Chapter 26: Battle of Wolves

A stick of incense time later, the remaining few low-tier demon wolves gradually lost the battle. As Qin Yuniang cut off the head of the last low-tier Wind Wolf beast with a sword, Shi Chun and the two finally solved their opponents.

Looking at the few demon wolf corpses lying horizontally and vertically on the ground, and confirming that there were no fish that slipped through the net, Shi Chun looked at the rest of the battlefield and found that Zhang Tieshan's situation was a bit bad at this time. Facing the fierce attack of the high-grade Wind Wolf beast, he was already in jeopardy.

He still underestimated the strength of this high-grade Wind Wolf beast at the peak of Qi Refining. This demon 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 demon beast.

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

Shi Chun's original plan was to help Zhang Baishan, who had higher cultivation among the crowd, first behead the mid-tier Wind Wolf beast that was holding him back, let him free his hands, and then go to help Zhang Tieshan together. Now it seems that Zhang Tieshan is afraid that he can't hold on until that time. After thinking about it, Shi Chun still decided to change his strategy and let his junior sister Qin Yuniang go to support Zhang Baishan alone, and he would go 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 at 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-grade 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 angry.

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

Seeing that the wind blade was so fast, Song Qingming didn't panic. He immediately released a black shield from his storage bag to block in front of him. The wind blade slashed on the shield, and with a "clang," it only left a shallow mark, and then disappeared without a trace as a cyan light.

This black shield is named Wujin Shield, which Song Qingming bought from a late-stage Qi Refining rogue cultivator at Caolu Mountain a year ago for a high price of forty spirit stones. It is also a mid-grade magic tool, but this shield is mixed with a lot of high-grade Wujin ore, and its quality is three points better than ordinary mid-grade defensive magic tools. Of course, the price is also two 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 the protection of this object that he was not injured when facing the high-grade demon crocodile chase.

Seeing that the Wujin Shield easily blocked the wind blade, Song Qingming was overjoyed. His forty spirit stones were really not spent in vain. The demon beast's most powerful speed and wind blades could be restrained by him, and the subsequent battle would naturally be simple.

First-tier demon beasts have almost no intelligence. Even cunning demon beasts like wolves mostly rely on animal instinct to attack. Song Qingming first used the Wujin Shield to lure the demon wolf to use spells to attack. After the demon wolf's spiritual power was consumed by more than half, he turned from passive to active, sacrificed the Lieyang Sword, and launched an attack on the somewhat tired demon wolf.

Not long after Shi Chun and his junior sister ended the battle, Song Qingming also ended a mid-tier Wind Wolf with a sword. After glancing at other battlefields, Song Qingming wanted to help Zhang Tieshan and Shi Chun, who had been suppressed by the high-grade Wind Wolf beast, but Shi Chun stopped him.

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

Zhang Baishan here had already gradually occupied the upper hand. After Qin Yuniang joined the battlefield, the demon wolf he was fighting had no ability to attack. After Song Qingming surrounded him, it didn't take a few rounds, and this Wind Wolf died tragically under the two short knives in Zhang Baishan's hands.

The high-grade Wind Wolf beast fighting with Zhang Tieshan and Shi Chun saw that its subordinates were beheaded by everyone 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 demon wolf 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 just a pity that it didn't have the luck of the wolf king, and was soon entangled by Wu Tianmu again. After everyone surrounded it, it died angrily under Zhang Tieshan's giant sword.

This battle, under the desperate fighting of everyone, finally won this group of demon beasts, which can be considered dangerous.

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

Everyone's faces were full of smiles, and they didn't expect that there would be so many demon beasts delivered to their door when they were about to go home. After collecting the demon beast materials, under the arrangement of Shi Chun, everyone began to discuss the distribution of the spoils this time.

The greatest contribution is naturally Zhang Tieshan. If he hadn't desperately held back the high-grade Wind Wolf beast, everyone would have only fled just now. This time, a total of three mid-tier Wind Wolves and five low-tier Wind Wolves were beheaded. Zhang Tieshan, as expected, was assigned 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 were assigned a mid-tier Wind Wolf and a low-tier Wind Wolf together, plus five spirit stones.

Zhang Baishan was smiling and was assigned 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 similar contributions and were assigned slightly less. Each was assigned two low-tier Wind Wolf beasts. Song Qingming had no opinion on this. Although he beheaded a mid-tier Wind Wolf alone, the mid-tier demon wolf he dealt with did not have high strength. Relying on everyone being able to hold back those stronger demon beasts, he had this opportunity. Everyone knew this well.

After being assigned the spoils, everyone was beaming and very satisfied, and then continued on the road.

"It's really strange. It's not far from Guiyun Market, and there are such groups of demon beasts. It seems that the northern demon beast riot is getting closer and closer." Zhang Baishan stroked the beard at the corner of his mouth and looked at the crowd with happy faces, suddenly saying with a deep face.

When everyone heard the northern demon beast riot in his mouth, their faces changed, and they all lost their voices.

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

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, according to the time of the last demon beast riot, this northern demon 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 earlier or twenty years later. I am afraid that when the time comes, our cultivation will be low, and it will be difficult to survive this disaster." After Zhang Baishan finished speaking, he took down the wine gourd at his waist and drank a mouthful.

The northern territory is vast, occupying one-fourth of the area of the entire Donghuangxianzhou. There are many mountains and spirit objects everywhere, but few cultivators dare to go deep into it, only because demon beasts are everywhere, and it is the core territory of the demon clan. The Fuyun Mountain Range in the north of the Wei Kingdom is only a small part of the entire northern territory.

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

Facing the northern demon beast invasion once every hundred years, the Xiaoyao Sect of the Wei Kingdom is also very troubled and can only summon many cultivators in the territory to go to the border to resist the invasion of demon beasts. This is also a rare great war in the Wei Kingdom's cultivation world that has been calm for thousands of years.

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

Seeing that everyone was a bit low, Shi Chun smiled at Zhang Baishan: "Fellow Daoist Zhang, the demon beast riot is at least ten years away, and it has nothing to do with our rogue cultivators. That is a problem that those high-grade cultivators of the Xiaoyao Sect should worry about. We don't even know if we can live to that day. Maybe tomorrow we will meet the Fire Wolf Gang, and everyone will be reincarnated on the spot." This remark also led to a burst of laughter from the crowd, and suddenly felt a sense of relief in their hearts.

The Fire Wolf Gang in Shi Chun's mouth is precisely a group of rogue cultivators who have become active in the Fuyun Mountain Range in recent years. They specialize in robbing fellow rogue cultivators, and their methods are also very cruel. The rogue cultivators targeted by them rarely leave living mouths, and even Guiyun Market has issued a reward order, rewarding this group of notorious robbers. When Song Qingming first met Shi Chun and them, he was almost misunderstood by Zhang Tieshan as a robber of the Fire Wolf Gang.

"Old drunkard, you only know how to scare people after drinking. Maybe we won't be here twenty years later. What does it have to do with us whether the demon beasts come or not."

Qin Yuniang is the youngest, but the most free and easy. Facing this crisis twenty years later, there has been no worry on her face, and she performed the most calmly.

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

Compared with these few rogue cultivators who drift everywhere, being in a Wei Kingdom immortal cultivation family, Song Qingming thinks that the Song family is definitely difficult to avoid this disaster. He really doesn't know if he has the ability to survive when he is involved in it.

In such a battlefield, at least he must have the cultivation of late-stage Qi Refining to have a few points of self-protection ability.

Song Qingming secretly made up his mind in his heart that before the northern demon beast riot, he must raise his cultivation to the late stage of Qi Refining.

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