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Chapter 298: Thousands of Cricket Disasters, the Final Winner [Subscription Request]

The hatching contract method for demon insect eggs is different from that for demon beasts.

Because there are too many demon insects and their eggs are too small, if the cultivators were to contract them one by one, it would take a lot of energy.

Therefore, for the sake of convenience, a large number of the same kind of demon insect eggs are usually placed on the contract formation, and the contract is signed together to recognize the master.

This contract formation is somewhat similar to the "Soul Controlling Blood Formation" used to contract monsters, but it has been modified.

At this time, Zhou Chun followed the instructions on the insect repellent technique and carved a contract formation on a stone platform using his own blood as ink.

Then he placed a total of 300 "Black Armor Golden Feather" insect eggs on it, opened his mouth and spit out a thumb-sized ball of blood, which fell on the stone platform. He used his spiritual consciousness and magic formula to stimulate it, so that it was evenly divided into tiny drops of blood that fell on each insect egg.

After he activated the contract formation, a faint blood light suddenly enveloped the stone platform.

After a moment, the blood faded away, and the pale yellow insect eggs had a faint connection with Zhou Chun.

Because the intelligence of the demon insects themselves is extremely low, when cultivators drive the demon insects, they often have to guide and control them with their spiritual consciousness, so that the demon insects can do things according to their own ideas.

On the other hand, the stronger the monsters are, the more intelligent they are. They can easily understand their master's orders and do not have this disadvantage.

After confirming that he had a slight connection with the insect eggs on the stone platform, Zhou Chun buried all the eggs in the roots of the big trees outside the temporary cave, allowing them to hatch naturally.

Then he did the same thing and made a contract with the "Flying Fire Scorpion" eggs and the "Blue Moon Butterfly" eggs.

The number of eggs of the "Flying Fire Scorpion" is relatively small, only 180.

The Blue Moon Butterfly has even fewer eggs, only sixty in number.

However, for insect cultivators, as long as they have a pair of male and female demon insects in their hands, the number is not a big problem.

As long as we cultivate it patiently, the insect population can increase tenfold in less than ten years!
After all, most demon insects can lay dozens, hundreds or even thousands of eggs at a time!
Then he buried the eggs of the "Flying Fire Scorpion" in dry soil and placed the eggs of the "Blue Moon Butterfly" on the potted orchids, and Zhou Chun waited for them to hatch on their own.

In the following period of time, he began to study the techniques of expelling insects.

As mentioned before, due to their low intelligence, even if there is a contract between them that prevents them from biting their masters, it is very difficult to make them understand the master's orders and execute them quickly. The master can only use his spiritual consciousness as a guide.

However, once the number of demon insects becomes too large, unless the master is a Jindan-stage cultivator, it will be impossible for him to divide his attention and guide each demon insect at the same time.

Therefore, when driving the evil insects again, some skills are often needed.

For example, you can cultivate some leaders in the demon insect swarm who are obviously stronger than other demon insects. Through long-term training, the demon insects will be accustomed to following the leaders' actions. In this way, the master only needs to command those leaders on how to act to lead the entire insect swarm.

Another method is to use special sound wave vibration frequencies to drive the demon insects. Different vibration frequencies represent different commands.

This requires more effort in training and guiding the insect swarm in daily life so that the swarm can form habitual memory.

No matter which insect repellent technique is used, repelling evil insects will definitely consume more energy of the cultivator than repelling evil beasts.

In view of this, Zhou Chun does not plan to raise too many kinds of demon insects in the future, so as not to spend too much energy on this.

On the other hand, while Zhou Chun was immersed in learning the art of expelling insects in the wilderness, Zhou Mingde was following the monks of Qinglian Temple to exterminate insects everywhere.

Shanyangzi seemed to really treat him as a captured soldier, and the tasks he assigned to him were no less than those of the Purple Mansion monks in Qinglian Temple.

He even personally took him to clear out large swarms of insects many times.

This caused Zhou Mingde to doubt for a time whether Shan Yangzi wanted to use the evil insect to get rid of him.

But if you think about it carefully, Shan Yangzi shouldn't be so unwise.

After all, the prescription has been offered, and Zhou Mingde's contribution has been reported.

Even if he died at the hands of the evil insect, the reward he deserved must be given to the Zhou family.

Otherwise, once the news gets out, it will undoubtedly cause a huge blow to the reputation of Qinglian Temple.

What's more, the majority of the credit for offering the medicine has already been taken away by Shanyangzi and Qinglian Temple. It is not necessary to murder him, a Purple Mansion stage cultivator, for the sake of losing the greater for the sake of the smaller.

So later on, Zhou Mingde was more inclined to believe that Shan Yangzi wanted to use this to criticize him.

As for the reason for hitting him, it was of course because he had previously made arrangements to guard against Shan Yangzi.

In view of this, Zhou Mingde could only remind himself to be careful every time he went on a mission, and focus on protecting himself.

After all, he is not a member of Qinglian Temple. Shanyangzi can assign him tasks in order to unify the tone, but he certainly cannot assign him the task of clearing a certain number of demon insects.

Time passed slowly, and half a year passed quickly.

During this six-month period, the number of demon insects wiped out by immortal cultivators in the territory of Rong Country alone reached over 100 million.

However, the number of demon insects reproduced by the insect swarm in the past six months is even greater!
Despite the continuous clearing by human cultivators, after half a year, most of Rong Country was severely damaged by the insect swarm, and countless mortals, livestock, and plants were devoured by the insect swarm.

As many as dozens of Rong State's immortal cultivation family gates and independent cultivation bases were destroyed by the insect swarms, and the number of immortal cultivators who died in the insect plague totaled thousands.

This situation also made many monks who were involved in clearing out the evil insects feel shocked and filled with worry.

You have to know that this is the result of these immortal cultivators cleaning day and night.

But they are just cultivators after all, not iron puppets, and they are tireless and hungry.

It has only been half a year, but they are already tired of this matter. If this continues, how many people can persist in clearing the insect swarms within the territory of Rong State?
And if there are not so many immortal cultivators cleaning up the area day and night, with the speed at which the insect swarm multiplies and expands, I am afraid that within three months, the entire Rong State will follow in the footsteps of the Yang State and turn into a scorched earth!
Just when many monks were feeling pessimistic about the future, the emergence of a piece of news boosted their spirits and gave them hope.

The news was spoken by "Zi Yan Zhenren" who had joined forces to kill the Insect King. It was absolutely true.

According to this great monk in the late Nascent Soul stage, a poison that can exterminate insect swarms on a large scale has been developed, and large quantities of it have been refined.

Next, as long as we determine the approximate location of each insect swarm's nest, we can arrange teams to carry out targeted elimination with poison!

The emergence of this news undoubtedly gave all the monks fighting on the front line a shot of adrenaline, making their already tired minds suddenly refreshed. Not long after, many monks from major forces were divided into small teams, each carrying a certain amount of poison to go to various insect nests to eliminate the insect swarms.

They would first use food to lure the insect swarm out. If this trick didn't work, they would let the Purple Mansion Stage cultivators in the team use the Mountain-Splitting Earth Technique to attack the insect nest, angering the insect swarm to come out and attack them.

When the swarm of insects comes out, they will use magic to catalyze the diluted poison water into water mist to cover the swarm of insects.

These water mists are not contaminated with any magical power and have no attack capabilities of their own. The Zerg will not treat them as any spell for defense.

As long as the water mist touches the monster insect, the poison will quickly take effect and cause great harm to the monster insect.

At this time, the demon insects, even with the insect king leading the swarm, can no longer exert their powerful combat power as before.

The insect swarm that originally required several Purple Mansion Stage cultivators and dozens of Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators to destroy could now be easily destroyed with less than one-third of the previous strength.

As for the larvae and eggs in the insect nest later, we only need to open a passage leading to the nest and transport the poisonous mist transformed from the poisonous water into it, so as to disinfect the entire nest.

Perhaps there will still be some that slip through the net, but as long as we arrange some people to monitor the insect nest nearby and report and kill those that slip through the net in a timely manner, there will be no problem.

In this way, with the help of poison, in just less than a month, the insect plague that had plagued the two countries was mostly eradicated.

The reason why the fire was not completely extinguished was because the amount of poison prepared was not enough.

But it doesn't matter now. The remaining insect swarms can no longer pose a threat to Nascent Soul cultivators as before.

All the Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators took action personally, using various means to search the sky and the earth. They quickly found all the insect nests hidden everywhere, and then destroyed them with their own hands.

Once all the insect nests that could be found in the open have been destroyed, the insect plague will be basically eliminated.

Next, we just need to continue making poison and arrange more people to patrol and monitor, and eliminate every place we find. It will be difficult for the evil insects to cause any more trouble.

After all, the reason why these evil insects could cause such trouble was that they did not receive enough attention at the beginning, which led to the birth of the king of their race.

Now that the human cultivators have killed the Insect King and wiped out the main force of the insect plague, and are highly vigilant against the remaining evil insects, it will be difficult for the insect plague to occur again.

It was not until this time that the Yuanying stage cultivators, after discussion, decided to name the evil insect that caused the insect plague.

Based on the source of the poison formula for killing the evil insects, the name of the evil insects was finally named "Thousand Ant Crickets", and this insect plague was also called the "Thousand Cricket Plague".

After the insect plague was eradicated, the inventor of the poison formula that countless monks were curious about was also announced.

According to the information finally announced, the inventor of the poison formula was "Master Fufeng", a Yuanying stage immortal of Yang State.

That’s right, after discussions among the Nascent Soul cultivators, “Master Fufeng” became the inventor of the poison formula.

The reason for this is that this "Master Fufeng" himself is famous enough. With the cultivation level of the middle Nascent Soul stage and his mastery of alchemy, he has always been very famous in Yang State and surrounding countries. The poison formula invented by him makes it easier for people to be convinced and reassured.

Secondly, this insect plague broke out in Yang State and brought about the destruction of the country, and also caused half of Rong State to be severely affected, which made the cultivators in the surrounding countries have a very bad impression of the immortal cultivation world of Yang State.

Many cultivators believed that the cultivators of Yang State were too stupid and short-sighted, which was why they allowed the "Thousand Ant Crickets" to grow and become an insect plague.

Therefore, letting "Master Fufeng" of Yang State invent a poison formula to eliminate the insect plague would undoubtedly help those monks make amends and reduce their ill will towards the monks of Yang State.

Thirdly, “Master Fufeng” himself also wants this title and is willing to pay a sufficient price for it!
For some reason, when Zhou Mingde heard that the inventor of the poison formula was "Master Fufeng", he actually felt a sense of gloating.

He knew very early on that such a major achievement as ending the insect plague could not fall on a small person like him, even if he was indeed the one who offered the poison formula.

However, he originally thought that Shanyangzi might have a chance to win this honor and go down in history books.

Now, Shan Yangzi no longer has that chance, and Zhou Mingde felt much more balanced in his heart instantly.

Of course, he would never show this himself. Instead, he went to Shan Yangzi with a look of astonishment to inquire about the situation.

Shan Yangzi's mood at this moment was naturally extremely depressed and complicated.

Although giving up his reputation allowed him to gain more benefits, that was obviously not his original intention.

Therefore, facing Zhou Mingde's inquiries, he said very unhappily: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, why are you asking so many questions? Since it is a matter decided by the seniors, we, the younger generation, can only choose to obey!"

Anyone can hear the reluctance in the words.

When Zhou Mingde saw this, he was secretly happy.

But he still looked worried and whispered, "Then what about the reward we agreed on..."

"Don't worry. Since I promised you, I will definitely not go back on my word. It's just that the seniors are still discussing the specific matters with our sect's ancestor. Fellow Daoist Zhou, just be patient and wait!"

Shan Yangzi glanced at him, waved his hand gently and answered.

His impatient look made Zhou Mingde dare not say anything more.

At that moment, I could only say, "So, senior, when do you plan to return to Jingguo? To be honest, I have been away from home for a long time, and I am really worried about the younger generations in the family. Now I just want to return to the family as soon as possible to let them know that I am safe!"

Hearing what he said, Shan Yangzi couldn't help but narrow his eyes and stared at him up and down.

After a while, he said to him calmly: "If you want to go back by yourself, then go ahead. Now that the insect plague has been eradicated, I will not stop you anymore!"

"Thank you for your understanding, Senior. I wish you all the best and success in everything!"

After Zhou Mingde finished speaking, he bowed deeply to him again and then left.

A few days later, Zhou Mingde returned to Dayun Kingdom and took Zhou Jiapeng and others on the journey back to Jing Kingdom.

Zhou Chun also set out from another route and rushed to an agreed location to meet up with him.

(End of this chapter)