Chapter 7: Locust Plague

  The woman's name was Mu Xiangxi, and when Wu Song first heard it, he couldn't help but want to laugh. It reminded him of Murong Fu from the novel "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", who had become obsessed with restoring his kingdom. However, after a few encounters, Wu Song was shocked to discover that this little girl truly lived up to her name - her methods were as sinister and ruthless as Murong Fu's. Calling her a demonic woman didn't seem excessive at all.

  "This is just about right." Mu Muni smiled, put away her playful heart, and picked up a piece of gauze from the chair to wear on her body. However, this made Wu Song even more depressed. The thin layer of gauze revealed Mu Xiang's slender curves, making Wu Song feel like he was being teased, and this feeling only made him want to commit a crime even more.

  "What brings you here this time?" Wu Song, who had been battered and bruised, found a relatively clean place to sit down and decided to get straight to the point.

  "Others have come all the way to see you." Mu Witch suddenly changed her expression again, she moved a chair and sat down beside Wu Song, lowering her head, blushing, pouting her bright small mouth, and stretched out her small hand to hold Wu Song's arm, looking like a lovesick little woman who had finally seen her long-missed lover.

  "Look at me?" Wu Song scratched his head, subconsciously shifting his body to the other side, and said with a strange expression, "I'm not a flower, do I need to be specially looked at?" He still had some self-awareness, thinking that he was at most just not ugly, and words like "handsome" and "dashing" were not applicable to him. He wasn't so narcissistic as to think that Mu would really fall in love with him and come all the way to see him.

  "Ugh, you're so boring! You don't have any sense of humor at all!" Mu Mogui shook her head and gave Wu Song a withering look, but what was even more deadly was that the 90G (breasts) stuck to Wu Song's arm were shaking even harder.

  "Ah Mi tofu, its color is as sharp as a scraper's edge, I refuse to rot and will never be tainted..."

  Wu Song was tortured to the point of unbearable pain, just as he was silently giving himself a lesson in ideology and politics. Suddenly, Mu Guiying relaxed her grip and said, "Not interesting, forget it, I won't bother you anymore!"

  Wu Song's waterfall sweat, in his heart he says: "This guy also knows that he is troubling people."

  "Recently, there was a locust plague in the west, didn't you know?" Mu Mogui asked with a hint of vagueness in her voice as she stroked her long hair with her slender fingers.

  "I know." Wu Song's reply was brief, but his expression didn't change much. Living in the western part of the empire where variant bugs frequently appeared, he had already become numb to the words "bug disaster". He had only been in Mill Town for three months, but in that short time, he had personally experienced three bug disasters.

  "This time the insect plague is quite severe! The number of variant insects is large, and it's said that there are several worm kings among them. Three towns around Giant Stone City have already been destroyed. The consumption of alchemy supplies in the city is too high, and I and a few other alchemists are responsible for going to replenish the losses."

  "Bug King?!" Wu Song's eyes narrowed slightly as he subconsciously rubbed his brow, thinking to himself that if the Bug King really came, maybe he should go hide somewhere else. With Wu Song's current abilities, encountering a mutated bug might allow him to take out a few, but facing a mutated Bug King would be hopeless, even with his body's amplification ability.

  "Ah, yes." Mu Witch nodded and revealed a sinister smile, saying, "However, you don't have to worry too much. When those insects attacked Giant Stone City, one of the insect kings was killed by Master Wan. The insects have been subdued recently, and we've replenished the alchemy supplies that were lost in Giant Stone City. Some of them should be arriving here soon. If it's really unbearable, you can just escape, right? You're a thief, escaping shouldn't be a problem for you?"

  "Taken down a Worm King? This Lord of the Giant Stone Castle is indeed not simple, he should have at least reached the level of a Grandmaster! One day I'll reach that level too!" Wu Song heard that the Lord of the Giant Stone Castle had taken down a Worm King, and his little chicken was excited, with male hormones rapidly secreting in his body, but this time it wasn't because of Mu Yu's seduction.

  On the issue of taking down the Bug King, Wu Song was only slightly excited, but afterwards he furrowed his brow and stared into Mu Yu's eyes, asking, "Did you forcibly absorb soul power again when you went to help at Giant Stone City?" Wu Song subconsciously furrowed his brow and said, "Didn't I say so before? Before you become a Will King, it's best not to forcibly absorb too much soul power. Otherwise, your body can't withstand the backlash of soul power!"

  Soul power refers to the life energy left behind by living beings after death, which can be absorbed by humans. People absorb soul power and store it in their bodies, on the one hand, they can use this life energy to accelerate their own cultivation speed and improve their cultivation level. On the other hand, they can also convert soul power into spiritual energy that can be directly used by people.

  (Those who can't understand it can think of Lingzhi as experience and Lingneng as magic value, the experience here can be used for upgrading or converted into magic value)

  No matter whether it is used to enhance cultivation or transform spiritual energy, the soul power that can be utilized by the human body refers to a part of the soul power. However, no matter whether they are spirit masters or law controllers, the soul power they absorb from the outside world contains not only the part that can be absorbed by the human body but also a part that cannot be absorbed by the human body. These unabsorbable soul powers attach to the human body and exert tremendous pressure on people. These unabsorbable soul powers will slowly dissipate with time, but this process is quite slow. To avoid any adverse effects, it is necessary for people to maintain a certain rhythm when absorbing soul power; otherwise, they may easily get burned by the fire.

  The Guardians, having added physical strength for the most part, have relatively strong bodies and stronger endurance. However, most Controllers mainly focus on spiritual power, brain domain coordination, and thinking speed. Basically, no one would waste their rare attribute points on physical strength. At this point, it depends on the Guardian's physical quality. People with stronger physical qualities may be less affected by the soul force that cannot be absorbed and utilized by the human body. However, those who originally had poor physical qualities, if they recklessly absorb soul force without paying attention to maintaining a rhythm, are likely to encounter big problems!