Chapter 224 - Chapter 224: Chapter 217: Invisibility Talisman, Universal Map_3 (2/2)

This tael of silver was indeed a worthwhile investment.

After purchasing a good map, he no longer delayed and left the city, following the route marked on the map, he went straight ahead.

All the way, his speed was extremely fast.

With the cultivation of the Innate Realm, traveling was too easy for him.

If he ran at full speed, he was even faster than the average horse.

Along the way, locusts could be seen ravaging everywhere.

The number of special locusts turned out to be far less than expected, and as for the Grade Three giant locusts, he didn’t find a single one.

He was somewhat curious, whether these locusts were being controlled by an Insect Master from the Nine Insect Gang or by several Insect Masters at the same time?

Launching a clan war is usually a large-scale conflict.

It is equivalent to two countries going to war.

On the battlefield, the power of one person is extremely insignificant.

Often only a thousand troops can form a shape, and ten thousand troops can create a momentum.

To have the locust plague quickly sweep over the entire territory of the Black Tiger Gang, it seems possible that multiple Insect Masters are controlling at the same time.

So far, the most powerful he had encountered were the giant locusts, which were only Grade Three insects, and their numbers were pitifully small.

This made him suspect that the Insect Masters controlling the locusts from behind the scenes were likely a large group of low-level Insect Masters.

Otherwise, if they could reach the level of Old Master Huang, they would make a grand move the moment they took action and would not be so shabby.

When Old Master Huang ambushed Qin Niu, he directly used more than four thousand Grade Three Army Ants.

Although these locusts were numerous, in Qin Niu’s eyes, they still seemed a bit petty.

Even he himself could cultivate a thousand Grade Three Termites in a day, and Grade Three insects really weren’t much in his eyes.

Everywhere he looked, he could see abandoned farmlands.

With the continuous locust plague, it was impossible to grow crops.

No matter how much was planted, it was all in vain.

Instead of that, it was better to leave the land fallow to minimize the losses.

Based on the current situation, the market price for farmlands should soon plummet to a historical low. He had long prepared a large sum of Silver Money, waiting to snatch up a good deal and become a medium-sized landlord in one fell swoop.

With a hundred acres of good farmland, one was not considered a major landlord but only a mid-level one.

Those real major landlords often owned tens of thousands of acres, with estates everywhere and thousands of servants.

Only they were the true noble clans.

Outside, the locust plague was so severe, and the Nine Insect Gang had already led their troops to invade the territory of the Black Tiger Gang, but inside Black Tiger City, there was still calm.

He wondered whether the news was blocked, or did everyone have faith in the Black Tiger Gang?

As it was getting dark, he was still three or four dozen miles away from Shihe Town of the Black Tiger Gang.

According to the marks on the map, he had to first reach Shihe Town, then go through the necessary procedures to enter the territory of the Nine Insect Gang. Heading south from there, he would arrive at Hundred Leaf town.

Once at Hundred Leaf Town, finding Black Stone Village would be easy.

Because every year, a large number of Insect Masters from all over would rush there in search of Green Demon Bees.

“I need to hurry to Shihe Town; otherwise, I might end up like Zhang Banzui, spending the night in the wild.”

Qin Niu quickened his pace.

It would be good if he could learn a Step-Method Martial Skill, or it would be quite nice to have a mount to ride.

That lazy ox of his was still evolving and completely unreliable.

If he encountered a suitable ferocious beast, taming one as a mount would also be quite good.

As the sky turned completely dark, he traveled by the light of the stars.

He finally made it to Shihe Town.

This small town was quite prosperous, significantly better than Jade Stream Town.

Possibly because it was located at the junction of two gangs, the coming and going of merchants and the trade of goods drove the economy of this small town..