Chapter 1015: 556 Chapter 1015: 556 On their way, Mo Douguang and Chen Mobai discussed the major factions of the Eastern Wilderness as they traveled at high speed, quickly reaching the border.
“Greetings to Sect Master Chen and Ancestor Mo!”
At the border of Sumr Country and Wind Country, Ye Bopei from Back to Sky Valley had been waiting there for so ti. Seeing Chen Mobai and his group arrive, he imdiately flew up to greet them.
“What about Yan Shaoyin? Not coming to et us in person, isn’t that a bit disrespectful?”
Mo Douguang said this; it seed he had co especially to provoke.
“Please forgive us, revered ancestors. My master had indeed planned to personally co to greet you, but there has been a sudden outbreak of Earth Spirit Locusts in the Spirit Fields of the Flower Country. To ensure that no plague of locusts forms, he has already rushed there personally. Should Sect Master Chen wait in Back to Sky Valley for two days, or should I take you directly to the Flower Country to et my master?”
Ye Bopei apologized with a remorseful expression, then explained the situation.
“Locusts?”
Chen Mobai, upon hearing this, looked at Ye Bopei with so surprise.
Could such a trivial matter be compared with his visit as the Sect Leader of Eastern Wilderness’s foremost sect?
However, he then saw the faces of the people from the Divine Wood Sect, even Mo Douguang, all turn serious upon hearing the word “locusts,” as if it really was so earth-shattering crisis.
“If a locust plague were to form, it would be a great calamity for the entire Eastern Wilderness. Do you need our help?”
Mo Douguang asked, his tone completely different from his previously cold deanor.
“Thank you for your kindness, Ancestor Mo. It just so happens that it’s the harvest season for Coiling Dragon Spiritual Rice, and Master Yu from the Starry Sky Comrce Association is in the valley. He has already rushed over with my master.”
“Yu Shuji, huh! Heh, I suspect he’s there to bolster Back to Sky Valley’s forces,” Mo Douguang sneered after hearing this, but Ye Bopei remained silent as if he had not heard the remark.
Chen Mobai had also heard of the great na of Yu Shuji, a Golden Core Cultivator of the Star Heaven Dao Sect and a Fourth-Order Spiritual Plant Master. Within the regions of East Barbarians, Eastern Wilderness, and Dongwu, he could be considered the premier Spirit Plant Master.
“Brother Mo, I’ll leave you here then.”
Knowing Yu Shuji was present, Mo Douguang realized his presence would likely not be intimidating enough, so he decided not to waste more ti.
“Brother Mo, I still have a few words to discuss with you.”
Seeing Mo Douguang about to leave, Chen Mobai quickly called out to him, and then the two Golden Core Cultivators ascended higher into the sky.
Ye Bopei, Mu Yuan, and the others had no choice but to wait on the ground until their conversation finished.
“Junior Brother, what else is there?
“Are locust plagues that terrifying?”
As a Sect Leader, Chen Mobai found it inappropriate to ask his subordinates these questions, so he had to hold on to Mo Douguang.
“I’d forgotten Junior Brother is young and probably hasn’t experienced the despair of a sky-blanketing locust plague. I saw with my own eyes when I was a child, a cow reduced to nothing but bones within a few breaths.”
Mo Douguang’s eyes showed a rare flash of fear as he spoke, clearly, the impression from his childhood was terrifying.
“The locust plague in the Eastern Wilderness dates back a long ti, all the way to the initial pioneering days.”
After reminiscing for a mont, Mo Douguang began to narrate.
“Junior Brother, have you never wondered why Snow Country and Frost Country always have cold climates with snow, despite being at the very center of the Eastern Wilderness and not at a high altitude? Logically, they should have clear seasons like Jian Country and Wind Country do.”
Chen Mobai had never really considered this question, assuming if he had even noticed the anomaly, that it was due to the Spirit Veins or geographic peculiarities; since it wasn’t a pressing matter, he didn’t pay much attention.
Chen Mobai: “Oh, does this have sothing to do with the locust plague?”
Mo Douguang nodded, “I’ve heard from my master that ten thousand years ago, when the Eastern Wilderness was still the Land of Ruins, a nest of Locust Monster Beasts dwelled at its center. They devoured not only Spirit Grass and grains but also trees, beasts, and even humans. Everywhere they went, the land was rendered desolate.”
“Rock Country, Sky Country, Rainbow Country, and even our Wind Country, as well as the neighboring Frost Country and Snow Country, beca barren and desolate because these locusts had consud them for thousands of years.”
“The major sects of East Land in charge of pioneering the Eastern Wilderness encountered these Earth Spirit Locusts and lost a great number of people. In the end, they even had to call upon the Holy Land before they could barely exterminate this sky-blanketing swarm of monster beasts.”
“And the final battlefield was in Snow Country and Frost Country, where an old ancestor from a powerful sect in the East Land known as Ice perford an act. At its peak, this sect was as renowned as Fen Tianjing Di and had produced cultivators who reached Divinity Transformation. Their most proficient skills were ice technique Dao thods,”
“Though Earth Spirit Locusts reproduce rapidly, they need to draw energy from earth fire to grow. An ancestor of the Ice sect used a forbidden Dao thod, transforming the once volcanic Frost Country Snow Country into the icy snowy world as we know it today, thus exterminating the Mother Locust that nearly devoured the entire Eastern Wilderness.”
Chen Mobai couldn’t help but be shocked upon hearing this—he hadn’t anticipated that the environnt in the Eastern Wilderness was so perilous before it was settled.
However, locusts can indeed be exceedingly troubleso if they beco a plague.
Records of such issues existed even during the ancient tis of the Immortal Gate civilisation.
Even now, if one is not careful, there can be news of various pests eating away at the precious rice strains of the Immortal Gate.
But within the Immortal Gate, there are ample thods to deal with these pests.
When Chen Mobai was studying Agricultural Studies at the Dance Tool Dao Academy, aside from knowledge about Spirit Plants, half of his studies focused on how to efficiently and harmlessly eradicate various pests.
Among these, thods to deal with locusts were the most nurous.
“It’s said that Grand Ancestor Yiyuan was born during the pioneering period of the Eastern Wilderness. His parents were Loose Cultivators from the East Land, who ca here to take a chance at obtaining resources for Foundation Establishnt but unexpectedly conceived.”
Mo Douguang went on to discuss another matter, as disciples of Ancestor Hunyuan, they have always considered True Lord Yuan as their own Grandmaster.
“So, the origins of the Snow-blowing Palace are those left by the Ice sect, and it’s also a Holy Land legacy?” Chen Mobai suddenly thought of this and asked Mo Douguang.
“Indeed, after the ancestor of the Ice sect executed the Mother Locust, he was injured, and so he entrusted the task of exterminating the remaining lower-ranked locusts to a disciple.”
“Due to the multitude of locusts and the vastness of the Eastern Wilderness, it was inevitable that areas would be missed by a single person. Not wishing to stay long in this barren land, this disciple took on an Ice Spirit Root disciple from among the pioneer cultivators. This person is the Grandmaster of the Snow-blowing Palace.”
“She took on the task of suppressing and exterminating the locusts. Feeling that she couldn’t do it all by herself, she began to take in many disciples, establishing the lineage of the Snow-blowing Palace. Once her disciples reached Core Formation, she put aside everything and went to the East Land to join the Ice Holy Land.”
“As long as a Golden Core Cultivator appears in the Snow-blowing Palace, the preceding Golden Core Cultivator would head to the East Land, in search of more advanced Dao thods and legacies, until the Ice Holy Land too fell apart during the great catastrophe.”
Without the Ice Holy Land, the Golden Core Cultivators of the Snow-blowing Palace, even if they went to the East Land, had no support.
Nonetheless, the reputation of being a legacy of a Holy Land still had so utility. When Ancestor Hunyuan dominated the Eastern Wilderness, he destroyed many great sects with Golden Core cultivators, but he spared the Snow-blowing Palace, precisely because of this reason.
“Therefore, in the Eastern Wilderness, once locusts show the potential to beco a plague, they must be slain and exterminated promptly.”
“Thank you, Brother, for clearing up my confusion,”
After hearing Mo Douguang’s explanation, Chen Mobai suddenly understood.
“Junior Brother, I will take my leave now. Call if you need anything; I can co quickly!”
After greeting Chen Mobai, Mo Douguang transford into Sword Light and soared towards Golden Cliff.
“Let’s go, take to see Master Yan.”
After bidding farewell to Mo Douguang, Chen Mobai descended and said to Ye Bopei.
He held quite a bit of respect for Yan Shaoyin, the top Alchemist of the Eastern Wilderness, especially since he was the one who refined the Golden Liquid Jade Pill for him.
Moreover, if he were to collect resources from the Eastern Wilderness to refine the Immortal Gate’s Infant Binding Three Spirits dicine in the future, he might only be able to rely on Yan Shaoyin.
After all, among the Divine Wood Sect’s Alchemists, Zeng Woyou’s potential was already exhausted, and among the next generation, although Yan Jinye had an excellent Alchemy talent, she would need to at least reach Core Formation before she could refine Fourth Grade Superior Elixirs.
Chen Mobai felt he might not be able to wait that long.
Therefore, it was necessary to cultivate a good relationship with this top Alchemist of the Eastern Wilderness.
Ye Bopei led Chen Mobai and the others through the Teleportation Array of Back to Sky Valley, heading towards Flower Country, which boasted the most Spirit Fields and dicine Fields in the Eastern Wilderness.
“It’s nearly the territory of Sumr Country, yet the climate is still so cool?”
The borders of Wind Country are among the smallest in the nineteen countries of the Eastern Wilderness, and with two Golden Core Cultivators putting forth effort, soon their group arrived at
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