Chapter 172: Natural disaster strikes! Zhao Xing's response strategy!

Yuncheng, Sinong Supervisor.

After the meeting ended and Yuncheng's prevention and control plan was confirmed, he returned and immediately led his men to start work.

The first step is to set up checkpoints in the Canglan River Basin and at the entrances of various tributaries entering Yuncheng.

It is not a level in the ordinary sense, but a magic circle.

Before the people were replenished, Zhao Xing asked Ling Yuan to create a group of magic arrays called "Shui Che Qing Yuan Array".

At this time, Ling Yuan was leading his men to the entrance of the 'Meihe River'.

Zhao Xing asked Xia Jing for a group of warriors, and at this time the warriors were helping to lift the formation base off the flying boat.

The formation's base is mainly made of the fifth-order material 'Silk Green Crystal Mother', supplemented by third- and fourth-order materials. It looks like a huge black box.

Each one weighs ten thousand tons, and the specially made dragon boats of the workers can only carry twenty array bases at a time.

"Sir, the dragon boat triple crane has already placed 45 array bases, and the array at the entrance of the Mekong River is expected to be completed tomorrow." Ling Yuan ran over and said to Zhao Xing. "With the help of the warriors, the progress is much faster than expected."

Zhao Xing glanced at the river and said to Ling Yuan, "Thank you brothers for your hard get off work. We will finish the work today."

"My Lord, they haven't slept for three days, right..."

"I sent warriors to help so that the work can be completed as soon as possible." Zhao Xing said, "The witch from the Southern Barbarians will definitely start work in April. It's better to work overtime now than to be dismissed or even die later."

"Master Ling, please explain these principles to the brothers. We must not cut corners or be lazy. As long as you don't leave, no one will say anything. After all the hard work, you can have a day off tomorrow."

"Yes, I will definitely hold this place." Although Ling Yuan was also very tired, since Zhao Xing had given the order, he could only obey.

Although he did not agree with Zhao Xing's high-profile approach, Zhao Xing did not need his approval and just had to obey his orders.

After looking around here, Zhao Xing ran to the next location.

"What is your formation for?" Long Xiao asked curiously. "I'll take note of it. It might be useful in the future."

Following Zhao Xing, he also became studious.

"How much do you know about the witch of the southern barbarians?" Zhao Xing asked.

"The horizontal line on top of the character wu represents heaven, the horizontal line on the bottom represents earth, and the vertical line in the middle represents a sacred mountain. Some say the vertical line represents a sacred tree."

"According to the level, there are celestial wizards, earthly wizards, and human wizards."

"Those at the Heavenly Witch level all live in the sacred mountain deep in the Southern Wilds. Generally, the clan leaders or kings of other races are also at the Heavenly Witch level."

"The Southern Barbarian Divine Mountain commands all tribes, kingdoms, and foreign sects to hide within it."

"If we divide them by type, there are many. There are seven types, including the five elements, wind and thunder. There are also blood wizards, insect wizards, beast wizards, etc. The most common one is the power wizard, which is similar to us warriors, but the fighting methods are also diverse."

"It's much more troublesome to divide them by position. The customs of different places in the Southern Barbarians are different. For things like sacrifices, in some places, any witch can do it, and even a powerful witch has the ability to perform sacrifices. But in some tribes, only a special kind of witch can do it."

"I can remember the fighting styles of the twenty-seven major tribes, as well as the wizards' specialties."

Zhao Xing gave a thumbs up and said, "Knowing this, the court will be more than qualified to confer upon you the title of Marquis of Wu."

Long Xiao smiled and said, "Don't praise me. You haven't even told me what formation you asked Tiangongfang to set up."

Zhao Xing said, "When the southern barbarian tribes go to war, they must first send out witches to cast spells in the Canglan River Basin. Have you ever heard of the Ten Plagues of Heavenly Witches?"

"I've heard of a legendary spell that can turn sand and dust into lice, make grains wither, turn clear water into blood, turn animals into madness, turn the world into ice knives, make rivers of blood surge, cause terror to parasitize, cause evil gods to devour souls, bring darkness to the world, and cut off the connection between heaven and earth."

"It is said that even the Heavenly Witch cannot perform the final step."

Zhao Xing nodded. "The legend you're talking about is about the Ten Divine Disasters of the Heavenly Witch. If it is used to the last step, everyone will perish together. The piece of heaven and earth where the spell is cast will become a forbidden area. It will not be used until the war of extinction."

"Let's not talk about that. I am defending against the Ten Insect Plague at the human-witch level."

"Ten Insect Plagues?" Long Xiao touched his chin, "I think I've heard of it somewhere."

Zhao Xing said: "A seventh-rank insect wizard can cast the Ten Insect Plagues. The specific insects are called differently."

"If it's a normal natural disaster, I'm not afraid. Let's fight, who knows who will win."

"But the insect wizard is very troublesome. With the advantage of location, he only needs to stand upstream and raise the magic insects to make the aquatic insect eggs float downstream, and then he can secretly enter the territory of Yuncheng."

"If it's an Earth-level insect witch, a single queen insect can kill all the people and animals in Yuncheng, and even military doctors won't be able to save them."

"Even if I can use the transformation method to kill these queen insects, their reproductive capacity is too strong and it will be very troublesome to deal with them. If they really get in, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Medicine will have nothing to do, so we must be on guard."

"The fifth-level Water Clearing Formation is the best way to prevent insect witches."

"Ling Yuan doesn't understand because he thinks this magic array is too unpopular and there's no need to create such a high level."

"Insect wizards are difficult to train, and they don't appear often on the battlefield."

"But it's better to be prepared. Fucheng has provided Yuncheng with so many materials. I will definitely not leave them to rot."

"I'll give you a book. Take a good look at it. It's all about insect witches."

Long Xiao nodded: "I have indeed seen very few insect wizards, but you are an expert, so you have the final say. Shui Che Qing Yuan Formation? I've made a note of it, I'll take a look when I get back."

The reason why Zhao Xing told Long Xiao so much was not just to clear his confusion, but because he knew that many Insect Wizards, which had rarely appeared in the past two hundred years, would appear in this war!
The Great Zhou was making progress, and the southern barbarians were also making progress. The pressure on the southern barbarians was even greater. In order to guard against this behemoth, the Great Zhou, they racked their brains to develop various secret methods.

The Insect Wizard also burst out with amazing energy in this great battle between Pingman and the Man army, inflicting heavy damage to the Pingman army.

Long Xiao will definitely have the opportunity to go deep into the Southern Wilderness, and so will Lao Chen. Zhao Xing doesn't want anything to happen to these two people, so he takes this opportunity to remind Long Xiao.

In fact, we still have to rely on Old Chen to read this book. Long Xiao, as a warrior, can't think of many solutions, so Old Chen is the wizard.

Since all five departments of Yuncheng were united in front, the heads of each department strongly supported the actions of the Sinongjian.

Zhao Xing made very fast progress in getting things done.

Even if he used this unpopular magic circle and ordered the engineer to set it up with luxurious materials, no one dared to say anything.

He doesn't need the understanding of his subordinates, he just needs the support of the heads of each department.

To what extent did the various departments support Zhao Xing?

"The soul is back!"

At the hour of Yin, Zhang Yi stood at a bridge, holding a soul-guiding lamp and ringing a bell.

There was an altar in front of him, and many emcees were following him as he sat and repeated the movements.

The yellow paper in the copper furnace was burning fiercely.

Shen Mingyu, the chief officer of the temple, was willing to stand beside Zhang Yi and assist him in casting spells. The firelight illuminated the night, and soon the light turned green.

Zhao Xing and Xia Jing stood behind Zhang Yi.

The two of them had very high levels of magic power and could see that the surroundings were filled with ghosts. Although it still looked like an empty space, it was actually an army of ghosts.

If an ordinary person stayed in this open space, he would probably be quickly eroded by the excessive Yin energy, leading to the exhaustion of Qi and blood in his body.

After a while, the process was completed.

Zhang Yi walked down from the altar and asked, "Why are you here?"

"I see you're almost done, so I came to take a look." Xia Jing smiled and said, "You're very efficient, Brother Zhang. You dug through a mountain a hundred meters high in ten days. You said so and it was dug through."

Zhang Yi said helplessly: "Isn't it Zhao Xing who wants to dig it? I never thought that one day I would use ghosts to move bricks."

"If my classmates knew that I did this kind of thing after graduating from Yuanyin College, they would laugh me to death."

Zhao Xing patted Zhang Yi on the shoulder. He knew that he had joined the army after graduating from a Taoist academy. As soon as he joined the army, he came to Shiyang Cave for training. He was still a little uncomfortable with this.

"It's not shameful to be an official. Brother Zhang, when you return home rich and powerful one day, you can visit the Taoist temple again. Who will dare to say anything to you? The beauties of the past will look at you differently. Those who laughed at you will eventually bow down at your cloud-climbing boots and respectfully call you Lord Zhang!" Zhao Xing habitually described a bright future to Zhang Yi.

Shen Mingyu, who was standing next to him, looked at Zhang Yi's eager look and called him an expert. Even he, the nominal chief officer, wanted to follow Zhao Xing.

"By the way, how long can these ghost warriors hold out?" Zhao Xing asked, "Can they be finished tomorrow?"

"Yes." Zhang Yi said, "But the temple has few incense burners left. They can only support these ghost warriors for half a month at most."

"Half a month." Zhao Xing touched his chin, "Can these ghost warriors do anything else? Like fighting a war or something."

"No." Zhang Yi shook his head. "The rule of these ghost warriors is to only work for money, not for their lives."

"If you don't pay, it won't count as selling it."

Xia Jing: “…”

Zhang Yi: “???”

Zhao Xing looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "You can ask Lord Shen to see if it will work."

Shen Mingyu nodded helplessly: "In theory, it is possible. If these ghost warriors disappear due to an accident, there is no need to waste incense and fire to send them back..."

Shen Mingyu's words shocked Zhang Yi. Could it really be played like this? He felt that his way of sacrifice had opened the door to a new world.

Xia Jing also looked at Zhao Xing in surprise. Even though he was used to Zhao Xing's wild ideas, he was often surprised by Zhao Xing's ideas: "Brother Zhao, how come you are so skilled?"

Zhao Xing casually said, "I also read it from a book. There are many books in the library of Shiyang Cave Heaven. You will know when you go back and look through them."

What kind of book would teach this? Although Xia Jing was suspicious, he didn't ask any more questions. After all, he had gradually gotten used to it.

"Ahem." Shen Mingyu said, "Lord Zhao, this method is against the harmony of nature after all."

Zhao Xing cupped his hands and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't give it to you. You should save money, right? If you use less incense, can we extend the half month a little longer?"

Xia Jing was also led astray: "Yeah, if it really doesn't work, wait until the incense is replenished and give it next time."

Shen Mingyu was speechless. He always felt that his thinking was out of tune with this group of young people, especially Zhao Xing, who could not keep up with his pace at all.

He even wants to save money on ghosts. How ridiculous!

What is wrong with this world? Are times changing so fast?
Am I too pedantic or is Zhao Xing too abnormal?

Zhao Xing didn't say anything more. People change step by step. Zhang Yi can't accept it now, but he will get used to it slowly in the future.

"Brother Zhang, Lord Shen, thank you all for your contribution to Yuncheng. After digging through the mountain, I will host a banquet to reward the masters of the temple. Please be sure to come."

"Lord Zhao, your words are too serious. This is what we should do." Shen Mingyu was very polite. He was also implicated in the last Shao Wanjie case and could not escape the blame for negligence and dereliction of duty. However, he was also decisive and chose to stay and work with this group of young people.

He had no objection to giving up his position as chief official. Zhang Yi was the one who was actually in charge of the temple now, so he dared not put on airs.

"Whoo~"

Zhao Xing and Xia Jing took a flying boat to the next location for inspection.

After the functions of government agencies were restored, the energy they exerted was terrifying.

Now we need people, and we have people, and they are elites!
Supplies were needed and they were available, making up for the shortage of the past ten years.

Moreover, all departments in Yuncheng worked together, and soon the Yuncheng defense, which had been as leaky as a sieve, was quickly restored.

As Yuncheng was busy with prevention, control and restoration, time quickly came to April of the seventeenth year of the Jingxin calendar.

On the first day of April, Zhao Zheng was leading ten shamans from the Hana tribe to patrol the riverside.

He has been at the upper reaches of the Canglan River for ten days.

"Young Patriarch, this place is only a hundred miles away from Yuncheng. We can't go any further. If we go any further, we might be discovered, or even encounter the soldiers of the Great Zhou."

"Yes." Zhao Qi nodded, "Although this is not the best casting route, let's choose this place."

"Young Patriarch, Yuncheng is nothing but a mess. It will collapse if touched. Why should we use the Ten Locust Plagues?" asked an elderly witch.

"As long as the queen insect is not dead, it can lurk in Yuncheng. If we can reach Jiutian Yingyuan Mansion in the future, we can cast spells and activate it at any time." Zhao Qi said.

"Conquer Jiutian Yingyuan Mansion?" The older witch disagreed with this statement and thought it was wishful thinking. He didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing for their Hana tribe's young master to have such ambitions, but he had already questioned it twice, so he couldn't say anything more and just patted his chest in agreement.

"Put the queen insect into the magic ship." Zhao Qi said, "Cast the spell according to the pre-planned route and let it enter the territory of Yuncheng."

"Yes."

The ten human witches immediately dug out boxes from the ground, and inside these boxes were mother insects.

"go with!"

Then fifty queen insects were thrown into the Dharma ship, which drifted down the river.

There are also some rules for placing the queen worm. Zhao Qi used magic to cover up her appearance. She placed the queen worm on a piece of dead wood, a piece of wood, or a fish...

After placing them, Zhao Qi and others stood still, with their minds attached to the magic ship, carrying fifty queen insects, and flowed towards Yuncheng according to the planned route.

　I will send you at least two updates. I won't update today as it's too late. Things were normal for a few days a while ago, but now it's upside down again.

　　I still owe you 14 chapters, which I will return slowly this month.

　　
　
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