Chapter 171 The Natural Disaster Heading South
After leaving Peach Blossom Land, Luo Xuanyi headed south and leisurely flew to her first stop, Xiaohe City.
The reason for being leisurely is to give as many formation cultivators as possible the opportunity to arrive.
Luo Xuanyi was filled with anticipation. She had only met one other formation cultivator so far: Hao Fei. But Hao Fei, a former Daowang Sect sword cultivator, possessed only a limited number of formations. One teleportation formation, one concealment formation, and three spatial formations were his limits.
Moreover, Hao Fei's formation offered little to Luo Xuanyi. He seemed adept at injecting mind-disturbing sound waves into the air and blocking out sound transmission, then primarily resorting to physical combat. However, these mental attacks and isolation abilities weren't inherent to the formation, but rather the special effects of Hao Fei's formation flags.
Aside from the special effects of the formation flags, Luo Xuanyi honestly didn't think much of Hao Fei's formation. A teleportation formation must be deployed on both sides; a single-sided one would be completely ineffective. It would be worse than a chess beast.
The concealment formation is a special variation with the addition of formation flags. In essence, it is a deformation of the space formation, and it is an unreplicable one.
Luo Xuanyi had never seen the other three space formations, because Hao Fei integrated these three formations into his swordsmanship, and every time he wanted to use them, he was interrupted by Luo Xuanyi. The long pre-swing was almost a burden.
Hao Fei only had eight formation flags. It was unclear whether eight flags could only create so many formations, or if Hao Fei himself was incompetent. Luo Xuanyi believed she could find the answer among a sufficient number of regular formation practitioners.
Following the map to Xiaohe City, Luo Xuanyi spotted many others also heading south. They were carrying their families, and judging by their direction, they must have fled Longlan City. Luo Xuanyi was certain they were at least escaping from a larger city, as they were all neatly dressed, and there were a few scattered ox-carts and donkey-carts carrying luggage.
Speaking of which, the Ghost Buddha is still in Lianshan. I wonder if the six major alliances have been dealt with. Probably not. Luo Xuanyi thought easily, waving the main flag at the ground, and gladly accepted this unexpected supply.
About fifty people... Although they are ordinary people, they are better than nothing.
Where the main flag cast its deathly aura, pustules began to appear on the ground, rapidly decaying. As Luo Xuanyi gradually approached Xiaohe City, this place was not a wasteland but fertile fields. The group was originally walking between two wheat fields.
Due to the abnormal weather caused by the Feiyi disaster, the six states have been experiencing summer all year round, and the time for planting or harvesting grain is no longer clear. This wheat field is the winter wheat that will mature early.
The wheat that was about to be harvested had already suffered a poor harvest due to the fertilizer disaster. Luo Xuanyi waved the main flag lightly, and the wheat fields nearby, centered on the narrow ridge in the middle, immediately began to die on a large scale.
I'm afraid it won't just be this year; this land, drained of its life force, will no longer be able to produce any plants. In the face of natural disasters, this will undoubtedly exacerbate the spread of the catastrophe.
"Hmm?" Luo Xuanyi recovered the vitality of the earth, converted it into dead air, and after absorbing it, she found that compared to land with nothing, the vitality provided by the same area of wheat was almost ten times that of the barren land.
Also, according to Luo Xuanyi's physical sensation, the vitality provided by the expanded area of this wound, which was nearly five feet long, seemed to be equivalent to the amount of vitality absorbed by about one living soul.
Due to the characteristics of the main flag, the amount of vital energy converted into dead energy for Luo Xuanyi to absorb was almost non-existent. This meant that land with wheat provided a higher level of vital energy than land without crops, and given a sufficient area, it could be equivalent to absorbing living souls.
Due to the characteristics of the main flag, the vitality gained from death is converted into death energy and absorbed by Luo Xuanyi. This process can be passively obtained as long as Luo Xuanyi is with the main flag. If killing the earth and crops can also gain death energy to supplement cultivation, then Luo Xuanyi can easily obtain a large amount of death energy on the road.
Even if the earth would die completely after a single harvest, Luo Xuanyi didn't need to eat food, so causing further unrest wouldn't harm her.
The only thing they had to worry about was the lack of food. What would happen if a large number of people died in the future and there was no next generation to support them? However, Luo Xuanyi thought carefully and realized that the population of the six states was still quite large. If they all died from killing each other, the evil thoughts and death energy she would gain would be enough for her to cultivate to the Red Ghost Realm thousands of times. Besides, the righteous path would not let people die out like this, so she left it to them to deal with.
Putting aside her concerns, Luo Xuanyi paused and began to focus on verifying her own ideas. First, she had to understand the difference in the amount of wheat produced between ordinary land and land with wheat.
She consciously controlled the position and depth of the main flag's cut into the earth, ensuring the crack wouldn't spread into the wheat field. She then drew a similar line across the wheat field, silently estimating the amount of vital energy harvested. After both sides stopped expanding and harvesting vital energy, Luo Xuanyi immediately calculated the amount and came to a conclusion.
The estimate of the wheat fields versus the ordinary land was indeed wrong. It wasn't ten to one, but an even more alarming fifteen to one. This was because some of the vitality of the ordinary land had been mixed into the wheat fields, causing the initial estimate to be lower.
Next, Luo Xuanyi wanted to test how much wheat field vitality was equivalent to the vitality provided by a living soul. She experimented again and again on this wheat field, watching as a twenty-acre field of green and yellow gradually turned into charred sand. Luo Xuanyi finally got the exact number - if it were just the wheat field, it would only take a four-foot-eight-inch wound in the earth to cover its entire area.
How many people could a four-foot-eight-inch wheat field feed? It probably couldn't even support one person, but it could provide the equivalent of a living person's total energy. Perhaps the spirits of the plants and trees in heaven and earth could sustain more vitality? Besides wheat, what proportion of the supply would be provided by other crops, or even just weeds?
Luo Xuanyi felt herself getting excited, a little happy and expectant. She thought this was a very interesting thing. Even if she couldn't get angry, she found that she enjoyed the feeling of doing the experiment, especially since no one was disturbing her.
But that’s all for now.
Luo Xuanyi decided not to destroy the uncultivated land. The wheat-growing land provided so much vitality. If she destroyed the arable land, others would inevitably have to reclaim the previously uncultivated land in order to survive. Once they had finished cultivating, Luo Xuanyi would come back to harvest, thus maximizing her profits.
Repeated experimentation helped Luo Xuanyi master a precise feel for the attack. She casually waved her main flag, slashing through the remaining wheat fields, reaching just enough to harvest the entire field without spilling over. After confirming the harvest was complete, Luo Xuanyi continued her flight towards Xiaohe City, where the city's outline was already visible.
At the same time, the first formation cultivator was about to meet Luo Xuanyi.
First update~ If Sister Yi were a modern person, she would be a science student hh Unfortunately, I am not, so it is a bit difficult to write~
I thought about the title for a long time, wondering whether to use "man-made disaster" or "natural disaster." But in the end, I still think that Sister Yi's current situation is more like a natural disaster. After all, it brings death indiscriminately, just like a rain cloud that keeps raining acid rain.
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