Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 210 Second Place in the Group Stage, First Match of the Finals [Please Subscribe]

Yunzhou, the Yunyue Mountains.

After the Zhou family defeated the Zheng family, a Golden Core clan, in the Foundation Establishment arena, the Zhou family also narrowly defeated the Zheng family in the subsequent Qi Refining Arena competition.

After this battle, the Zhou family suddenly became the most prominent family in Group C, and almost no one doubted their ability to break into the top six.

And that is indeed the case.

After a series of fierce battles, the Zhou family's Foundation Building Field and Qi Refining Field were only defeated once.

The time I failed, there was no other way, and I encountered another Golden Core family.

In order to prevent the Zhou family from boosting their battle record, the opposing side directly dispatched four late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators and one mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Faced with such a lineup, unless Zhou Chun uses the secret technique of "Ancestral Revival", there is no chance of victory.

Zhou Chun, of course, would not waste his only chance in the group stage.

As for the failure in the Qi Refining stage, it was because the opposing family's cultivators released four first-tier high-grade spirit pets, and two Qi Refining stage twelfth-level cultivators possessed strength no weaker than the troublesome cultivators Zhou Chun encountered when he participated in the "Heavenly Spirit Trial".

When faced with such a formidable opponent, defeat is only to be expected.

When the Group B competition ended, the Zhou family advanced to the finals with the second-highest total score.

"It's finally over!"

"There are still more than two weeks until the finals, so everyone should rest well, recover from their injuries, and work hard to prepare for the finals!"

After everything settled down, Zhou Mingde, who had fought dozens of battles alongside everyone, breathed a sigh of relief and looked rather haggard as he spoke to the Zhou family about resting.

To be honest, he was the most miserable one in this group stage.

While the Zhou family's Foundation Building and Qi Refining arenas were brimming with momentum and they were winning battle after battle, his side was experiencing mixed results and was not particularly impressive.

If he encounters a mid-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, he can basically only manage a draw.

However, since his cultivation level is lower than his opponent's, if the fight continues, he will most likely lose.

Therefore, whenever such a stalemate occurs, the referee will directly declare him the loser.

When they encountered cultivators at the early stage of the Purple Mansion realm, the latter were unwilling to admit defeat easily. They would fight fiercely with him each time to prove their strength before reluctantly admitting defeat and retreating.

It's no wonder Zhou Mingde is in such a bad mental state, having suffered such a frustrating defeat and a hard-won victory.

Seeing how haggard this Supreme Elder looked, the other members of the Zhou family, even though they were excited about winning second place in the group stage, didn't say anything more and went to rest as he had suggested.

After sleeping for more than ten hours, the Zhou family members were in much better spirits and had time to continue watching the battle between Group D and Group Defender.

Meanwhile, Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and the others also had time to discuss and study the seventeen families that had already appeared in the three groups of A, B, and C, and to research tactics to deal with them.

In multi-person collaborative operations like this, tactics are also a crucial factor in determining victory or defeat.

When the difference in strength between the two sides is not so great as to be insurmountable, tactics can help the weaker side turn the tide and win.

Especially in the battles of the five-person team in the Foundation Building Arena, eliminating just three of the opponents is equivalent to eliminating the entire opposing team.

This makes it difficult for even cultivators with exceptional individual combat strength to lead their teams to victory on their own.

In this respect, the Zhou family also has some weaknesses.

Both Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng were at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and both cultivated techniques that rapidly increased their magical power, so their individual strength was not particularly outstanding.

If they encounter a strong team, and the opponent targets them as a breakthrough point, there is a good chance they can eliminate the two of them in one fell swoop.

Once the two of them are sent away, the remaining three, including Zhou Chun, will face immense pressure.

Because if the opponent just needs to risk losing one more of their players, they can win directly.

In response to this, the Zhou family discussed the matter and decided that, depending on the situation, Zhou Chun's Golden Armored Rock Turtle and Zhou Daoquan's Earth Armored Bear would protect the two of them to prevent them from being eliminated by their opponents too early.

Time passed slowly, and after 39 days of continuous group matches in the "Hundred Clans Tournament," the top 30 teams from the five groups were finally determined.

As a result, of the more than 170 families that signed up, more than 140 were eliminated.

The remaining thirty families were all renowned immortal cultivation clans in various states of Jing Kingdom.

Prior to this, the ranking of the strength of various cultivation clans in different regions by cultivators may have been biased and inaccurate.

However, after this "Hundred Clans Conference", it is now clear which local immortal cultivation clan is stronger.

This is why all the major cultivation clans strive to achieve a good ranking in the "Hundred Clans Conference".

No one wants their family to be perceived as weaker than other families in the local area; they can only acknowledge this after a comparison.

The convening of this "Hundred Tribes Conference" provided them with such a stage and opportunity.

For example, the Zhou family.

Among the various powerful cultivation clans in Lanzhou, only the Zhou family and another family surnamed Xu made it into the top six of their respective group matches.

This means that in the future, when cultivators in Lanzhou talk about the various major cultivation clans in the area, they will definitely put these two families at the very top.

If the Zhou family can advance to the top thirteen in the finals, while the Xu family fails, then the Zhou family will become the strongest cultivation clan in Lanzhou's cultivation world, apart from the Golden Core families!

"You'll have three more days to rest. The final competition will be held in three days, and the rules will be the same as before: only the top thirteen families in terms of total points will advance!"

After announcing the names of the six families that qualified from Group 6, the referee, Huangpao Daoren Shanyangzi, then announced the time and rules for the final match.

After hearing his words, the six families of the Garrison Group breathed a sigh of relief.

Three days is not a long time, but it is enough for them to relieve their mental and physical fatigue.

Otherwise, if they were to fight against the other twenty-four powerful families in their current exhausted state, they really wouldn't have any confidence in winning.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

On the day of the final, all three referees appeared to preside over the final match.

"The first match of the finals: The Zhou family of Lanzhou versus the Yan family of Cangzhou!"

As the voice of the yellow-robed Taoist Shan Yangzi rang out, the cultivators from both the Zhou and Yan families walked out of their residences with some surprise.

None of them expected that they would be the first family to go on stage.

The thoughts in the minds of the Zhou family cultivators were even more subtle.

They had all witnessed the scene of the Yan family's many cultivators flying in on two phoenix-feathered stone vultures when they arrived more than forty days ago.

The sheer scale of that event left a deep impression on the Zhou family cultivators who had passed down their beast-taming skills.

Unexpectedly, the two families are going to have a showdown on this arena today.

"The Yan family has a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, three late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and two second-tier demonic beasts. This battle is likely to be extremely difficult; everyone must proceed with caution!"

On the way to the arena, Zhou Daoyi spoke solemnly about the situation of the Yan family and briefly explained the tactics he had previously devised against such a family.

As a family that qualified from Group A, the Yan family was a rival that the Zhou family paid close attention to, and naturally, they made some preparations.

However, they also knew in their hearts that the Yan family would definitely have a tactical plan to target the Zhou family, who had made a great splash at the "Hundred Clans Conference".

So the final outcome will only be revealed after the match begins.

Soon, the battle between the two sides began.

This match is not worth watching. Although the Yan family currently only has one cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage, he is a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator. Even Zhou Mingde and the Fire God Jackal would not be a match for him.

After exchanging only a few blows, Zhou Mingde, not wanting to waste his magic power, voluntarily conceded defeat.

After they stepped down, neither side had even started their foundation-building activities.

Fifteen minutes after the Purple Mansion Field ended, the Foundation Building Field finally began.

The audience, who had initially found it rather boring, now perked up.

Once the cultivators from both families stepped onto the arena, they immediately began to move at the referee's command.

On the Zhou family's side, Zhou Chun and the others immediately released all their second-tier demonic beasts and spirit pets.

On the Yan family's side, two Foundation Establishment cultivators also released a second-tier mid-grade demonic beast, the Golden Light Leopard, and a second-tier low-grade demonic beast, the Silver-backed Iron Centipede.

Then both sides used their pre-planned tactics.

On the Zhou family's side, Zhu Yanhe immediately flapped his wings and released a series of fireballs towards the golden leopard, intending to fight it one-on-one.

Then the Golden-Winged Iron-Feathered Eagle also pounced on the Silver-Backed Iron Centipede, and the insect and the eagle began to fight each other.

Meanwhile, the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle and the Earth-Armored Bear went to help Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng, helping them deal with a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator and an early-Foundation Establishment cultivator who practiced combat techniques from the Yan family.

The Yan family originally wanted to send that mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator and the Silverback Iron Centipede to deal with Zhou Chun and the Golden Armored Rock Turtle combination.

Then, have a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator quickly eliminate Zhou Jiarui or Zhou Jiapeng.

But with the Yan and Zhou families making such a tactical change, their late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator had no choice but to immediately come and deal with Zhou Chun.

In the previous battles of the Zhou family, they had already gained a deep understanding of the combat power of the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai, and they knew very well that a single mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator could absolutely not stop the combination of Zhou Chun and the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai.

This late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yan family was not confident that he could eliminate Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng, who were being protected by the Golden Armored Rock Turtle and the Earth Armored Bear, faster than Zhou Chun.

In this way, the Zhou family undoubtedly gained a tactical advantage and successfully pulled their opponent into their own rhythm!

On Zhou Chun's side, the [Mysterious Spirit Golden Bell] was above his head, and dragon scale golden shields were flying around his body. He mainly focused on defending himself, leaving the task of attacking the opponent to the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai.

The Yan family cultivators on the other side also knew how strong Zhou Chun's defenses were, and they were afraid that it would be difficult for them to break through several layers of protection and injure Zhou Chun in a short time.

Therefore, he changed his main target to the Silver Lightning Python Bai Bai, intending to severely injure and drive away this second-tier low-grade demon python.

However, the Silver Lightning Python was incredibly agile, and its "Lightning Flash" spell was so fast that it was difficult to hit.

More importantly, Zhou Chun did not stand by and watch him harm Bai Bai; he continuously activated the [Sun-Shining Golden Wheel] and the "Flying Dragon Stealing" magic artifacts to help Bai Bai withstand his attacks.

Prior to this, they, master and servant, had already had experience working together to deal with late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators and second-tier high-grade demonic beasts on multiple occasions, so they were unlikely to be injured in a short period of time.

After fighting for about a quarter of an hour, the Silver-backed Iron Centipede, a second-tier low-grade demonic beast from the Yan family, was the first to succumb to the damage from the Golden-winged Iron Feather Eagle. Its head was pecked through, and it fled the arena, bleeding blackish-red blood.

The natural enemies of poisonous insects such as centipedes and scorpions are mostly birds and monsters.

Although eagles don't eat these poisonous insects much, they still have a great racial advantage when dealing with them.

That silver-backed iron centipede was completely suppressed by the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle and couldn't make a ripple at all.

As the silver-backed iron centipede fled, the golden-winged iron-feathered eagle quickly turned its target and pounced on the early Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yan family who was fighting its master, Zhou Jiapeng.

That Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yan family practiced a popular combat technique, making him very powerful. He held his own against Zhou Jiapeng and the Earth Armor Bear.

But now that there's an extra Golden-Winged Iron-Feathered Eagle, he's finding it difficult.

In terms of agility, the Golden-Winged Iron-Feathered Eagle is far superior to both the Earth-Armored Bear and Zhou Jiapeng himself.

At this moment, with one person and two pets ganging up on one opponent, Zhou Jiapeng's side had already seen the dawn of victory.

The other Yan family cultivators' expressions changed slightly upon seeing this scene.

Immediately, the Yan family cultivator who was fighting Zhou Daoquan's eyes hardened, as if he had made up his mind. Suddenly, he struck out with a palm, and a crimson light shone brightly from his palm. A crimson fire dragon raised its head and roared angrily as it flew towards Zhou Daoquan.

This was a secret technique he had kept hidden for dozens of previous battles, all in order to unleash a surprising move in the finals and decide the outcome with a single blow.

Zhou Daoquan had already broken through to the late Foundation Establishment stage for many years. In preparation for his long journey, he had also specially cultivated a powerful self-defense technique.

Seeing the extraordinary power of his opponent's secret technique, he could no longer hold back and immediately formed a hand seal and pushed forward.

A beam of earthy yellow spiritual light gathered and dispersed in front of him, quickly condensing into a round mirror covered with mysterious patterns, protecting him behind it.

The crimson fire dragon crashed into the round mirror and exploded with a loud "boom".

However, this attack, which was more powerful than an ordinary second-tier high-grade spell, ultimately failed to harm Zhou Daoquan in the slightest, as it was completely blocked by the round mirror!

Bang!

With a slight cracking sound, the round mirror in front of Zhou Daoquan shattered after fulfilling its purpose.

But Zhou Daoquan looked very relaxed.

The fact that he didn't falter means the Zhou family is about to win.

The Yan family has already used one of their trump cards, and they can't possibly use all of them on the Zhou family, otherwise their path ahead will be very difficult.

The key point is that even if they use all their remaining cards, they may not be able to secure a victory against the Zhou family!

Sure enough, in the ensuing battle, Zhou Jiapeng finally forced his opponent to activate the array's protective token.

After getting rid of such an opponent, they used their two pets to help Zhou Jiarui, and easily eliminated the mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yan family.

Seeing this, the remaining three Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Yan family simply chose to concede defeat.

In the subsequent battle of auras, the Zhou family again defeated the Yan family and won a point.

Therefore, after the first match, both sides had exactly three points, resulting in a tie.

Ugh! I seem to have absolutely no talent for writing slap-in-the-face scenarios. This competition should have been a great opportunity, but alas, I'm just not cut out for it! Oh well, the tournament storyline ends tomorrow anyway, and then it'll be time to get to the storylines I'm really good at!

(End of this chapter)