insects.

In this way, if a sufficient number of demon insects cannot be killed at one time, the same poison will hardly be effective against the insect swarm later.

And yet, no one has ever been able to develop a poison that can kill a sufficient number of evil insects.

The best insect extermination methods currently recognized are burning and freezing.

In the current Yang Kingdom, all places that can be burned have been set on fire by the immortal cultivators. On the one hand, they kill the low-level demon insects and some of their eggs, and on the other hand, they reduce the amount of food the insects get.

The reason for freezing is that the monster insects are generally afraid of cold. When attacking them with ice spells, except for some monster insects with mutated ice attributes, they are easily hit by critical damage by the ice spells.

"Seeing is believing. Tomorrow, Zhengchun and I will go to Yang Country to contact the insect swarm and catch some live insects for research. Jiapeng, you guys continue to inquire and collect information about the insect plague in this market."

Inside the room, after Zhou Mingde had a general understanding of the insect plague in Yang State, he summoned Zhou Chun and four others to make arrangements.

Naturally, no one had any objection to his arrangement.

So on the next day, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde set out for Yangguo.

Since they were dealing with a demon insect this time, it didn't matter to the two of them whether to be low-key or high-profile. They just did whatever was convenient.

The two of them rode Zhou Chun's golden-winged tiger directly to Yang State and arrived in the territory of Yang State at noon.

At this time, there was a very obvious boundary marker to distinguish the territories of Yang State and Dayun State. The area that was burned to ashes was Yang State, and the area with green mountains and clear waters was Dayun State.

About fifty or sixty miles after Zhou Chun and his companions entered the burnt-out territory of Yang State, they discovered the figures of demon insects foraging on the ground through their spiritual sense.

Although the fire burned the grass and trees, it also killed many birds and animals. There are now many corpses of these birds and animals on the land of Yang State.

Naturally, those evil insects would not let go of such free food.

After seeing those evil insects, Zhou Chun wanted to check their quality.

But Zhou Mingde held him back.

"Don't rush to act. See if you can follow these monster insects to find their nest. It would be great if you can catch a few second-level monster insects."

After hearing this, Zhou Chun had no choice but to stop and put away the golden-winged tiger. Together with Zhou Mingde, they restrained their breath and secretly observed and tracked the foraging demon insects.

After some time had passed, when it was getting dark, the two finally followed the foraging insects and found their nest.

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