infodatos Chapter 554 His heart can be punished
Chapter 554 His heart can be punished
Chapter 554 His heart can be punished
After a thousand thunderclaps, a light rain began to fall.
The land, now barren from the locusts' passage, is covered with a thick layer of black mud.
The black mud is formed from the corpses of countless locusts. Before long, the damaged local ecosystem will be revitalized.
Lu Zheng sat leaning against a green hilltop, looking exhausted and powerless, letting the wind and rain lash him.
Yun Xiao and the others flew over from a distance and quickly found Lu Zheng.
When Qingwan saw Lu Zheng's appearance, she knew that this was a side effect of using the power of the Saint Realm.
She quickly stepped forward, took out a Wenbao (a type of ancient Chinese writing tablet), and stuck it on Lu Zheng's body, infusing some righteous energy into Lu Zheng's body.
Qingwan took out a few more elixirs and fed them to Lu Zheng.
After a while, Lu Zheng finally recovered, exhaled a breath of stale air, and barely regained some strength, managing to move slightly.
Yun Xiao stood aside and looked at Lu Zheng's complexion, and noticed that a few strands of white hair had grown at Lu Zheng's temples.
He couldn't help but say, "Why go to such lengths?"
Lu Zheng leaned against a rock and said softly, "Just now, I saw some mountain villages, those villages ravaged by locusts. There are hardly any survivors left..."
"Locust plagues are terrible, at least for ordinary people, they are a major disaster, let alone a plague of this scale. We must do more to try to eradicate all the scourge..."
Lu Zheng said quietly, "I wonder if there are any spies who have escaped the net."
Everyone thought to themselves that with such a commotion, how could any insect possibly survive?
However, Yun Xiao still looked at the cultivators in the army and told them to go around and check the situation. If there were no problems, they could return to the royal city.
Everyone thanked them and then left.
After everyone else left, Yun Xiao sat down next to Lu Zheng. "You... why don't you go back to the city and rest for a few days?"
Lu Zheng said, "Let's rest a little longer and then continue on our way."
"You young man..." Yun Xiao clicked his tongue, "You're really in good shape, aren't you? By the way, the power you used just now shouldn't have been the effect of that scripture, right?"
Yun Xiao looked at Lu Zheng with curiosity in his eyes.
Lu Zheng simply smiled upon hearing this and did not reply.
Seeing this, Yun Xiao said again, "Alright, I won't ask anymore. But you should use this kind of forbidden power less often, it will shorten your lifespan and damage your luck! Don't always try to do things perfectly. What level are you at? Don't really think you can be some kind of savior and end up sacrificing yourself."
It was rare to meet a young man with whom he could get along, and Yun Xiao really didn't want to see Lu Zhengtai ruin himself by working himself to the bone.
Lu Zheng smiled and said, "I'm very rational."
After saying that, Lu Zheng took out a gray crystal. "This is the aura I just extracted from those locusts. I'd appreciate it if you could help me deduce it, Daoist."
Just now, Lu Zheng received a powerful boost and used the Tracing the Source spell to extract power from the bodies of countless locusts to obtain this crystal. He wanted to use it to trace the source and completely eradicate the root cause.
However, Lu Zheng was now too weak to do anything, so he had to let Yun Xiao take action.
Yun Xiao was taken aback upon hearing this, thinking to himself that he had just said he was quite rational, but now he was bringing out something like this to deal with the locust farmers.
Yun Xiao said, "This kind of thing can be left to the people in the Zhennan Army. Why do you have to work so hard?"
Lu Zheng said, "If these locusts are coming because of the royal city, they won't be able to spare any manpower..."
“I am also worried that someone might release such locusts in other places.”
Lu Zheng paused, then continued, "Conflicts between cultivators should not affect ordinary people. And in a locust plague like this, ordinary living beings are the most harmed. Those who do such things are utterly despicable." "If anyone were to breed blood-sucking mosquitoes that can survive the winter to harm people, I, Lu, would search them to the ends of the earth..."
Mosquitoes that can survive the winter? Yun Xiao thought for a moment, then couldn't help but twitch his lips; he couldn't stand them either.
After all, when he was just an ordinary child before he entered the Taoist sect, he suffered a lot from mosquitoes in the summer.
Yun Xiao took the crystal and said, "Alright, stop talking! I'll try to find it for you, but I can't guarantee it!"
Lu Zhengdao said, "Thank you, Daoist Master."
Yun Xiao couldn't help but purse his lips and say, "You make me feel like the outsider, you scholar from Anguo!"
Even though he was the one from Shu, Lu Zheng was more concerned about the safety of the people in the southern border of Shu, leaving him speechless.
Lu Zheng couldn't help but smile and said, "As the sage once said..."
"Stop!" Yun Xiao quickly said, "Don't nag me! Just rest!"
Yun Xiao got up and went to the side, then set up the formation and began to deduce using the crystal.
Seeing this, Lu Zheng quietly leaned against the bluestone and closed his eyes to rest.
Seeing that Lu Zheng was alright, Qingwan took Qingyi aside and asked Qingyi to help cultivate the beans.
Qingwan used up a lot of bean soldiers to deal with the locust swarm, and now she needs to replenish them.
Before long, Qingwan discovered that the black mud transformed from the locusts was rich in nutrients, and if the beans planted there were further enchanted, they would produce excellent beans.
Seeing this, Qingwan and Qingyi simply went all over the mountains and fields to dig up black mud, and they were very busy and happy.
Of course, in order to protect the environment, the two did not scrape off all the black mud, but instead removed a portion of the black mud layer.
As Yun Xiao was casting spells and making deductions, he saw Qing Wan and the other person digging in the mud everywhere. Qing Yi, who was at the Tongxuan Realm, even used magic to frantically collect the black mud.
This made his eyes twitch, and he felt that he and Lu Zheng were out of place.
After working for a while, Yun Xiao finally finished his deductions, removed the formation, and put away the crystals.
Lu Zheng sensed the movement and opened his eyes to look at Yun Xiao, his eyes filled with inquiry.
Yun Xiao said, "It's too far to sense the exact location, but it should be in the south. I estimate it's out of the Southern Frontier, so it's on the way."
Lu Zheng nodded and said, "Alright, let's set off!"
Lu Zheng and Yun Xiao traveled south in a spirit boat. After traveling several dozen miles, they encountered the two little ones still digging mud in the mountains.
When Qingwan saw the two of them arrive, she excitedly led Qingyi onto the spirit boat and then stuffed a bunch of storage bags full of things into Lu Zheng's hands.
Yun Xiao's expression was a little unnatural. "You've dug up so much mud, will you even be able to use it all?"
Qingwan couldn't help but say, "This is only a small amount, it's not nearly enough! We've planted so much grain!"
Qingwan thought that the black mud they had brought would only last for a while.
Yun Xiao asked curiously, "You've planted a lot of grain? You've been running around everywhere, where have you been...?"
Suddenly, Yun Xiao paused, then looked at Lu Zheng, as if he had just thought of something, and said with great interest, "Tsk tsk, you use your literary palace space to farm? This is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing... Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by other scholars? Oh, you really aren't afraid."
(End of this chapter)