Chapter 26: Battle of Wolves

After a stick of incense time, the remaining few low-tier monster wolves gradually lost the battle. As Qin Yuniang beheaded the last low-tier Wind Wolf beast, Shi Chun and the two finally solved their opponents.

Looking at the monster wolf corpses lying in a mess on the ground, and confirming that there were no fish that slipped through the net, Shi Chun looked at the other battlefields and found that Zhang Tieshan's situation was a bit bad at this time. Facing the fierce attack of the high-tier Wind Wolf beast, he was already in danger.

He still underestimated the strength of this high-tier monster wolf at the peak of Qi Refining. This monster wolf's magic power was very profound. Looking at it, I am afraid that in a few decades, it might have the possibility of breaking through to a second-tier monster beast.

Shi Chun thought quickly in his brain, and soon made a decision in his heart, and said to Qin Yuniang beside him: "Yuniang, Tieshan can't hold on anymore, I will go to help him first, you go to help Fellow Daoist Zhang."

Shi Chun's original plan was to help the crowd's relatively high-cultivation Zhang Bai Yun first, behead the mid-tier monster wolf that dragged him, let him free his hands, and then go to help Zhang Tieshan together. Now it seems that Zhang Tieshan is afraid that he cannot drag it to that time. After thinking about it, Shi Chun still decided to change the strategy, let his junior sister Qin Yuniang go to support Zhang Bai Yun alone, and he went to help Zhang Tieshan stabilize the situation first.

On Song Qingming's side, facing this mid-tier Wind Wolf beast that had just broken through not long ago, the battle seemed to be at ease from the beginning. Song Qingming used the Earth Wall Spell to delay the speed of the Wind Wolf beast's attack, avoided its attack, and used the fire-attribute spells released by the Lieyang Sword and several low-tier fireball talismans to strike the opponent from a distance.

This Wind Wolf beast failed to get close several times, and was hit by several fireballs, looking a bit embarrassed, and was already very angry.

The Wind Wolf beast saw that it could not get close to Song Qingming for a long time, roared angrily, flew onto an earth wall, and a flash of spiritual light on its back, a crescent-shaped wind blade quickly flew toward Song Qingming. Song Qingming wanted to use the Light Body Technique to dodge again, but didn't want this wind blade speed to come too fast, and it arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the speed of this wind blade was so fast, Song Qingming did not panic, and immediately released a black shield from the storage bag to block in front of him. The wind blade slashed onto the shield, with a "clang" sound, leaving only a shallow mark, and then turned into a cyan light and disappeared without a trace.

This black shield is named Wujin Shield, which Song Qingming purchased at a high price of forty spirit stones from a late-stage energy refining rogue cultivator on Caolu Mountain a year ago. It is also a mid-grade magic tool, but this shield is mixed with a lot of top-grade black gold ore, and its quality is three points better than ordinary mid-grade defensive magic tools. Of course, the price is also twenty percent higher than ordinary mid-grade defensive magic tools.

This Wujin Shield has been sacrificed and refined by Song Qingming for more than a year, and it is already handy to use. It was also relying on this object to protect him that he was not injured when facing the high-tier monster crocodile chase earlier.

Seeing that the Wujin Shield easily blocked the wind blade, Song Qingming was happy in his heart. These forty spirit stones of his were indeed not spent in vain. The monster beast's most powerful speed and wind blades could be restrained by him. The subsequent battle was naturally much simpler.

First-tier monster beasts have almost no spiritual wisdom. Even cunning monster beasts like wolves mostly rely on beast instinct to attack. Song Qingming first used the Wujin Shield to lure the monster wolf to use spells to attack, and waited until the monster wolf had consumed most of the spiritual power in its body before he turned from passive to active, sacrificed the Lieyang Sword, and launched an attack on the somewhat exhausted monster wolf.

Not long after Shi Chun and his junior sister ended the battle, soon Song Qingming also ended the life of this mid-tier monster wolf with one sword. After glancing at other battlefields, Song Qingming wanted to help Zhang Tieshan and Shi Chun who had been suppressed by the high-tier Wind Wolf beast, but didn't want Shi Chun to stop him.

"Fellow Daoist Song, we can still hold on here, go help Fellow Daoist Zhang and Yuniang first."

Zhang Bai Yun here had already slowly gained the upper hand. After Qin Yuniang joined the battlefield, she had already beaten the monster wolf she was fighting against and had no ability to attack. After Song Qingming surrounded them, it didn't take a few rounds before this Wind Wolf was cut off its throat by the two short knives in Zhang Bai Yun's hands.

The high-tier Wind Wolf beast that was fighting with Zhang Tieshan and Shi Chun saw that the Wind Wolves under its command were beheaded by the crowd one after another, and saw Song Qingming and the three who were free to surround it, feeling that it was not good, desperately released a wind blade to beat back Zhang Tieshan and the two, and turned and fled into the dense forest.

The last mid-tier monster wolf that was fighting with Wu Tianmu saw the wolf king in the lead retreat, and also wanted to break away from Wu Tianmu and follow the wolf king to flee. It was a pity that it did not have the luck of the wolf king, and was soon entangled by Wu Tianmu again. After the crowd surrounded it, it died tragically under Zhang Tieshan's giant sword.

In this battle, under the desperate fighting of the crowd, they finally won against this group of monster beasts, which can be considered dangerous but without harm.

After the war, Shi Chun urged the crowd to clean up the battlefield quickly and leave this place, so as not to be attacked by other monster beasts following the smell of blood.

Everyone's face was full of smiles. Unexpectedly, there were so many monster beasts delivered to the door when they were about to go home. After collecting the monster beast materials, under Shi Chun's arrangement, the crowd began to discuss the distribution of the spoils this time.

The greatest credit is naturally Zhang Tieshan. If he hadn't desperately dragged that high-tier Wind Wolf beast, the crowd would only have had to flee just now. This time, a total of three mid-tier Wind Wolves and five low-tier Wind Wolves were beheaded. Zhang Tieshan, as expected by the crowd, received the largest mid-tier Wind Wolf.

Next is Shi Chun, who is responsible for commanding the battle. His ability to command the battle calmly and steadily when facing the siege of the wolf pack also left a deep impression on Song Qingming. Shi Chun and his junior sister received a mid-tier Wind Wolf and a low-tier Wind Wolf together, plus five spirit stones.

Zhang Bai Yun was smiling and received the last mid-tier Wind Wolf, and took out five spirit stones to compensate Shi Chun and the two.

The remaining Song Qingming and Wu Tianmu had about the same credit, and the ones they received were slightly less. Each received two low-tier Wind Wolf beasts. Song Qingming had no opinion on this. Although he killed a mid-tier Wind Wolf alone, the mid-tier monster wolf he dealt with did not have high strength. Relying on the crowd being able to drag those stronger monster beasts, he had this opportunity. The crowd also knew this well.

After receiving the spoils, everyone was beaming with joy and very satisfied, and then began to continue on the road.

"It's really strange. It's not far from Guiyuan Market, and there are still such groups of monster beasts. It seems that the riot of monster beasts in the northern border is getting closer and closer." Zhang Bai Yun stroked the beard at the corner of his mouth and looked at the crowd with full faces of joy, suddenly saying with a deep face.

When the crowd heard the riot of monster beasts in the northern border in his mouth, their faces all changed, and they all had no sound at once.

Song Qingming had long heard about this from the elders of the family, and hurriedly asked.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, calculated according to the time when the last monster beast riot occurred, this northern border monster beast invasion should still be twenty years away, right?"

"Who knows, the time of each riot is not so accurate. It is very possible to be twenty years early or twenty years late. I am just afraid that when the time comes, our cultivation will be low, and it will be very difficult to survive this disaster." After Zhang Bai Yun finished speaking, he took down the wine gourd at his waist and drank a mouthful.

The northern border region is vast, occupying one-fourth of the area of the entire Eastern Desolate Immortal Continent. There are many mountains and spirit items everywhere, but few cultivators dare to go deep into it, just because there are monster beasts everywhere, which is the core territory of the monster race. The Fuyun Mountain Range in the north of the Wei State is only a small part of the entire northern border region.

Almost every hundred years or so, the monster beasts in the northern border will riot once. At this time, a large number of monster beasts will cross the Fuyun Mountain Range and attack the human territory in the south. Every time this happens, surrounding countries including the Wei State will face the siege of monster beasts.

Facing the northern border monster beast invasion once every hundred years, the Xiaoyao Sect of the Wei State also has a headache about this matter and can only conscript many cultivators in the territory to go to the border to confront the monster beast invasion. This is also a rare great war in the Wei State immortal cultivation world that has been peaceful for thousands of years.

After every northern border monster beast chaos, a large number of cultivators will fall on the battlefield against monster beasts. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators and Core Formation ancestors who are usually high above are inevitably the same, which is the reason why the crowd's faces changed greatly when they heard about this.

Seeing that the crowd was a bit depressed, Shi Chun said to Zhang Bai Yun with a playful smile: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, the monster beast riot is at least more than ten years away, and it

Seeing that everyone was a bit downcast, Shi Chun smiled at Zhang Baishan and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, the beast unrest is at least a dozen years away. It has little to do with us rogue cultivators; that is a problem for the high-tier cultivators of the Xiaoyao Sect to worry about. We don't even know if we'll live to see that day; perhaps tomorrow, if we run into the Fire Wolf Gang, we'll all be reincarnated on the spot together." These words drew a burst of laughter from the group, and they immediately felt a sense of relief.

The Fire Wolf Gang that Shi Chun mentioned is a group of rogue cultivators that has been active in the Fuyun Mountain Range in recent years. They specialize in robbing fellow rogue cultivators, and their methods are extremely cruel. The rogue cultivators they target rarely leave anyone alive. Even the Guiyun Market has issued a bounty for these notorious robbers. When Song Qingming first met Shi Chun and the others, Zhang Tieshan had almost mistaken him for a robber from the Fire Wolf Gang.

"Old drunkard, you only know how to scare people after drinking. In twenty years, we might not even be here anymore. Whether the beasts come or not, what does it have to do with us?"

Qin Yuniang is the youngest, yet she is the most carefree. Facing this crisis that is one or two decades away, there has never been any look of worry on her face, and she has remained the calmest.

Only Song Qingming's heart could not calm down for a long time.

Compared to these few rogue cultivators who drift about, as a member of a cultivation family in the State of Wei, Song Qingming thought that it would surely be very difficult for the Song family to avoid this catastrophe. He truly did not know if he would have the ability to survive once he was swept into it.

In such a battlefield, one would at least need to have a cultivation base of the late Qi Refining stage to have any ability to protect oneself.

Song Qingming secretly made up his mind that before the beast unrest in the Northern Frontier, he must raise his cultivation base to the late Qi Refining stage.

(End of chapter)