It was an insect king that looked like a locust that injured Li Ziqi and Zuo Luo to bring trouble to Lingtian.
This insect king is about half the size of a human, with a red and green back, a white belly, a pair of filamentous tentacles on its head, dark green compound eyes, and three single eyes next to the compound eyes and close to the tentacles.
Its most intuitive appearance features are its pair of sharp and narrow sickle-shaped forearms, and its lower body looks like a locust.
The appearance of this pest is hideous and terrifying, making it easy to identify.
As the ancestor of Jindan, Lu Ping naturally has a lot of knowledge.
With just one glance, he recognized the origin of this pest, which belonged to the mantis locust family.
Mantis, as its name suggests, is similar to a combination of a mantis and a locust. The only difference is that this creature does belong to a race and is not the result of a cross between a locust and a mantis.
An adult mantis is similar in size to a sparrow and has similar living habits to locusts. It likes to live in groups and feeds on whole grains, so it is firmly classified as a pest.
The mantis in front of him reached the size of half a human. The reason it could reach this size was naturally not because it had mutated, but because it belonged to the King of Insects.
A group of mantises will be led by a huge mantis king.
Lu Ping wandered around the spiritual field and soon discovered that there were many mantis corpses scattered in the field, either killed by golden needles or split open with a sword.
Apparently, these mantises had been cleared away by Li Ziqi and the others and turned into nutrients for the spiritual field.
As for the most troublesome insect king, the two of them worked together to fight, but they couldn't win.
Therefore, in the entire spiritual field, there is only one insect king left to deal with.
When Lu Ping figured out the situation at the scene, the system also gave a prompt at this time.
[Mantis: First level middle grade (fifth level of Qi training)]
[Pests born after upgrading from the spiritual field. To protect the growth of the spiritual rice, please clean up the pests in time]
So that's what happened.
I said that there was a swarm of mantis locusts and such a big insect king. Lu Ping suddenly realized.
It was originally thought that after optimizing the spiritual field grade, the spiritual rice production capacity would steadily increase, and the spiritual field grade would also increase by a small level.
This is indeed the case, Lu Ping is lucky.
But after achieving this upgrade effect, a certain price was paid, and more difficult pests were born.
Pests already exist in the spiritual fields. They are hidden in the soil, branches, leaves, roots and stems of the spiritual rice. They are difficult to find. To eliminate the pests, the monks have to search carefully.
Lu Ping raised the level of the spiritual field, and the spiritual rice was able to feed back. As the upgrade progressed, the pests in the spiritual field could not be eliminated in the process of feeding back.
Originally they were just some inconspicuous and weak spiritual insects with pitiful fighting capabilities and no threat to the monks at all.
However, as the spiritual field is upgraded, the intensity of the spiritual energy increases, which optimizes the living environment of some pests in the field, allowing them to consume stronger and purer spiritual energy and give birth to stronger pests.
After the first-level pest advanced, Zuo Luo and Li Ziqi, who were guarding the spiritual field, quickly discovered it and took action immediately to eliminate the mantis swarm.
Fortunately, the attack was timely, and the damage to the spiritual field was minor. Only half an acre of the spiritual field was eaten away, but the vitality was not seriously damaged.
By the way, when they discovered this pest, both of them were actually quite confused.
I have been guarding the spiritual field for several years, but this is the first time I have found such a large pest in the spiritual field, and it looks difficult to deal with.
It’s not as easy to get rid of those insect pests that were as big as a thumb and vulnerable to attack in the past.
With a hint of vigilance, the two of them made a move, and the knot was obvious.
This first-order Mantis Locust King is far stronger than the two of them and is really not that easy to deal with.
Not only is it agile and attacks extremely fast, but its pair of scythe forearms are also very powerful.
The strength of these scythe forearms is already comparable to that of a first-order mid-grade spiritual weapon. It is sharp enough to cut through iron as well as mud. If it is accidentally hit, it will cause your head to fall off.
With the first-level low-grade spiritual weapon in their hands, the two fought in circles for dozens of rounds without any advantage. They soon fell into a disadvantage and both were injured.
After all, they were assigned to guard the spiritual field. In terms of cultivation, the two of them were not the sect's key training targets, and their cultivation could only be considered average.
One is at the third level of Qi training, and the other is at the fourth level of Qi training.
Fortunately, as the two people were injured and had not yet perished under the insect's blade, the system gave Yu Luping a prompt.
Lu Ping did not dare to delay, and promptly sent word that Lu Zhiwei was coming to deal with the pests.
This is the situation.
Zuo Luo and Li Ziqi rushed to Lingtian after Lu Zhiwei, who had not shown up for a long time, had no intention of continuing the fight to the death. Of course, they shouted to Elder Lu for help.
It's okay for them to guard the spiritual field, they are quite good at it, but when it comes to fighting, they have no experience.
Then, Lu Zhiwei saw that the Insect King was causing harm to the Lingtian, and then recalled her father's sudden message from before, asking her to rush to the Lingtian, and she immediately understood her father's intention.
The disciples can't defeat the Mantis Locust King, but I, the elder of the sect, can.
So, when Lu Ping arrived, Lu Zhiwei was already fighting with the Insect King. Looking at the situation of the battle, Lu Zhiwei had the upper hand.
Are you kidding me? Lu Zhiwei is still a ninth-level qi-training monk. Even if he has not practiced for many years and rarely fought, his combat power will be reduced.
But the seventh or eighth level of Qi training is more than enough.
Equipped with a second-level Zhaoyun Sword, Lu Zhiwei could easily deal with an Insect King at the fifth level of Qi training.
While dealing with and attacking Lu Zhiwei, the Mantis Locust King flapped its pair of transparent wings at high speed, emitting a continuous buzzing sound that made people's eardrums buzz with it, which was very uncomfortable.
It moved extremely fast, and wherever it went, the wind and waves poured out from its wings blew the spiritual rice around, causing a mess.
Among the pests, it was really quite big, just like a small helicopter hovering over the spiritual field, causing strong winds and making the environment very noisy and chaotic.
I saw the Insect King fluttering its wings and suddenly flashing to the side of Lu Zhiwei. When Lu Zhiwei wasn't paying attention, a sickle-shaped forearm aimed at the side of Lu Zhiwei's face and slashed it down.
Although this attack is simple and crude, there are no fancy moves.
But once Lu Zhiwei received this blow, his disfigurement was still minor, and he might even die on the spot.
"Elder, watch out for the right side!"
Seeing the ferocious attack of the Insect King, who actually knew how to sneak attack, Li Ziqi, who was watching the battle not far away, suddenly became nervous and couldn't help but remind him loudly.
Lu Ping also had his heart in his throat, wanting to scare the insect king to pieces with one palm, and directly end the insect king's life.
But when you think about yourself, you are just a consciousness. What are you thinking about? Just look at it honestly.
Fortunately, under Li Ziqi's reminder, Lu Zhiwei dodged in time and managed to avoid the attack from the right, allowing the Insect King to miss him.
Beside the ears, only a few strands of black hair were cut and slowly fell.
"Snacks!"
Seeing that Lu Zhiwei was almost injured, Lu Ping established a voice transmission at this time to remind Lu Zhiwei not to underestimate the enemy.
"Don't capsize in the gutter."
