Chapter 41 Black-tailed Sand Cricket (Please collect and read)
Just a few days.

As the spiritual field was promoted to the highest quality, this acre of medium-quality spiritual plants began to flourish.

Each spiritual plant is lush and green. Through the soil-drawing technique, one can clearly sense the thriving roots beneath the soil, greedily absorbing nutrients.

After several rounds of nourishment by the Spirit Rain Technique and the Spirit Condensation Technique, the seeds of the Eight Treasures Spirit Tree became dead silent and still showed no movement.

According to the prompt information, it will take three full months to repair.

Chen An was not in a hurry. He had waited for such a long time, so he didn't mind a little more time.

Although the spiritual field has been upgraded, the spiritual plants have already been planted and have grown a lot taller. It is not cost-effective to plant first-grade high-quality spiritual plants now.

Chen An planned to finish planting this season first, and then switch to planting first-grade, high-quality spiritual plants.

He made preparations in advance and asked Chen Lun to bring back two top-grade spiritual seeds from Qingyun Market, Dew Condensing Grass and Dragon Elephant Horn.

But there is still a long way to go to plant a full acre.

Spiritual plants of this level are an important means for Qingyun Sect and several major families to make money, and there are not many of them circulating on the market.

Especially the Youyuetan. If he hadn't gotten two pills from the Second Elder, he probably wouldn't have had the channels to buy it.

Speaking of the Second Elder, the high-quality spiritual seeds we need may have to start from him.

Chen An immediately walked out of the cave and went straight to the second elder’s residence.

State your purpose.

The second elder looked surprised: "Your spiritual field has advanced? Isn't it still short of one more spiritual fertilizer?"

"Thanks to the Changliu family, it has become a top-grade spiritual field." Chen An replied.

Chen An recounted the story of how the two people from the Liu family were used as spiritual fertilizer.

The second elder had a strange look on his face. "The corpses of monks can indeed increase the fertility of the spiritual fields. However, you must not have any bad thoughts. Now that the spiritual fields have been upgraded, you should cultivate them properly."

Chen An laughed dumbly: "You are still worried that I will become a robber cultivator and rob people's bodies everywhere."

The second boss frowned and said, "Don't take it lightly. This kind of thing has happened before."

"I remember that several decades ago, there were robbers who did this business. Not only did they rob property, they also sold the bodies of the killed cultivators to a certain big family. They killed not only independent cultivators, but also cultivators from various major forces. As a result, Qingyun Sect, several major families, and independent cultivators were enraged and resented by the people. They joined forces to wipe out that group of people."

"In the past, there were five major families in Qingyun Territory!"

"The family that purchased the monk's corpse was ostracized by all parties afterwards and never recovered. They later moved to other regions in the Far East Six Regions."

The second elder recounted what happened that year. I don’t know if it was because he experienced it personally, but even after all these years, there was still some fear on his face.

Chen An opened his mouth. He never thought that there was actually someone doing this kind of business.

This matter is against the harmony of nature and is likely to arouse public anger, so it is normal for people to wipe out the whole group.

Chen An just wanted to stay in Yunwu Mountain and practice peacefully, so he would naturally not do anything like killing people or stealing corpses.

With his level of cultivation, he should be thankful that he was not robbed after leaving the mountain. If he wanted to go out safely and cautiously, he would have to at least have the foundation-building cultivation level.

Chen An warned himself in his heart that he must not go down the mountain until he had established his foundation!
Return to the cave.

Chen An practiced as usual.

Ordinary people have low-grade spiritual roots and practice ordinary skills. If they don't have any opportunities, they will stop at the sixth level of Qi training in this life.

This is the case with several other members of the clan who have reached the sixth level of Qi training.

After the Qingmu Gong was perfected, Chen An broke through from the middle stage to the late stage of Qi training without any bottleneck. As long as the spiritual power accumulated in Dantian was sufficient, he could advance all the way to the ninth level.

At the same time, it also increased his training speed a lot. He estimated that as long as he concentrated on training for two years, he would be able to advance to the later stage of Qi training.

In comparison, his path of cultivation can be described as smooth sailing. As long as he follows the steps, building a foundation is not impossible.

As long as he successfully builds the foundation, he will be able to be on equal footing with Old Master Chen.

However, Chen An had no interest in becoming the patriarch of a clan. Coming to the world of immortal cultivation in this life, he just wanted to live longer.

The path to immortality is what he seeks.

A month later.

Early in the morning, Chen An came to the spiritual field and checked the status of the spiritual plants as usual.

After walking around for a while, I came to the green grass area.

Looking at the mess in front of him, Chen An felt furious.

The soil nearby was turned up, and several green grasses were incomplete, with broken branches scattered everywhere. Upon closer inspection, there were tooth marks on the broken stems.

It looks like the traces left by some spiritual insect gnawing at it.

Chen An looked around with sharp eyes.

The Qingying grass can be used to harvest perfect Qi-nourishing pills, which are related to his cultivation. How could Chen An not be angry if they were destroyed?
After a round of inspection, the spiritual field was quiet, without any movement at all.

It seems that it is not an ordinary spirit insect and should be able to burrow into the ground.

Chen An's mind moved, and the waves of the earth-drawing technique followed the roots of the green grass, rippling towards the depths of the underground like water waves.

The power of the perfect level of earth-drawing technique can not only turn over the land and sort out the spiritual energy in the soil, but it is also very effective in exploring underground movements.

It had already demonstrated its impressive power when it helped Chen Lun and Chen Youliang to expel ground beetles.

Before long, a palm-sized spirit insect entered Chen An's perception range.

Chen An's face solemnly pointed, and the sword energy of Gengjin Sword turned into a silk thread, which penetrated into the ground and chased in the direction of the spirit insect's escape.

If it was still a groundworm, it would have been caught right away.

But this insect seemed quite impressive. It rushed left and right, escaping underground at a very fast speed, avoiding the sword energy threads.

He would even take a bite of the roots of the spiritual plants passing by from time to time.

The corner of Chen An's mouth twitched. He was actually looked down upon by a mere bug.

I originally wanted to catch it alive to see what species it was, but now it seems that there is no need for that. It doesn't matter if it's dead.

With a slight movement of his mind, Chen An's finger was surrounded by sword energy, and the aura was sharp, and it was completely impossible to tell that it was the Gengjin Sword Finger.

He swung it lightly, and the golden sword energy flew towards the predetermined direction and broke through the ground.

"puff!"

Suddenly, deep pits as thick as fingers appeared in the soil, dark and hollow.

Through the perception of earth-attracting technique, the insect had stopped moving.

Chen An's expression relaxed slightly.

Under his manipulation, the soil rolled layer by layer, and a black-tailed spirit insect appeared under his feet.

The spirit insect is the size of a palm, with a black tail that takes up most of its body. There is a wound in the middle as thick as a finger, and two black whiskers stand upright at the end.

With its two digging legs and sharp mouthparts, it has destroyed countless spiritual plants.

Chen An observed it for a few seconds, matched it with the spiritual insects recorded in the library, and quickly remembered the information about this insect.

The black-tailed locust is a first-level intermediate spiritual insect. It often lives in the fertile soil of spiritual fields, especially in the newly promoted high-quality spiritual fields, which are most likely to attract this insect.

In all likelihood, it was attracted by the aura of the spiritual field that had just been upgraded recently.

The Gold Locking Array was well guarded, and Chen An guessed that someone must have sneaked in from underground when he was entering and exiting the array.

He couldn't help but recall that before the spiritual field was upgraded, the second elder had reminded the three of them that after the spiritual field was upgraded, they should be more careful about the invasion of mind bugs, and it turned out to be true.

Looking around, only four or five green grasses in the spiritual field were persecuted, while the rest of the spiritual plants were fine.

Fortunately, it was discovered early and the loss was stopped in time, otherwise the entire acre of spiritual field might have been destroyed.

After dealing with the spiritual field, Chen An used the Gengjin Sword Finger to strangle the black-tailed locusts into powder, which he then sprinkled on the field as spiritual fertilizer.

Afterwards, he carefully patrolled the spiritual field, checking it every two or three hours, even at night.

No abnormalities were found for several days.

Until this day, Chen Lun came to him and told him to be careful of the black-tailed sand cricket.
(End of this chapter)