Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 194: Monsters coming ashore to eat people is also natural

"Today we cede one city, tomorrow we cede five cities. How can we give in so easily? Let's take out some of the foundation-building spiritual objects and the core-forming spiritual objects and mobilize all the capable independent cultivators and small forces."

"But... our reserves are running low. This time, the losses from the Linglong Secret Realm outweigh the gains. Furthermore, with our internal costs increasing, we can no longer support the training of outsiders."

"Hey, let's set some difficulty for them. After all, only the most outstanding ones will have a chance. As for the final reward, if there are too many people who meet the requirements, we can appropriately 'clean up' some of them. You know what I mean?"

"This... troubled times call for special measures! So be it!"

A county town in the mortal kingdom of Yunshang Secret Island,
The mortal army, assisted by a small number of independent cultivators, was resisting the sirens approaching the city walls. A fully armed and majestic general was directing the soldiers to operate the artillery they had practiced for a long time:
"Mark all parameters and fire!"

A long row of cast iron cannons as thick as wooden barrels spewed out tongues of fire,

Boom boom boom~
Dense, solid iron shells as big as plates flew out with tremendous force, bombarding the group of monsters running in disorder with clear targets.

However, the impact effect is not very ideal. The monsters are very agile and swift. Not only will they actively dodge, but a small number of them will even use spells to resist and protect themselves.

However, there were also some unlucky monsters with low cultivation and low flexibility that were hit and crippled, which would make them the target of the beasts' attacks in advance, and they would be eaten on the spot after revealing the smell of blood.

"The first artillery team retreats and reloads! The second artillery team continues to bombard! The third artillery team is ready!"

With a long history, even the walls built by mortals are still solid and tall, with a wide standing area. The artillery alone is divided into three teams that fire in an orderly manner in turns to ensure no ceasefire.

Although these young mortal soldiers were terrified at the oncoming horde of monsters, they could not retreat because the city behind them was where they were born and raised, and every person in it had a close relationship with them and was a relative.

"Master! Please cast a spell to disrupt their formation. Only in this way can we unleash the maximum power of the artillery. We can't let them get close to the city walls easily. Once we lose the advantages of distance and terrain, ordinary soldiers will be useless!"

The majestic general remained neither humble nor arrogant when facing the monks.

Although this group of casual cultivators looked down on mortal generals from the bottom of their hearts, professional matters should be done by professionals, so they could only cooperate and do the job. There was no need to kill on a large scale, just to disrupt the situation.

The weaker cultivators use talismans to launch long-range attacks, while the stronger cultivators use spirit bows or spells to kill from a distance, in an attempt to create casualties among the beasts and trigger these temporary teams of different species to kill each other. After all, eating other monsters directly is definitely more effective than suffering casualties in attacking the city and eating mortals.

Boom boom boom~
The monks' spell attacks combined with the continuous bombardment of artillery on the city wall really created a lot of injured monsters. The blood and weakness attracted other monsters to attack them nearby, causing constant chaos. The speed of the monsters approaching the city wall slowed down significantly.

Seeing that these attacks had indeed had a significant effect, the monks felt a glimmer of hope, but their material reserves were limited, and after resolving one wave, there would be another, so they were still pessimistic.

Some of these independent cultivators were originally from the local area and returned to the mortal city to retire after retirement. Some of them came here to provide support after receiving missions from the four major families, but until now no one from the four major families has come forward in person. They all suspect that they have been abandoned by their superiors.

But now there is no way to leave even if you want to. Even if a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining can fly for a short time, it is still impossible. Once you leave the city, you will be attacked by everyone.

The wilderness is vast, and unless one can find refuge in a second-level market, there is no place to stay in the wilderness. The only way is to find a way to defend the city with the help of a large number of mortal soldiers and wait for an opportunity. Perhaps there will be reinforcements?

These are all unorganized, undisciplined and scattered monsters under the city. Without more powerful monsters to drive them, they do not have the absolute motivation to capture the city. As long as they can satisfy their temporary appetite, they will stay quiet for a while.

However, not every city has a well-trained mortal army and suitable generals with command abilities. Even some large cities governed by mediocre people will inevitably be invaded by monsters, and countless mortals will be devoured.

These sea monsters entered the Yunchang Secret Island directly through the tsunami, and then connected to the Yunchang Secret Island's interconnected water system through floods, and then found the gathering place of mortals and came ashore to eat people.

Aquatic monsters are different from ordinary fish. Many aquatic monsters have the ability to move on land or move on land for a short period of time, and mortal gathering places generally like to be built near water, which makes the bloodiness of this disaster far beyond expectations.

Small villages, towns, docks and other small and medium-sized mortal gathering places without monks and reliable military assistance were basically swept away by them. Even a few mountain villages that were not near water would be attacked by flying monsters. These flying monsters that migrated from other places joined in the food sharing without any scruples.

As for the main force of Yunshang Secret Island, they can only defend some key positions in an organized manner to prevent more monsters from invading the core area of Yunshang Secret Island. They can only disperse some monster groups that are about to gather to prevent the formation of a beast tide, and more non-core areas can only be strategically abandoned and left to be devoured by monsters.

Guanlan Fairy City,

"Strengthen the formation and prepare for the tsunami!"

A huge tsunami, tens of feet high, crashed towards the isolated Guanlan Fairy City like a giant moving wall, and then hit the defense formation covering the entire Guanlan Fairy City, making a deafening roar and stirring up waves.

These tsunamis were not caused by humans, but natural tsunamis that accumulated little by little from the empty dark sea. Although they were not enough to break the defense formation of Guanlan Fairy City,

But it comes every day, two waves a day, without bringing any benefits and simply consuming the spirit stone reserves of Guanlan Fairy City.

However, a large number of residents living in Guanlan Fairy City feel safe and happy. The Qi family guarantees their safety and arranges stable jobs for them so that they can always earn money.

Guanlan Fairy City does not have any extra land for growing crops, so their main industry is the secondary processing of various resources. The various resources acquired in the spring are digested into various finished products during the storm season, and then taken to the Thousand Star City to sell for money.

This money will be used to purchase other basic materials needed to operate Guanlan Fairy City, and the remaining surplus will all belong to the Qi family. It can be said that all the residents of Guanlan Fairy City are now working for the Qi family.

Northeast Defense Line,

A node fortress that was breached somewhere,

"Human golden elixir tastes so good, hiss~"

A fat black water snake was savoring the taste of the golden elixir cultivator it had just swallowed. The taste of human golden elixir was much better than that of ordinary demon kings, and it was also very beneficial to his practice.

"You idiot! You're only going to make the next Human Jindan react even more violently!"

"Haha~ You're defending the human race so much, will they treat you as one of their own? No! They will kill you without mercy, you coward, hiss~"

"I don't want to bother with you. I'll help you with the ritual of salvation when the time comes."

The Demon King of the Exorcist Clan personally collected all the human creations that could be dismantled in the node fortress. These things could be resold to human cultivators on the black market in exchange for various second and third level elixirs.

Not wanting to bother with the Black Water Snake, he quickly retreated without even looking inside the defense line.

It was a tacit agreement among the fourth-tier demon clan not to enter the defensive line. If they did, it would mean the line had been breached, which would lead to increased recruitment and escalation of the war, greatly increasing their chances of death. However, if they only killed people after breaching the fortress, as they had done today, without crossing the line, the enemy would simply accept defeat and tacitly send in new recruits to retake the fortress and relieve the defenses, allowing them to engage in further battles.

Although they come from a fourth-tier clan, they still need to go to the battlefield, and even have casualty indicators within the clan. Only the elite who have experienced enough war and fighting can be further trained.

After a few hours,

A huge warship filled with gun barrels brought eight Jindan monks, nearly a hundred foundation-building monks, hundreds of Qi-refining monks and a large amount of war supplies to retake over this damaged war fortress that had been abandoned by the demon clan.

"Everyone, take your positions. Repair the fort and re-defend it immediately!"

Part of the fortress was destroyed by the demons, but they did not dare to stay too long and fled in a hurry. Some of the infrastructure was still usable.

The traces thoroughly stained with blood could not affect even the Qi-refining cultivators. This was not the first time they had seen this scene since the beast tide.

Each garrison mission has a time limit. If the time is up, you must live and die with the city. As long as the city survives, the people will survive; if the city is destroyed, the people will die. During this period, there will be supply replenishment and mobile reinforcements. In special circumstances, reinforcements can be called directly. There is only one chance to escape when the city is destroyed.

If you can hold it, you can wait until the next rotation back to the Thousand Star City and use the supplies and contributions gained from this meritorious service to strengthen yourself. If you can't hold it, you will be like the group of people in front of this fortress, who will be killed and eaten if they can't escape.

Hundreds of skilled workers, with abundant resources, quickly rebuilt this temporary fortress that only needed to meet defensive needs. Since their lives were at stake, they did not dare to make trouble.

Seeing the new defensive formation being lit up, the third-level battleship escorting them slowly set off for the next destination, and the fate of this group of people was left to themselves.

"Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water!"

The leading monk in the fortress used a secret method to recall the scene when the fortress was breached. Due to the interference of the Qi, the picture was blurred, but the scene of the Green Water Mysterious Snake swallowing the Golden Core monk alive was still seen.

"Damn it! Not only did he kill Fellow Daoist Tianyue, but he actually swallowed me like this and humiliated me. He deserves death! The next time I meet this old snake, I will kill him!"

"Humans kill monsters to obtain elixirs, and monsters come ashore to eat humans. This is all natural and right. This is the way of nature, the path of balance. There is no right or wrong. It is all forced by the struggle for survival."

The leading monk didn't care. With his late Jindan cultivation level, he had the confidence to break out even if the fortress was breached after holding out until the last moment. He didn't care about his teammates' resentment.

However, he was not completely without humanity. Instead, he copied down this piece of Mirror Flowers and Water Moon and offered a reward for the Mysterious Green Water Snake in the picture to the circle of Jindan cultivators. Anyone who killed the snake could receive an additional personal bounty from him.

The experience of this fortress is just a microcosm. There are countless similar fortresses on the two lines of defense. The low-level cultivators headed by the Jindan cultivators are just worthless and infinite consumables. They are consumed every day and replenished every day.

Those who survived hundreds of battles could not only accumulate great military merits and be rewarded after the war, but many people also directly gained various substantial benefits from the war, which enabled them to strengthen and be promoted, and even appropriately support their descendants.

Those who were doing well among the second-order local people in the Inland Sea who were recruited earlier have already begun to donate funds to their forces.

Although the fighting on the two lines of defense was fierce, it was just a microcosm of the entire Storm Ocean.

In the distant sea areas outside the defense line, the battles between the demon tribes have never stopped, especially the big tribes that are not included in this conscription sequence, who still need to rely on this wave to achieve many ulterior purposes.

In the other 27 fourth-level immortal cities within the defense line, they also faced various large and small beasts that continued to emerge due to natural disasters. Some of these monsters came from the deep sea, some smuggled across the defense line, and some were originally local, but they were all forced ashore to attack humans.

Ichthyosaur Islands,

Due to sufficient preparations made beforehand, the inhabitants of the islands, even the mortals, were properly accommodated, so even though the tide of small beasts came fiercely, it could not cause much damage.

"Fire!"

The Wind Rider bombarded a group of small beasts that were invading Fenglingfang City. On the one hand, it was to relieve their pressure, but more importantly, it wanted to lure the big demon who was secretly controlling these small demons to come forward.

In the new detection formation of the Wind Rider, Lin Qianfan had already discovered the opponent's position, but the distance was beyond the detection range of a normal second-level monster hunting ship, so Lin Qianfan continued to drive the ship forward calmly, pretending that he knew nothing.

"coming!"

As soon as they entered the normal detection range, Lin Qianfan used his spiritual power to inform the entire ship and sent the specific location of the enemy to the crew operating the weapons, preparing to meet the enemy's sneak attack.

Lin Qianfan did not intend to take the initiative to attack, but to lure these monsters from outside the area that were unfamiliar with humans into attacking the monster hunting ship and exposing its flaws.

Sure enough, after realizing that the monster-hunting ship had not discovered it, this second-level monster boldly came to the bottom of the Wind Rider and planned to launch a sneak attack.

"Prepare…"

When this second-level monster got very close to the bottom of the monster hunting ship, it also entered the killing range of the Wind Rider.

"…put!"

The two harpoons attacked at the same time, and under the guidance of Lin Qianfan's spiritual power, they were like swimming dragons, successfully hitting the target and directly locking it.

"Silver Scale finishes off the enemy and recovers the prey!"

As this second-level monster that was causing trouble in secret was killed, the small beasts that were attacking Fenglingfang City suddenly panicked and immediately scattered.

There are many monster-hunting ships like the Wind Rider. As long as they are fully equipped, they can come out to work. Whoever kills the prey owns it. The Lin family even established a merit contribution system for other foundation-building families. These wartime contributions can be exchanged for some rare resources.

"If the intensity of the beast tide continues like this, the longer it lasts, the better. The Lin family will only get richer."

The weak second-level prey that were difficult to find in the wild in the past are now lining up to be delivered to the door, and some even stay in front of the door and refuse to leave until they are killed. The actual loss of the Lin family is very small.

Even if there were occasionally shelters that were breached, they were all small and remote shelters, which did not cause any actual losses to the Lin family.

(End of this chapter)