Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 61 – Formation

The bad news continued to come. With the mountain barbarian village, where the Wangshan Town was the first to suffer from the giant locust’s calamity, being caught off guard, the Ling Tian was practically barren and withouarvest was already a foregone conclusion. The other villages, under the protection of all the cultivators, could at most only preserve twenty percent of their harvest.

After Yang Tiangang received the urgent sword token from Liu Zhen, the group of giant locust had already entered the most southern point of the Wasteland Town and reached their destination, the Earth Liang Village. They were only twenty five kilometers away from the Tuqiu Village.

Another red sword token fell into Yang Tiangang’s hands along with a shocking sword whistle, “A large group of giant locust have also appeared in the Sandtown that is as close to the Tuo Wu Shan as the Wangshan Town.”

Blacksmith Zhang asked: Sandtown? Are there locusts there too? ”

Yang Tiangang said in a deep voice, “Not only has the Sandtown found the large-scale giant locust disaster, the Jinyu County who is adjacent to this county also found it. Because the area between the Jinyu County and the Tuo Wu Shan is narrow, the locust disaster has already spread across the Jinyu County and has spread into the borders of the Mengyu County.”

“The three counties have suffered!” Blacksmith Zhang was so stunned that he did not know what to say.

On the other hand, when Yang Junshan and the rest were still holding their discussion in the hall, had already ran out to gather his subordinates. Other than Su Baozhang, Yang Junping, Yang Qianhai, Yang Bao Liang and a few other direct descendants, there were also Ge Erxi, Huang Mingsheng, Su Min, Li Jie Rong and five or six other children from Yang Junshan’s family.

He told them to scatter the remaining six kilograms of medicinal powder among their own Ling Tian s, or among the rented Yang Junshan Clan’s Ling Tian s. Yang Junshan first let Yang Junping take his sister and half a kilogram of medicinal powder and scattered them all over the garden in their backyard, then brought the remaining five kilograms of medicinal powder and Su Baozhang and the other two to rush to the place where Yang Tiangang and his wife were personally farming the one and a half acre wide Tuqiu Village’s biggest Ling Tian. Then, they sprinkled all the five kilograms of medicinal powder among the maturing Ling Tian s.

Yang Junshan had already experimented on the medicinal powder he brought back, and discovered that although the medicinal powder smelled pungent, it was non-toxic, even if it was scattered on the food, as long as he used water to clean the pungent smell, it would disappear.

After taking care of the powder, Yang Junshan and Su Baozhang rushed over to the middle tier Ling Tian s at the foot of the western mountain. Yang Qianhai and Yang Baolang had already rushed over there with the two packhorses and one carriage.

Although the three middle tier Ling Tian did not plant the spiritual valley Spirit Grass, the dense spirit energy would definitely attract the giant locust to come and lay the insect egg on the ground. When the insect egg hatches in the next year, not only would the Ling Tian absorb the spirit energy stored within, it would also eat the crops planted within the Ling Tian.

These three middle tier Ling Tian s were one of the most important foundations of the Yang family in the future, and there was no room for any mistakes. Yang Junshan wanted to use his last trump card, the three Ling Tian s, and gather all his comrades to protect this area from the locust swarm as much as possible.

Just as Yang Junshan and Su Baozhang was about to throw medicinal powder among the Ling Tian, Xu Lei brought her fiancee Xu Jing and a few Xu disciples. Zhang Huzi brought a few companions and similarly arrived among the two middle tier Ling Tian s in their respective homes.

The three Martial Realm Cultivatoad already rushed to the south of the village to manage the defense against the locust attack, but their children still rushed to the middle ranked Ling Tian to prepare for it. It was evident that the importance that each clan placed on middle ranked Ling Tian was of the same level.

However, it was different from when Yang Junshan sprinkled the medicinal powder. The Xu family threw long pieces of cloth onto the Ling Tian, on top of the cloth were lines of runes embroidered with spirit cotton threads, they formed large triggering talismans, and when the giant locust landed on the talisman, it would trigger the talisman’s own attack, killing the giant locust above.

However, Yang Junshan knew that this method was not feasible. Once the giant locust broke through the southern defense line, the locust swarm that was charging towards the Ling Tian would definitely be in succession, and the gigantic talisman would be able to kill the locust swarm for a while, but would be covered up by the corpses of the locusts and would not be able to trigger. Furthermore, the talisman’s spirit energy was limited, and it was impossible for it to trigger indefinitely.

Once the giant locust fell into the net, it would not be able to fly away, but it would be the same as the Xu family’s giant talismans. The moment the net was filled with locusts, the function of the giant net would be of no use.

Just as Yang Junshan was looking at the other two families setting up methods to protect his Ling Tian, Xu Lei and Zhang Huzi was also looking at Yang Junshan and the rest who were busy, but the two of them were confused at the actions of Yang Junshan and the rest.

Yang Junshan and the others unloaded all kinds of tools from the cart pulled by the big packhorse beasts. There were nine round stone plates that were one foot in size, and each stone plate had a groove carved in the middle. Around them were all sorts of wooden tools, and there were even bundles of spirit cotton thread.

“What are they doing?” Zhang Huzi didn’t understand and asked the similarly doubtful Xu Lei.

Xu Lei shook his head. He did not know, but Xu Jing, who was at the side, hesitated: “This looks like an array formation!”

“Assemble the formation?” Zhang Huzi was confused: “Yang Junshan knows how to set up arrays? What a joke, that thing, even if you could enter the Heaven-Shaken Sect in the future you might not even be able to learn it, right? Only he can set up a formation? ”

Xu Jing’s face turned cold, and even the complexion of Xu Lei, who was at the side, wasn’t too good. Zhang Huzi’s heart was suddenly cold, and she remembered how she was defeated by the girl in front of him a few days ago.

At this moment, Xu Jing was looking at Yang Junshan witrobing look within her astonishment, as if she had developed a great interest for the mystery surrounding Yang Junshan’s body. On the other hand, Xu Lei’s head was lowered, and her expression was constantly changing, as though she was thinking about something.

Yang Junshan was looking at Xu Jing and Xu Lei from a distance. One had his head held high and chest held high, the other had a calm gaze, while the other was filled with confidence; one was indeed deep in thought, his mind was not. His gaze was unfocused, and his entire body seemed to be filled with a sense of inferiority.

Yang Junshan directed everyone to place the nine round stone tablets in the center of the Ling Tian into a square. After that, on each stone table, there was a youth who knew how to cultivate.

The formation that Yang Junshan had set up was a simple formation that was commonly used to deal with giant locust disasters in his previous life. In his previous life, after the first time the giant locust disaster happened, all the Spiritual Farmers suffered greatly due to being caught off guard, and after that, after the great change of heaven and earth, the giant locust calamities occurred all over the place and the losses caused became even smaller. This was because the giant locust disaster was after all the weakest type of array, and people quickly found a way to restrain it.

While Yang Junshan was busy working alone, all the youths watched with unease. It was only when they found out from Su Baozhang that Yang Junshan was actually setting up a formation did they all start to gasp in shock and disbelief: Village Head’s young master actually knew how to set up a formation!

Just as Yang Junshan was about to use all sorts of simple array inscriptions to connect the eight stone plates, he saw Xu Jing’s face suddenly change, his head spinning in different directions, as though he was carefully listening to something. In the end, he turned her face towards the south of the village and shouted: “They’re here!”

“What’s coming?”

Zhang Huzi casually asked. Yang Junshan looked at Xu Jing’s left ear for a long time, then suddenly stood up and looked towards the southern part of the village. The sky was completely empty, but there was nothing.

“There’s nothing at all!” A few of the youths muttered to themselves.

Unexpectedly, after they had finished talking, a dark gray cloud slowly rose up into the sky. The dark cloud kept rising while changing its shape. In just the time it took to make a cup of tea, it had already covered half of the sky south of the village.

The locust plague had finally arrived!

Yang Junshan immediately threw the eight bags into the hands of the eight people who knew how to cultivate and said loudly: “Each of the eight stone plates on the outside are in charge of one each, and inside the bag are Jade Coins and stone coins. He placed the Jade Coins s into the center of the groove of the stone plate, and the five small indentations on the stone coins on the outside are all in charge of protecting the Jade Coinnd stone coins in the stone plate from the locusts.

Everyone agreed that it was so. One of the youths opened the bag and saw that there were at least three, four Jade Coinnd dozens of stone coins inside. He was immediately at a loss because he had never seen so much money before.

As the grayish brown clouds got closer, everyone could feel the suffocating atmosphere. Finally, everyone was able to see clearly that the grayish-brown clouds were actually filled with an endless number of locusts.

This was the first time many youths had seen such an apocalyptic scene, standing amongst the Ling Tian s, they were all stupefied. Only Yang Junshan was not the least bit interested in this scene, in his previous life, he had already experienced too much, even more than this locust swarm, many times. At this moment, he was completely focused on arranging formations, and at the same time, he was secretly thinking that his cultivation was still too weak.

The gray and hazy locust swarm was like a collapsed mountain as they smashed down towards Tuqiu Village like a jade pillar pushing a golden mountain. Other than Xu Jing, several girls among the Ling Tian s let out cries of surprise at the same time, while their little sister Yang Junxin hid behind her big brother and tightly hugged onto Yang Junshan’s thigh.

And at this time, four of the most dazzling rays of light rose up from four different directions of the south of the village, bringing with them hundreds of different magic waves. They formed a dense magic defense net over the south of the village, and the locusts that crashed into the south of the village immediately became like a mountain that had been hollowed out.

“Alright!” The young men of the Ling Tian shouted and jumped while cheering.