C61 Array arrangement

The bad news continued to come. The Savage Mountain Village, the first village to be affected by the giant locust plague, was caught off guard, and its spirit field was almost completely barren. With no harvests, it was already a foregone conclusion.

After Yang Tian had received Liu Zhen's urgent sword token, the giant locust swarm had already entered the village of Tuliang, which was at the southernmost point of the town, and was only about twenty or thirty miles away from the village.

Another red sword token fell into Yang Tian Gang's hands along with a soul-stirring sword hum. "Just like in Desolate Mountain Town, a large scale locust swarm has also appeared in Desolate Sand Town that is as close to Qu Wu Shan."

Blacksmith Zhang said, "Desolate Sand Town? Are there locusts there too? "

Yang Tian said in a deep voice, "Not only Sandstorm Town, but Jinyu County, which borders this county, also found a large-scale locust disaster. Because Jinyu County is very narrow with Mt. Qu, the locust disaster has already spread across Jinyu County and into Mengyu County."

"The three counties have suffered!" Blacksmith Zhang was at a loss as to what to say.

As for Yang Junshan, when Yang Tian and the others were still in the main hall discussing yesterday morning, he had already ran out to gather his subordinates. Besides Su Baozhang, Yang Junping, Yang Qianhai, and Yang Baoliang's direct descendants, there were also Ge Erxi, Huang Mingsheng, Su Min, Li Jiecong, and five or six other Yang Junshan tenants' children.

Yang Junshan first divided the three pounds of yellowish brown powder into three portions, and told them to scatter them in their own spirit farmland, or in the Yang Junshan family's spirit farmland that they had rented. Yang Junping first took his sister and one Jin of medicinal powder to sprinkle them in their own backyard, and together with the remaining five pounds of medicinal powder and Su Baozhang, they hurried over to the Yang Tian Village's largest spirit farmland, which had an area of one acre and three parts, and poured all five pounds of medicinal powder into the spirit farmland that was about to mature.

Yang Junshan had already experimented the powder he brought back. He found that although the powder was pungent and unpleasant, it was non-toxic. Even when sprinkled on food, as long as the pungent smell was washed away, it would disappear without a trace.

After dealing with the matter of the powder, Yang Junshan and Su Baozhang rushed to the spiritual field at the foot of the western mountain. Yang Qianhai and Yang Baoliang had already arrived there with the two packhorses and a carriage.

Although the spirit grass wasn't planted in the spirit valley, its rich spirit energy would definitely attract the giant locust to lay the eggs into the ground. When the eggs hatch next year, not only would the spirit grass absorb the spirit grass, but it would also eat up the crops planted in the field.

This medium grade three spiritual field was one of the most important foundations of the Yang family in the future. Yang Junshan wanted to use his last trump card, and gather all his comrades to protect this spiritual field from the locust swarm as much as possible.

While Yang Junshan and Su Baozhang were sprinkling medicinal powder on the spirit farmland, Xu Lei, together with her fiancee Xu Qing and a few other disciples of the Xu family, along with Zhang Huzi and a few companions had also arrived at their respective houses.

The three Martial Disciples had already rushed to the south of the village to take charge of the defense against the locust attack. However, their children still rushed to the middle grade spirit farmland to prepare some defenses.

However, it was different from Yang Junshan sprinkling the medicinal powder, the Xu family threw long pieces of cloth onto the spirit farmland, on the cloth were embroidered runes with spirit cotton threads, forming large triggering talismans. Once the giant locust locust landed on the talisman, it would trigger the talisman's own attack, killing the giant locust above the spirit farmland.

However, Yang Junshan knew that this method wasn't feasible. Once the giant locust swarm broke through the southern defense line of the village, the locusts that were charging towards Ling Tian would definitely be coming in one after another. The giant talisman could kill the locust swarm for a while, but it would soon be covered by the corpses of the locusts and would not be able to trigger it, not to mention that the talisman's spiritual energy was limited.

Once the giant locust fell into the net, it wouldn't be able to fly away. However, just like the Xu family's giant talisman, once the net was filled with locusts, the function of the giant net would be of no use.

While Yang Junshan was watching the other two families' plan to protect his land, Xu Lei and Zhang Huzi were also watching Yang Junshan and his men busy themselves. However, the two of them were confused about what Yang Junshan and his men were doing.

They saw Yang Junshan and the others unload all kinds of tools from the cart pulled by the horses. There were nine one-foot round stone plates, and each stone plate had a groove carved in the center. Around them were all kinds of wooden tools, and there were also bundles of spirit cotton thread.

"What are they doing?" Zhang Huzi didn't understand and asked Xu Lei, who was similarly puzzled.

Xu Lei shook her head. She didn't know that, but the nearby Xu Jing was a bit hesitant: "This looks like he's setting up a formation!"

"Assemble the formation?" Zhang Huzi exclaimed, "Yang Junshan knows how to set up a formation? What a joke! Even if you manage to enter the Heaven Shaking Sect in the future, you might not even be able to learn it, right? Only he can set up a formation? "

Xu Jing's expression turned cold, and even Xu Lei's expression turned a bit ugly. Zhang Huzi's heart suddenly turned cold as she remembered how she was defeated by this girl in front of him a few days ago. Thus, she kept quiet.

At this time, Xu Jing's gaze towards Yang Junshan was filled with surprise and curiosity, as if he had developed a great interest for the mystery surrounding Yang Junshan. Xu Lei lowered her head, her expression constantly changing, but it was hard to tell what she was thinking about.

Yang Junshan watched Xu Jing and Xu Lei from not too far away. One of them held his head high and had a serious expression, while the other was completely filled with confidence; the other was really lost in thought, and his eyes were unfocused. His entire body was filled with a sense of inferiority, and this difference between them made Yang Junshan feel pity for Xu Lei.

Yang Junshan commanded the group to arrange the nine round stone tablets in a square shape in the spirit field. Then, there was a young man who knew how to cultivate responsible for each round stone plate.

The formation that Yang Junshan had set up was a common and simple formation used to deal with giant locust disasters in his previous life. In his previous life, after the first giant locust disaster had happened, the farmers in different places suffered great losses due to being caught off guard, and after the great change of the heaven and earth, giant locust disasters had occurred all over the place. However, the losses caused by the formation became smaller and smaller, because the giant locust disaster was one of the weakest kind of magic formations, and people quickly found a way to restrain it.

Yang Junshan was busy all by himself, but the other young men were still looking at him with confusion. When they heard from Su Baozhang that Yang Junshan had set up a formation, they were all amazed, [The young master of the village knows how to set up a formation!]

Just when Yang Junshan was about to connect the eight stone plates using a variety of simple array tools, he saw Xu Jing's face suddenly change. His head was spinning in different directions, as if carefully listening to something. Finally, he turned his face to the south of the village and loudly said: "They're here!"

"What's coming?"

Zhang Huzi asked casually. Yang Junshan looked deeply at Xu Jing's left ear, then suddenly stood up and looked towards the south of the village. The sky was empty, but there was nothing.

"There's nothing at all!" A few of the youths muttered to themselves.

Unexpectedly, after they had finished talking, a dark gray cloud slowly rose up into the sky. The dark cloud kept rising while changing its shape. In just the time it took to make a cup of tea, it had already covered half of the sky south of the village.

The locust plague had finally arrived!

Yang Junshan quickly threw the eight bags into the hands of Su Baozhang and the other eight who knew how to cultivate, and said loudly: "Each of the eight stone plates on the outside are in charge, and inside the bag are jade coins and stone coins. Put the jade coins into the groove in the middle of the stone plate, and the five small grooves on the outside are embedded with stone coins.

Everyone nodded in agreement. One of the youths opened the bag and took a look. There were at least three to four jade coins and several stone coins inside. He was immediately at a loss because he had never seen such a large amount of money before.

As the grayish brown clouds got closer, everyone could feel the suffocating atmosphere. Finally, everyone was able to see clearly that the grayish-brown clouds were actually filled with an endless number of locusts.

Only Yang Junshan was not interested in this. He had experienced this kind of scene too many times in his previous life, even more than this locust swarm, and had seen it many times before. At this moment, he put all his energy into setting up the array, thinking that his cultivation was still too weak, otherwise, it would not be so difficult to set up this kind of array.

When the locust swarm finally arrived in front of the Tuqiu Village, the gray and hazy locust swarm was like a mountain that was collapsing, smashing down towards the village like a jade pillar pushing down a gold mountain. All the girls in the spirit farmland let out cries of surprise, except for Xu Jing, who was tightly hugging Yang Junxin, who was hiding behind his big brother.

And at this time, four of the most dazzling rays of light rose up from four different directions of the south of the village, bringing with them hundreds of different magic waves. They formed a dense magic defense net over the south of the village, and the locusts that crashed into the south of the village immediately became like a mountain that had been hollowed out.

"Alright!" The youngsters in the spirit farmland jumped and cheered loudly.