Chapter 58 - HAZARD

Yang Junshan's first reaction was to find out that a demonic insect had appeared among the giant locust!

Only the demonized giant locust could possibly understand how to let adult worms rear their larvae, and if the countless giant locust in the valley were all demonized, then there must be a demonized insect king among this group of giant locust.

This insect king controlled all the giant locust in the valley, restraining them from rushing out of the valley. At the same time, it ordered the adults to gather the leaves and food from the surrounding forest for the larvae to nibble on.

Yang Junshan could imagine, that once all the giant locust in this valley had grown into adults, then once the Insect King gave the order, countless giant locust would rush out of the valley and rush out of the Tuo Wu Shan.

Yang Junshan took a detour along the forest at the edge of the valley, at the same time, he paid close attention to the movements of the giant locust, and attempted to find the Insect King that was hidden inside. However, the valley was densely packed with giant locust, and even if the Insect King was slightly larger than the other giant locust, it would be extremely difficult to find it in the valley, perhaps because the Demonification was clearly different from other giant locust.

Yang Junshan snuck along the edge of the valley, at the same time, he also quietly killed a few giant locust that flew into the forest to look for food, and then kept the giant locust's corpse in his waist pouch.

However, when Yang Junshan walked towards the forest on the southern side of the valley, he discovered that the number of giant locust that flew into the forest was decreasing, and the more he flew towards the southern side of the forest, the less there were. At the same time, the pungent smell that pervaded the forest grew stronger.

At this time, Yang Junshan discovered that the forest, whether it was the ground or the branches of the leaves, were all covered with a layer of yellow-brown dust. It was reasonable to say that there was often a mountain breeze in the mountain forest, when the leaves were shaking, very little dust would fall onto it.

He carefully placed a dusty leaf on his nose and took a sniff. A pungent smell far more pungent than the one that permeated through the forest rushed into his mind, causing Yang Junshan to still be unable to stop himself from sneezing.

Yang Junshan also realized that the yellow-brown colored dust had an especially strong adhesive power. After it landed on the tree leaves, no matter how much it swayed, it did not fall down.

The pungent smell of the medicinal dust prevented the giant locust in the valley from searching south for food. In the future, once the locust swarm broke out, perhaps they would instinctively avoid the southern direction and engulf the entire north, which was also probably the reason why the locust swarm in his previous life had quickly engulfed half of the Yuxian. However, the amount of disasters on the Zhang County was extremely limited.

The giant locust's disaster was a natural disaster, but it was also a man-made disaster!

Yang Junshan was almost certain that the people who spread the medicinal powder were the same as the ones who bought the spiritual valley. Just that, the giant locust disaster had engulfed almost half of the entire Yuxian, so the number of bugs in this mountain valley was far from enough. In other words, there were countless similar bugs in the entire Tuo Wu Shan.

Furthermore, the Zhang County force that Yang Junshan knew of that used the head of the wolf as an indicator probably did not have the power to monitor such a large swarm of insects. In other words, the powers that wanted to control the entire group of giant locust and bugs in the Tuo Wu Shan would need at least the joint action of the multiple powers in the Zhang County.

Yang Junshan who was moving stealthily suddenly stopped in his tracks, his entire person hiding behind a huge tree, on the road that he was walking on, there was an ingenious warning trap set up there. If not for the fact that Yang Junshan was an experienced forest hunter, he would have had no way to detect this trap, and if he touched it slightly, he would have been discovered by the people hiding.

The appearance of the warning trap meant that this group of monitoring cultivators should be nearby as well. He just didn't know if they had been lured to the north to chase them or if there were still people left to guard them.

Yang Junshan carefully bypassed the warning trap and continued moving forward. During this time, he discovered two more warning arrangements, one for a small plot of open land appeared in front of his eyes, and in the middle of the open ground waalf buried house made of logs.

It was completely silent all around, it was not possible to see anyone's appearance, but Yang Junshan still did not dare to be careless, he held the two talismans he obtained from Junior Brother Cheng in his hands and at the same time, placed the short sword with talisman markings where he could casually pull it out, and slowly walked towards the hut.

From Yang Junshan's experience, there should be at least six to seven cultivators guarding this camp, and they had just left not long ago, so judging from the things that the camp had left behind, they had left in a hurry. And from the dead Senior Brother Ma's information, the camp should be led by that Senior Brother Zhao, and this person should be a Martial Realm Cultivator without a doubt.

Gently opening the door of the wooden hut, Yang Junshan finally confirmed that there was no one at the campsite, and no traps left behind either. Only then did Yang Junshan relax and began to carefully search through the campsite.

Aside from the five hundred jin spiritual valley, there were also some leftover salted meat and roasted meat. Among them, Yang Junshan could even differentiate between two or three types of meat, which should have been obtained from the Tuo Wu Shan. It was just that he did not know if they had obtained any Celestial Spirits.

Yang Junshan also found a foot tall spirit sealing barrel and a foot wide and half a foot thick spirit sealing box in a corner.

After opening the Spirit Sealing Bucket, a thick stench of blood emitted from it. Inside was half a bucket of blood that would not congeal after being treated by the Spirit Sealing Method. These blood were all the blood of vicious beasts.

As for the Spirit Sealing Box, it was filled with tanned fierce beast leather, neatly divided into twenty pieces. These fierce beast leather were used as talisman paper to maintain the spirit energy within the talisman for a long time without weakening its power.

The Spirit Sealing Bucket was too big and it was not convenient to carry, but Yang Junshan did not hold back with the twenty odd pieces of Ferocious Beast Leather and the Spirit Sealing Box.

In addition to that, there were a lot of herbs in the open air around the campsite, which should have been gathered by the cultivators stationed there during their free time in Tuo Wu Shan. Although the majority of them were ordinary herbs, they were still sufficient in terms of medicinal strength, and most of them would be used as supplementary ingredients when refining medicinal pills.

Yang Junshan naturally did not hold back. If the cultivators in the camp were to say that they were only proficient in the medicinal herbs, then Yang Junshan himself waill refiner in his previous life, although he could not compare to the talent of a pill refiner, but he had remembered more than ten pill formulas in his mind, which allowed him to pick the most expensive medicinal herbs with ease.

After searching through the entire camp, Yang Junshan found a hidden earthen kiln behind the wooden house. After opening it, a strong, pungent smell wafted over, and within the forest, Yang Junshan's question was the same, but it was more pungent.

Yang Junshan covered his nose and mouth witiece of cloth that was used to cover his face and mouth with water, Yang Junshan walked into the center of the kiln, there was a stone platform, there were many bottles and jars placed on it, and there were also many different types of powders placed into different bowls. There was even an open porcelain jar that was about a foot tall, in which a lot of powder was poured into the bowl, and a clay rod was placed inside, seemingly stirring.

And at the bottom of the stone platform, there were two bags, each weighing around twenty to thirty kilograms. When Yang Junshan opened the bags, he saw that the yellowish-brown powder inside was exactly the same as the medicinal powder that was scattered in the forest.

Yang Junshan immediately understood that the powder these group of people used to obstruct the giant locust from going down to the Zhang County was not only made on the spot, but the raw material for making these powder should be the herbs taken from the Tuo Wu Shan. No wonder why this small camp was filled with herbs that were drying all over the place, it seemed like the method to make the powder was the herbs taken, but Yang Junshan still did not know the exact concocting process.

Looking at the medicinal powder in the dozens of bottles in front of him, Yang Junshan was simply unable to deduce the exact formula of the medicinal powder from these items. Under his helplessness, he could only carry the bag of medicinal powder on his back and bring it back to Wasteland Town.

But just as he was about to turn towards the northwest corner of the valley, a swarm of worms suddenly burst out from within the valley. After rising into the air in the middle of the valley, they flew in all directions, as if scattering a grayish-brown cloud in the sky.

A biting cold and evil wind blew slowly from the valley into the forest, and when it blew onto Yang Junshan's body, it felt like a knife was slicing through him, as though a ferocious, murderous beast was eyeing him covetously.

A baleful aura. This was baleful qi. There was actually a source of baleful qi in this valley!

Yang Junshan suddenly scuttled behind a large tree, and looked towards the valley. He saw that dense swarms of bugs were circling around the valley from left to right, gradually forming a vertical pillar of insects, reaching up to a dozen meters in the air.

The Bug King must be there! The source of the infernal energy must be there!

The reason the swarm of giant locust Insects gathered into this enormous pillar was actually to compete for the baleful aura that surged from the source. Yang Junshan was able to make a definite guess in almost an instant!

However, when Yang Junshan went to the northern end of the valley to return, the bug pillars that were dozens of meters tall suddenly collapsed, and the swarming bugs all landed in the valley.

Yang Junshan was still unable to discover the Insect King that was hidden within the swarm, but he could no longer sense the kind of devouring aura that would appear when the baleful aura was on his body.

The source of this infernal energy was intermittent?

However, he didn't know if the cultivators in the six or seven campsites that had been monitoring the valley had discovered this situation. Moreover, after discovering it, did they recognize that the terrifying aura that leaked out was the source of a rarely seen baleful aura?

However, Yang Junshan needed to rush back to the Wasteland Town at this time. Thick smoke rose from the ignited camp far behind him, yet Yang Junshan dove into the miasma after walking for a few kilometers in the forest.