Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 282 Human-Insect War 【Subscription】

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

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

Just like an underground beehive, it is divided into countless small nest rooms, in which the larvae are hatched and born, and adults also have a separate nest room as a habitat.

At the same time, there is a water diversion ditch excavated at the bottom of the nest, which can guide the water percolated from above to other areas to avoid being flooded.

Such a special structure makes it difficult for the demon worm lair to be destroyed.

The larvae inside can grow excellently as long as food is available, without worrying about external threats.

The demon insect lair that Zhou Chun and the others found was not very large, and there were no second-order demon insects in it.

It looks like this should be a newly built lair.

According to the information they have inquired before, this kind of demon insects has multiplied in various parts of Yangguo, and in order to deal with the food crisis, many large demon insect swarms have to divide their nests.

This can be regarded as a strategy of the human monks.

By implementing scorched-earth tactics to curb the channels for the insects to obtain food, and then surround the insects on all sides to trap the insects in Yangguo, so that they cannot spill out.

It's just that the plague of insects has become a thing of the past. If we concentrate our forces to break through in a certain direction, the human monks may still be unable to stop it.

At this moment, after Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde observed the situation of the insect nests in the ground, they immediately started to catch the insects.

With a wave of Zhou Mingde's hand, a red-gold flying sword shot towards the position of the insect nest.

This third-tier magic weapon flying sword is so sharp that ordinary rocks can't block its sharpness, and soon a hole was drilled in the ground.

Not long after, Feijian arrived at the insect nest, and directly shuttled across the insect nest, smashing the insect nest to pieces.

This action enraged those monster insects, and soon one by one monster insects rushed down the hole to the ground, and rushed towards Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde.

If it were a monster, they would definitely not have the courage to take action against a cultivator of the Purple Mansion Stage and a cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage at this time.

But the demon worms have a fierce temperament, and they don't know what to be afraid of, and they will only attack all enemies that provoke them.

And although there are no second-order monsters, hundreds of first-order monsters lead thousands of ordinary monsters to attack together, and the momentum is quite impressive.

Just like the information above, most of those first-order monsters have mastered the relevant magic abilities.

Most of the demon insects that attacked Zhou Chun and the others were fire-type. When they flew close to the enemy, they could spit out a high-temperature venom that burned and corroded the target.

Not to mention the flesh and blood of humans and monsters, even if an ordinary first-order magic weapon is hit by the high-temperature poison, a gap will be corroded.

In addition, these monster worms can form a worm formation by huddling together to improve the overall defense ability, and even transfer their meager mana to a certain monster worm to forcefully increase the strength of that monster worm.

Therefore, even if there are only hundreds of first-order demon worms, once they form an array to launch an offensive, they still have the strength to threaten ordinary foundation-building stage monks.

However, the enemies they encountered this time could not be dealt with by such a small means.

After testing the power of the swarm for a while, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde killed most of the monster worms, and then used the special magic weapon prepared in advance to kill more than 20 live first-order monster worms and hundreds of ordinary monster worms. The demon worms were packed inside and brought back to Fangshi.

After returning to Fangshi, the two handed over the captured demon insects to Zhou Jiawei, who started the experiment.

In the next few days, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde will still go to the territory of Yang Kingdom from time to time, trying to see if they can catch the second-order monster insects.

However, it turns out that the idea of ​​​​the two is simply unfeasible.

Those second-order monsters have violent personalities. Once they are trapped and find that there is no way out, they will charge desperately until they die from exhaustion.

And Zhou Chun and the others have not found an effective way to prevent this from happening.

At the same time, Zhou Jiawei's experiments did not make any progress.

Although a few days was not long, it was enough for him to test all the low-cost poisons he brought over, but the result was very bad.

The vitality of the monster insects is very tenacious. Among the low-cost poisons that Zhou Jiawei brought over, it is almost impossible for any of them to kill them, and there are even few that can make them lose half of their lives.

"Uncle Fourteen, this junior thinks that your research direction needs to be changed, and you should focus on the study of poisonous smoke. With the scale of insect disasters, only large-scale poisonous smoke can achieve the effect of eliminating disasters!"

"If you can research the poisonous smoke that kills ordinary demon insects, even if some rare materials are needed, it will be worth it."

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

In the room, after Zhou Chun asked Zhou Jiawei about the current situation of poison development, he whispered his opinion.

However, after Zhou Jiawei heard his words, he sighed helplessly: "Why don't I know that poisonous smoke is the best way to kill insects!"

"However, compared with poisonous water and medicinal powder, poisonous smoke is inherently less toxic, and the body structure of monster insects is different from that of us humans and ordinary beasts. The poisonous smoke that is useful to us humans and ordinary beasts is not effective for them It might not work out well."

"So it's really too difficult to research poisonous smoke that is useful to demon insects, and it's not something that can be done in a short time!"

As an expert in poisoning, Zhou Jiawei must know better than Zhou Chun how to poison the target with poison.

He is also more aware of the complexity and difficulty of poison configuration than Zhou Chun.

At this time, after hearing him tell the inside story, Zhou Chun also knew that his thinking was a bit simple, so he didn't say anything more, just encouraged him a few words and left.

A few days later, a piece of news suddenly spread in the Fangshi where Zhou Chun and the others were located.

It is said that the countries and factions that have received the "humanitarian order" from Yang State have already sent reinforcements to Yang State.

And because of the food crisis, the insect swarms in Yang Kingdom also showed signs of concentrated migration.

So reinforcements from various countries and monks from Yang Kingdom, Dayun Kingdom and other countries prepared to concentrate their forces to intercept the migrating insect swarm and fight a direct battle with the insect swarm.

"It is said that the migrating direction of the swarm is Rongguo, and now hundreds of thousands of monks have gathered on the border between Rongguo and Yangguo, blocking most of the border between the two countries, and there are monks in the Nascent Soul stage who are always monitoring The movement trajectory of the swarm, to ensure that you will not be hit by the sound of the swarm!"

In Fangshi, Zhou Jiapeng talked vividly about the relevant information he had inquired, and his face was also slightly excited.

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

Even in the war between Yasukuni and the Hualong Cult, the war against the beast tide, the actual number of people participating in the battle was only tens of thousands.

But now the number of immortal cultivators gathered in Rongguo is hundreds of thousands, and among them are experts from various sects from all over the world.

Just thinking about such scenes is enough to shock ordinary monks.

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

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

"Whether you win or lose this kind of frontal battle, the number of fallen monks will definitely not be small, and it is impossible for the insect swarm to be completely wiped out because of defeat!"

Having said that, he continued: "Perhaps the purpose of this head-on battle is to try again to see if the worm king can be eliminated. If the worm king can be eliminated, then the swarm will not be completely wiped out. It can also greatly curb the scale of the pest disaster!"

To form a swarm of insect plagues, there must be an insect king.

Once the worm king is killed, the first task of the swarm is to elect a new worm king.

At this time, in order to compete for the throne of the insect king, those high-level monsters in the swarm will frantically kill and devour each other, and the monsters below will also divide in large numbers because of the loss of the leader of the insect king, and even kill each other.

This chaos will continue until the new bug king ascends the throne and reintegrates the bug swarm.

Therefore, if there is no way to completely eliminate the insect swarm, killing the insect king first to curb the expansion of the insect swarm is also a feasible strategy to delay the attack.

"The younger generation also agrees with what you said, the Supreme Elder. The purpose of this head-on battle is mostly to kill the insect king."

Zhou Chun nodded, expressing agreement with Zhou Mingde's statement, and immediately said: "Next, let's wait for the news and wait for the change to occur!"

According to what he meant, he didn't have the idea of ​​participating in the war that was enough to be recorded in the classics.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, then let's do this, we just need to wait here for the news with peace of mind."

The Zhou family's judgment was not wrong.

The sniper battle on the border between Rongguo and Yangguo started soon.

Because there are monks in the Nascent Soul stage monitoring the swarm, the direction of movement of the main force of the swarm cannot be hidden from anyone.

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

This allowed the human side to have enough time and space to move the [-] troops to the front of the main force of the swarm.

Above the scorched country of Yangguo, the monster insects covering the sky and the sun gathered into a continuous cloud of insects, moving forward in a mighty manner stretching for tens of miles.

The sound of their wings flapping when they fly is as deafening as thunder, and the sound is extremely frightening.

Thanks to the fact that the land of Yangguo below has become a piece of scorched earth, there are no people or birds or animals.

Otherwise, this kind of momentum can scare people to death!

But when this overwhelming swarm of insects came to the border area of ​​Yangguo, which is less than 10,000 miles away from Rongguo, they encountered an army of [-]+ human monks who had been waiting for them.

But seeing monks standing on the ground at distances ranging from tens to tens of feet, they also densely covered the area of ​​hundreds of miles.

And those cultivators of the purple mansion stage and the golden core stage were suspended in mid-air and turned into an air defense line.

When the overwhelming insect swarm approached tens of miles away, the monks of the golden core stage and the purple mansion stage took the first shot, casting various powerful spells to attack the insect swarm.

But seeing the flag and flag dancing in the hands of a Jindan stage monk, red golden flames gushed out from the flag, turning into red golden firebirds and pounced on the swarm of insects. There were hundreds of them.

There was also a golden core stage monk rubbing his hands together, and a hurricane tornado with a diameter of more than ten feet moved across the sky and swept away towards the swarm of insects.

Set fire, blow wind, spray water...

A variety of powerful spells and magical powers were blasted towards the insect swarm through the air.

Every magical power falling into the insect swarm will kill tens of thousands of monster insects, even the third-order monster insects are no exception!
But compared to the huge bug swarm that stretched for dozens of miles, this loss was insignificant at all.

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

I saw that huge swarm of insects suddenly divided into groups, and all the big demon insects flew to the front, and they collectively accelerated and rushed forward.

These are second- and third-order monsters, and they have a relatively high degree of evolution. They not only have powerful attack methods, but also defensive methods.

They formed insect formations to charge forward, and their mana breaths were connected together. Even the attacks of Jindan stage monks could not cause too much damage to an insect formation.

Soon the vanguard of these swarms rushed to the army of human monks and launched a counterattack.

Some of them spit out fiery red high-temperature venom collectively, and sprinkled it on the cultivators on the ground like meteor fire rain.

Some are immortal cultivators who spit out black and silver-white light blades collectively, like a thousand arrows shooting into the air.

Others spit out turquoise venom, raining down on the enemy.

Perhaps compared to the dazzling variety of spells and supernatural powers of the immortal cultivators, the attack methods of the insect swarm seem a bit simple.

But no one dares to underestimate their attack power.

Soon, some immortal cultivators with lower cultivation levels fell under the attack of the insect swarm.

At this time, the swarm had already started to attack the army of monks standing in front of them.

And the monks standing on the ground like wooden stakes, at this time, either sacrificed magic weapons or cast magic symbols, and launched an offensive against the approaching monster insects.

In this war, everyone has their own tasks, and monks in every realm know what they should do.

Those monks in the Qi refining period and the foundation building period try to disperse the power of the insect swarm as much as possible, and at the same time try to kill the vitality of the insect swarm as much as possible.

The cultivators of the Zifu period and the Jindan period are responsible for intercepting the main force of the insect swarm and trying their best to divide the insect swarm so that the force that the insect king can mobilize is reduced.

As for the Nascent Soul stage monks who have not shown their faces, they are the kings who shoulder the most important task and are responsible for killing the swarm.

Finally, when the overwhelming swarm of insects completely entered the position of the human monks and fought together with the intercepted human monks, those monks at the Nascent Soul stage finally made their move!
But seeing colorful rays of light suddenly rising in the sky, torrents of pure and tyrannical spiritual power poured into the swarm of insects from all directions, crushing and killing millions of demon insects in an instant!
The insect king who was hiding in the center of the insect swarm could no longer hide his figure and was forced to reveal his real body.

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