Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 243 Zhou Daoyi's worries, the beast tide is coming [Subscribe]

"Eighteenth brother, your Ironback Bear cannot just be used as a meat shield. You need to let it get close to you and cooperate with your attacks."

"Seventeenth brother, you and your sister-in-law should not just focus on fighting a black water crocodile. Pay more attention to helping your nephews!"

"Oh no, niece Xinhuan, be careful behind you!"

On the grass by the river, Zhou Zhenglan, who had the highest cultivation level on the scene, was forced to become the team leader. While directing other tribesmen to fight the black water crocodile, she also pulled her husband Pang Chong to act as a firefighter, helping those tribesmen in distress everywhere.

In fact, these people just have no experience.

If they had this kind of experience in coordinated combat, a mere dozen black-water crocodiles would not be a match for them who are well-equipped.

Hedong in thirty years and Hexi in thirty years.

The Zhou family of today is no longer comparable to the Zhou family of 20 or 30 years ago.

When the Zhou family first took root in Jiufengling, they did not get many physical objects when the family was divided, so when Zhou Chun's magic tool broke, he was unable to ask the family to replace it.

Now, as long as the Zhou family cultivators reach the middle or late stage of Qi Refining, the family will reward them with magical instruments corresponding to their level of cultivation.

What's more, when they came out this time, the family not only gave them an extra spare magic weapon corresponding to their cultivation level, but also gave them twenty magic talismans and a number of elixirs.

With this configuration, it is not difficult to deal with some black-water crocodiles whose combat effectiveness is not very strong after coming ashore!
So at this time, after experiencing the initial panic and discovering that the black water crocodiles were not actually that strong, the twelve Zhou family cultivators finally recovered from the panic and began to learn how to cooperate in fighting the enemy.

When they really started to fight together, they soon achieved encouraging results.

They killed black water crocodiles one after another, and the battle was soon over.

After the last black water crocodile was killed by a punch from Zhou Xinlan's Scarlet Flame King Kong Monkey spirit pet, Zhou Chun slowly descended from the sky, then nodded slightly to the Zhou family cultivators who had just experienced a hard battle and said:
"You did a good job. I hope you can learn from this battle and learn to fight together. You can learn to make good use of the magic tools, magic symbols, and spirit beasts in your hands and truly exert your own strength to the fullest, or even beyond your ability."

These words were considered as recognition of the contributions of the twelve people.

Therefore, the Zhou family cultivators who heard his words also showed unstoppable joy, and responded loudly in unison: "Yes, we will definitely remember the deputy clan leader's teachings!"

"Okay, let's clean up the battlefield. There's nothing good on these black water crocodiles. We just need to take out their eyes as evidence!"

Zhou Chun waved his hand and made new arrangements.

In the beast tide, killing monsters is also a military achievement.

If one wants to gain military merit by killing monsters, he must show relevant evidence to the monks of the three major sects who are responsible for counting military merit.

For example, to kill a black water crocodile, you have to show its pair of eyes, and of course it would be better to have an intact corpse.

For example, if one kills some second-level monsters, one may need to present the entire corpse or half of its remains in order to get recognition.

After a while, all fourteen pairs of black water crocodile eyeballs were collected and handed over to Zhou Chun for safekeeping.

The corpses of the black water crocodiles were casually eaten by the spiritual pets of the Zhou family and then discarded on the river bank.

Then the Zhou family set out on foot, going upstream along the river, clearing out the monsters that had already penetrated deep into the inland area along the way.

In just one day, Zhou Chun and his group walked more than a hundred miles along the river bank, killing forty-six first-level monsters of various types on the way.

Among them, only a few first-grade top-quality monsters were killed by Zhou Chun himself, and the rest were handed over to the twelve Qi-refining cultivators of the Zhou family as whetstones to deal with.

After a day of high-intensity fighting, these Qi-refining cultivators of the Zhou family who were on the battlefield for the first time finally developed a sharp edge and began to understand how to kill the enemy and survive on the battlefield.

"Okay, today's mission ends here. I'll take you back to the base first. When you go back, remember to think more about today's experience, learn more lessons, and don't make the same mistake again next time!"

Outside a small fishing village by the river, Zhou Chun, who was on patrol, took a look at the peaceful and tranquil atmosphere in the village, then waved his hand and ended the patrol.

Since this small fishing village by the river has not been attacked by monsters, it means that the monsters swimming upstream have not been here yet, so this river can be considered clean for the time being.

Immediately, Zhou Chun asked Baibai, the silver electric thunder python that had rested along the way, to come out and carry the twelve Qi-refining cultivators of the Zhou family, who were already exhausted, back to the base.

When they returned to the base, there seemed to be a lot more people inside than the day before. Zhou Chun also saw many cultivators who were probably independent practitioners.

After the task was completed, Zhou Daoyi, who had been in the stronghold, also took the opportunity to talk about Qing Lingzi's arrangements.

"According to Senior Qing Lingzi's plan, we, the Zhou family, and several powerful families will form separate teams, and some independent cultivators will be added to form a team of 100. At that time, he will directly issue orders to the captains like me, and we will just follow his orders."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Chun couldn't help but mutter to himself with a slightly surprised look on his face: "Senior Qing Lingzi is really courageous to be willing to delegate power at this time!"

After saying that, he nodded slightly and said, "But this is indeed a great thing for us!"

"It's a good thing, but with the decentralization of power, the responsibility has also fallen on us. If something goes wrong, I'm afraid we will be in trouble!"

Zhou Daoyi shook his head when he got to this point, and changed the subject, saying, "From what I heard from Senior Qing Lingzi, he seems to want to use Qing Qing's existence to do something. This makes me very worried and it's hard for me to concentrate!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately responded, "If you want to use the green dragon to do something, you either want to rely on the dragon's might to disperse the beasts, but this is unlikely to work in the beast tide. Those fourth-level monsters can't just sit back and watch!"

"Or we can use the Green Flood Dragon to attract the attention of the fourth-level dragon behind the beast tide and lure the fourth-level dragon out!"

After that, he said thoughtfully: "If it is the latter, then there may be more than just Senior Qing Lingzi, a Jindan-stage cultivator here."

"That's what I thought, too. That's why I was worried!"

Zhou Daoyi looked worried and whispered to himself, "Qingqing's bloodline reverted to that of a dragon, and she has never seen any other dragons. If she were to face a fourth-order dragon, I'm not afraid that she would retaliate and break free from the contract, but I'm worried that it would affect her personality and thoughts, and that this would lead to some hidden dangers!"

His concern is not unfounded.

Most of the spiritual pets of the Zhou family cultivators are trained from a young age, so they usually have a very close relationship with their owners.

In the past history of the Zhou family, many spiritual pets of Zhou family monks were even buried with their masters after their masters' death.

However, once a spirit pet comes into contact with wild monsters of the same species and lives with them for a long time, its feelings towards its owner will easily deteriorate. Moreover, the higher the monster's cultivation level, the higher its intelligence, and the more susceptible it is to this influence.

Although under the restrictions of the "Soul-Controlling Blood Array", it is almost impossible for monsters of the same level to break free from the contract and attack their masters, but if they really have the intention of betrayal, it will also cause great trouble.

The Green Dragon is already a third-rank monster. After hundreds of years of training by Zhou Daoyi, its intelligence is now comparable to that of a thirteen or fourteen-year-old human boy.

It just so happens that the intelligence of a fourth-level dragon has almost reached this level, or even higher.

If the two meet, the fourth-level dragon will convey to the green dragon some ideas of resisting humans and liberating the freedom of the demon body, and it is hard to guarantee that the green dragon will not be affected.

Once the seeds are planted, they may sprout and grow at any time in the future until they fill the soul.

Zhou Chun had this concern at the beginning, which was why he showed leniency to the Golden Winged Tiger's parents and did not kill the Golden Sword Tiger and the Winged Tiger.

At this time, facing Zhou Daoyi's worries, Zhou Chun could only comfort him: "Your worries are not unreasonable, but this hurdle will have to be faced sooner or later. I believe that the relationship between you and Qingqing for a hundred years can never be disrupted by the evil words of that beastly beast!"

"Hey, I hope so!"

Zhou Daoyi sighed softly, there was no better way.

Time flies, and two days have passed in the blink of an eye.

At this time, all the immortal cultivation families that were recruited to come to Bi Yan Ze have basically gathered together.

And because the real main force of the beast tide is heading for Yunzhou, the immortal cultivation families mobilized from Lanzhou this time are mostly local immortal cultivation families from Lanzhou, and there are also a few immortal cultivation families from Lianzhou.

On the contrary, the sources of independent cultivators are extremely wide.

Many independent cultivators in the north did not have time to rush to Yunzhou due to time constraints, or they simply did not want to face the main force of the beast tide, so they came to Lanzhou to join the battle.

When these independent cultivators had gathered to the number of several thousand, Qing Lingzi began to reorganize them.

He gave the Qi Refining Stage cultivators who were willing to participate in the reorganization an additional salary ranging from three to seven spirit coins per day, and also promised to provide a death pension.

In this way, more than 700 brave warriors were recruited.

Afterwards, these independent cultivators were evenly distributed to eight immortal cultivation families, including the Zhou family, to form eight reorganized teams of 100 people. The remaining independent cultivators served as reserve personnel to replenish the losses in the front at any time.

"Here, here, here, and here. These eight places are all dangerous passes leading to the inland. Your eight teams of 100 people are to form a formation and garrison in these places to resist and eliminate small groups of beasts and prevent them from going deep into the inland to harm mortals!"

"Also, if you receive a message from me, you must obey my orders immediately without any delay!"

In a small and exquisite courtyard, Qing Lingzi summoned Zhou Daoyi and eight other Purple Mansion cultivators here, and assigned them relevant tasks with a serious face.

The border of Jingguo is extremely vast. If all the monsters in the beast tide were to break up into small groups and rush into Jingguo, then with the number of cultivators in Jingguo, they would definitely not be able to defend such a vast border.

However, the monsters that are scattered like that will no longer follow the orders of the high-level monsters that launched the beast tide.

It is very likely that they have started killing each other as soon as they left the influence range of the high-level monsters, or they simply saw a good place and stayed there.

In this way, not only will the actual damage caused by the beast tide be limited, but it will also be convenient for the cultivators of Jingguo to form teams to wipe out those monsters.

Therefore, after a high-level monster launches a beast tide, they generally will not let the herd leave their range of influence, so the route of the beast tide is easy to know in advance.

According to Jingguo's previous experience in dealing with beast tides, even if the beast tide is split, the small groups of beast tides will need at least one third-level monster to lead and gather them in order to continue to maintain a certain degree of destructive power.

Therefore, this time Qing Lingzi asked the Purple Mansion cultivators to lead teams to garrison in all directions to prevent small groups of beasts from bypassing the front line of defense and rushing into the rear to cause trouble and destruction.

After hearing Qing Lingzi's order, Zhou Daoyi and the others also responded solemnly in unison: "Yes, juniors will obey your orders."

Then they each led their people and set off.

After leaving their stronghold, the one hundred people from the Zhou family headed straight southwest. They walked for more than three hundred miles before stopping on a mountain.

"This is it, Jinji Mountain. We have to defend this area until new orders arrive."

On the top of a high mountain, Zhou Daoyi looked at the endless plain behind him with a very solemn expression.

There are no less than one million mortals living on the vast plain behind them. If a tide of beasts enters there, countless mortals will be killed by the beasts.

So they have a huge responsibility.

Afterwards, Zhou Daoyi personally led Zhou Chun and others to set up a large protective formation and a small spiritual purification formation issued by Qing Lingzi.

In this way, a temporary camp was formed.

After the camp was set up, Zhou Chun said to Zhou Daoyi: "I think the environment of Jinji Mountain is not bad. There should be many independent cultivators living in seclusion in the mountain. Maybe we can recruit them all, even if it's just to help control the formation."

"That's also a solution. Let Zhenglan and his wife take some independent cultivators to find people. Tell them that as long as they are independent cultivators who can come, no matter how strong their cultivation is, our Zhou family will subsidize them with at least one spirit coin every day!"

Zhou Daoyi pondered for a moment, then nodded and agreed to Zhou Chun's suggestion.

So Zhou Chun quickly arranged for Zhou Zhenglan, Pang Chong and his wife to take seven or eight wandering cultivators to the mountains to capture able-bodied men.

Zhou Chun himself also took the time to train and coordinate the independent cultivators he brought with him, so that when he really fought against the beast tide, he would be able to adapt to each individual and truly bring out the strength of these people.

At the same time, just when the Zhou family set up camp, the beast tide, which had been resting for two days by the Bi Yan Lake, officially crossed the wilderness and set foot on the territory of Jingguo.

The main force of this beast tide headed directly towards the stronghold where Qing Lingzi was stationed, and it was obvious that they had already conducted intelligence reconnaissance.

At about the same time, Lin Hongyu, who was far away in the Blood Dragon Branch of the Hualong Sect, was forced to end his recuperation life and was called out again.

First update today, there will be another update in the evening

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