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Chapter 19: Rhinoceros Longicorn

A gentle breeze blows, and the emerald green rice waves rise and fall one after another.

But among the blue waves, there are some black spots hidden.

Upon closer inspection, one could see many black beetles the size of bottle caps clinging to the stems and leaves, gnawing on the leaves of the spiritual rice.

This is the rhinoceros longhorn beetle, a common evil insect. It has two dark gold horns, a hard black shell, wings on its back, and is very agile. It will fly away at the slightest sign of trouble.

The rhinoceros longhorn beetle, like cockroaches, has a strong reproductive ability. If you find one in a field, there will definitely be dozens or even hundreds of them in other places.

Lingnong is very troubled by this evil insect.

"Fortunately, the rhinoceros longhorn beetle only exists in my ten acres of farmland. I haven't found any in Madam Xu's thirty acres of spiritual farmland yet!"

Xia Chen felt somewhat fortunate.

However, the rhinoceros longhorn beetles in the ten acres of spiritual field must be eradicated as soon as possible, because this evil insect has a huge appetite, almost comparable to locusts. If it is not managed, there will definitely be a poor harvest in late summer.

If we can't even pay the sect's rent, it would be a huge loss.

Xia Chen pointed his finger, and a stream of Gengjin energy shot out. Suddenly, a black beetle fell to the ground with a big hole on its body, and it was no longer alive.

The Gengjin sword technique and the flying needle technique can both be used to deal with this evil insect.

However, the rhinoceros longhorn beetle is the most sensitive of all longhorn beetles and will fly away at the slightest disturbance.

So it is not easy to hit it.

If you can hit the target four times out of ten shots, it is considered a very high accuracy.

After dealing with more than ten rhinoceros beetles, Xia Chen's magic power was exhausted.

"No, we have to dispatch fighter planes!"

Xia Chen decisively gave up the opportunity to practice the "Genjin Sword Art". If he delayed any further, who knows how many spiritual rice leaves and ears would be eaten by the rhinoceros beetle.

Soon, two mini planes flew through the spiritual field.

One of them was naturally piloted by Xia Chen himself.

The other one was controlled by Zhuma.

Zhuma is also an experienced driver. He had been flying a fighter jet around the outskirts of the shantytown for several days and his driving skills are extremely proficient.

This time, Xia Chen promised Zhu Ma that anyone who shot down a rhinoceros longhorn beetle would be rewarded with five spirit crystals.

So childhood sweethearts are full of motivation.

Xia Chen was flying through the spiritual rice in a D-class fighter. When he saw the giant black beetle, he fired two lasers, piercing it.

The speed of the laser can be imagined. Once the rhinoceros beetle is targeted, there is no possibility of dodging.

Soon, many black longhorn beetles appeared on the ground, some of which were not yet dead and were still baring their fangs and claws.

The mini plane does not have unlimited energy. If the energy is exhausted, you can spend spirit stones to let the system replenish energy.

A low-grade spirit stone can probably allow a mini fighter to fly continuously for ten days and ten nights.

"Hey, what a big rhinoceros longhorn beetle!"

On a plant of Golden Pearl Rice in front of us, a huge black-shelled longhorn beetle was perched on the stems and leaves. Its shell was a light golden color and was about the size of a tea lid.

Compared with other longicorn beetles, it has an inexplicable majesty.

"This should be the Rhinoceros Golden Longicorn King!"

Xia Chen was slightly surprised.

It seemed that he had underestimated this group of rhinoceros longhorn beetles. He did not expect that a longhorn beetle king would be born among them.

The Insect King has at least the strength of a lower-grade first rank and can command the entire insect swarm.

Once a tribe has the Insect King, the number of population members will increase rapidly, reaching a huge scale, forming an insect plague.

Xia Chen felt a little scared. Fortunately, he found this rhinoceros longhorn beetle king. Otherwise, once it began to multiply, his ten acres of golden rice would probably become food for the insect swarm.

He originally wanted to press the button to kill the insect king to prevent future troubles.

But suddenly I thought of the "Strange Insects Book" by the fat Taoist priest.

The "Strange Insects Sutra" is not actually a magic secret technique, but a special practice of insect masters. Once mastered, it can control insect swarms. Controlling insects is also one of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals.

The spiritual insect master solves the insect pests in the spiritual fields by controlling different types of insect swarms.

For example, the long-horned black beetle feeds on aphids such as the rice bug.

For example, the ten acres of spiritual fields before Xia Chen's death suffered a reduction in production due to the infestation of rice stink bugs.

If you have the help of a spiritual insect master, you can easily solve the pest problem by controlling the swarm of long-horned black beetles.

However, the number of spiritual insect masters is extremely small and their price is relatively high.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, spiritual farmers will not ask spiritual insect masters to come and eliminate pests.

Sun Hui used the "Book of Strange Insects" for evil purposes, to raise poisonous insects to harm people, which was not a righteous act.

At this moment, Xia Chen was driving the mini fighter and slowly stopped on the ground.

Then he opened the cabin and jumped out.

The originally insect-sized body immediately grew larger and returned to its normal size.

The rhinoceros beetle sensed the danger and immediately flapped its wings at high speed and flew high into the sky.

But not long after it flew, something rose into the sky from the field, so fast that only a shadow could be seen.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a childhood sweetheart.

It leaped into the air and actually caught the rhinoceros longhorn beetle in its mouth.

"Be gentle, don't bite it!"

Xia Chen shouted hurriedly, fearing that Zhu Ma would not be careful and bite the insect king.

After all, this guy has eaten a lot of Jinyuan Pills, and his body is much harder than gold and iron.

"Huh! Huh!"

The childhood sweetheart held the golden rhinoceros beetle king in his mouth and made a proud cry, indicating that there was no need to panic.

Xia Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There is a communication system between the mini planes. He just explained the situation to his childhood sweetheart and they must capture the insect king alive.

The strength of a first-level insect king is extraordinary. Its shell is as hard as iron and its horns are so sharp that they can even pierce through steel plates.

But who made me meet this monster called Zhuma?

The rhinoceros longicorn king, as big as a tea lid, was chirping loudly in Zhuma's mouth, its wings flapping continuously.

Xia Chen took out a bamboo cage from his storage bag and locked the Insect King inside.

This bamboo cage is woven with purple jade bamboo. It was originally intended to be used to catch some crabs and eels in the fields. Now it comes in handy.

After bringing the Insect King back, Xia Chen began to study the "Strange Insects Book".

If you want to control the spirit insect, you need to draw the insect seal.

With the help of the insect seal, one can control the soul of the spiritual insect and make it be driven by the insect master.

But the soul of the spirit insect is too weak.

The strength of the souls of ten spirit insects combined is not as strong as that of a spirit fish.

Controlling the Insect King's soul with the Insect Seal is an extremely delicate job. One careless move could harm the Insect King's soul.

Moreover, the insect king with an injured soul will not live long.

It is extremely difficult to catch a bug king and requires a lot of luck.

And the probability of refining an insect king is very low.

This is also the reason why spiritual insect masters are very rare.

There are twelve shanty towns in the Cuiwei Mountains, with thousands of spiritual farmers, but there are only two or three spiritual insect masters.

"Is there any way to increase the success rate of insect seal?" Xia Chen fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)