Yang Junshan's first reaction was that a demon insect appeared in this giant locust!
Only demonized giant locusts can know how to let adults raise larvae, and the countless giant locusts in the valley cannot all be demonized, then there must be a demonized insect king in this giant locust.
The insect king controlled the giant locusts in the entire valley, restraining them from rushing out of the valley, and at the same time ordered the adults to collect branches and leaves from the surrounding mountains and forests for the larvae to gnaw.
Yang Junshan can imagine that once all the giant locusts in this valley grow into adults, then just wait for the insect king to give an order, countless giant locusts will rush out of the valley overwhelmingly and out of Quwu Mountain.
Yang Junshan went around all the way along the woods on the edge of the valley, while paying close attention to the movements of the giant locusts in the valley, trying to find out the insect king hidden in it, but the giant locusts in the valley were densely packed, even if the size of the insect king might be larger than the rest of the giant locusts, perhaps because of the demonization and some characteristics that were obviously different from other giant locusts, but it was difficult to find them out of them.
Yang Junshan sneaked along the edge of the valley, and at the same time quietly killed several giant locusts that flew into the woods to feed, and then preserved the giant locust corpses and put them in his waist bag.
However, when Yang Junshan walked towards the woods on the hillside on the south side of the valley, he found that the number of giant locusts flying to this forest was getting smaller and smaller, and the further south he went, the fewer the number of giant locusts flew to, and at the same time, the pungent smell that permeated the woods became stronger and stronger.
At this time, Yang Junshan found that this forest was covered with a layer of yellowish-brown dust, whether it was on the ground or on the leaves and branches.
Carefully put a dusty leaf on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, the smell that was far more pungent than the one permeating the woods went straight to his mind, causing Yang Junshan to still sneeze.
Moreover, Yang Junshan also found that these yellow-brown dusts had strong adhesion, and after falling on the leaves, no matter how he shook them, they never fell, and even if he blew them with his mouth, he couldn't blow them away.
This is definitely someone deliberately doing this, these pungent smelling medicine dust blocked the giant locusts in the valley from foraging south, and once the locust plague broke out in the future, I am afraid that they would instinctively avoid the south direction and sweep all north, which is probably also the reason why the locust plague in the previous life swept through half of Yu County soon after the outbreak from Quwu Mountain, while Zhang County suffered extremely limited damage.
The disaster of the giant locust turned out to be both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster!
Yang Junshan was almost sure that these people who sowed medicinal powder must be the same group as the people who bought Spirit Valley in Huangshan Town, but the giant locust plague swept through half of Yu County, and the insect swarm in the valley in front of him alone was obviously far from enough, which means that I don't know how many similar swarms there are in the entire Quwu Mountain.
And the Zhang County forces that Yang Junshan knew about with the wolf's head probably did not have the power to monitor so many swarms at all, which means that if they wanted to control the entire Quwu Mountain giant locust swarm, at least multiple forces in Zhang County would need to act together.
Yang Junshan, who was sneaking, suddenly stopped, the whole person was hiding behind a giant tree, just on the way he had been moving forward, there was a clever early warning trap arranged there, if it weren't for Yang Junshan himself being an old and spicy mountain hunter, he wouldn't have been able to detect this trap at all, and as long as he touched it a little, I was afraid that he would be discovered by someone hiding secretly.
The early warning trap appeared, which also meant that the station of this group of monitoring insect cultivators should be nearby, but I don't know if this group of people has been led to the north by him to chase after them, or if there are still people left behind.
Yang Junshan carefully bypassed the early warning trap and continued to move forward, during which he discovered two more early warning arrangements in a row, a small open area appeared in front of his eyes, and in the center of the open ground was a house made of logs half buried underground.
There was silence all around, and he couldn't see anyone here, but Yang Junshan still didn't dare to be careless, holding the two talismans captured from Junior Brother Cheng in his hand, and at the same time put the rune pattern dagger in a place where he could easily pull it out, and slowly approached the wooden house.
Judging from Yang Junshan's experience, this camp should have at least six or seven monks temporarily stationed, and these people had just left, judging from what was left of the camp, these people obviously left in a very hurry, and from the mouth of the dead Senior Brother Ma, it was known that this camp should be headed by that Senior Brother Zhao, and this person should be a martial realm cultivator without a doubt.
Gently opening the door of the wooden house, and finally confirming that there was no one in this camp, and there were no traps left, Yang Junshan finally felt relieved and began to search this camp carefully.
In addition to about 500 pounds of spiritual valley, there were also some leftover pickled meats and barbecues, among which Yang Junshan could even distinguish the meat of two or three kinds of fierce beasts, which should have been hunted from Quwu Mountain, but he didn't know if they had harvested the fairies.
Yang Junshan also found a spirit bucket more than a foot high and a spirit box one foot wide and half a foot thick in a corner.
After opening the spirit sealing bucket, a strong bloody aura emanated from the bucket, inside was half a bucket of plasma that would not solidify after being sealed spirit treatment, these plasma were all the blood of fierce beasts, and mortal realm monks could use them to write talismans, which could save a lot of spiritual power.
And the spirit sealing box contained tanned beast skin, which was neatly divided into more than twenty pieces, and these beast skins were used as talisman paper for making talismans, which could keep the spiritual power in the talisman intact for a long time, and the power would not decrease.
The spirit sealing bucket is too big and inconvenient to carry, but the more than twenty pieces of beast leather and the spirit sealing box Yang Junshan is not welcome.
In addition, there were quite a lot of medicinal materials dried in the open areas around the camp, which should also have been collected by the monks stationed here in Quwu Mountain in their spare time, although most of them were ordinary herbs, but fortunately, the year was full of medicinal power, and most of them would be used as auxiliary medicinal materials when refining medicine pills, which shows that the monks who collected these medicinal materials have studied this considerably.
If the monks in the camp are only proficient in herbs, then Yang Junshan himself was an alchemist in his previous life, although he was not as talented as an alchemist, but the more than ten pill formulas recorded in his mind were naturally more familiar with the selection of these medicinal materials, and the herbs selected from these dried herbs were also more valuable.
After searching the camp completely, Yang Junshan found a hidden earthen kiln behind the wooden house, and after opening the earthen kiln, a strong pungent smell came to his face, and Yang Junshan's question in the woods was exactly the same, but it was even more pungent.
Yang Junshan walked into the earthen kiln, which had a stone platform with a lot of bottles and cans placed on it, as well as a lot of ground powder of various colors in different bowls, in addition to an open porcelain jar about a foot high, which poured a lot of the powder in the bowl, and a pottery stick seemed to be stirring inside.
There were two pockets under the stone platform, each bag weighing about twenty or thirty pounds, Yang Junshan opened it and saw that the yellow-brown powder contained inside was exactly the same as the medicinal powder thrown in the woods.
Yang Junshan immediately understood that the medicinal powder used by this group to block the giant locusts from going south to Zhang County was not only prepared on the spot, but the raw materials for preparing these medicinal powders should be herbs collected from Quwu Mountain, no wonder this small camp is full of dried medicinal materials, it seems that the prescription for preparing the medicinal powder is those herbs that have been picked, but the specific preparation process Yang Junshan still does not know.
Looking at the medicinal powder in the dozens of bottles and cans in front of him, Yang Junshan couldn't deduce the specific prescription of the medicinal powder through these things at all, so he had no choice but to carry a bag of medicinal powder under the stone platform on his back and prepare to take it back to Wasteland Town.
Before leaving, Yang Junshan lit the cabin with a fire, and then quickly circled along the west side of the valley to the north end, but when he went around to the northwest corner, a swarm of insects suddenly burst out of the valley, and after taking off in the center of the valley, it flew in all directions, like a gray-brown cloud in the sky.
A biting evil wind slowly blew through the forest from the valley, but when it blew on Yang Junshan, it was like a knife, as if a murderous beast was watching him intently.
Evil energy, this is evil energy, there is actually a source of evil energy in this valley!
Yang Junshan suddenly rushed towards a big tree, and then looked into the valley, and saw a dense swarm of insects circling around the center of the valley, circling from left to right, gradually forming a vertical insect pillar, straight up to a height of tens of feet.
The bug king must be there! The source of evil energy must also be there!
The giant locust swarm surrounded this huge insect pillar was actually to compete for food the evil energy gushing out from the source, Yang Junshan was able to make a definite guess almost instantly!
However, when Yang Junshan went around to the northern end of the valley and was about to return, the insect pillars that were dozens of feet high surrounded in the valley suddenly collapsed, and the swarming insects all fell into the valley, and the huge scene in the valley before instantly subsided.
Yang Junshan still couldn't find the insect king hidden in the swarm, but he could no longer feel the kind of aura that was eating people when the evil energy was on his body.
Is the source of this evil energy actually intermittent?
I just don't know if the monks in the six or seven camps that have been monitoring the valley have ever discovered this situation in the valley, and after discovering it, do they know that the intimidating aura that leaks out is the source of rare evil energy?
But at this time, Yang Junshan needed to rush back to the wasteland town as soon as possible, and thick smoke rose from the lit camp in the distance behind him, but Yang Junshan plunged into the miasma after traveling several miles in the mountains and forests.