Chapter 449: Strange Insect List Number Ninety-Eight

Thus, he directly said to Song Yuran who was leading the way in front: "Don't be so slow anymore, speed up for me. I don't have time to waste here!"

Song Yuran hurriedly turned her head to agree, and subsequently increased her speed.

And Lin Zhangqing, through Chu Yi's warning, as long as he discovered demon beasts ahead, if the quantity was small, they would rush over directly, solve the demon beasts with one round of attacks, and then quickly store the demon beast corpses and leave. If the quantity of demon beasts was large, then he would spend a little time taking a detour.

Along the way, Song Yuran didn't dare to stop at all, taking mana-recovering pills while traveling.

After traveling for several hours, they finally arrived at the place where Song Yuran discovered the Shock-Spirit Cicadas before it was completely dark.

That was a large patch of purple bamboo forest. Lin Zhangqing recognized these spirit bamboos, but they wouldn't grow too tall, at most about one zhang five.

But it wasn't absolute. If the place where they grew had sufficient spiritual energy and the growth years were enough, the first-stage purple bamboo might jade-ify into purple jade bamboo, which was a second-stage spirit material.

It was estimated that Song Yuran also discovered this purple bamboo forest yesterday and wanted to go in to find second-stage purple jade bamboo, which was why she encountered those Shock-Spirit Cicadas!

However, at a position four or five hundred zhang away from the purple bamboo forest, Song Yuran didn't dare to approach. Lin Zhangqing didn't make things difficult for her either and let her wait in place.

He himself approached the purple bamboo forest. When the distance was about two hundred zhang, a burst of cicada chirping sounded inside the purple bamboo forest, and Lin Zhangqing was just dazed for a moment, but felt nothing.

However, it also confirmed to him that Song Yuran indeed didn't lie to him. There were indeed Shock-Spirit Cicadas here, and the quantity looked quite large, estimated to be at least one or two hundred.

Lin Zhangqing endured the excitement in his heart and returned to where Song Yuran was. He looked at her and then said seriously: "Those inside the purple bamboo forest are indeed Shock-Spirit Cicadas!"

"In this way, our transaction is considered successfully completed. However, I want you to make a Dao Heart Great Oath that you cannot disclose my information to anyone in any form or by any method."

"Including that I know thunder techniques, these Shock-Spirit Cicadas, and everything you saw of me, you cannot mention it to anyone."

"And even if we meet again in the future, you must pretend not to know me. Can you do what I said?"

Song Yuran was looked at by him and felt a little creepy. She knew this Dao Heart Great Oath was related to her life, so she didn't dare to have the slightest hesitation.

She directly and very simply followed Lin Zhangqing's request and made the Dao Heart Great Oath.

Lin Zhangqing saw that she was so sensible and didn't want to do anything like crossing the river and tearing down the bridge. He still had his own moral bottom line in his heart.

And he had never forgotten how his Innate Moral True Eye came to be, so he was still very particular about doing things.

Thus, he took out his storage bag and shook it, pouring out the corpses of four early-second-stage demon beasts.

Then he said: "The demon beast corpses on the ground are what we encountered just now, and the demon cores inside them haven't been taken out yet."

"Consider it your reward. After you take it, take advantage of the fact that it's not completely dark yet and leave here immediately."

Song Yuran wanted to say something but stopped. She actually wanted to continue following Lin Zhangqing. A core disciple had powerful strength, and safety was also very guaranteed. If the two could cooperate in hunting, then she could beg Lin Zhangqing to share some demon cores with her later.

It would be better than her wandering around alone, not to mention the high danger, and she wouldn't necessarily have too much harvest.

However, seeing Lin Zhangqing's cold and ruthless appearance, she knew he wouldn't agree to travel with her, so she could only nod, store the demon beast corpses on the ground, and turn to leave.

Lin Zhangqing watched her fly out of his line of sight before he flew around the purple bamboo forest. He had to find a suitable place nearby.

He prepared to camp here tonight. It was still the old rule. After finding a suitable place, he set up the Illusion Array.

Then he released all the first-stage and second-stage Purple Crystal Scorpions, and they automatically formed a three-layer three-dimensional defense circle, subsequently hiding and disappearing.

He summoned Chu Yi back, entered the array, and then found the Strange Insect List attached to the insect cultivator inheritance in his storage bag.

He read it seriously and finally found the detailed introduction of the Shock-Spirit Cicada in a relatively later position.

Strange Insect List ranked ninety-eighth, a gregarious spirit insect, feeding on the sap of spirit trees and spirit bamboos or spirit liquid rich in spiritual energy. Its innate spell is the Soul-Shocking Technique.

At the first stage, their ability is not that strong, so they are called "Shock-Soul Cicadas!"

After successfully molting three times, they are considered to have advanced to the second stage. Only then can they be formally called "Shock-Spirit Cicadas!"

And if they can molt three more times, they are third-stage spirit insects. At this time, they can be called "Falling-God Cicadas!" You don't need too many, just a dozen or so.

Cooperating well, they can issue continuous third-stage Soul-Shocking Techniques, and after their special innate bonus, even Golden Core cultivators wouldn't dare to provoke them casually.

If they were surrounded by them, there would even be a very high possibility of directly falling, and it would be the kind where the soul flies and scatters.

However, they themselves also have weaknesses. The first is that their bodies are not powerful; relatively speaking, they are quite fragile. If their bodies are damaged, they will easily die.

The second is that they are very destructive to all spirit trees and spirit bamboos. After all, they are considered pests to all spirit plants.

Shock-Spirit Cicadas specifically cling to spirit plants to suck their sap to survive, which is quite wasteful of spirit plants! The third disadvantage is that molting and advancing is not an easy thing. Every molt is crossing a life-and-death tribulation, and there is a very high possibility of failure, with no way to successfully break out of the shell.

Especially when advancing to a major stage, the difficulty is even more huge. Entering the second stage from the first stage only has about a thirty percent success rate.

When entering the third stage from the second stage, it's exaggerated. It's actually three out of a hundred, which means out of one hundred Shock-Spirit Cicadas advancing, only about three can successfully advance.

Entering the fourth stage from the third stage, it wasn't mentioned here, but even if it wasn't mentioned above, Lin Zhangqing could guess that this success rate must be shockingly low. However, this was still relatively far from him now, so he didn't want to waste energy exploring it at this time.

He was just considering, if he really caught these Shock-Spirit Cicadas, how he would feed them.

Although there were indeed quite a few spirit plants in the inner space, they all had very important roles for him, and it was impossible to let the Shock-Spirit Cicadas ruin the spirit plants.

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