There are two overlord sects in Cangbei Prefecture, one is in the middle of Cangbei Prefecture, close to Zhongzhou, called the Beicang faction, which is the strongest and rules almost two-thirds of Cangbei Prefecture's territory.

The Beicang faction is a big sect guarded by Tianzun, and its strength is extremely strong, and now there is not much interest in Cangbei Prefecture, and their development direction is Zhongzhou, which is immortality.

The southern region of Cangbei Prefecture is dominated by the Nanli Sect, and the strength of the Nanli Sect and the Seven Peerless Sects, the Tianxu Sect, and the Tianlan Sect are of the same level, and there is no Tianzun, but there are several great powers, dominating one side.

The Nanli Sect controlled one-third of the territory of Cangbei Prefecture, but it was still unable to satisfy their appetite, because the resources required for a sect to cultivate a Tianzun were extremely huge.

This requires the sect to keep trial and error, a genius disciple has the opportunity to impact Tianzun, they will do their best to cultivate, and after failure, they have to find the next one, and so on and so on, until the real Tianzun appears.

And the price of trial and error is to consume countless resources, without resources, it is impossible to cultivate Tianzun.

But in Cangbei Prefecture, another overlord is the Beicang faction, and if the Nanli Sect provokes the Beicang faction, it will be looking for death, which makes the Nanli Sect target the more weak Tiannan Prefecture.

Because the distance is relatively close, the Nanli Sect is aimed at the Seven Absolute Sects, and for hundreds of years, there has been a lot of friction between the two sects, but the Nanli Sect has actually not taken any advantage.

Because Tiannan Prefecture is also fighting endlessly, the three major sects, which one is not strong, on the contrary, the social environment here in Cangbei Prefecture will be much more stable than that in Tiannan Prefecture, so that the stronger Nanli Sect has almost no advantage.

However, in the past three or five years, Nan Lizong has been a little aggressive, and the Seven Peerless Sects have been constantly making concessions, because the Seven Peerless Sects have lost their own Dao Weapon Quartet Ding, and the rate of the best elixir has been greatly reduced, which has reduced their income by a lot, and a few years ago, Dark Night and the Tianxu Sect joined forces to invade, and almost destroyed their Dantang and most of the mountain gates, and they suffered heavy losses, so that the Seven Peerless Sects had to shrink the front and avoid their edge.

Over the years, the Nanli Sect has been hoarding resources and preparing for war, just waiting for an opportunity, they know that the contradictions between the three sects of Tiannan are irreconcilable, and sooner or later a war will break out, and the moment of the Tiannan Prefecture War is the time when the Nanli Sect invades the south.

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On this day, fifty miles away from Zongshan Gate in the south, dozens of figures fell, including several true monarchs, as soon as they landed, hundreds of people surrounded them, and immediately wailed and cried in front of them.

"Don't cry, the ancestors are here, and they will be the masters for you"

A cave Xuan real person shouted angrily, and everyone stopped crying and told the story of the incident.

It turned out that there was an insect plague on the territory of the Nanli Parcel, and for the mortal world, floods, droughts, insects, and locusts were extremely terrible disasters, which would make the crops fail.

For immortal cultivators, these disasters only need to deal with insect plagues, and other disasters are nothing unless they are super large earthquakes.

And they also have measures to deal with insect plagues, alchemists are a profession that covers a wide range, and with the requirements of alchemists and still Lingzhifu, they can develop insecticidal powders.

But this time, the medicine of the Nanli Sect has been invalidated, and in a few days, the insect plague in the area of the Nanli Sect has exploded, which has affected tens of millions of acres of spiritual fields, and even the high-level of the Nanli Sect have been alarmed.

"Senior brother, it seems that this insect plague is quite special, I'm afraid it is not a natural formation"

Several True Monarchs stopped their nonsense, and also heard a rough idea, almost half a year ago, the Soul Devouring Insect Plague broke out on the territory of the Nanli Sect, the Spirit Devouring Insect is a kind of insect that only knows how to devour the spiritual energy, and it is the great enemy of the elixir and the spiritual rice.

This insect is weak and can be pinched to death by mortals with bare hands, but it is known to be indevourable, and once it breaks out on a large scale, it will be a catastrophe for a region.

Originally, Nan Lizong didn't take it to heart, because the Spirit Devouring Insect has existed since ancient times, and they also prepared a lot of corresponding medicinal powders, but the result was a big surprise to them, because this time the Spirit Eater Insect was a new variant, and the previous medicinal powders were all useless.

"You mean somebody's doing it?"

"There have been thirty-seven variants of the Soul Eater over the years, of which only three are naturally formed, and the other thirty-four are all man-made"

The man said that there were many variations of the Spirit Devouring Worm, there were thirty-seven in total, but thirty-four of them were artificially made, and the most of them were alchemists.

In order to sell insecticidal powder on a large scale, those alchemists secretly created variants of the spirit devouring insects, and of course, after every discovery, the fate of these alchemists was also extremely tragic.

"If an alchemist dares to refine a variant of the Spirit Devouring Worm, then he will be devoured by ten thousand insects, do they dare?"

"What if someone instructs?"

"What did Nan Liwei find?"

The man said that under the influence of Tiannan Prefecture, the Nanli Sect also established the Nanli Guard hundreds of years ago, and they are the same existence as the Dark Guard Hall and the Black Guard.

"It should be done by the Seven Peerless Sects, in order to hit us, the Seven Peerless Sects have made great achievements in medicine and poison in recent years, and we guess that they have obtained the inheritance of the Ten Thousand Poison Demon Lords"

One of them said that in order to obtain resources in the past few years, the Seven Peerless Sects have sold a large number of poison avoidance pills and detoxification pills, and after analyzing the alchemists of the Nanli Sect, they found that many traces were related to the methods of the Ten Thousand Poison Demon Lords, and they had already guessed some.

"Leave this matter to Nan Liwei to investigate, and see the impact of the insect plague first"

"Yes, brother"

The leader led the group out and flew to the next place, where they saw swarms of insects large and small.

The primitive soul devouring insects are only the size of a thumb, and mortals can kill them by pinching them with their hands and stepping on them, but the problem is that the insect swarm is too big, and they appear in groups, often hundreds of thousands and millions, and they reproduce very fast, they can hatch a batch in half a month, and a female worm can lay hundreds of eggs at a time.

The high-level leaders of the Nanli Sect have already seen that the disciples under them are already actively relieving the disaster, immortal cultivators, they can sweep a large area with their divine sense, and some of the demon beasts they raise can also help, but it is still the same sentence, there are too many soul devouring insects, and they can't kill them at all.

At night, the high-level officials of Nanli Sect stayed in a small town, and they began to receive news from all walks of life one after another, so as to comprehensively summarize and customize the corresponding policies.

"Senior brother, this is the latest news from the sect, this insect plague, the scope of my southern departure sect has reached 20 million mu, and it is still spreading at a rate of 3 million mu per day.

This time, the spirit devouring insects are extremely resistant to toxicity, and the previous insecticide powder has no effect, and the formations below the third order will be broken within an hour, and no matter how many people are sent, they can't hold it, and now all the important elixirs have updated the formations, and then send people to guard them, but the spirit rice and low-level elixirs are all finished."

"There are a lot of sect formation reserves, why don't you use them?"

"The head of the sect has taken it to various cities and markets, it is not enough at all, and now the alchemists of the sect are making every effort to develop a medicinal powder to restrain the spirit devouring insects, if it can be developed within three or five days, I am afraid that some can be saved, if it can't be developed, then I don't know what the consequences are."

"What will be the consequences?"

"The Southern Departure Sect is completely finished"

"Could it be so scary?"

"Senior brother, it's not me talking nonsense, the same thing happened in history"

"Tell me about it"

"Good"

The man said helplessly, his senior brother was an ascetic, and he had nothing but cultivation in his heart, and he didn't care about anything else, and he lacked common sense.

But who made him a senior brother, a few people had to slowly explain to him that the spirit devouring insects devoured items with aura, the most was spiritual rice and elixir, and the precious elixir was protected by a formation, but Lingmi didn't have anything, because the area was too large.

Every time an insect plague occurs, the most seriously damaged is the spiritual rice, and the spiritual rice is the most basic material in the immortal cultivation world, the immortal cultivators above the cave have completely opened the valley and do not need to eat, but the immortal cultivators below the cave are extremely dependent on the spiritual rice, and even some casual cultivators have no money to buy pills, in addition to meditating to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, eating spiritual rice is their main source of absorbing spiritual energy.

In this way, it is conceivable how important this spiritual rice is, and once the insect plague breaks out, the spiritual rice is damaged, and the low-grade spiritual medicine is damaged, and the price of basic resources in this area will inevitably skyrocket.

The most affected are those scattered cultivators, which will inevitably lead to a large number of scattered cultivators fleeing, but a sect, without casual cultivation, what do they collect taxes and what do they take to support the sect.

In addition to scattered cultivation, those small families and small sects under the command of the big sects also suffered, many small families and small sects rely on some low-level elixirs and spiritual rice as the main source of income, they are finished, how do the big sects collect protection fees, how to recruit them to fight, in short, the spiritual rice that the high-level does not look down on is actually a strategic resource, which will lead to the rise and fall of a sect.

"I see, then let me ask you, there is an outbreak of insect plague in Cangbei Prefecture, what about Tiannan Prefecture?"

"There is no news yet, Nan Liwei is already investigating"

"If there is no outbreak in Tiannan Prefecture, it means that it was done by the Seven Peerless Sects."

"It's not much worse, now I'm waiting for Nan Liwei to report"

The man said, in fact, he didn't want this to be done by the Seven Peerless Sects, once it was confirmed that they did it, Nanli Sect had to retaliate, because this time the disaster was too serious, and the loss of spiritual jade was at least more than 10 million, and it would not work without retaliation.

But if there is really a war, the current Nanli Sect will suffer a lot, and the prices of various war materials will skyrocket, and the cost will be too high, maybe they will be defeated.