I planted the spiritual roots for my people, and they bestowed upon me a body inscribed with incense

Back at his residence, Li Yuan remained vigilant about the beast tide. Although things had been relatively calm for some time afterward, the fact that the Medicine Sect had repeatedly sent disciples to fight indicated that the beast tide was not so simple.

While everyone was immersed in cultivation, in the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts, two wolf-shaped demonic beasts that were exactly the same as the ones that had been blown to pieces by Bai Shangren were discussing something in an underground cave.

Outside, a horde of demonic beasts, twice the size of the previous one, had gathered, and most of them were no longer at the early stage of Qi Refining.

Beside those two jackals, there were several other demonic beasts whose cultivation had reached the Foundation Establishment stage, but these demonic beasts all revolved around those two jackals.

As the two jackals grew increasingly frenzied, nearby monsters began to approach Shuanglong Pass. Based on the distance between the two places, the monsters would arrive at Shuanglong Pass in five days at most, at which point a new round of war would surely break out.

One day later, in the Shuanglong Pass command tent, the squad leader of the ninth squad lay in the tent, with only one arm left and his aura completely dejected.

After Ouyang Zhengyi, who was in the main seat, gave him a spiritual medicine, he slowly recovered. He then slowly spoke to Ouyang Zhengyi:

"Master, the beast tide is coming again, and it's even more terrifying than before." The captain of the Ninth Squad kept repeating this.

After the squad leader was carried away, the Foundation Establishment cultivators all wore solemn expressions. The Yellow Venerable looked at Ouyang Zhengyi and slowly said:

"Elder Zhengyi, does the imperial court still have any support this time?"

Ouyang Zheng shook his head.

"Alas, the ancestor ordered us to hold out for a year before the imperial court would send reinforcements."

Then he looked at Master Ziling beside him.

"Fellow Daoist Zi, the Medicine Sect might be able to spare some resources."

At this moment, Zi Ling's expression was still unpleasant.

"Alas, only our Spirit Medicine Peak has the strength to support Daqing now. Beast Taming Peak and Foreign Affairs Peak are currently in a stalemate with the Heavenly Dragon Buddhist Kingdom, and I'm afraid they will have little spare strength."

Upon hearing this, Ouyang Zheng frowned even more, and then slowly said:

"In that case, we can only defend this time." Ouyang Zheng waved his hand, and five wooden boxes appeared in front of him.

As the box was opened, it was filled with countless talismans, including two boxes of level 1 mid-stage talismans, two boxes of level 1 early-stage talismans, and one box of level 1 late-stage talismans.

After taking out these talismans, Ouyang Zhengyi looked at the other three.

"This is the last trump card for Shuanglong Pass. If used, it will surely extinguish this beast tide. However, the defense afterward will likely be even more difficult. Does anyone have any other brilliant ideas?"

Seeing that no one spoke, Ouyang Zhengyi slowly said:

"Since that's the case, then let's divide it into five Tier 1 beginner talismans, three Tier 1 intermediate talismans, and two Tier 1 late talismans." Fellow Daoist Zi, take the portion for the Medicine Sect disciples and distribute it.

Then, holding a mirror in one hand, Ouyang Zheng informed all the local cultivators about the matter of the Dividing Talisman Record before arriving at the Shuanglong Pass training square.

Upon receiving the news, the cultivators gathered in the plaza, and Ouyang Zhengyi began distributing talismans.

After everyone received their Dao talismans, Ouyang Zhengyi looked at them solemnly and spoke in a voice imbued with magical power:

"Gentlemen, this beast tide is even more ferocious than before, but we must not break through the Twin Dragon Pass no matter what, even if we die in battle."

The reason for distributing these talismans to you is that I hope you will use any means necessary to slay the invading monsters and protect our Great Qing territory.

The cultivators below fell silent. They all knew that this barrier had to be breached, otherwise the families behind them would be slaughtered by the demonic beasts, and their entire families would be reduced to ashes in an instant.

Furthermore, once this barrier is breached, aside from Foundation Establishment cultivators who have any hope of escape, everyone else present will undoubtedly die.

After Ouyang Zhengyi recounted the beast tide incident to everyone, he began to make arrangements.

This time, there is no need to go down the city wall to fight the beast tide. All we need to do is keep using talismans on the monster horde inside the pass. Ouyang Zhengyi also divided all the teams into two groups. While one group throws talismans, the other group pours their own magic power into the command flag.

This would both prevent the Twin Dragon Pass from being breached and maximize the power of all cultivators.

After the groups were formed, everyone went up to the city wall and took up their posts in their respective areas to wait for the arrival of the beast tide.

Li Yuan was assigned to the Talisman Team, where he was the first to activate the talismans to kill the monsters. Many warriors stationed at Shuanglong Pass also came to the city on this trip, and they were responsible for activating the fine iron crossbows.

There was a martial artist near Li Yuan who had cultivated to the Innate Realm. Although he was somewhat inferior to a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, if his weapon was strong enough, he could still confront some mid-stage level one demonic beasts or mid-stage Qi Refining martial artists head-on.

There were more than twenty such martial artists at Shuanglong Pass, most of whom were generals among the common people of Daqing, and some were masters from martial arts sects.

As time went on, the ground began to tremble as well.

As the war drums sounded atop the main city wall, the war gradually began.

Seeing the group of demonic beasts charging towards them from below, the group frantically smashed the talismans in their hands as if they didn't care about spirit stones, while another group kept pouring their magic power into the command flag.

With the convergence of magical power, a peculiar protective shield gradually formed on the city wall, resisting the impact of the demonic beasts that attacked the area below the city wall.

Fortunately, the cultivator who set up this formation was no ordinary person. With the help of his and your magical power, he managed to withstand the first and most powerful wave of beasts.

As the second wave of beasts arrived, eight ferocious level-two demonic beasts appeared in the horde. These beasts seemed to be determined to die, and immediately charged towards Shuanglong Pass upon their appearance.

Seeing this, the four Foundation Establishment cultivators inside the pass had no choice but to use all their skills to cast spells on the eight demonic beasts.

However, if these eight level-two demonic beasts are allowed to crash into the defensive formation, the formation will surely break.

With this in mind, the four of them gritted their teeth and rushed out of Shuanglong Pass to meet the eight demonic beasts. The four of them had only one goal this time, which was to hold off the demonic beasts as long as possible without getting injured. After the beast horde below was almost slaughtered, the eight demonic beasts alone would definitely not be able to break through the defense of Shuanglong Pass.

Fortunately, Ouyang Zhengyi had enough talismans, and the monsters would be mostly destroyed by the combined attack of the crossbows and talismans before they even reached the city walls.

As one side gained at the expense of the other, countless monster corpses piled up beneath the city wall below.

Although Shuanglong Pass was temporarily held, the four Foundation Establishment cultivators were in dire straits. Not to mention avoiding injury, all four were now covered in wounds. If it weren't for Ouyang Zhengyi continuously casting second-tier talismans, the four would probably have been completely routed.

Fortunately, in addition to Ouyang Zhengyi's talisman, Master Ziling also provided four excellent pills to restore mana, which allowed the four of them to pull through.