Cassia Mountain is home to nearly 10,000 mortals, including the families of disciples who have just moved from the small world, and the descendants of monks who have settled here for many years and multiplied for several generations, or even dozens of generations.

The mountains have a beautiful environment, a pleasant climate, and extremely fertile land, so you can grow strong crops without much cultivation by sprinkling two handfuls of seeds.

Mortals live here, are nourished by aura all year round, rarely get sick, and have a lifespan of one or two decades longer than in the mortal world, and it is not unusual to live to old age.

As you can see, the town is quite prosperous.

The streets are wide and clean, the road is paved with bluestone, and there are many shops on the street, such as oil mills and rice shops, and tea shops in the school......

But it was empty.

In its place, there are dense mantis locusts.

These mantis were more than a foot long, with two glittering green eyes on their heads, and a shiny hard shell that ranged in color from light green to dark yellow.

The strong hind limbs are serrated all over the place, and the two pairs of scaly wings are covered with a rusty reddish-brown.

Now they are jumping around, searching for something to eat, and when they find it, they pounce on it, open their powerful palates, and nibble on and on, as if they could never get enough.

"This is a mantis? How is it so big? ”

"yes, I thought it would be the size of a fist at most."

Many disciples saw demon insects for the first time, and they couldn't help but feel furious in their hearts.

Seeing everyone's fear, Elder Nie didn't speak, he pinched out a magic trick in his hand, and a faint layer of golden light immediately shrouded his body, and he shouted: "You Scythe Flying Blade!" ”

In an instant, the golden light in his hand burst out, and dozens of flying blades like hooks and sickles shot out.

These flying blades seemed to have eyes, and the dozens of locusts closest to the crowd either cut off their heads, or split them in half, or pierced their chests...... Sweep it all in an instant!

When the disciples saw this, they let out a cheer in unison.

Although the spirit beast diagram had been grayed out and dormant, Zhao Lin could still see the spirits of the dead creatures, and when he saw dozens of spirits rising together, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.

The Scythe Blade is a first-order spell, but it is incredibly powerful in the hands of the Tsukiji Monk.

The power of this move is not that it sends out dozens of flying blades, but that each flying blade can accurately hit the target.

You must know that the mantis locusts are not dead things, many of them are constantly moving, and you must have a strong divine sense to be able to control these flying blades separately.

Elder Nie finished casting the spell and whistled.

I only heard a "fluttering" sound, and seven or eight Aoki finches and long-tailed pheasants flew over everyone's heads, and swept low towards the mantis locusts not far away.

Strange to say, after everyone arrived, these mantis locusts were indifferent, but as soon as the spirit birds appeared, they began to scatter and flee like mice seeing cats.

The mantis fled quickly, but the spirit bird was one step faster, and in the blink of an eye it chased after it, raising its sharp beak and plunging it directly into its head like an iron pickaxe.

One hit kills, then pounces on the next......

Seeing the spirit bird so brave, the disciples were relieved.

At this time, Elder Nie's voice sounded: "There are seven streets in the town, Wei Yi, Zhang Gong...... Dong Lingcheng, the seven of you led the team to sweep away the locusts along the street. ”

"Zhu Shimao, Lan Jin, you two are responsible for cleaning up the farmland and bringing the spirit birds with you!"

"I'll go to the ancestral shrine in the town to guard the emergency magic circle, if you encounter danger, call me with a howling sound."

When he was on the flying boat just now, Elder Nie had already organized everyone into a team, and an older senior brother led four or five young disciples.

Zhao Lin, Tong Mu, Li Sancai and Zhu Cong were in a group, because the four of them were all beginner disciples, so they were led by Dong Lingcheng, who had the strongest combat power among the senior brothers.

Before Elder Nie left, he deliberately told the nine senior brothers: "Your first task is to take good care of your disciples, and the second is to kill the locusts, and there can be no casualties, understand?" ”

"Understood!"

The nine of them agreed in unison, and each led the team to the streets and farmlands.

Dong Lingcheng was the senior brother with the iron face and sword eyebrows who had been teaching the Fa in the Fa Pavilion before, and he led Zhao Lin and the others to the third street in the north.

As soon as the five of them entered the street, they saw hundreds of mantis scurrying around on the ground, walls, and rooftops, and some houses were chewing sounds.

"You first cast a spell to kill a locust for me to see."

Dong Lingcheng was not in a hurry to kill the locusts, but wanted to understand the general strength of several people before deciding on the next move.

"Okay."

Zhao Lin was the first to stand up, his eyes swept away, staring at a mantis locust that was half of its body into the barrel on the side of the street.

Usually I practice spells on targets or empty places, but today is the first time I have killed a living thing.

Zhao Lin stabilized his mind, and quickly formed a five-grade lotus character seal on his hand.

Grab your middle and ring fingers with your thumb, extend your index finger and little finger upwards, and swipe them in the air.

"Wind Knife Technique!"

I saw the blue light converge, condensed into a wind knife, and flew out in the air, hitting the belly of the mantis locust, splitting it in two.

"Good!"

Dong Lingcheng praised it, and then looked at Li Sancai.

Although Li Sancai is a low-grade spiritual root, he is very talented in spiritual power manipulation, and he is also cultivating spiritual knife techniques, but he is driven by fire spiritual power.

He sent out a fiery knife and slashed at the head of a mantis perched on the wall.

There was a "sting", the flames burned, and a scorching smell suddenly came from the air.

"Hit!"

Li Sancai shook his fist excitedly.

Next is Tong Mu, because he has been grazing in the grassland for many years, he is used to driving sheep with whips, and when he practiced spells, he chose a wooden spell: Qingtengju.

The green vine technique is a long green vine whip more than four feet long, and the whip is full of barbs, writhing in the air like a snake.

After sending it out, it violently rolled back, hooked the body of a mantis, and directly crushed it.

In the end, it was Zhu Cong's turn, he practiced water archery, although the spiritual root grade was better than the three of them, but the spell had not yet been cultivated, and the control power was still insufficient.

Coupled with his young age, he was a little afraid of mantis, so he fired two water archery techniques in a row, barely hitting one of the locusts in the thigh.

The mantis locust fell to the ground, bounced up in shock, flapped its wings and was about to fly, and was slashed down in the air by Dong Lingcheng with a wooden flying sword.

"It's all good!"

Dong Lingcheng said with satisfaction, Elder Nie asked him to lead four disciples who had just started, he thought it would be a burden, but he didn't expect that his skills were unexpected, and he could already help himself share his worries.

"Follow me, and remember not to leave more than seven feet...... No, five feet away! ”

After speaking, he glanced at Zhao Lin, "You are the oldest, and you have martial arts, so you can also help take care of it." ”

Zhao Lin hurriedly responded: "Senior brother, don't worry. ”

Dong Lingcheng nodded slightly, rushed into the street first, and led everyone to strangle the mantis locusts they saw.

"Autumn wind and falling leaves!"

Dong Lingcheng's cultivation is the eighth layer of qi refining, and his mana is powerful, although he can't kill dozens of locusts with one move like Elder Nie, but every time he makes a move, several demon insects will definitely land.

He rushed and struck in front, followed by Zhao Lin and the others, and when they encountered a fish that slipped through the net or a locust that was not dead, they took turns to kill.

Zhao Lin has been practicing martial arts for a long time and has extremely keen insight in combat.

He observed for a while and found that Li Sancai's fire knife technique had the effect of fire, and every time he hit the target, a ball of flame would rise.

"Sancai, a single demon insect is left for us to solve, you find the demon insects next to each other to try."

Li Sancai gave it a try, and sure enough, one spell could kill two demon insects at the same time, and he couldn't help but be addicted.

Tong Mu's green vine technique attack was not far away, but the range was wider, so Zhao Lin suggested that he clean up the mantis that entered the house, so that there was no risk of missing.

Zhu Cong's spells are not refined, and his accuracy is also a little worse, but Zhao Lin can see the spirit of the dead mantis, as long as he finds that there is no spirit floating out, he will let him go up and mend the knife.

The wind knife technique is light and agile, and Zhao Lin intends to look for the flying locusts and practice spells.

In this way, several people can experience the various ways in the spell while fighting, which are all things that are difficult to learn in the Spirit Dao Academy.

The crowd covered up all the way, and everywhere they passed was the corpses of mantis.

However, after all, the four disciples only had the cultivation of the first level of qi refining, and in less than half an hour, their mana was exhausted one after another.

Fortunately, Zhao Lin has no mana, and he still has a body of qi and blood, and he can still kill demon insects with martial arts techniques such as splitting the air and slashing the heavenly frost fist, although the attack distance is not as good as the spell, but the power is better.

And Tong Mu, Li Sancai, and Zhu Cong could only stare dryly, followed Zhao Lin, and waited for their spiritual power to slowly recover.

Dong Lingcheng also noticed that several people's mana was exhausted, but when he saw Zhao Lin's clean shot, he also relaxed and focused on killing the mantis.

After walking for a while, everyone suddenly realized that their eyes were wide, and they found that they had been killed from the street to the end of the street.

"Rest in place for a quarter of an hour."

Dong Lingxuan spoke, sat directly on the ground, closed his eyes and breathed.

Zhao Lin and the others also did the same, and sat down cross-legged.

When the time came, several people got up at the same time.

The demon insects on the street just now were already dead, and at this time, some mantis and locusts flew from other places, and some were still eating the corpses of the same kind.

Dong Lingcheng didn't speak, waved his hand and swept back along the street with everyone.

This time, Zhao Lin and the others felt a lot more relaxed, as soon as the number of mantis and locusts decreased, they were no longer everywhere like just now.

Second, the spells of several people are more familiar than at the beginning, and after recovering their spiritual power, the efficiency of killing insects is higher, and even Zhu Cong has grown a lot.

"There's one in there!"

When I passed by a sake brewery, there was a strange noise in the house.

Dong Lingcheng didn't want to waste time, so he asked Zhao Lin and others to go in to search, and he continued to kill the mantis locusts outside.

Zhao Lin answered, took the three of them into the wine shop, and was stunned when they rushed into the living room.

I saw that the living room table was full of wine and food, and it was obvious that the people in the wine shop were eating before the accident.

On the table lay a very large mantis, nearly three feet long and a foot and a half high, more than double the size of all the mites I had ever seen before.

That's not all, in a large group, there are always a few people who stand out, and what makes everyone strange is that this mantis actually sticks its slender mouthparts into the wine jar.

It's drinking!

Li Sancai and Tong Mu raised their hands at the same time, but Zhao Lin did not stop them, but pulled Zhu Cong to guard the gate.

Such a large mantis locust may not be able to be killed with a single spell, and it is safe for two people to make a move.

Something even more surprising happened: the mantis looked up at the group, kicked its legs, and flew straight out of the window.

"Ran away?"

All four of them were stunned for a moment.

The mantis have little intelligence, they don't know how to run when they see people, and they only run around when they are attacked.

This mantis actually knows that it is afraid of people.

Wrong!

Zhao Lin felt that something was wrong, and was the first to react, turned around and strode out of the house.

I happened to see Dong Lingcheng release the wooden flying sword and cut off the head of this huge mantis locust.

"It's okay......"

Zhao Lin breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it seemed that he was too worried.

Just as he was about to greet Li Sancai and the others, his eyes suddenly froze, the hairs on his body stood up, and he shouted: "Senior Brother Dong, be careful!" ”

(End of chapter)