Chapter 473: Great Battle with the Beast Army

After the law enforcement team reported the fruitful results of this battle, Song Qingming immediately issued instructions and began to reward merits.

So many beast materials harvested in a great battle, except for leaving a small part to be used to comfort the fallen cultivators in the future, were all directly used as rewards and distributed to those cultivators who performed bravely and outstandingly in the great battle.

Just as Jin Shan Market was cheering and celebrating the victory of the first battle, in the Huangling Valley, hundreds of miles away from Jin Shan Market, a third-tier beast king with a snow-white body looked fiercely at the beasts that had just fled back from Jin Shan Market and let out a roar that made people's hearts tremble.

This third-tier beast king was precisely the White Lion Beast King who led its beast army to breach Jin Shan Market a hundred years ago.

A hundred years had passed. Although the White Lion Beast King still only had the cultivation of the early Jin Dan stage, its strength had increased quite a bit compared to a hundred years ago. It was now equivalent to the second layer of the Jin Dan stage among human cultivators.

This time during the beast turmoil, the White Lion Beast King led its beast army south to Wei Guo again. The beasts gathered in Huangling Valley now numbered several thousand, and the scale was even larger than during the beast turmoil a hundred years ago.

Not far from the White Lion Beast King, there was also a red ox demon whose head had been bitten off for the most part. It was precisely that second-tier mid-grade fire ox beast that had fled back after being defeated in Jin Shan Market.

This fire ox beast thought it had escaped the pursuit of the human cultivators, but it did not expect that after finally returning, it was quickly killed by the somewhat angry White Lion Beast King to sacrifice the flag.

The reason why the White Lion Beast King kept the army here and sent a portion of the beasts to attack Jin Shan Market was to try to repeat the trick of "luring the tiger away from the mountain" from a hundred years ago. It was just that this time, the human cultivator side had already learned the lesson of the last failure and did not chase for long before all returning to Jin Shan Market, not falling for the White Lion Beast King's trick again.

Knowing that there was a third-tier beast king among the beasts coming to Jin Shan Market, Song Qingming also issued a death order to the cultivators under his command, not allowing them to attack and pursue the defeated beasts at will.

Seeing this earth-shattering scene, the law enforcement team cultivators who were monitoring the movements of the beasts at several mountain strongholds outside the market hurriedly ran toward the market to inform everyone of this important news.

When the sky was just dawning on the second day, the Jin Shan Market cultivators, who were still immersed in the joy of yesterday, saw a sky full of dust and sand coming from the north.

This surging beast army numbered three or four thousand, more than twice the number of defensive cultivators in Jin Shan Market. Just the sound of those large beasts running was enough to make the numerous cultivators several miles away feel deafening.

However, after being tempered by yesterday's great battle, most of the cultivators at the scene still did not show too much panicked and nervous emotion. Their mentality was even better than when they first came into contact with the beasts yesterday.

Among those who pursued the fleeing beasts before, two Xiaoyao Sect disciples were convicted because of this. Not only did they not get a bit of merit reward after the battle, but they were also fined a year's salary from the sect, which can be described as losing more than they gained.

"Fellow Daoist Huang"

Seeing that the strategy of luring the enemy had already failed, the White Lion Beast King also knew that the human side would not easily fall for it again. After gathering all the beasts under its command, it immediately drove them to move south and kill toward Jin Shan Market.

"Fellow Daoist Cao, you go to the city wall and notify all the cultivators operating the Flying Cloud Crossbows to prepare to meet the enemy immediately."

In the beast army, most were low-tier beasts common in the Fuyun Mountain Range, and there were also some beast species that Wei Guo cultivators had never seen before from the north of the Fuyun Mountain Range.

"The beasts are here, the beast army is attacking!..."

After learning the news that the beast army had already killed their way over, the originally somewhat quiet Jin Shan Market suddenly became lively immediately. Countless cultivators were heading straight to their predetermined positions, preparing to start welcoming the upcoming great battle.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, you go and arrange to prepare to start the mountain-guarding formation."

Half an hour later, the Jin Shan Market cultivators, who had just finished preparing not long ago, saw the huge momentum of the beast army, which was ten times larger than yesterday's scale, rushing straight over. A formless pressure suddenly fell on everyone's hearts.

In this battle in Jin Shan Market, although the beast side was defeated, it also made the White Lion Beast King see that the defensive power in Jin Shan Market was not weak, and it was much more cautious than in the past.

Although this order still made some cultivators in the market somewhat incomprehensible, Song Qingming had already issued a strict order to the law enforcement team cultivators: regardless of which family's cultivators, as long as they dare to disobey orders on the battlefield, they will all be locked up and questioned for crimes immediately.

Besides these low-tier beasts, there were also about forty or fifty second-tier beasts or above, but the White Lion Beast King that drove these beasts over had not yet appeared in the beast army.

"Quick! Start the mountain-guarding formation."

When the beast army approached Jin Shan Market to only a few hundred feet, a burst of spiritual light suddenly lit up outside Jin Shan Market, forming a yellow light shield that firmly covered the entire market.

After this light shield was lit up, many cultivators standing in the market also became nervous, fearing that this thin-looking mountain-guarding formation would be difficult to block the beast army that was already very close to here.

However, after one low-tier beast after another hit the light shield and was bounced back, everyone immediately let go of their hearts completely. No matter how many low-tier beasts came, it was not that easy to breach a second-tier top-quality mountain-guarding formation so quickly.

Those second-tier beasts with a bit of brains, seeing the mountain-guarding formation start, did not directly rush toward the formation but flew into the air and spat out bursts of spells, beginning to attack this huge mountain-guarding formation in front of them.

This "Thick Earth Jin Guang Formation" was a defensive great formation that Song Qingming specially invited several second-tier top-quality formation masters from the Xiaoyao Sect to help lay down for Jin Shan Market.

Since advancing to a Jin Dan cultivator, Song Qingming's own formation level had also improved very quickly. Although he still could not independently refine a second-tier top-quality formation, he could also barely help lay down formations of the same tier.

After the beasts rushing at the front were blocked by the mountain-guarding formation, the beasts behind were still rushing forward non-stop. Soon they were all squeezed together, and under the collision and trampling of each other, they soon became a mess.

The second-tier beasts above, seeing that the beasts below had already caused a commotion, hurriedly began to intimidate those low-tier beasts below, stopping them from helping to attack the mountain-guarding formation in front of them.

Although this "Thick Earth Jin Guang Formation" had no attack power, its defensive ability was very outstanding among second-tier top-quality ones. Song Qingming placed it on the first line outside Jin Shan Market precisely to let it consume the sharpness of the beast side first.

Just as the beast army began to attack the "Thick Earth Jin Guang Formation," a row of more than a dozen "Flying Cloud Crossbows" already installed on the city wall of Jin Shan Market also began to shoot out sharp white arrow lights one after another.

The power of each of these white arrow lights was almost equivalent to half a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Although it was not a big threat to those second-tier beasts in mid-air, it was very lethal to those first-tier beasts attacking on the ground. Even those first-tier top-quality beasts with very strong physical defense could be easily pierced by one arrow.

After a round of volleying by the "Flying Cloud Crossbows," the beasts rushing at the front immediately let out screams. These dozen or so unlucky beasts had not yet touched the city wall of Jin Shan Market before they died miserably outside the formation.

This sharp attack also made some low-tier beasts that were attacking hard nearby stop attacking and shrink back. However, as the roars of the second-tier beasts above came, these low-tier beasts were stunned for a moment before starting to attack the mountain-guarding formation crazily again.

Although the attack ability of the "Flying Cloud Crossbow" was not bad, it was also very strenuous to use. Every time after firing a "spiritual light arrow," it needed some time to exchange for new spirit stones before it could start to accumulate power to attack again.

Whether it was the mountain-guarding formation currently in operation or those "Flying Cloud Crossbows" on the city wall countering the beasts, they were all means that consumed spirit stones very much. They could only play a temporary defensive role and could not consume infinitely.

In Jin Shan Market, besides some spirit stones left in the market treasury, the major cultivation families in Pingyang County also voluntarily raised a batch of spirit stones and sent them over.

After all, these cultivation families all had quite a few assets in Jin Shan Market. Once the market was breached by the beasts like a hundred years ago, they would also suffer huge losses. No matter what, they had to consciously take out this sum of spirit stones.

Although the spirit stones in the market could still support for a long time, the main purpose of the "Thick Earth Jin Guang Formation" was still to consume the sharpness of the beasts. Song Qingming did not want to consume too many spirit stones here at the beginning. After all, the duration of this beast turmoil would definitely not be very short.

If too many spirit stones were consumed in the front, and the beast side had reinforcements coming later, then the fate of the entire Jin Shan Market and these cultivators guarding the market would be very passive.

"First withdraw the formation outside, let the beasts in, everyone prepare to meet the enemy!"

Following Song Qingyu's order, the "Thick Earth Jin Guang Formation," which had persisted for nearly an hour, suddenly turned into a piece of yellow spiritual light and dissipated in mid-air.

Seeing this road-blocking formation in front of them suddenly dissipate, the beasts that had been attacking the formation desperately were overjoyed and rushed toward Jin Shan Market behind.

It is just that after being consumed by the mountain-guarding formation for a week, the sharpness of these beasts' attacks had already been reduced by nearly half, and their momentum looked far less strong than when they first came.

Just as the "Thick Earth Jin Guang Formation" disappeared, a white spiritual light suddenly flashed from behind the beast army to the high sky, transforming into a huge white lion more than ten feet tall, and rushed directly toward Jin Shan Market.

As soon as the White Lion Beast King appeared, the human cultivators above the city wall immediately discovered its figure. Seeing this huge beast king rushing directly toward them, these people immediately shouted loudly in fear.

"Not good, a third-tier beast king has come!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 474 =====