Chapter 302: The demon mantis returns to its ancestors
So they were extra generous when giving away eggs, because locust eggs were not really something they cherished, and they couldn't cultivate every one anyway.
Of course, the one he gave to Xie Duanyang the second time was not that cheap. It was also a good thing that the low-level magicians in the clan could not covet.
"If that's the case, Qu will have to make a merciless request."
Xie Duanyang smiled while stroking his palms, took out the spirit stone from the storage bag and presented it to the other party.
The Locust Master's breathing suddenly became rapid, and he saw that although the spiritual stones were of different colors, they were translucent and full of spiritual energy. They were all obviously mid-level spiritual stones.
Without the use of spiritual consciousness, the Mage from the Locust Tribe can see at a glance that there are twenty of them in total, which are worth two thousand spiritual stones.
Of course, few people exchange mid-level spiritual stones for low-level ones, and the real value is one or two points higher. This is especially true for Master Mulan who generally lacks spiritual stones.
"What does this mean, fellow Taoist?"
Suppressing the desire in his heart, the wizard asked seriously.
"It's nothing..."
Xie Duanyang casually released the black tiger from the spirit beast bag, stroked its furry head with his hand, and said with a wry smile.
"Fellow Taoist has also seen Qu's mount. It's not good at cultivation, but it has a big belly.
In addition to the elixirs, we also need to feed meat every day. I thought that the migratory locusts in your department are also monsters after all, and they are much stronger than cattle and sheep..."
Glancing at the black tiger, the magician couldn't help but praise the majesty of the voice and believed Xie Duanyang's words.
But he didn't agree immediately, but thought for a moment before speaking.
"If the quantity is small, there is no need for spiritual stones. I can make the decision myself and give them to fellow Taoists.
It's just that the amount you want is too much, accounting for more than 20% of all the spiritual locusts in this clan. The next person cannot make a decision, and needs to discuss it with several other elders before..."
Xie Duanyang took it easy and watched him leave, while he cast a spell to detect the insect eggs in his hand with great interest to see if he could tell what kind of demonic insect blood was mixed with them.
The magician left simply and came back very quickly.
Xie Duanyang had guessed that the locust might have a spiritual insect bloodline. Before he could detect and verify it, the other party helped the old sorcerer, who was wrapped in a wide black robe, back.
It was the great elder of the Migratory Locust tribe who came to finalize the deal.
Although the opponent sees the decline of Qi and blood, it is only around the late stage of foundation building.
But it gave Xie Duanyang a faint sense of danger, and his aura was rising and falling in Xie Duanyang's senses, changing erratically.
Obviously, the other party has some powerful and weird secret skills that can kill people across levels.
Opening his cloudy eyes, he looked at Xie Duanyang for a moment. The black-robed old monk closed his eyes again and said in a low and hoarse voice.
"Okay."
Hearing what the great elder said, the magician did not hesitate anymore. He opened his fur robe, took out the animal skin bag inside, and explained it to Xie Duanyang in detail.
In addition to locusts, they also thoughtfully provided some food as a gift.
The secret spirit beast bag is also more suitable for the life of those migratory locusts.
Of course, considering that Xie Duanyang wanted to feed the black tigers as rations, they did not prepare much food for the locusts.
Instead, a unique pesticide is used to kill the locusts in advance, putting them in a state similar to hibernation and minimizing consumption.
This is also one of the methods developed by the Locust Department to limit the reproduction and expansion of its population and consume a lot of resources.
When it's time to use it, just use another kind of smoke to wake it up in advance.
Xie Duanyang was very interested in this.
After all, he is worrying about himself. Now he is wandering on the road, which is no better than sitting on a mountain and a spiritual field in a Chinese-speaking country.
Every once in a while, the flower bees must be released specifically to look for food, at least not to starve them to death.
Although he also has a method similar to that of the Locust Department, which can reduce his activity and desire to eat, the effect is still not as good as the experience accumulated by the other party over many generations.
Of course, these medicines, techniques, etc. were created for the magicians and locusts of the Locust Department. If used on other spiritual insects, the effect will inevitably be compromised.
The specific details still need to be tested by him personally.
Here he was trying to figure out his new gadget, while elsewhere, the mage from the Locust Department looked at the old man in black robes in confusion.
"Great Elder, why are you so polite? Although two thousand spirit stones are not a small amount, the price we paid is also huge.
The disciple thinks that maybe we can raise another 20%..."
"Do you think the other party's cultivation is just what he shows?
Ordinary people in the middle stage of foundation building will easily take out two thousand spirit stones in order to buy food for the spirit beasts?"
The old man in black robe stopped and snorted coldly.
"I carry a holy insect on my body. This insect has been passed down and supported in the clan for three generations. The successive owners are all the great elders of our clan who have the most profound cultivation and magical power.
Although he failed to form an elixir, his spiritual consciousness is extremely sharp and rare."
The old man spread out his right hand, and a locust about the size of a thumb, with its whole body like a carved green emerald, lay peacefully in the palm of his hand.
Looking at the locust, which looked like more dead things than living insects, the voice of the great elder of the Locust Tribe was obviously filled with fear.
"When I first saw that person, the Holy Insect was very restless, and it has not calmed down completely until now."
"In that case, doesn't it mean that person's cultivation level..."
The younger magician obviously knew the strength of the holy insects of his clan. Hearing this, he immediately took a breath and unconsciously turned back to look at Xie Duanyang's residence.
Nodding his head and stopping what he was saying, the old man in black robe said solemnly.
"Bee Sting has an elder who is in the middle stage of pill formation on the surface, and secretly hides such a powerful person. It seems that this trip is not just a simple transaction.
It’s just that this is not something we can get involved in. It’s best to send them out of the country as gifts as soon as possible.”
Although he didn’t know that the Locust Department had guessed some of his own details, Xie Duanyang also clearly noticed that the other party’s attitude had changed.
I am more respectful than before, but also much more reserved, and not as close as before.
It was a great pity for him who wanted to exchange some insect control skills with the other party.
After completing the transaction, Xie Duanyang went to meet the old man surnamed Luo and found an excuse to temporarily leave for two days.
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He had done this several times along the way. The old man surnamed Luo was already used to it and was not surprised by it. He agreed easily and just warned him to return as soon as possible.
After leaving the Locust Department and passing the next stop, the Wildfire Department, we arrived at the final stop and destination of the trip - Tianshui Department.
And unlike the Pegasus, Migratory Locust and other tribes, the Wildfire Division has masters with elixir formation levels.
Because of their belief in Kung Fu, the sorcerers in this group are relatively irritable, aggressive and wild, and are not good trading partners.
Moreover, it is backed by the Fire Worship Tribe, one of the ten major tribes of Mulan, and even the Tianshui Tribe is unwilling to cause too much trouble with it.
However, this tribe is the only way to the Tianshui tribe. If you want to take a detour, you will not only spend a few more months, but also pass through two or three other tribes that are more powerful than the Wildfire tribe. It is difficult to deal with each of them. After all the calculations, this is the most cost-effective place.
Planning the next arrangement in his mind, Xie Duanyang rode the black tiger and escaped for seventy or eighty miles in one go.
First, use your spiritual consciousness to scan for a week to make sure that the old man named Luo does not exist and that there are no powerful people nearby.
Xie Duanyang was able to lay out the "Inverted Five Elements Formation" with perfect practice, and then he poured out a bag of locusts in the temporarily dug cave and dumped them into a square pond that turned mud into stone.
The effect of the drug has not yet ended, and a group of locusts are lying lazily on the ground, showing no signs of ferocity.
Occasionally, there are a few sober fish that slip through the net, staggering and trying to flap their wings to leave.
It's just that these demonic insects who have only practiced one or two levels of Qi at most, how can they escape from the magic barrier he has set up? They rush around like headless flies and then fall back to the ground helplessly.
Taking a deep breath, Xie Duanyang carefully untied the spirit beast bag. Without any thought, the golden-backed demon mantis turned into a gray light and sprang out.
The body swelled to a size of about ten feet in the wind, easily breaking through the magic barrier and falling into the pool.
I saw it open its mouth, and the gray-black demonic energy bulged and rippled out in circles.
Immediately, hundreds of yellow and green locusts were involuntarily sucked in and thrown into the demon mantis's open mouth, leaving half of the stone pool empty.
"Kachakacha" chewed for a while, and the locusts were swallowed up completely.
The golden-backed demon mantis ate happily, and the two pairs of mantis wings rubbed together quickly, making a series of sharp golden and stone clanging sounds.
The demonic energy that was already so powerful and majestic surged outside the body several times, but it actually gained momentum and made further progress.
But there is still one step missing to complete the final change.
Xie Duanyang chuckled lightly, put his hand on the back of the demon mantis, and transferred the condensed mana from his second turn to help it digest the flesh, blood, and essence of the locusts.
The demonic power of the golden-backed demon mantis is on the sinister side, and when this masculine and blazing firepower rushes into the meridians of the body, it immediately reacts violently, like water boiling.
The golden-backed demon mantis leans on the ground with two swords, unable to support his trembling body. The demonic energy protecting him has become thinner, thicker, thicker, and watery. It has changed several times.
Generally speaking, monsters have practiced for far longer than human monks in the same realm. Therefore, although their methods are rough, most monsters are powerful.
The Golden-backed Demon Mantis is a surprise. It has high attack and low defense, and does not rule the roost with its physical strength.
Although he successfully formed the elixir, in terms of long mana and quick recovery, he has no advantage over the second-level Xie Duanyang.
However, there is so much food here. Whenever the demonic energy of life is depleted to a certain extent, the golden-backed demon mantis will use its magical power to ingest a large number of locusts.
It circulates mana and turns it into invisible flames, refining the essence of spiritual objects and transforming it into mana, helping to refine the body and purify the blood.
It was during these days that Xie Duanyang gained insights into the glazed lamplight, ghostly ghost fire, and Qingyang demonic fire, combined with his own experience in refining weapons.
Use the body of a monster or a monk as a ceremonial implement or a magic weapon to perform sacrifices.
However, the conditions required by this method and the resources consumed are very demanding, so it can only be regarded as an unpopular branch.
Locusts on the ground are decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In less than half a day, at least six to seven hundred spirit stones have been spent.
However, the effect was immediate. During the process of refining the demonic energy, the original gray color of the mantis was completely eliminated and turned into jet black.
The aura of the demon mantis itself has also become pure and condensed.
The golden thread on the back has differentiated and extended into more subtle golden threads, covering the wings, head, and two boring knives.
Atavistic evolution.
The golden-backed mantis is extremely rare and extremely difficult to grow.
The insect madman from the Yuling Sect has raised it for hundreds of years, and has cultivated it to the peak of the fourth level, but it is still a "minor".
The back is still gray and black, indicating that the blood in the body has not been truly matured.
It wasn't until the elixir formation was successful that the door was finally pushed open.
But if you want to really grow up, according to Xie Duanyang's speculation, you may have to wait until the Nascent Soul transforms.
But now, with the help of the spirit insect blood contained in the locust's body and Xie Duanyang's help, this process that should have taken tens to hundreds of years has been shortened rapidly.
The golden-backed demon mantis roared loudly for the first time, and the speed at which it absorbed and devoured locusts suddenly increased dramatically.
The demonic energy swept out, sweeping away the demonic insects.
Xie Duanyang's expression did not change, and he poured out the locusts from the other skin bag and refilled them.
Now is the most critical moment, so naturally he will not be stingy.
In addition to the migratory locusts, several pills and spiritual objects are also added to it, all of which can replenish qi and blood and facilitate the breakthrough of spiritual insects.
It even contains the thousand-year-old spiritual grass obtained from Han Li's cave.
The blood chalcedony was taken out early and suspended in the sky above the mantis. Under the influence of Xie Duanyang's magic power, it was covered with a layer of blood-red luster.
Finally.
When the demonic aura on his body completely turned as black as ink, the golden-backed demon mantis suddenly raised its two forelimbs, drew out its sword with lightning, and performed four moves at once, superimposed on each other.
It is the Fourth Sword Intent among the Seven Kills of the White Tiger, and it is full of energy and divine will.
The light of the sword reached everywhere, easily breaking through the magical power that imprisoned the locusts. It was not until most of the spiritual light of the inverted Five Elements Formation was eliminated, leaving only a thin layer, that it was completely dissipated.
Swinging these four swords seemed to have consumed all the mantis' energy and energy.
After shaking several times, it slumped to the ground and shrunk to a fraction of its original size.
But the slender golden lines on the body did not disappear and continued to remain.
"This..."
Looking at the sleeping golden-backed mantis, Xie Duanyang touched his nose and was speechless for a moment.
Originally, he purchased these locust monsters to supplement the golden-backed monster mantis and add one or two points of strength to prepare for unexpected changes.
Unexpectedly, this thing works so well.
The golden-backed demon mantis, his biggest killer weapon, has actually shown signs of evolving back to its ancestors because of these low-level demonic insects. This process cannot be completed overnight.
The fastest is a few days, the slower is years.
Just like this, his strength was suddenly sealed for a short period of time.
I was originally confident that even if I faced a pill formation like that of the old man named Luo, I could at least guarantee my life, but now I feel a lot more uncertain.
But he was really reluctant to watch the golden-backed demon mantis miss such a great opportunity. If he missed it this time, he might have to wait another hundred or two hundred years.
"I have no choice but to keep a low profile for a while. I hope nothing will happen before I get to the Tianshui Department."
Thinking in his mind, Xie Duanyang affixed several concealment talismans to the demon mantis and put them into the spirit beast bag.