My dreams can simulate the future.

Chapter 66 The Weakness of the Black Blood Mosquito

The black-blooded mosquitoes were extremely fast. Originally, they were more than two hundred feet apart, but now the shuttle boat was moving at a speed of seventy or eighty miles per hour.

However, within just over ten breaths, the black smoke had caught up to within a hundred feet of the speedboat.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen gritted his teeth in hatred: "The Black Stone Society's methods are truly endless. I've dodged so many tricks, and now a swarm of flying insects has come."

The Thousand-Blade Golden Armor, though powerful, was only effective defensively against swarms of incredibly fast insects; it couldn't kill them.

He sighed, then took out a diagram of an array and unfolded it.

A surge of black spiritual light erupted from the array diagram, quickly condensing into a gigantic black Xuanwu.

The phantom of Xuanwu enveloped the entire shuttle boat and continuously absorbed river water, forming a thick black barrier around the boat.

Before long, the black blood mosquitoes caught up and surrounded the black barrier, biting it incessantly.

Jiang Chen immediately summoned a high-grade first-rank fire python talisman, and a fiery python soared into the air, entangled with the black blood mosquito.

However, the Black Blood Mosquitoes are extremely fast and seem to be quite fire-resistant, so very few of them can be killed by the Fire Python Talisman.

He then used the token to manipulate the formation to attack.

The phantom of Xuanwu kept waving its four claws, and even the black snake on its back kept opening its mouth to bite the black blood mosquitoes.

The other black tortoise's head also opened its mouth wide, constantly spewing out black, cold light.

The individual combat power of black-blooded mosquitoes is not strong. These methods can kill a lot of black-blooded mosquitoes, but compared with the entire black-blooded mosquito swarm, this number is just a drop in the ocean.

In just over a hundred breaths, the Xuanwu Protective Spirit Array was already on the verge of collapse.

Jiang Chen quickly activated the last Earth-based Water-Stopping Array as well.

However, this last formation was only at the initial stage of the second rank, and its power was much weaker.

After forty or fifty breaths, both formations collapsed.

The shuttle boat was a first-grade magic weapon, and its defensive formation was only a high-grade first-grade formation. After it was activated, it lasted for less than ten breaths.

The black blood mosquitoes surrounded everyone on the ship, and screams of agony rang out. In just a few breaths, they were all dead.

Subsequently, all the Black Blood Mosquitoes began to swarm Jiang Chen, and sword beams shot out continuously, each capable of killing dozens of Black Blood Mosquitoes.

However, the black cloud formed by the black blood mosquitoes showed no signs of diminishing.

Thirty breaths later, the golden armor shattered, and countless black blood mosquitoes swarmed towards it.

At this moment, Jiang Chen saw a silver streak of light approaching Qinglu Beach from the north.

Then, the pain and itching sensation spread from all over his body, from his skin and flesh to his bones and internal organs. Fortunately, he fainted after a few breaths.

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The simulation ended, and Jiang Chen's consciousness returned to the real world.

He couldn't help but tremble all over; the pain and itching from the black blood mosquito bites seemed to still be haunting him.

It took him a long time to recover.

He cursed inwardly, "Damn the Black Stone Society! They'll use any dirty trick imaginable. I had already escaped the formation and the Heavenly Thunder Pearl, and even saved the shuttle boat, but I was killed by the Black Blood Mosquitoes."

Despite the criticism, we still need to find a way to deal with these black-blooded mosquitoes.

"The Black Blood Mosquito is extremely ferocious and flies incredibly fast. Let alone me, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator flying on a sword would likely be unable to escape its pursuit."

"When facing black-blooded mosquitoes, simply trying to escape is useless; we need to find a way to control them."

He then began to recall his memories of black-blooded mosquitoes and quickly discovered the anomaly.

"Black blood mosquitoes are highly poisonous, reproduce rapidly, and can even improve their rank by fighting each other, with an extremely high potential."

Moreover, their attack capabilities are not weak; they can break through defensive formations and protective qi.

Logically speaking, this creature poses a great threat to humanity. Yet, in the cultivation world, only rogue cultivators are terrified of mosquitoes; no major powers have ever been heard of attempting to eradicate the Black Blood Mosquito.

It seems the Black Blood Mosquito must have significant weaknesses, rendering it largely ineffective against cultivators from powerful factions.

"If that's the case, I can go and ask someone what the weaknesses of these black blood mosquitoes are."

The best option is to ask Zhao Changzhou. However, it's best to ask him during a dream simulation to avoid revealing your secret.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen began to circulate the Nourishing Spirit Technique again to restore Dream Butterfly's energy.

At 5 PM, Jiang Chen awoke from his meditation.

At this moment, the Dream Butterfly Diagram's energy had been fully restored, and Jiang Chen immediately entered the dream. There were still fifteen days and one night left before heading to the Golden Cauldron Sect.

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[First day of entering the dream]

It was getting close to nightfall, so Jiang Chen went to the Dragon-Seeking Pavilion to buy three array diagrams. These three diagrams had played a crucial role during his last dream encounter.

Having learned from his previous experience of buying things in the dream, Jiang Chen directly asked for 1,000 spirit stones, and the old man selling the array diagram still readily agreed to the deal.

Holding the array diagram, Jiang Chen walked out of the Dragon-Seeking Pavilion, inwardly cursing, "Just how high are this unscrupulous merchant's profit margins? He asked for three thousand, I bargained down to one thousand, and he still makes a lot more?"

"Luckily, I have the Dream Butterfly Diagram, which can simulate the future. Let's take it slow; we'll figure out your bottom line eventually."

[The second day of the dream]

Early in the morning, Jiang Chen took the talismans that needed to be handed over and went to the talisman room of the town's garrison.

After handing over the talismans, he went to the back hall of the talisman room.

At that moment, Zhao Changzhou was reviewing official documents. Seeing Jiang Chen enter, he asked, "Junior Brother, what brings you here?"

Jiang Chen said, "Senior brother, I've been investigating some of the demonic beasts and insects south of the Golden Scale River these past few days."

One type of demonic insect is called the Black Blood Mosquito. This creature has an extremely high reproductive rate and an ability to enhance cultivation, so why does it pose relatively little threat?

Manager Zhao laughed and said, "This thing is no less of a threat to mortals and rogue cultivators than those infamous demonic insects."

However, the black-blooded mosquito has a fatal weakness that makes it pose very little threat to Foundation Establishment cultivators and sect cultivators.

Jiang Chen understood; just as he had guessed, this thing had a fatal weakness.

"May I ask, senior brother, what is this weakness?"

Manager Zhao didn't keep them in suspense any longer: "It's simple. The Black Blood Mosquito's soul is extremely weak, and it has little ability to resist attacks from the divine sense."

A Foundation Establishment cultivator only needs to release their aura to scatter the vast majority of Black Blood Mosquitoes.

The individual combat strength of the Black Blood Mosquito is not strong. As long as the majority of the Black Blood Mosquitoes can be taken down, the remaining few strong ones can be killed by a first-grade talisman.

Zhao Changzhou continued, "It's more difficult for Qi Refining cultivators to deal with Black Blood Mosquitoes. They need specialized spiritual attack methods to subdue them."

"Your spiritual sense is not weak. If you could cultivate a secret technique for attacking within a spiritual sense range, dealing with the swarm of black blood mosquitoes would be a piece of cake."

This put Jiang Chen in a bit of a dilemma. Although he had the [Nourishing Spirit Technique], a secret technique for cultivating spiritual sense, he did not have a secret technique for attacking with spiritual sense.

Any secret techniques related to consciousness and soul are extremely rare among independent cultivators, and it's unlikely that you can buy them with money.

Ever since he learned that the prototype of his true meaning was related to dreams, he had been trying to find such magic, but it had never appeared on the market.

"I don't have this kind of spell yet, so it seems I'll have to avoid Black Blood Mosquitoes in the future."