Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

In the blink of an eye, a long sword, twenty feet long and with a tangible blue light emanating from its blade, materialized above Black Wind Valley!

Before the sword was even moved, the overwhelming pressure had already created countless fine cracks in the rocks below.

The winged tiger's pupils contracted sharply, and it let out a desperate howl. It flapped its wings frantically, and a thick wind shield formed from black gales in front of it, but its body retreated wildly backward—but it was too late.

The twenty-foot-long blue lotus sword slashed down.

A streak of cyan sword light sliced ​​through the wind shield, across the massive body of the Black Wind Winged Tiger, and then disappeared into the cliff behind it, leaving a bottomless sword mark.

The wind shield shattered silently.

The winged tiger froze in mid-air, a line of blood appearing from the top of its head, extending down its neck, chest, abdomen, and down to the tip of its tail.

The next moment, the massive body was neatly split in two, and the internal organs and blood cascaded down into the valley.

The third Foundation Establishment level demon beast died.

Lin Zhao raised his hand, and the Azure Lotus Giant Sword dissipated, transforming back into seventy-two leaves that returned to the scabbard.

Over the years, his understanding of sword intent has deepened.

He stood in mid-air, looking down at the remaining beasts below, who were in chaos and began to scatter and flee after losing their leader, and gently exhaled a breath of stale air.

Less than an hour later.

They killed three Foundation Establishment level monsters, one of which was a mid-stage half-step monster.

This speed is even faster than expected.

The demonic beasts are not as strong as Foundation Establishment cultivators, but their vitality is too strong. Many methods that work for Foundation Establishment cultivators are not applicable to demonic beasts. Lin Zhao has the ability to quickly deal with them, but it will consume more than half of his mana. The outside is the main battlefield.

At this moment, he had only consumed a little over 30% of his magic power. He collected the body and demon core of a second-tier demon beast, but unfortunately, the demon core of the Azure Python was shattered by the Magic-Breaking Needle, leaving him with only two second-tier demon cores.

Without lingering, he turned and transformed into a streak of blue light, hurtling towards the main battlefield of the defensive line.

Behind them, the flames in Black Wind Valley were still burning, and the air was thick with the stench of blood.

Further away, on the vast battlefield spanning dozens of miles, flashes of spiritual light shone like stars, and roars and shouts from beasts intertwined into a deafening roar.

The battle has entered its most brutal phase.

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From the air, the defense line looks like a huge, shimmering semicircle.

Beyond the circle, there was an endless tide of beasts—a torrent of monstrous creatures surging in from all directions.

The front line consisted of trenches, pitfalls, and spike formations.

However, the number of monsters was far greater than the Lin family had anticipated.

The tide formed by hundreds of thousands of demonic beasts easily swallowed up the trenches, pitfalls, and spike formations.

Following that were seven second-tier defensive formations that alternated and covered the area, with layers upon layers of spiritual light.

Countless demonic beasts crashed into the energy barrier outside the defensive line, creating violent ripples.

These formations were set up by the Lin family in conjunction with several Foundation Establishment cultivators. They were nested within each other, with spiritual light flowing continuously.

The outermost "Stone Formation" emitted an earthy yellow glow, slowing the charging beast horde by a full thirty percent.

The inner layers include the Flowing Wind Formation, the Purifying Spirit Formation, and the Golden Edge Formation...

However, the beast tide formed by the gathering of monsters caused the array's light screen to tremble violently with each impact.

The array masters in charge of the array turned pale and frantically poured their spiritual energy into it.

As the array's spirit stones were constantly being depleted, cultivators would immediately step forward and embed new spirit stones into the array.

Even so, the defensive line was slowly being compressed.

Some weakly defended nodes began to show gaps, and a small number of demonic beasts crawled in through the cracks, only to be immediately surrounded and killed by the cultivator teams guarding the area. However, the gaps were widening, and more and more demonic beasts were pouring in.

Until—five crimson beams of light shot into the sky from various points along the defensive line.

The first fire-based magic array is located at the front of the defensive line.

On the stone platform at the center of the formation, Lin Shanyu, the first elder of the Lin family, formed a complex hand seal with his hands in front of his chest.

Before him, the Fire Cauldron spewed forth blazing white flames, while the other six magical artifacts circled around it, transforming into energy nodes that gathered the surrounding spiritual energy.

Behind him, 108 cultivators of the lineage sat cross-legged according to the positions of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, each extending a wisp of spiritual power from their palms and converging into the cauldron.

"Fire and Rain!"

The Grand Elder gave a low shout, and the cauldron trembled.

In an instant, hundreds of crimson fireballs spewed out from the mouth of the cauldron, rose thirty feet into the air, and then fell like meteors, trailing trails of flame!

The fireballs covered an area of ​​three hundred feet in front of the formation, and each one exploded into a fire cloud several feet in diameter upon landing.

The Ironback Wolf pack, at the forefront, bore the brunt of the attack. Dozens of giant wolves were reduced to charred remains in the explosion, causing the subsequent beast tide to slow down.

The fireballs seemed endless, one wave after another.

From a distance, the battlefield appeared as a burning hell, with the stench of burning flesh carried by the wind for miles.

The second round.

The main force here is not a member of the Lin family, but Luo Lie, the leader of the "Iron-Blooded Demon Hunting Squad".

This scarred man fought in a more brutal and direct style—he used the Fire Cauldron to enhance the other six magical artifacts, and wielded the Crimson Fire Blade, pushing the power of the artifact to its limit!

"Cut him down!"

Luo Lie roared! He unleashed three crescent-shaped flame blades, each ten feet long, which fell like wheat in their wake.

The Lin family's sword cultivators, and the demon-hunting team members followed suit, imbuing their magical artifacts such as the Crimson Fire Sword, the Blazing Fire Wheel, and the Crimson Flame Bow with the power of their formations. They then created torrents of flame in several directions, which, like red-hot iron plows, carved out scorched furrows in the beast tide.

This tactic is dangerous, but the results are amazing.

In just a quarter of an hour, the piles of monster corpses in front of the battle formation had formed a low wall.

The third round.

The scene here was completely different. There were no explosions or charges at the front lines; instead, six enormous walls of flame were erected.

The Fire Cauldron provides powerful energy support from the rear, with a Fire-Transmitting Artifact in each wall serving as the core of energy transmission.

Each wall is ten zhang high and three chi thick, with crimson-gold flame runes flowing across its surface.

The six walls of fire responded to each other, slowly moving and combining under the control of the main force, Lin Tianze. Sometimes they advanced side by side, and sometimes they formed a semicircle, trapping a large horde of beasts between the walls and slowly refining them.

The fourth round.

The battles here are the most "clean and efficient".

The fourth lineage leader is Lin Chen, also a sect cultivator, who has not uttered a single word since the start of the battle.

He simply sat cross-legged at the center of the formation, with the Fire Cauldron in front of him slowly rotating, and every rune on the cauldron's body shining brightly.

Behind him were nearly a hundred members of the Lin family's secret network, and a total of three hundred recruits.

The three hundred cultivators moved in perfect unison, as if one person were playing three hundred different roles—the Crimson Fire Swords thrust out simultaneously, three hundred fiery sword energies converging into one, instantly piercing through the herd of "One-Horned Rhinoceroses."

At the same time, the Crimson Flame Bow was drawn, and three hundred fire arrows rained down like a storm, turning the "Poison Feather Bats" in the air into sieves.

The fiery wheels flew out simultaneously, their three hundred blades forming a killing storm that sent blood and flesh flying wherever they passed...

Every strike was precise, efficient, and without wasting any spiritual energy.

The number of monster corpses piled up in front of the formation was the largest among the five formations.

Occasionally, a demonic beast would break through the long-range blockade and rush to the front of the formation, and a cultivator would immediately use a Crimson Fire Blade to finish it off in close combat. The sect cultivators' coordination was so perfect that it was terrifying.