Chapter 173: Changes in the Fortune Plate, Active Attack

Fifty female insects floated downstream.

During this period, Zhao Qi and the ten insect wizards did not produce any fluctuations in their vital energy for most of the time. They simply controlled the direction of the magic ship.

Only when encountering obstacles or running aground will a higher fluctuation of vital energy appear in the body, and the water veins will be used to readjust the position of the magic ship and drift towards the destination.

The speed of the Dharma ship was not very fast. It only floated 20 miles in one hour.

Although the speed is slow, it is safe.

No matter whether it is the magic ship, the queen insect, or the summoning worm, the fluctuations in vital energy caused by their spellcasting are very small, and the traces of spellcasting are extremely hidden, making them almost impossible to detect.

This is the troublesome thing about the Insect Wizard. He can attack the enemy from a long distance without anyone noticing.

It took Zhao Qi and his companions more than five hours to cross the hundred-mile-long river.

When the fifty queen insects arrived outside Yuncheng, it was exactly midnight.

At this time, the defense in all aspects is relatively weak.

"The boundary monument of Yuncheng."

A unique life fluctuation was emanating from Zhao Qi's body at this moment. Hundreds of miles away, on a magic ship, a mother insect about the size of a fist with two pairs of compound eyes suddenly turned its eyes.

At this time, the queen insect began to wake up, and the insect wizard Zhao Qi began to control the queen insect, and the spell fluctuations on his body also became stronger.

This is the only moment in the entire process where Summoning Qi needs to consume his energy to cast spells.

Because he needs to control the queen insect to find a suitable environment to lay eggs and reproduce.

"Entering Yuncheng from the entrance of the Meteor River, you can float directly to the hinterland. You two, control the queen insect to enter from the entrance of the Meteor River, and the rest of you continue to look for the next tributary."

"Yes."

Zhao Qi and other witches cast spells together.

Fifty queen insects, ten of them, floated towards the Mekong River ferry.

The other forty headed towards the next tributary and entered Cloud City.

In the opinion of the other insect wizards, there was no need to divide the troops any further and they could just enter Yuncheng directly from the entrance of the Mekong River.

But just in case, Zhao Qi chose to divide his troops.

wow~
At the entrance of the Mekong River, two pieces of wood floated over.

We are about to enter the country through the entrance.

But at this moment.

"Wow~"

The water flow suddenly slowed down and two whirlpools appeared in the river.

The two pieces of dead wood were instantly pulled towards the center of the vortex.

"Ok?"

The two insect wizards were suddenly confused.

"What's going on?" Zhao Qi asked.

"It may be due to the backflow tide." A worm wizard replied, "My mother worm ship is retreating."

"My magic ship has sunk, but it should be able to float up soon." Another insect wizard didn't take it seriously.

Zhao Qi nodded.

However, in less than a quarter of an hour, the two insect wizards looked solemn.

"Master, there seems to be a problem."

"My Dharma ship has not yet floated up."

"mine too."

Zhao Qi immediately gave the order: "See what's going on. If it's the Great Zhou's magic array, destroy the magic ship and find a way to send the queen insect in."

"Yes."

The patterns on the faces of the two insect wizards lit up, as if there were insects crawling under their skin.

The appearance of two insect witches was reflected invertedly on the compound eyes of the ten queen insects.

At the same time, the magic ship carrying ten queen insects increased its speed.

"Wow~"

One of the Dharma ships used the water current to speed up and tried to rush to the shore.

However, the water flow at this time seemed to be against him, and wave after wave pushed the dead tree back.

"Whoosh~"

The next moment, the piece of dead wood was completely submerged in the whirlpool.

"Om~"

The Insect Wizard shuddered and his face turned pale.

The other piece of dead wood sank to the bottom of the river early on, as if it was stuck in black mud. No matter how hard the spells were cast, it couldn't float up.

"Om~"

The second insect wizard also lost contact with the mother insect and the magic ship.

"Ok?"

Zhao Qi looked at the expressions of the two elders and immediately knew that something had gone wrong.

Sure enough, the next moment, both of them reported the situation.

They could no longer sense the situation of the Dharma ship and the queen insect.

"Whirlpool, black sludge?"

Zhao Qi was just about to ask for details.

However, two more insect wizards groaned, and the situation was exactly the same as the previous two.

"stop!"

"The remaining thirty queen insects and the magic ship, all wait in silence, and do not move forward!"

Zhao Qi reacted immediately.

One or two could be considered accidents, but the fact that four insect wizards encountered the same situation proved that Yuncheng had extremely sophisticated protective measures.

"Can it actually prevent the insect wizard from lurking?"

"Didn't the intelligence say that Yuncheng is very weak?"

"Young Master, what should I do?"

Zhao Qi thought for a moment and stood up: "The mission of the God's Envoy must be completed, unless it exceeds a certain level."

"We are too far away, and the power of the spell has weakened too much. We cannot be sure what is going on. Let's go down the Canglan River and take a look."

One of the older insect wizards advised: "Young Master, isn't it too risky? We are not power wizards. If we suddenly encounter the soldiers of the Great Zhou, we will be killed easily."

Zhao Qi said: "If you fail to complete the mission of the God's Messenger within a month, it will be worse than death. I am the young master of the Hana tribe, so I may be exempted from punishment. Half of you will be taken as insect sacrifices."

The ten insect wizards were silent. The Divine Mountain had put a lot of effort into training insect wizards over the years and provided them with more resources than other types of wizards. These were not given in vain.

Zhao Qi: "Hatch two flying locusts. Monitor the surroundings as you move forward. We should be fine if we are careful."

"Yes."

Cloud City, entrance to the Mekong River.

Ling Yuan asked the engineer to control the dragon boat's triple crane to lift a black box out of the water.

"Whoosh~"

Zhao Xing and Xia Jing descended from the sky on a swordfish flying boat.

"Master Ling, what's going on?"

When Ling Yuan saw the two men coming down, he immediately trotted over to greet them: "Lord Zhao, Lord Xia, I received a report from the night officer that the water in the Qingyuan Formation on the Mekong River suddenly moved at 12:30 am, so I rushed over as soon as possible." "The formation box captured some strange things, but I can't recognize what it is."

"Let me take a look." Zhao Xing walked forward for more than ten meters.

At this time, the black box was taken out.

There were two pieces of dead wood bumping around in the black box.

However, the interior of the Shuiche Qingyuan Formation's foundation is a complete maze, and once you enter, you can't get out.

No matter how hard it hits, it cannot break free from its restraints.

When Zhao Xing saw the dead wood, his eyes suddenly became serious: "Be careful when you open it."

Seeing this, Xia Jing asked, "What is this?"

He had never seen the insect wizard's methods.

Zhao Xing pointed at the dead tree and said, "The insect witch's mother insect nest is made of fourth-level iris wood. There are at least ten mother insects in it! We can't tell what type they are."

"What?!" Xia Jing was shocked. "So many?"

During the breakout exercise, Xia Jing was deeply impressed by the insect witchcraft of the Southern Barbarians. Countless fist-sized insects were flying densely in the air, and they could not be killed all. It was simply like a nightmare.

But he had only seen the insect plague after it was formed, and had never seen the mother insect.

"Kakaka~"

After the two pieces of wood were released, they immediately exploded.

"Hey~"

Two water drops appeared on Zhao Xing's fingertips. They quickly expanded and covered all the fragments of the dead tree at the moment it exploded.

"Certainly!"

Two lumps of water floated in the air, solidifying everything inside.

"It's the vampire locusts." Xia Jing took a deep breath. "There are still ten of them."

"Sir, where do these bugs come from?" Ling Yuan asked puzzledly. There were strange bugs wriggling in the water ball.

Its head has a pair of filamentous antennae, compound eyes, and sharp mouthparts.

There are three simple eyes arranged in an inverted triangle in the front of the head near the antennae.

Zhao Xing pointed at one of the female insects and said, "The blood-sucking female locust has three thorax segments and eight legs. The mesothorax and metathorax each have a pair of wings. There is a pair of spiracles on the second and third thorax segments, which can absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth."

"The abdomen is just like the head and chest. Each section is very hard and cannot be cut by ordinary third-level divine weapons."

"This is the female insect, and the thing protruding backwards at the end of its abdomen is the ovipositor."

"A female blood-sucking locust can produce tens of millions of blood-sucking locusts in a very short period of time."

"They feed on the blood of livestock. Their mouthparts are poisonous. The toxins of adult blood-sucking locusts can easily paralyze an entry-level warrior."

The officials around him turned pale, and Ling Yuan asked cautiously, "Do they eat humans?"

Zhao Xing said calmly: "To the vampire locusts, humans are of course tastier than livestock."

Everyone couldn't help but shudder.

"Don't panic. Your previous shifts were not in vain. The capture of these female locusts is an example of this."

"As long as they don't show up, a single vampire locust is easy to kill."

Zhao Xing waved his hand lightly, and the nest in the water mass, including the queen insect, was all squeezed into pieces.

Just then, a flying boat came over and reported abnormal conditions at the entrance of another tributary.

Zhao Xing and Xia Jing rushed over on the Swordfish flying boat.

A second queen was soon discovered.

"This is the Sword Poison Locust."

"It seems that there is a bug wizard launching a natural disaster attack on Cloud City."

"It should be the Tenth Plague of Locusts."

Xia Jing looked at these queen insects and said with some fear: "Fortunately, you had foresight. If these things were allowed to flow into Yuncheng, I'm afraid all our previous efforts would be wasted."

Zhao Xing shook his head and said, "It's far from over. Only two of the ten locust plagues have appeared now. If we stop them, they will definitely not give up."

"what do you mean?"

"If the insect witch wants to control the mother locust, she must not be too far away." Zhao Xing looked at the sky: "Waiting to die is not a solution. Brother Xia, you must immediately mobilize all the military personnel and take the flying boat to hide in my cloud."

"Follow my cloud later, find him, and kill him!"

Xia Jing nodded: "Okay, I'll go get someone right away. When will we set off?"

Zhao Xing thought for a moment and said, "After two quarters of an hour, Brother Xia, after you and I return to the city, we have to do one thing first."

"If the Nanman want to train troops, it is impossible for them to send out only one tribe."

"It's useless for us to defend Yuncheng alone. We have to notify the other counties. Otherwise, if the insect wizards rise up, we will just be passive and take the beating."

"You and I will jointly report to the capital city and state the harm caused by the insect witch."

"Not only that, we also need to notify the counties and prefectures surrounding Yuncheng."

"Your words will be more convincing if you have a wider network of contacts."

"Even if the higher-ups don't believe it, as long as we from Shiyang Cave Heaven can take precautions, we can minimize the losses."

"Okay." Xia Jing nodded and immediately left on the flying boat.

Zhao Xingze left and took out the ground mirror, and sent messages to all the Si Nongs he knew in Shiyang Cave.

Shi Yong, Zhuang Ziqing, Feng Qi, Cai Jin, Jiang Tianming… as long as they were on the friend list, they were all sent it.

Although there is competition with these people, telling them how to deal with them is also beneficial to your own actions.

Otherwise, if Yuncheng is well defended and others collapse, it will still affect you.

"Sending this private message after the first encounter with the insect witch is the most appropriate time."

"I am one step ahead, and this one step is enough."

Zhao Xing put away the ground mirror, then looked at the sky and left quickly.

Military world, inside the tower.

At this time, a mirror was showing the actions of Zhao Xing and Xia Jing by the river.

In front of the earth mirror, King Tianyan, King Luohou, and King Lingde watched this scene.

Two dukes and one prince, this is the configuration of the military to monitor the performance of new recruits in each army.

Only such heavyweight strongmen can make the selection fair. King Tianyan, King Luohou and King Lingde did not directly participate in the expedition of Jiutian Yingyuan Mansion. Without vested interests, they could withstand pressure from all sides and avoid taking backdoors.

King Lingde pointed at the ground mirror and said, "He discovered the natural disaster attack on Yuncheng by the insect wizard and sent an alert to the others. Zhao Xing is very vigilant. He not only asked Tiangongfang to set up a magic array to deal with the insect wizard, but also defenses against other types of disasters."

King Luohou shook his head and said, "That's not entirely true. He completed the first two missions relatively quickly, reaching Cloud City ahead of time and quickly clearing away the hidden dangers. He had more time to gather all the forces to prevent and control Cloud City."

"The tasks of the military world are all deduced based on the Creation Disk. He is one step faster, so he has already maintained an advantage. Not only is he faster than Shi Yong and Zhuang Ziqing in the Ten Sun Cave Heaven, but the reserve forces in the other four cave heavens are not faster than him."

"Hmm?" King Tianyan suddenly asked in confusion.

"King Tianyan, what's wrong?" King Luohou and King Lingde both looked over.

King Tianyan pondered and said, "The direction of the war deduction on the Fortune Disk just now suddenly changed."

"For a moment, the term 'insect witch' frequently appeared during the Pingman War, reaching its peak before the war."

King Luohou's eyes narrowed. "You mean, this change is related to the report from Zhao Xing and Xia Jing, and the private messages they sent to the others through the ground mirror?"

King Tianyan shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. The peak only appeared for a moment, and the military world has long been on guard against insect wizards... Let the people of Tianji Palace worry about these. It's not my job to explore the source of destiny."

King Luohou and King Lingde nodded. The Great Zhou Dynasty cut off the path of deduction-based cultivation, but it prohibited others from learning it. The royal family supported a group of people who were called "fate officials". This mysterious group had an institution in the military world called the Tianji Palace.

"Look, Zhao Xing and Xia Jing have already set off." King Tian Yan's eyes fell on the ground mirror, "They are only twenty miles away from the insect wizard of the Nanman tribe."

(End of this chapter)