Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Xuanyu's acceptance of Zhou Yang as his adoptive son was just a small episode before the official business started. The purpose of the Zhou family's late-stage Qi training monks gathering at the ancestral hall today was to discuss the expansion of the Chiyan iron vein.

At this time, two years have passed since the Red Flame Iron Deposit was discovered. During these two years, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went there several times to investigate the size and quantity of the poisonous fire scorpions, and now he has basically figured out the situation.

According to the investigation of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the number of poisonous fire scorpions in the Red Flame Iron Deposit should be between 500 and 700, including a third-level [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and Thirty to forty second-level poisonous fire scorpions, and the rest are all first-level poisonous fire scorpions.

The first-order poisonous fire scorpion is nothing to be afraid of. The monks gathered here in the ancestral hall today, except for Zhou Yang who has just broken through the seventh level of Qi training, the rest are all veterans who have entered the late stage of Qi training for many years, and they also have old patriarchs in their hands. No matter how many Tier 1 poisonous fire scorpions are in Zhou Minghan's second-tier defensive magic weapon, if they cannot launch scorpion needles to focus fire attacks, they will not be able to cause much damage to them at all.

So the main point of discussion among the people was still on the second-tier poisonous fire scorpion and the third-tier [poisonous fire scorpion king]. These monsters are all existences that can pose a fatal threat to them, and they must have a plan in advance before they can act.

After discussing and discussing in this way, it was finally decided by everyone's unanimous discussion. The old patriarch Zhou Minghan will first entangle the third-level monster [Poison Fire Scorpion King], and the rest will do their best to kill the first-level and second-level poisonous fire scorpions. , cut off its wings, and finally surrounded and killed [Poison Fire Scorpion King] with the help of formations.

The plan was drawn up. Eighteen late-stage monks of the Zhou family, including Zhou Yang, rode the Shatuo Beast and quietly left the Yuquan Lake Oasis. They followed the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, who was flying with a sword, and rushed to the red flame iron. veins.

With the foot strength of the Shatuo Beast, it only took a few days to drive the Zhou family to the destination.

Not to be alarmed, the camel team stopped more than ten kilometers away from the destination, and Zhou Xuantai, a first-level top-rank formation mage in the team, arranged a first-level formation "phantom formation" to hide the camel beast's figure , A group of people abandoned their horses on foot and used the "breathing restraint technique" to restrain their breath, and went straight to the lair of the poisonous fire scorpion on the mine vein.

The poisonous fire scorpion's lair is located on a sandy slope on the red flame iron vein. The surface of this sandy slope is covered with yellow sand several meters thick. It looks no different from those ordinary sandy slopes in the desert. At most, there are desert plants around. A little more dense and lush.

However, in fact, according to the investigation of Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, there is actually a huge natural underground cave hidden deep in the ground of this seemingly ordinary sand slope. Spiritual veins, the richness of spiritual energy is equivalent to the level of third-order low-grade spiritual veins.

The old nest of the group of poisonous fire scorpions is in the underground cave, and the desert plant bushes on the surface of the sandy slope are their hunting grounds.

At this time, it was dusk and dusk, and the temperature in the desert was more than ten degrees lower than that at noon. The desert animals buried in caves under the sand during the day all came out of their hiding nests and came to the ground to search for them. Food for the day.

There are a wide variety of desert animals in the boundless sand sea. There are sand chickens, sand gulls, sand martins, sand sparrows, vultures, ostriches and other large, medium and small birds flying in the sky, and sand wolves, sand rabbits, camels, sand foxes, etc. walking on the ground. Gerbils include three types of animals, large, medium and small. In addition, there are many types of reptiles and arthropods such as snakes, scorpions, centipedes, lizards, and spiders. Of course, there are more types of insects.

These desert animals and the same variety of desert plants have jointly built a desert ecological chain. Basically, wherever there are a large number of desert plants, traces of these desert animals can be found.

The desert plants around the sand slope above the fire scorpion's lair are luxuriant, and there are underground rivers flowing through the ground. Naturally, it is very attractive to those desert animals that struggle to survive in the desert, attracting a large number of desert animals to settle and live nearby.

On the eve of sunset in the evening and sunrise in the morning, in the desert vegetation around the sandy slope, there will be a wide variety of desert animals flying among them, looking for food that can fill their stomachs.

Sand rabbits, gerbils, and insects eat plant stems and leaves; sand sparrows and lizards eat insects; snakes and sand foxes eat gerbils, sand rabbits, lizards, and sand chickens; sand wolves eat all animals; This constitutes a complete desert food chain.

However, the existence at the top of this food chain is not the sand wolf with strong skills and sharp minions, but the real master of this place - the poisonous fire scorpion.

When the desert animals go out to forage collectively, it is also the peak time for the poisonous fire scorpions to come out of their nests to forage. Each poisonous fire scorpion with a head as big as a bucket is scattered all over the land of more than ten square kilometers around the sand slope. superior.

Whenever prey passed by, these hunters who buried their bodies under the sand would spring up the scorpion claws to clamp the prey's body instantly. If the prey was larger, they would switch to scorpion needles to stab.

A Tier 1 poisonous fire scorpion with a large human head needs to eat about one catty of fresh meat each time, and can go without food for up to ten days at a time, while a Tier 2 poisonous fire scorpion with a large bucket needs to eat more than ten catties of fresh meat each time , Once you are full, you can go without food for seven days.

As for the third-level [Poison Fire Scorpion King], it no longer eats the meat of ordinary wild animals, but only feeds on the old, weak, sick and disabled in the scorpion group, and will eat a first-level beast every half a month. The poisonous fire scorpion of the same family.

It is also because [Poison Fire Scorpion King] has the habit of feeding on his own race, the desert food chain on the side of the sandy slope has not collapsed, otherwise, if the number of scorpions continues to grow indefinitely, the final result will be that all first- and second-order poisonous fires After the scorpions ate up all the common animals, they lost their food sources and died of starvation and cannibalism in large numbers.

Of course, in this world, except Zhou Yang, a traveler, no one knows what a "food chain" is.

And although he knows the terrible consequences caused by the collapse of the food chain, it is a pity that he is in a world of cultivating immortals, and he himself is a cultivator who has mastered powerful powers. His thinking inertia has changed greatly. The perspective and way to look at and solve.

Immortal cultivators belong to themselves, and they can use magical powers to solve problems when they encounter problems. Of course, they will not waste their brains thinking of other solutions.

So even Zhou Yang, after knowing that the overall strength of the poisonous fire scorpion group was weaker than that of the Zhou family, the first method he thought of was to call the family masters together to destroy each other.

It wasn't until he followed the family elders to the destination, observed the hunting situation of the poisonous fire scorpions from a distance through the "Sky Eye Technique", and discovered the fragile desert food chain on the sandy slope, that he suddenly realized that the only way to deal with the poisonous fire scorpions was by force. In addition to the scorpion swarm, there are other methods to weaken the extinct scorpion swarm.

"I'm so stupid! Why didn't I think of this in advance? If I had thought of this method earlier, why did the old patriarch take the risk to call the elders back? Just let the old patriarch go there alone and set a few fires to burn down the desert on the sandy slope Plants can starve most of the poisonous fire scorpions to death!"

Zhou Yang slapped his head in frustration, and hurriedly found the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to inform him of his discovery and thoughts.

Of course, he definitely wouldn't say the term "ecological food chain". He just expressed what he wanted to express in a way that the cultivators of this world could understand.

"Wonderful! This plan is great!"

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan is worthy of being a foundation-building monk who has lived for more than a hundred years. Zhou Yang only said it the first time, and he immediately understood the mystery inside. He was not stingy in his praise of Zhou Yang who offered advice.

"Xiao Jiu, you are indeed the lucky star bestowed on our Zhou family by the heavens. You can think of such clever tricks. This old man is really unheard of, unheard of!"

After finishing speaking, he directly greeted the others through voice transmission secretly: "Come here, Quan'er, Xuan Hao, you all come to listen to Xiao Jiu's clever plan, and see if this plan is feasible?"

"It's really a clever plan. This plan is repeated one after another, starting from the small things. Not to mention those monsters with new wisdom, even us immortal cultivators. If the disaster breaks out later, no one will be able to discover it. I have been tricked, good trick, good trick!" Zhou Quan, the second elder of the Zhou family, heard the old patriarch's retelling of the trick, and the bearded beard who quickly understood applauded loudly.

"The strategy is very good and easy to implement. Not only can it be used here, but it can also be used to deal with other groups of monsters and beasts living in groups in the sand sea in the future. It's just that this strategy is harmful to the peace, and if it can not be used, It’s better not to use it!” The fourth elder Zhou Yun also nodded, and was very optimistic about Zhou Yang’s strategy, but as the husband of Erling Zhi, he still had some instinctive rejection of this kind of behavior that completely destroyed the plant ecosystem. alert.

But Zhou Yang’s father, Zhou Xuanhao, was the one who really got the idea: “I would like to add that this strategy must never be implemented on the oasis, and it must be kept strictly confidential, otherwise we will be hostile by all the monks in this boundless sea of ​​sand.” , bringing disaster to the family!"

In the boundless sea of ​​sand, the oasis is the most important strategic resource. Only with the existence of the oasis can the mortals be supported, and with more mortals, more immortals with spiritual roots can be produced.

Therefore, anyone who dares to destroy the oasis in the boundless sand sea will be hostile and hunted down by all the immortal cultivators. Even a big sect like Huang Shamen would not dare to do such a thing that would cause public outrage.

The monks of the Zhou family lived and grew up in the desert, and they are very aware of the importance of the oasis. After hearing Zhou Xuanhao's words, including Zhou Yang, who proposed the "ecological chain" strategy, their hearts trembled, and their faces were filled with excitement. The color instantly subsided a lot.

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan also nodded solemnly and said: "Very good, what Xuan Hao said is very good. This kind of strategy really needs to be used with caution. Of course it is best not to use it. If you use it, you must keep it secret and don't let the news leak out. Go out and be known by outsiders!"

After finishing speaking, he narrowed his eyes, looked at the sandy slope slanting towards the west at sunset, and said in a low voice: "You go back to Qingping Mountain first, and leave this place to the old man. Whether Xiao Jiu's strategy will work or not, you will know once you try it! "

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