Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 102: Su Chen Spotted Locusts
Baidu Ridge covers a large area, nearly a thousand miles in radius. When Chu Tai and others arrived, it was just dawn and the bright moon was setting in the west.

At this time, colorful clouds rose in the mountains. Through the rainbow, you could vaguely see lush trees and colorful flowers in the mountains, as if it were a fairyland on earth.

But if you look closely, you will find a large number of insects and snakes crawling out from the cracks in the rocks. If you count them carefully, you will find centipedes, spiders, geckos, scorpions, poisonous pythons, etc. Each of them has bright patterns and looks extremely poisonous.

On the top of the mountains, the dense vegetation includes thunder god vine, acacia, oleander, aconite and other plants, which are also unusual in color, and have a colorful and gorgeous appearance different from their counterparts in the outside world.

In an environment with such a high density of poisonous insects and poisonous plants, the colorful glow rising from the mountains is naturally not a good thing. In essence, it is a highly toxic miasma formed by the mixture of poison sprayed by poisonous insects and water vapor evaporated from poisonous plants.

If an ordinary person strays into this place, he will die instantly without being bitten by poison or accidentally eating anything. He will die immediately if he inhales a breath of the poisonous miasma that permeates everywhere.

"It seems that guy guessed right. Something is really wrong with his brother. When I explored this place some time ago, the poison was not so strong. It is impossible for ordinary disaster demons to bring about such a big change in a short period of time."

Wu Chaoxi, who was standing on Chu Tai's shoulder, showed a look of disgust.

The poisonous gas here has obviously been artificially purified, adding a lot of foul smells inside. It is naturally unbearable for ghost immortals like Wu Chaoxi who have already condensed a pure body.

Chu Tai looked intently, the light of the sun and the moon condensed in his eyes. The "Bi Lu Bai Gu Sutra" and the "fate" of the insect fairy allowed him to see through the poisonous miasma and see the most core secrets inside.

A huge poisonous pool, where all kinds of poisons linger, filth and foul air swirl, eventually condensing into streams of strange and contagious toxins, or you can simply call it a plague or a virus.

However, this kind of observation is not foolproof. In the poison pool, a strange beetle made a piercing sound, followed by a roar from the mountains.

"who!"

A green light rose, and a man with some locust features stood on it.

The man was wearing a strange costume made of animal skins and bones, with a leather bag hanging around his waist. Three iron forks burning with green phosphorous flames were inserted into the white bones of his left shoulder, and three iron rings burning with flames were on his right arm. In his hand, he held a green flame knife. Combined with his ferocious appearance, he looked quite terrifying.

This person was none other than the Insect Immortal's senior brother, Gu Fu Zhui.

When he saw Chu Tai and the other two, Gu Fu Zhui shook his hands, and the three iron forks on his shoulders turned into three green lights about ten feet long and shot out.

At the same time, the animal skin bag hanging around his waist opened wide, and many tiny poisonous insects flew out with billowing green flames.

Wu Chaoxi felt disgusted and spread his wings. A few feathers fell down and turned into thick smoke in the air and dispersed. Hundreds of crow shadows flew out from it to meet the poisonous insect.

With his mouth opened, the newly acquired magic weapon Thousand Flow Blades came out, and as soon as the flowing flying knives touched the iron fork, it aroused bursts of ghostly howls, followed by phosphorous fire and magic spells emerging, trying to contaminate the magic weapon.

Wu Chaoxi knew how powerful it was, and with a thought, the sharp blade split into two, flying up and down to block the iron fork.

Gu Fuzhu became furious upon seeing this, and the green flame knife in his hand and the fire ring on his wrist flew out and hit Wu Chaoxi.

The Jade Flame Knife was burning with green ghost fire, and the poison and filth it contained was far greater than that of the iron fork, and it was most adept at filthing human magic weapons.

The small knife that was differentiated from the Thousand Flow Blades collided with it twice and was stained with a little green fire, restricting its movement.

As for the fire ring, although it was far inferior to Chu Tai's Liuhe Circle, the three of them formed a set and influenced each other. Under the high-speed rotation, large and small fire rings appeared, encircling hundreds of crows and easily burning them to ashes.

Wu Chaoxi flew into the air, avoiding the falling magic weapons. The ancient locust released more poisonous insects, and this time, he directly grabbed the poisonous insects and stuffed them into his mouth, letting the shells cut his mouth. After biting them, he sprayed them out with blood in his mouth. A poisonous mist rose, attracting the poisonous miasma in the mountains, and turned into a long rainbow to cover Wu Chaoxi.

The wings flapped, and strong winds rose up, blowing away the first layer, and a second layer fell down. The miasma accumulated layer by layer, becoming thicker and thicker, gradually compressing Wu Chaoxi's hiding space.

'He has a rather violent personality. Is it a side effect of using the poison to stabilize himself, or is it that his cultivation method caused the poison's bestiality to erode his humanity? And this guy's magical power seems to be abnormally large. Fellow Daoist Wu was actually suppressed by him.'

"It seems that Brother Wu is looking for the opponent's weakness, but this guy's magical power is too special, and we can't delay him. I'd better intervene."

A hint of doubt appeared in Chu Tai's eyes. He silently calculated her life pulse and qi, and at the same time sent a message to Feifei to let her be prepared.

"This ancient locust is different from others. The poison and plague it refines must not be allowed to spread out at all. If something unexpected happens, you will use the magic umbrella to collect the filth."

Upon hearing this, Feifei clenched the magic weapon tightly and nodded with a serious expression.

Chu Tai took a step forward and flicked his whisk. The eight trigrams appeared and the Xun trigram brought good luck.

Wu Chaoxi took advantage of the situation and flew up, flapping his wings several times in succession. Two layers of strong winds gathered together and dispersed most of the poisonous miasma.

The spell was broken, and seeing Chu Tai coming, he glanced at Wu Chaoxi who was not hurt at all, and turned back to the poison pool.

He clapped his hands together, and the water in the pool rolled, spewing out thousands of thick smoke, followed by little green flames. As he swung his hands, Chu Tai was submerged in an instant.

Chu Tai, who was in the smoke, spread out his five fingers slightly, pointing downwards. The true Qi fell from his fingertips and turned into flames burning upwards.

With a flick of his long sleeves, he dispersed some of the smoke around him, and then he saw dense swarms of insect eggs scattered in the air, which made people's scalps tingle.

These eggs were only the size of rice grains at first, but they immediately grew to the size of a bowl when exposed to the wind. Then, poisonous locusts with dark green bodies, red eyes, and poisonous flames spewing from their mouths crawled out from them and pounced towards Chu Tai.

It is strange to say that this kind of insect creature is most afraid of fire, but the poisonous locusts sacrificed by the ancient locust lay on the flames, trying to contaminate Chu Tai's magic power with the poisonous flames it spewed out.

At the same time, these poisonous locusts crawled up and down, their limbs broke, and they turned into a thin gray-green mist in the flames. Their wings vibrated, making sounds similar to the howling of ghosts and wolves, which, combined with their densely packed mouthparts opening and closing, made people shudder.

Although Chu Tai was not afraid of this consumption, he felt uncomfortable watching it. He took Su Chen's green light in his hand, pinched it with his thumb and middle finger, and threw it out casually.

As the green light left his hand, it turned into clear light that spread all over the sky, accompanied by some snowflakes in the middle, flying back and forth among the many locusts.

In an instant, the poisonous locusts with intact shells appeared with some white marks on their bodies, and then they fell down in the flying snow, turning the beautiful snow scenery into "hail", which frightened the ancient locusts and made them open their eyes wide.

Wu Chaoxi was also stunned, but he reacted immediately, flapped his wings at the poisonous locust that was flying towards him, and then opened his mouth.

The strong wind suppressed the ghostly howling sounds of the poisonous locusts flapping their wings, and the even more shrill bird calls were captivating, directly shaking away the weak souls in these insects, just like Chu Tai used the misty Qi of the Nine Springs in the Su Chen Qing Mang to erode the spirits of the poisonous insects.

Seeing this scene, the ancient grasshopper was horrified and jumped into the poison pool. An even more shrill flapping sound of wings was heard, and bubbles emerged one after another in the poison pool.

(End of this chapter)