Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

More and more traces of monsters are appearing near the immortal city.

Gradually, everyone realized that something was wrong. Not only the cultivators, but even the mortals living near the immortal city felt uneasy.

It should be known that the Immortal City was established here more than two hundred years ago. Towns and villages inhabited by mortals are distributed in concentric circles around the Immortal City. Generations of independent cultivators have cultivated the land near the Immortal City, and have long since built it into a paradise.

Human exploration was accompanied by the retreat of monsters.

Perhaps thousands of years from now, with the continuous development of humankind, the area ruled by the immortal city will become a fertile land suitable for mortals to live and multiply, and at that time, a country will be established here.

Even now, within a thousand miles of the Immortal City, there are almost no second-tier or higher demonic beasts left!

The reason why ordinary people are uneasy is quite simple: monsters are appearing too frequently.

Some remote villages of ordinary people were even destroyed by monsters, and the entire village became food for the monsters!

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Fortunately, just when they were feeling uneasy, the Immortal City issued a level-two beast tide warning and dispatched cultivators to transport all the mortals outside the Immortal City to the city for temporary refuge.

The immortal city has flying boats and large-capacity storage bags, making it extremely fast to evacuate the disaster-stricken mortals.

In less than a month, millions of mortals near the Immortal City, except for a few who unfortunately fell victim to the poison of demonic beasts, successfully entered the Immortal City for refuge.

Even the Qi-refining families under the jurisdiction of the Immortal City have abandoned their ancestral lands and temporarily sought refuge in the Immortal City.

In no time, the outer city was almost overflowing with people, and even the inner city, under the arrangement of Master Fenglan, was flooded with a large number of refugees.

Of course, these mortal refugees all stayed obediently in their assigned places of residence, not daring to go out lest they offend the immortals in the city.

In any case, when the cultivators from the immortal city evacuated, they also took their valuables and food with them using large-capacity storage bags.

They will not go hungry; they just need to wait for the beast tide to pass before returning to their villages and rebuilding their homes.

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A level two beast tide means that there will definitely be second-tier monsters, but it is uncertain whether there will be third-tier monsters.

In this situation, the safest course of action for those immortal cultivation families whose strongest members are only at the Qi Refining stage is to abandon their ancestral lands and retreat into the Immortal City, where they can fight against the beast tide under the leadership of the Immortal City cultivators.

However, the Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan would not be willing to give up their ancestral land, which they had painstakingly cultivated for generations.

With the aid of an array, a Foundation Establishment cultivator can easily deal with two or three demonic beasts of the same level.

Barring extremely bad luck, Foundation Establishment Immortals can not only easily survive the beast tide, but also reap great rewards during it.

Once inside the Immortal City, not only will their unguarded ancestral lands be completely destroyed by demonic beasts, requiring immense effort to rebuild, but the family will also be subject to the Immortal City's constraints, forced to accept its various orders.

Living under someone else's roof, becoming cannon fodder, could result in even greater losses for the family.

The Bai family was no exception. Unlike other Qi-refining families, they did not retreat to the Immortal City for refuge. Instead, they gathered all the mortals of the family into the "Water Curtain Heavenly Splendor," a second-tier mid-grade formation that protected the family's spiritual veins, preparing to hold out and withstand the beast tide.

Some of the bolder cultivators from the Bai family even formed a demon-hunting team, taking the initiative to hunt down lone low-level demon beasts, reaping considerable rewards!

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The Immortal City issued a Level II beast tide warning, officially sounding the clarion call to resist the beast tide!

As a large number of cultivators poured into the Immortal City, the prices of spiritual talismans, magical artifacts, pills, and other supplies that could help resist demonic beasts began to soar.

During this period, Gu Musheng made a special trip to Xiantao Mountain and excitedly told Li Ping that he had sold half of the various supplies he had purchased before the beast tide during the panic, and had recovered most of his investment.

He came here to deliver spirit stones to Li Ping. As for the remaining half of the supplies, he was waiting to see how things developed.

For example, when the monsters start attacking the city, or when a third-tier monster appears, he will sell off the remaining half of the resources. At that time, Li Ping's 2000 spirit stones will easily become more than 3500 spirit stones!

Earning 1500 spirit stones in a month made Li Ping sigh, "Finance is still the fastest way to make money."

Of course, they only made a small fortune by following along; the ones who really made a fortune were those who had started stockpiling goods long ago.

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In the ancestral land of the Meng family, the patriarch of the Meng family couldn't help but squint his eyes into crescent moons as he thought about his actions during this period.

After realizing that a beast tide might be about to break out, he quickly dispatched Foundation Establishment cultivators from his family to leave the city to gather firsthand information. He also learned about the internal situation of the Immortal City through Meng Qingyi.

He then decisively stockpiled goods. Not long ago, after prices reached their peak, he began to sell off his stock to buy back spirit stones. It was inevitable that the Meng family would make a fortune in this beast tide.

He could almost see the Meng family's power rapidly expanding within a century after this beast tide ended.

Just thinking about that scene filled him with excitement.

But now, he tries to maintain a calm facade because he is meeting with guests.

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The person sitting in the hall talking with the Meng family patriarch was the Wang family patriarch.

Since Wang Xingwei failed to establish his foundation two years ago after using two Foundation Establishment Pills, the Wang family's situation has been deteriorating.

In fact, because it was his own decision, he gave both Foundation Establishment Pills to Wang Xingwei.

Many clansmen began to privately complain about this ancestor, accusing him of harming the interests of the entire clan for his own selfish reasons.

They believe that if someone else had been chosen to build the foundation, it might have succeeded.

Although the Wang family patriarch had heard of these rumors within the family, he no longer had time to pay attention to them.

He had a premonition that he wouldn't live for many more years, so he desperately hoped to do something for his family in the remaining years so that the family would not decline after his death.

Now that the Immortal City is facing a beast tide, he has finally gotten this opportunity.

After chatting for a while, the Wang family patriarch directly stated his purpose: "Brother Meng, I am preparing to resign from my position as the manager of the Secret Arts Pavilion and go to the front line to fight against the beast tide."

Upon hearing this, the Meng family patriarch looked at him with some surprise: "Oh? Brother Wang, your health... perhaps you should take a good rest?"

"Heh..." The Wang family patriarch shook his head: "My breakthrough to the later stages failed and my essence was damaged. Unless I can obtain those legendary treasures, I can only live for another two years. What's the use of recuperating?"

He looked up at the Meng family patriarch and said frankly, "I have decided to die in this beast tide, and use my death to win honor for the Wang family!"

The Meng family patriarch was shocked: "This...this is absolutely impossible! How could it come to this!"

"My mind is made up, Brother Meng, you don't need to persuade me anymore." The Wang family patriarch said, "Our ancestors were both elders during the Tianxuan Sect era. After following the True Person to retreat, they made contributions to the establishment of the Immortal City. Our friendship has a long history and has lasted for generations. After my death, I would like to ask you, Fellow Daoist, to take care of the younger generation of the Wang family."

Seeing his calm gaze, the Meng family patriarch hesitated, then finally sighed, "Alas... If you had successfully broken through to the late stage, the two of us together would have been enough to suppress Dai Sangyu. Never mind... Go in peace, I will take care of the Wang family."

When his old friend agreed, the Wang family patriarch finally smiled and began to make arrangements for the family's funeral.

In this matter, he believed that as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, his death in the Immortal City while resisting the beast tide was a sacrifice in the line of duty, which would attract the attention of the True Person, who was a person who valued relationships.

Therefore, for a long time, even if someone wanted to deal with the Wang family, they didn't dare to do so openly!

He may have made some mistakes in his life, but everything he did was for his family.

Regardless of how his clansmen or outsiders viewed him, he had a clear conscience!