Chapter 111: Confrontation

Just as Cao Wanjiang was busy settling the reinforcements, a cultivator with the Cao family's unique fire cloud mark printed on his clothes hurried over to him and shouted loudly.

"Chen Chen Laozu, beasts... beasts are coming!"

"What are you panicking about? Speak clearly: how many beasts have come, how far are they from us, and have you seen a beast king?" Seeing this person's panicked appearance, Cao Wanjiang could not help but reprimand him.

Because of their crushing defeat at the Jin Shan Market last time, the Qi Refining cultivators below had been in low spirits for days. Especially those who escaped from the Jin Shan Market, they had seen with their own eyes the cruelty of the beasts after breaching the market. Now, whenever they heard news of beasts heading south, everyone was terrified. If it weren't for the Foundation Establishment cultivators on the mountain suppressing them, these people would probably have fled south like those rogue cultivators.

Seeing the displeasure on his Chen Chen Laozu's face, this Cao family cultivator hurriedly adjusted his state, calmed down, and replied to Cao Wanjiang:

"I estimate there are four or five hundred, with over a dozen second-tier beasts in the middle. They are still over three hundred miles away from Huoyun Mountain, and I estimate they will arrive in half a day. I did not see that white lion beast king, but Chen Chen Laozu, we were a bit far away, so we are not quite sure if that beast king followed." After the Cao family Qi Refining cultivator finished speaking, his eyeballs turned carefully, fearing that this Chen Chen Laozu would be dissatisfied with his statement.

Fortunately, after Cao Wanjiang finished listening, he did not say much, just waved his hand at him, dismissing him first.

Having received news of the beast attack, Cao Wanjiang hurriedly notified all the Foundation Establishment cultivators on Huoyun Mountain and began preparing to welcome the beasts' attack.

Soon, half a day later, noisy roars of beasts came from the foot of Huoyun Mountain. Everyone soon saw hundreds of beasts galloping from the foot of the mountain, and their faces all revealed a trace of heaviness.

Song Qingming did not expect that they had been here for less than a day and had not had time to rest properly before the beast army killed its way here.

The scene of hundreds of beasts galloping was very magnificent. Song Qingming was also seeing such a suffocating scene for the first time. Looking down from the mountain, they could see all the aggressive beasts clearly. Song Qingming even had some doubts in his heart, wondering if their greatest reliance, the mountain-protecting great formation, could hold up under the simultaneous impact of so many beasts.

However, the scene that followed soon dispelled this doubt in his heart.

Just as these hundreds of beasts rushed to the foot of the mountain, a yellow protective shield soon covered the entire Huoyun Mountain. Many beasts, because they rushed too fast, soon hit the yellow protective shield head-on.

Some smaller beasts were bounced to the side by the shield and trampled to death on the ground by the beasts behind that could not stop in time. Others, larger in size, turned directly into a pile of flesh and blood after colliding with the yellow shield, staining parts of the yellow shield blood-red.

Only the dozen or so leading second-tier beasts were not greatly affected. Seeing that this spiritual mountain was guarded by a shield, they gathered together and began to attack the yellow shield.

"Everyone, the great formation can only last for an hour at most. Everyone go back and prepare well. Next, it will be up to you to go out and block the beasts first."

Cao Wanjiang, while directing and controlling the mountain-protecting great formation, said to the many Foundation Establishment cultivators beside him, letting them go and prepare for the subsequent counterattack.

Although the power of the mountain-protecting great formation on Huoyun Mountain cannot compare to the second-tier top-quality great formation of the Jin Shan Market, it can be considered the best mountain-protecting great formation in Pingyang County now.

It is just that, like they are doing now, fully activating the great formation to cover the entire Huoyun Mountain also requires consuming a large amount of spirit stones. Facing the simultaneous attack of four or five hundred beasts, they can at most activate it for an hour or so to weaken the strength of some beasts. There is no other way to rely entirely on the mountain-protecting great formation to repel this attack of the beasts.

An hour passed quickly. The dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators soon flew out from the mountain-protecting great formation and intercepted those second-tier beasts that were still constantly attacking the formation. Song Qingming and the other Qi Refining cultivators, following the order of the Huang family cultivator, followed the crowd and rushed down the mountain.

Seeing that the cultivators and beasts below had already started fighting, Cao Wanjiang on the mountain also fell into a dilemma.

The beasts had already headed south again. I do not know why the cultivators sent by the Xiaoyao Sect this time were so slow. Fortunately, that white lion beast king did not come this time. Otherwise, just by relying on these Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators, even if they activated the mountain-protecting great formation, they could only hold on for a few more hours. Once they lost this defensive line again, most of the territory in Pingyang County would have to be ceded to these cruel beasts.

This time in the battle, they had not made any preparations and had muddled into a fight with the beasts. However, the battle had already started, and they could not think too much. The Song family members could only bite the bullet and go up. Under the leadership of the old patriarch Song Gushan, the group jumped out of the yellow shield and killed toward the nearby beasts.

As soon as the beasts outside saw many cultivators running out from inside the shield, they immediately stopped attacking the yellow shield and pounced toward these cultivators.

The thirteenth uncle, Song Changxiong, who had just jumped outside the mountain-protecting great formation, was very unlucky and was immediately targeted by several beasts around him. Facing the siege of many beasts, even he, who had very rich experience in fighting, was forced to be somewhat flustered and had his arm scratched by a green wolf.

Fortunately, Song Qingming was not far from him and timely leaned toward him, using the Heaven-Net Umbrella in his hand to block two beasts for him, which allowed him to catch his breath.

The Song family cultivators who came this time were all cultivators with relatively rich experience in fighting and were relatively powerful. They soon stood their ground on the battlefield, gathered into a group, and fought while charging forward, killing two beasts before long.

Song Qingming carried many top-grade spirit talismans on his body. Here, as long as his luck was not so bad that he was targeted by a second-tier beast, it was not a difficult thing for him to retreat unscathed even if he wanted to in this melee of first-tier beasts.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators and second-tier beasts in the sky were also fighting happily. Both sides were fighting very fiercely. Some unlucky low-tier cultivators and beasts were injured by the aftermath of their battle and unwillingly retreated from the battlefield.

Not long after the battle started, casualties among the cultivators had already begun to appear. Fortunately, the number of beasts that came this time was not too many, only a few hundred. As long as no third-tier beast suddenly appeared, these cultivators could still handle it. What they feared was that the cunning white lion beast king would hide nearby and, like last time, attack the mountain-protecting great formation as soon as they came out. If that really happened, they would slowly have no place to stand.

Just as both sides were fighting fiercely, a dazzling blue light suddenly flew from the sky above the battlefield. After the blue light shook, it turned into a blue giant sword several zhang long, instantly cutting a second-tier giant python in the sky into two halves. At the same time, a powerful pressure instantly shrouded the entire battlefield.

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