Zhou Xuanyu accepted Zhou Yang as his adopted son, which was just a small interlude before the official business started. Today, the purpose of the Zhou family's late-stage qi-training monks gathering at the ancestral hall was to discuss the expansion of the Red Flame iron ore vein.
At this time, two years have passed since the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein was discovered. In the past two years, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went there several times to investigate the size and number of the Poisonous Fire Scorpion Group, and now he has basically figured out the situation.
According to the situation detected by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the number of poisonous fire scorpions in the Red Flame Iron Mine should be between 500 and 700, including a third-level [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and
There are thirty to forty second-level poisonous fire scorpions, and the rest are all first-level poisonous fire scorpions.
The first-level poisonous fire scorpions are not something to be afraid of. Except for Zhou Yang, who has just broken through the seventh level of Qi training, the monks gathered in the ancestral hall today are all veterans who have been in the later stages of Qi training for many years, and they also have old clan leaders.
The second-level defensive magic weapon refined by Zhou Minghan, no matter how many first-level poisonous fire scorpions there are, it will not be able to cause much damage to them if they cannot launch scorpion needles to focus fire attacks.
Therefore, the main point of discussion among everyone is still on the second-order poisonous fire scorpion and the third-order [poisonous fire scorpion king]. These monsters can pose a fatal threat to them, and they must make a plan in advance before taking action.
After many discussions, everyone finally decided that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan would first entangle the third-level monster [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], while the others would do their best to kill those first-level and second-level poisonous fire scorpions.
, cut off its wings, and finally use the power of the formation to surround and kill the [Poison Fire Scorpion King].
The plan was drawn up, and eighteen late-stage qi-training monks from the Zhou family, including Zhou Yang, quietly left the Yuquan Lake oasis on Shatuo beasts, and followed the old clan leader Zhou Minghan, who was flying with his sword, towards the red flame iron.
Mineral veins.
With the power of Shatuo Beast's legs, only a few days passed before he carried the Zhou family to their destination.
To avoid alarming the snake, the camel team stopped ten kilometers away from the destination, and then Zhou Xuantai, a first-level high-level formation mage in the team, deployed a first-level formation "Transformation Formation" to hide the camel beast's figure.
, a group of people abandoned their horses and walked on foot, using the "Breathing Concentration Technique" to restrain their aura, and went straight towards the Poisonous Fire Scorpion's lair on the mine vein.
The Lair of the Poisonous Fire Scorpion is located in a sandy slope on the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein. The surface of this sandy slope is covered with several meters of yellow sand. It looks no different from ordinary sandy slopes in the desert. At most, it is the surrounding desert plants.
A bit more dense and lush.
However, in fact, according to the investigation of Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, this seemingly ordinary sandy soil slope actually hides a huge natural underground cave deep underground. Not only does the cave have underground rivers flowing through it, but it is also connected to the underground.
Spiritual veins, the richness of the spiritual energy is equivalent to the level of third-order low-grade spiritual veins.
The lair of the poisonous fire scorpions is in the underground cave, and the desert plant bushes on the surface of the sandy slope are their hunting ground for food.
It was dusk at this time, and the temperature in the desert was more than ten degrees lower than at noon. Desert animals that had been buried in holes under the sand during the day came out of their hiding nests one after another and came to the ground to look for them.
A day's worth of food.
There are a wide variety of desert animals in the boundless sand sea. In the sky, there are sand grouse, sand gulls, sand swallows, sand sparrows, vultures, ostriches and other large, medium and small birds. On the ground, there are sand wolves, sand rabbits, camels, and sand foxes.
Gerbils and other animals include various types of animals, large, medium and small. In addition, there are many types of snakes, scorpions, centipedes, lizards, spiders and other reptiles and arthropods. Of course, there are even more types of insects.
These desert animals and the same wide variety of desert plants jointly build a desert ecological chain. Basically, wherever there are a large number of desert plants, traces of these desert animals can be found.
The sandy slope above the Poisonous Fire Scorpion's lair is surrounded by lush desert plants and underground rivers flowing through it. It is naturally very attractive to desert animals that struggle to survive in the desert, attracting a large number of desert animals to settle nearby.
Every evening before sunset and morning sunrise, in the desert vegetation around the sandy slope, there will be a wide variety of desert animals flying among them, looking for food to fill their bellies.
Sand hares, gerbils, and insects feed on plant stems and leaves; sand finches and lizards feed on insects; snakes and sand foxes feed on gerbils, sand hares, lizards, and sand grouse; sand wolves feed on all animals; one
This completes the desert food chain.
However, the being at the top of this food chain is not the powerful sand wolf with sharp claws, but the real master of this place - the poisonous fire scorpion.
When the desert animals collectively go out to forage, it is also the peak period for the poisonous fire scorpions to leave their nests for food. The poisonous fire scorpions, ranging from the size of a human head to the size of a bucket, are spread over more than ten square kilometers of land around the sandy slope.
superior.
Whenever prey passes by, these hunters who bury their bodies under the sand will instantly use their scorpion pincers to clamp the prey's body. If the prey is larger, they will switch to scorpion needles to sting it.
A first-level poisonous fire scorpion with a human head needs to eat about one kilogram of fresh meat each time, and can go without food for up to ten days after being full at one time, while a second-level poisonous fire scorpion with a bucket-sized head needs to eat more than ten kilograms of fresh meat each time
, you can go without food for seven days if you are full once.
As for the third-level [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], it no longer eats the flesh of ordinary beasts, but feeds exclusively on the old, weak, sick and disabled in the scorpion group. It will eat a first-level one every half a month.
The poisonous fire scorpion's kin.
It is also because the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] has the habit of feeding on his own race that the desert food chain on the Shatupo side did not collapse. Otherwise, if the number of scorpions were allowed to grow infinitely, the final result would be all the first- and second-order poisonous fires.
After scorpions ate up all the ordinary animals, they lost their food source and died of starvation and cannibalism.
Of course, in this world, no one except Zhou Yang, the time traveler, knows what the "food chain" is.
Although he knows the terrible consequences of the collapse of the food chain, unfortunately he is in a world of immortal cultivators and is an immortal cultivator with powerful power. His thinking inertia has changed greatly. When encountering things, it is easier to treat him as an immortal cultivator.
To view and solve it from the perspective and way.
Immortal cultivators have great power within themselves and can use magic and magical powers to solve problems when they encounter them. Of course, they will not waste their brains thinking of other solutions.
So even Zhou Yang, after knowing that the overall strength of the Poisonous Fire Scorpions was weaker than the Zhou family, the first thing he thought of was to summon the family's masters to destroy the opponent together.
It wasn't until he followed his family elders to the destination and observed the hunting situation of poisonous fire scorpions from a distance through the "Sky Eye Technique" and discovered the fragile desert food chain on the sandy slope that he suddenly realized that besides using force to solve the problem of poisonous fire scorpions, he
In addition to scorpion swarms, other methods can be used to weaken and exterminate scorpion swarms.
"I'm so stupid! Why didn't I think of this beforehand? If I had thought of this method earlier, why would I have used the old patriarch to take the risk of calling all the elders back? Just let the old patriarch go over alone and set a few fires to burn up the desert on the sandy slope.
Plants can starve most poisonous fire scorpions to death!"
Zhou Yang slapped his head in frustration and quickly found the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to tell him his findings and thoughts.
Of course, he would never say the term "ecological food chain". He just expressed what he wanted to express in a way that could be understood by immortal cultivators in this world.
"Wonderful! This is a great plan!"
The old patriarch Zhou Minghan is worthy of being a foundation-building monk who has lived for more than a hundred years. Zhou Yang only said it for the first time, and he immediately understood the mystery. He was not stingy in his praise for Zhou Yang who offered his advice.
"Xiaojiu, you are indeed the lucky star given to our Zhou family by God. Such clever tricks will make you think that I have never heard of it. I have never heard of it!"
After saying that, he directly sent a message secretly to greet the others: "Come on, come on, Quan'er, Xuan Hao, you all come over to listen to Xiao Jiu's clever plan and see if it is feasible?"
"It's indeed a clever plan. This plan involves one link after another, starting from the smallest point. Not to mention those monster beasts that have just awakened their intelligence, it is us immortal cultivators. Unless the disaster breaks out later, no one will be able to discover it.
You fell into the trap, what a strategy, what a strategy!" Elder Zhou Quan, the second elder of the Zhou family, after listening to the old patriarch's retelling of the strategy, he quickly understood and cheered loudly with his beard tied in his hands.
"The strategy is very good and easy to implement. It can not only be used here, but can also be used to deal with other groups of monsters and beasts living in groups in the sand sea in the future. However, this strategy will harm Tianhe. If it can be avoided,
It's better not to use it!" The fourth elder, Zhou Jun, also nodded and was very optimistic about Zhou Yang's strategy. However, as the second spirit planter, he still instinctively rejected this behavior that completely destroyed the plant ecosystem, and he was very disappointed.
alert.
But the person who really came to the point was Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao: "I would like to add that this strategy must not be implemented on the oasis, and must be kept strictly confidential, otherwise we will be hostile to all the monks in this boundless sea of sand.
, bringing disaster to the family!"
In the boundless sea of sand, oasis is the most important strategic resource. Only with the existence of oasis can mortals be fed. With more mortals, more immortal cultivators with spiritual roots can be produced.
Therefore, anyone who dares to destroy the oasis in the boundless sea of sand will definitely be hostile and hunted by all immortal cultivators. Even a large sect like Huangshamen will not dare to do such a thing that offends the public's anger.
The monks of the Zhou family have lived and grown up in the desert and are very aware of the importance of oasis. After hearing Zhou Xuanhao's words, including Zhou Yang who proposed the "ecological chain" strategy, their hearts trembled and excitement appeared on their faces.
His expression became much calmer in an instant.
The old patriarch Zhou Minghan also nodded solemnly and said: "Very good, Xuan Hao said it very well. This kind of strategy does need to be used with caution. It is of course best not to use it. If it is used, it must be kept secret and the information must not be leaked.
Go out and be known by outsiders!"
After saying that, he narrowed his eyes, looked at the sandy slope sloping down at dusk and whispered: "You should retreat to Qingping Mountain first, and leave this place to me. Whether Xiaojiu's strategy will work or not, you will know after a try!