I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

The south gate of the outer city wall of Chuyang City slowly opened in the morning light.

The heavy city gate creaked and groaned, like a giant beast awakening from a long slumber.

Two heavy ironwood doors opened to the sides, and morning light streamed in through the cracks, illuminating the guards and spirit beasts arrayed behind them.

The cold gleam on the spirit weapon, the patterns on the spirit armor, and the light in the spirit beast's eyes were all illuminated at that moment, like a giant painting with its curtain drawn back.

Lin Xuanjing stood at the front of the line, his blue battle armor gleaming coldly in the morning light, his spear pointing diagonally at the ground, blue spiritual energy condensing on the tip.

His gaze passed through the open city gate and landed on the dark gray beast tide that was arrayed in the distance, his pupils filled with fighting spirit.

"The entire army... leave the city!"

His voice carried on the morning breeze, and was then followed by a series of orders, amplified and spread, rippling across every formation, every spirit beast, and every person.

The orders traveled from the front to the rear, from the ground to the sky, and from the south gate to the city walls on both sides, drawing the attention of the entire city to this one exit.

The first to emerge from the city are alligator snapping turtles.

They marched out of the city gate, which was level with the city wall, with heavy steps. Their carapaces were covered with a layer of dark yellow spiritual light, and each step they took made the ground tremble slightly.

Now everyone finally understood why the Lin family had designed the city gate to be so large.

It wasn't for the flying boats to pass through, nor was it for showing off grandeur; it was so that these enormous spirit turtles could pass through with ease.

When those armored vehicles, each eight feet wide, passed through the city gate, the gaps on both sides were only a few feet, but just enough for them to march in formation, like gears that had been precisely calculated.

More than 600 alligator snapping turtles, like moving city walls, formed the first horizontal line on the plain, blocking the entire southern battlefield behind them.

The distance between each of them was precisely controlled, enough for the following troops to pass through the gaps, yet so dense that no monster could break through head-on.

The second row follows closely behind, slightly offset, sealing off the gaps in the first row. Layer upon layer, the three rows unfold, just like the Black Tortoise in the Four Symbols Returning to Origin Formation—steady, solid, and unshakeable.

Behind them, the garrison's infantry formation followed closely, their steps precise, their weapons drawn, flowing out of the city gate like an orange-red river.

The cultivators' steps became steady under the protection of the spirit tortoise; this was the sense of security that these giant beasts brought them.

Their formation unfolded behind the giant tortoise.

Crimson-scaled fire carp weaved through the army.

Next up is the Golden Lion Beast.

They rushed out from the flanks, their golden scales shimmering like flowing molten gold in the morning light, spreading out along the base of the city wall in a golden arc that stretched from both sides toward the edge of the battlefield.

The aerial array was the first to be deployed.

The Azure-Eyed Eagle and the Azure Sea Flood Dragon circled above the city gate, forming an arc-shaped array that covered the sky, casting a moving shadow over the entire battlefield.

"Activate the array's auxiliary capabilities."

"clear!"

On the city wall, Lin Xuanqing stood in the highest arrow tower, his gaze piercing through the gradually dissipating dark black barrier and landing on the surging beast tide outside the city.

Her fingers moved quickly across the array plate, switching the output power of the Four Symbols Returning to Origin Array from defense to support.

What is the core essence of the Lin family? It's spirit beasts, of course!

She had this in mind from the very beginning of the design process.

At this moment, the formation no longer generates a barrier, but instead converts the output of spiritual power into an amplification of the spirit beasts. The spiritual light on those spirit beasts suddenly brightened after coming into contact with the amplification of the formation.

The enhancement of the Xuanwu Formation in the south is to add a layer of spiritual power protection for the spirit beasts, which is equivalent to distributing the defensive barrier of the great formation to each spirit beast.

Each of the Mountain-Bearing Alligator Turtles had an extra thin, translucent film of light on its carapace; spiritual light flowed through the gaps in the scales of each Golden Lion Beast; and the edges of the wings of each Azure-Eyed Eagle shimmered with a faint golden glow.

Their bodies were as if they were wearing a suit of armor woven with array formations.

The Xuan Gu Ape King stood at the rear of the beast tide, its bone-white pupils suddenly contracting.

Its gaze swept over the spirit beasts that were leaving the city, from the heavy carapace of the Mountain-Bearing Crocodile Turtle to the golden arc of the Golden Lion Beast, and then to the array of Flood Dragon Eagles in the air.

Every detail is rapidly piecing together in its mind, forming an increasingly clear and complete picture.

The Iron-Armed Ape King, standing to the side, looked somewhat puzzled.

Its gaze also fell upon the unfolding army of spirit beasts, its dark gray pupils churning with emotions far more complex than mere confusion: "What's going on with these humans? How dare they come out here to their deaths? Are they planning a final battle with us?"

The Xuan Gu Ape King fell silent.

It watched as the mountain-carrying crocodile turtles formed an arc-shaped defensive line in front of the city gate, as the golden lion beasts spread out a pincer formation on the flanks, as the azure-eyed eagles and the azure-sea dragons spread out moving shadows in the sky, and as the garrison cultivators who were lining up formed a square formation behind the spirit turtles.

The movements were too orderly; they didn't seem like a desperate gamble when cornered.

"Iron Arm." The Xuan Gu Ape King's voice was a few decibels lower than usual. "Something's not right. I suspect something's fishy!"

But the Iron-Armed Ape King seemed not to hear it.

Its fists were clenched, and dark gray spiritual light surged violently around its body, like a giant beast that had been set ablaze and was constantly charging in its cage.

Its gaze also fell upon the unfolding army of spirit beasts, but the flames in its pupils burned away all reason: "What's the problem? They're just a few tamed spirit beasts. They dare to leave the city only because they've run out of spirit stones and have no choice but to fight us!"

It leaped into the air, its massive body drawing a dark gray arc before landing heavily at the forefront of the beast horde. Its fists slammed into the ground, unleashing a deafening shockwave that sent dust billowing several feet into the air.

"All tribes, charge! Crush them!"

Iron-Armed Ape King charged at the forefront, dark gray spiritual light surging across his body, like a giant beast ablaze.

Behind it, tens of thousands of ape soldiers, like stones swept into the same torrent, charged toward the array of spirit beasts unfolding on the plain, filled with rage and killing intent.

Upon hearing Iron Arm suddenly issue the order, the Xuan Gu Ape King was taken aback and locked his gaze on Iron Arm.

Those greyish-white eyes spotted a wisp of red light swirling within Iron Arm's eyes. The red light was extremely thin and faint; it would have been impossible to detect it without its skeletal eyes, which could perceive the flow of energy.

Suddenly realizing what was happening, the Xuan Gu Ape King looked towards the western battle line, its gaze gradually turning cold.

Without a doubt, this was the fox's doing!

But it no longer had time to care about the fox.

It turned its head and continued to look towards the city wall, where it saw even more spirit beasts pouring out.

The number of spirit beasts in the air increased, and more giant tortoises, lizards, and lions lined up on the ground.

Without a doubt, the other side was confident they could take them down.

Without further hesitation, he immediately ordered: "The entire army retreat!"

The situation is unclear at the moment, and it wants to use its subordinates to coerce the Iron-Armed Ape King's subordinates into retreating.

The large group of apes suddenly stopped and looked at their leader.

They looked at the Iron-Armed Ape King charging ahead, then looked back at their leader, and hesitated for a moment.

The Mystic Bone Ape King repeated: "All troops, retreat!"

But Lin Xuanqing wouldn't give him that chance.

The Spirit Trapping Array, which had been closed on the third day of the siege, had been repaired and was now being activated at full power.

The beast tide army had already gathered in front of the defensive barrier, only fifty feet away from the city wall, and the light of the formation surged out from under the ground again.

The spirit runes buried underground were activated at the same moment, and an invisible gravity pressed down on the ape army from all directions, as if it were being slowly pressed to the ground by an unseen hand.

The speed of the charging apes was suddenly halted. Their limbs became heavy and their steps became sluggish, as if they had stepped into an invisible swamp, and each step required several times more effort than usual.

"Lin Xinyao, have the alligator snapping turtles hold them off!" Zhihei's voice emerged from the communication jade disc in her hand.

"clear!"

The alligator snapping turtles were in the center of the battle formation.

Lin Xinyao stood on the back of the old patriarch of the Fuyue Crocodile Turtle Clan, holding a blue command flag in her hand, her clothes fluttering in the morning breeze.

Today, her face was calm as usual, but the light in her eyes was sharper than any weapon.

Her natal spirit beast, Wangtianyin, hovered above her head, its wings spread wide, its gaze like lightning, taking in the entire battlefield.

Beside the old patriarch of the Fuyue Crocodile Turtle Clan was the patriarch of the Qingpu Mingchan Clan.

Lin Xinyao looked at the old patriarch of the Qingpu Mingchan clan: "Send a message to the Fuyue Crocodile Turtles to hold them off!"

"Good!" The old clan chief of Qingpu Mingchan swelled his jaw like a ball, and the tumor-like protrusions on his skin vibrated, emitting a loud and far-reaching sound.

The sound wasn't particularly loud, but it traveled across the battlefield with a strange frequency, penetrating the roars of demonic beasts and the shrieks of spirit beasts, landing precisely in the perception of every Green Pu Toad.

Messages began to be transmitted.

The Qingpu Mingchan clan, scattered along the entire battle line, received the order and began to relay it to the surrounding spirit beasts.

This is the spirit beast command system that the Lin family uses, which is based on the Green Cattail and the Singing Toad!

The alligator snapping turtle stopped, tightened its limbs, and a dark yellow aura suddenly surged on its carapace.

Six hundred and eighty giant tortoises moved with their enormous size, forming a thick wall made of tortoise shells in front of them.

With the earth veins fully activated, the gravitational field expanded outwards, suppressing the speed of the charging ape vanguard force by several points.

The Bone-Crushing Ape at the forefront felt as if its limbs were filled with lead the moment it stepped into the gravity field.

Each step required several times more effort than usual, and the speed suddenly decreased, like a slowed-down torrent, with the inertial impact being dissolved, thinned, and dissipated layer by layer.

Their charging formation subsequently showed obvious deformation and disjointedness. The originally sharp arrows began to become blunt and bent, and the beasts that should have been charging in sync were cut into two segments by the gravitational field.

The monsters in front were so crushed they could barely move, while those behind continued to push forward due to inertia, crashing into their companions in front, creating a chaotic shoving and collision.

The first wave of chaos erupted within the ape army.

The ape vanguard, suppressed and slowed by the gravitational field, had not yet broken free from the earthbound gravity. At this moment, the monsters that wanted to charge and those that wanted to retreat collided together, and chaos began to spread.

Some were pushed down from behind by their companions, some were tripped up by their own steps, and some were squeezed in the middle and unable to move when they tried to turn around.

Without a doubt, this is exactly what the Blue-Faced Fox King wanted.

Before the demon army could stabilize its lines and stop the chaos, a second attack was already underway.

Instead of charging into the enemy ranks, the Cangming Jiaolong group simultaneously raised their heads, their whiskers taut like bowstrings in the wind. With each breath, they accumulated water elemental power, which converged into thick, dark blue water columns that drew huge arcs in the air and slammed straight into the rear of the ape clan's vanguard.

The water jets landed precisely in the center of the charging formation, slicing the ape army in two.

The monsters in the front row were trapped by the giant tortoise's gravity field, while the monsters in the back row were thrown off course by the water column, and the front and back lost their coordination.

The alligator snapping turtles below also took advantage of this delay to completely break into the ranks of the beast tide.

Their massive bodies were like tanks that could crush everything in their path. The dark yellow aura on their back armor swept across the horde of monsters, knocking away and crushing the apes that crashed into them.

Those apes that crashed into the tortoise shell were either blasted several feet away, smashed by the terrifying force of the tail hammer, or trampled into the mud by the surging tortoise horde behind them.

The 680 giant tortoises, like a row of slowly moving giant blades, tore, cut, and squeezed the ape army's lines inch by inch.

The iron-armed apes charged ahead, their fists slamming into the carapace of a snapping turtle.

The giant tortoise paused only slightly before continuing its advance.

A look of disbelief flashed in the Iron-Armed Ape's pupils, but only a faint white mark remained on the giant tortoise's shell, which was quickly repaired in the dim yellow spiritual light.

Behind the giant tortoise, more than a dozen spears thrust out simultaneously.

They formed a shield formation, and spearmen emerged from beneath the giant tortoise behind them, aiming precisely at the Iron-Armed Ape King's shoulder blades, ribs, and knee pits.

The timing and angle of those cultivators' attacks had been practiced countless times, and each time they were able to hit the most vulnerable joints of the demon beasts.

Behind them, the garrison troops under Lin Xuanjing's command had formed ranks and were approaching the battle line.

Like a steel forest protected by a giant tortoise, the cultivators' spiritual weapons pierced out from the gaps in the tortoise shell, creating new cracks in the ape clan's lines with each thrust.

"We can't retreat now," sighed the Xuan Gu Ape King.

In order to break through the city's defensive barriers, the army had already assembled in front of the barrier, which was fifty feet away from the city wall. Now they were entangled, and retreating would only lead to a rout.

Having realized this, its expression turned serious: "Counterattack! Give us a full-scale counterattack! Let those weak humans know the price of underestimating us!"

Its tribal leaders immediately began to give orderly command, and large numbers of apes began to fight back.