Chapter 114: Beast Retreat

After all, the White Lion Beast King had only broken through to the Golden Core realm not long ago, and there was still a big gap in strength compared to Lu Boyang, who was at Golden Core Level 4. Not long after the battle, this Beast King, who had been majestic in the Floating Cloud Mountain Range for many years, soon fell into a disadvantage.

Unlike the low-level beasts below that only knew how to fight recklessly, the Level 3 Beast King had fully opened its intelligence and was no different from an ordinary person. The White Lion Beast King naturally knew how to make trade-offs. After fighting for dozens of rounds, knowing that it was not Lu Boyang's opponent, the White Lion Beast King soon chose to abandon the beasts in Jinshan Market below and fought while retreating, wanting to escape to the north.

Seeing the White Lion Beast King about to escape, Lu Boyang thought for a while, and a flash of spiritual light appeared on his body as he chased after it. The beast in front of him had just broken through to the third rank not long ago, and its strength was not strong. If he could seize this opportunity of it being alone to kill this beast, he could reduce a powerful opponent for the human cultivator side in the future.

Most Beast Kings above Level 3 are active in the deep parts of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, which is full of crises. Even powerhouses of Lu Boyang's Golden Core level do not dare to rashly go deep into it to hunt Level 3 Beast Kings. If they accidentally encounter a Nascent Soul-level Beast Emperor, their cultivation of hundreds of years might be lost.

Therefore, for Lu Boyang, the opportunity to kill a Level 3 Beast King is not always available, and he naturally does not want to miss this rare opportunity.

Moreover, the beast materials on a Level 3 beast are worth a fortune. The Level 3 materials on the White Lion Beast King and the Beast King inner core that can refine Foundation Establishment pills are enough to make this Golden Core cultivator's heart beat.

There is more than one recipe for Foundation Establishment pills in this world. In addition to Five-Element Fruit and Jade Marrow Gold Ganoderma, the inner core in a Level 3 beast can also become the main medicine for Foundation Establishment pills. In many places in the cultivation world where spiritual herbs are scarce, refining Foundation Establishment pills relies entirely on cultivators hunting Golden Core-level beasts. The Level 3 beast inner core can not only replace the two main medicines in the Foundation Establishment pill, but Golden Core cultivators directly refining the beast inner core also has great help for breaking through the realm.

Lu Boyang and the White Lion Beast King, one man and one beast, flickered a few times in the air, and soon both moved away from the battlefield of Jinshan Market.

The battle in Jinshan Market below had also reached a white-hot stage by now. The battlefield was very cruel, and beast and cultivator corpses flying with flesh and blood could be seen everywhere. The scale of this battle was larger than the battle of Mount Huoyun. Both sides had been fighting for less than half an hour, and nearly a hundred cultivators on the Mount Huoyun cultivator side alone had fallen on the battlefield.

The Song family side was fine at first. With the auxiliary protection of the Three-Talent Qi-Combining Formation set up by Song Qingming and the three, everyone killed several beasts in succession and no one was injured. However, as time went on, their good luck soon ran out.

More than a dozen giant lizard beasts with immense strength suddenly rushed over from the front, instantly disrupting the control of the Three-Talent Qi-Combining Formation by the three Song family members, easily breaking through this line of defense set up by Song Qingming. Fortunately, the three people controlling the formation had relatively high cultivation and successfully used their body techniques to dodge this blow.

The Song family members behind the formation were not so lucky. They soon faced the fierce impact of this large wave of giant lizards head-on. Although Song Qingming and others rescued them in time and quickly repelled this wave of beasts, the Song family cultivators who suffered this wave of beast impact instantly fell several people. The Eleventh Uncle Song Changying's chest was completely shattered by the beasts, and he died on the spot without leaving a word.

Seeing the tragic state of their clansmen who lived and died together, the Song family members all turned red-eyed. The Fourteenth Uncle, who had the best relationship with the Eleventh Uncle, hugged his corpse and tears flowed out instantly. However, on this extremely dangerous battlefield, they had no time to grieve.

In addition to the Eleventh Uncle who had died in battle, the Fifth Aunt Song Changling and the Fourth Brother Song Qingrui were also seriously injured and unable to fight again. Song Gushan soon suppressed the grief in his heart and arranged for the two of them to be quickly sent to the law enforcement cultivators at the rear of the battlefield.

For the Profound Heaven Sect to conscript cultivators on such a large scale, in order to prevent cultivators from being lazy and fleeing in the face of battle, a group of relatively loyal law enforcement cultivators will be arranged at the rear of the battlefield to supervise the entire battlefield.

In addition to supervising the battlefield, law enforcement cultivators also need to evaluate the performance of each cultivator on the battlefield in the entire battle, which is used for the evaluation of the merits and demerits of each cultivator after the battle, and also to emergency treat some seriously injured cultivators who retreated from the battlefield, trying to minimize the casualties of cultivators after the battle.

The escape of the White Lion Beast King also began to affect some beasts on the battlefield. The number of Level 2 beasts in Jinshan Market was less than thirty, which was already less than the Mount Huoyun cultivator side. In less than half an hour, two more beasts died at the hands of human Foundation Establishment cultivators. The leading Level 2 high-grade beasts saw that the White Lion Beast King had already escaped, so they did not fight as hard as before and began to take the lead in retreating backward.

Once the Level 2 beasts above moved, they slowly affected the entire battlefield, and the beast army side began to slowly and orderly retreat into Jinshan Market.

Seeing that the beast side had begun to retreat, the many cultivators fighting below suddenly had high morale, and soon many cultivators bypassed some beasts that ran slowly and rushed into Jinshan Market.

After Jinshan Market was occupied by beasts, although it had become a ruin, many spiritual objects originally here were of no use to beasts. There must still be many spiritual objects hidden in Jinshan Market. For these low-level cultivators, this was a good chance to turn over, and if they were lucky, they might make a fortune immediately.

As the beast army gradually retreated, the Song family members also rushed into Jinshan Market. Not long after entering the market, Song Qingming discovered that the many cultivators in the market had already become chaotic, and the cultivators who had rushed into Jinshan Market earlier had already begun to search everywhere in the market.

The fastest to rush were those powerful Foundation Establishment cultivators, especially those Pingyang County cultivators who had shops in the market. As soon as they rushed into Jinshan Market, they abandoned the beasts and began to anxiously look for their own shops in the market.

Lu Boyang, after leaving Jinshan Market one after another with the White Lion Beast King, entangled several more times on the road. Although the White Lion Beast King tried its best to use all its supernatural powers, it did not take any advantage in Lu Boyang's hands. The Golden Core cultivator's escape speed far exceeded that of the Foundation Establishment cultivator, and in a short while, the two had already chased more than ten miles away.

Along the way, Lu Boyang actually kept some energy. Through continuous entanglement, he also forced out all the means of the White Lion Beast King. He had not forced the White Lion Beast King too tightly because he wanted to consume it first.

Battles between Golden Core cultivators are different from Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining levels. Without absolute strength suppression, forcing the opponent too tightly easily leads to the opponent's desperate counterattack. To kill the White Lion Beast King, Lu Boyang still needs to wait for a better opportunity.

Just after chasing over a mountain, a white mist suddenly rose in front. The white mist spread very quickly, and in a short while, it shrouded the space within a few dozen feet around Lu Boyang.

Seeing the surroundings suddenly become a vast expanse of white, Lu Boyang in the high altitude instantly lost his direction. Just as he was about to rush out of the white mist, Lu Boyang saw a dignified white-clothed Daoist suddenly walk out of the white mist in front, looking at him with a smile.

"Sect Master Senior Brother, why did you come here?"

Seeing the person coming, Lu Boyang was shocked, and the words in his mouth could not help but blurt out.