Chapter 1187: Chapter 1187: The Strange Beast Tide
"Beast tide?" Xiao Yi looked at the massive Demon Beast Forest in the distance and smiled inexplicably.
"Let’s wait here and see if we need to help."
The vast Central Region, full of countless dangerous places and innumerable demon beasts, made beast tides a common occurrence.
Xiao Yi himself had encountered quite a few beast tides during his training journey.
The reason he smiled was that he remembered defending against beast tides during his time in the Eastern Domain.
He recalled that during his first defense against a beast tide, he was just a young Martial Artist in the Mysterious Profundity Realm.
In the Central Region, however, beast tides were plentiful, so each major city was well-prepared to defend against them.
Therefore, although beast tides were frequent here, they rarely caused serious disasters.
During his training journey, Xiao Yi also helped defend against several beast tides, but none of them were particularly large.
"Help out?" Qing Lin pursed his lips, "There’s no reward for this task."
"But I have one." Xiao Yi smiled, "I hold the positions of Chief Steward of the Wind Shattering Hall and Sub Hall Master of the Asura Hall."
"Defending against a beast tide once grants quite a reward."
"Alright then, consider me at a disadvantage." Qing Lin nodded.
Unlike in the Eastern Domain, where the term ’beast tide’ often made martial artists from all sides feel as if they were facing a formidable enemy, extremely tense,
in the Central Region, beast tides were almost a daily occurrence.
So even though Qing Lin knew it was a beast tide, apart from exclaiming in surprise at first, he now didn’t care at all.
Every major city had numerous experiences of repelling beast tides and almost didn’t need to worry.
"Anyway, there’s still about two days’ journey left to Four-direction City, so two days don’t make much difference." Qing Lin said.
The two fell from the sky, landing atop the city wall of this great city.
On the city wall, a full assembly of City Guard soldiers stood at the ready.
Inside the city, powerful martial artists arrived in an orderly manner.
An hour later.
With a deafening beast roar, countless demon beasts surged forth.
Each ferocious demon beast, with massive bodies, came in droves like a tide, hence the name beast tide.
"They’re here," Qing Lin said.
"Hmm." Xiao Yi nodded.
"Engage." On the city wall, a martial artist from the City Lord’s Mansion shouted.
Swish... swish... swish...
Streaks of primordial power shot out rapidly.
Boom... boom... boom...
The ground instantly cracked apart.
Outside the city wall, large stretches of land subsided.
The incoming demon beasts, unable to approach the city wall, fell into the ground one after another.
"Good coordination," Qing Lin leisurely remarked.
Those who acted first were entirely martial artists who cultivated the Earth Dao.
With perfect coordination, the ground beyond the city wall almost completely collapsed.
Swish... swish... swish...
Another wave of streaks shot out.
This time, the streaks emitted a scorching aura.
"They’re Fire Control Warriors." Xiao Yi nodded.
In just a moment, a sea of fire had spread in the distance.
Within the fire sea, fire snakes exploded with flames, erupting one after another.
On the city wall, a group of Fire Control Warriors continually manipulated the flames, repelling the demon beasts.
...
Time passed gradually, and after two full hours.
The city’s martial artists suffered no casualties.
As for the beast tide, it couldn’t even come within a thousand meters of the city wall.
"Looks like we don’t need to help after all," Qing Lin said.
Another hour later.
The beast tide broke through the resistance of numerous martial artists’ primordial power.
Initially, faced with the initial beast tide, the martial artists on the city wall naturally resisted with ease.
But as time went on and more demon beasts emerged, they broke through the simple primordial power resistance.
Swish... swish... swish...
Countless figures from the city wall leapt over the wall.
The next phase wasn’t simply resistance but slaughtering the demon beasts.
Roar... roar... roar...
Countless demon beasts let out earth-shaking roars, full of ferocity and savagery.
"A bunch of vile beasts." Each human martial artist struck instantly.
At the same time, a loud shout came from the city wall, "Activate the Enhancing Formation."
"An Array Master." Xiao Yi glanced over.
On the city wall, an elder was controlling the Great Formation.
The Enhancing Formation was a formation that augmented strength.
Especially now, with so many human martial artists outside the city, fighting in the formation would greatly enhance their strength.
"Let’s join in too," Xiao Yi said.
"Since we’re here, let’s finish this and move on."
Among the Ancient Eight Halls, aside from the Demon Hunters of the Demon Hunting Hall, the warriors of the other seven halls were also obligated to slay demon beasts.
Of course, it was just an obligation.
But if they helped, they could receive corresponding rewards and task points from the sub-hall in the city.
This scale of beast tide didn’t concern Xiao Yi; he didn’t care much for the task points and rewards either.
However, demon hunting was the duty of a Demon Hunter, so naturally, when encountered, they would take action.
"Alright then." Qing Lin nodded, "Just a bunch of vile beasts."
The two set into action instantly.
Even though each major city had a wealth of experience dealing with beast tides, no matter how confident they were, there would always be casualties.
Their intervention significantly increased the speed of slaying the demon beasts.
The strongest beast in this beast tide was merely a Peak of Saint King Realm demon beast.
The others were even weaker.
Naturally, the two had no difficulty in slaying the demon beasts.
...
After the entire half-day, the battle came to an end.
The demon beasts were entirely slaughtered.
On the human martial artists’ side, there were casualties, but not too severe.
"Phew." Many martial artists sat where they were, "This beast tide was exhausting."
"Indeed, it lasted a whole half-day."
"However, fortunately, those two helped; otherwise, the casualties would have been a lot more severe."
The surrounding martial artists all turned their eyes to Xiao Yi and Qing Lin.
The instant the pair acted, their quick slaying of the demon beasts naturally attracted the attention of all the warriors.
"Something feels odd." Ignoring the surrounding gazes, Xiao Yi frowned and said.
"What?" Qing Lin asked in confusion.
Xiao Yi thought for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, although demon beasts are fierce, they can also be afraid."
"In a typical beast tide, if the demon beasts are mostly dead or injured, the remaining ones will usually flee."
"But this time, they were all slaughtered; none returned to the Demon Beast Forest."
At this moment, a martial artist who had been commanding from atop the city wall approached.
"I don’t know which force you two are from?" The newcomer cupped his hands and asked politely.
"Thanks to you two, the loss among our city’s martial artists was minimal during this beast tide."
"Oh, by the way, I am the City Guard Commander. Might I invite you to join us inside the city?"
"No need," Xiao Yi shook his head, "We were just passing through and lent a hand; we have other matters."
"Oh." The City Guard Commander looked disappointed and said, "Since you have other matters, I won’t hold you. Later, I’ll have someone bring the beast tide defense rewards."
"That’s not necessary..." Xiao Yi was about to say it wasn’t needed.
He wasn’t lacking for such rewards.
But before he could finish his sentence, a cold aura suddenly descended.
"Be careful." Xiao Yi’s expression shifted, and with a wave of his hand, streaks of Ice Sword Qi shot out.
"Retreat quickly," Xiao Yi shouted loudly.
In the front, from the Demon Beast Forest, a sinister aura engulfed everything.
Wherever the aura swept through, it was like wind breaking clouds.
On the ground, demon beast carcasses and human martial artist bodies instantly turned to dust.
The martial artists originally sitting on the ground quickly dodged and retreated.
Swish... swish... swish...
At that moment, the Ice Sword Qi shot past.
An Ice Barrier barely blocked the cold aura.
Yet at the same time, Xiao Yi’s expression drastically changed.
Although the Ice Barrier had blocked the sinister aura,
the primordial power within him was rapidly diminishing.
"It’s absorbing my primordial power?" Xiao Yi’s expression turned cold.
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Fifth update. (Supplementary)
