C57 Locust

"Brother Zhao!"

A cultivator walked out of the stream and landed with a few items that he had just fished out of the water. He said, "These are all things that belonged to Senior Brother Ma and Junior Brother Cheng. It seems like those two burnt corpses are most likely the items of the two Junior Brothers!"

The fire had already been extinguished, leaving only the two charred corpses behind. When Senior Brother Zhao arrived at the stream, he had been standing beside the two corpses, until the seven or eight cultivators who were searching all over confirmed the identities of the dead.

"According to the news Senior Brother Yao sent before, Junior Brother Ma Yin will bring Ning Ji's son here. Now that Junior Brother Ma and Junior Brother Cheng have fallen, I presume that the child must have been saved by someone."

Senior Martial Brother Zhao's voice was like a cold wind that blew through the forest, causing those who heard it to feel a chill in their hearts. Several of his juniors stood around him, not even daring to breathe.

"Did you look around and find anything?"

One of the cultivators stepped forward and said, "Senior, in the southeast direction, we found some hidden tracks. It seems like the enemy tried to hide their tracks while they were retreating. However, these tracks disappeared after walking for half a mile."

Another cultivator said, "Senior Martial Brother, we also found traces of people walking in the northwest direction. However …"

Senior Martial Brother Zhao's gloomy gaze instantly swept over. The cultivator couldn't help but shiver and hurriedly said, "However, from the traces left behind, it seems that someone passed through the miasma and arrived at that place."

He said, "No matter what tricks that person who rescued Ning Ji's son has up his sleeve, he will eventually return to the Desolate Mountain Town to inform Ning Ji that everyone will be chased. He will definitely stop that little bastard before he returns to the Desolate Land Town, and at the same time, he will inform Senior Brother Yao about what has happened here as soon as possible."

The cultivator that walked out of the stream brazenly advised: "Senior Martial Brother, if we all go and chase that little bastard, what should we do about the giant locusts that we are responsible for monitoring?"

Brother Zhao snorted and said, "It's alright. Hundreds of miles to the east of Qu Wu Mountain, there are at least dozens of giant locusts. We are only monitoring one of them."

Yang Junshan stood at the top of a cliff and watched Ning Bin fight with Niu Junyi in the middle of the tunnel. The three food carts had stopped in the middle of the road, and the other two drivers were lying under the carts, each of them with their chests pierced by an arrow.

As expected of the future three prodigies of the Heaven Shaking Sect, Junior Brother Niu was much older than him and had been immersed in the Immortal Foundation realm for a long time. He also had various tricks up his sleeves, but Ning Bin was using a pair of Scarlet Flame Talismans to fight him to a standstill.

He hoped that his plan of luring the tiger out of the mountain would succeed. Yang Junshan took out an arrow from the quiver on his back, and immediately, the seven stone bow was pulled out. A bright light circulated on the thumb ring, and the runes on the arrow were immediately triggered; the bowstring shook down, and the arrow drew an ear-piercing screech in the air as it shot towards Junior Brother Niu's leg.

The moment the first arrow was released, Yang Junshan drew his bow and followed closely behind with the second arrow. However, this arrow was clearly off target, and it flew two feet away from Junior Brother Niu.

Junior Brother Niu had long discovered that his opponent still had a godly archer lying in ambush. The reason he was able to fight evenly with this teenage boy for such a long time was because he had a large portion of his energy to guard against this godly archer's cold arrows.

The moment Yang Junshan released his first arrow, Junior Ox had already noticed the direction of the arrow. He took two steps forward, and the rune arrow landed on the ground where he was standing, causing a small hole about half a foot deep.

However, just as Junior Brother Niu dodged, Ning Bin noticed Yang Junshan helping him with something even more impressive. He gripped the Scarlet Flame Talisman tightly and summoned two Scarlet Flame Talismans to attack Junior Brother Niu from both sides.

Junior Brother Niu was panicking and quickly took another step back to get away from the two spells. Unexpectedly, a shadow flashed in the sky, and Yang Junshan's second rune arrow pierced through his neck from left to right.

Junior Brother Niu clutched at his neck as he opened his mouth to try and breathe. However, the wound on his neck bubbled with blood, and soon after, a red light shone before his eyes. Ning Bin's Scarlet Flame Technique had completely engulfed Junior Brother Niu within the fiery red light.

Standing beside the burnt junior brother Niu, Yang Junshan shook his head and sighed, "What a pity, it's a pity that I still don't have any experience. If a good cultivator of the Immortal Foundation were to be burned to death, he wouldn't even get his spoils of war!"

Just now, he no longer needed to cast that spell. Even if he did, he could still use it directly on his face. This way, he could not only concentrate the power of the spell, but also bring out the stronger power of the spell. At the same time, he could not burn his entire body.

Fortunately, the three food carts and the three silly cow-beasts were still intact. Yang Junshan pointed to the last silly cow-beast that was pulling the cart and said, "That cow looks the strongest, you should hurry up and ride it!"

Ning Bin clasped his hands at Yang Junshan, turned around, and removed the shaft from the cart. He then turned his head to ride back.

Yang Junshan shouted from far behind him, "Let me give you a piece of advice, don't go straight to the prison to find your father. Be careful, he has set a trap for you, so you won't fall into his trap!"

He could no longer see Ning Bin in the dark. Yang Junshan searched the corpses of the other two masters. Other than one or two jade coins, there wasn't anything else that caught his eye.

Yang Junshan turned the truck around, placed the shaft of the third one on top of the second one, and started to walk back the way they came from. After walking for about two to three miles, he saw that the silly cow-beast pulling the two trucks was already exhausted.

According to his memory, the dirt cliffs on both sides of this generation's secret passageway were extremely loose soil, and during the rainy season, they would often collapse, and sometimes, even the secret passages would be blocked. At this moment, although the secret passage hadn't been opened for long, but at the bottom of the cliff on both sides of the road, there were already soil bundles formed from the collapse of the cliff.

Yang Junshan drove the three grain carts to a cliff, then unloaded the shafts of the two oxen and led them to the other side of the road. Yang Junshan unloaded the three grain carts to the other side of the cliff, then climbed up to the top of the cliff and inspected them carefully, finding a few cracks in the cliff.

Looking at the dozens of dirt mounds on both sides of the road, Yang Junshan guessed that no one would notice them, so he tied a branch to each of the two oxen 'tails. Then he had them walk towards the dark tunnel on their own, and at the same time sweep up the tracks on the ground as much as possible, at least to confuse the people who came after the investigation.

After doing all of this, Yang Junshan immediately went back into the forest. At this time, the black smoke column that was deliberately made by Yang Junshan when he burned the corpse had completely disappeared. In order to prevent himself from being unable to lure the tiger out of the mountain, Yang Junshan still circled around the forest and returned to the stream.

The burning ashes were still there, but the burnt bodies were already buried. Yang Junshan looked around, and aside from the traces left behind by people coming from the southwest, there were also traces left behind by people from the north.

He hoped that Ning Bin didn't run into this group of people, but they definitely didn't expect that Ning Bin would take the secret route back to the Desolate Mountain Town, let alone that he had a mount to ride on. Meanwhile, this group of people were still searching northwards in the middle of the Crooked Martial Mountain, which meant that Ning Bin should be able to return to the Desolate Mountain Town ahead of them.

Following the trail of those people, they headed towards the southwest. After Yang Junshan walked for seven to eight miles, the buzzing sound became louder and louder, as if something's wings were rapidly shaking.

Yang Junshan's heart skipped a beat. He knew that he had already reached the target he was looking for, so he moved more cautiously, afraid of alerting those hidden things deep in the forest.

Suddenly, a buzzing sound came from above his head. Yang Junshan hurriedly stopped and looked towards the direction the sound came from, and saw a giant black locust about four inches long landing on a branch of a small tree. Its upper and lower jaws were trembling rapidly, and a palm-sized leaf was eaten clean, and the locust flew back the way it came from with a flap of its wings.

The giant locust was indeed a giant locust. It was exactly the same as the giant locust that had appeared in the memory of the giant locust disaster in his previous life!

Yang Junshan suppressed his fear and excitement. He carefully pushed the thorns and branches away, and then a valley appeared in front of Yang Junshan's eyes.

This should have been a valley covered in grass, but at this moment, it was only a bustling black and gray valley. Countless giant locusts filled the valley, and only the occasional gaps could be seen.

This valley could no longer hold such a huge amount of giant locusts, but Yang Junshan saw many ungrown larvae in the valley. These larvae were as big as the adult locusts, but the wings on their backs were not fully grown yet, perhaps because there were still a large number of larvae existing, so the giant locusts in this valley didn't have any locust infestation.

However, Yang Junshan could still see a lot of giant locusts flying into the forest around the valley. After a while, they all flew back, some of them even had whole leaves in their mouths.

Yang Junshan was stunned, these giant locust adults actually knew how to raise larvae!

Demon! Could it be another demon?