Ever since Zhang Liang and the others went to sea this time, there has been almost no peace in Biyou Island.
In the past few months, a large number of fishermen and farmers have died in the Immortal Sea, so that now fishermen and farmers dare not go hundreds of miles away when going to sea.
Even more fishermen and farmers choose to fish along the coast just to save their lives.
When will Lingxian Palace resolve Biyou Island's overseas affairs before they dare to go to sea?
There are also people who have even more complicated thoughts and are planning to move away and seek development in other fairy islands.
In short, the glorious and lively scene of Biyou Island in the past seems to have disappeared overnight. The number of people going to sea on a daily basis is less than one-third of the usual number. The business of Biyou Port has plummeted, and most of the guests from Xianfang have been reduced. It can be said that It was desolate.
The strange seaweed that Zhang Liang and the three of them encountered was named Sea Ghost Algae. Some people said that the person they saw was not a human being, but was actually a human form simulated by the seaweed. Some people say that it is seaweed living in the human body.
After months of exploration, people finally confirmed that the sea ghost algae is very difficult to deal with. In terms of attack power alone, it is roughly equivalent to the late stage of Qi training. If the seaweed produced by it is included, it is probably equivalent to the perfection of Qi training.
But whether it is the late stage of Qi training or the perfect Qi training, it is not something that ordinary fishermen and farmers can stop.
The way to kill them is to cut open their human bodies and take out a strange seed. Once this type of algae leaves the water, its activity will be greatly reduced, and it will no longer be able to explode so much seaweed to attack others. Simply destroy the seed, or take it out of the water long enough to kill it completely.
…
Three months later, a large number of Lingxian Palace disciples entered Biyou Island. The number is so large that there are ten thousand people.
All of a sudden, the market on Biyou Island was rekindled, and bosses from all walks of life almost cried with joy. However, the insect farm is an exception.
Zhang Liang and the others had a headache. Unlike the fishermen and farmers, the Lingxian Palace disciples had money and were willing to spend money. Know that some money should be spent and some money should not be spent.
Therefore, they bought spirit insects in large quantities as soon as they arrived.
The daily shipments of spiritual insects from the three major insect farms and the seven small insect farms are simply not enough.
The disciples of Lingxian Palace are not fishermen and farmers, and they dare not challenge the three major insect farms. They had only been here for seven or eight days, and they went directly to the insect farms to exchange, asking the three major insect farms to increase the supply of spiritual insects.
There was no other way, and people's hearts could not be violated. The shipment volume of first-level and low-grade spiritual insects in the three major insect farms had to be doubled. However, the three major insect farms have not yet recovered, so even if the supply of spiritual insects is doubled, it will not be as good as the supply before Yao Zhen arrived.
In the end, out of desperation, Lingxian Tower came forward to resolve the matter.
In the following months, outside Biyou Island, the situation in Xianhai remained tense. Although a large number of ghost fish are hunted every day, disciples of Lingxian Palace also die almost every day.
On average, three to five people die a day, which is normal.
Fortunately, due to the arrival of the Lingxian Palace disciples, Biyou Island briefly returned to normal, and the original ban on leaving the island was temporarily lifted.
Zhang Liang was in a hurry and went to the sixth appointment at Pinxian Pavilion, once again saving four or five years of practice time.
It's a pity that even though Zhang Liang has been practicing hard in the past few years, even with the blessing of dual cultivation, even with the assistance of high-grade spiritual stones, the ninth level of Qi training has still not reached its peak.
Zhang Liang estimated that the main reason was that the ninth level of Qi training was perfected, which was a process in which quantitative changes led to qualitative changes. The amount of Qi Hai in his body is not enough.
Moreover, the sea of qi is limited by the meridians, and the meridians are affected by the spiritual channels. The total amount of Zhang Liang's sea of qi is not enough, and it takes a lot of time to accumulate.
However, Zhang Liang is not a dissatisfied person. Without the assistance of dual cultivation methods and high-grade spiritual stones, he would have to rely solely on his sixth-level mid-grade spiritual veins to cultivate. Maybe they may not be able to advance to the ninth level of Qi training when they are 80 years old, but now I am only 38 years old, which is already quite good.
If he waits a few more years to practice dual cultivation with Wu Xianxian, it should be possible to reach the peak of Qi training before the age of 40.
However, the good times did not last long. It had only been more than a year since Lingxian Palace disciples entered the island, and thousands of them died.
This is the Lingxian Island family. If Qingshan Island and Huangyu Island are included, the number of people who died can reach more than 3,000. Even if Lingxian Palace has millions of disciples, it still needs people on thousands of islands.
Therefore, the senior officials of Lingxian Palace could no longer sit still.
In Zhang Liang's 19th year of staying on Biyou Island, he was finally assigned a task by Lingxian Palace.
this day.
Zhang Liang was practicing at the Black Wind Insect Field when he suddenly felt that someone was touching the clouds ten miles away, so he immediately stopped practicing. Tens of breaths later, Rao Yaoyao was already standing in his courtyard.
Zhang Liang quickly saluted: "Disciple has met Master Uncle Rao."
Rao Yaoyao looked Zhang Liang up and down and said calmly: "You still haven't been able to break through the ninth level of Qi training?"
Zhang Liang pretended to be embarrassed: "Master uncle, disciple... I have tried my best, but the ninth level of Qi training is the accumulation of quantity, and the disciple only has a middle-grade sixth-level spiritual root, so it is really beyond his capabilities."
Rao Yaoyao sighed slightly: "Lin Rong's spiritual roots are a little better than yours, but she has not been able to reach the ninth level of Qi training before the age of 40, so she is a bit eager. If you want to build the foundation, it is best to arrive before the age of 50. The limit for perfecting Qi training is 60 years old at the latest. Otherwise, once this age is passed, the body's functions will decline. Even if Qi training is completed later, there will be a situation where the strength is insufficient when building the foundation. .”
"Disciples will work hard."
At present, although Zhang Liang has worked under Rao Yaoyao for many years, he has not seen Rao Yaoyao many times. However, leaving aside the matter of Lei Heng, this woman is pretty good to her own people.
If possible, Zhang Liang wouldn't mind continuing to work under her for another ten or twenty years.
However, her arrival today made Zhang Liang realize that trouble was coming.
Sure enough, I heard Rao Yaoyao say: "Those who work hard or not, just survive this time first! Take me to the insect farm for a walk." biqupai.
"Yes, uncle."
After a while, Rao Yaoyao was in front, Zhang Liang was behind, Yang Xun, Yang Xue and a group of insect farmers from the Black Wind Insect Farm all followed the two men with their heads lowered.
Rao Yaoyao: "What's the situation with the spiritual insects in the field? Including the ones you raised privately."
Zhang Liang was stunned and said immediately: "Uncle Master, currently, there are 43 second-order jasper cockroaches in the field, more than 8,600 first-order high-grade cockroaches, less than 20,000 first-order medium-grade cockroaches, and less than 100,000 first-order low-grade cockroaches. There were 19 second-level spiritual blood ants, more than 3,400 first-level high-level ants, more than 23,000 first-level mid-level ants, and nearly 100,000 first-level low-level ants. Because the jasper cockroaches were mainly sold to the outside world, they were previously taken by senior Yao Zhen. More than 100,000 were used, and the demand from Lingxian Palace disciples was high, so the quantity of jasper cockroaches could not increase. As for the spiritual blood ants, the disciples did not easily sell them to outsiders, so over time, the number of high-level spiritual blood ants accumulated That’s why there are so many. But…”
"explain."
Zhang Liangdao: "But the disciple promised Luo Sanpang of Sansha Insect Farm and Fu Lan of Biyou Insect Farm before that he would exchange spiritual blood ants with them for spiritual worms to protect themselves. If the master does not agree, the disciple can go Discuss it with them."
"No, since you are willing to exchange with them, then let's do it!"
After a pause, Rao Yaoyao said: "In general, it's pretty good. But you haven't been able to increase the number of spirit-blooded ants for so many years. Are you sure you want to continue raising them?"
Rao Yaoyao has a different view than others. Although the number of spirit blood ants reported by Zhang Liang is indeed quite large, this is the result of not selling them to the outside world for many years.
But the Jasper Cockroach is different. The Batu Insect Farm’s main livelihood depends on the Jasper Cockroach. Even in this case, the number of jasper cockroaches is almost the same as that of blood ants, which shows that Zhang Liang really raises jasper cockroaches very well.
Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and said: "Uncle Master, regarding the cultivation of spiritual blood ants, this disciple has been exploring for many years. If we can continue, we will surely reach new heights in the future."
"Okay, I don't mean to blame you. Under your management, this black wind insect farm has become many times stronger than it was back then. I can see it. However, if you still want to build a foundation in this life, then after this incident , it’s best to leave the matter of raising insects alone.”
"Yes, uncle."
Zhang Liang was a little surprised. Rao Yaoyao actually cared more about his own foundation building?
Ordinarily, if he really builds a foundation, he can be treated as her equal, and most likely he will no longer be under her jurisdiction and control. Without exploiting such an excellent insect controller, she actually wanted her to build a foundation?
At this moment, Rao Yaoyao had already finished watching the insect farm. He waved his hand to tell Yang Xun and others to leave, and then said, "Have you trained a successor in these years?"
Zhang Liang: "Uncle, not yet. The main reason is that the insect farmers in the field have not had any particularly good seedlings among the mortal families, or some people are not suitable for raising insects. But there are also constant changes in the field. The number of insect farmers in the entire Black Wind Insect Farm has reached 600. Except that they cannot cultivate second-level spiritual insects, they are only capable of cultivating first-level high-grade spiritual insects."
"But without you, the numbers will drop significantly, right?"
This time Zhang Liang only laughed twice, which was regarded as acquiescence.
In recent years, he has indeed been busy with his own cultivation and has not cultivated a so-called successor. If he really wants to leave, the glory of the Black Wind Insect Farm will last for more than ten years at most, and then it will decline sharply, unless there is a new owner to take over.
Rao Yaoyao didn't ask any more questions, and finally said: "Three months. After three months, you will be recruited to participate in the exploration of the ancient secret realm outside Biyou Island. It is a task assigned by the sect personally, and you happen to be from Biyou Island." The owner of the insect farm, so it cannot be violated."
Although Zhang Liang had expected this day, he couldn't help but take a breath: "Yes, disciple understands."
Rao Yaoyao said: "After this incident, if you can survive, I will reward you with a first-level top-notch skill. In addition, I will live in Sunflower Mountain during this period. If anything happens, you can come to me."
"Yes, uncle."
…
Zhang Liang is not surprised that Rao Yaoyao will stay. After all, Biyou Island belongs to her. As long as it is not occupied by others, if something happens here, she has the obligation to take action.
Zhang Liang didn't know why Rao Yaoyao didn't come last time, but this time, Rao Yaoyao couldn't escape either.
One month later.
A big event caused a stir in Biyou Island. It was said that a small whale ship passed by Biyou Island. About an hour after leaving Biyou Port, there was a request for help. However, by the time the foundation construction overhaul arrived, the small whale ship had already sunk. The sea was all filled with seaweed, and there was no one on the boat.
As soon as this incident came out, people in Biyou Island were panicked.
Subsequently, Biyou Island, Qingshan Island, and Huangyu Island were closed one after another, prohibiting all contact with the outside world.
Two months later.
Several giant whale fairy ships arrived at Biyou Island, Qingshan Island and Huangyu Island respectively. There are thousands of insect controllers on each ship.
When these insect masters came to Biyou Island, Zhang Liang, Luo Sanpang, and Fu Lan were also summoned by Rao Yaoyao.
now.
In Biyou Insect Field, Rao Yaoyao and Yao Zhen, who failed in their last mission, stood in front of a thousand insect masters.
Just listen to Yao Zhen saying: "Everyone, I don't care whether you came here of your own free will. You have probably heard about the situation on Biyou Island. Yes, the real purpose of our coming here is to eliminate the sudden appearance of There are ghost fish and sea ghost algae in this sea area. At the same time, after clearing this area, we will enter an ancient secret realm. Among them, those with abundant opportunities, good luck, and great contributions can become inner disciples of Lingxian Palace, and even The foundation building is promising. In the next month, your only mission is to go out to sea and go deep into the sea to clear out the ghost fish and sea ghost algae with spiritual insects."
After saying that, Yao Zhen looked at Rao Yaoyao: "Junior sister Rao, can you say a few words?"
Rao Yaoyao nodded slightly and said in a cold voice to everyone: "The road to immortality is bleak. The ancient secret realm here is both dangerous and opportunity. If we want to build a foundation and go further and further on the road of cultivating immortals, we have to fight hard. Human Race Billions of millions, most of them in just a few hundred years, mortals cannot see the vastness of the heaven and earth, nor the boundlessness of the sea. Now that you have embarked on the path of immortality, you know that this way is to compete with heaven for your destiny. If you win, the road ahead will be broad. If you lose, you will hide. Immortal Sea. Now that you are here, you have no choice. Since you have no choice, then do your best to the best of your ability..."
Yao Zhen and Rao Yaoyao, after brainwashing everyone, finally said: "Starting from tomorrow, all fishermen and farmers on Biyou Island will collectively stop going out, and this sea area will completely belong to you. Thousands of you will collectively enter the sea, Go out to sea during the day and return at night. Until the ghost fish and sea ghost algae outside Biyou Island are eliminated. By the way, the harvested ghost fish and sea ghost algae can be exchanged for sect contribution. If the ranking is quite good, you can finally win this time If you survive the mission, you will most likely be promoted to an inner disciple."
in the crowd.
Zhang Liang's expression was calm. He didn't care whether he was an inner sect or not.
He would rather practice on Biyou Island for another twenty years.
However, he knew it was impossible, and it was indeed time for him to build the foundation.
Zhang Liang will never believe in unprovoked coincidences. The Black Fish Department has not even conquered the coral reefs thousands of miles away. Under the protection of the Black Ancestor, it is simply unbelievably safe.
The Black Fish Wise Man didn't even tell himself the specific route to leave the Thousand Miles Coral Reef before he built the foundation. Unless you blindly enter the four dangerous areas, you are destined to be in no danger on the Thousand Miles Coral Reef.
But the world of cultivating immortals is different. There are dangers everywhere here. Now it coincides with the disaster on Biyou Island, and it happens that my strength in the late third level of body refining is almost unstoppable, so it is almost destined that I will build a foundation in this incident.
That night.
Black Wind Insect Farm.
Luo Sanpang and Fu Lan arrived hand in hand.
The two of them came in exchange for spirit blood ants. Luo Sanpang used 2,500 first-grade high-grade tiger-spotted centipedes in exchange for 500 first-grade high-grade spiritual blood ants.
Fu Lan used 2,500 fibrous sea spiders and also exchanged them for 500 spirit blood ants.
It's not that they don't want to exchange more, but Zhang Liang's exchange requirements are too high. And the first-order high-grade spiritual insects are relatively precious, and they don't want to lose another layer of protection in order to exchange for spiritual blood ants.
After the three met to meet again the next day, Zhang Liang took a demon elixir from a second-level ferocious beast. Late at night, the energy and blood in the owner's mansion shook. In just one hour, Zhang Liang broke through to the peak of the third level of body refining.
The peak is the limit. Once you reach the limit, you can go one step further and reach the fourth level of body refining, which is the so-called physical foundation building.
The next day.
Biyou Port.
Zhang Liang, Luo Sanpang and Fu Lan went to sea together with a thousand insect masters and formed an alliance to go together.
Not only them, most of the insect masters formed alliances in twos and threes and entered the sea. Otherwise, it would be okay to face the ghost fish school alone, but if you are not careful with the Shanghai ghost algae, you will be in a situation of no return.
On this day, outside Biyou Island, spiritual insects were all over the sea. According to incomplete statistics, the number of spiritual insects carried by the insect masters on Biyou Island alone exceeded 50 million.
What kind of concept is this? Assuming that 50 million spiritual insects really push out, there is no way that any living thing in this sea can stop them.
Of course, although everyone carries many spiritual insects, no one can control tens of thousands of spiritual insects at the same time. Even though Zhang Liang had practiced Spirit Insect Introduction Part 1, he could only barely control the spirit insects that numbered more than 10,000.
Most of the insect control masters who can come here to participate in this mission are not bad, so the number of spiritual insects controlled by everyone is also very different.
Therefore, with insect masters like them, they can release up to 10 million spiritual insects at the same time, which is quite impressive.
This day seemed to be the end of the ghost fish. It was driven by thousands of serious spiritual insects. God knows how many ghost fish died on this day.
Of course, there can't be only ghost fish in the fairy sea, there will also be a large number of other ferocious beasts. Therefore, insect masters not only have to kill ghost fish, but also face other ferocious beasts.
To be honest, Zhang Liang and the others only hunted four waves of small ghost fish on the first day, but they were attacked by more than a hundred ordinary beasts and did not encounter sea ghost algae.
It's not a coincidence, but the sea ghost algae was probably killed by another team of insect masters.
In the evening, when everyone returned to the island, only one person died. Even Zhang Liang had to marvel at how powerful the insect masters were when they united to fight.
However, as we go deeper and deeper into the Immortal Sea, more and more people begin to die.
After all, there are only a thousand insect masters, and the outer sea area is vast. The three islands of Biyou, Qingshan, and Huangyu are two to three thousand miles apart. If a thousand people enter, they will disappear in the blink of an eye, just like a handful of beans thrown into the sea.
A few days ago, Zhang Liang and the others met with other teams dozens of times a day. After half a month, they only met with other teams once every half a day.
After a month, the number of thousands of insect control masters was quietly reduced to less than 903 people.
Although it seems that there is not much attrition, these people are not ordinary fishermen and farmers, but insect control masters in the late stage of Qi training. Everyone is the kind of powerful character who can control tens of thousands of spiritual insects.
Three months later. Five hundred miles away from the coast, the number of ghost fish decreased significantly, and the number of insect masters on Biyou Island fell to 298. There were no corpses, but the life monument was broken.
Three months later.
Everyone received a map. On the map, the locations of Biyou Island, Qingshan Island and Huangyu Island were marked, as well as a red dot marked area between the three islands.
The mission given to everyone by Rao Yaoyao and Yao Zhen is that all insect controllers should advance collectively to reach the red dot and hold on for one day.
At this point, Zhang Liang knew that the real highlight was coming.
At midnight, everyone spent the night on the sea. Then they went deep into the Immortal Sea, but after they entered the 800-mile deep sea, a large number of ghost fish appeared, and their number could be estimated to be tens of thousands.
The most terrifying thing here is not the ghost fish, but the sea ghost algae. There are too many seaweeds here, almost turning the seabed into a seaweed jungle.
Although tens of millions of spiritual insects are advancing all the way, their progress is slow.
However, at least the places where the insect master walked along the way were basically eaten through, and the sea ghost algae had no way to resist the spiritual insects.
From the morning until the next morning, when there were only about 620 insect masters left, the team of insect masters on Biyou Island finally arrived outside the so-called ancient secret realm.
In addition to them, the insect masters from Qingshan Island and Huangyu Island also arrived at about the same time.
I saw.
It was a collapsed seabed, about seven or eight miles in length and width.
From that entrance, seeds would spurt out from time to time and grow wildly, turning into large seaweeds, as if they were conscious and wanted to stretch out in all directions.
The initial seeds have not grown into sea ghost algae and are not difficult to deal with, so how can they withstand the siege of so many insect controllers?
At the entrance of the secret realm, while there were seeds trying to float out, there were also a large number of ghost fish trying to come in outside the mysterious entrance, but they were also blocked by the insect masters.
At this point, a battle between fish and insects has officially begun.
This is what Rao Yaoyao said about holding on for a day, because they had long known that such a pattern would be formed at the entrance.
Zhang Liang and three others were guarding one place. In front of them was a barrier of sea of insects with a thickness of more than 300 meters. Outside the insect sea barrier, there is a dense swarm of ghost fish, trying to break through the insect sea barrier and enter the mysterious entrance.
"Why do I feel weird?"
Luo Sanpang looked back from time to time, looking at the entrance of the huge pit, and couldn't help but speak.
Zhang Liang said, do you still want to say this? The World God Mirror has been trembling slightly since it arrived here, and it hasn't stopped, so he only knew that something was wrong here.
Fu Lan: "I don't know how many ghost fish schools there are. If there are millions of them, even if we are insect masters, we can't stop them!"
Zhang Liang has also thought about Fu Lan's problem, but he doesn't think that the number of ghost fish will really be endless.
Ghost fish just appeared in the past few years, and then became more and more common. But even if this fish can give birth to babies, this is the Immortal Sea, and based on its strength, why did he have so many advanced ghost fish appear in just a few years? Or does it mean that the ghost fish has already entered the level as soon as it is born, when it is still a small fry?
Zhang Liang didn’t believe it anyway.
He believed that since ghost fish couldn't grow that fast, there must be other ways to grow. And this is the reason why the ghost fish want to return to the entrance of this deep pit. They want to obtain some kind of power from this secret realm to accelerate their growth or reproduction.
As for those sea ghost algae, since they appear in the form of seeds, there must be a mother body, right? Zhang Liang didn't believe that seeds would appear for no reason.
Therefore, the root of everything is actually in this secret realm. As long as something in this secret realm can be destroyed, the continuous birth of ghost fish and sea ghost algae should be curbed.
As for why they had to fight in the Immortal Sea for three months before letting them stay here for one day, Zhang Liang felt that eliminating ghost fish was only one aspect, reducing the number of ghost fish and sea ghost algae in a short period of time, and keeping the The entrance, preventing ghost fish from swimming back, is the real purpose of these foundation building overhauls.
Sure enough, Zhang Liang and his insect masters had just surrounded these ancient secret realms and blocked the migratory ghost fish, when a huge shadow appeared on the bottom of the sea.
Anyone who is afraid of the abyss will be shocked at this moment. This giant shadow is so huge that it can almost swallow this secret pit in one mouthful.
Fortunately, the huge shadow came very quickly. When everyone took a closer look, they realized that it was a giant whale fairy ship using the whale swimming state.
"咻咻咻~"
I saw one figure after another, all disciples of Lingxian Palace, controlling flying swords one after another, flying wildly across the seabed, quickly getting off the giant whale fairy ship, and rushing towards the entrance of the secret realm.
At this time, all the major foundations spoke one after another: "All insect control masters, stay outside the secret realm for a day, and wait for us to rescue the dangers in the secret realm. The crisis here can be solved."
