Chapter 367: Chapter 366: Beast Tide Returns (Second Update, Seeking Subscription)
Inside the thatched hut, the elder slightly frowned.
Gazing into the distance, he saw the destiny within the Chu Country shifting violently.
It seemed as if an earth-shattering change was occurring.
The elder calculated with his fingers.
Yet the specifics remained unknown.
"What’s happening in the Chu Country? Could it be the emergence of a secret realm? Or is a Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul expert attempting to break through to Divinity Transformation? Or something else, it’s unfathomable!" The elder slightly frowned, then shook his head, quite helpless: "Celestial Secrets cannot be divulged, if they could, they would surely be ambiguous matters, or some non-celestial matters!"
The elder continued his deductions, but felt a resistance present, a will of the Heavenly Dao blocking his calculations.
Should he continue calculating, it would be going against the heavens.
Of course, if the benefit was significant enough, he wouldn’t mind going against the heavens.
But merely to satisfy extreme curiosity, going against the heavens and depleting one’s destiny was not worth it.
"Someone come!"
The elder spoke.
The next moment, a black shadow appeared, seemed to exist in the unseen void, appearing to represent the unseen darkness.
"Greetings, Master!"
"First decree, activate the Shadow Demon lineage, investigate what is happening in the Chu Country!"
"Second decree, mobilize the Demon Race from the Hundred Thousand Mountains, incite a beast tide, this time the Nascent Soul Demon Emperor will make a move, kill several Nascent Soul Cultivators!"
"Third decree, the Dark Department shall hunt down certain talents!"
"Fourth decree, incite some Demon Cultivators to implement destruction in the Chu Country, annihilate some cultivation immortality clans!"
"In short, create chaos in the Chu Country!"
The elder said, his eyes glowing green, emitting a trace of cold light.
At this moment, he was no longer the kind elder, but an unrivaled dominator of the Demon Race.
This old man, serene and kindly in the ordinary world, an amiable grandpa, yet at critical moments, showed a fierce side, a destructive side, a mad side. Walking this path, proving his Dao to Divinity, he had killed countless cultivators, killed countless demons, he couldn’t even remember.
He was not one with a kind heart.
At this moment, he resolutely launched a beast tide against the Chu Country.
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In the Chu Country, within a certain mountainous region.
There was a secluded mountain village, with only a few hundred households.
At this moment, the farmers began tending their fields, caring for the crops, for them, the crops were everything.
If the harvest was good, they wouldn’t go hungry.
As for other matters, they were not of concern.
The legends of immortals circulating outside were merely after-dinner diversions and entertainment.
In the fields, a middle-aged man was hoeing, clearing weeds, a straw hat on his head, skin dark, wearing a linen coat.
After working for a long time, he seemed somewhat tired and sat at the edge to rest.
Suddenly, he slightly frowned, feeling the destiny of the Chu Country fluctuating.
Glancing towards the Hundred Thousand Mountains, he saw the destiny surging fiercely, seemingly about to oppress and descend.
"Troublesome, quite troublesome!"
"A time of many disturbances!"
"But, it has nothing to do with me. As long as he doesn’t make a move, everything will be fine!"
After pondering for a moment, the middle-aged man stood up, continuing to hoe.
As for the war between the Chu Country and the Hundred Thousand Mountains, he regarded it as an entertaining game, a means to pass the time.
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At this moment, the Tieling Pass issued an urgent call.
The three major sects of the Chu Country, each contacted the cultivation immortality clans below them, along with loose cultivator forces and others, originally scattered forces swiftly combining into a cultivator army blocking out front, the storm brewing, a great battle was about to erupt.
According to certain intelligence, this time the scale of the beast tide would be unprecedentedly huge.
Entering the highest alert state.
There would be a Nascent Soul Great Demon making a move, dueling with the human race experts.
Upon receiving the intelligence, many cultivators were horrified, as if their pores trembled, their spirits shivered.
Yet after trembling, came a burst of excitement.
War, indeed would bring a large amount of death.
But war also allows for a reshuffling of major groups, reorganization of benefits.
Risk and benefit coexist, it depends on how one faces it.
Boom boom boom!
After a day of preparation, the beast tide began to move out, started sweeping everything, began submerging the Chu Country.
Human race cultivators and demon race cultivators, battled together, fought in a bloodbath.
"The beast tide has arrived!"
At this time, Jin Xi also received the intelligence, slightly frowned, and said: "The timing is not right! Truly, it’s full of disasters and misfortunes, I need to go out to prevent unforeseen events!"
As he spoke, Jin Xi disappeared.
Sitting atop the mountain, he activated the array.
Immediately surrounding the vicinity of Purple Sun Mountain, thousands of arrays started functioning, these arrays overlapping layer upon layer, augmenting one another.
Array within array, continuous and unbroken, murderous aura surging, a tide of destruction sweeping over.
The originally peaceful and harmonious Purple Sun Mountain now seemed like a giant beast waking up.
Within a radius of thirty miles, numerous cultivators ceased their respective tasks, entering a state of war readiness.
Some core cultivators even entered certain nodes of the array, controlling part of the array’s corner, boosting the power of the array, elevating its power another level.
Other cultivators were assigned to various positions, some as the vanguard, some as reserves, or forming small teams of three or five.
All cultivators were mobilized, entering a state where everyone is a soldier.
Cultivators of the main body of Purple Sun Mountain were in action, moving throughout the area, distributing tokens, promoting rules.
Killing demon beasts carried rewards, if killed in battle, there were compensations.
The premise being if the demon beast attack was repelled, if Purple Sun Mountain was breached and the cultivators inside were mostly killed, then don’t think about any rewards.
Only by surviving could one think of anything else.
Boom boom boom!
Countless demon beasts attacked, continuously assaulting the arrays, like the tide, appearing endless.
Soon the power of the arrays activated, streaks of sword light flashed, a large number of demon beasts were slain by the arrays, countless demon beast corpses collected; but at this moment, the Spirit Stones within the array were also being consumed intensely, part of the Array Patterns even appeared damaged.
"The demon race, never lacking cannon fodder!"
Seeing this scene, even Jin Xi had a slight headache.
The demon race had a terrifying reproductive capability, producing a vast number of demon beasts each year, one batch after another, numbering a great many.
Because their reproduction ability was too strong, the number of demon beasts was too large, the resources and Spiritual Qi of the Hundred Thousand Mountains simply could not meet the needs of the demon beasts, thus averaging every hundred years, attacks were launched on human kingdoms like the Chu Country and Yue Country, consuming a large number of demon beasts in war.
If the demon beasts suffered a great defeat, leading to a large number of deaths, it relieved the resource pressure on the Hundred Thousand Mountains; if the demon beasts achieved a great victory, they could plunder a vast amount of nourishment in human territories.
For those high-level demon races, launching a beast tide, whether victorious or defeated, they stood to lose nothing.
Through war, they could cultivate top talents with repeated killings.
Only those strong enough in battle were true experts.
The ones who couldn’t fight were long eliminated.
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