Chapter 113: Counterattack on Jin Shan Market

Ever since human cultivators set foot on the continent of Donghuangxianzhou one hundred thousand years ago, through the expansion of generations of cultivators, human cultivators have continuously seized vast territories for survival from the original overlord beasts. At its peak, there were traces of human activity on both the east and west sides of the entire continent, and more than half of Donghuangxianzhou was human territory.

It was not until thirty thousand years ago that this realm suffered an invasion by the True Demons of the Demon Realm. The True Demons wanted to blood-sacrifice a magic weapon in this realm, harming hundreds of millions of cultivators and mortals, leaving life in ruins wherever they went.

In order to defend this realm and expel the True Demons, high-tier cultivators from the five continents and four seas of the human realm united to fight a great battle against the True Demons. The great battle lasted for hundreds of years, and in the end, they even invited down True Immortals who had already ascended to the Upper Realm to assist, only then successfully expelling the True Demons.

Although the human realm ultimately won this battle, human cultivators also paid a huge price, and even those highest-tier Soul Transformation cultivators died in battle for the most part.

In that battle, the cultivators of Donghuangxianzhou also lost several Soul Transformation cultivators at once. For a time, the strength comparison between the local human race and the beast race also lost balance. The strength of the human cultivator side declined significantly, and beasts gradually began to gain the upper hand.

For these thirty thousand years, because the human side was weak, they have been continuously shrinking their influence, and the beast side has also begun to gradually erode the human territory.

A few years ago, Song Qingming read a record in a classic in the Guiyun Market, which stated that ten thousand years ago, the entire Fuyun Mountain Range was still human territory. At that time, the Fuyun Mountain Range had beautiful mountains and rivers, many spiritual lands, and was home to many large human sects.

In a large-scale invasion of the Northern Frontier beasts ten thousand years ago, the human side was defeated, and over a hundred sects were wiped out at once, only then losing this great cultivation holy land of the Fuyun Mountain Range.

After the beasts occupied the Fuyun Mountain Range for over ten thousand years, they gradually stood firm. Starting from over two thousand years ago, the beasts in the Fuyun Mountain Range began to invade south again. Several neighboring countries, including Wei Guo, also began to lose their peace, having to endure the impact of a large-scale beast southward movement every hundred years.

Because the previous generation of Nascent Soul patriarchs of the Xiaoyao Sect had extraordinary strength a thousand years ago, Wei Guo forced the Golden Feather Beast Emperor in the Fuyun Mountain Range to sign a non-aggression pact. During beast unrest, the Nascent Soul-level combat power of both sides was not allowed to take action at will, only then controlling the beast unrest that occurred every hundred years to a range below Nascent Soul.

It is also because of this that the influence of beast unrest in Wei Guo for the past thousand years has been controlled within the several counties in the north, and very few beasts have been able to enter the core hinterland of Wei Guo.

In the Jin Shan Market.

Seeing the beast army he sent out being beaten to pieces and fleeing back, the white lion beast king let out an angry roar, bit a second-tier wolf beast that had just fled back, and soon swallowed this unlucky beast into its belly.

The thousands of low-tier beasts nearby were trembling with fear, hurriedly prostrating themselves on the ground, letting out light roars of begging for mercy.

In the area of the Fuyun Mountain Range near Wei Guo, there are over a dozen third-tier beasts. Every time there is beast unrest, the leaders are basically these beast kings. There are very few beast kings from outside mixed in. The Xiaoyao Sect has been fighting these beast kings for thousands of years and is already very familiar with their detailed situation.

Cao Wanjiang was not wrong. This white lion beast king was indeed not from outside. It had been in seclusion in the Fuyun Mountain Range for nearly a hundred years and only broke through to the Jin Dan realm thirty years ago. It was also because the white lion beast king did not often come out to walk around that the Xiaoyao Sect had not noticed this beast all these years.

Although the white lion beast king's personality is somewhat cruel, it is considered a bitter cultivator among beasts. Having cultivated for hundreds of years, it rarely walks out of its own territory. The reason why it left its territory this time is because it had a direct descendant that it had carefully cultivated for many years, who died inadvertently at the hands of human cultivators a few years ago.

The Qinghe County cultivators, including Song Qingming, do not know now that the second-tier white lion they killed at Chifeng Ridge a few years ago was the direct bloodline that this white lion beast king loved the most. Otherwise, even if someone gave the Huang family several guts, they would not dare to intentionally provoke this beast king.

A few days later, the prepared Huoyun Mountain cultivators began to walk down Huoyun Mountain and set off toward the Jin Shan Market.

This time, in order to retake the Jin Shan Market, the Huoyun Mountain cultivators can be said to have come out in full force, with over forty Foundation Establishment and over a thousand Qi Refining cultivators. Lu Boyang, the Jin Dan True Person, was also hidden at the back of the team.

The sporadic beasts encountered along the way, seeing such a huge team, all fled to the distance in fear. Huoyun Mountain is not far from the Jin Shan Market, and the group did not encounter much beast obstruction along the way, soon arriving outside the Jin Shan Market.

Following Lu Boyang's order, dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators flew out from the team and took the lead in killing toward the Jin Shan Market. The Qi Refining cultivators behind also divided into over a dozen teams, following behind these Foundation Establishment cultivators. Some low-tier beasts wandering outside the market, seeing human cultivators attacking, hurriedly let out an angry roar, notifying other beasts in the market.

Before long, noisy roars came from the entire market, and groups of beasts rushed out from the Jin Shan Market. Both sides soon fought together.

Although the number of beasts in the Jin Shan Market is not small, their overall strength is still slightly worse than the Huoyun Mountain cultivator side. Moreover, the cultivator side fights in a more organized way, and some cultivators with formations in their hands even formed some legal formations to fight the enemy, which is far more flexible than the beast side in battle.

In this battle, Song Qingming also used a set of common Three Talents Harmonious Qi Formations, forming a legal formation with the old patriarch Song Gushan and the ninth uncle Song Changxin, the two cultivators with the highest cultivation in the Song family, blocking in front of the rest of the Song family cultivators, blocking a portion of the beasts' spell impact for them.

This set of formations is both offensive and defensive. After the three people activate the formation, any one of them can quickly borrow the mana of the other two to fight the enemy. Even if the three people are separated, they can give each other support at any time. It was after the Huoyun Mountain battle that Song Qingming spent a few days using the ability of the remnant map on his body to rush to make it.

This time, all twelve members of the Song family went to the battlefield. The thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong and the fifth brother Song Qingrui, who were injured in the previous battle, were still healing and did not come. The patriarch Song Gushan also applied to the Huang family, specifically leaving the eighth brother Song Qingchen, who had lower cultivation, on Huoyun Mountain to help take care of the two injured people.

Although the Huang family's management of subordinate families is relatively strict, this time they conscripted cultivators from the four counties of Jiangling Commandery. Under the principle of not violating the Xiaoyao Sect's conscription, they were naturally willing to take care of subordinate families.

After all, they did not come out for the benefit of the Huang family itself this time. After Song Gushan spoke to the Huang family cultivators and stuffed them with a few spirit talismans, he soon got a quota for Song Qingchen to stay behind on Huoyun Mountain.

Just as the battle here started, the white lion beast king flew out from the Jin Shan Market. Seeing human cultivators attacking the market, the white lion beast king opened its mouth wide and spat out an ice wind, instantly freezing over a dozen unlucky cultivators who were relatively close to it into ice sculptures.

Just as the white lion beast king was showing off its power, a blue light also slashed to its side. The white lion beast king hurriedly released the protective spiritual light on its body, wanting to block this fierce blow. It did not expect that the white lion beast king still underestimated the power of this blue light. Although it blocked most of the attack, a cut was still opened on its body, and a blood-red color also overflowed from its snow-white fur.

"Evil beast, since you want to fight so much, let this old man accompany you to play!"

Following the disappearance of the blue light in the air just now, Lu Boyang, holding a blue long sword in his hand, suddenly appeared in the sky above the battlefield and confronted the white lion beast king from afar.

Seeing the shocking means of these two, the nearby cultivators and beasts all fled far away from this battlefield. Jin Dan-level battles are not something to play with. Even if Qi Refining cultivators are shaken by the aftermath of their battle, they will lose their lives on the spot.

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