I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 1022: Chapter 560 Mother Locust Chapter 1022: Chapter 560 Mother Locust Three streams of Spiritual Light flickered, all of them charging out of the pavilion at the same time, racing toward the location of the demonic qi’s eruption.

Among them, a crimson streak of flames moved the fastest, leaving several afterimages in the void and quickly outpacing the other two.

Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji, watching Chen Mobai’s retreating figure as he used Earth Departing Flame Light Escape, couldn’t help but show shocked expressions on their faces.

They were already moving at the fastest escaping speed under normal circumstances, yet two Cultivators in the late stage of Core Formation couldn’t keep up with someone who had just reached Core Formation!

Chen Mobai quickly arrived at the site of the demonic qi’s outburst, and looking down, he saw a pitch-black fissure that had cracked open in the center of the earth, with demonic qi bursting forth from it.

A locust monster beast, half the size of a person and covered in a intermixed grayish-green hue, suddenly burst from the ground and charged towards a group of Cultivators holding Array Flags, who were trying to seal the fissure.

In the midst of the overwhelming demonic qi, the earthy glow burgeoning from the Array Flags was as fragile as yellow paper, instantly torn apart by the formidable monster beast.

“Not good!”

The leading female Foundation Establishment Cultivator saw this scene and her face changed dramatically, quickly pulling out a bright yellow talisman from her Storage Bag.

But by the time she activated it, it was already too late, the tremendously powerful locust monster beast had reached her face, opening its sawtooth-like maw and fiercely biting down.

“Vile creature, how dare you harm someone in my presence!”

A clear voice sounded. Before its echoes reached the ears of the people below, a blaze of brilliant golden flames had descended from the sky, appearing like a golden flaming sword, piercing through a grey haze of demonic light and cleaving the half-human-sized locust in two.

Immediately, a scorched stench spread, along with a scream, the locust monster beast, far beyond Rank-2, was already aflame, turned into a pile of ash, scattering on both sides of the earth’s fissure.

“Sect Master Chen, what excellent swordsmanship!”

Two rays of Escaping Light flew over, none other than Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji. They were half a step too late, but arrived just in time to witness Chen Mobai’s display of divine might, the Flame Sun Slash annihilated a near-Rank-3 locust monster beast in an instant.

One should know that these Earth Spirit Locusts, besides being ferocious, had shells that had absorbed Earth Spirit Qi year after year, and after being tempered by earthfire, were incredibly hard, with typical Rank-3 methods being unable to break their defense.

Yet Chen Mobai’s single move of Flame Sun Slash turned it to ash with ease, truly living up to his reputation as a top-tier Sword Cultivator.

“Master, there is a Rank-3 Mother Locust underground!”

At that moment, the female Foundation Establishment Practitioner Chen Mobai had saved shouted out to Yu Shuji.

“The Mother Locust!”

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji’s expressions shifted slightly.

And at that moment, more and more fierce demonic qi surged up from the depths of the earth.

Bits of dark red light began to shine deep within the fissure, unsettlingly eerie. Chen Mobai, with his Void Spirit Eye activated, had already seen everything clearly.

He saw countless locusts emerge, each the size of a head, extending their claws out and clinging to the rocky walls of the underground, densely packed and innumerable.

The dark red lights were their eyes.

Looking deeper down with the Void Spirit Eye, in the deepest part of the fissure, at the center of these teeming locusts was an enormous, jade-colored Mother Locust, nearly the size of a human.

The powerful demonic qi they had felt earlier was emanating from it.

“Kill it, and these locusts will become rootless,” said Yan Shaoyin, as he and Yu Shuji each showed their might, illuminating this fissure that had opened in the earth, and upon seeing the Mother Locust, they were filled with a murderous intent.

Locusts can wreak havoc primarily because the Mother Locust, after absorbing sufficient nourishment, can produce offspring continuously.

Eliminating this source would mean that even if the remaining locusts were numerous, the Cultivators could gradually exterminate them with their methods.

This was one piece of experience gained from the struggle between Cultivators and locusts over thousands of years.

After this declaration, Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji did not hesitate to take out their respective Magic Artifacts from their Storage Bags.

A Banana-leaf Fan and a Sickle.

Yan Shaoyin spat out a golden red light, his Earth-Core True Fire which he had bitterly cultivated for many years. This fire was pivotal in melting medicinal properties and synthesizing elixirs, and had already reached a grand completion of Rank-3.

As soon as the Earth-Core True Fire was released and fanned by the Banana-leaf Fan, it roared like a fire cascade in the sky, resembling a flaming waterfall, plunging directly into the earth’s fissure towards the Mother Locust.

Faced with this dire threat, the swarm of locusts descended into a frenzy.

Their dark red eyes flickered with an even more ferocious glint, releasing waves of demonic qi within their bodies, forming a monster barrier above the Mother Locust to shield her.

In the midst of the sizzling noise, the Earth-Core True Fire touched the death-defying swarm of locusts and immediately detonated in a violent explosion, the intense flames burning fiercely as the air once again filled with the stench of scorching.

Though these locusts were only Rank-1 or Rank-2, they were vast in number and fought without fear of death, endlessly flying out from the dark depths to fortify their fleshly barrier.

As more Earth Elemental Monster Energy accumulated, the descent of Yan Shaoyin’s Earth-Core True Fire was actually thwarted.

“Sect Master Chen, these monsters have an Earth Attribute and can draw upon the elemental energy of flames to grow. Only attacks with a Wood Attribute are most effective against them; which I happen to wield. Please back me up!” Yu Shuji spoke, his voice steady as he channeled his Spiritual Power into the cold, gleaming sickle in his hand.

Strands of grass-green light spilled out from the snow-white blade, and as Chen Mobai fixed his gaze upon it, he could sense the sharp edge and involuntarily squinted his eyes.

Two locusts, similar in size to the one Chen Mobai had just annihilated with his Golden Flames, suddenly broke through the ongoing Earth-Core True Fire, brandishing their sharp limbs and gaping saw-like mouths. They appeared like mounds of tawny rocks hurtling towards Yu Shuji.

Within the flickering of two pale green lights, the fresh blood of the azure demonic beast, tinged with blue, already splattered across the sky.

Yu Shuji also easily cut down the locust monster beast.

Chen Mobai glanced over and saw that when his two blades touched the locust’s grey monster energy, it suddenly scattered apart.

This was exactly the case of wood overcoming earth; the locust’s earth elemental monster energy could only rely on the thickness and hardness of its shell to resist when facing Yu Shuji’s sickle-shaped magic artifact.

But clearly, this magic artifact was also top-notch Rank-3, slicing with an incomparably sharp glow. The two nearly Rank-3 locust monster beasts simply couldn’t block it.

“Master Yu, I’m going to strike with one sword, get ready!”

Seeing this, Chen Mobai was happy to play a supporting role, laughing as he grabbed a handful of golden flames in his hand.

“One sword strike?”

Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji next to him hadn’t reacted to what that meant, when they suddenly saw a golden radiance shooting out from Chen Mobai’s palm like flowing water.

In an instant, the Flame Sun Slash cut through the Earth-Core True Fire, then melted the thick blood-flesh barrier in front of the Mother Locust, followed by puffs of ash and the odor of scorched flesh. The momentum didn’t stop there; it plunged straight towards the massive head of the locust.

A piercingly sharp sonic boom.

A burst of yellow-jade monster energy exploded, forming a ring that covered the Mother Locust’s head, timely blocking the residual wave of the Flame Sun Slash.

But the vast explosive power of the fire still managed to wipe out the low-ranking locusts surrounding the Mother Locust.

The golden flames, like shockwaves, spread out in every direction after being blocked by the earth-yellow ring. Wherever they passed, soil and rock melted into magma, locusts turned to ash.

Only the Mother Locust at the center, relying on its abundant and formidable earth elemental monster energy, withstood it.

“Clearing the field is complete, Master Yu, please make your move.”

As Chen Mobai’s laughter followed, Yu Shuji glanced at the only locust, the Mother, scurrying back and forth agitatedly in the scorching magma below and couldn’t help but swallow hard.

The power of the Flame Sun Slash truly was formidable!

As this thought flashed through his mind, Yu Shuji’s hand movements were not the slightest bit slow. The pale green glow on his shiny sickle had risen to the extreme. Accompanied by a downward swing, a crescent moon-like cold light slashed down, landing upon the Mother Locust’s head.

Bang!

The yellow-jade ring held for two breaths before shattering.

Carrying eighty percent of its might, the crescent moon cold light sliced into the neck of the Mother Locust.

Just when everyone thought this Rank-3 monster beast was about to be killed, a fiery red stream of light ignited on its greenish-yellow shell, forming a bizarrely alluring pattern, like an ancient divine skill, bursting forth with sudden violence.

Yu Shuji’s crescent moon cold light merely opened a wound on the neck of the Mother Locust before it was scattered by the fire red patterns on its shell, dissipating into nothing.

“To think it’s a Mother Locust with dual earth-fire attributes, that complicates things,” murmured Yan Shaoyin upon witnessing this. After hearing this, Chen Mobai’s brow furrowed.

Chen Mobai: “What is so formidable about these dual earth-fire attributes?”

Yu Shuji: “Because it has mastered the fire attribute, attacks of the wood attribute can no longer restrain it. If there was a fellow practitioner here who cultivated water attribute cultivation techniques, even better if it’s the ice attribute!”

Yan Shaoyin: “Too bad Master Kong is not here.”

With dual earth-fire attributes, in the cycle of the Five Elements, water spiritual power is what restrains it most.

Ice spiritual power, as a sublimation of water spiritual power, is even more suitable. It was for this reason that the alliance which ventured into the Eastern Wilderness had invited practitioners from the Ice Snow Country to participate.

“Apart from Kong Lingling, there’s no other way?” Chen Mobai asked once more.

“This Mother Locust appears to be a mutant; its monster energy is as abundant as mine. If it uses the advantage of terrain to defend, the three of us might need to exhaust its monster energy over forty-nine days,” explained Yu Shuji.

“We should first set up a formation to suppress it and then have both Daoist brothers stay here to watch over it, while I go request Master Kong to come and lend a hand,” Yan Shaoyin proposed his method.

“I’ve just come from Snow Country and I had an exchange with Master Kong. She’s at a critical juncture in her cultivation technique practice and cannot move, Master Yan, even if you go, she’ll be powerless to help,” shook his head Chen Mobai, speaking a sentence that made Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji look at each other in dismay.

“How about we go to Wind Rain Hamlet and ask True Person Nu Jiang for help? I believe he would grant this favor if it’s to eliminate the Mother Locust,” Yan Shaoyin proposed another method.

“The responsibility of Wind Rain Hamlet to suppress the Cloud Dream Marsh is even greater!”

Chen Mobai shook his head once again.

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji felt that he was right and couldn’t help but sigh.

“It seems we’ll just have to tough it out and sit here for forty-nine days.”

Just as Yan Shaoyin sat cross-legged, ready for a protracted struggle, Chen Mobai stepped forward and stepped into the fissure.

“Sect Master Chen…”

Yan Shaoyin and Yu Shuji called out, only to see him reach out and spread his five fingers towards the empty sky.

Sizzle crack!

Amidst the roaring thunder, a longsword, shining with a purple radiance, descended from the void into his hand!