Chapter 20

Zhou Xuanyu accepted Zhou Yang as his adopted son. It was just a small episode before the start of the business. Today, the purpose of the monks of the Zhou family gathering in the ancestral hall in the later stage of Qi practice is to discuss the expansion of the red flame iron vein.

At this time, it has been two years since the red flame iron vein was discovered. In the past two years, the old clan leader Zhou Minghan went there several times to investigate the scale and quantity of poisonous fire scorpions. Now he has basically found out the situation.

According to the situation detected by the old clan leader Zhou Minghan, the number of poisonous fire scorpions in the red flame iron vein should be between 500 and 700, including a third-order [poisonous fire Scorpion King] and 30 to 40 second-order poisonous fire scorpions. The rest are all first-order poisonous fire scorpions.

The first-order poisonous fire scorpions are not enough to be afraid of. Except Zhou Yang, who has just broken through the seventh floor of Qi practice, the rest of the monks gathered here today are old enough to step into the later stage of Qi practice for many years. They also have the second-order defense magic tools refined by the old clan leader Zhou Minghan. No matter how many first-order poisonous fire scorpions are, they can't cause much damage to them when they can't launch scorpion needle fire collection attack.

Therefore, the main point of discussion is the second-order poisonous fire scorpion and the third-order [poisonous fire Scorpion King]. These monsters can pose a fatal threat to them, and they must make a plan in advance before they can take action.

After discussion and discussion, the old clan leader Zhou Minghan decided to entangle the third-order monster [poisonous fire Scorpion King] first, while the others did their best to kill the first-order and second-order poisonous fire scorpions, cut off their wings, and finally surround the [poisonous fire Scorpion King] with the help of the array.

According to the plan, eighteen monks of the Zhou family, including Zhou Yang, rode on the Shatuo beast and quietly left the Yuquan Lake oasis. They killed and ran to the red flame iron vein with the old clan leader Zhou Minghan who flew with the imperial sword.

With the strength of Shatuo beast's feet, only a few days passed, and they drove the Zhou family to their destination.

To scare the snake, the camel team stopped more than ten kilometers away from the destination, and then Zhou xuantai, the first-order top-grade array mage in the team, arranged a first-order array "phantom array" to hide the camel's body. The team abandoned their horses and walked, used "breath collection" to restrain their breath, and directly killed the poisonous fire scorpion's nest on the vein.

The poisonous fire scorpion's nest is located in a sandy slope on the red flame iron vein. The surface of this sandy slope is covered with several meters of yellow sand. It looks no different from those ordinary sandy slopes in the desert. At most, the surrounding desert plants are more dense and lush.

However, in fact, according to the investigation of Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, there is actually a huge natural underground cave hidden deep underground in this seemingly ordinary sandy slope. There are not only underground rivers flowing through the cave, but also underground spiritual veins connected. Among them, the richness of spiritual Qi is equivalent to the level of third-order inferior spiritual veins.

The nest of those poisonous fire scorpions is in the underground cave, and the desert plant bushes on the surface of the sandy slope are their hunting ground.

At this time, it was dusk, and the temperature in the desert was more than ten degrees lower than that at noon. Desert animals buried in the hole * * under the sand in the daytime had drilled out of their nests and came to the ground to look for food for a day.

There are a wide variety of desert animals in the boundless sand sea. There are large, medium and small birds flying in the sky, such as sand chickens, sand gulls, sand swallows, sand birds, vultures and ostriches. On the ground, there are sand wolves, sand rabbits, camels, sand foxes and gerbils, including three types of animals, large, medium and small. In addition, there are many kinds of reptiles and arthropods such as snakes, scorpions, centipedes, lizards and spiders, Of course, there are more kinds of insects.

These desert animals and the same variety of desert plants jointly build a desert ecological chain. Basically, the traces of these desert animals can be found wherever there are a large number of desert plants.

The desert plants around the sandy slope above the poisonous fire scorpion's nest are lush, and underground rivers flow through it. Naturally, it has a great attraction to those desert animals who struggle to survive in the desert, attracting a large number of desert animals to settle and live nearby.

On the eve of sunset in the evening and sunrise in the morning, there are a wide variety of desert animals flying around in the desert plants around the sandy slope, looking for food to eat.

Sand rabbits, gerbils and insects feed on plant stems and leaves; Sand finches and lizards feed on insects, while snakes and sand foxes feed on gerbils, sand rabbits, lizards and sand chickens; Sand wolves feed on all animals; A complete desert food chain is formed.

However, the existence at the top of this food chain is not the strong sand wolf with sharp claws and teeth, but the real owner here - poisonous fire scorpion.

When desert animals go out to look for food collectively, it is also the peak of poisonous fire scorpions out of their nests to look for food. Poisonous fire scorpions ranging from the size of heads to buckets are all over more than ten square kilometers around the sandy slope.

Whenever prey passes by, these hunters who bury their bodies under the sand will instantly pop up scorpion pliers to clamp the prey's body. If the prey is large, they will be stabbed by scorpion needles.

The first-order poisonous fire scorpion with a large head needs to eat about one kilogram of fresh meat every time, and can not eat for up to ten days at a time, while the second-order poisonous fire scorpion with a large bucket needs to eat more than ten kilograms of fresh meat every time, and can not eat for seven days at a time.

As for the third-order [poisonous fire Scorpion King], it no longer eats the meat of ordinary beasts, but only feeds on the old, weak, sick and disabled in the scorpion group. It eats a first-order poisonous fire scorpion family every half a month.

It is also because the [poisonous fire Scorpion King] has the habit of feeding on his own family that the desert food chain on the sandy slope has not collapsed. Otherwise, the number of scorpions will continue to grow indefinitely. The final result is that after all the first-order and second-order poisonous fire scorpions eat up all ordinary animals, they lose their food source, starve and kill each other.

Of course, in this world, no one knows what the "food chain" is except Zhou Yang.

Although he knows the terrible consequences caused by the collapse of the food chain, it is a pity that he is in an immortal world and he is an immortal who has mastered the powerful power. His thinking inertia has changed greatly. When he meets things, it is easier to look at and solve them from the perspective and way of an immortal.

The great power of the immortal belongs to himself. He can solve things with magic and supernatural powers. Of course, he won't waste his mind to think of other ways.

So even Zhou Yang, after knowing that the overall strength of the poisonous fire scorpion group is weaker than the Zhou family, the first thought is to summon family experts to destroy each other.

It was not until he came to the destination with his family elders, observed the hunting situation of poisonous fire scorpions from a distance through "heavenly eye" and found the fragile desert food chain on the sandy slope that he suddenly realized that in addition to solving the poisonous fire scorpions by force, he could also use other methods to weaken and exterminate the scorpions.

"How stupid I am! Why didn't you think of this in advance? If I had thought of this method earlier, why would I use the old patriarch to risk calling all the elders back? As long as the old clan leader is allowed to put a few fires to burn the desert plants on the sandy slope alone, most poisonous fire scorpions will starve to death! "

Zhou Yang slapped his head in frustration and hurriedly found the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to inform each other of his findings and ideas.

Of course, he would not say the term "ecological food chain", but expressed what he wanted to express in a way that practitioners in the world could understand.

"Wonderful! This is a great plan! "

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan is worthy of being a friar who has lived for more than 100 years. Zhou Yang just said it for the first time. He immediately understood the mystery inside. For Zhou Yang who offered advice, he was not stingy of his praise.

"Xiao Jiu, you are indeed the lucky star of the Zhou family. You can think of such clever tricks. I've never heard of it, I've never heard of it!"

Then he directly whispered to the others and said, "come on, quan'er and Xuan Hao, come and listen to Xiao Jiu's clever plan and see if it's feasible?"

"It's really a clever plan. This plan is set up one by one. Start from the smallest place. Don't say it's those monsters who are beginning to be smart, that is, we immortals. No one can find that they can't fall into the trap when the disaster breaks out later. Good plan, good plan!" The elder Zhou Quan, the second elder of the Zhou family, heard the old clan leader's plan and quickly understood the wisp of beard and shouted.

"The plan is very good and easy to implement. It can even be used not only here, but also against other demons and beasts living in the sand sea in the future. It's just that it hurts Tianhe. If it can't be used, it's better not to use it!" The fourth elder Zhou Yun also nodded and was optimistic about Zhou Yang's plan. However, as the second spirit planting husband, he still instinctively rejected and was vigilant about this behavior of completely destroying the plant ecosystem.

However, the person who really talked about the point was Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao: "I add that this plan must not be implemented on the oasis and must be strictly kept secret, otherwise we will be hostile to all monks in the boundless sand sea and bring disaster to the family!"

In the boundless sand sea, oasis is the most important strategic resource. Only with the existence of oasis can we feed ordinary people. When there are more ordinary people, can we produce more immortals with spiritual roots.

Therefore, if anyone dares to destroy the oasis in the boundless sand sea, he will be hostile and pursued by all immortals. Even a large gate such as Huangsha gate dare not do such a thing to offend the public.

The friars of the Zhou family grew up in the desert when they were young. They knew the importance of oasis very well. After hearing Zhou Xuanhao's words, including Zhou Yang, who proposed the "ecological chain" strategy, their hearts were full of awe, and the excitement on their faces converged a lot in an instant.

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan also nodded with a dignified face: "very good, Xuanhao said very well. This strategy really needs to be used carefully. Of course, it's best not to use it. If you use it, you must keep it confidential and don't let the news leak out and be known by outsiders!"

With that, he narrowed his eyes, looked at the sandy slope inclined to the west at dusk and whispered, "you go back to Qingping mountain first, and I'll give it to you here. Whether Xiao Jiu's strategy works or not will be known as soon as you try!"