Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Devil's Land
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Yang Junshan's first reaction was that there were demon insects in this giant locust!
Only the demonized giant locust can know how to let the adult worm to raise the larvae, and the countless giant locusts in the valley cannot all be demonized, so there must be a demonized insect king among the giant locusts.
The king of insects controlled the locusts throughout the valley, restrained them from breaking out of the valley, and ordered the adults to collect branches and leaves from the surrounding mountains and forests for the larvae to eat.
Yang Junshan can imagine that once all the giant locusts in this valley grow into adults, then just wait for the insect king to give an order, countless giant locusts will definitely rush out of the valley and rush out of Quwu Mountain.
Walk all the way around Yang Jun Mountain, a forest at the edge of the valley, while paying close attention to the movements of the giant locusts in the valley, trying to find out the insect king hidden in it, but the giant locusts in the valley are densely packed, even if the size of the insect king may be larger than the rest of the giant locusts, perhaps because the demonization has some characteristics that are obviously different from other giant locusts, but it is difficult to find out from it.
Yang Junshan sneaked along the edge of the valley, and at the same time quietly killed several giant locusts that flew into the woods to feed, and then saved the giant locust carcasses and placed them in his waist bag.
However, when Yang Junshan walked towards the woods on the southern slope of the valley, the number of giant locusts flying into this forest was getting smaller and smaller, and the more they flew to the south, the fewer the number of giant locusts flew away, and at the same time, the pungent smell that permeated the woods was getting stronger and stronger.
At this time, Yang Junshan is now this piece of wood, whether it is the ground or the leaves and branches are sprinkled with a layer of yellow-brown dust, it stands to reason that there is often a mountain wind blowing in the mountain forest, and there is very little dust falling on it when the branches and leaves are shaken.
Carefully put a dusty leaf on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, a smell far more pungent than permeating the woods came straight to his mind, making Yang Junshan still sneeze.
Moreover, Yang Junshan also realized that these yellow-brown dusts were particularly adhesive, and after falling on the leaves, no matter how he shook them, they never fell, even if he blew them violently with his mouth, he couldn't blow them away.
This is definitely someone deliberately, these pungent smell of medicinal dust blocked the giant locusts in the valley to the south to feed, in the future once the locust plague explodes, I am afraid that it will instinctively avoid the direction of the south and all swept north, this is probably also the locust plague in the previous life from Quwu Mountain soon after the explosion swept half of Yu County, and Zhang County was extremely limited in damage.
The plague of giant locusts turned out to be both a natural disaster and a **!
Yang Junshan was almost certain that these people who sowed medicinal powder must be the same group of people as the people who purchased Linggu in Barren Mountain Town, but the giant locust plague swept through half of Yu County, and the insect swarm in the valley in front of him was obviously far from enough, that is to say, there were no known how many similar insect swarms there were in the entire Quwu Mountain.
And the Zhangjun force that Yang Junshan knew about was probably not at all capable of controlling so many insect swarms, which means that if they wanted to control the entire Quwu Mountain giant locust swarm, it would be possible to at least have a number of forces in Zhangjun to act together.
Yang Junshan, who was sneaking, suddenly stopped, the whole person was hidden behind a giant tree, just on the road he was moving forward before, there was an ingenious warning trap placed there, if it weren't for Yang Junshan himself being an old and spicy mountain forest hunter, he wouldn't be able to detect this trap at all, and as long as he touched it slightly, I am afraid that he would be secretly hidden.
The early warning trap appeared, so it means that the station of this group of monitoring insect swarm monks should be nearby, but I don't know if this group of people has been led to the north by him to chase after them, or if there are still people left.
Yang Junshan cautiously bypassed the early warning trap and continued to move forward, during which two more early warning arrangements appeared in succession, a small open area appeared in front of his eyes, and in the center of the open land was a half-buried house made of logs.
There was silence all around, and there was no one here, but Yang Junshan still didn't dare to be careless, and took the two talismans seized from Senior Brother Cheng in his hands, and at the same time put the rune short sword in a place where he could pull it out at will, and slowly approached the wooden house.
Judging from Yang Junshan's experience, there should be at least six or seven monks stationed in this camp temporarily, and these people have just left, judging from the things left in the camp, these people are obviously leaving in a hurry, and from the mouth of the dead Senior Brother Ma, I know that this camp should be based on that Senior Brother Zhao, and this person should be a martial arts realm monk.
Gently opening the door of the wooden house, and finally making sure that there was no one in this camp, and there were no traps, Yang Junshan finally put his mind at ease and began to search this camp carefully.
The important items on the monk's body are generally carried with them, and the monks in this camp are no exception, in addition to about five hundred catties of spirit valley in the wooden house, there are some leftover cured meat and barbecued meat, among which Yang Junshan can even distinguish the meat of two or three kinds of fierce beasts, which should be hunted from Quwu Mountain, but I don't know if they have harvested fairy spirits.
Yang Junshan also found a spirit sealing bucket more than a foot high and a spirit sealing box one foot wide and half a foot thick in a corner.
After opening the spirit sealing bucket, a strong bloody qi was emitted from the barrel, and inside was half a bucket of plasma that would not coagulate after being processed by the spirit sealing, these plasma were the blood of fierce beasts, and mortal realm monks could use it to write talismans, which could save a lot of spiritual power.
And the spirit box is contained in the tanned beast leather, which is neatly divided into more than 20 sheets, these beast leathers are used as talisman paper, which can keep the spiritual power in the talisman for a long time, and the power will not decrease.
The Spirit Sealing Bucket is too big, and it is inconvenient to carry, but the more than 20 pieces of fierce beast leather and the Spirit Sealing Box Yang Junshan are not welcome.
In addition, there are a lot of medicinal herbs dried in the open space around the camp, which should also be collected by the monks stationed here in Quwu Mountain in their spare time, although most of them are ordinary herbs, but fortunately, the year is full of medicinal power, and most of them will be used as auxiliary medicinal materials when refining medicinal pills, which shows that the monks who collected these medicinal materials have studied this quite a lot.
Yang Junshan will naturally not be polite to this, if the monks in the camp are only proficient in herbal medicine, then Yang Junshan was a Dan maker in his previous life, although he is not as talented as an alchemist, but the more than ten Dan prescriptions recorded in his mind are naturally more proficient in the selection of these medicinal materials, and the selection of these dried medicinal materials is also more valuable herbs.
After searching this camp completely, Yang Junshan found a hidden earthen kiln behind the wooden house, after opening the earthen kiln, a strong pungent smell came to his face, and Yang Junshan's question in the woods was exactly the same, but it was even more pungent.
Covering his mouth and nose with the sackcloth that he used to cover his face before, Yang Junshan walked into the earthen kiln, where there was a stone platform, on which there were a lot of things in bottles and jars, and there were a lot of grinding powders of various colors in different bowls, in addition to the open porcelain jar with a height of a few feet, which poured into a lot of the powder in the bowl, and a pottery stick was placed in it and seemed to be stirring.
Under the stone platform, there were two pockets, each weighing about twenty or thirty catties, Yang Junshan opened it and saw that the yellow-brown powder contained in it was exactly the same as the medicinal powder thrown in the woods.
Yang Junshan immediately understood that the medicinal powder used by this group of people to prevent the giant locust from going south to Zhang County was not only prepared on the spot, but also the raw materials for the preparation of these medicinal powders should be the herbs collected from Quwu Mountain, no wonder this small camp is full of dried medicinal materials, it seems that the prescription for preparing the medicinal powder is those herbs that were collected, but the specific preparation process Yang Junshan still does not know.
Looking at the dozens of bottles and cans of medicinal powder in front of him, Yang Junshan couldn't deduce the specific prescription of the medicinal powder through these things, so he had no choice but to carry a bag of medicinal powder under the stone platform on his back and prepare to take it back to Wasteland Town.
Before leaving, Yang Junshan lit the small wooden house with a fire, and then quickly circled along the west side of the valley to the north end, but when he circled to the northwest corner, a swarm of insects in the valley suddenly exploded from the valley, and after rising in the middle of the valley, it flew in all directions, like a gray-brown cloud in the sky.
A bitter evil wind slowly blew through the forest from the valley, but when it blew on Yang Junshan's body, it was like a knife cut, as if a murderous beast was staring at him.
Evil qi, this is evil qi, there is actually a source of evil qi in this valley!
Yang Junshan suddenly rushed towards a big tree, and then looked towards the valley, and saw a dense swarm of insects surrounding the center of the valley, circling from left to right, gradually forming a vertical pillar of insects, straight up dozens of zhang in the air.
The king of worms must be there, and the source of evil qi must be there!
The giant locust swarm surrounding this huge insect pillar was actually fighting for food on the evil qi gushing out from the source, and Yang Junshan was able to make a sure guess almost instantly!
However, when Yang Junshan went around to the northern end of the valley and was about to return, the insect pillars that had surrounded the valley dozens of zhang high suddenly collapsed, and the swarming insect swarms all fell towards the valley, and the huge scene in the valley before instantly calmed down.
Yang Junshan still didn't have the insect king who could hide in the insect swarm, but he could no longer feel the aura of choosing people to devour when the evil qi was in the body.
The source of this evil aura is actually intermittent?
I just don't know if the monks in the six or seven camps who have been monitoring the valley have ever seen this situation in the valley, and whether they know that the terrifying aura that leaks out is the source of the rare evil qi?
However, at this time, Yang Junshan needed to rush back to the wasteland town as much as possible, and thick smoke rose from the lit camp in the distance behind him, but Yang Junshan rushed into the miasma after traveling all the way through the mountains and forests.