Li Xing had suspicions in his heart, but he still needed to seek confirmation from the Ye family before he dared to draw a conclusion.
Everyone in the Ye family watched Li Xing tinkering in the garden from a distance, and everyone kept silent for fear of disturbing Master Li by making any noise. Seeing her approaching, Ye Mubai asked: "Master Li, have you noticed anything?
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"There are clues, but I have to ask Uncle Ye a few questions first."
Ye Mubai was overjoyed: "Tell me everything you know!"
"The Ye family suffered from a locust plague more than 20 years ago. Can you tell me the specific situation?"
"this……"
Including Ye Qingting, the faces of all Ye clan members became heavy.
The Wutu True Locust incident can be said to be a thorn in the hearts of all Ye clan members. Their homes were destroyed overnight, thousands of clan members died in battle, and thousands of hectares of medicinal fields were completely destroyed.
The young lady sacrificed her life-long happiness in exchange for rescue. All this was a disaster, and it was a shame that they would never want to recall.
Ye Mubai was still hesitating, but Ye Chun spoke: "Mubai, what's wrong with this? Tell Master Li!"
"Yes!" Ye Mubai said slowly: "Twenty-two years ago, a group of Wutu true locusts descended on the mountain behind the Ye family without any warning. Due to the sudden incident, the Ye family had no time to activate the mountain protection formation, causing the locusts to march straight in.
, gnawed the herbs, and attacked the clan members. All the martial arts masters and rune masters of the Ye family went out to fight and tried their best to destroy the Wutu True Locust."
"It's a pity that this batch of Wutu real locusts is huge in number, extremely manic, and their fighting power is much higher than it should be. The Ye family is no match, and they suffered heavy casualties. Thanks to the arrival of reinforcements from the Cuihuan City Guards and other families, Wutu was defeated
True locust annihilation.”
Li Xing frowned, the Wutu True Locust would only become manic during the breeding season, and its combat power would skyrocket.
"Uncle Ye, was this piece of Jiuqu Lingshen damaged in the past?"
Ye Mubai's face showed pain, and he said slowly: "No. My wife risked her life to protect the ginseng garden with a talisman array, and did not let the Wutu True Locust get its hands on the Jiuqu Spiritual Ginseng."
So that's it. Li Xing is now certain that the living creature Shen Ying mentioned is the Wutu True Locust.
"Master Ye, Uncle Ye, everyone, I think I know the reason for the abnormal behavior of these Jiuqu Lingshen. There are eggs of the Wutu True Locust underground in this ginseng garden, and they are about to hatch."
Ye Chun and Ye Mubai shouted almost at the same time: "What——!" "It's impossible——!"
Ye Chun's expression was more serious than ever:
"Little friend Li, back then we also thought about the possibility of locusts laying eggs, so we spent a lot of money to plow the entire back mountain. The land was dug to a depth of twenty meters above the ground, and the soil was burned with fire.
It was exposed to the sun and dried for three full years before planting herbs again. Even if the locusts really laid eggs, they wouldn't survive."
Ye Mubai also nodded in agreement: "Yes, Master Li, the medicine garden is too important to our Ye family, so even though the Wutu True Locust laying eggs is just a hypothesis, we still made the most thorough emergency response according to the worst consequences.
There will definitely be no mistakes in handling it.”
If it weren't for the large amount of money and manpower required to plow and burn the land, which the Ye family couldn't afford, Ye Lan wouldn't have to marry into the Chu family and suffer the injustice.
Faced with Ye Chun and Ye Mubai's doubts, Li Xing explained: "The Wutu True Locust is an insect beast with earth attributes. Its eggs can burrow up to twenty meters underground. But, who stipulated that the eggs
Can it only move vertically? Can’t it move sideways?”
"The Ye family's plowing, digging, and burning can indeed kill the insect eggs, but definitely not all of them. Some of the eggs escaped."
"Because Jiuqu Lingshen is so precious and has not been damaged by the Wutu True Locust, you will never dig up the soil in the ginseng garden and burn it. In this way, the ginseng garden will become a refuge for insect eggs."
Ye Chun and Ye Mubai were silent, and had to admit that the possibility Li Xing mentioned was possible.
"The soil in the garden contains yellow spring soil, which has the effect of isolating spiritual power. Even if you use a telescope, you can't see that deep. Therefore, for so many years, no one has discovered that there are true locusts underground. Until the eggs are about to hatch,
The Jiuqu Lingshen felt threatened by natural enemies, so they jumped out of the soil to escape."
Seeing the increasingly ugly faces of Ye Chun and Ye Mubai, Li Xing knew that they were shaken.
"It's very simple to know if what I'm saying is right. If you find the insect eggs, won't the truth be revealed?"
According to Li Xing's speculation, all the escaped insect eggs would be hidden underground in the ginseng garden in order to avoid the burning fire. However, the density of insect eggs was too high, which was not conducive to their development. Therefore, after the incident subsided, these eggs would inevitably be transferred to
Other places in the medicine garden.
Ye Chun made a quick decision and ordered his men to get a Kun Kun mirror and search for traces of insect eggs everywhere in the medicine garden.
Only fifteen minutes later, not far from the ginseng garden, news came from the medicine garden where soil pear fruits were grown. As expected, the eggs of the locust were discovered.
Ye Chun couldn't believe it was true. He ran to the Tuli Orchard as fast as he could, grabbed the Tankun Mirror from the tribesmen, and checked it for himself.
When Ye Chun saw the insect eggs reflected in the mirror, which were densely distributed on the ground, the old man felt that his eyesight turned black and he fell over.
"Master——!" "Father——!" "Grandpa——!"
Everyone quickly helped Ye Chun up and found that his face was ashen. Ye Mubai pried open Ye Chun's mouth and poured a bottle of medicine into it.
When the medicine took effect, Ye Chun turned faintly, and the first thing he said when he opened his mouth was:
"Mu Bai, the Ye family...is finished."
The density of insect eggs reflected by the Kunscope was much higher than Li Xing had expected.
There are so many insect eggs underground in a medicine garden, how many are under the entire medicine mountain? When they hatch into adults, how many of the Ye family’s herbs will be left? If the events of twenty-two years ago were to happen again, the Ye family would not be able to do it again.
It’s time to plow the medicine mountain.
Ye Mubai's mood was not much better than that of Ye Chun. "Father, do you want to inform Chu Yu and ask the Chu family to send someone to help?"
Ye Chun shook his head firmly: "No, in that case, the Ye family will owe the Chu family another favor, and your second sister will never want to leave. This time, our Ye family has to rely on ourselves!"
Ye Chunqiang stood up, looked around at everyone, and ordered in a sad voice:
"Lao Hu, pass my order. All the martial arts masters and rune masters of the Ye family are on call 24 hours a day. The healers seize the time and gather all the herbs they can and sell them as soon as possible. It doesn't matter if the price is lower."
"In addition, people under the age of sixteen and those without Yuanling are arranged to live temporarily in other cities. They are not allowed to come back without my order."
Butler Hu said with tears in his eyes: "Yes, the head of the family."
"Mubai, go and inform the city lord and ask him to prepare for battle, lest the Wutu True Locust escapes and threatens the people in the city. Ask Qingyun, Qingbo, and Qingxiao to inform the other major families in Cuihuan City to take precautions as soon as possible.
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Ye Mubai choked with sobs and agreed. He knew that his father was preparing to fight to the death with Wu Tu Zhen Locust.
This time Wu Tu Zhen Locust will not let go even Jiuqu Lingshen, and the Ye family will have no chance to turn around. No matter what the outcome of this battle is, the Ye family will suffer a fatal blow
Ye Mubai's heart began to bleed when he thought that his family, which had lasted for thousands of years, would be destroyed at the hands of his own generation.
Ye Chun: "Qingting, you - you go back to Halsus. Leave the family affairs to grandpa and your uncle, and you can study in peace."
Ye Qingting shook his head: "No, I won't leave! Grandpa, it's too early to give up now, there must be a way!"
Ye Chun sighed and said: "You are young and have not experienced the human-locust war that year, so you say such things. If there is even a little hope, grandpa will not make such a move. Okay, be obedient and follow
Xiaoyou Li and the others, please go back."
Li Xing? Yes, there is also Li Xing!
Ye Qingting's eyes were red and he looked at Li Xing pleadingly: "A Xing, please help us..."
Li Xing nodded happily: "Okay, I'll make a pill first!"