Chapter 20 (1/2)

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.