A Plan Revealed Again; Hidden Insect Master

In Taihang Commandery, Stability County, the entire county and town were in chaos. Outside the city walls, strong winds rose and blackish-green storms appeared.

These storms were composed of Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts the size of a thumb, each one exceptionally ferocious; even the flapping of a single locust's wings was extremely fierce, let alone so many of Spirit-Extinguishing Locust.

In the county town, there was a protective Array that formed a huge spiritual shield, like a spiritual net, covering the county town.

On the city wall, several cultivators from the Yuan Family were still resisting with sorrowful expressions.

In the distance, three dark green storms began to converge.

This caused their expressions to change drastically, as they held several communication talismans in their hands.

But the communication talisman didn't send a single sound.

Then, everyone heard a hissing sound and saw the huge swarm of Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts turn around and head towards the county town.

They need blood as food.

Boom!

Upon encountering the Array, these Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts began to spit out dark green venom, which landed on the spirit shield.

The venom of a single Spirit-Extinguishing Locust is not much, but the venom of thousands of locusts can accumulate into a pool of poison.

The entire protective array of the county began to be submerged and melted in an instant.

An Array, and at that moment, swarms of Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts burst out from within like arrows released from a bow.

These Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts were several sizes larger than ordinary Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, with huge mouthparts covered with fangs, and two locust blades filled with hard serrations, covered with dark green venom, and shimmering with blackish-green fluorescence.

Those cultivators instantly showed expressions of despair.

After all, there's no way to escape from four or five thousand Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

Even if they kill ten, a hundred, or even a thousand, they cannot escape their fate of death.

There were only five of them after all.

There are no Foundation Establishment cultivators yet.

"Use up your last bit of Law Power." The group didn't become hysterical; they simply watched the desperate mortals calmly.

Finally, he began to unleash his full power of Blazing Flame Technique.

The Blazing Flame Technique stretched into several Dao Flame, surging continuously in the air.

However, when the fire serpents burned the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, they only made a hissing sound and their power quickly diminished.

In addition to Deadly Poison, the venom of the Spirit-Extinguishing Locust can also effectively extinguish fire snakes.

Unsurprisingly, the fire serpents were quickly engulfed.

The entire county and town were completely submerged.

At that very moment, Ye Jingcheng, Ye Jinghu, and the others were still slowly making their way there in their Spirit Boat.

"Patriarch, we could have been faster..." Ye Jinghu, somewhat puzzled.

Because the county town in front of us has thousands of ordinary people.

In his view, cultivators from the Yuan Family might be a major taboo, but ordinary people from the Yuan Family were not.

"Jinghu, don't you think the timing of the Spirit-Extinguishing Locust attack on the city was just right?" Ye Jingcheng asked Ye Jinghu.

A hint of profundity appeared in his eyes.

He sensed a sense of apprehension.

This also stems from a deep-seated fear.

That's right, the Ye Family the same tricks again, only this time they're using the Yuan Family instead.

Given the heavy losses suffered by the Yuan Family, unless the Yuan Family Taiyi Sect finds any incriminating evidence against them, they are unlikely to investigate the Yuan Family.

In fact, the Yuan Family was the real culprit that attracted the attention of the Taiyi Sect.

At this moment, Ye Jingcheng even began to worry about Ye Xingqun.

If he had known this would happen, he would have been better off telling Ye Haicheng and Turtle Ancestor beforehand.

The reason he was so certain was because he sensed the possibility of advancement in many insect eggs, but it never appeared in the outbreaks of pests.

There is only one possibility: these Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts have an owner.

Moreover, the Yuan Family is even more ruthless than the Ye Family, showing absolutely no regard for the ordinary people under their rule.

Of course, it is unknown how many of these were originally ordinary members of the Yuan Family.

But it definitely accounts for a significant portion; otherwise, the other party would have no reason to do so.

"Patriarch, are you saying that the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts are waiting for us?" Ye Jinghu also thought of all the situations they had encountered along the way.

It was all too coincidental that the attack on the city always happened just when the Ye Family or the Taiyi Sect cultivators were able to save it.

But this rescue operation must proceed at an alarming speed.

This could consume a lot of Spiritual Qi, causing the cultivators who are trying to save them to become exhausted.

If they really go all out to save them, Spirit-Extinguishing Locust Explosion unleashes some methods they don't usually use, the Ye Family might really suffer a devastating setback.

It's also possible that the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts eliminated some of their main force.

This was definitely something Yuan Family Jiale witnessed.

Of course, if Ye Jingcheng had concealed his cultivation level, the outcome might have been different.

But if that happens, the Ye Family face even bigger problems once they are exposed.

Thinking about this, Ye Jinghu couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.

"What your Lineage shows you is not Cultivation World shows you!" Ye Jingcheng looked at Ye Jinghu, giving this twenty-something Ye Family genius his first lesson.

Ye Jingcheng was not dissatisfied with Ye Jinghu, just as when he was in his early twenties, his Lineage would provide him with guidance on some minor matters.

As long as Ye Jinghu can learn from this experience and avoid problems at crucial moments, that will be enough.

Seeing that the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts had begun to disperse and devour the city, Ye Jingcheng finally arrived with his Ye Family members.

Upon appearing outside the city, the Ye Family released Spirit Beast specifically designed to Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

The Ye Family's Lizard Elder is also here.

With a flick of its tongue, it can bring back dozens of Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

Moreover, its tongue can always curl up a large, plump Spirit-Extinguishing Locust.

Besides the Lizard Elder, all the other earth lizard Spirit Beasts in the Ye Family were the same.

Their tongues are curling up like crazy.

After all, these Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts had been feeding on blood, and their abdomens were swollen, slowing them down considerably.

Seeing that the speed was still too slow, the Ye Family released many more Fire-Swallowing Sparrow.

Ye Jingcheng had high hopes for several of the Fire-Swallowing Sparrows, believing they had the opportunity to advance twice.

At this moment, the Fire-Swallowing Sparrow was also devouring one locust after another with its sharp beak, occasionally spitting fire to roast the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts until they were charred and fragrant before swallowing them whole.

The Ye Family's twenty-odd Spirit Beasts devoured the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts at a terrifying speed in an instant.

The cultivators from the Ye Family, on the other hand, became supportive.

Upon seeing the charging swarm of small, Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, they would employ Secret Method, magical Spirit Talisman, Law Artifact, or Law Technique.

This allowed the main force of the Spirit Beasts to display remarkable power.

The Lizard Elder was eating voraciously, and its body was even glowing with spiritual light.

It seems a breakthrough is imminent.

This brought a surge of joy to the Ye Family members.

The owners of those earth lizards and toad Spirit Beasts worked even harder to make their respective Spirit Beasts devour the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

Because it is indeed effective.

Ye Jingcheng also began to use the Crimson Flame Fire Feathers Secret Method Secret Method, though he deliberately reduced its power.

Since the Master Tianzhen wasn't around, he didn't need to worry too much about being exposed, but some degree of concealment was still necessary.

On the scene, countless fire feathers pierced through the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

Each time he made a move, dozens or even nearly a hundred Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts would fall to his hands.

Within a dozen or so breaths, the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts in the entire county and town had been reduced by more than half.

Of course, at this time, the strength displayed by many clansmen also moved Ye Jingcheng somewhat.

Among them, Ye Jinghu's combat power was the most outstanding, as he continuously unleashed his Thunder Finger technique.

This Thunder Finger Technique Secret Method not only pierced through several Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, but it would also explode at crucial moments.

Thinking of this, Ye Jingcheng recalled the Violet Firmament Talisman that Taihao Master had given him before.

The Lesser Violet Firmament Talisman is a first-tier top-grade Spirit Talisman, Greater Violet Firmament Talisman is a second-tier Spirit Talisman.

Now that Ye Jinghu has reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, it is indeed possible for him to attempt refining it.

"Whoosh!" Just then, hundreds of even larger Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts rushed out from afar, swooping towards them in an instant.

These Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts were even faster and shimmered with golden light.

This is clearly unusual.

Ordinary Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts are roughly between the early and mid-stages of the first tier.

However, these golden-glowing Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts possessed an aura that was actually at the late stage of the first rank.

Moreover, these late-stage first-tier Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts currently have the largest abdominal sacs.

It clearly absorbed a significant amount of blood and nutrients.

"Is this insect breeding?" Ye Jingcheng's eyes flashed with hesitation again.

At the same time, he raised his hand and took out the Evil Ghost Gong, a magical Law Artifact.

As the Evil Ghost Gong Law Artifact was struck, the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts were finally jolted into a daze.

At the same time, Ye Jingcheng Evergreen Sword and slashed down.

However, all that could be heard was a crackling sound. Ye Jingcheng's Evergreen Sword had only managed to kill a few Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts. The remaining Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts were merely sent flying, and after swaying a few times, they continued to charge forward.

Although Ye Jingcheng didn't use his full strength, it was enough to show that this Spirit-Extinguishing Locust was extraordinary.

Moreover, these Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts also failed to activate the Treasure Book.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng took out the Red Sun Disk again.

The Red Sun Disk is a second-tier top-grade magic Law Artifact bestowed upon the Tianfu True Person.

It can not only be used to drive away enemies, but also to refine Spirit Flame for alchemy, making it an extremely powerful Fire Attribute Law Artifact.

As the flames were ignited, the Red Sun Disk, like a giant Red Sun, devoured hundreds of Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

However, even so, only a large portion of the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts were burned to death.

A small portion of the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts even began to escape.

This was the first time Ye Jingcheng had ever seen it!

In particular, these Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, which were hiding among the locust swarm, gradually disappeared.

Ye Jingcheng's attacks landed, and all of them fell into the ordinary locusts.

Ye Jingcheng didn't pursue them after seeing this, because there were still many ordinary people in the county and town below.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the entire swarm of insects was finally almost wiped out. Only Star One were still fleeing, but they were caught up by the Ye Family members and completely annihilated.

"Patriarch, it seems that Lizard Elder is about to break through!" Just then, a member of the Ye Family spoke up from afar.

For the Ye Family, the Lizard Elder is equivalent to a Foundation Establishment combatant; he can also become invisible and release earth spikes.

He was very popular in the Ye Family.

Ye Jingcheng was also delighted to hear this.

When he walked past, he found that the Lizard Elder had eaten a large belly, and its skin was glowing with a green light.

Ye Jingcheng knew that poison was brewing.

But judging from the expression on the Lizard Elder's face, it was indeed unaffected in the slightest.

Ye Jingcheng couldn't help but touch the Lizard Elder's back; it was very rough, just like the Desert Gobi. Ye Jingcheng secretly channeled some Treasure Radiance into it, which was invisible to others, to help the Lizard Elder digest.

Then, two more Spirit Nurturing Pills were given to the Lizard Elder.

The Lizard Elder's cultivation level was originally at the mid-stage of the second tier, but now it has reached the late-stage of the second tier.

However, for Spirit Beast like the Lizard Elder, which is getting a bit old, it's difficult to further stimulate its bloodline, and it's estimated that the late stage of the second tier is its limit.

The Lizard Elder stuck out its tongue and made two gurgling sounds, as if responding happily to Ye Jingcheng.

After the Lizard Elder broke through, several other toad-like Spirit Beasts and earth lizards also began to break through a small level.

Clearly, they also gained a lot.

However, even the Fire-Swallowing Sparrow Spirit Beast did not break through.

"Thank you, Immortal Master!"

Ye Jingcheng and his team wiped out all the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

Hundreds of people remained in the town.

They were all moved to tears, their eyes filled with a longing to become immortals.

While yearning for their loved ones, they were also filled with the pain of losing them; some were stunned, while others knelt and prayed incessantly.

Ye Jinghu felt a pang of pity watching, and Ye Jingcheng also glanced at it, but ultimately did not linger.

One Ye Family was left to set up an Array in the town, while Ye Jingcheng led the remaining Spirit Beasts to continue searching for the Spirit-Extinguishing Locust eggs left in the wild.

For Ye Jingcheng, if he could find the eggs of the Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locust, then the Ye Family's trip would not have been in vain.

He also discovered a very interesting method for cultivating Spirit Insects: a method for controlling mutations.

With a flick of his wrist, a spirit disc appeared. This spirit disc was not an object, but a treasure that he used to sense the mark of his Divine Sense.

After the Red Sun Disk, he specially used the Heavenly Soul Art to condense a Divine Sense Mark, which landed on the wings of several ordinary Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts. These ordinary Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts had one thing in common: they always protected the Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts from behind.

This suggests that these Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts are likely under control.

The reason no one considered that the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts might have owners is because the majority of Spirit-Extinguishing Locust are indeed ownerless, with only a small portion being ownerless.

Ye Jingcheng was so certain because of the Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locust's escape.

These Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts have only one characteristic: they are fire-resistant and durable!

In other words, the cultivators behind this are using the insect pests to help him refine the Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, which are resistant to fire and swords. They will probably be secretly retrieved and then cultivated and reproduced.

Conversely, those who lack endurance will be eliminated.

A few hundred Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts are not scary, but if they are fire-resistant, lightning-resistant, and have high Spirit-Extinguishing Locust, or even tens of thousands of Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, then that would be terrifying.

To exaggerate a bit, it could even wear down a cultivator at the Purple Mansion level.

This is somewhat similar to Ye Xingqun's method of cultivating Blackwood Ants, except that Ye Xingqun sacrifices both the old and young Blackwood Ants.

It stimulates the ferocity of the remaining Blackwood Ants while maintaining the consumption of the Blackwood Ant colony.

This cultivator was cultivating those mutated, defensively resistant Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

In this way, it could be Golden Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, or it could be Silver Light Spirit-Extinguishing Locust, but without a doubt, given time, this Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts will become increasingly terrifying.

"Three layers of Treasure Radiance!" Just then, Ye Jingcheng finally discovered a large number of spirit eggs under the dead trees in a forest.

There are at least five or six hundred spirit eggs here.

Most importantly, these spirit eggs also contained some golden specks of light.

This distinguishes it from other spirit eggs.

Ye Jingcheng immediately understood that these spirit eggs were for Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts.

From this, Ye Jingcheng could even deduce that the cultivator secretly controlling the situation was probably at the early to mid-stage of the Purple Mansion.

After all, only the Purple Mansion could control so many Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts and maintain overall control of the situation.

At the same time, the fact that the spirit egg could remain also indicates that the other party should not be more than the late stage of the Purple Mansion. In addition, the distance of control was extremely far, and the command was issued through the locust.

That's why these spirit eggs, like ordinary Spirit-Extinguishing Locusts, lay their eggs everywhere.

Ye Jingcheng waved his hand to accept the spirit eggs, and at the same time, another fireball destroyed the place.

The Fireball Technique he's currently casting is no less powerful than a second-tier Spirit Talisman.

After all, the Crimson Flame Fox's spiritual power attribute is to increase the power of Spirit Flame, and Ye Jingcheng's spiritual power has already been transformed into True Essence.

It would be even more powerful.

Ye Jingcheng looked again, and when there were no other spirit eggs, he began to converge on the location of the Master Tianzhen.

Ye Jingcheng still didn't intend to take any risks with the person in the shadows; it would be better to let the Master Tianzhen handle it.

After all, Ye Jingcheng was indeed interested in this person in the shadows.