Ch 138: The Entire Network Explodes, Strife Begins Again!
“…The specific situation is what I’ve just described, and more will depend on subsequent investigations.
But before the next action, let’s introduce a little gadget.”
Qi Xuan talked eloquently to the camera while walking to the side.
Soon, when he came to a section of gray-yellow Dry Wood, his steps immediately stopped:
“Everyone should be able to see this section of Dry Wood in front of me. It’s ordinary, unremarkable, and looks like a very common piece of rotten wood.”
“I thought so at first, but later, I found that my eyesight was still too poor.”
“This is not ordinary rotten wood at all, but a Spiritual Plant called Dry-Prosperity Wood.”
“Dry-Prosperity Wood is very special. It withers and prospers every year, uh, it withers for half a year and prospers for half a year. It’s different from what’s described in ancient poems.”
“In the withered state, it’s like this now, a piece of rotten wood, with no Vitality at all, like rotten wood that can be seen everywhere in the Wilderness, worthless.”
“And in the prosperous state, its Vitality is far more vigorous than ordinary Spiritual Plants. Even if it’s cut off and its sap is drained, it can quickly recover.”
“Given this Characteristic, Dry-Prosperity Wood is often used to breed some special and precious Spiritual Insects and Spiritual Birds.”
“That’s right, the Zhao Family used this Dry-Prosperity Wood to breed Ghost Cicadas.”
Qi Xuan patted the wood, and a dull sound immediately came out.
The netizens felt very novel:
“There’s actually this kind of strange Spiritual Plant? Withering for half a year and prospering for half a year?”
“Have similar Spiritual Plants been found on the Island?”
“Who knows, if it’s in a withered state, who can recognize that this thing is a Spiritual Plant?”
“That’s right, after all, even Qi God made a mistake, we can’t expect everyone’s eyesight to be better than Qi God’s.”
“Anyway, after Qi God said that, all the Dry Wood on the island must be carefully checked again. If a Dry-Prosperity Wood is found, then we’ll be rich.”
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Qi Xuan used the camera to carefully scan the appearance of the Dry-Prosperity Wood and explained its corresponding Characteristics.
As he said, he did indeed ignore the Dry-Prosperity Wood at first, until he used the Shadow Return Talisman to watch the past images, he then discovered that the Zhao Family’s breeding zone was covered with dense Dry-Prosperity Wood.
They used Dry-Prosperity Wood to breed Ghost Cicadas.
Coincidentally, he saw a piece of Dry-Prosperity Wood’s remains at the ruins site, which should have been shattered by Zhao Tianchang’s self-explosion.
In addition to this Dry-Prosperity Wood’s remains, he searched everywhere in the ruins and successively found other remains of Dry-Prosperity Wood, but most of them were blown to pieces, leaving only wood chips and Wooden blocks. Even if some wood sections were occasionally found, their height did not exceed the waist. After two hundred years, they were basically dead.
The one that was best preserved on the scene should be the one in front of him, which could reach the shoulder, about one-third of the complete Dry-Prosperity Wood.
Perhaps the Martial Cultivators of the Han and Zhang families at that time, when they were cleaning up the Ghost Cicada Breeding Zone, didn’t like such a section of remains, so they didn’t take it away and left it in the breeding zone.
If it were other Spiritual Wood, the remaining one-third of the wood section would basically be difficult to revive, not to mention that two hundred years had passed.
But Dry-Prosperity Wood is, after all, extremely tenacious in Vitality. As long as it’s watered with Spiritual Liquid such as Seven Star Spiritual Grass Liquid or Heavenly Yuan Green Spiritual Liquid, there’s still a high probability of recovery.
“Let’s try to see if we can revive this section of Dry-Prosperity Wood.”
Qi Xuan took out the Heavenly Yuan Green Spiritual Liquid and poured it on the Dry-Prosperity Wood that was level with his shoulder.
The Spiritual Liquid containing rich spirituality immediately penetrated into the Dry-Prosperity Wood.
The original gray-yellow withered rotten wood began to turn bright orange from the position where the Spiritual Liquid was poured.
Those orange yellows seemed to be contagious, quickly spreading around, directly dyeing the entire section of remains orange.
And after the remains turned orange, its tree trunk also gradually grew Branches around it.
The Branches opened small green tender leaves, gradually becoming lush, and adorned the entire tree.
In the blink of an eye, this remaining rotten wood actually came alive on the spot!
Seeing this scene, the Live Stream Room was instantly sensational:
“Dry Wood meets spring? Dry Wood meets spring! I actually saw the real Dry Wood meets spring!”
“Dry-Prosperity Wood: I’m just a little dead, but not completely dead.”
“Thanks for the invitation, just woke up from two hundred years of sleep.”
“It still has to be Qi God, if it were someone else, even if they found Dry-Prosperity Wood, they wouldn’t be able to save it without Spiritual Liquid.”
“Qi God actually dares to pour the Dry-Prosperity Wood like this, it is presumed that the Mother Tree’s Tree Seed should have also been completely revived, right?”
“That’s for sure! Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to waste Spiritual Liquid! But now that we have Dry-Prosperity Wood, maybe we can breed Ghost Cicadas again, collect Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid, and then we’ll have another way to deal with the Bone-Spur Disease!”
“That’s right! With Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid, even if the Mother Tree can’t be raised, or if there are other accidents during the tree planting period, at least there’s a backup, which greatly increases the ability to resist risks.”
“That said, Ghost Cicadas aren’t that easy to find, are they? The Dry-Prosperity Wood has a special material, and it’s completely understandable that it can survive for two hundred years, but can Ghost Cicadas live for two hundred years?”
“The important thing isn’t whether Ghost Cicadas can live for two hundred years, but that after the Zhao Family was destroyed, all the Ghost Cicadas may have been taken away by the Han and Zhang families. Now it’s not easy to find Ghost Cicadas.”
“Qi God, it’s time to go to the Han and Zhang families. No matter how arrogant they were two hundred years ago, they can only let us jump on their graves after two hundred years.”
“Your Majesty, let’s set off!”
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Qi Xuan looked at the Dry-Prosperity Wood that had come back to life and was about to put it away, but his eyebrows couldn’t help but twitch.
He saw a few Insects the size of thumbs suddenly drill out from one end of the Dry-Prosperity Wood’s trunk.
As soon as these Insects appeared, they all exploded, and countless insect eggs the size of rice grains quickly emerged, vibrating their translucent membranous wings and rushing towards Qi Xuan.
Qi Xuan stretched out his right hand and swept it in the void, and many Larva were immediately trapped in his palm, making it difficult to escape for a while.
Facing the camera, he said with a face full of surprise:
“I didn’t expect that there would still be a few Ghost Cicada’s Cicada Mothers dormant in this Dry-Prosperity Wood, which is really great news!”
Hearing Qi Xuan’s introduction, the netizens on Blue Star were only surprised and uncertain:
“Ghost Cicada Cicada Mother? If I’m not mistaken, that should be the Demon Bugs’s Mother Bug, right?!”
“The size and shape are extremely similar, and they completely match the Mother Bug that has been discovered!”
“That’s right! Absolutely right! Those Larva are exactly the same as the ones I killed!”
“Damn! Could it be that the ones invading the entire Blue Star… are actually Ghost Cicadas?!”
“We’ve been slaughtering and killing these precious resources that can treat the Bone-Spur Disease?!”
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The netizens on Blue Star were shocked to the point of scalp numbness, but Qi Xuan was introducing with a smile:
“The Ghost Cicada was cultivated by a Great Being named Xuan Cang hundreds of years ago. I found information about it from some of the Zhao Family’s data.”
“In order to ensure the efficacy of the Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid, in order to ensure that more people can be treated, when cultivating Ghost Cicadas, Great Being Xuan Cang selected a few special Characteristics for it.”
“First, it has extremely tenacious Vitality, can adapt to various harsh environments, is easy to be raised by humans, and can even enter a dormant state of suspended animation in the worst case.
Second, it has a very strong reproductive ability, even if there are only a few Cicada Mothers, it can reproduce tens of thousands or even millions of them in a short period of time.
Third, its diet is very complex. It eats Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Wood, it also eats Demon Beasts, and even when there’s really nothing to eat, it will devour each other.”
“Fourth, it has a special evolution mode. Ghost Cicadas can continue to be screened generation after generation, and they can be cultivated and evolved in a targeted manner, so that they can produce Spirit Liquid with stronger effects and longer duration.”
After a pause, Qi Xuan continued:
“Of course, with so many advantages, if Ghost Cicadas are accidentally released into the wild, they can easily cause large-scale harm.
In order to avoid this situation, at the beginning of cultivation, Great Being Xuan Cang deliberately left many weaknesses for it, making it easy for humans to completely kill it.
For example, the Insect Dissolving Powder, any Ghost Cicada that touches it will quickly spread to the entire group, which will lead to the complete collapse of the group.
For another example, the Crimson Sky Flame, Ghost Cicadas infected with the Crimson Sky Flame will actively approach the Cicada Mother for the other party to eat, and then the Crimson Sky Flame will erupt in the Cicada Mother’s body, completely burning it.
Or the Nether Cicada, the Nether Cicada mixed into the Ghost Cicada group will pretend to be the Cicada Mother with the highest status, and will be provided with resources by all the Ghost Cicadas. It will constantly devour the Ghost Cicadas until the last Cicada Mother is eaten.
And so on, the methods are varied.”
“These methods basically eliminate the possibility of Ghost Cicadas causing large-scale harm in the wild, and the major families or forces that inherit Ghost Cicadas are also constantly cultivating Ghost Cicadas, constantly screening out the ones with the fewest weaknesses and the strongest medicinal properties.
The fewest weaknesses are to prevent others from targeting the Ghost Cicadas they raise, and the strongest medicinal properties are naturally to better treat the Bone-Spur Disease.
According to Great Being Xuan Cang’s original idea, when the Ghost Cicada evolves to the end, it should be able to completely cure the Bone-Spur Disease.
Of course, this is just a conjecture, and it’s not clear whether it will succeed.
But what can be confirmed now is that this batch of Ghost Cicadas inherited from the Zhao Family is definitely one of the best cultivated Ghost Cicadas, and the Spirit Liquid it produces is far more effective than other Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquids, which is why it attracts the covetousness of outsiders.”
Then Qi Xuan began to introduce the social structure and breeding system of the Ghost Cicada:
“The social structure of the Ghost Cicada is a bit like that of bees, but there are also differences. Under normal circumstances, there will be a Cicada Mother in a Cicada nest responsible for reproduction and laying eggs. The Cicada Mother will mate with the strongest adult Cicada in the group, and after mating, it will eat the adult Cicada to provide energy for laying eggs.
Basically, there are at least hundreds of eggs laid at a time. If the nutrition provided by the adult Cicada is sufficient, thousands of eggs can be laid.
But when the number of the group reaches a certain level, the Cicada Mother will stop laying eggs until the next time the number of the group is greatly reduced, it will start laying eggs again.
Then our Cicada eggs will quickly turn into Larva when they reach the outside world. The Larva will eat frantically and grow into adult Cicadas at the fastest speed. At the adult Cicada stage, this stage will become extremely long, basically running through their entire life.
No matter how powerful they become later, they still belong to the adult Cicada until the Cicada Mother dies or the group faces the crisis of extinction. A part of the most powerful adult Cicadas will transform into Cicada Mothers and continue to perpetuate the group. The few Cicada Mothers we just saw obviously came from this.”
“As for the Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid, it’s gradually obtained from the Cicada Mother’s production process.
Under normal circumstances, the Cicada Mother will secrete a kind of mucus when laying eggs. This mucus is also called Cicada Liquid, which can nurture the Cicada eggs and make them accelerate their eclosion and become Larva.
Then we collect the Cicada Liquid, add some Spiritual Plant liquid, and then refine it with the Cultivation treasure, and the final product is the Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid that can be used to treat the Bone-Spur Disease.”
“Later, in order to further reduce the steps of extraction, we often feed the adult Cicadas with various Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Medicines in advance, and then after they mate with the Cicada Mother and are devoured by the other party, the Cicada Liquid produced by the Cicada Mother will come with the Characteristics of the Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Medicines. It only needs to be preliminarily refined by the Cultivation treasure to obtain the crude Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid.”
“Therefore, if you want to get Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid, it’s not enough to just have Ghost Cicadas. There are also two things that are indispensable. First, is the specially refined Cultivation treasure, the Nine Orifices Spirit True Plate, and second, is to have Dry-Prosperity Wood or some Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Items specially for Ghost Cicadas to devour.
Of course, if you don’t have these two things, it doesn’t matter, because when the Ghost Cicada was first created, the Cicada Liquid it secreted was itself for treating the Bone-Spur Disease.
The later addition of Spiritual Plants or the refining with the Cultivation treasure can only be said to play a role in icing on the cake, further strengthening the medicinal effect of the Cicada Liquid and reducing the negative impact when taking it. If you are really unfortunately ill and don’t have Spiritual Plants and the Nine Orifices Spirit True Plate, then directly swallowing the Cicada Liquid is also effective.”
“But now, since we already have a clue about the Nine Orifices Spirit True Plate, we won’t be reconciled if we don’t look for it.
Let me investigate this Zhao Family’s third son and see if I can find the whereabouts of the Nine Orifices Spirit True Plate.”
Qi Xuan said, and then he didn’t hesitate anymore and secretly used the Tracking Talisman.
The Tracking Talisman naturally needs to be used in conjunction with the items that have the residual Aura of the target. He may not have the items of others, but he doesn’t lack the items of this Zhao’s third son.
Because the clothes he was wearing, the shoes he was wearing, including the clothes stored in his Personal Space, were all that guy’s.
“The height and body shape are so similar, it can also be considered a kind of fate.”
“The Nine Orifices Spirit True Plate, should be mine.”
Qi Xuan rode on Sunday and immediately ran forward.
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When the afternoon Live Stream ended, the content involved in the Live Stream immediately caused a sensation around the world:
“Just kidding! It’s just a joke! The Demon Bugs that are raging around the world are actually the Ghost Cicadas that we can’t get?!”
“Who would have thought that the Ghost Cicadas used by a certain family on the Floating Continent for breeding and refining medicine could cause such a huge Disaster in reality, causing the death of tens of millions of people?!”
“Laughing to death, the entire Blue Star, concentrating the power of the whole world, is only barely on par with the medicinal materials that others are raising in the trees.”
“This is also inevitable. Who let us be basically ordinary people and low-level Martial Cultivators? A family can easily pull out a few Land Immortals. No matter how great the harm of the Ghost Cicadas is, they can still suppress it with a backhand. When it comes to us, let alone Land Immortals, can the entire Blue Star gather ten Great Grandmasters?”
“In fact, Military force is not necessarily that critical. According to Qi God, there are many ways to deal with Ghost Cicadas, and even Land Immortals don’t need to take action at all.
The problem is that we don’t have any of those treasures and methods mentioned by Qi God on Blue Star, and we can’t kill them in a targeted manner. Otherwise, how could the mere Ghost Cicadas cause such a huge harm?!”
“Because the Demon Bugs were useless before, they wantonly slaughtered our humans, hunted various animals, and destroyed the Blue Star’s ecosystem, we naturally have to kill them all.
But now that we know that this Demon Bug is the Ghost Cicada, our attitude should be changed.
At least we should find a way to collect some Cicada nests, put all those Cicada Mothers in cages, and learn from the Zhao Family on the Floating Continent, so that they can constantly produce Cicada Liquid for us to prevent the potential Bone-Spur Disease.
This way, if the Bone-Spur Disease suddenly breaks out in the future, we won’t be caught off guard.”
“Although we don’t have a Cultivation treasure like the Nine Orifices Spirit True Plate, and we also lack all kinds of Spiritual Plants and Spiritual Items, we have modern technological power, and maybe we can separate the effective ingredients for dealing with the Bone-Spur Disease from the ordinary Cicada Liquid, and even directly develop a special medicine for the disease in the future.
By then, everyone will no longer have to worry about the Bone-Spur Disease, and the technological power of mankind will definitely help us defeat it!”
“That’s right! All countries should seize the time to collect Cicada nests now. By holding the Cicada nests, we can not only greatly weaken the harm of the adult Cicadas, but also continuously study the Cicada Liquid.
Whoever can be the first to develop a drug similar to the Ghost Cicada Spirit Liquid will occupy the entire Blue Star’s Bone-Spur Disease market!
The interests contained in this can even help a country rise completely!”
“The situation is such that we have to fight! As long as the leaders of all countries are not idiots, they will definitely get involved! Cicada nests are wealth! Cicada nests are power!”
“Damn it! I’m going to dig out the Cicada nests that I didn’t have time to dig last night!”
“I have a complete Cicada nest! But no Cicada Mother, now priced at one million for sale, only today, those interested please private message!”
“Suspected to have found the Cicada Mother’s location, location Peixian, come ten Innate people to form a team, share the benefits after catching the Cicada Mother, everyone has a share!”
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The netizens were discussing and the atmosphere was enthusiastic.
Many people even made an appointment to form a team offline to hunt Cicada groups and collect Cicada nests.
And at this moment, major world-class pharmaceutical companies all seemed to have made an appointment and announced the purchase announcements:
Pfizer: “Reward one hundred million US dollars for the purchase of a complete Ghost Cicada Cicada nest.”
Merck: “Reward fifty million, for the purchase of Cicada Mothers, at least ten.”
Novo Nordisk: “Reward ten million, collect Cicada nests, reward fifty million, collect Cicada Mothers, reward one hundred million, collect complete Cicada nests with Cicada Mothers attached.”
AstraZeneca: “Reward one hundred and twenty million, collect the complete version of the Cicada nest! Reward ten million, collect the exact clues of the Cicada nest!”
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As soon as the announcement came out, the entire network instantly exploded!
