Chapter 119: Unrest Ends

Next, although the Huoyun Mountain side was still the disadvantaged side and could only rely on several second-tier spiritual veins to hold on, after the great battle of Long Tengshan, the beast side gradually lost its sharpness. Except for small-scale harassment, it never launched a large-scale attack again, and both sides gradually fell into a stalemate in Pingyang County.

Time flew by, and another half a year passed. Good news finally came from the Guiyun Market side. After confronting for nearly a year, the Xiaoyao Sect finally seized an opportunity. Taking advantage of the beast army's lack of defense, they joined forces with the two Jin Dan elders who came to support, and inside and outside, they set up a great formation to kill two beast kings at once.

The remaining beast kings saw that the situation was not good and directly abandoned the beast army under their command and fled north back to the Fuyun Mountain Range. The beast army that lost the beast king's command instantly fell into chaos. The Guiyun Mountain cultivators took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. After a fierce battle, the beast army that had attacked the Guiyun Market for nearly a year finally began to retreat, leaving behind thousands of beast corpses before retreating back to the Fuyun Mountain Range.

Once the beasts on the Guiyun Market side retreated, the three beast kings besieging Tiexian Valley immediately received the news. These three beast kings had been dealing with Tiexian Valley for hundreds of years and naturally knew that they could not breach this place by themselves. Knowing that the main beast army besieging the Guiyun Market had retreated, they did not stay for long and soon led the beast army under their command to slowly retreat back to their respective territories.

The Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon and the white lion, the two beast kings that were still attacking Huoyun Mountain, also gradually lifted the blockade on Huoyun Mountain and led the beast army to retreat back to the Fuyun Mountain Range. Up to this point, this beast unrest in the Northern Frontier of Wei Guo, which lasted for nearly a year, can finally be considered over.

After this unrest, the impact on the Wei Guo side was okay. They did not lose much territory that cultivators rely on for survival. Only some low-tier spiritual veins located north of Guiyun Mountain near the Fuyun Mountain Range temporarily fell into the hands of the beasts. The Wei Guo cultivation world can be considered to have safely passed this great disaster that occurs every hundred years.

However, although Wei Guo has successfully repelled the beasts, the entire Northern Frontier beast unrest is far from truly over. Many countries around the Fuyun Mountain Range are still in continuous confrontation with beasts, and several countries are even in a disadvantaged position.

Located on the east side of Wei Guo, Zheng Guo has no Nascent Soul cultivators sitting in the country. There are only two Jin Dan sects within its borders. Decades ago, these two fought a great battle over a spirit stone mine, which also affected many cultivation families below, causing the strength of the entire Zheng Guo cultivation world to be greatly damaged. In this beast unrest, Zheng Guo cultivators were defeated all the way by the beast army. Now, one-third of Zheng Guo's territory has fallen into the hands of the beasts.

There are over thirty countries near the entire Fuyun Mountain Range, among which there are only seven large countries with Nascent Soul sects sitting in them. In order to resist the invasion of the entire Northern Frontier beasts, they will all more or less conclude alliances with several neighboring countries to resist the beasts together. The two Jin Dan sects of Zheng Guo hurriedly sent envoys to request support from several large countries around them. It was not until the reinforcements from several countries around arrived that Zheng Guo slowly stabilized the battle line.

Although the Xiaoyao Sect side also lost many cultivators, the core Jin Dan Old Ancestors of the sect did not suffer losses. Instead, they killed three beast kings near Wei Guo, winning the final victory of this beast unrest and also reducing several opponents for the next beast unrest.

After the beasts around Huoyun Mountain retreated, the Song family and other Qinghe County cultivation families, led by Huang family cultivators, soon set off to return to Qinghe County.

The team of nearly four hundred people when they came now only had over two hundred left, and many people still had injuries on their bodies.

Along the way, some people had a look of relief for surviving the disaster on their faces, while many others were full of heaviness. One does not need to think to know that they should have close relatives and friends who died in this unrest.

In the old patriarch Song Gushan's storage bag, there were two more urns of ashes. Besides the eleventh uncle Song Changying, the fourth elder Song Gucai and the twelfth aunt Song Zhangyun also died in the great battle of Long Tengshan.

Besides this, the fourth brother Song Qingrui lost an arm, and the second uncle Song Changwu and the fifth aunt Song Changling were injured in their dantian. These are all major injuries that will affect their whole lives. Even after recovery, it will be difficult to return to their previous strength.

The rest of the people, including the old patriarch, had almost all been injured. Song Qingming was also shaken by a high-tier giant elephant on Long Tengshan, injuring his internal organs. Fortunately, the injury was not heavy, and now he is almost recovered. Of the fifteen people who came down the mountain, only the ninth uncle Song Changxin and the eighth brother Song Qingchen, who did not participate much in the battle, returned to Funiu Mountain intact.

After the fourth elder Song Gucai and the twelfth aunt Song Zhangyun died in battle, the Song family members were sad for a long time. The younger generation of cultivators, including Song Qingming, had deep feelings for the fourth elder, an amiable old man who had taken good care of them. Even the old patriarch Song Gushan, a hundred-year-old man with white hair, muttered for a long time.

After all, the fourth elder was already too old. Originally, he was not among the cultivators selected this time. It was the fourth elder who took the initiative to ask for battle with the old patriarch, and finally changed to him. I did not expect that the fourth elder, who was younger, would ultimately walk ahead of the old patriarch.

Now that Song Gucai has died in battle, the old patriarch's lifespan is only a few years left. The Gu-generation cultivators who have worked for the Song family for most of their lives are only left with the third elder Song Gulan, who does not go out much.

What is somewhat strange is that in this beast unrest, the one who lost the most in Qinghe County was not them, but the Qian family cultivators who did not go to the Huoyun Mountain front line to participate in the battle.

Before the white lion beast king, a beast king with a grumpy temper, retreated, it suddenly led a portion of beasts to bypass Huoyun Mountain and enter the south of Pingyang County, attacking several cultivation families, and even the Chifeng Ridge Qian family in Qinghe County, which is closer to Pingyang County, suffered a disaster.

Chifeng Ridge was unbearable to look at for a time. This second-tier spiritual vein that the Qian family had operated for several years instantly turned into a human hell. Tens of thousands of mortals and cultivators, without exception, all became food in the mouths of the beasts.

Fortunately, the Qian family head, Qian Guangyao, took some cultivators to support the Liangshan spirit stone mine and did not stay on Chifeng Ridge. Otherwise, all the cultivators of the entire Qian family would have been wiped out by the beasts.

After hearing the news that the white lion beast king had breached Chifeng Ridge, the Huang family patriarch Huang Shengxin was also startled. Only then did he remember the great battle to crusade against Chifeng Ridge that they organized a few years ago. Although he was not sure, Huang Shengxin already had a trace of feeling in his heart: the second-tier white lion they killed a few years ago might have some relationship with the white lion beast king under Huoyun Mountain.

Like human cultivators, the competitive relationship between beasts is also very fierce. Even beasts of the same species will fight to the death to compete for territory. However, most beasts value their own direct bloodline very much. This is like the core direct disciples of a large sect. If you dare to take action against them, you may bring about the entire sect's endless pursuit of you.

The reason why the white lion beast king traveled thousands of miles to attack Chifeng Ridge is very likely to avenge its own bloodline. This can also explain clearly why it chose to attack the Jin Shan Market in this direction at the beginning. Thinking of this, Huang Shengxin also broke out in a cold sweat at that time and hurriedly ordered the Huang family cultivators to seal up all the magic treasures refined from the materials on that second-tier white lion a few years ago.

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