Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 250 The Bear's Tragedy, The Final Battle [Please Subscribe]

Because of Lin Hongyu's warning, the three core members of the Zhou family, who had just won a glorious victory, were now filled with unease.

To avoid causing more people to worry, Zhou Mingde did not tell the fourth Zhou family cultivator about this matter, nor did he explain Zhou Daoyi's sudden departure to Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Jiahe, who witnessed the scene.

Although Zhou Jiahe and his companion were full of doubts, seeing that Elder Zhou Mingde had no intention of explaining, they did not dare to ask him directly.

All along, the elders of the Zhou family knew that Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi, and Zhou Chun must be doing something secret behind their backs.

Although they were occasionally curious about this, none of them would actually go out of their way to find out.

Because they all knew in their hearts that if this was to be done behind their backs, they certainly wouldn't be told.

Inquiring privately could lead to misunderstandings and affect family unity.

At the same time, they all believed that no matter what Zhou Mingde and the other two were doing behind their backs, their starting point was definitely for the good of the family.

So the four of them continued their journey to clear out the rampaging monsters.

The four people who were supposed to act together split into three teams: Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun each formed a separate team, while Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Jiapeng formed another team.

Ostensibly, this was done to improve cleaning efficiency, but in reality, it was because of Lin Hongyu's warning that the danger was deliberately dispersed in this way.

For the next two or three days, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde were on tenterhooks, unable to focus on clearing out the monsters, and left the task entirely to their spirit pets.

The two would contact their families daily via hawk messages, and each time they received a message from their families, they would feel extremely uneasy.

Fortunately, after two or three days, the news from the family was all normal, and the group that came out did not encounter any earth dragon attacks.

This means the danger has passed, or at least they are no longer in danger.

On this day, as Zhou Chun flew over a mountain city, he discovered several first-tier demonic beasts wreaking havoc within the city.

He immediately descended from the sky and used his skills to kill all the troublesome demonic beasts.

But just as he finished doing this and was about to leave, a boy of about eleven or twelve years old suddenly rushed up to him and knelt down in front of him with a "plop".

"Senior, you possess great supernatural powers! Please save my master! If you can save my master's life, I am willing to serve you like a slave for the rest of my life to repay your kindness!"

The boy knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly to Zhou Chun. He also had a faint aura of magical power on his body, indicating that he was also a cultivator with the second level of Qi Refining.

When Zhou Chun saw that he had kowtowed until his forehead was bleeding, she was slightly moved and touched by his filial piety.

She immediately felt a pang of pity and looked at him, saying, "Get up and speak first. What happened to your master? Is he injured or poisoned? Is it an internal or external injury?"

Upon hearing this, the boy hurriedly looked up at him and replied, "Senior, you are wise. My master was injured by a demonic beast while rescuing civilians. The beast that injured him was a dog demon, and before he fainted, he said that the dog demon's claws were poisonous!"

"Alright, then take me to see your master."

Zhou Chun waved his hand, signaling the boy to lead the way.

"Thank you so much, senior! Thank you so much, senior!"

The boy thanked him while covering the wound on his forehead with his sleeve, and strode ahead to lead the way.

After following him for a while within the city, Zhou Chun arrived at a secluded courtyard.

Upon arriving in the courtyard, Zhou Chun scanned the area with his divine sense and quickly discovered an elderly man with white hair lying on a bed in one of the bedrooms. The man's aura was weak and his vitality was dim, as if he were about to die at any moment.

Sure enough, the young man quickly led him to the bedroom, then pushed open the door and said to the old man lying on the bed, "This is it, senior. Please look, on the bed is my master, Doctor Mo Ren. Mo means 'great virtue,' Ren means 'benevolence,' and Yi means 'doctor.'"

"Mo Renyi, that's a pretty good name."

Zhou Chun nodded slightly, then stepped forward and placed his hand on the old man's chest, channeling a wisp of magic power to examine his internal condition.

After a while, he nodded slightly and said, "There is still hope."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, taking out two different jade bottles, and then poured out a pill from each and handed it to the boy.

"These two pills, one can detoxify his body and the other can replenish his lost vital energy. Help him take them with warm water, and he should wake up in less than three days."

Before the boy could react, he waved his hand and said, "Alright, I have to go to other places to slay demons and eliminate evil, so I won't stay here any longer."

Watching him turn and leave, the young man hurriedly shouted, "Senior, I have no way to repay your kindness in saving my master's life. Please leave your name so that I can explain to my master!"

"Zhou Zhengchun of the Zhou family of Jiufengling."

Zhou Chun's voice drifted slowly through the courtyard, but he had already taken to the air and soared into the sky.

He never cared about the boy's talk of repaying a debt of gratitude.

He intervened to save the man only out of gratitude for the boy's filial piety and admiration for the old man's benevolent spirit in fighting the monster to save mortals.

Therefore, he never even asked the boy's name.

Zhou Chun didn't really take this matter to heart, and he quickly put it out of his mind.

Three days later, Zhou Chun received good news: the Third Elder, Zhou Daoquan, who had been missing for many days, had successfully returned to the Jiufengling Mountain Gate.

Upon learning of this, Zhou Chun hurriedly returned to his family to meet with them.

When he finally met Zhou Daoquan inside the mountain gate, he found that although the other man did not appear to have any injuries, he was in a very low mood, with a look of sadness in his eyes.

This made him uneasy, and he hurriedly asked about his experiences over the past few days.

Faced with Zhou Chun's question, Zhou Daoquan did not hide anything and answered in a low voice: "The day before yesterday, the front-line stronghold fell, and I was separated from the clan leader and others. I could only break out and escape on my own."

"But during our breakout and escape, a third-tier demonic beast suddenly attacked me, and the Earth Armor Bear sacrificed its life to block that attack for me!"

"Later, I was chased by two second-tier high-grade demonic beasts. They chased me until I fled into the wilderness and hid from them for several days."

"I'm back so late because I took a long detour and used up all the [Rejuvenation Pills] I had with me. Now I can only wait for the injured Zhu Yanhe to recover!"

In just a few words, Zhou Daoquan explained the reason for his low spirits.

Because his spirit pet died!

I wouldn't say all of them, but most of the Zhou family cultivators have a deep affection for the spirit pets they've raised from a young age, and many treat them like family members.

Zhou Daoquan's Earth Armor Bear had been with him for over a hundred years and was his first spirit pet. The relationship between them, master and servant, could be described as close as brothers.

Moreover, the Earth Armor Bear died saving him.

This kind of grief is something no one can help but feel.

Zhou Chun, who had also tamed spirit pets, understood Zhou Daoquan's feelings very well at this moment.

He also felt deeply for the deceased Earth Armor Bear, and was saddened and regretful.

That earth-armored bear had once loyally protected him, and during the southern campaign, it had fought alongside him many times.

Little did they know that the battle at Jinji Mountain would be the last time they fought side by side!

At this moment, he could only offer Zhou Daoquan a heavy word of comfort: "Xiong Shan was indeed a rare and loyal guardian. Its passing is the greatest loss to the family in this war. Third Elder, please accept my condolences!"

"Xiongshan" is the name Zhou Daoquan gave to the Earth Armor Bear. Basically, every cultivator in the Zhou family would give their spirit pet a name.

"Alas! I am in a very bad mood right now, and I'm afraid I won't be able to do anything for the family in the short term. Zhengchun, please speak to the Grand Elder for me!"

Zhou Daoquan sighed, looking rather disheartened.

Then he returned to his Flying Stone Peak and secluded himself to recuperate.

He could only slowly get through this grief on his own; no one else could really help.

Moreover, Zhou Chun doesn't have much time to comfort him right now, as he still has to travel to various places to sweep away the monsters that are causing trouble.

Two more days passed, and given that most of the demonic beasts in Lanzhou had been cleared out, Qinglian Temple issued a new order, mobilizing Zhou Mingde and other Purple Mansion stage cultivators to go to the front line in Yunzhou to be on standby, seemingly preparing to fight another major battle with the main force of the beast tide there.

In fact, looking back at past wars involving beast tide invasions, the wars never lasted very long.

For the beast tide, the daily food supply for so many monsters is a major problem.

Often, the solution to the food problem is to let living demon beasts eat the corpses of dead demon beasts, which is why they will keep attacking human cultivator strongholds.

Then they devoured mortals and the livestock they raised.

However, as long as they don't venture deep into the heart of Yasukuni, the number of mortals that the beast tide can devour nearby won't be many, and it's not worth going too far just to eat a few mortals.

Therefore, the high-level monsters that launched the beast tide will inevitably keep the tide attacking, either breaking through the human alliance's defenses, rushing into the human heartland to wreak havoc, and enjoying the flesh and blood of ordinary humans.

The only option is to attack and wear down the weak cannon fodder, allowing the remaining monsters to eat the corpses of their own dead monsters to recover their strength.

Knowing that the beast tide had this intractable weakness, the human alliance had always defended its strongholds and fortresses, using formations to constantly deplete the beast tide's manpower and blunt its advance.

However, this time is different from the past.

This beast tide did not receive the full support of the entire Dragon Abyss Demon Clan, and its scale was far smaller than previous beast tides.

Meanwhile, the Dragon Transformation Sect is also behind this beast tide, and has already taught the three major sects of Jingguo a harsh lesson in Lanzhou.

Under these circumstances, the three major sects of Jingguo did not want to drag things out any longer, fearing that if they continued to drag it out, the Hualong Sect would come up with some more conspiracies and tricks, making the situation even more uncontrollable.

Meanwhile, after Zhou Mingde was ordered to enter the front line of Yunzhou, he soon went with the cultivators who came from all over the place to the Fulong stronghold, which was surrounded by the beast tide.

This Fulong stronghold was a solid fortress built over more than a decade by the three major sects of Jingguo, with Qinglian Temple as the main force.

It stood firm at the forefront of the defense line like a reef during this beast tide.

If it is not broken, the high-level monsters behind the beast tide will not dare to let the beast tide penetrate deep into the heart of Yunzhou and wreak havoc.

Because they also knew that once the beast tide began to spread and wreak havoc, it would be difficult for them to gather the scattered monsters back together.

When the cultivators from the Fulong stronghold attack from behind, the demon beasts will undoubtedly be defeated in a pincer movement.

Therefore, before breaking through the Fulong stronghold, the beast tide would at most send small groups of beast tides to harass the heart of Yunzhou, forcing the Jingguo Allied Forces to use more personnel to clear out those small groups of beast tides and weaken the defense of the Fulong stronghold.

At this time, the number of monsters besieging the Fulong stronghold was as high as tens of thousands!

When Zhou Mingde arrived at the outskirts of Fulong stronghold with the reinforcement team, he looked up and saw a dense swarm of various monsters standing or lying in the mountains and fields, many of which had obvious wounds on their bodies.

Further ahead, closer to the Fulong stronghold, various magical lights flashed continuously.

From the moment they began besieging the Fulong stronghold, the beast tide army never stopped attacking it, launching relentless attacks every day in shifts.

The stronghold, however, remained standing and was never breached by a single demonic beast.

Seemingly sensing the arrival of reinforcements, a large number of spells suddenly erupted from the stronghold and blasted outwards, instantly killing a large number of the approaching monsters.

Immediately, dozens of figures flew out from the stronghold and rushed towards the reinforcements.

Upon seeing this, the high-level demonic beasts and Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators within the beast tide naturally refused to allow them to easily bring reinforcements into the stronghold, and quickly rushed out to intercept them.

Thus, after a fierce battle outside, Zhou Mingde and his reinforcement team finally managed to enter the Fulong stronghold at the cost of several lives.

Upon arriving at the Fulong stronghold, Zhou Mingde quickly met Zhou Daoyi, who was already there, as well as the Zhou family Qi Refining stage cultivators who had retreated there before the arrival of the beast tide.

It is now almost certain that all twenty-odd Qi Refining stage cultivators from the Zhou family in Lanzhou have perished in battle.

Therefore, it is absolutely crucial that nothing else happens to the Qi Refining stage cultivators in Yunzhou, otherwise the Zhou family will face a shortage of capable individuals for the next twenty or thirty years, which will be extremely detrimental to the family's development.

After meeting with and reassuring the Qi Refining stage cultivators of the Zhou family, Zhou Mingde looked at Zhou Daoyi with a solemn expression and said, "Everything has returned to normal at the family level, and Daoquan has also returned to the family. Now it all depends on this side. As long as we can win here, the family will have overcome its most difficult period!"

Hearing that Zhou Daoquan had returned safely, Zhou Daoyi breathed a sigh of relief, then said with a solemn expression, "The decisive battle here should be about to begin. I met with Senior Li a few days ago, and he hinted that there might be a major operation coming up here!"

"Then we need to be extra careful, and absolutely mustn't let anything happen at a time like this!"

Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and immediately began to prepare for the battle.

Sure enough, two days after Zhou Mingde and his reinforcements entered the Fulong stronghold, Liu Yiping, who had been stationed at the Fulong stronghold, issued the order to counterattack.

On that day, more than thirty Golden Core cultivators and nearly two hundred Purple Mansion cultivators broke out of the Fulong stronghold and joined forces with the Feng Kingdom reinforcements from outside to launch a pincer attack on the high-level demonic beasts in the beast tide.

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