Chapter 473

After the Law Enforcement Team finished counting the fruitful results of this battle and reported them, Song Qingming immediately issued instructions and began to reward based on merit.

The many demon beast materials harvested from a great battle, apart from leaving a small portion to be used for comforting those cultivators who died in battle in the future, were all directly used as rewards and distributed to those cultivators who performed bravely and outstandingly in the battle.

Just as Jinshan Market was celebrating the victory of the first battle, in Huangling Valley, hundreds of miles away from Jinshan Market, a Tier 3 demon king with a snow-white body looked fiercely at the demon beasts that had just fled back from Jinshan Market and let out a terrifying roar.

This Tier 3 demon king was the White Lion Demon King who had led its demon beast army to break through Jinshan Market years ago.

A hundred years had passed. Although the White Lion Demon King still only had the cultivation of the early Golden Core stage, its strength had increased quite a bit compared to a hundred years ago, and it was now equivalent to the level of a Tier 2 Golden Core human cultivator.

In this demon beast unrest, the White Lion Demon King led the demon beast army south to Wei Guo again. Now, there were thousands of demon beasts gathered in Huangling Valley, and the scale was even larger than during the demon beast unrest a hundred years ago.

Not far from the White Lion Demon King, there was also a red ox demon whose head had been bitten off by more than half. It was the Tier 2 mid-grade fire ox demon beast that had just fled back after a crushing defeat at Jinshan Market.

This fire ox demon beast thought it had escaped the pursuit of human cultivators, but it didn't expect that after finally returning, it would be killed by the somewhat angry White Lion Demon King to sacrifice the flag.

The reason the White Lion Demon King kept the army here and sent a portion of demon beasts to attack Jinshan Market was to imitate the "luring the tiger away from the mountain" tactic from a hundred years ago. However, this time the human cultivator side had learned the lesson of the previous failure and returned to Jinshan Market not long after the pursuit, not falling for the White Lion Demon King's trick again.

Knowing that there was a Tier 3 demon king among the demon beasts moving south, Song Qingming had also given a death order to the cultivators under his command not to attack and pursue the defeated demon beasts at will.

Seeing this earth-shattering scene, the Law Enforcement Team cultivators who were monitoring the demon beasts' movements on several mountain outposts outside the market hurriedly ran to the market to inform everyone of this important news.

When the sky was just dawning on the second day, the cultivators of Jinshan Market, who were still immersed in the joy of yesterday, saw a sky full of dust flying from the north.

This surging demon beast army had as many as three or four thousand, which was more than twice the number of defensive cultivators in Jinshan Market. Just the sound of those larger demon beasts running was enough to make the many cultivators several miles away feel deafening.

However, after being tempered by yesterday's great battle, most of the cultivators present did not show too much panic and nervousness. Their mentality was actually better than when they first encountered the demon beasts yesterday.

Among those who pursued the fleeing demon beasts earlier, two Carefree Sect disciples were punished for this. Not only did they not get any credit or reward after the battle, but they were also fined a year's salary from the sect, which could be said to be not worth the loss.

"Fellow Daoist Huang..."

Seeing that the strategy of luring the enemy had failed, the White Lion Demon King also knew that the human side would not be easily fooled again. After gathering all the demon beasts under its command, it immediately drove them south to kill toward Jinshan Market.

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

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

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

Upon learning the news that the demon beast army had already killed their way over, the originally somewhat quiet Jin Market suddenly became lively. Countless cultivators were heading straight to their pre-determined positions, preparing to welcome the upcoming great battle.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, go and arrange to prepare to activate the mountain-protecting formation."

Half an hour later, the Jinshan Market cultivators, who had just finished preparing, felt an invisible pressure fall on them after seeing the demon beast army, which was ten times larger than yesterday, and the massive momentum of the thousands of troops rushing toward them.

In this battle at Jinshan Market just now, although the demon beast side was defeated, it also let the White Lion Demon King see that the defensive power in Jinshan Market was not weak, and it was much more careful and cautious than in the past.

Although some cultivators in the market still didn't quite understand this order, Song Qingming had already given a strict order to the Law Enforcement Team cultivators that no matter which family's cultivator, as long as they dared to resist orders on the battlefield, they would all be immediately locked up and brought to justice.

Apart from these low-level demon beasts, there were also about forty or fifty Tier 2 or higher demon beasts in the lead, but the White Lion Demon King, who drove these demon beasts over, had not yet appeared in the demon beast army.

"Quick! Activate the mountain-protecting formation."

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

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

However, after one low-level demon beast after another hit the shield and was bounced back, everyone immediately felt completely relieved. No matter how many low-level demon beasts came, it was indeed not that easy to break through a Tier 2 high-grade mountain-protecting formation so quickly.

Those Tier 2 demon beasts with a bit of brains, seeing the activation of the Jinshan Market mountain-protecting formation, did not rush directly toward the formation, but flew directly into the air to spit out bursts of spells, starting to attack this massive mountain-protecting formation in front of them.

This mountain-protecting formation was a defensive formation that Song Qingming had specially invited several Tier 2 high-grade formation masters from the Carefree Sect to help arrange for Jinshan Market.

Since advancing to a Golden Core cultivator, Song Qingming's original formation level had also improved very quickly. Although he had not yet been able to independently refine a Tier 2 high-grade formation, he could barely help arrange formations of the same level.

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

The Tier 2 demon beasts above, seeing that the demon beasts below had already caused a commotion, hurriedly began to intimidate those low-level demon beasts below, preventing them from attacking the mountain-protecting formation in front of them together.

Although this "Thick Earth Golden Light Formation" had no attack power, its defensive ability was very outstanding among Tier 2 high-grade formations. Song Qingming placed it on the first line outside Jinshan Market precisely to let it consume the sharpness of the demon beast side first.

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

The power of each strike of these white arrow lights was almost equivalent to half a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Although it was not a big threat to those Tier 2 demon beasts in mid-air, it was very lethal to those Tier 1 demon beasts attacking on the ground. Even those Tier 1 high-grade demon beasts with very strong physical defenses could be easily pierced by one arrow.

Following a volley of "Flying Cloud Crossbows," the demon beasts rushing to the very front immediately let out screams. These dozen or so unlucky demon beasts had not yet touched the city wall of Jinshan Market before they died miserably outside the formation.

This wave of sharp attacks also made some low-level demon beasts nearby that were attacking hard stop their attacks and shrink back. However, following the roars of the Tier 2 demon beasts above, these low-level demon beasts were stunned for a moment before starting to attack the mountain-protecting formation crazily again.

Although the attack ability of the "Flying Cloud Crossbows" was not bad, it was also very laborious to use. Every time a "Spirit Light Arrow" was fired, it needed some time to exchange for new spirit stones before it could start charging for an attack again.

Whether it was the mountain-protecting formation currently running or those "Flying Cloud Crossbows" on the city wall counterattacking the demon beasts, they were all means that consumed spirit stones very much and could only play a temporary defensive role, and it was impossible to consume them infinitely.

In Jinshan Market, apart from some spirit stones left in the market treasury, major immortal cultivation families in Pingyang County also voluntarily raised a batch of spirit stones and sent them over.

After all, these immortal cultivation families all had quite a lot of assets in Jinshan Market. Once the market was broken by demon beasts like a hundred years ago, they would also suffer huge losses. No matter what, they had to consciously take out these spirit stones.

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

If too many spirit stones were consumed in the front and reinforcements from the demon beast side came next, the fate of the entire Jinshan Market and the cultivators guarding the market would be very passive.

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

Following Song Qingyu's order, the "Thick Earth Golden Light 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 suddenly dissipate, the demon beasts that had been attacking the formation desperately were overjoyed and rushed directly toward Jinshan Market behind.

It was just that after being consumed by the mountain-protecting battle just now, the sharpness of these demon beasts had been reduced by nearly half, and their momentum looked far less aggressive than when they first came.

The moment the "Thick Earth Golden Light Formation" disappeared, a white spiritual light suddenly flashed from behind the demon beast army to the high altitude, turning into a giant white lion more than ten feet tall, and rushed directly toward Jinshan Market.

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

"Not good, the Tier 3 demon king is here!"