Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 62 - The Locust of War

Chapter 62 – The Locust of War

Just as the youths within the Ling Tian were celebrating the fact that the village south had gathered all of the Tuqiu Village cultivators in one move, and the rest who were in the village south had gloomy expressions on their faces.

“Damn it, there’s a ghost. This wave of locusts is actually coming from a mix of giant locust and regular locusts. Isn’t it said that every time the locusts cross the border, there are giant locust? How can there be more than half of the regular locusts?”

Looking at the insects that were falling from the sky, which were more concentrated than rain, with half of them mixed in, Blacksmith Zhang was enraged and started cursing loudly.

From the Wangshan Town Mountain Barbarian Village all the way to the Wasteland Town’s Earth Liang Village, a large number of giant locusttacked the village consecutively. The power of the village cultivators’ spells were not as effective as fighting against the locusts, and after they were forced into the village by the giant locust, a large number of ordinary locusts followed along, causing the cultivators to find it harder to defend, causing the mature spiritual valley among the Ling Tian s to be devoured without restraint, resulting in heavy losses.

For this, Yang Tiangang specially gathered all the cultivators above the Immortal Foundation in Tuqiu Village to train in the south of the village for a few times. He hoped to be able to unleash the greatest amount of power in the first strike before the locusts arrived and heavily injure the group of giant locust that was attacking.

However, they did not expect that the giant locust group would actually change their strategy. The first wave of locusts that attacked the village was made up of giant locust and normal locusts.

Although the attack with the full power of the Tuqiu Village was very fruitful, but because the giant locust contained the ordinary locusts, the damage it did to the giant locust was only average.

The swarm of locusts that had been hollowed out by the Tuqiu Village suddenly filled up the mountain again, and likrehistoric beast, they rushed towards the Tuqiu Village with an overpowering momentum.

“Get ready, release!”

Yang Tiangang shouted out, his voice resonating through the spirit essence in his body and spreading through the entire village. He suddenly knocked the High quality magical equipment hard, causing the smoke and ashes of the flying beasts to turn into a ball of fire in the air, burning the bugs that were flying down from the sky into ashes.

Not far from it, the middle grade Blacksmith Zhang’s Weapon Refining Tie Hammer did not have any strong group attack skills. Although the power of the Refined Iron Hammer was impressive, it was still able to deal with the countless locust swarm of locusts, making it feel like it was just like hitting mosquitoes with the hammer. It took quite a bit of effort to refine the hammer, but the result was limited.

Every time Yang Tiangang used his High quality magical equipment to shoot out a fireball, each fireball that broke into the locust swarm would undoubtedly cause huge damage to the swarm of locusts. However, the swarm of locusts could also instinctively avoid danger, and when the swarm of locusts had paid the price and avoided the fireballs, Yang Tiangang’s fireball would be completely exhausted.

Just at this time, Blacksmith Zhang suddenly took out his own magical equipment and struck towards the fireballs. A wave of fire instantly exploded in all directions, forming a sea of fire oveundred metres in radius, killing the locusts twice. Even the damage that this fire wave brought to the locusts was far greater than the first time.

The two old enemies of the Tuqiu Village had joined hands to form the Tuqiu Village’s front line of defense against the locust swarm, and they had coordinated with each other very well, and it was precisely because of these two people’s leadership that the Tuqiu Village cultivators behind them were able to release one technique after another with great difficulty. At the same time of increasing the outcome of the battle, they also prevented the locusts from frantically attacking.

Because of the obstruction coming from the south side of the village, the locust swarm naturally began to circle around the two flanks. The magic from the southeast and southwest direction suddenly flourished, but it was nothing compared to the south side of the village.

At this time, the giant locust’s attack had already become the main force of the locust plague. In the past, even if cultivators were to borrow the power of the Immortal Foundation’s talismans to cast a spell, within the range of the spell’s might, there were very few locusts that could survive.

However, facing the giant locust’s attack, even if a cultivator at the level of using immortal arts were to cast a spell, he would only be able to kill two-thirds of the giant locust within the spell’s attack range. The rest of the giant locust then took the chance to rush into the village.

The Blacksmith Zhang said loudly: “This won’t do, we can’t stop the giant locust from infiltrating the village!”

Yang Tiangang’s expression became extremely gloomy. He had already seen that the locusts were gradually tilting towards the southwest, where Han Xiumei was in charge of defense and also the area where the Tuqiu Village’s defense was the weakest. He did not expect the locust swarm to detect him so quickly.

For the first time, Yang Tiangang felt that it was as if he was facing an opponent with the same intellect as himself, who was also able to look for the weakness of the defense line. It was as if he was facing off against an opponent with the same intelligence as him.

“Originally, we did not think that we could stop the giant locust disaster, all I wanted to do was delay the arrival of the giant locust s in the village. The villagers have long since been organized to harvest the Ling Tian, and as long as we drag this out longer, the more Ling Tian we harvest, the smaller our losses would be!”

Yang Tiangang loudly replied the Blacksmith Zhang. At the same time, he was explaining the situation to all the cultivators of the Tuqiu Village to boost their morale.

“Haha, you’re right!” Blacksmith Zhang also laughed loudly: “We, Old Zhang, have always been unconvinced by you, but after this locust disaster, we, Old Zhang, will treat you to wine!”

Yang Tiangang also laughed out loud: It’s me who is treating brother Zhang to wine!

The two of them continued to chat with each other, causing the morale of the Tuqiu Village Cultivators to rise once again. They were even more anxious and depressed because of the constant waves of giant locusntering the village.

Because the swarm of locusts had already entered into the defensive line that thad set up, it was not possible for Yang Tiangang and the rest to stop all the cultivators from using the technique, they could only defend their lines and exhaust all the giant locust s that were attacking the Tuqiu Village.

At the same time, the Tuqiu Village’s mortals were already gathered and harvesting the Ling Tian s. Even though the spiritual valley was not fully matured yet, it was still possible for them to reduce their output by harvesting. However, once they saw the swarm of locusts that covered the entire village and the sky, they might not even be able to preserve the little bit of spiritual valley that they had harvested in the end.

At this time, there were already tens or even hundreds of small locusts intruding into the village, those ordinary locusts would pounce on the plants as long as they saw them, even though Ling Tian were more attractive to them, but these locusts would rely on their instincts to move, and would eat up the normal plants before any Ling Tian was found.

As for those giant locust, after they rushed into the village, they immediately followed the weak spiritual energy released by the spiritual valley to find the Ling Tian, and then landed in front of Gu Zi and started chewing on him without restraint.

The upper and lower jaws of the giant locust were extremely sharp and it had a large body. A foot long spiritual valley plant with over ten spikes charged over, and in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, it devoured everything. These giant locust then wanted to eat all the leaves of the entire spiritual valley plant before letting the matter go.

However, those mortals who were eager to harvest the spiritual valley s did not care about these small locusts that pounced into the Ling Tian s at all, and instead seized every moment to continue harvesting the spiritual valley s. A bundle of spiritual valley s, after harvesting, were tied up intile on top of a cart, and after piling them up, they dragged them into the village and placed them in the houses of their respective families, while at the same time locking the houses of their families tightly so that they could not let the locusts in and out of the gaps between the houses.

And in just that moment, a horde of locusts rushed into the village. Following the scattered spirit energy of the spiritual valley, they arrived at the household that was filled with piles of spiritual valley, covering the ground, walls and roofs.

Meanwhile, the mortal farmer who was harvesting Ling Tian s from Yang Cunzheng, Yang Tieniu, and Yang Qingniu realized that although there were more and more locusts that came to the village, compared to the other Ling Tian s from Spiritual Farmers, there were very few locusts that landed in these three families.

Especially the farmers who reaped the Ling Tian s of Yang TienNiu and Yang Qingniu, they would be choked with tears and had runny noses from time to time. Although the Ling Tian s of Yang Cunzheng’s family also oozed a pungent smell from time to time, the smell had been reduced by a lot, and the farmers there could still barely persevere.

This was because Yang Junshan had scattered the medicinal powder evenly among the Ling Tian, but Yang Qingniu and Yang Tieniu were obviously not convinced of the effects of the medicinal powder. They sprinkled it in different places more meticulously than Yang Junshan, some places less, and some places less, but farmers were all ordinary people without cultivation, and when they met places with strong medicinal powder, they would often choke from it.

Just as the cultivators at the entrance of the village were led by Yang Tiangang to block the horde of locusts that was charging towards the Tuqiu Village, Yang Junshan had already completed the final preparations for the array formation within the Ling Tian.

Following Yang Junshan’s order, the few youths in charge of their respective stone plates inlaid the Jade Coinnd stone coins in the pouch into the grooves of the stone plates as per Yang Junshan’s instructions. After Yang Junshan finished socketing the Jade Coins, the nine youths who had started cultivating poured more or less of their spirit energy into the stone plates beneath their feet.

“Buzz ~ ~ ~”

The Jade Coins that was embedded in the stone plate first started to shine with spirit light, and then a faint light began to flash through the spirit cotton threads that connected the stone plates. The entire array formation was immediately activated, and then everyone stood in the array formation and looked at each other in dismay, not feeling anything unusual at all.

Su Baozhang asked hesitantly: “Brother Jun Shan, this, this formation was successfully laid out?”

Yang Junshan nodded, and said: “Yes, I succeeded!”

Su Baozhang walked two steps among the Ling Tian, but he still did not feel anything too out of the ordinary, hence he asked with uncertainty, “Did he really succeed?”

This time, before Yang Junshan could reply, the little sister behind him, Yang Junxin, had long been dissatisfied with Su Baozhang’s questioning of her big brother.

Yang Junshan suddenly understood, and patted his head as he explained: “This formation technique was simplified from a famous divine ability technique in the world of cultivation, because it is only used to deal with locusts, it has weakened the formation’s power greatly, and this formation has a nickname, which is called ‘One Jin’ formation. In other words, no matter if it is a gigantic person or a mosquito, they will all suffer an extra fifty kilograms after entering the formation!”