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Chapter 282 Human-Insect War [Subscription Request]

The nests of evil insects are all located deep underground, similar to rat nests.

However, the structure of the demon insect's nest is much more complicated than that of a rat's nest.

It is like an upside-down beehive underground, divided into countless tiny cells, where the larvae hatch and are born, and the adults also have a separate cell as their habitat.

At the same time, there is a water diversion ditch dug at the bottom of the nest, which can divert the water that seeps down from above to other areas to avoid flooding.

Such a special structure makes it difficult to destroy the insect nest.

As long as food is supplied, the larvae inside can grow very well without worrying about external threats.

The demon insect nest discovered by Zhou Chun and his team was not very large, and there were not even any second-level demon insects inside.

It looks like this is a newly built nest.

According to the information they had previously gathered, this kind of demon insect has now spread throughout Yang State, and in order to cope with the food crisis, many large groups of demon insects have had to split up their nests.

This can also be considered a strategy of the human cultivators.

By implementing a scorched earth tactic, the insect swarm's access to food was blocked, and then the swarm was trapped within the territory of Yang State from all sides, preventing it from spreading out.

However, the insect plague has already become a serious issue. If the human cultivators concentrate their forces to break through in a certain direction, they may still be unable to stop them.

At this moment, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde observed the situation of the insect nest underground and started to catch the insects directly.

Zhou Mingde raised his hand and waved it, and a red-gold flying sword shot towards the insect nest.

This third-tier magical flying sword was extremely sharp. Ordinary rocks were simply unable to block its edge, and it quickly drilled a hole in the ground.

Not long after, the flying sword arrived at the insect nest, and it shuttled directly inside the nest, tearing it to pieces.

This made the evil insects very angry, and soon they rushed out of the holes and attacked Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde.

If it were a monster, it would definitely not have the courage to attack a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator or a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator at this time.

However, the monster insects are ferocious and do not know what fear is. They will only attack any enemy that provokes them.

Although there were no second-level demon insects, hundreds of first-level demon insects led thousands of ordinary demon insects to attack together, and the momentum was still quite impressive.

Just as the intelligence said, most of those first-level demon insects have mastered relevant magical abilities.

Most of the evil insects that attacked Zhou Chun and his men were of the fire element. When they flew close to the enemy, they could spit out a high-temperature venom that would burn and corrode the target.

Not to mention the flesh and blood bodies of humans and monsters, even an ordinary first-level magic weapon would be corroded and have a gap if hit by the high-temperature venom.

In addition, these demon insects can form groups together to improve overall defense capabilities, and even transfer their own meager magic power to a certain demon insect to forcibly increase the strength of that demon insect.

Therefore, even if there are only hundreds of first-order demon insects, once they form an array and launch an attack, they still have the power to threaten ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

However, the enemies they encountered this time were not something that could be dealt with by such small tricks.

After briefly testing the strength of the insect swarm, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde killed most of the demon insects. Then, they used a special magic weapon prepared in advance to put more than 20 living first-level demon insects and hundreds of ordinary demon insects into it and brought them back to the market.

After returning to the market, the two handed over the captured insects to Zhou Jiawei, who started the experiments.

In the next few days, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde would still go to Yang State from time to time to try to see if they could capture the second-level demon insect.

However, it turned out that their idea was simply impossible to implement.

Those second-level demon insects have violent personalities, and once they are trapped and find no way to escape, they will charge forward desperately until they die of exhaustion.

Zhou Chun and his colleagues have not yet found an effective way to prevent this from happening.

At the same time, there was no progress in Zhou Jiawei's experiment.

Although a few days is not a long time, it is enough for him to test all the low-cost poisons he brought with him, but the results were very bad.

The vitality of the demon insects is very tenacious. It is difficult for any of the low-cost poisons Zhou Jiawei brought to kill them, and even fewer can make them lose half their lives.

"Uncle Fourteen, I think you should change your research direction and focus on studying poisonous smoke. Given the scale of the insect plague, only large-scale poisonous smoke fumigation can achieve the effect of eliminating the disaster!"

"If we can develop a poisonous smoke that can kill ordinary demon insects, it will be worth it even if it requires some rare materials."

"After all, the materials that are difficult for our Zhou family to collect may not be that difficult to obtain compared to the various factions of Yang State and other countries!"

Inside the room, after Zhou Chun learned about the current status of poison development from Zhou Jiawei, he whispered his opinion.

However, after hearing his words, Zhou Jiawei sighed helplessly: "I know that poisonous smoke is the best way to kill insects!"

"But compared to poisonous water and powder, poisonous smoke is inherently less toxic. Moreover, the body structure of demon insects is different from that of humans and ordinary beasts. The poisonous smoke that is effective for humans and ordinary beasts may not be effective for them."

"So if we want to develop a poisonous smoke that is effective against demon insects, it is too difficult and it is not something that can be done in a short period of time!"

As an expert in using poison, Zhou Jiawei definitely knows better than Zhou Chun how to use poison to kill the target.

He also knows better than Zhou Chun the complexity and difficulty of poison preparation.

After hearing his story, Zhou Chun realized that he had been thinking too simply, so he didn't say anything more. He just encouraged him a few words and left.

A few days passed like this, and suddenly a piece of news spread in the market where Zhou Chun and his friends were.

It is said that all countries and factions that have received Yang Guo’s “humanitarian rescue order” have already sent reinforcements to Yang Guo.

Due to the food crisis, the insect swarms in Yang State also showed signs of migrating in a concentrated manner.

Therefore, the reinforcements from various countries and the monks from Yang State, Dayun State and other countries prepared to concentrate their forces to intercept the migrating insect swarms and fight a head-on battle with the insect swarms.

"It is said that the direction of the insect swarm's migration is Rong State. Now hundreds of thousands of cultivators have gathered at the border between Rong State and Yang State, blocking most of the border areas between the two countries. There are also Yuanying-stage cultivators who monitor the movement of the insect swarm at any time to ensure that they will not be attacked by the insect swarm!"

In the market town, Zhou Jiapeng described in vivid detail the information he had gathered, his face slightly excited.

An army of hundreds of thousands of immortal cultivators is indeed a very shocking force!

Even in the war between Jingguo and Hualongjiao and the war against the beast tide, the actual number of participants was only tens of thousands. But now the number of cultivators gathered in Rongguo is hundreds of thousands, and among them are masters from various countries and sects.

Just thinking about that kind of scene is enough to shock ordinary monks.

But Zhou Mingde had seen big scenes after all, and was not shocked by Zhou Jiapeng's words at this time.

After thinking calmly for a while, he said in a deep voice: "We are forced to fight a head-on battle with the insect swarm. It seems that the harm of this insect plague is even greater than we expected!"

"Whether we win or lose in this head-on battle, the number of monks who will die will definitely not be small, and the insect swarm cannot be completely wiped out due to a rout!"

At this point, he added, "Perhaps the purpose of this head-on battle is to try again to see if we can destroy the insect king. If we can destroy the insect king, even if the insect swarm cannot be completely destroyed, the scale of the insect disaster can be greatly curbed!"

When a swarm of insects forms to the level of a plague, there must be an insect king.

Once the Zerg King is killed, the Zerg's first task is to select a new Zerg King.

At this time, in order to compete for the throne of the Insect King, the high-level demon insects in the insect swarm will fight and devour each other frantically. The demon insects below will also split into large groups and even kill each other because of the loss of the leadership of the Insect King.

This chaos will continue until the new Zerg King ascends the throne and reintegrates the Zerg swarm.

Therefore, if you cannot think of a way to completely eliminate the insect swarm, killing the insect king first to curb the expansion of the insect swarm is also a feasible delaying tactic.

"I also agree with you, Grand Elder. The purpose of this head-on battle is probably to kill the Insect King."

Zhou Chun nodded, agreeing with Zhou Mingde's statement, and then said: "Let's wait for news and wait for changes to occur!"

From what he said, he had no intention of participating in a war that would go down in history.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but nod with satisfaction and said, "Yes, let's do it. We just need to wait for news here."

The judgment of the two Zhou family members was not wrong.

The sniper war on the border between Rong and Yang soon broke out.

Because the swarm is monitored by Nascent Soul cultivators, the movement direction of the main force of the swarm cannot be concealed from anyone.

Moreover, in order to take care of those low-level demon insects, the swarm will not move too fast.

This gave the human side enough time and space to move 100,000 troops to the front of the main force of the Zerg.

Above the scorched earth of Yang State, the evil insects that blocked out the sky and the sun gathered into a continuous cloud of insects, moving forward in a mighty force that stretched for dozens of miles.

The sound of their wings flapping when flying is as deafening as thunder and the sound is extremely terrifying.

Fortunately, the land of Yang State below has become a scorched earth, with no people or birds or beasts.

Otherwise, this kind of noise would scare people to death!

But when this overwhelming swarm of insects arrived at the border area of ​​Yang State, which was less than 200 miles away from Rong State, they encountered an army of more than 100,000 human monks who had been waiting for them there.

But on the ground, one could see cultivators standing at distances ranging from dozens of feet to several hundred feet apart, and they were so densely packed that they covered an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

As for those Purple Mansion Stage and Golden Core Stage cultivators, they were suspended in the air and formed an aerial defense line.

When the overwhelming swarm of insects approached within dozens of miles, one by one the Jindan-stage and Zifu-stage cultivators took the initiative to attack the swarm with various powerful spells.

A Jindan-stage cultivator was seen waving a flag in his hand, and red-gold flames emerged from the flag, transforming into red-gold firebirds that swooped down on the insect swarm. There were hundreds of them.

There was also a Jindan stage cultivator who rubbed his hands together and a hurricane tornado that stretched from the sky to the earth and was more than ten feet in diameter moved across the air and swept towards the insect swarm.

Setting fire, blowing air, spraying water...

All kinds of powerful spells were blasted towards the insect swarm through the air.

Every time a magic spell falls on the insect swarm, it will kill tens of thousands of demon insects, even the third-level demon insects are no exception!
But compared to the huge swarm of insects that stretched for dozens of miles, this loss was insignificant.

What's more, after encountering a powerful fire attack, the Zerg responded quickly.

I saw that the huge swarm of insects suddenly split into groups, with the larger ones flying to the front and collectively accelerating and rushing forward.

These are all second- and third-level demon insects. They are at a relatively high level of evolution and not only have powerful means of attack, but also defensive means.

They formed into insect arrays and charged forward, their magical auras connected to each other. Even the attacks of Jindan stage cultivators could not cause much damage to an insect array.

Soon the vanguard of the insect swarms rushed to the front of the human monk army and launched a counterattack.

Some of them collectively spewed out fiery red high-temperature venom, which fell on the monks on the ground like a meteor shower.

Some of them collectively spewed out black and silver-white light blades, like thousands of arrows shot at the immortal cultivators in the air.

Others spit out green venom, which rains down on the enemy.

Perhaps compared to the dazzling array of magical spells and supernatural powers of immortal cultivators, the swarm's means of attack seem somewhat simple.

However, no one dares to underestimate the power of their attacks.

Soon, some cultivators with lower levels of cultivation fell in the insect swarm's attack.

At this time, the swarm of insects had already begun to approach and attack the army of monks blocking the way.

The monks who were standing on the ground like wooden stakes either used their magic weapons or cast magic talismans to launch attacks on the approaching demon insects.

In this war, everyone has his or her own mission, and cultivators at every level know what they should do.

Those Qi Refining and Foundation Building cultivators tried their best to disperse the power of the insect swarm and kill as many of its living forces as possible.

The Purple Mansion Stage cultivators and the Golden Core Stage cultivators are responsible for intercepting the main force of the insect swarm and trying their best to divide the swarm so as to reduce the force that the Insect King can mobilize.

As for the Nascent Soul cultivators who have not shown up, they are shouldering the most important task, which is to kill the king of the insect swarm.

Finally, when the overwhelming swarm of insects completely entered the human monks' position and engaged in a melee with the intercepting human monks, those Nascent Soul stage monks finally took action!
But suddenly, colorful rays of light rose in the sky, and pure and powerful torrents of spiritual power rushed towards the insect swarm from all directions, crushing and killing millions of demon insects in an instant!
The Insect King, who had been hiding in the center of the insect swarm, could no longer hide his body and was forced to reveal his true form.

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