Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 245: The effort failed, and the body was buried in the deserted mountain [Subscription required]

Jinji Mountain.

It was dusk, the sun was setting in the west, and was about to disappear completely.

The Jinji Mountain was filled with the smell of blood, and all the wild animals and birds in the mountain had already fled.

The corpses of dead monsters were scattered everywhere in the mountain, and the immortal cultivators were gouging out their eyes, chopping off their heads, removing their gallbladders, ripping out their hearts, and skinning them with extremely cruel methods.

It was impossible to transport so many corpses of monsters away, so Zhou Chun could only have people remove the more important materials or organs that could prove their identities from their bodies first, and then deal with them later.

Of course, if those independent cultivators wanted to collect the corpses of monsters, he would not interfere.

They were busy like this until the moon came out, and then they made a preliminary deal with the corpses of thousands of monsters to ensure that their military achievements would not be deducted due to the lack of supporting evidence.

It was also at this time that Zhou Daoyi returned with the Fire God Jackal riding on a green dragon.

"Chief, you are finally back. I wonder how the battle went?"

Looking at Zhou Daoyi who had returned, Zhou Chun did not hold back and directly asked him curiously about his gains.

Hearing this, Zhou Daoyi couldn't help but say in frustration: "They all ran away, and I didn't even get to kill any of them!"

Then he talked about the relevant situation in detail.

It turned out that after he led the Vulcan Jackal out to chase after the wolf, he originally wanted to concentrate his forces to surround and kill the one-horned fire wolf.

Just like the One-Horned Fire Wolf had previously set his eyes on the Fire God Jackal's demon pill, Zhou Daoyi also set his eyes on the One-Horned Fire Wolf's demon pill.

If the Fire God Jackal could devour the demon pill and corpse of the One-Horned Fire Wolf, there is a high probability that it would be promoted to a third-rank medium-quality demon beast.

But the One-Horned Fire Wolf is a third-level intermediate-grade monster, and it has the help of the blue-black giant eagle, so it is not so easy to kill.

Although Zhou Daoyi and his men severely injured it, it still managed to escape back to the location of the main force of the beast tide.

Moreover, this battle also exposed the existence of Qing Jiao.

After listening to Zhou Daoyi's story, Zhou Chun felt sorry for the Fire God Jackal.

For a third-level monster like the Fire God Jackal, because the Zhou family can no longer provide it with elixirs that can increase its cultivation, its growth rate is actually not much faster than that of third-level monsters in the wild.

Therefore, it is normal that there has been no significant improvement in cultivation over hundreds of years.

It is a rare opportunity to encounter a third-order medium-grade monster whose affinity is completely matched with its own, but it still lets it run away. It is indeed a pity.

However, Zhou Chun did not show his pity. Instead, he comforted Zhou Daoyi and said, "Even if the rabbit runs away, its nest is still there. As long as it is still in the beast tide, we still have a chance to kill it!"

"Yes, there is still a chance!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded, and immediately comforted the injured Fire God Jackal, and then asked about what Zhou Chun and the others had gained.

"This time, the harvest was huge. We killed five second-level monsters and more than 1,400 first-level monsters. The total number of monsters that escaped should be less than 500, and most of them fled in the direction they came from."

Zhou Chun paused for a moment and continued, "As for our losses, nine cultivators died in the mouths of monsters during the pursuit, thirteen were injured, and two people from the family were also injured."

After hearing his answer, Zhou Daoyi could not help but nod slightly and said, "This loss is still acceptable. Remember to collect the remains and ashes of those fallen monks and hand them over to Qinglian Temple for disposal after the war."

"Don't worry, Patriarch. I have already done so."

Zhou Chun responded, and then said again: "But what should we do with the monster corpses all over the mountain? If we just leave them to rot or be eaten by wild beasts, I'm afraid that more monsters will breed in the future. It would be a pity to burn them!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi immediately knew that he must have an idea, so he asked directly: "What do you think, Zhengchun?"

Zhou Chun did not keep the question in suspense and immediately answered: "I was thinking, can we find a place to build an ice cave, temporarily put these monster corpses into it and freeze them, and then after the beast tide is over, transport these monster corpses back to the family to be made into animal food!"

Generally, no cultivator would eat monster meat without processing it.

However, the Zhou family can make it into animal food to feed the monsters in the family.

The corpses of more than a thousand monsters are enough to feed all the monsters raised by the Zhou family for a period of time.

Therefore, in Zhou Chun's view, the corpses of these monsters are also a considerable gain.

After hearing his plan, Zhou Daoyi quickly nodded in agreement and said, "This is a good idea. If it's just about making some ice cubes, we can still do it."

After saying that, he asked Zhou Chun to take people to the mountains to find a suitable place to build an ice cave.

With the help of his spiritual consciousness, Zhou Chun soon found a natural shady place, then released the golden-armored rock turtle and asked Zhou Daoquan to send out the earth-armored bear for help.

The two second-level earth-based monsters worked together, and in less than midnight, they had dug a huge pit in the ground that was big enough to hold the corpses of thousands of monsters.

Then Zhou Daoyi rushed over, and with the help of Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan, the three of them cast a spell together, using magic to freeze the spring water into ice and spread it on the bottom of the giant pit. Then they threw the monster's corpse into the pit and covered it with a layer of ice again.

After laying several layers like this, thousands of corpses of monsters were buried in the huge pit.

After the final sealing of the earth was completed, Zhou Daoyi specially asked Qing Jiao to leave a strong dragon scent on the giant pit to deter wild beasts and monsters that might come to steal the corpse.

By the time I finished all these things, it was already evening of the next day.

At this moment, Qing Lingzi's communication talisman was also sent to Zhou Daoyi.

After reading the message, Zhou Daoyi said to Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan with a serious expression: "Senior Qing Lingzi said that the Wang family is in urgent need of help, and asked us to move over to rescue them immediately!"

"I remember that in addition to Senior Wang, there is also a Senior Yang from Lianzhou in the Wang family. Can't these two Purple Mansion Stage cultivators defend a stronghold?"

A look of surprise flashed across Zhou Chun's face, and he was also somewhat shocked by the news.

"The communication talisman didn't say much about the specific situation. Anyway, just be extra careful."

Zhou Daoyi shook his head slightly and immediately ordered the entire army to march out.

So, except for a few seriously injured soldiers who were left behind to recuperate, Zhou Chun and his team of a hundred people quickly put away the formation and rushed towards the place where the Wang family was stationed.

Saving lives is like putting out a fire. At this time, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun no longer thought about keeping a low profile.

They let the Green Dragon and the Silver Lightning Python act as transportation tools, carrying more than seventy Qi Refining cultivators at full load, and then let Zhou Daoquan's Red Flame Crane and the three Foundation Establishment cultivators carry the remaining Qi Refining cultivators themselves.

In less than three hours, they arrived at the Wang family's garrison base hundreds of miles away.

It was already late at night, but the Wang family's stronghold was shining with light and roaring with incessant noises, as if they were being attacked by a tidal wave of beasts.

Zhou Daoyi opened his eyes in the sky and looked over there, then his eyes narrowed slightly. "No wonder the Wang family asked for help so quickly. This small group of beasts actually has a third-level upper-grade fox demon and a third-level lower-grade cat demon!"

He withdrew his gaze and stated his findings in a serious tone.

At this moment, the third-grade top-grade fox demon seemed to have noticed something and suddenly turned its gaze towards them.

When the fox demon saw the green dragon and the fire jackal flying in the sky from twenty or thirty miles away, a human-like solemn look flashed in its eyes.

Then a shrill fox cry was heard, and the beast army that was attacking the Wang family’s stronghold suddenly stopped its attack.

Then, the beast tide actually began to split and disperse amid the orderly sounds of foxes, and dispersed into small teams consisting of wolves, bears, cows and other species.

Zhou Daoyi was slightly stunned by this scene.

Then, as if he understood something, he suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no! This cunning beast is trying to escape!"

After he finished speaking, he instructed Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan, "Daoquan, Zhengchun, the two of you lead your men to hunt down those scattered and escaping monsters, and try to stop them from running inland. I will go and see if I can keep those two third-level monsters!"

As he said this, he ordered the Green Dragon and the Fire God Jackal to put the cultivators on their backs to the ground, and then quickly led the two beasts to charge towards the third-grade top-quality demon fox.

At the same time, Wang Guangping and Yang Zhenxiong, two Purple Mansion Stage cultivators who were originally struggling to defend the stronghold, also discovered Zhou Daoyi's figure.

Seeing this, Wang Guangping's eyes moved, and he immediately said to Yang Zhenxiong beside him: "It's the Taoist friend from the Zhou family who came to support us. Let's go out and help Taoist friend Zhou."

"As it should be."

Yang Zhenxiong responded and immediately rushed out of the stronghold with Wang Guangping.

As soon as the two of them came out, they heard Zhou Daoyi shouting in a deep voice: "Friend Wang, Friend Yang, quickly have the younger generations of your family lead people to intercept those small groups of monsters. Don't let them flee into the inland areas behind, otherwise there will be endless disasters!"

As soon as these words came out, Wang Guangping and Yang Zhenxiong's faces changed, and then Wang Guangping reacted very quickly and immediately said: "Thank you for your reminder, Brother Zhou. I will ask someone to do it right away!"

After that, he said to Yang Zhenxiong: "Fellow Daoist Yang, you will lead the people to kill those monsters in person, and I will help fellow Daoist Zhou deal with the fox demon!"

"Then fellow Daoist Wang, please be careful."

Yang Zhenxiong also realized the seriousness of the matter. After giving a reminder, he hurried back to the base to arrange people to go out in pursuit, and he himself also chased and killed the fleeing second-level monsters at the fastest speed.

On the other side, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan had each led a team of men to hunt down the monsters that had fled outside the Wang family's stronghold.

This time, in order to take care of the Qi Refining monks in the team, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan left the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle and the Earth-Armored Bear in the team, letting them follow the Qi Refining monks and be ready to resist any second-level monsters that might appear at any time.

Then the two of them, one riding a python and the other riding a crane, each riding on their spirit pets, chased after the scattered and fleeing second-level monsters.

This chase lasted nearly an entire night.

By the time the sky was bright, Zhou Chun and Baibai, the master and servant, were too tired to move.

That night, the master and servant killed two second-level low-grade monsters, and the number of first-level monsters killed exceeded two hundred.

Although the enemies they encountered were not strong, the high-intensity pursuit still exhausted the magic power of the master and servant, and they were no longer able to continue searching for and hunting other monsters.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun still has the golden-winged tiger as a backup spiritual beast.

After he put the Silver Electric Thunder Python, which had exhausted its magic power, into the spirit beast bag, he let the golden-winged tiger carry him back to the Wang family base to rest.

After returning to the stronghold, Zhou Chun discovered that, except for the two Yang family foundation-building cultivators who stayed in the stronghold to guard due to injuries, he was actually the first foundation-building cultivator to return.

However, those Qi Refining cultivators had limited mana, so they came back not long after they chased out. Now they were either meditating to heal their wounds or to restore their mana.

The golden-armored rock turtle had already followed Zhou Xinlan back to the base.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun greeted the two Yang family foundation-building cultivators and then released the Silver Lightning Thunder Python. Both the man and the pet slowly rested and recovered.

After Zhou Chun had been meditating for nearly two hours, Zhou Daoquan and the foundation-building cultivators from the Wang and Yang families all returned, leaving only three Purple Mansion stage cultivators with no news.

However, everyone in the Zhou family had full confidence in their family head and were not too worried about this matter.

Sure enough, nearly four hours after Zhou Chun returned to the base, three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators came back together.

Also brought back was the corpse of a third-level cat demon that was as huge as a tiger.

It was a relatively rare green-eyed civet cat. When it was escaping, it was treated as an abandoned pawn by a third-rank top-grade fox demon and died under the siege of three Purple Mansion monks.

Because Zhou Daoyi contributed the most, and the Zhou family came specially to help this time, Wang Guangping and Yang Zhenxiong did not feel comfortable fighting for the most important inner elixir, but just shared the cat demon's body.

Although the harvest this time is not small, the consequences are equally serious.

Many monsters took advantage of the chaos last night to flee into the inland areas at the rear, making it difficult to catch them all in one fell swoop.

I am afraid that many mortals in the rear will suffer from the harm of these monsters next.

But this is not something Zhou Chun and his team can solve now. They don't have the time and energy to go around looking for those monsters.

Therefore, after Zhou Daoyi understood the situation, he immediately looked at Wang Guangping and Yang Zhenxiong and said, "Friend Wang, Friend Yang, this matter must be reported to Senior Qing Lingzi in a timely manner, and Senior Qing Lingzi will make the final decision."

"Fellow Daoist Zhou is right. We two will report the details to Senior Qing Lingzi right away."

Wang Guangping and Yang Zhenxiong looked at each other, and immediately sent a message to Qing Lingzi to report the situation here.

Not long after, Qing Lingzi's reply reached Wang Guangping.

After Wang Guangping looked at the reply, he quickly looked up at Zhou Daoyi and Yang Zhenxiong and said, "Senior Qing Lingzi asked us to send one foundation-building cultivator and twenty Qi-refining cultivators to the rear to chase and eliminate the rebellious monsters. The rest of us, except for the seriously injured, will all go to the Song family's stronghold."

Hearing her words, Yang Zhenxiong frowned and asked, "What about the corpses of the monsters outside?"

"I don't think Senior Qing Lingzi told us to set off right away, so let's pack up first. We can't let everyone's hard work go to waste!"

Wang Guangping hesitated for a moment, but still expressed his judgment.

Obviously, she was reluctant to throw away so many corpses of monsters that could be used to gain military merits. At least she had to collect the monster organs that could serve as physical evidence of her military merits.

At this moment, Zhou Daoyi also spoke.

"Fellow Daoist Wang, Fellow Daoist Yang, if you want to leave a foundation-building cultivator behind to lead the others to clean up those rebellious monsters, I recommend Zhou Zhengchun, the deputy patriarch of the Zhou family, to take charge of this matter."

"Although Zhengchun is only at the initial stage of foundation building, I think you all know his strength and ability. If he leads the team to do this, we will definitely be able to do our best!"

There will be a second update in the evening
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