Chapter 71: Thunder

The next day, after Lin Zhangqing finished his cultivation, seeing that there was still some time before going to the city wall to change shifts, he summoned the Eight Hundred and began to communicate with it.

Lin Zhangqing could clearly feel that the Eight Hundred had improved a lot, and now it had the intelligence of a child of about eight or nine years old, and the two could communicate very fluently.

However, now the Eight Hundred was becoming more and more dependent and close to Lin Zhangqing, and had even learned to act like a spoiled child, a bit like the tone of children hoping to get praise from their parents.

Lin Zhangqing was truly a bit strange. He had never taught this before. Could it be that acting like a spoiled child was innate! And now he didn't know how to help the Eight Hundred improve its strength, or how to let the Eight Hundred advance from a spirit tool to a magic treasure.

This might need to be asked of a Second-Stage or even Third-Stage artifact refiner, but it wasn't urgent now. This matter could wait until Lin Zhangqing established his foundation before proceeding to handle it!

Now the Eight Hundred's strength was just right for Lin Zhangqing to use. If its strength improved again, he wouldn't be able to use it! Seeing that the time was almost up, he went out to meet his father and Second Uncle, and walked toward the defense area responsible by the clan. Soon they arrived at the position and replaced the previous batch of clansmen on duty.

Lin Zhangqing and the others began the task of guarding the city for a day and a night. At first, there was still a bit of freshness, but it was very boring after a long time.

But they didn't dare to neglect their duties. After all, it related to the safety of so many people, so the three of them consulted that each person would watch for two hours, and the other two would rest, so it wouldn't be too tiring.

This method was good. Having so many people stationed on the city wall was actually to prevent surprise attacks by demon beasts. If the defensive power on the city wall wasn't enough, it would be easy to be successfully attacked.

In this way, about ten days passed. Lin Zhangqing was resting today and was in his residence, working hard to open up the fifth thunder aperture.

Suddenly, a female voice sounded over the fortress, "A large beast tide is surging toward Red Maple Fortress thirty li away. Everyone immediately return to the assigned defense area."

Lin Zhangqing had to stop, then tidied up a bit, and immediately went out to meet his father and Second Uncle. The three joined forces and rushed toward the defense area, because there were too many people on the street, all running toward their respective areas.

After reporting to the Clan Leader, the three immediately returned to their original positions and began battle preparations, sticking defense talismans, preparing offensive and defensive dharma treasures, placing pills and talismans in handy positions, etc...

Lin Zhangqing also released the Purple Crystal Scorpions in advance, invisible and distributed around the three of them. If any demon beast dared to approach, it would definitely give them a big surprise.

Everyone stared quietly outside the city wall. Everything was ready, just waiting for the demon beasts to come.

However, waiting was always long, and the atmosphere around was a bit oppressive. It felt like they had waited for a long time, and finally, a large wave of beast tide, like a tide, surged toward the fortress. This time, the demon beasts were much more numerous than last time.

Overwhelmingly, they surged directly onto the transparent shield, then stuck to it and began to attack the defense array, while the cultivators defending inside released spells, dharma treasures, attack talismans, etc., all at once. Anyway, they could hit the target with their eyes closed.

The two sides went directly into a white-hot state upon contact. Lin Zhangqing's fireballs always smashed toward the weaker parts of the First-Stage late-stage demon beasts, such as the abdomen or waist, killing these demon beasts as effectively as possible.

Father and Second Uncle also operated this way. Perhaps to reduce the pressure on the defense array, small gaps began to appear on the shield, letting a small part of the demon beasts in.

The real test began. Demon beasts climbed onto the city wall one after another, forcing the defending cultivators to divert their energy to deal with them.

Clansmen had also begun to organize together tacitly in twos and threes, supporting and covering each other, which could greatly reduce casualties.

Of course, there were also demon beasts here, but as long as they approached, they would be met with a mournful scream, twitching violently and falling to the ground, and then killed by one of the three with a flying sword through the brain. Lin Zhangqing also discovered that their side had excessive defense because of the Purple Crystal Scorpions, and there was no need to arrange the Purple Crystal Scorpions so densely.

He began to intentionally distribute the Purple Crystal Scorpions more sparsely. 124 Purple Crystal Scorpions were invisible and distributed within a range of more than 200 meters, trying their best to protect more clansmen, such as Uncle Ben and Uncle Feng, who were relatively close to the three of them.

Of course, twenty-four were still left beside the three of them. On this point, Lin Zhangqing's primary and secondary were very clear. Only when they were safe could they better protect the clansmen.

The high-intensity battle continued. Lin Zhangqing had already begun to consume Qi Recovery Pills, not daring to let the spiritual energy storage in his body be too low. When it dropped to about 50%, Lin Zhangqing began to use Qi Recovery Pills.

Anyway, he had prepared enough in advance. As long as people were safe, other external things were secondary.

Lin Zhangqing felt that he had killed at least fifty or sixty demon beasts, and the beast tide outside showed no signs of decreasing. It seemed there was no telling how many demon beasts were outside, so he could only brace himself and persist.

Now Lin Zhangqing was a bit worried about Grandfather. After all, the number of this beast tide was several times that of the last time, and Second-Stage demon beasts would theoretically increase accordingly. He didn't know if the clan's three Foundation Establishment cultivators could hold on, especially Grandfather and Fourteenth Uncle! Lin Zhangqing began to divert a bit of attention, consciously searching for their figures, to see if he could help at a critical moment. After all, he had the powerful trump card of the Eight Hundred, so he was confident in heavily damaging Second-Stage demon beasts with one blow.

The battle range of Foundation Establishment cultivators was automatically avoided by Qi Refining cultivators and First-Stage demon beasts, for fear of being affected, so it was easy to find them.

He happened to see the Clan Leader facing two Second-Stage demon beasts alone, one was a wolf-like creature, and the other was a demon beast that looked like a pangolin magnified several times.

Both were in the Second-Stage mid-stage cultivation. It looked like they could maintain a balance of attack and defense, and there shouldn't be a big problem in the short term. It seemed there was no need to worry about the Clan Leader for now.

On the other side, Grandfather and Fourteenth Uncle, together with the Bloodthirsty Thorn Vine, were dealing with three Second-Stage demon beasts. One was the Swift Wind Wolf King, with Second-Stage mid-stage cultivation.

One was a demon beast like a big mouse, whose breed couldn't be seen, with Second-Stage early-stage cultivation.

And one was a fox-like demon beast, with Second-Stage mid-stage cultivation, mainly dealt with by Fourteenth Uncle. However, now his arm had been scratched, and the situation looked a bit bad.

Fortunately, Grandfather and the Bloodthirsty Thorn Vine were supporting each other on the side, otherwise Fourteenth Uncle would be in danger. He couldn't wait any longer! Lin Zhangqing told Father and Second Uncle to pay attention to protecting themselves, stuffed another Qi Recovery Pill into his mouth, then flipped his hand to take out the Thunder Horn, and began to input spiritual energy into it. The Eight Hundred also desperately mobilized the Thunder Horn to form the Geng Metal Divine Thunder.

After inputting about 90% of his spiritual energy, the Geng Metal Divine Thunder finally took shape, immediately locked onto the fox demon, and fired it out without hesitation.

After a short flight, with a loud "Boom!", the Geng Metal Divine Thunder hit the top of the fox demon's head, causing it to let out a mournful scream, then it flipped over onto the ground, covered in blood and motionless.

Fourteenth Uncle was also startled, but immediately reacted, hurriedly controlled his spirit tool flying sword, passed through the fox demon's head from the eye, and added this sword, lest the fox demon recover later.

He glanced at Lin Zhangqing, then hurriedly went over to help Ninth Uncle Lin Fandao, shared the pressure, and took over dealing with the mouse demon beast, so Ninth Uncle's pressure was much smaller.

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