"Everyone, stay alert and don't let the defensive formations break. Otherwise, you'll see the same fate as those who did."
Yang Hong naturally sensed the fearful gazes directed at him, but he felt no discomfort. The cultivation world was simply a place of the strong preying on the weak.
What was the difference between the struggles among human cultivators and the Li Huo Flying Locusts devouring each other?
Moreover, cases of humans eating demonic beasts and demonic beasts eating humans happened all the time.
He was merely presenting the brutality of the cultivation world in a more direct manner!
However, the powder just now wasn't his doing. He turned to Zhong Chengfeng behind him and said.
"Zhong Chengfeng, your insect repellent is excellent. Keep producing it."
"Hehehe~ It's all thanks to the Sect Master for providing the idea, and for the sect master’s seventh-tier Li Huo Flying Locust carapace. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to concoct this insect repellent."
While Zhong Chengfeng was being humble about Yang Hong's praise, he was extremely proud inside.
Yang Hong had proposed the concept of killing and repelling insects. After several failed experiments, he decided to do the opposite and actually refined the 【Insect Lure】 into that powder.
The main ingredients of this powder were several spirit herbs that were highly attractive to the Li Huo Flying Locusts, combined with the carapace of a seventh-tier Li Huo Flying Locust, which made it even more irresistible to them.
It was a fatal temptation.
Looking at the frenzied slaughter still ongoing outside the formation's protective shield, one could see the power of the 【Insect Lure】.
The sounds of cracking and crunching came from all directions, so loud that Yang Hong and the others on Stony Mountain had to shout to communicate.
Outside the formation, the Li Huo Flying Locusts were truly maddened. Any locust that consumed the lure would be infected with its scent, thus attracting attacks and consumption from other locusts.
And locusts that had consumed the flesh and blood of their own kind would have their lure scent strengthened, further enticing more locusts to join the frenzied attack.
It was an infinite expansion, spreading like a virus at a geometric rate.
Seeing this scene, Yang Hong's heart was also pounding. He thought of "prions" mentioned in science from his previous life!
In just one hour, the area outside the Stony Mountain formation was covered with the corpses of Li Huo Flying Locusts, as if building a fiery red wall around Stony Mountain.
This wall had risen a hundred zhang high within an hour, indicating how many Li Huo Flying Locusts had died.
At least hundreds of millions!
Yet, the sky above Stony Mountain was still dark and oppressive, obscured and covered by even more Li Huo Flying Locusts!
"Sect Master, this is the easiest time I've ever experienced dealing with a Li Huo Flying Locust swarm."
A small old man, about a meter tall, stood beside Yang Hong and said to him with admiration.
He was the patriarch of the Chasing Cloud Sparrow tribe, Chasing Cloud Chongshan, also a seventh-tier demon lord. Despite his white hair and gaunt appearance, he was undoubtedly the fastest person at Clear Wind Mountain Villa.
None could match him!
Even Yang Hong, without using the 【Void Breaking Shuttle】, couldn't keep up with this old fellow.
However, Chasing Cloud Chongshan was now looking at Yang Hong with adoration, his eyes filled with deep fear.
"How old is Patriarch Chasing Cloud? How many Li Huo Flying Locust swarms has he experienced?"
Hearing Chasing Cloud Chongshan's words, Yang Hong's heart stirred, and he asked.
Chasing Cloud Chongshan's eyes showed reminiscence as he slowly said, "This old man has lived for sixteen thousand three hundred years; I have experienced fourteen swarms, one every thousand years or so."
"I remember, my original home was in the mountains west of the Li Huo Desert, but later, due to the Li Huo Flying Locust swarm, we were driven into the oasis of the Li Huo Desert, and then my life was spent in constant displacement, migrating eastward."
As if thinking of his deceased loved ones, the old man even shed tears.
"This old man has decided, if we can't survive this time, I will die here at the foot of Purple Kun Mountain. At least I will be buried in the Li Huo Desert."
Yang Hong rolled his eyes and retorted, "With your speed, old man, if you want to run, I don't know who could catch you."
"Heh heh~ I've lived long enough and don't want to run anymore.
And I don't think we'll need to run this time."
Saying that, Chasing Cloud Chongshan pointed at the Li Huo Flying Locusts still engaged in frenzied self-cannibalism.
Yang Hong smiled proudly, "Yes, we probably won't need to run."
Besides the lure, under Yang Hong's guidance, Song Yuzhi, who enjoyed alchemy, had also refined an insect repellent.
In the rear, Clear Wind Mountain and Marsh Mist Mountain were sprayed with the repellent, and the Li Huo Flying Locusts did not approach the two peaks.
That was the real reason Chasing Cloud Chongshan felt they wouldn't need to run.
Ying～～ Ying～～
Suddenly, a strange sound pierced through the gnawing of the Li Huo Flying Locusts, reaching Yang Hong's ears and causing his head to ache, making him feel dizzy.
He immediately realized something was wrong and shouted.
"Not good! Roar～～"
The disciples who had been dizzy were slightly more clear-headed than the demonic beasts, but they were still a bit listless.
"Everyone cover your ears and use your spiritual energy to block out the sound!"
Upon hearing Yang Hong's reminder, the human cultivators and transformed demonic beasts immediately covered their ears, isolating the sound and maintaining their clarity;
However, the numerous demonic birds on the mountain, which had been flying in the air, began to fall like dumplings, and some smaller demonic birds were even smashed to death by larger ones!
Yang Hong hadn't expected the Li Huo Flying Locusts to have such a strange sonic attack, and he had no plan to counter it. For a time, low-level demonic birds suffered heavy casualties.
Even many human disciples with poor cultivation had fainted.
Yang Hong endured the discomfort and listened carefully to the direction of the strange humming sound, searching for a special Li Huo Flying Locust.
Even with Yang Hong's nearly heaven-defying divine sense, it took him three minutes to find a strange black locust that was only a zhang long but half a zhang wide.
"This way, Jin Jialin, organize your Golden Winged Thunder Eagles and face this direction, using the Lion's Roar I taught you."
As soon as he spotted the strange locust, Yang Hong immediately used his divine sense to transmit instructions to Jin Jialin, pointing out the direction and ordering him.
Jin Jialin received the guidance and immediately began to arrange his troops in the formation they had practiced. When Yang Hong gave a nod, he unleashed the 【Lion's Roar】.
"Li li～ Li li～"
The Golden Winged Thunder Eagles' 【Lion's Roar】 was filled with the clear and stirring sound of metal clashing on iron. When 160 Golden Winged Thunder Eagles unleashed it together, amplified by the formation, the sound waves converged into a visible silver shockwave.
The moment the Golden Winged Thunder Eagles opened their mouths, Yang Hong opened a ten-zhang-wide hole in the formation. The silver shockwave immediately shot out, and the Li Huo Flying Locusts in its path were pulverized by the sonic wave's energy and vibrations.
"Ying～～ Ying～～"
The black locust surprisingly sensed danger and flew out of the silver sonic wave's attack range.
Buzz buzz～
Just as Yang Hong was preparing to adjust the formation's opening to sweep the silver sonic wave across the Li Huo Flying Locusts, a six-zhang-long, enormous red locust charged through the formation's opening with lightning speed!
"Damn it!"
Yang Hong immediately realized he had fallen into a trap, outmaneuvered by a mere locust!
That black locust was nothing more than bait released by the Li Huo Flying Locust swarm. The real killer was the ninth-tier Li Huo Flying Locust King!