Chapter 103: Spring-Returning Vine Wood Formation

Under the arrangement of the Huang family cultivators, nearly two hundred Qi Refining cultivators were divided into two groups. The cultivators of the vassal families such as the Song family, under the leadership of several Huang family cultivators, each drew the areas they were responsible for and quickly surrounded Chifeng Ridge.

The remaining Huang family and Qian family cultivators, under the leadership of three Foundation Establishment cultivators, killed their way up Chifeng Ridge from three directions. Besides Huang Shengxin and Qian Guangyao, the Huang family also sent an old-brand Foundation Establishment cultivator at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, Huang Chengliang, for this battle.

Besides that second-tier mid-grade White Lion, there were hundreds of low-tier demonic beasts on Chifeng Ridge. The White Lion had occupied this place for several years and had basically subdued these demonic beasts.

The crowd had not surrounded the mountain for long when they had already alarmed this White Lion. Seeing many cultivators coming down the mountain, the White Lion was suddenly fierce, brought more than a dozen demonic beasts, and came down from the top of the mountain.

The White Lion was the fastest and rushed to the front. Seeing the dozens of cultivators surging up below, the White Lion roared, the wind moved on its four hooves, and it flew into the air. It opened its mouth wide toward the many cultivators below and spat out a fierce and violent wind.

"Vicious beast, how dare you be so rampant."

Unexpectedly, this violent wind spat out by the White Lion was blocked by a cyan sword light halfway along the road. A Foundation Establishment cultivator holding a three-foot green sharp sword, Qian Guangyao, flew out from the cultivators below and fought with the White Lion in the air, one person and one lion. The Qi Refining cultivators below also soon fought with the demonic beasts that followed the White Lion.

Qian Guangyao had not been in Foundation Establishment for long, his cultivation was only at the second layer of Foundation Establishment, and he only had a second-tier low-quality flying sword on him. He also knew that his own strength was far inferior to this second-tier mid-grade White Lion. Before the battle, he had already arranged for the Qi Refining cultivators below to send a request for help signal to the two Huang family Foundation Establishment cultivators.

On the second-tier mid-grade White Lion, there were several divine abilities with extraordinary power. When it attacked the Huang family's refined iron mine a few months ago, it had a fierce battle with another Huang family Foundation Establishment ancestor, Huang Shengyue. The final result was that Huang Shengyue, who was at the third layer of Foundation Establishment, suffered minor injuries, and it was only by relying on a second-tier mid-grade spiritual talisman in his hand that he barely repelled the White Lion.

Qian Guangyao's cultivation and divine abilities were not as good as Huang Shengyue's, and he soon fell into a disadvantage. It was just that his task now was not to repel this demonic beast, but just to try his best to drag the White Lion. Foundation Establishment cultivators could fly with swords, and it would take at most the time it takes for an incense stick to burn to support here. Once the other two Huang family Foundation Establishment cultivators came to support, they would be able to turn defeat into victory.

The dozens of Qi Refining cultivators below were mostly Qian family cultivators he brought. Even if it were not for this mission of the Huang family, he could only bite the bullet and block the White Lion's attack. Once this fierce beast broke through his line of defense, the fate of these Qi Refining cultivators below could only be handed over to the demonic beasts. It was estimated that after the battle ended, there would not be many left.

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At the same time, at the corner of a mountain ridge on the north side of the foot of Chifeng Ridge, two Qi Refining-stage red apes had just come down from the mountain. Unexpectedly, just as they walked to the flat ground, two cyan vines suddenly emerged from the ground and entangled the feet of these two Red Fire Apes.

The two Red Fire Apes were incredibly strong, picked up the cyan vines entangled on their feet with both hands and pulled hard, soon tearing them into two sections.

It was just that before it could be happy, more cyan vines emerged from the ground, entangled the lower half of the Red Fire Apes along their feet. These cyan vines regenerated after being broken. No matter how the Red Fire Apes tore, they could not completely remove these vines.

The Red Fire Apes were angry at being trapped in the vines. At this time, four sword lights suddenly killed their way from not far away. The leader was the Song family's old patriarch Song Gushan.

The two Red Fire Apes had ordinary strength and were only mid-grade demonic beasts, and they were also restrained by the vines under their feet. Not long after, they screamed and died unwillingly in the hands of the Song family's group.

"Changling, Qingrui, don't deal with these demonic beast corpses first, pull them to the side and hide them. Qingming, don't be distracted, focus on controlling the formation."

"Yes! Patriarch."

The three major armies responsible for attacking the mountain were already fighting lively on the mountain, and the many cultivators at the foot of the mountain were also constantly welcoming the continuous impact of the demonic beasts.

This time, the Huang family gave strict orders to all major vassal families not to let go of a single demonic beast on Chifeng Ridge, swearing to wipe out the demonic beasts of Chifeng in one fell swoop. Not only that.

Song Gushan's luck was average, and the defensive position he drew was an open flat ground. If the luck was not good, and more than a dozen demonic beasts attacked at the same time, the six Song family cultivators, even if they all fought with their lives, would be very difficult to hold this place.

In order to reduce their own defensive pressure, the Song family could only choose to set up a formation in place to wait for work.

Since the Great Elder Song Gubai, who was a top-grade formation master, passed away, Song Qingming had become the person with the highest formation level in the Song family. Although his formation level had also improved a lot over the years, it was still far from the Great Elder before he passed away.

Song Qingming studied the mountain terrain here and chose to set up a Spring-Returning Vine Wood Formation here.

The Spring-Returning Vine Wood Formation was a formation to trap the enemy. The attack power of this formation was not strong. Its biggest advantage was that the area the formation could control was very large, covering a radius of a hundred zhang around.

Fortunately, after surrounding the mountain for a long time, the demonic beasts fleeing from the mountain to the Song family's position here had not been many. Relying on the power of the formation, the Song family's group defended quite easily, and no one was injured.

However, not all positions were so lucky. Several Qi Refining families responsible for surrounding the east side fell into a bitter battle not long after the battle started.

What they had to face was not the demonic beasts fleeing down Chifeng Ridge, but a group of powerful demonic beasts that happened to be foraging at the foot of the mountain nearby. These families' cultivators had just arrived at the assigned positions and had not yet prepared when they were besieged by the demonic beasts. Fortunately, several Huang family cultivators patrolling nearby soon discovered this situation and came to support. Added to the few families that were prepared in the rear, they helped them stabilize the situation.

Although the overall strength of the demonic beasts on Chifeng Ridge was not as good as that of the Qinghe County cultivators, the quantity was no less than theirs. This method of surrounding from all sides could achieve the goal of wiping out the demonic beasts on the mountain, but it also dispersed their own strength. Once the demonic beasts began to forcibly break through, it was inevitable that some cultivators would have to face enemies several times their own.

After several fierce collisions in the air, Qian Guangyao, dressed in red, was knocked back more than ten zhang by a blue lightning light sprayed by the White Lion. There was also a pitch-black spot on his shoulder. After fighting for only twenty-something rounds, facing this fierce White Lion, Qian Guangyao had already felt tremendous pressure, and a trace of scarlet color overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Just after blocking a strike, the White Lion had another powerful divine ability, the Triple Wind Blade, slashed over. Qian Guangyao, whose figure was still unstable in the air, could only bite his teeth and release a purple bronze bell to meet it, wanting to sacrifice this magic tool to delay the speed of this wind blade attack and fight for time for himself to dodge.

Unexpectedly, this bronze bell magic tool did not even fully take the first wind blade before it was split into two and fell to the ground, becoming a waste product. This magic tool had followed him for many years. Although it was not a second-tier magic tool, its defensive ability was outstanding. Unexpectedly, it had completely lost this magic tool not long after it was taken out.

Seeing that the wind blade had reached his eyes and could not be dodged, Qian Guangyao could only hold a yellow spiritual talisman in his hand. When the first wind blade was still a few feet away from him, a yellow light shield suddenly appeared in front of him and blocked this wind blade.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the other two wind blades had already slashed onto the light shield. After a burst of sizzling sounds, these two wind blades completely disappeared in the air, and the yellow light shield in front of Qian Guangyao also became very dim and soon turned into nothingness.

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