Chapter 206 Seeking Help

As Zhang Zhixuan and his companions went deeper and deeper into the Southern Wilds, more locusts appeared before their eyes. They had only entered the Southern Wilds for 30,000 miles before they found seven or eight large locust swarms, each of which was no smaller than the first one they encountered.

A locust swarm of this size must have a third-level locust monster in it. Without the control of a third-level locust monster, it would be impossible for it to form such a large area like a black cloud.

Zhang Zhixuan looked up and saw locusts opening their sharp mouthparts, biting off all the weeds and trees like a whirlwind, turning the dense forest into a bare wasteland in a very short time.

Because the population is huge and they have to keep eating on the road, the locust swarm moves slowly. Zhang Zhixuan and his companions estimated that under normal circumstances, a locust swarm can only move three or four hundred miles even if it works day and night. This speed is only one-tenth of that of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Even a cultivator in the Qi Training Stage running at full speed is much faster than a locust swarm.

Although Zhang Zhixuan and his companions killed a group of locusts, they also consumed more than half of their mana. Zhang Zhixuan also used the Skyfire Golden Knife. Although the Skyfire Golden Knife is a powerful spell, it is also very limited. Each time it is used, the golden knife must be warmed up for three months.

According to Zhang Zhixuan's estimation, to kill a group of locusts without damage, at least four to six foundation-building cultivators are needed. If it is a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building, because of insufficient mana and magical powers, the number of people should be more.

The two of them have already found out the habits and abilities of the locust swarms, so they did not continue to entangle with them. They immediately left the Southern Wilderness and returned to Yanlai Peak.

After Zhang Zhixuan and his companions returned, they found that Zhu Hun and Wu Xiangzhen had returned first. Among them, Zhu Hun was injured and sat on the side with a pale face.

Seeing Zhang Zhixuan and his companions come back safely and capture a third-level locust monster, Wu Xiangzhen was delighted and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang is really good. Brother Zhu and I also encountered a group of locust monsters, but unfortunately we were surrounded by them. Although we injured the third-level insect king, we were not able to defeat him. Fellow Daoist Zhu also lost some vitality due to excessive consumption of mana."

"How does Fellow Daoist Zhu feel?" Zhang Zhixuan turned around and asked Zhu Hun, who looked pale.

"It's nothing more than excessive consumption of mana. It seems that we can't stop these locusts just by relying on a few of us. I'm going to return to Chaoyin Mountain immediately and ask Senior Sun for help. I'll ask a Purple Mansion cultivator to take charge of the situation."

Zhu Hun's cultivation level is only the fourth level of foundation building, the lowest among the few people. This time, he was injured in his first battle, and his face looked a little bad. He heard Zhang Zhixuan's question and answered with a wry smile.

In Taicheng County, Qingxuan Sect arranged two purple palace monks to sit in Chaoyin Mountain, namely Sun Changgeng and Han Wangpeng. Chaoyin Mountain has a spiritual stone mine, which is far more important to Qingxuan Sect than Taicheng County, so it is estimated that Sun Changgeng, who has a higher cultivation level, will sit in Chaoyin Mountain, while Han Wangpeng may be able to spare his hands to support Yanlai Peak.

First, Zhu Hun was sent away and asked to go to Chaoyin Mountain to find reinforcements.

At this time, the nearest locust swarm was less than ten thousand miles away from Yanlai Peak. Even if Zhang Zhixuan and others went to the mountain gate of Qingxuan Sect for help, they did not have so much time.

Qingxuan Sect is located in the southwest of Taicheng County, more than tens of thousands of miles away. Even if the foundation-building cultivators set off, it would take a month to go back and forth. By the time the foundation-building cultivators of Qingxuan Sect arrive, I am afraid that the locust swarms have already entered Taicheng County on a large scale.

Chaoyin Mountain is only ten thousand miles away from Yanlai Peak. The foundation-building cultivators can come to reinforce within ten days and can easily catch up with this war.

The battle for the spirit stone mine in Chaoyin Mountain has hurt the Hongshan Sect's cultivators. Without a 100% sure victory, they dare not make trouble now.

Moreover, there are still three purple mansion cultivators guarding Yuntai Mountain. It is very likely that Jin Laozu is hiding in Jiangkou County. Zhao Xinlian also followed Hu Boyu to hide in Huilong Peak. On both sides of the Duanyun Mountains, Qingxuan Sect stationed one Jindan, six purple mansions, and sixty to seventy foundation-building cultivators. Even if Hongshan Sect came out in full force, relying on the terrain and formations, Qingxuan Sect now has the confidence to win.

Hongshan Sect's Yang Wangyuan can also guess part of Qingxuan Sect's arrangement. Without the certainty of a complete victory, he dare not act rashly.

There is no major war for the time being. Chaoyin Mountain can at least withdraw half of its manpower for reinforcement. It is estimated that one purple mansion and five foundation-building cultivators can rush to Yanlai Peak.

In this locust monster chaos, the fourth-level locust monster has been killed by Liang Laozu, and the remaining locust swarms are divided into dozens of groups, which can be easily defeated by the cultivators one by one.

If they were not afraid of too many casualties among the family members, which would hurt their vitality, even Zhang Zhixuan and his dozen people could easily kill all the locusts.

After all, without the suppression of the fourth-level locust monster, these locust swarms would not concentrate their strength at all. Although the monster insects are smarter than ordinary locusts, they are still insignificant compared to human wisdom.

As long as Zhang Zhixuan and others concentrate their strength, they can easily eliminate a group of locusts.

But now time is very tight, and they have no time to find the locust swarms one by one and eliminate them completely. Once a group of locusts rushes into Taicheng County and kills mortals on a large scale, it will be a complete failure for the Zhang, Wu, Liu and other families.

Several people waited for two days, and only exchanged some opinions with each other when Wu Xiangwen and Wu Xianghuai brothers came back.

Wu Xiangwen has already built the eighth level of foundation cultivation. He and Wu Xianghuai also wiped out a group of locusts and killed a third-level low-grade locust monster.

Because there is no flying magic weapon, they only collected the most precious materials from the locust monster. Although the locust monster is a third-level demon insect, the materials on its body are not very valuable. Its six legs are not strong enough, so it can only be used to refine second-level top-quality magical weapons.

A dozen pairs of thin wings, without the cooperation of the locust monster's body, can't use the means of sound attack, so they are not very valuable.

To kill such a locust monster, Zhang Zhixuan and his accompaniment consumed four third-level spiritual talismans and used the Skyfire Golden Knife, but the materials on it added up to less than 300 spiritual stones, which is a serious loss.

Wu Xiangwen and his accompaniment killed the third-level locust monster, and lost more resources. In order to save mana, they used only six third-level spiritual talismans and thirteen second-level high-quality spiritual talismans. The cost of the spiritual talismans exceeded one thousand spiritual stones.

If there were no interests involved, Zhang Zhixuan would never fight with such things in the wilderness, and he would definitely run as far as possible.

Facing these locust swarms, even if they were all eliminated, there would not be much benefit, but a lot of resources would be consumed.

Once the mana consumption is too large, there may be danger.

The crowd surrounded the third-level locust monster hunted by Zhang Zhixuan and began to analyze the weaknesses of this third-level monster insect.

Compared with ordinary third-level monsters, locust monsters are very weak when fighting alone. Even a cultivator who has just established his foundation can easily deal with it.

The terrifying thing about this monster is that it can control the locusts under its command on a large scale. With millions of ordinary locusts, the third-level locust monster is very difficult to deal with. If it cannot cause great damage to the locust swarm, the third-level locust monster will not appear at all.

As for what means the locust monster relies on to control the locusts, Zhang Zhixuan and others have seen this monster for the first time and still don’t understand it. They can only slowly accumulate experience in future battles.