Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 103: Spirit-avoiding Jade
A burst of explosions was heard, and a giant locust more than two meters long flew out of the poison pool. Its head, chest, and abdomen were obviously different from those of ordinary locusts. Its head was more similar to that of a human, but it had the filamentous antennae and chewing mouthparts of a locust, and its pupils were more similar to the structure of a compound eye.

There is bony armor on the chest and tough, narrow hind wings on the back. There are countless struggling human faces on the transparent wing membranes. As the wings vibrate, bursts of ghostly howling sounds are emitted, urging the poisonous locusts, and even the corpses of the poisonous locusts to move.

Finally, green ghostly fire flowed on the three pairs of chest feet. Looking closely, they were somewhat similar to the Green Flame Sword he had used before.

"I say, after their cultivation has been successful, do all of them look so disgusting?"

Wu Chaoxi stood in mid-air, not wanting to see the new appearance of the ancient grasshopper at all.

Chu Tai also frowned, his true energy rising, and he swept the Jinxuan Danxia Banner downwards fiercely.

The golden light of the red fire, like a red glow, illuminated the sky, dyeing most of the sky above Baidu Ridge golden red.

Then Chu Tai made hand gestures and chanted a spell: "Dan Tian Fire Cloud, the might of the universe... Three Qi become fire, seven Qi become a formation... Hurry up and obey the command!"

He stretched out his hand and pointed, and under the golden light of the red fire, the vital energy around the poison pool surged, and countless fire lines ignited, crisscrossing and connecting each other.

In a moment it covered an area of ​​dozens of miles. The flames were flying and connected to each other, forming layer upon layer of fire nets covering the sky, just like a fire cloud covering the sky above Baidu Ridge.

Suddenly surrounded, the ancient locust, whose animal nature had overwhelmed its human nature, naturally could not sit still. It shook its body and densely packed eggs fell down. The eggs grew as soon as they saw the wind and turned into dozens of poisonous locusts that flew towards the fire net.

The strange thing was that the poisonous locusts passed through the fire net without suffering any damage, but instead became more energetic.

Seeing this, the ancient locust, whose little intelligence was left, instinctively thought that the fire was not dangerous, flapped its wings, flew into the air, and tried to break free from its restraints.

But as soon as he touched the fire net, thousands of densely packed fire symbols appeared in the air and trapped him. The light turned, and the previously vigorous poisonous locusts also turned into sparks and fell down, trying to ignite the body of the ancient grasshopper.

The three pairs of pectoral legs waved, green fire flowed, sparks turned and flew back, and the fire net was torn apart layer by layer.

But under the flow of red fire and golden light, the fire net seemed endless, tearing one layer after another.

At the same time, Chu Tai changed his hand gestures, the Taiyi Changming Lantern flew up, and a shadow of a spiritual official stood up from the lamp. He pinched his fingers with one hand and held a whip with the other, swung it violently, and knocked the ancient locust into the poison pool.

Before the ancient locust fell, a palm-sized five-colored jade wheel jumped out from the poison pool. At the same time, five dragon phantoms emerged, entangled the ancient locust, twisted it inward, and turned it clockwise, preparing to roll its soul out directly.

A sound similar to that of metal rubbing against each other was heard, and the Five Dragon Demon-Slaying Wheel, the Yin Jing Sect's secret magic-killing treasure, was unable to turn.

Chu Tai looked carefully and found that the surface of the ancient locust's body was covered with dense and strange witchcraft patterns, which were shining brightly at the moment, hindering the rotation of the Demon-Destroying Wheel.

"This is?"

Chu Tai frowned, but did not think much about it. He threw down the Seven Yin Huasha Banner and placed it against the Golden Xuan Danxia Banner. The yin and yang poles collided, the virtual and the real intertwined, and the witch pattern broke for a moment.

The five dragons turned, and the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth turned, trying to destroy it, but its shell covered with strange witch patterns tightly protected its last bit of spirituality.

The most important thing is that the human face on its shell showed signs of collapse during the rotation of the Demon-Destroying Wheel.

Chu Tai, who had an absolute advantage, was reluctant but also unwilling to settle for second best.

After several unsuccessful attempts, the ancient grasshopper became more and more crazy.

But no matter how hard the ancient locust struggled, it could not escape from Chu Tai's palm under the restraints of the three magic weapons: the Seven Yin Evil-Transforming Banner, the Golden Danxia Banner and the Five Dragons Demon-Slaying Wheel.

Instead, Chu Tai found some gaps in the shell of the ancient locust during its struggle.

Following the gap, Chu Tai used up some of his mana and flesh to replenish the ghost faces imprisoned in him. Su Chen's green light entered again, injecting his mana into it. The green light surged to half a foot long, and with a flick of Chu Tai's finger, it pierced into the left eye of the ancient locust, causing it to scream in pain.

Wu Chaoxi couldn't bear the shrill cry anymore, and he fell down again, looking at Chu Tai with some confusion.

"Why don't you just wipe him out? If that doesn't work, you can always use thunder magic to break the witchcraft on him."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai pointed at the human face on the ancient locust and said, "First, although this guy deserves to die, the soul imprisoned in his body is innocent. If it can be saved, it is better to save it."

"You are a kind-hearted fellow."

In response to Wu Chaoxi's praise, Chu Tai shook his head and said, "I only had this idea because the other party did not affect my safety. If it really threatened my life, I would not care so much."

Wu Chaoxi shook his head: "Having this heart already surpasses many others, and can be called compassionate."

Chu Tai smiled and waved his hand, pointing at the ancient locust and spoke again.

"Secondly, in the 'Bilin Bai Gu Sutra' that the insect fairy gave me earlier, there is a special magic weapon called the Hundred Poison Avoiding Spirit Jade, which can be used to sacrifice the Gu insects and refine them into special containers that can carry a lot of foul air and toxins. The carrying capacity of the container varies depending on the quality of the Gu insects."

"I thought that if the drought demon spreads a plague, we can't drive it away, and we need something to contain it."

Upon hearing this, Wu Chaoxi immediately understood Chu Tai's idea: "So you want to keep his body to refine the Poison Repellent Jade?"

As he spoke, the Crow Immortal shuddered again, secretly marveling at the Insect Immortal's methods.

Chu Tai, who didn't know what Wu Chaoxi was thinking, looked at Ya Xian and said, "That's right. I don't know what secret technique has been used to refine his shell. It is invulnerable to swords and spears, water and fire, and it has the ability to imprison souls. As a container, it should be able to carry a lot of plague and poison gas."

"Fellow Daoist, you are a ghost immortal, and you are best at driving away souls and spirits. I will immobilize this guy, and you can rescue those souls and knock out the soul of the ancient locust at the same time, so that I can make use of its body."

Upon hearing this, Wu Chaoxi was silent for a while, then flew to the top of the ancient grasshopper. Black air rose from his body, and an illusory shadow appeared with its mouth open, roaring at the ancient grasshopper.

There was clearly no sound, but the witch pattern on the ancient locust's shell and the five dragon shadows that bound him began to appear and disappear.

The green light that pierced into the left eye of the ancient locust also broke through the glass-like outer shell on the compound eye and pierced into its brain.

The next second, the huge locusts could only twitch instinctively, and wisps of black gas flew out with a large number of ghosts. After being initially refined by Chu Tai, they were gathered together through magic.

"I look up to the Lord of Yin Jing Wuai, and give the Great Yi Wan Dao Zu the salvation... all the thousands of grievances and sins will be eliminated, and the nine disasters and three calamities will be eliminated..."

Yin Jingzong chanted the secret spell, and the souls that were originally imprisoned by the ancient locusts began to bite his soul.

As an ancient locust who had broken through to the sixth level, no matter what his method of cultivation was, at this point his soul had undergone a certain qualitative change, and a faint fluorescence appeared on the surface.

Logically, these tortured souls, after losing the blessings of spells and witchcraft and having most of their resentment cleansed by Chu Tai, should not be able to harm the ancient locust.

But in reality, this is not the case. Every time these souls take a bite, they bite off a wisp of Yin Qi to fill their own deficiencies.

The face of the ancient grasshopper was sometimes distorted, sometimes confused, and sometimes chaotic, as if it was enduring great pain.

When Wu Chaoxi saw this scene, his eyes lit up slightly and he exclaimed in amazement: "Daoyou's move is truly amazing. He actually let the soul devour the other party's cultivation while leaving his own resentment, anger, sadness and other emotions to the ancient locust."

There are two spells. The first one is randomly spliced ​​together, and the second one is a magical modification of the spell.
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