By August, the situation in the Central Plains countries was becoming more and more corrupt.

Drought and locust plagues come alternately.

Especially the locust plague!

The locusts were overwhelming, and wherever they passed, not a single blade of grass grew!

Thousands of hectares of fertile fields were reduced to nothing, and thousands of miles of fertile fields were reduced to wasteland.

And this is just the beginning!

"Since ancient times, after the locust plague, there must be a demonic tide coming!" Standing on the city wall of Jinyang, the already old Zhao Shuai looked worriedly at the dense swarm of locusts passing through Jinyang outside the city's protective formation.

The Earth Immortal's hands were trembling.

Locusts are not terrible individually.

The scary thing is the hordes!

Set off a wave of locusts!

The locust plague appeared for the first time since the Xiahou clan. Until now, the raging locust plague has become one of the most feared things for human beings.

And what scares and scares the most is the wave of monster locusts that started in the second year after the locust plague!

Thousands, even tens of thousands, of foundation-building locusts came in dense swarms, overwhelming the sky.

Wherever they pass, no humans or animals will exist, and even the fairy mountains and spiritual veins will be eaten clean by these abominable evil spirits.

Many rivers and lakes were swallowed up by the tide of demonic locusts.

What’s even more terrifying is that if the demonic locust tide is large enough and forms a sufficient number, they will eventually devour each other and merge with each other, becoming a sinister evil that even the Human Emperor will have a headache for when he returns to his original form: fat legacy!

The fat man has four wings and six legs, a single head and a double body, and is as long as a hundred feet!

It is the enemy of orthodoxy, the evil bred from the dark side of human nature.

The greatest magical power of this monster is that wherever it passes, there will be a severe drought!

Their existence will cause the yin and yang and the five elements to be out of order, causing water vapor to be unable to rise, rain not to fall, the sun to be scorching, and the ground to be red for thousands of miles!

And their sinister characteristics make them immune to most Taoist and magical attacks.

Only Master Wang can destroy it!

During the reign of the Human Emperor, the fat relics caused a catastrophe that shook the order of the Xia Hou clan!

In the end, it was the Human Emperor ‘Zhu’ who personally led the army and commanded the king’s division, and finally wiped out all the fat relics who were causing trouble in the Nine Provinces!

During the Yuan Dynasty of the Yin Shang Hui Dynasty, there is also a record of the Holy King Pangeng personally commanding the king's army to conquer the fat relics.

In short, for everyone who has read history books.

Locust plagues mean troubled times.

The troubled world cannot be saved without the coming of the Holy King!

To put it bluntly, without Master Wang, it would be a disaster.

As for the monks and troops in Jinyang City now?

Zhao Shui knew that even those ordinary locusts might not be able to do anything about it!

Even if it can be eliminated and driven away.

But in fact, he is also looking for death.

Because things like locusts have characteristics that are difficult for outsiders to understand.

After they die, they will release some kind of gas that is poisonous to humans.

This gas doesn't just harm the land.

It will also leave a smell that only locusts can smell on the land, and the surrounding locust swarms will be attracted by this smell.

In other words, the consequences of doing that will have no other effect except that the next year's wave of demonic locusts will start from Jinyang!

"Shield!" Zhao Shuai called out the name of his legitimate son who was always beside him: "You immediately go to Liucheng and report the matter of Jinyang to Meng Gong, the general manager of Hua Kingdom!"

"Please Meng Gong to report to the master!"

"Please ask the Master to decide whether to keep or abandon Jinyang!"

After the Duke of Jin collectively buried his late father Chong'er, and after his death, the Dukes of Jin divided the huge Jin State.

As a minister, Zhao Shui was not only allocated the ancestral land of Jinyang, but also was allocated as much as five thousand miles of land.

Zhao Shuai exchanged those lands for two thousand miles around Jinyang.

Zhao Shuai's idea is very simple.

The descendants of the Zhao family must make contributions to Jiejiao!

But there is nothing greater than keeping the soil!

Therefore, Zhao Shuai planned that once the Hua Kingdom's army was formed in the future and vowed to fight for the Northern Expedition, the Zhao family would be the Shang Rong and Su Hu of the Hua Kingdom.

In this way, his descendants will be blessed, and he will be rewarded for his merits afterwards.

Immortality is not guaranteed, but it is expected that he will be granted the title of the God of Mountains and Rivers by the State of China, and that he will rest with his country.

Zhao Dun immediately bowed: "No!"

…

Twenty thousand miles away, Qin State, Yongdu.

Qin Gong Renhao looked at the envoys coming from Jiangcheng, the capital of Jin.

In front of him lay a letter asking for help signed by many officials from the Jin Kingdom.

Ask Qin to borrow grain to help the victims.

"Trillions of locusts appeared outside Jiangcheng..."

"Sure enough, the Taoist tradition is about to perish, and there must be monsters!"

"And the Taoist lineage is dead, and evil is rampant!"

"No matter what..." Ren Hao sighed: "I, Da Qin, are helpless!"

The envoy stood tall and bowed, crying: "Please Qin Gong, please have mercy on me, the people of Jiangdu!"

"In fact, no one can make the decision on this matter!" Ren Hao shook his head, faced the east, and bowed his hands: "Don't the envoys know?"

"I and my country have already prayed to heaven and earth to clearly cut off the cause and effect of Ji Zhou and change to respect the way of the saints of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Different road non-phase plan!"

"Please forgive me, I can't help you!"

The envoy kowtowed heavily: "I also ask Duke Qin, for the sake of our two countries' long-standing alliance, and for the sake of my late father-in-law's favor, please help us!"

Ren Hao stood up indifferently: "Messenger, please come back!"

"There is really nothing I can do!"

Then he walked behind the curtain, where Ren Hao Shi Ziying followed him.

"Father..." Yingying asked with some confusion: "Why are you so heartless?"

"There is no need to be affectionate to the housekeeper's dog, the dry bones in the grave!" Ren Hao said indifferently.

"But..." Yingying still didn't understand: "Our country is not short of food for the time being. It doesn't matter if we borrow some!"

"Besides, we can also use this to show our great Qin style to other countries in Hexi..."

"The countries in Hexi?" Ren laughed: "The Kingdom of Jin is dead, and all the ministers are divided into Jin! If the countries in Hexi are wise, switch sides and surrender, and serve Qin as their master, and respect the saint who is in charge, maybe there is still a chance of survival!"

"otherwise……"

"Next year, all the ministers, gods, and monks will die without a burial place!"

"The locust tide has risen in the Central Plains, and next year there will be monster locusts everywhere!"

"The blessed lands and spiritual veins of all countries will be eaten up by the demonic locusts!"

"And the monks and gods will become the targets of the demonic locusts!"

"So..." Ren Hao turned around and looked at Ying Ying: "My son, now you understand what the Jin officials are here to do, right?"

"They are not here to borrow food!"

"I'm here for spiritual food!"

"Although I have a lot of spiritual food in Da Qin, under the current situation, not a single grain is superfluous!"

Yingying listened and seemed to understand.

Spiritual food!

Under the locust plague, both gods and monks are probably in urgent need of this spiritual energy-rich grain to improve their cultivation.

Because, under the expectation that the monster locust tide will arrive next year.
To be continued...