The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

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With everyone's help, the three defensive structures were reassembled.

Furthermore, this time the defensive structure is much thicker, with both the inner and outer layers of branches being much stronger—each one thicker than an arm—making it even more effective for defense. Also, because the Red-tailed Bee uses its tail and the Red Bee will ram it, shrub branches were chosen for their greater flexibility, allowing them to deflect some of the force.

In this way, the attacks of the two kinds of strange beasts will be greatly weakened, and the defensive structure will be able to hold out for longer. The weight of the three defensive structures has also increased by nearly two times. This is unavoidable, since the branches on both the inner and outer sides have become thicker, and the soil layer between them is also much thicker, about one meter thick, with more fine branches inside, which increases the adhesion of the mud.

In addition, this defensive structure not only has glass bottle bottoms at the front and back as observation windows, but also a glass bottle bottom at the top for light to pass through. When support is needed, light can be projected through the top window, allowing the support team to see through.

After finishing their work, all the martial artists began to recover properly, while Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing selected three teams to prepare for their honey-gathering trip that evening.

Although time is tight, if we linger here too long, supplies might run out. Water is relatively easy to find, but food is a different story.

After much discussion, Zhou Zixing and Qian Ying decided on a team of sixteen people, led by Qian Ying. This team included martial artists at the tenth and ninth levels of the Acquired Realm, including Han Chengye and Ouyang Min. For some reason, Chen Mo was also included in the team.

The second team was led by Zhou Zixing, but it had fewer people, only five. Although the number was small, it was still enough to push the defensive structure.

The third team consisted of five people. Ouyang Nan was assigned to this team and also served as the team leader, commanding the backup defense force.

The personnel for the three teams have been finalized, and some signals have been established to facilitate communication between the three teams.

Ouyang Ruoxi and Ouyang Nana were not assigned to any of the three teams, but instead stayed at the campsite. After all, there were still some people who hadn't been selected and were waiting at the campsite.

Across the canyon, roars of beasts echoed, and then countless strange creatures crawled out of the canyon and charged towards the hilly nursery area.

The beast performance in the canyon has already been performed three times. Now that the stage is set up, it's only natural that they should put on a good show, so that Qian Ying and the other martial artists can have more opportunities to perform and let them know that the other side of the canyon is very dangerous at night.

This also serves as a reminder to these guys not to linger too long in the canyon, otherwise, who knows if the strange beasts in the canyon might suddenly decide to climb over here. If that happens, all the martial artists in the canyon will also be attacked by these beasts.

As night fell, Qian Ying and Zhou Zixing stood up and waved, assembling the three teams. Except for the first team, the other two teams carried nothing. Each member of the first team carried an entrenching tool, in order to quickly dig tunnels once they reached the black soil region.

In addition, the support planks in the tunnel were also tightly bound together, secured with vines, and dragged behind the defensive structure. Once a suitable digging location was reached, Qian Ying would use his innate domain to open it up, allowing other martial artists to move these pieces of wood to serve as supports for the tunnel.

"Elder Zhou, the support depends on you." Qian Ying said slowly to Zhou Zixing.

"Okay, don't worry, we'll head to provide support as soon as we receive the signal," Zhou Zixing said seriously.

Throughout the operation, the separation of the two innate masters naturally increased the pressure on Qian Ying's team. Moreover, this increased pressure wasn't just doubled, but significantly greater. Without Zhou Zixing's support, Qian Ying had no respite after the beasts' attacks and could only persevere.

Therefore, rescue is extremely important. Also, if the red bees are disturbed while collecting honey and attacked, Qian Ying will have no choice but to flee, making Zhou Zixing's rescue even more crucial.

After exchanging a few words, Qian Ying gave Ouyang Nan a few more instructions. After Ouyang Nan responded, she waved her hand again, signaling everyone to get moving and enter the defensive structures that had been assigned to them.

Although Qian Ying had a lot of complaints about Ouyang Nan, practically wishing her dead, he knew that Ouyang Nan was also very meticulous and could take care of everything. That's why he chose Ouyang Nan to be the head of the third team.

If the first two defensive structures can't hold out, then Ouyang Nan's support will be needed.

"Forward!" Qian Ying shouted, and the defensive structure he was in slowly began to move, then gradually accelerated, and began to enter the bush passage.

The three defensive structures, positioned a few meters apart, moved swiftly along the path through the bushes. A rumbling sound echoed through the darkness, carrying far into the night.

Soon after, as they approached the area where the Red Line appeared, the three defensive structures stopped and tilted, allowing Qian Ying, Zhou Zixing, and Ouyang Nan to emerge.

The defensive structure was simple to construct, and there weren't many good materials available. Therefore, no passageway was left during its construction; instead, the structure was tilted, and people simply crawled out through the gaps. While this method was somewhat flawed, it maximized the protection of the warriors inside. The three didn't exchange many words, but instead planned a location, had a passageway carved out to the treetop, and assigned someone to stand in the treetop to observe the situation at the hive. Once light appeared, reinforcements would be dispatched.

After the passage was cleared and the selected warriors stood on the treetops, Qian Ying once again entered the defensive structure and continued forward, while the two defensive structures behind her remained there.

Zhou Zixing and Ouyang Nan did not enter the defensive structure, but stood in the passage, watching the defensive line that Qian Ying had left. It seemed as if they could see the defensive structure rapidly receding in the darkness. But unfortunately, apart from hearing the sound gradually fading away, they could see nothing at all.

Qian Ying was unaware that Zhou Zixing and Ouyang Nan were watching them, but as they gradually entered the area where the Red Ones were found, he felt inexplicably nervous.

He chuckled to himself. His strength had already reached the peak of the third level of the Innate Realm, yet he was still inexplicably feeling nervous. It had been so many years since he had felt this way, and it was quite strange.

The sounds of "Bang! Bang..." kept coming, as the Red Line attacked the defensive structure.

Qian Ying also began to use her domain sensing to defend the outside of the body, preventing Yi Xianhong from sneaking in through the gaps and attacking the warriors inside the defense.

Chen Mo was also among them, pushing the defensive structure with a little force. Now, because he was in Qian Ying's domain, he not only didn't use his divine sense, but also didn't reveal his strength. Instead, he just followed the crowd and did what he was supposed to do. In any case, he was participating without standing out or falling behind.

Hearing the red line attack outside the defense, he was secretly amazed. He hadn't expected that such a small red line, no bigger than a chopstick, could cause such a big commotion.

Fortunately, most of the Red-lined Beasts attack by biting rather than ramming the branches of the defenses with their tails. Perhaps they will resort to tail attacks when they are unable to break through the defenses for a long time.

However, this time, because the branches used were thicker, it was really difficult for the Red-lined Beast to use its tail to ram it if it climbed up. After all, its body was only so long, and it couldn't even circle around once, let alone use its tail to attack after securing its body.

Perhaps this is why the Red Line didn't use its tail to attack.

As the defenses advanced, the number of red streaks gradually increased. Fortunately, this was a bush passage, so the increase wasn't significant.

As we continued on, when we reached the exit of the bushes, there weren't many red spider lilies left, only about one or two hundred.

After exiting the bushes and entering the black soil, the attacks of the red-lined beetles intensified once again. The open space naturally led to a greater number of them. Fortunately, they were still some distance from the flower sea area, and since Chen Mo had placed the beehives and flower sea into the Qiankun Pearl, the number of red-lined beetles on the black soil had been very low.

Whether it's day or night, there's only an occasional glimpse of red, so there aren't many glimpses of red in the black soil.

"Continue heading west, but slow down a bit," Qian Ying said, pointing to one side of the canyon and addressing all the warriors in the defensive formation.

This direction is naturally opposite to the location of the beehive where we collected honey last night. This is because Qian Ying remembered that honey had already been collected from that beehive, and the queen bee in the beehive might still have a stress response. If the queen bee woke up as soon as we approached the beehive, then tonight's collection task would be ruined.

Therefore, changing direction is the right thing to do.

Even with a slight slowdown, it didn't take much time to get close to the flower field after more than two hundred meters.

"Stop!" Qian Ying shouted immediately. Through the glass in front of her, using the light, she aimed at the beehive not far away and directed everyone to adjust their direction. Then she said, "Everyone, divide into three teams of five people each and start digging in this direction."

Since there are no formations affecting the climate here, the temperature is consistent with the overall temperature in the valley, neither too high nor too low, around 20 degrees Celsius, which is very comfortable.

So the soil wasn't frozen or anything, making it very easy to dig.

However, considering that the red-lined snake is a type of snake, one should also be wary of whether there is any red-lined snake in the soil, and be careful if one encounters it.

Many hands make light work, and since they were martial artists, with strength at either the tenth or ninth level of the Acquired Realm, digging a tunnel was even easier for them.

The entrenching tools were wielded by these martial artists with incredible speed and agility, creating a large crater. Fortunately, thanks to the protective barrier, the red line outside was unable to attack the martial artists.