The content of this news is about the locust plague.
In Pingyuan County, an extremely serious locust plague broke out twelve days ago, causing hundreds of acres of fertile farmland in Pingyuan County to be eaten away.
Currently, millions of locusts are heading towards their next destination, Zhurong County.
Pingyuan County is a large county in Lushan County and is famous for its food production. It is only more than 300 miles away from Zhurong County.
This time, the locust plague came very strangely, emerging overnight.
This caused a large number of locusts to pass through the fields in Pingyuan County in one day, which can be called a locust storm.
Due to the sudden appearance, local people and monks in Pingyuan County had no time to resist, and watched hundreds of acres of fertile land being devoured by locusts.
Pingyuan County supplies about 50% of Lushan County's grain market.
This time, due to the locust plague, Pingyuan County's grain production this year has been completely wiped out.
This will directly lead to a sharp rise in food prices in Lushan County in the next few years, directly putting great pressure on the food supply in Lushan County.
Without enough food, food prices soar, and people cannot maintain a normal life, which can easily cause chaos and war.
What's even more terrifying is that among these locusts, there are tens of thousands of demonic insects.
These monster insects all belong to the locust clan, have strength in the Qi training period, and are subdivided into several groups.
Among them, there are several insect kings at the sixth or seventh level of Qi training, and even a large insect king at the foundation stage.
Stationed in Pingyuan County is Zhang Mengquan, a foundation-building monk of the Chaotian Sect. The county town is under the protection of the Chaotian Sect.
Although Zhang Mengquan took action in time and killed the foundation-building insect king.
But the remaining insect kings led the insect swarm to escape from Pingyuan County and surged toward Zhurong Town.
Now that the matter has come to this point, all the forces understand the truth of the matter.
In order to maintain the stability of Lushan County and avoid the locust plague in our fertile fields, we must work together to eliminate the locust plague and stabilize the situation in time.
After hearing the news about the arrival of the locust plague, Lu Yuanshan was worried, but he also had to admire Lu Ping's methods.
Before the locust plague reached Zhurong County, my father had already learned that Lushan County would be attacked by a locust plague, so he assigned the task of eradicating the locust plague.
Impressed with the vastness of Lu Ping's magical powers, Lu Yuanshan immediately informed everyone in the sect that the Qingshan Sect would be on lockdown from today onwards.
There are twenty-five acres of spiritual fields, six acres of medicinal fields, jade bamboo, spiritual peach trees, etc. planted in the sect. These must not be missed.
Although there is a protective array, it can resist most external pests.
But the number of locusts is too terrifying. If they are not protected, they will take advantage of any loopholes and swarm into the Qingshan Sect.
After Lu Yuanshan issued the move to close the mountain, almost at the same time, major families near Zhurong County also issued blockade orders, sealing off all their spiritual fields and medicinal gardens to prepare manpower to deal with the locust plague.
After the blockade of Qinglian Mountain was completed, Lu Yuanshan summoned his disciples that day and arranged for Lu Zhiwei to take several disciples to Zhurong County to rescue the people and clean up the locust plague.
Take this opportunity to complete the first external task assigned by your father.
Zhurong County is located in the north of Qingshan Sect, close to the east bank of the main stream of Lingxi River. The town is named after Zhurong, the God of Fire.
According to legend, it was given by a wandering Taoist priest who called himself Qing Yezi when Zhurong County was established more than 300 years ago.
Perhaps because of the name of this county, for more than three hundred years, the people in Zhurong County have always had no disease or disaster, and the weather has been smooth. There has never been an invasion of monsters or evil cultivators, making Lushan County a well-known place to live.
This has led to the rapid development of Zhurong County in recent decades, attracting many people from other places to settle down, and the population has grown to as many as 60,000.
The fertile farmland planted in Zhurong County has reached more than 600 acres, second only to Pingyuan County.
If locusts swarm into Zhurong County and gnaw on fertile fields in the county, they will undoubtedly cause greater damage to Lushan County's grain output.
The major families in Lushan County, and even the Hengyue Sect, all know the truth of the death of the lips and the coldness of the teeth. They have checked and balanced each other and have developed mutual dependence. They all understand how big a blow it will be to Lushan County if locusts are allowed to eat the fields.
Eliminating locust swarms will only be beneficial and harmless.
All parties have organized their manpower and are ready to join forces.
Even the Shenxiao Palace and Chaotian Sect located in Yunbei County could not hold back and decided to take action to eliminate the locust plague in Lushan County to prevent it from leaking out.
Lu Zhiwei led ten disciples including Song Minghui, Zhang Nianchuan, Lin Han, and Chu Qin, and rushed to Zhurong County first, and met Chu Taiyuan, a monk from Shenxiao Palace who was guarding Zhurong County.
In the team at Shenxiao Palace, Lu Zhiwei also met Yuan Lang and Lu Hongniang.
As soon as he saw the Qingshan Sect, led by Lu Zhiwei and Song Minghui among them, Yuan Lang immediately took the initiative to greet them.
"Friend Lu Dao, we meet again."
There was a hint of surprise in the tone.
Since the last round of cooperation, when they jointly killed Liang Zhennan, Lu Zhiwei left a very good impression on Yuan Lang.
This time, he was assigned by his master Xu Qingshan to help Shenxiao Palace go down the mountain to clean up the locust plague. He was actually a little reluctant. After all, this work was tiring and painful.
There are too many locusts.
Now that I saw Lu Zhiwei participating in it, I just thought it was time to collaborate with Lu Zhiwei again and learn more about it.
This trip is not that boring.
"Well, long time no see."
Lu Zhiwei didn't like to talk and had a very cold temperament, so she just responded lightly.
Seeing Yuan Lang here was beyond her expectation.
Except for Lu Zhiwei and Song Minghui, the rest of the Qingshan Sect disciples, such as Chu Qin, Zhang Nianchuan, etc., felt a little wary when they saw the Shenxiao Palace group.
There is no other reason. Shenxiao Palace belongs to a large sect of the Chu State, and its prestige is far higher than that of the Qingshan Sect. There is a Jindan Patriarch in the sect.
There are a total of sixteen towns under the protection of this sect, and Zhurong County is one of them. Chu Taiyuan, who is at the ninth level of Qi training, is sent to take charge.
Most of the sect food of Shenxiao Palace is produced in Zhurong County. Many people in the county are some of the disciples of Shenxiao Palace, and even the family blood of the elders.
The Chu family, where Chu Taiyuan lives, also thrives in Zhurong County.
Seeing that the monks from the Qingshan Sect arrived first and learned that they would help the people clean up the locusts, Chu Taiyuan was very grateful. After chatting with a few people, he talked about the locusts.
"I have been in Zhurong County for more than 30 years, and I have never seen Zhurong County suffer from droughts, floods and other disasters. Even insect pests are just trivial pests and do not need to be taken seriously at all."
"But this time, the locust plague coming from Pingyuan County may break the peace that has existed in Zhurong County for more than 300 years."
"Zhurong County has outstanding people and is a place where blessings gather. I believe we can successfully survive this locust plague. Senior Chu does not need to worry too much."
Lu Zhiwei was serious in speech, and the one who spoke was Senior Sister Song Minghui.