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Chapter 611 Tuyun Ridge Falls [Subscribe]

The gate of Qinglian Temple was breached, this is not something that cannot happen.

But if it was breached so quickly, it would be a serious matter!

The Tuyunling Mountain Range and the Qinglian Mountain Range are located on a horizontal line from the east to the west, and are the beginning and end of the line.

If Qinglian Temple is in the front, even if Tuyunling will become the main attack direction of part of the main force of the beast tide, the pressure will not be so great that it is unbearable.

But when the gate of Qinglian Temple was breached, the Zhou family of Tuyunling became the most conspicuous target of the beast tide advancing northward!
At this time, even if the fifth-level demon king did not take action, the Zhou family would not be able to withstand the huge tide of hundreds of thousands of beasts, and it would be impossible for them to survive the siege of twenty or thirty fourth-level demon beasts.

Therefore, Zhou Chun could only activate the backup plan and evacuate Tuyunling before the beast tide coming to support him arrived at Tuyunling!
To evacuate Tuyunling means to give up this sacred mountain and the mountain gate that the family has run for one or two hundred years.

This was a huge loss for the Zhou family, both in terms of morale and physical resources.

If it weren't for the last resort, Zhou Chun really didn't want to make this decision.

But now things have really reached a point where there is no alternative.

If you choose to keep the land but lose the people, then you will lose both the land and the people.

Only by saving people’s lost territory can we have a chance to make a comeback and regain lost territory!

However, the real reason that made Zhou Chun decide to evacuate on his own initiative was because the gate of Qinglian Temple was trampled!
After the gate of Qinglian Temple was breached, even if the Zhou family had evacuated many of their disciples beforehand, it would have been difficult to regain the lost territory.

In this way, if the monsters are driven back to the wilderness in the future, the Zhou family can legitimately replace Qinglian Temple and occupy the Qinglian Mountains.

In order to be able to better occupy and develop the Qinglian Mountains, a blessed land, Zhou Chun must now try his best to preserve the Zhou family's manpower!

So although it may seem like a lot of things will be lost if we take the initiative to evacuate Tuyunling now, it will enable the family to make further progress in the long run.

Having made up his mind, Zhou Chun quickly took action.

You know, the Zhou family learned about the upcoming beast tide several years in advance, so naturally they had already prepared various countermeasures.

Zhou Chun had already asked the Golden-Armored Mountain Turtle Shitou to dig several escape tunnels deep underground around Tuyunling for use in evacuation.

These escape tunnels are located hundreds of feet deep underground, and are difficult to discover even with the spiritual sense of a fifth-level demon king.

Moreover, they are not directly connected to Tuyunling. Even if someone finds them outside, they can’t use them to attack Zhoujia Mountain Gate from underground.

But when they are needed, the Golden-Armored Mountain Turtle Stone can open up a tunnel dozens of miles long to connect with them in just half a day, forming a complete escape tunnel!

Once Zhou Chun made the decision, Stone, the golden-armored mountain turtle, immediately took action.

At the same time, the Zhou family monks in the mountain gate also received the evacuation notice and began to pack their things urgently in large and small bags.

In fact, there is nothing to pack up for many things, because the truly precious things have already been packed up.

The same is true for Jiufengling.

As early as a year ago, Zhou Chun secretly transplanted several rare spiritual fruit trees including the [Zhu Yuan Fruit] tree and some rare spiritual medicines to the Bamboo Leaf Island of Le Country.

Although doing so would damage the vitality of these spiritual herbs and fruit trees, with Mu Mei and Mu Sang supplying them with vitality and conditioning, the losses can be reduced to a minimum.

When the beast tide recedes and the Zhou family regains stability, they can transplant them all back.

So packing up at this time basically means packing up everyone's personal belongings, as well as packing up the things in the family treasury, secret library, and library.

However, even if you are well prepared, you still have to give up a lot of things at this time.

For example, there are some monsters in the mountain gate that cannot be taken away, and the fourth-level purple mulberry tree in front of Zhou Chun’s cave!
In fact, Zhou Chun hesitated for a long time about whether to transplant the purple mulberry tree.

It is not difficult to transplant this spiritual tree, but the difficulty lies in how to preserve the [Jadeite Ganoderma] that has been planted on it.

These [Jadeite Ganoderma] have been planted for quite some time. If the spiritual wood is transplanted away, these delicate plants will likely wither, which would result in a huge loss.

So after much consideration, Zhou Chun decided not to transplant the sacred tree.

His idea was very simple. Even if the monsters occupied Tuyun Ridge, they would at most destroy the human buildings. They would not deliberately destroy the fourth-level spiritual wood such as purple mulberry wood.

It is possible that this place will be occupied as the lair or territory of a fourth-level monster.

In addition to this purple mulberry tree, Zhou Chun must also take away the Spirit Eye Spring and the "Qingling Immortal Osmanthus" tree stump in his cave.

At this time, he did not care about how much damage moving these two objects would cause to the spirit veins and themselves. Zhou Chun first put the tree stump into the storage bag, and then forcibly collected the Spirit Eye Spring as well.

Now that he is in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, he can use the power of the formation to sever the connection between the Spirit Eye Spring and the spirit veins. It doesn't take much time to collect the Spirit Eye Spring.

Only half a day later, Zhou Chun successfully packed up the Spirit Eye Spring.

At this time, the golden-armored mountain-carrying turtle Stone had also dug out an escape passage, connecting it to the previously dug tunnel.

After checking the tunnel and making sure there were no problems, he said to Zhou Mingde, who had already arranged for people to pack up various things, "Okay, the tunnel has been opened. Grand Elder, you and my great-aunt can take the people away first. I will be there soon!"

"Then I will leave first. Zhengchun, you should be more careful too!"

Zhou Mingde did not show any fussiness at this critical moment. After giving Zhou Chun some instructions, he led his men out of the tunnel.

Zhou Chun stayed inside the mountain gate with dozens of elderly monks with little potential, and continued to use the empty city plan to attract the attention of the beasts outside.

Anyway, he is a skilled and brave man, so he is confident that he can escape even if he is surrounded by enemies that are ten times his number.

When the other monks agreed to stay, they had already made up their minds to die. The Zhou family would take good care of their descendants and relatives!

In less than two hours, Zhou Mingde and others retreated through the tunnel to a hidden mountain stream two or three hundred miles away from Tuyunling.

This place is not far from the beasts surrounding Tuyunling, so there is still a possibility of being exposed.

Therefore, Zhou Mingde and hundreds of others did not act together, but divided into several teams and evacuated separately.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will eventually reunite at the Su family in Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou is located in the north-central part of Jingguo, which is considered the rear. If we retreat there, we won't have to face the main force of the beast tide for the time being and will have more time to wait and see.

Five hours after Zhou Mingde and others withdrew, the beasts outside seemed to have received reinforcements and launched an attack on Tuyunling again.

This time, the beasts chose to advance simultaneously on both the east and west fronts. Many fourth-level monsters also appeared one by one. Zhou Chun saw a fourth-level dragon for the first time.

In the sky to the east of Tuyunling, three dragons, one blue, one silver and one red, were flying in the air, using their magical powers to attack Tuyunling.

These fourth-level monsters seemed to have learned from their previous lessons and no longer entered the formation themselves. Instead, they relied on their numerical advantage to launch attacks from the outside to the inside.

All of a sudden, all kinds of lightning, wind blades, and fire rain attacks fell towards Tuyun Ridge, which was filled with yellow clouds, with an extremely powerful momentum.

"Thirteen fourth-level monsters, this really thinks highly of my Zhou family!"

Zhou Chun glanced at the fourth-level monsters that appeared, and his expression was very solemn.

It is not difficult to see from the number of fourth-level monsters that appeared that his judgment was very accurate.

After the gate of Qinglian Temple was breached, Tuyunling became the focus of the beast tide's attention.

Even if the Zhou family can withstand the current attacks of these monsters, there will definitely be more fourth-level monsters coming later.

Zhou Chun's attention was soon attracted by the silver dragon outside.

The silver dragon was much larger than Baibai's thunder dragon, and was a genuine fourth-grade, top-quality thunder dragon.

Zhou Chun specially released Mu Mei to verify and confirm that it was the thunder dragon that chased him all the way from Thunder Lizard Island!

This made him feel murderous.

"If we can kill this monster..."

A cold light flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, and he couldn't help but estimate the possibility of success.

About 60%!
This is Zhou Chun’s estimation result.

The reason why it is so low is that as a fourth-grade top-grade thunder dragon, the opponent's attainment in the art of thunder escape must be much higher than that of Lei Jiao Baibai.

Even if he transformed into a moon toad, he might not be able to hit the opponent, and even if he did, he might not be able to kill him instantly!

As long as he cannot kill the opponent instantly or even trap him, he will definitely not be able to catch up with him if he wants to escape.

The invincible strength of the Jindan stage only means that he can defeat all fourth-level opponents, but whether he can kill the opponent is not certain.

Even if a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage takes action, sometimes they will still be able to escape from some fourth-level monsters or cultivators who are particularly good at escaping!

Therefore, after some estimation, Zhou Chun suppressed his murderous intent and gave up the plan to kill the fourth-grade top-grade thunder dragon by force.

After all, the Moon Toad incarnation is a very important trump card of his. When the beast tide invades, the importance of this trump card becomes more prominent.

If you reveal this trump card rashly, many things may become difficult to do later.

After giving up the attempt, Zhou Chun focused on controlling the formation and worked with several spirit pets to harvest the monsters that rushed into the formation.

Normally, going to the wilderness to kill third-level monsters would easily cause big trouble, so Zhou Chun had to restrain himself.

Now is a rare opportunity to kill a large number of these high-level monsters, he will not show mercy.

With the combined efforts of his several spiritual pets, no third-level monster that dared to charge into the formation could get out alive!

After he killed eight third-level monsters, the fourth-level monsters realized it belatedly and stopped the third-level monsters from entering the formation, and instead attacked from outside like them. However, without these third-level monsters entering the formation, facing the pressure from Zhou Chun's fourth-level monsters, the low- and middle-level monsters that entered the formation collapsed at the first touch, and could not launch an effective attack at all!

This is one of the shortcomings of the beast tide.

Because they rely purely on the pressure of high-level monsters to drive the middle and low-level monsters. Once they encounter the opponent who also sends out high-level monsters, and there are no high-level monsters of the same race on the scene to lead, then these middle and low-level monsters will find it difficult to muster the courage to launch an attack.

The [Blue-Eyed Golden Ape] soon discovered this through its spiritual eyes, and soon the attack of the beast group stopped, with only a dozen fourth-level monsters attacking fiercely.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun had long been on guard against the monster's spiritual eyes, and deliberately activated the power of the formation to form a strong spiritual light to cover the core area of ​​Tuyunling to prevent it from seeing the truth inside.

This kind of pure spiritual light barrier is difficult to see through no matter how powerful your spiritual eyesight is, and it consumes a lot of power from the formation.

However, Zhou Chun was just stalling for time, and he would delay as much as possible for a quarter of an hour.

Seeing that the beasts no longer came in to die, he pushed the power of the formation to its limit at all costs, and tried his best to shrink the coverage of the formation to defend against the long-range bombardment of those monsters.

Relying on the powerful defensive force brought by the self-destructive formation, Zhou Chun and dozens of old and weak monks resisted for nearly three hours.

When the formation could no longer hold out, Zhou Chun stopped insisting and took advantage of the last moment to bow to the monks who volunteered to stay behind and said, "Thank you all for everything you have done for the Zhou family. I and the Zhou family will definitely not forget the sacrifices you made today!"

Then he burrowed into the ground with the golden-armored mountain turtle and stone and left Tuyunling.

Without Zhou Chun's command, the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation was quickly breached, and most of the cultivators left behind died in the backlash caused by the formation being broken. The survivors were also quickly killed by the attacks of the monsters.

Tuyunling, the gate of Zhou Family Mountain, fell completely!

After Zhou Chun left Tuyunling through earth escape, he did not show up along the way. He escaped directly to the north for a thousand miles before showing up and quickly rushed to the Su family in Jiangzhou.

Because he was alone, he arrived at the Su family earlier than many Zhou family cultivators who evacuated earlier. Only the two teams led by Lin Hongyu and Zhou Mingde arrived here before him.

Just as the Zhou family was very happy to receive other cultivators to Tuyunling at that time, the Su family was naturally very welcoming to the arrival of the Zhou family's cultivators.

"I have also heard about what happened in Tuyunling. Zhengchun, you two should just stay here with peace of mind. In this time of crisis, our Su and Zhou families should work together to fight the national crisis!"

Inside the Su family's mountain gate, after receiving Zhou Chun's arrival, the ancestor of the Su family also clearly expressed the Su family's attitude.

Zhou Chun responded to this in a firm tone, "What the ancestor said is absolutely right. I and the Zhou family will do our best to jointly guard this place with the Su family and protect our family and clan!"

Afterwards, he asked the Su family's ancestor about the Moon Wheel Sect and the alliance reinforcements.

The Su family is relatively close to the Yuelun Sect's mountain gate, and they have Su Yunniang, a Jindan-stage elder from the family, to take care of them. Logically, they should be much more informed than the Zhou family.

But in fact, the ancestor of the Su family had no idea what the current situation of the Moon Wheel Sect was. He only knew that many demon kings were besieging the Moon Wheel Sect’s mountain gate.

The information about the reinforcements was completely dependent on the Moon Wheel Sect, and they were not qualified enough to communicate with the top leaders of the Tianling Alliance.

This situation also made Zhou Chun frown.

Anyone with some common sense about war knows the importance of intelligence to war.

Now that the intelligence is unclear and they are unable to judge the enemy's strength, they are simply unable to formulate a combat plan based on the actual situation.

All we can do is defend the city in complete darkness!
But the problem is that the Su family is not as strong as the Yuelun Sect’s mountain gate!

Although the Su Family Mountain Gate's mountain protection formation was more powerful than the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation, its strength was extremely limited and it could not truly resist the attacks of a fifth-order demon king or a Nascent Soul cultivator.

In fact, this is also the result of deliberate actions by major forces such as the Moon Wheel Sect.

They will not allow vassal forces to have the power to resist themselves, so as to avoid nurturing a tiger to cause trouble!

Those formation masters who are able to set up formations to resist the attacks of Nascent Soul cultivators are basically only trained by these large sects.

In this situation, Zhou Chun believed that defending the city to the death was undoubtedly the worst option.

If a fifth-level demon king comes, except for him who can rely on the earth escape magic of the Golden-Armored Mountain Turtle and Stone to lead a few people to escape, the others will probably die with the city!

He frowned and pondered for a while, then looked at the Su family's ancestor and asked, "Have you ever tried to contact my aunt?"

"I tried. I tried to contact her with a flying sword, but the sword was destroyed halfway. It must have been intercepted by those fifth-level demon kings!"

The Su family's ancestor replied in a low voice with a helpless look on his face.

After hearing his answer, Zhou Chun couldn't help but remain silent.

The communication flying sword flies at an extremely fast speed, and it is generally difficult for a Jindan stage cultivator to intercept it.

But it does not include cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage.

In order to avoid being intercepted by Nascent Soul cultivators, only certain special communication magic weapons and talismans can be used.

But those magic weapons and talismans are extremely rare items, and many of them require special activation spells. Neither the Su family nor the Zhou family can possibly possess them.

Previously, the Moon Wheel Sect was able to notify all the vassal forces when the Demon King surrounded the mountain. This was because they relied on treasures like these to first notify the sect's Jindan elders in various towns and cities, and then pass the message on.

Finally, he could only helplessly say: "In this case, I can only use the same trick again and let the pet dig an escape route outside!"

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Zhengchun."

The Su family's ancestor nodded slightly and did not object to this.

In the following day, other evacuated Zhou family teams also arrived at the Su family's mountain gate one after another.

Some of these people encountered small groups of animals on the way and it took them some time to break out of their encirclement.

Some of them took more time to reach the Su family’s mountain gate because they were slow to travel.

But overall, it was a very successful retreat.

It was at this time that the message from the Moon Wheel Sect finally arrived in the hands of the Su family's ancestor.

"Good news! The siege of the Moon Religion's mountain gate has been lifted. Master Kunxu personally brought seven Nascent Soul stage masters from the alliance to help the Moon Religion resolve the crisis. Reinforcements from all the alliance countries are also on their way. The first batch of reinforcements has arrived in the country today and is resting and recovering in Yuezhou!"

After the Su family's ancestor quickly read the message, he immediately told the contents with a look of joy.

Hearing what he said, Zhou Chun also breathed a sigh of relief.

He hoped that Qinglian Temple would be destroyed, but he absolutely did not want the Yuelun Sect to perish.

Otherwise, if the Moon Wheel Sect were to perish, the future development prospects of Yasukuni would be bleak.

Even if a new big force moved here, it would not be a good thing for the Zhou family. At least, it would be impossible for them to plot against the Qinglian Mountains.

Then he looked at the Su family ancestor and asked, "Since the siege of the Moon Religion's mountain gate has been lifted, have any orders been issued regarding our vassal forces?"

Upon hearing this, the Su family ancestor immediately nodded and said, "Yes, the Moon Wheel Sect's message has clearly stated that the alliance will set up a defense line in Cangzhou and Jiangzhou to block the beast tide from moving north and west first!"

"This is a good thing! If so, our two families can stay in the same place and won't have to be transferred to other areas."

Zhou Chun's face lit up with joy, and he immediately expressed his opinion.

"Yes, that's what I think too!"

The ancestor of the Su family nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face, and was very happy in his heart.

But this happiness did not last long, as it was shattered by two pieces of news that were received later.

One piece of news came from the Yuelun Sect, which was a flying sword message sent by Su Yunniang.

According to her, although the Moon Wheel Sect managed to survive the siege of the Demon King, the battle not only cost the death of a Nascent Soul Stage True Person, but also the Jindan elders and a large number of disciples in the sect were seriously injured because they were fully assisting in maintaining the mountain protection formation. There were even many casualties, and she herself also suffered serious internal injuries.

Another piece of news came from the scouts ahead, that the main force of the beast tide had completely captured Lingzhou and Tanzhou above, and was heading towards Jiangzhou!

"Did Master Xuan Yue die?"

After Zhou Chun heard the information relayed by the Su family's ancestor, he was also shocked and extremely surprised.

Unfortunately, Su Yunniang seemed to be reluctant to give any details except explaining the situation. He therefore had no idea what exactly happened in the Yuelun Sect at that time.

"A wave of beasts is about to arrive, Zhengchun, do you have any ideas?"

The ancestor of the Su family didn't care about why Master Xuan Yue died at this moment. He only cared about whether the Su family's mountain gate could be defended. He immediately lowered his posture and asked Zhou Chun for advice on how to defend against the enemy.

The Su family is not the Zhou family. The mountain gate spiritual land has been managed by them for thousands of years, and many of the spiritual medicines in the medicine garden are almost a thousand years old.

Once the mountain gate is breached, even if the lives of the main members of the family can be saved, the losses will be immeasurable!
So he was determined not to give up the mountain gate spiritual land.

But what he didn't expect was that in response to his question, Zhou Chun just smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, ancestor. As long as there are no fifth-level demon kings participating in the battle and as long as the alliance reinforcements can reach Jiangzhou, I guarantee that the Su family's mountain gate will be as stable as Mount Tai!"

Such confident expressions and words stunned the ancestors of the Su family for a moment.

He stared at Zhou Chun blankly for a while, and then said again with some concern: "Zhengchun, are you hiding something from me? Where does your confidence come from?"

Originally, these words were somewhat taboo, but for the sake of the safety of the family, the ancestor of the Su family did not care about those things.

He thought to himself that he still had a lot of debt to do to Zhou Chun and the Zhou family, so it wouldn't hurt to ask about these things under extraordinary circumstances.

As expected, Zhou Chun did not give him a cold look because of this. He just nodded and said, "Since it has come to this, I will not hide it from you, ancestor!"

After saying that, he summoned out the fourth-order golden-winged tiger and the fourth-order hellfire phoenix, and also showed off the two magic weapons [Tiangang Thunder Sword] and [Two Dragons Turning the Sea Bottle]!
(End of this chapter)