Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 610 The Foundation of the Moon Wheel Cult [Please Subscribe]

Both being mid-grade fourth-tier demonic beasts, the Golden Armored Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone crushed the mid-grade fourth-tier armadillo demonic beast that had invaded through earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique used in Chinese fantasy novels) with overwhelming force as soon as it made a move. This shows how great the difference in strength between demonic beasts is due to different races!

If we compare it to cultivators, the armadillo was just an ordinary mid-stage Golden Core cultivator with a mid-grade magic weapon, while the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone was Zhou Chun with a spiritual treasure.

Once Zhou Chun uses his spiritual treasure, even ordinary mid-stage Golden Core cultivators can be killed in just a few moves!

Of course, this was also because the armadillo monster was unlucky enough to encounter the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, which was much stronger than it in earth-escape techniques, making it difficult to use its greatest escape technique.

Otherwise, with its excellent earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a magical ability that allows it to escape from equally powerful demonic beasts of the same level, such as the Fiery Phoenix.

Although the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone killed the armadillo monster, it disappeared into the earth with its corpse.

However, this scene was still witnessed by the Azure-Eyed Golden Ape, which possessed supernatural powers of spiritual vision.

It may not recognize the Mountain-Bearing Turtle as a demonic beast, but the fact that the Golden-Armored Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone could kill the Armadillo demonic beast in just a moment was enough to make it extremely wary and even fearful.

Therefore, it quickly roared and barked a few times before issuing the order to retreat.

Ok?

Zhou Chun also understood animal language, and he quickly deciphered the meaning behind the roar of the [Azure-Eyed Golden Ape], immediately frowning.

Originally, he did not want to reveal his true strength and attract more monsters to attack Tu Yunling, so he engaged in a prolonged battle with the [Azure-Eyed Golden Ape] to buy time.

Now that the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone has been forced to make a move, revealing its true strength, it has undoubtedly disrupted its original plan.

After the [Azure-Eyed Golden Ape] retreats, it will certainly not launch another attack easily. Instead, it will report the true situation to the fifth-tier demon king who is in control of the situation behind the scenes and request more assistance!

Should we simply change the plan and leave the [Azure-Eyed Golden Ape] and those fourth-tier demonic beasts behind?

Zhou Chun's mind raced, and he found it difficult to make a decision.

Just as he hesitated, two of the fourth-tier demonic beasts that had received the retreat order had already withdrawn from the formation's range.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun sighed inwardly and abandoned the idea of ​​killing the demon to silence him.

The Azure-Eyed Golden Ape is a high-grade fourth-tier demon beast. To kill it and silence it, it would either have to expose its magical treasures or summon the Fiery Phoenix and the Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone to gang up on it. Either way, it would expose more of its trump cards.

The key issue is that it's not guaranteed that we can prevent the opponent from self-destructing their demon core!

If it were to successfully self-destruct its demon core within Tu Yunling, the [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation] might even be broken by its powerful energy, resulting in an even greater loss.

Therefore, sticking to the original plan might be better.

However, the [Azure-Eyed Golden Ape], a high-grade fourth-tier demonic beast, is not easy to kill, while those low-grade fourth-tier demonic beasts are not so formidable.

While the other demonic beasts retreated, the Golden-Winged Tiger and the Thunder Flood Dragon received Zhou Chun's orders and simultaneously blocked the two low-grade fourth-order demonic beasts that were fighting Lin Hongyu and Zhou Mingde.

The Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone also secretly intervened, using its gravity field to restrict the two demonic beasts from escaping.

With everyone working together, they quickly killed the two demonic beasts within the great formation!

This single offensive resulted in the loss of three fourth-tier demonic beasts, rendering the beast tide outside no longer a threat to Tu Yunling.

Therefore, when this round of offensive was completely over, the beasts outside began to gradually disperse.

Low- and mid-level monsters also need food, especially since most of them have just traveled thousands of miles and need to eat to recover their strength.

Since it is no longer possible to sweep through Tuyun Ridge in one fell swoop, the fourth-tier demon beasts such as the [Azure-Eyed Golden Ape] will naturally no longer restrain the eating desires of their subordinate demon beasts.

Monsters are monsters after all. Once they get hungry, even with the restraint of fourth-tier monsters, it's hard to guarantee that they won't treat other monsters around them as food!

But this makes life difficult for ordinary people!

After this massive beast tide, it's hard to say what will happen to the northern states, but the number of mortals in the southern states will definitely decrease significantly. To put it extremely, it's not impossible for the number to drop by 80% or 90%!

But this is something that can't be changed, and there's nothing anyone can do about it!

Even if Zhou Chun had compassion for the common people, he didn't have the power to save them!

He couldn't even save the vast number of Zhou family mortals.

Before the battle, they were told to hide in underground shelters as much as possible. Whether they could successfully escape the monsters' attacks was entirely up to fate!

"Chieftain, the battle casualties have been tallied. In this battle, our side suffered 27 fallen cultivators, including two Foundation Establishment cultivators, 84 wounded, and 12 seriously wounded!"

"In this battle, our side killed a total of over 5,400 demonic beasts, including three fourth-tier demonic beasts, fourteen third-tier demonic beasts, and over 150 second-tier demonic beasts. We also obtained twelve third-tier demonic cores and countless demonic beast materials!"

On Tuyun Ridge, after Zhou Chun finished meditating and recovering his magical power, he summoned Zhou Xinyan to inquire about the battle damage.

After listening to Zhou Xinyan's report, he was very satisfied with the battle losses.

This is the advantage of human cultivators.

With a powerful enough protective array, even against dozens or hundreds of times more monsters, one can still achieve great results.

Otherwise, if it comes down to sheer numbers, the human race will never be able to defeat the demon beasts.

He immediately nodded in satisfaction and said, "Very good. The spoils of war will be kept by the family for now. The wounded should be treated with the best possible care, and the information of the fallen should be recorded. If there are any relatives or disciples, the relevant compensation should be delivered to them after the battle!"

"As for those who have rendered meritorious service, they may be rewarded with magical artifacts and talismans as appropriate, and further rewards will be determined after the battle!"

Rewarding those who have made contributions is Zhou Chun's consistent principle in managing his household.

In war, this approach is even more effective in boosting morale.

Most cultivators are highly ambitious people. As long as they can obtain considerable rewards by slaying demonic beasts, their morale will remain high.

In particular, the previous battles had shown them that the beast tide was not as terrifying as they had imagined.

As long as the protective formation of Tu Yunling remains intact, they will be able to easily hunt down a large number of demonic beasts.

"I understand, junior. I will definitely handle this matter personally!"

Zhou Xinyan looked at Zhou Chun with a face full of respect and admiration, and then immediately took the initiative to leave to carry out his duties.

At this moment, Zhou Chun was unaware of the immense shock his killing of three fourth-tier demonic beasts had brought to the younger generation of the Zhou family on Tu Yun Ridge.

At this time, more than a hundred years had passed since the war between immortals and demons. Many young cultivators had only heard of his legends, and they did not have as deep an impression of those legendary events as those who had experienced them back then.

Therefore, although they still held reverence for high-level cultivators, they couldn't help but think that the rumors were exaggerated.

After all, we're all human. Why should you be able to kill indiscriminately at the same level?

However, this time they personally participated in the battle and later witnessed Zhou Chun leading his spirit pets to surround and kill two low-grade fourth-tier demonic beasts.

The legendary story came to life, naturally inspiring them to deeply admire and respect Zhou Chun, this legendary figure in the family.

Even a cultivator like Zhou Xinyan at the Purple Mansion stage was no exception.

For the next two days, the beasts outside Tuyun Ridge remained largely inactive, refraining from launching any more futile attacks on the Zhou family.

However, Zhou Chun discovered that a fourth-tier demon beast had left the area, clearly heading to report to the fifth-tier demon king who was directing the beast tide from behind the scenes.

At this time, news of reinforcements arriving in Jingguo was also relayed to the Zhou family through the Moon Wheel Sect.

Upon learning of this, Zhou Chun was not happy at all; instead, his expression became extremely solemn.

Because he knew in his heart that the most difficult time of the war would come after reinforcements arrived.

The Jiaolong clan has been planning this great beast tide for over a hundred years, and it certainly won't end so abruptly.

This can be seen from the fact that not a single fourth-order dragon has appeared so far.

And the course of events seemed to confirm Zhou Chun's idea.

Not long after he received the message that reinforcements had arrived, Qinglian Temple suddenly couldn't hold out any longer.

Originally, there were only three fifth-tier demon kings attacking Qinglian Temple, but with the arrival of reinforcements, two more demon kings and more than ten fourth-tier demon beasts suddenly appeared!

Under the fierce attack of these powerful figures, the protective array of Qinglian Temple immediately began to show signs of collapse, forcing them to abandon a large area of ​​the outer regions and concentrate the power of the array to defend the core area, which was less than a hundred miles in size.

Even so, without reinforcements, Qinglian Temple would definitely not be able to hold out for even half a day!

Therefore, the several Nascent Soul stage cultivators from foreign countries who were originally preparing to go to relieve the siege of the Moon Wheel Sect had to rush to the Green Lotus Mountain Range to rescue the Green Lotus Temple.

These five Nascent Soul stage cultivators thought that traveling together would mean they would be largely safe from danger.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived outside the Azure Lotus Mountain Range, in addition to the five fifth-order demon kings who surrounded the Azure Lotus Temple, two more fifth-order demon kings suddenly appeared, including even a fifth-order high-grade azure dragon!

As a result, the five Nascent Soul stage cultivators were besieged on the spot, two of them died, and the other only managed to escape at the Nascent Soul stage!

Subsequently, the grand formation of the Qinglian Temple was also forcibly destroyed. Tianjing Zhenren had no choice but to abandon his physical body and escape the calamity by having his nascent soul leave his body!

The outcome of this battle shocked the entire Yasukuni!

No one expected that this beast tide would bring so many fifth-tier demon kings.

Moreover, the first to fall were not the Nascent Soul stage cultivators from Jingguo's own territory, but Nascent Soul stage cultivators from other countries who came to their rescue!

After this battle, those fifth-tier demon kings seemed to have no intention of hiding anymore, and they directly attacked the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate, preparing to annihilate this largest sect in Jing Kingdom in one fell swoop.

Zhou Chun was able to learn of the destruction of Qinglian Temple in time because the Zhou family's Jiufeng Ridge had not been breached by the beast tide at that time, and he learned of this through scouts he had previously placed in Lianzhou.

Even so, in the time it took for the news to be passed around, by the time he learned of it, all the demon kings had already gathered outside the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate.

Including the six demon kings who originally surrounded the Moon Wheel Sect, there are now as many as thirteen fifth-order demon kings gathered at the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate, including two fifth-order high-grade dragons!

Such a powerful lineup is truly terrifying!

The three Nascent Soul stage cultivators and the Golden Core elders of the Moon Wheel Sect turned pale, their hearts sinking to the bottom.

As the hegemon of a nation, the Moon Wheel Sect's protective mountain formation is naturally very powerful. Normally, it only needs two Nascent Soul stage cultivators to preside over it, which can withstand attacks from eight or ten Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

But that only applies to ordinary Nascent Soul stage cultivators!

The number of fifth-order demon kings gathered outside the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate is as high as thirteen, including two high-grade fifth-order demon kings and three mid-grade fifth-order demon kings!

This level of power has completely exceeded the limits of the Moon Wheel Sect's Mountain Protection Formation!

"Junior brothers, today is the most dangerous moment in the history of our sect. The only way forward is to draw upon the sect's hidden resources and unleash that forbidden technique to hold out until reinforcements arrive!"

"Since my days are numbered, I will perform that forbidden technique myself, and the rest will depend on my two junior brothers!"

Inside the mountain gate, an elderly man with white hair and wrinkled skin glanced at the fifth-tier demon kings outside, then took a deep breath and spoke his opinion in a deep voice to Silver Moon True Man and another middle-aged man in white.

Upon hearing his words, Master Silver Moon and the middle-aged man in blue exchanged glances, then bowed deeply to the white-haired elder, saying, "Senior Brother, your righteousness is admirable; we deeply respect you!"

Immediately afterwards, Yin Yue Zhenren and the white-haired old man each took out a crescent-shaped silver jade pendant and solemnly cast matching spells onto the jade pendants.

Driven by their incantations, the two silver jade pendants suddenly emitted a dazzling silver glow and then merged into a silver jade ring in mid-air.

When this silver jade ring appeared, something deep within the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate seemed to have been summoned.

Soon, a silver full moon rose from somewhere deep within the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate and quickly descended above the silver jade ring.

At this moment, the silver jade ring, like a swallow returning to its nest, joyfully flew into the silver full moon.

Upon closer inspection, the silver full moon was clearly transformed from a silver wish wheel treasure.

The silver jade ring we just saw is a component of the silver wish wheel.

"The world only knows that my Moon Wheel Sect possesses the inherited spiritual treasures [Holy Moon Wheel], [Moonlight Pearl], and [Moonlight Sword], but they do not know that the true core of our sect's inherited treasure is this once heaven-reaching spiritual treasure, [World-Destroying Moon Wheel]!"

"The founding patriarch's dying words forbade the awakening of the [World-Destroying Moon Wheel] unless the sect faces annihilation. For thousands of years, all Nascent Soul cultivators of the sect have kept this patriarch's teachings firmly in mind and have never awakened this treasure. They even deliberately kept the awakening key separately!"

"Now, evil spirits are causing trouble, attempting to destroy our sect's lineage. We, inheriting the teachings of our ancestors, will activate our most precious treasure to protect our sect and vanquish the enemy!"

The white-haired old man looked at the Wish Wheel magic treasure, which had transformed into a silver full moon in the void ahead. He muttered to himself as he activated a secret technique, spitting out a ball of essence blood with silver light spots that landed on the Wish Wheel magic treasure.

A strange scene unfolded.

The Heavenly Treasure, which would normally be difficult even for a Nascent Soul cultivator to refine, easily accepted the white-haired old man's essence blood and instantly formed a deep connection with him.

With a wave of his hand, the treasure shrunk rapidly, transforming into an exquisite wish wheel the size of a disc, which he held in his hand.

He quickly sensed the immense power contained in the object in his hand, as well as the price required to activate it!

He lightly weighed the magical artifact in his hand, then looked at Master Yinyue and said, "My two junior brothers, by using that forbidden technique to enhance my magical power, I should be able to activate this treasure six times!"

"I will use two of those attacks on those two high-grade fifth-tier dragons, which should severely injure them. The remaining four attacks, I hope, will be enough to kill four low-grade fifth-tier demonic beasts, ensuring the preservation of our sect's legacy!"

Upon hearing this, Master Yinyue immediately replied in a deep voice, "Senior brother, please go ahead and do as you please. Junior brother will not let your sacrifice be in vain, and will do everything in my power to ensure the survival of our sect's lineage!"

"Very well! In that case, I shall proceed!"

The white-haired old man nodded slightly, then immediately formed hand seals and unleashed a forbidden technique. His magical power surged instantly, reaching a level comparable to that of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator in just over ten breaths.

Immediately afterwards, he activated his magic power and the silver wish wheel in his hand, which instantly turned into a silver light and disappeared from his hand.

In an instant, a silver light appeared on the head of a fifth-order low-grade black dragon that had revealed its true form. It easily shattered the dragon's protective aura and head, slicing the head in two and destroying the demon core and demon soul within its body!

Before the other demon kings could react, the silver light vanished from its original spot and reappeared dozens of miles away on the head of a fifth-tier crocodile dragon, easily annihilating its physical body, demon core, and demon soul.

Only then did the other fifth-tier demon kings react, roaring as they halted their attacks on the Moon Wheel Sect's protective mountain formation and used various methods to strengthen their own defenses.

But they soon discovered that this did not work.

After a flash of silver light, another fifth-tier Crimson Fire Dragon was beheaded and its soul destroyed!

This scene terrified the remaining fifth-tier demon kings, who all used their escape techniques to flee.

Unfortunately, their escape techniques were far slower than that silver light.

With a fourth flash of silver light, a fifth-tier giant tortoise, despite having retracted its head into its incredibly hard shell—a shell as hard as a spiritual treasure—was easily pierced, and its massive body quickly plummeted to the ground.

After slaying four fifth-tier low-grade demon kings in succession, Yin Guang finally locked onto the fifth-tier high-grade Crimson Fire Dragon.

Relying on its profound cultivation, this dragon did not flee in panic like those fifth-order low-grade demon kings, but instead hid in a cloud of fire, remaining vigilant and on guard.

As soon as the silver light disappeared into the fiery cloud, a miserable scream came from within.

Immediately, a silver light shot out from within the fiery cloud, then turned and flew towards the other fifth-rank superior azure dragon.

Unexpectedly, this fifth-grade superior azure dragon was even more skillful. When the silver light hit it, it was discovered that there was only a false body there, and its true body had disappeared at some point!

Just after the fake Azure Dragon was destroyed, the white-haired old man inside the mountain gate suddenly dissipated his aura rapidly, and his nascent soul instantly vanished into nothingness.

The nascent soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator is the condensation of their essence, energy, and spirit. Once this nascent soul dissipates, the soul is completely scattered!

Yin Yue Zhenren, who witnessed this scene, silently waved his hand to collect the physical remains, and then cast a spell to summon back the [World Destroyer Moon Wheel] that was still outside.

However, out of fear of this object, he did not dare to refine it like his fallen senior brother, and he did not even dare to touch it with his hands.

Following the instructions left by the patriarch, he removed the jade ring from the wish wheel and put it away as two jade pendants.

Strangely enough, after the jade ring was removed, even without anyone refining or activating it, the silver wish wheel still automatically flew back to the place where it had come from, as if there was some kind of summons coming from there.

Only after witnessing the silver wish wheel disappear into the forbidden area deep within the mountain gate did True Person Silver Moon turn around and look at the middle-aged man, saying, "Junior Brother Azure Moon, from now on, it will be up to the two of us to protect the sect. We must carry on Senior Brother Profound Moon's legacy and vow to defend our sect's lineage to the death!"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man, True Person Cangyue, solemnly replied, "Senior Brother Yinyue is absolutely right. The sect nurtures us to form our cores and transform into infants; we should swear to repay the sect with our lives!"

Having made their stance clear, the two immediately united all the disciples of the sect and worked together to resist the frenzied retaliation of the demon kings outside!

The demon kings are indeed going to take vengeful action!

Four fifth-tier demon kings perished on the spot, including two fifth-tier dragons.

Such losses are considerable.

The gains made from the previous ambush of human reinforcements have been completely wiped out in this battle.

This infuriated the remaining demon kings.

Therefore, once it was confirmed that the terrifying magic weapon could no longer be used, the remaining nine demon kings immediately launched a frenzied attack on the Moon Wheel Sect's protective mountain formation.

Under the combined attack of these demon kings, the Moon Wheel Sect's protective mountain formation immediately began to shake violently.

However, compared to the previous combined attack of the thirteen demon kings, the mountain-protecting formation, although it seems to be showing signs of weakness, can actually hold out for a day or two without any problem.

This time was more than enough for Nascent Soul cultivators from outside Jing Kingdom, especially late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators like Master Kunxu, to arrive.

As for whether those people would come to their rescue, True Person Silver Moon and True Person Azure Moon were not worried.

From any perspective, the destruction of the Moon Wheel Cult brought no benefit to those people, only harm.

Once the Moon Wheel Sect is destroyed, the Flame Sun Sect will inevitably be unable to withstand the beast tide, and then the entire Jing Kingdom will fall.

Who dares to say that the beast tide won't spread to neighboring countries?

Even if the beast tide does not spread and Jingguo becomes a paradise for monsters, the surrounding countries will still face the military might of the Longyuanze Flood Dragon Clan.

Therefore, even if it's for their own benefit, powerful figures from other countries like Master Kunxu will definitely come to their rescue!

On the other side, because of the great distance and the fact that the entire Moon Wheel Sect was doing its best to resist the attacks of the demon kings, Zhou Chun had no idea what was happening on the Moon Wheel Sect's side.

Upon learning of the destruction of the Qinglian Temple, his first reaction was not joy, but surprise and panic.

He knew very well that once those tall guys were eliminated, the Zhou family, the tallest among the short guys, would inevitably attract the enemy's attention and come to eliminate him.

If even a fifth-tier demon king were to arrive, the Zhou family would have no chance of withstanding it!

Therefore, he was quickly forced to activate the contingency plan!

(End of this chapter)