Chapter 531: The Locust Plague Arrives
The Golden Star, which is orbiting, seems to be extremely arrogant, only turning on its own, like the brightest stars in the sky, blooming with a thousand rays of light and a powerful attraction that attracts everything around it.
Looking at the large and small stars above her palm, Xue Langjing nodded with satisfaction, no matter what, this was a sign of her breakthrough.
Immediately, she increased the output of the power of the stars.
With the constant addition of abilities, Jupiter finally changed.
It's also slowly solidifying and growing.
As for the Golden Star, it didn't seem to have changed at all, or it was extremely large and condensed in itself, and this little star power did not have much effect on it.
Gradually, the gap between the two is narrowing at a slight rate.
After reaching a certain threshold, the gap between the two finally does not change.
Xue Langjing no longer blindly conveys abilities, but plays with them with great interest, letting them fly in his hands or in the whole room.
After the novelty, Xue Langjing, who wanted to return to human society earlier, didn't seem to want to waste a little time, so he was reluctant to rest and chose to continue cultivating.
After that, she lived a life of mining during the day and cultivating at night.
Breaking through the first level requires opening 32 meridians, and the second level increases to 48.
There are only 12 more, and the difficulty doesn't seem to increase much!
When he saw the second exercise of the Nine Stars Dazzling Sun Technique, it only took more than half a year to break through to the middle stage of the innate stage, Xue Langjing thought so in his heart.
As a result, it didn't take long for her to be slapped in the face by reality, and she was probably still the kind of bow and slap left and right.
Of course, this is in the near future.
For now, at least, she's still very nervous.
I don't know if it's because she absorbed a lot of energy when she broke through, but at the beginning, when Xue Langjing hit the meridians, the silkiness in these meridian channels almost didn't make her crazy.
It's only been six nights, and she has opened up eight meridians!
Eight of them!
made her wonder if her cultivation talent was already so strong that she defied the sky.
It is said that the impact meridians are good, but the more difficult it is in the later stage?
How can she hit the meridians as easily as drinking water!
If she continued to cultivate at this rate, she was afraid that she would be able to break through to the late innate stage in less than half a year, right?
This speed, it's simply amazing! She's a genius among geniuses!
Just when she was struggling with her super talent, the impact speed of the next meridian could only be described as a 'snap' slap in the face.
The ninth, soaring directly to three days.
Article 10, four and a half days.
Article 11, which took nearly six and a half days.
Get! Directly beaten back to its original form.
If it goes on like this, I don't want to break through to the later stage in a few years.
Sure enough, she thought too well before.
Come to think of it, the reason why the first eight are so fast is probably due to the large amount of energy storage stones absorbed when they broke through the middle stage.
Now this pre-stored energy is depleted, and of course it has to be beaten back to its original shape.
Alas, sure enough, don't think about cultivation too simply.
Not to mention the cultivation speed.
As her strength increases, so does the amount of energy she can absorb every day.
Today, more than 20 energy storage stones are consumed every night.
With such a consumption rate, she can't save many energy storage stones, and it won't be long before the consumption will be greater than the income.
At that time, there will not be enough energy storage stones, and her cultivation speed will probably slow down.
Just when Xue Langjing was cultivating hard in order to be able to go out, and at the same time wondering how to earn more energy storage stones, the outside world she was thinking about in her heart had something that shocked the entire Da Chu.
It is better to say that it is something that some people expected, but the vast majority of people do not do the same thing, or that they do not have the ability to prevent it in advance.
That's the plague of locusts!
The locust plague that raged almost in the entire Great Chu!
After the drought last year, the Zheng family, an imperial merchant who was responsible for regulating the grain prices of Dachu, constantly warned the people that locusts would inevitably occur in the extreme drought, so that they could prepare in advance.
In particular, the drought situation does not seem to have improved much this year.
In order to prevent possible locust plagues, most of the Zheng family's own grain fields began to herd ducks to prevent locusts as early as possible.
On average, there is one duck per two acres of grain land.
Not only themselves, but also the people who cooperated with them received the duck seedlings provided by the Zheng family for free.
However, in the whole of Dachu, how many grain fields are there?
No matter how capable the Zheng family is, it is just a family, and it is impossible to provide duck seedlings for all the people, and besides, they are not specialized in raising ducks.
Not to mention the people, even the Zheng family itself is not rich.
The duck seedlings provided to the cooperative people are only one or two in ten acres.
As for the needs of ordinary people, the Zheng family is powerless, so they can only focus on reminding.
How to buy duck seedlings is the people's own business.
But!
However, after a year of severe drought, most of the people at the bottom, let alone grain, could not even get together the grain seeds.
In such a situation, what money do they have left to buy duck seedlings?
Just for a plague of locusts that could just come out of nowhere?
This is unrealistic.
And, even if there are ducks.
There is dry land everywhere, what kind of food do they usually take to feed the ducks?
If you have that bit to eat, you will eat it a long time ago to fill your stomach, and it doesn't matter if there will be any locusts in the future.
Therefore, no matter how much the Zheng family appeals and emphasizes its importance, it has nothing to do with the people at the bottom.
The result? The plague of locusts is really coming.
One day, when people were enjoying the rare wind and sunshine, many people who were working in the fields suddenly noticed that something black and oppressive appeared in the air in front of them.
From a distance, the constantly shaking black shadows covered the sky and the sun, and the people were panicked.
"Oh my God, what's that, the black storm is coming, everyone hide!"
"It's a storm, quick, hide, be careful of being swept away."
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As soon as they heard that there was a storm, many people directly abandoned the farming tools in their hands and ran away.
However, as the dark shadow approached, some of the good-eyed people finally saw what it was.
"Locusts, locusts, locusts are coming, locust plague, locust plague."
"How can there be so many damn locusts, we haven't survived last year's drought, and now there is a locust plague again, is this God going to exterminate us..."
"Oh my God, open your eyes and see, why did you do this to us, what did we do wrong..."
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Sure that it was a locust and not a black storm, the people who had run away from the fields rushed back to the fields in an attempt to drive away some of the locusts that had approached.
"Go, go, give me go, don't eat, don't eat, go, this is our life-saving food this year..."
"God, open your eyes and leave a way for our poor people to live..."