"Xiao Jiu's strategy initially seems to have been successful, after the old man burned all those desert plants, there was a problem with the food supply of the poisonous fire scorpion group, and in less than half a month, the scorpion group had a situation of cannibalism, plus the old man took the opportunity to attack and kill, and now the number of scorpion groups has decreased by nearly fifty percent compared to when it was in its heyday. ”

"But now that the third-order [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] has realized the seriousness of the problem, forcibly stopped the cannibalism of ordinary poisonous fire scorpions, and sent the scorpion colony to hunt in the depths of the desert, and it seems that the food crisis has been overcome for the time being. ”

On Qingping Mountain, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan summoned all the Zhou family monks here and explained his achievements and front-line intelligence this month.

It can be seen that when they heard that fifty percent of the poisonous fire scorpions had died because of Zhou Yang's strategy, all the Zhou family monks showed joy on their faces.

However, when they heard the words of the old patriarch, the joy on everyone's faces was slightly reduced, and they couldn't help but bow their heads and ponder.

After all, the poisonous fire scorpion is a demon beast, and its combat ability and desert survival ability are many times stronger than ordinary desert animals.

From this point of view, Zhou Yang's "ecological chain destruction" tactic does not seem to be as perfect as everyone imagined.

"Hey, what are you all thinking? We have reduced the scorpion group by fifty percent without hurting a single person, which is already a big victory, and it is so difficult that you really think that if you don't let go of a spell, you can wipe out the entire scorpion group? Don't dream, it's a demon beast, it's not a small insect that ordinary mortals can trample to death with one foot, have you heard of anyone who kills a demon beast without directly fighting the demon ** for so many years?"

Just as everyone was thinking about the flaws of Zhou Yang's "ecological chain destruction" tactic, Zhou Xuanyu suddenly sneered, and his tone unceremoniously broke the silence.

Although her words were a little unpleasant, they also woke everyone up and made everyone realize that they had fallen into a misunderstanding.

There has never been a perfect strategy in this world, but they want to rely on a small strategy to destroy a group of demon beasts, how ridiculous!

And who are they? They are immortal cultivators, if even mortals can use a strategy to destroy all demon beasts, then what is the use of these immortal cultivators? When they face mortals, how can they still call themselves "immortal masters"?

Although the third sister's words are a little ugly, they are true, not to mention that the idea of destroying the entire scorpion group with just one strategy is too whimsical, even those of us don't have so much time here to slowly wait for the scorpion group to die out. ”

"The matter of the old patriarch leaving the family's spiritual vein is bound to not be concealed for too long, if we don't return to the family's various properties for a long time, it will also arouse the suspicion of outsiders, once people know about the things here, the harm to our Zhou family will be much greater than those poisonous fire scorpions!"

Zhou Xuanhao, as Zhou Yang's father, naturally wanted to stand up and support his son at this time, speaking of which, this was the first time in so many years that he took the initiative to speak out against Zhou Xuanyu.

Seeing that the old enemies of many years were united at this time because of a junior, the other Zhou family monks felt funny in their hearts, but they were also sincerely happy for the two of them.

The monks of the Zhou family have always been very united, although the fight between Zhou Xuanhao and Zhou Xuanyu in the past was within the control of the elders, but after all, it was still a hidden danger, and now this hidden danger has been removed, which is a good thing for the entire Zhou family.

What's more, the words of Zhou Xuanyu and Zhou Xuanhao are indeed reasonable, they, the important people of the Zhou family, usually have tasks on their bodies, and it is nothing to leave the family in a short time, but once it is a long time, there will definitely be chaos.

"Xiao Jiu, do you have anything to say?"

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan saw that the others did not speak, and his eyes turned, but he looked at Zhou Yang, the party.

"Great-grandfather Mingjian, grandson's strategy is flawed, this is a fact, but as my stepmother said, our immortal cultivators' great power belongs to ourselves, and the strategy is a small way, since the small path has been exhausted, it is naturally time for us to practice the great road with the magic weapon in our hands!"

"Didn't the scorpion swarm go deep into the sand sea in groups to hunt and forage? Then we will surround and send reinforcements, round up and hunt the poisonous fire scorpion swarm, and lure out the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] and destroy it in one fell swoop!"

Zhou Yang's eyes swept over the group of family elders who were looking at him, and he said his thoughts in an impassioned voice.

"Power to itself?"

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan narrowed his eyes, and then laughed loudly: "A good great power belongs to oneself, although this statement is simple and easy to understand, but it is directed to the avenue, I and other immortal cultivators have worked hard for thousands of years, in addition to seeking longevity, what we also ask for is not the great power to ourselves?"

When the laughter fell, the old patriarch's face was solemn, and he looked at the thoughtful Zhou family with a solemn face and ordered: "Just do what Xiao Jiu said, you will set off with the old man to hunt those poisonous fire scorpions that go out to hunt now." ”

"Yes. ”

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan gave an order, and more than a dozen late-stage Qi cultivation cultivators of the Zhou family quickly took action.

Everyone rode the sand beast from Qingping Mountain, and it took less than two days to rush to the periphery of the Red Flame Iron Vein, and then used the sand rabbits, gerbils and other beasts brought from the Qingping Mountain Oasis as bait, and it was easy to attract dozens of poisonous fire scorpions that went out to hunt.

Sizzle –

After dozens of first-order poisonous fire scorpions rushed over with a smell of blood under the leadership of several second-order poisonous fire scorpions, most of them were quickly killed by more than a dozen Zhou family monks who had hidden their aura, and most of them were bombarded with magic weapons, and the survivors screamed and sent out a distress signal while desperately digging holes and running for their lives underground.

Finger into steel!

Zhou Yang, who had never made a move, finally cast this newly learned second-order high-grade spell after nearly a minute of casting spells.

In order to cultivate to reach the seventh level of Qi training, he can practice second-order high-grade spells, and the first second-order high-grade spell that Zhou Yang practiced was the "Pointing the Earth into Steel" spell.

This spell is not very useful when dealing with immortal cultivators, but it is a magic skill to deal with demon beasts in the desert that are very good at drilling holes or retreating, and it is a spell that every immortal cultivator in the late stage of Qi cultivation in the extreme west must learn.

It's just that spells are easy to learn and difficult to master, Zhou Yang has only been learning this spell for a few months, and it is not easy to be able to cast a spell successfully, if you want to speed up the casting speed to the level of the old man Zhou Quan, it is basically impossible to do it without more than ten years of hard practice.

A late-stage Qi cultivation cultivator like Old Man Zhou Quan who can cast a second-order high-grade spell "Finger Earth into Steel" within a few breaths, there may only be one or two out of a hundred people, and they must be those who are hundreds of years old.

Generally speaking, except for those geniuses who have special talents in spell learning, ordinary immortal cultivators want to reduce the casting time to a few seconds or even a second, either like the old man Zhou Quan, who has been practicing hard every day for ten years or even decades, or they are using high-level cultivation to cast low-realm spells.

Zhou Yang has learned many spells, excluding those first-order spells that have no combat power, and now the spell with the fastest casting speed is the second-order mid-grade fire spell "Fire Snake Technique", with a casting time of less than five seconds, it can barely be used in normal battles.

It is precisely because spells are easy to learn and difficult to master, and difficult to use in battles of the same level, that immortal cultivators will develop two skills: talisman making and refining weapons.

The talisman maker can use special rune paper to seal the spell in it, and the immortal cultivator can activate the spell sealed in the spirit rune as long as he injects mana, which is very convenient.

As for the magic weapons refined by the refiner, the immortal cultivators can use them at will after refining, not to mention, unlike the spirit runes, which can only be used once and can be used repeatedly.

Immortal cultivators with magic weapons and spirit runes in their hands, compared with immortal cultivators without magic weapons and spirit runes, the difference in strength is definitely not one or two points, but several times or even ten times the difference.

At this moment, as Zhou Yang used the spell of "Pointing to the Ground into Steel", those poisonous fire scorpions who wanted to dig holes and escape immediately found that the originally soft sandy land became as hard as steel in an instant, and the scorpion pincers smashed on it, and they actually sputtered out large sparks.

Those Zhou family elders are all experienced in battles, how could they let go of this good opportunity, and immediately all kinds of magic weapons and spells took turns to smash towards the scorpion swarm on the ground, and this one-sided battle ended in an instant.

At this moment, an angry hiss was heard in the distance.

Then everyone saw that the dark red [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], which was as huge as a calf, rushed towards this side from far and near like a gust of wind with sand and dust in the sky.

At the same time, on the sandy ground in other directions around, ordinary poisonous fire scorpions with pitch-black colors quickly drilled out.

"You wait until you continue to clean up those ordinary poisonous fire scorpions, and the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] will be handed over to the old man. ”

Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch who had never made a move, finally moved, and as soon as the sword light under his feet moved, he intercepted the attacking [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King].

In the absence of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the command naturally fell to the old man Zhou Quan, who was the highest among the nineteen Zhou family monks present.

The old man's eyes swept over the battlefield, and he quickly gave the order according to the situation.

"Xuan Hao, Xuan Yu, Yu Ting, Xiao Jiu, the four of you are responsible for clearing the demon beasts in the east. ”

"Lao Qi, Lao Jiu, Xuan Tai, Xuan Bin, Xuan Yan, the five of you are in charge of the south. ”

"Old Five, Xuanhe, Xuanying......"

Zhou Yang followed behind his parents, and according to the order of the old man Zhou Quan, he quickly moved towards the dozens of poisonous fire scorpions that appeared in the east.

Among these dozens of poisonous fire scorpions, the number of second-order poisonous fire scorpions was only seven, and there was only one second-order high-grade demon beast, which was the weakest group of demon beasts that appeared on all sides.

This is the first time Zhou Yang has fought side by side with his parents, and he still has some expressiveness in his heart, wanting his parents to see the results of his cultivation over the years.

As soon as he approached the scorpion group, he immediately sacrificed the second-order high-grade magic weapon "Armor-Piercing Dagger" that the old patriarch had refined with the four incisors of the [Gold Eating Rat], and instantly nailed the four first-order poisonous fire scorpions to the ground.

Under the blade of the "Armor-Piercing Dagger", these first-order poisonous fire scorpions were comparable to carapaces as hard as fine iron, and they were only a little thicker than a layer of paper.

Seeing this, Mother Zhou on the side immediately praised it: "Well done! Yang'er, you can deal with these first-order poisonous fire scorpions, just hand over those second-order poisonous fire scorpions to your father and mother and your godmother to deal with!"

Hearing the previous sentence, Zhou Yang was still very happy in his heart, but when he heard his mother's words, his face shrugged, knowing that his mother actually regarded herself as the child who needed their protection.

"The boy knows. ”

He replied weakly, but he didn't have the slightest idea of protesting, because he knew that even if he protested, his mother and father would definitely not listen.

At the moment, he could only turn depression into strength, and sprinkled all his qi on those first-order poisonous fire scorpions, and the four "armor-piercing daggers" under his envoy, like a sickle in the hands of the god of death, frantically harvested the lives of these low-level demon beasts.