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Chapter 105 The True Beast Tide-Level Rift (Third Update, Please Follow for More)

After thinking for a while, Wang Hu finally spoke up and asked, "Xiao An, what's the effect of this building?"

"The effect?" When Wang Hu pressed for an answer, Sui An turned around and found that everyone was already inside the house.

He didn't intend to keep it a secret from the people in the house.

"Food buffs are stronger, last longer, and have a small chance of helping chefs learn recipes."

"Comprehended the recipe?" Erhu keenly grasped the key information. "Holy crap, what kind of magical kitchen is this?"

Seeing Wang Hu's actions, he finally realized, "We should have Uncle Wang come and give it a try!"

Wang Hu nodded repeatedly. Erhu was straightforward and said everything he wanted to say, so Wang Hu could only nod in agreement.

"Shouldn't we wait for Aunt Zhao and Uncle Wang to discuss it?"

Sui An sighed: "Uncle Wang runs a steamed bun shop. His business is very good and stable. He really might not come over."

"What are you discussing!"

Erhu pouted: "That steamed bun shop has very low profit margins and is exhausting. I don't believe they don't want to switch. I'll have Lao Wang tell Uncle Wang tomorrow. Hurry up and come over. Don't be like that idiot Cui Mingming."

"At worst, you can just pay him a higher salary. It's just Uncle Wang, so it won't cost much. Besides, there aren't many people in your territory, and the work isn't tiring."

"Even if my dad disagrees, my mom will definitely try to persuade him!"

Wang Hu's face was flushed, but he kept nodding and even added a comment from the side.

"I didn't say I wouldn't tell Aunt Zhao, why are you all in such a hurry—"

Sui An, however, had a different idea. Just as Zhao Feng was unwilling to leave the hunting team, Uncle Wang also had his own circle of friends.

It was also because of Cui Mingming's incident that he reflected on why such a good building was something that middle-aged people like them were unwilling to compete for.

Later he realized that they were different from young people like himself who had to go out to work and make a living. Not everyone had a strong drive to succeed, especially since Jiangcheng had been stable for so many years. Many people really didn't want to fight anymore and just wanted to stay in a house and live a peaceful life.

"Anyway, don't ask Aunt Zhao for help with this. Let the couple discuss it themselves. Especially Hu Zi, if you miss your parents, go back to see them anytime, but don't force them to leave their circle."

"It's the same reason why Aunt Zhao didn't want to leave the hunting group; not everyone puts profit first."

Erhu frowned, clearly realizing he had been oversimplifying things: "That makes sense. I won't say any more; let them decide for themselves."

Wang Hu hesitated, but seemed to find no reason to refute him.

The Fang siblings exchanged glances, seemingly quite surprised by Sui An's statement, but ultimately it was their family matter and no one else needed to comment.

Sui An looked at Fang Nian. Although Fang Nian had awakened into an alchemist, she was still the one cooking recently. Her energy was limited, and she couldn't spend all day in the alchemy workshop. Sui An had also said that he would pay her the corresponding salary.

"Fang Nian, you should take charge of the kitchen for now. If you need help with heavy work, ask Wang Hu. You can also handle the cooking."

"Okay, boss!"

The long-awaited blood moon has returned. It has been a full six days since the last blood moon. This is the first blood moon in November and the fourth blood moon rift to open in a row.

"If the Blood Moon doesn't come soon, I'm starting to wonder if the Origin Realm will even bother invading anymore~"

This time, Erhu didn't sit on the wall, but chose to stand on the watchtower. After the wall was expanded, the field of vision from sitting on the wall became narrower, making it unsuitable for observation.

Sui An smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be a good thing if the invasions stopped one day?"

"Then the real trouble is coming. With the Originium gone, the world's energy will probably be depleted, and we'll all become mortals. Won't the world descend into chaos?"

"There's nothing wrong with being just a mortal; at least your physical strength is still there."

"That's true."

The two were chatting idly on the watchtower when suddenly, a very clear wave appeared in front of them.

"The crack has appeared!"

Sui An scanned his surroundings: "Something's not right. Why does it feel like the fluctuations in the rift are extremely large this time, and it seems to be getting stronger each time?"

"Could it be because we're too close?" Erhu turned his head to look behind him, but he didn't see any starlight through the crack.

"It's in the southwest!" On another watchtower, Fang Si pointed to the southwest side of the territory, about three or four kilometers away, where the starlight was dazzling.

"Why did you run so far this time?" Erhu asked curiously, looking into the distance.

A strange shadow fell over Sui An's heart: "At such a great distance, the fluctuations seem even stronger than the last rift?"

"Something's not right. I need to go ask the Zhao family!"

Sui An quickly ran downstairs, found the communicator given to him by the Zhao family, and began calling out to the other side.

About a minute or two later, a voice came from the other end; it was still Zhao Hong's voice.

"What's wrong, Sui An?"

"Is your territory also preparing to open the rift today?"

"No, but there are a bit more ordinary people in the territory today. I just sensed fluctuations in the rift; were they caused by you?"

"It's us, but it might not be just us!" Sui An took out a rough map from the room, which marked the locations of the various territories, and climbed back up the watchtower.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Hong asked, somewhat puzzled.

"You mean you included us in that fissure? That's unlikely. As far as I know, fissures are all concentrated at points of convergence, and the three of us are all more than 10 kilometers apart. How could that affect the fissure's strength?"

"However, once the rift opens, the flow will be diverted due to the influence of nearby territories."

Sui An frowned. According to the information he had received, the rift was generally not affected by the surrounding territories, and Zhao Hong had the same information.

"I also think it's unlikely, but the location of this rift is too coincidental. It's right in the middle of our territories plus the He family's. And you should have felt this fluctuation; it's very strong, even stronger than the fluctuation from the rift that's only a little over 300 meters away from us!"

Zhao Hong's voice became noticeably tense: "Could it be that your territory has really messed up this time?"

Sui An glanced at Fang Nian below: "No, there are still the same number of people in our territory as last time. The only difference is that an ordinary person has awakened. A level one professional should not make much difference to my level three territory."

"The difference shouldn't be that big."

"Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but as you've probably seen, this could very well affect you as well."

"It's alright, our territory has high walls and strong defensive capabilities."

"Okay, I'll stop talking now!"

Sui An put down the communicator. Since the Zhao family wasn't planning to open the rift, there probably wouldn't be many professionals. If they wanted to do some territory development, they would invite some ordinary people, since ordinary people have very little impact on the territory.

As for Zhao Heng's matter, after Wang Zhen finished speaking last time, Sui An asked him indirectly. The two Zhao brothers couldn't do anything about it. They could only accept their father's disappearance and slowly start to manage their territory.

Therefore, they are not forcing anything about the rift. According to them, they are currently modifying their surrounding territory through artificial means to increase the means of terrain defense.

This method works well for the Zhao family, but Sui An has no reference for it unless he forcibly digs a moat outside his territory.

However, the project was too large, and for Sui'an, which did not have tall city walls, the effect might not be ideal, and it might even limit them.

"The Zhao family probably didn't plan to trigger the rift, did they?" Erhu asked after Sui An hung up the phone.

"Yes," Sui An nodded. "They said there are just a lot more ordinary people."

Erhu relaxed his brow: "It shouldn't be a matter of other people's territories. It's probably just a problem on our side. We haven't heard of many territories opening up their rifts together in all these years."

"It's alright," Sui An said without dwelling on it any longer. "It's good to give them a heads-up, so they don't get caught in the crossfire."

As they spoke, the dark shadows in the distance gradually approached. Sui An picked up his binoculars and looked over. Under the glow of the blood moon, the dark shadows of the beast herd in the distance were still quite clear.

"There don't seem to be any large-sized Source Beasts, but the numbers are off!"

"Let me see!" Erhu took the binoculars and exclaimed in surprise after only two glances.

"Xiao Anzi, is this what you call something wrong? This is a beast tide!"

"Quickly, quickly, move all your elemental statues over and activate the split mode."

"Foxes, jackals, wolves, tigers, and even crawling and flying creatures—what a hodgepodge!"

Sui An was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood what Erhu meant. His eyesight was better than mine, and he could clearly distinguish the information in the picture.

All the elemental statues were moved over and put into split mode. All three totems were also launched into the air and ready to be deployed. The barrier had also enveloped the inside of the wall.

"唳"

Above the territory, a huge black shadow was already approaching, its outstretched wings even obscuring the blood moon behind it.

A series of urgent warnings from the detection platform below alerted everyone that this was a level 4 flying source beast.

It arrived alone, already in front of Sui An's territory, letting out an extremely loud hiss, its azure energy already boiling.

Before anyone could even check what kind of source beast it was, sixteen fiery swords slashed through the night sky.

The cyan wind blades and fiery sword light roared continuously in the night sky, like fireworks blooming, but in an instant, the continuous sword light pierced through the countless wind blades and forcefully pierced through them.

The mournful screech abruptly ceased, and it plummeted from the sky, its enormous wings trembling slightly as it crashed directly into the territory's courtyard.

Manipulating the barrier to open, the enormous figure crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Azure Feathered Eagle, a level 4 elite source beast. Luckily, you have a long-range attack method, otherwise you would have been worn down to death by its wind blades!"

Erhu sighed, "Flying source beasts have no low risk ratings. Before advanced professionals, ranged attacks combined with flight are the nemesis of all professionals."

Source beasts and professionals have very different attack methods. For example, few professionals have source energy skills like wind blades; most of them rely on close combat.

However, advanced professionals can unleash off-body source energy attacks without needing source energy techniques, such as shaping attacks like sword energy or blade energy.

However, not all professions are suitable for source energy attacks, and the attack range after release is also very limited.

"The beast tide is coming!"

Sui An pointed to the southwest, where the dark figures were already approaching. The fastest runners were still the jackals and tigers, who ran for four or five kilometers. Even those that came out later had already overtaken the troops in front.

Erhu looked around and said, "It's alright, I don't think I saw any level four source beasts."

The detection station below has not issued any warnings since the death of the Azure Feather Eagle.

However, the dense white and green dots still give one the creeps.

The illusion struck first, and the elemental statues began clearing the area.

The source beasts that came this time were different from the elemental beings and black armored beasts. They were a chaotic mix, and the source beasts included all levels. The effect of the split mode was significantly enhanced.

Erhu sighed, "Isn't this number a bit too exaggerated? How wide must that rift be for so many source beasts to appear in such a short time?"

"It feels like there's hardly anything normal happening in your territory."

"The quantity is indeed a bit too much!" Sui An took out a notebook from his pocket, which he used for keeping accounts.

"The Ice Crystal Giant rift lasted about 25 minutes, but there were only 849 Originium. That means that on average, only one rift appeared every two seconds. Even in the early stages when they were concentrated, only two appeared at the same time every second."

"But this time the rift has only been open for five minutes, and over a hundred have already rushed in, not counting those that are still on their way."

"What are you doing???" Erhu took a step back in alarm. "You're going to have to take notes about this?"

Sui An retorted irritably, "Nonsense, how can a lord run a business if he doesn't keep accounts!"

"Then I'll go down." Erhu jumped down from the watchtower. "I'll go and kill the stragglers."

"good!"

Sui An looked outside the wall, wondering just how many there were at that moment.

The maximum taunt range of a level 3 witch illusion is a radius of 20 meters, but after only five or six minutes, its vicinity is already overflowing, with a rough estimate of over a thousand!

The largest number of fissures he had encountered before was only a little over a thousand.

These are the number of source beasts in the first five or six minutes of the rift five kilometers away. Even with binoculars, Sui An could not tell exactly how wide the rift was to produce such a large number of beasts.

The scattered Origin Stones bypassed the horde of illusionary beasts and began to rush towards the vicinity of the territory. If Sui An hadn't actively controlled the elemental statues, all the firepower would have been drawn away by these extremely scattered Origin Beasts.

This is the first time that the number of Source Beasts has reached this level.

Fortunately, Erhu and Fang Si jumped out and began clearing out the source beasts outside the wall.

As for the horde of beasts in the illusion, neither of them dared to go there, because in addition to the bombardment of the elemental statues, there was also a chaotic attack from countless source beasts.

"This won't do, there's too much. You need to figure out a way to clean it up, don't think about making more money!"

Even though Erhu and Fang Si could kill low-level source beasts with just one or two strikes, the number of them coming around was still frighteningly large.

"Okay, I understand!"

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