Chapter 34: Jiaolong Egg, Beast Tide Rampage!

  One by one, the talismans transformed into various spells, and a flock of black birds like a piece of dark cloud was annihilated, with dozens of them gone. However, this number was not enough to make a dent in the entire dark cloud!

  "Abominable, these fiendish beasts can't be killed off!"

  Wang Chen finally understood the horror of these pack beasts, even foundation-building cultivators didn't dare to face them! As he pondered, his feet stomped the ground fiercely again, and Wang Chen was like a human-shaped tank, advancing at full speed!

  Previously, Wang Chen's speed was not slow either, but the main effect of his Qiang Bu was to achieve the fastest speed with the least amount of strength. Due to power considerations, his speed couldn't be considered the fastest! This time, under full speed conditions, a wolf smoke trail formed immediately. Underneath the wolf smoke were a series of footprints that were one chi deep!

  Rumble!

  Wang Chen used all his strength and started running forward with his feet. However, the black bird was a flying demon beast, its speed was originally much faster than the demon beasts on the road, and in the air, there were no obstacles, so the distance between Wang Chen and it slowly narrowed.

  "Not good," the black bird behind Wang Chen was already close at hand, and with a casual toss, he threw out a dozen talismans, killing another batch of black birds. However, dozens more swarmed up! Gnashing his teeth and enduring the pain on his body, Wang Chen raised his hand and pinched to death several black birds.

  "This won't do, if the black birds catch up it'll be a disaster! Even with a body as hard as a mid-grade artifact, I won't be able to withstand being torn apart by so many demonic beasts! Not to mention my weak points like my eyes are even more fragile!"

  Wang Chen gritted his teeth and stuck a talisman on himself, instantly forming a blue protective shield. Wang Chen was temporarily safe. However, the next instant, the black birds swarmed up, and within a few seconds, Wang Chen was surrounded by a dark cloud formed by the black birds!

  "This is bad, the shield can't hold on!" Wang Chen looked at the swaying blue shield and was greatly shocked. In just a few seconds, the shield shattered! With his heart tense, he crushed another talisman in his hand, and a yellow wall formed, surrounding Wang Chen tightly.

  "This won't do, hurry and run!" Wang Chen was greatly shocked in his heart, "Even more talismans can't withstand such consumption!" With a resolute mind, Wang Chen threw out several talismans, took the opportunity to distinguish the direction, and ran wildly!

  Thus, a strange phenomenon appeared in the Blackbird Mountains, with black birds forming a black cocoon-like shape rapidly rushing across the ground!

  It was also fortunate that Wang Chen had spent 5,000 spirit stones in the market to buy two defensive talismans for the early stage of foundation building. Otherwise, he would have been busy crushing talismans every two seconds and wouldn't have had time or energy to keep running non-stop.

  Late-stage Qi-refining cultivators, due to the limitations of their pure spiritual energy, can at most only use foundation-establishment initial stage talismans; otherwise, if a late-stage Qi-refining cultivator were to hold onto a nascent soul stage talisman, wouldn't they be invincible below the Golden Dan?

  Taking advantage of the initial defense of the foundation's seal, Wang Chen finally managed to run forward with all his might!

  The defensive shield that had been built up to the foundation of the mysterious seal was also on the verge of collapse, and was about to shatter! Wang Chen also returned to the side of the water pool where Jiaolong was originally!

  "We made it, we're finally safe!" The moment the shield shattered, Hei Niao pounced onto Wang Chen's body. Wang Chen also exerted himself and jumped up, splashing into the water with a loud "plop". Wang Chen's figure disappeared into the depths of the pool.

  A moment later, a dead black bird also appeared on the surface of the pool!

  Wang Chen, who was still in the water, secretly let out a breath of relief! In his heart, he also pondered over the entire situation and his own actions. The cause of this beast tide was something he couldn't possibly know, it just so happened that he encountered it while hunting the Jiaolong!

  "Thanks to the inferior bird species' inability to survive in water, I managed to save one life!"

  Wang Chen was just a little worried about Shi Tong and the others' safety, as he had never experienced a beast tide before, but fortunately, Wang Chen happened to know a bit of information about the beast tide.

  Every time the beast tide occurs, it almost always ends with human failure and the withdrawal of the demon beasts. Especially in the historical riots of the demon beast forest, the monks in the nearby town were almost slaughtered.

  Shi Tong and a few others, if nothing unexpected happens, are on their way to Hei Wu Fang City. By then, they will have just escaped the wolf's den only to enter the tiger's lair. However, despite Wang Chen's concerns in his heart, he has no power to change the situation.

  The current situation is clear, Hei Wubao City is like a fortress, surrounded by the Beast Tide, and Wang Chen is the outermost fish that has slipped through the net. If he goes out, even if he encounters a small group of beasts, he will die without a place to bury his body!

  After all, the next time I encounter a demon beast, it won't just be a black bird, and coincidentally, I can find a water pool to hide in!

  The surface of the water pool didn't look very big, only about 80 or 90 meters, but underneath it was still quite large. Since Wang Chen couldn't get out, he started searching inside the water!

  Yao beasts generally guard these spiritual herbs and the like! The nest of the white phosphorus snake should also have some spiritual herbs and treasures nearby.

  As expected, after a while, Wang Chen found dozens of water spirit grasses, but only ten or so were mature and were picked by Wang Chen. After staying underwater for several hours, Wang Chen felt a bit short of breath, and had no choice but to surface!

  The black bird demon beasts outside had long since left, and only some remaining corpses were left on the water's surface. Leaving the water's surface, Wang Chen found a place to hide.

  It's not that Wang Chen doesn't want to leave, but rather he temporarily doesn't know where to go!

  Hei Wubao City can't go, there are beast tides outside and it's even more impossible to run around randomly. In comparison, the lair of the Jiaolong is actually the safest.

  It's worth noting that all demon beasts have a certain sense of territoriality. As a powerful demon beast, the White Phosphorus Snake is generally not approached by other demon beasts. Moreover, the nearby Demon Beast King Chen doesn't fear it either, except for the Black Bird Demon Beast group. And the best way to avoid the Black Bird Demon Beast group is to encounter them at the Water Pool!

  Wang Chen hid for a while, then decided to set up an array nearby. If nothing unexpected happens, the beast tide will last for about half a month, and he himself will have to wait for about a month before it is safe after the beast tide completely withdraws!

  Get ready for the array flag. Wang Chen inserted one by one towards all directions, but when he was about to insert it into the southeast direction, Wang Chen noticed a faint white light in the grass thicket.

  He walked past and saw a snake egg, he was so shocked that his heart almost jumped out!

  The Firebird's egg can sell for a high price of 50,000 to 60,000 Spirit Stones at auction. What about an egg with the bloodline of a Jiaolong and an Ancient Beast?! Wang Chen didn't dare think about it, but several tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones would definitely be possible!

  But Wang Chen didn't dare to sell it, this demon beast egg was too precious, and if it attracted the attention of high-ranking cultivators, it wouldn't be good. Having spirit stones to earn was also a matter of having a life to take. Moreover, he himself wanted to cultivate a demon beast as his own helper, and this Jiaolong egg was indeed the best choice, it could be said that someone had sent him a pillow while he was sleeping!

  Carefully picking up the dragon eggs, he put them in a jade box and let out a sigh of relief. In his heart, he couldn't help but think, "Seven dragon eggs, although not all of them can be successfully hatched, but succeeding with one or two shouldn't be a problem, right? Moreover, there's also a green egg inside, with an exceptionally strong life pulse, it should be able to survive!"

  "All that's left is to find a spell for cultivating demonic beasts..."

  Two arrays were set up, and Wang Chen stayed inside quietly resting!

  ………

  Kurobo City

  Although news of the beast tide's arrival was transmitted in a timely manner and preparations were relatively sufficient, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great!

  The number of demonic beasts is too large, especially the pack-dwelling ones! Like the Black Bird Beast, a single one might not even be able to defeat a cultivator at the second layer of Qi Refining, but when they gather in large numbers, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, it becomes terrifyingly abnormal!

  The entire Black Crow City's defense is extremely strong! The Five Elements Four Symbols Formation outside is a famous defensive formation, even if a Yuan Ying cultivator wants to break through, it will take some time. As for ordinary demon beasts, let alone one, they might exhaust themselves to death and still not be able to break through!

  In addition to the three major sects, there are three more Jindan stage cultivators residing in Hei Wufang City. There are also around 80-90 foundation-building stage cultivators in the city. As for Qi-refining stage cultivators, there are over 10,000 of them! These Qi-refining stage cultivators aren't rookie newcomers to the cultivation world; they're all seasoned veterans who have hunted and killed demonic beasts in the You Shou mountain range. Each one of them has impressive abilities, mostly being late-stage Qi-refining cultivators with formidable strength.

  But so many cultivators, along with the defensive formation, still couldn't withstand the beast tide. The demonic beasts that covered the sky and earth, even a small number underground, attacked simultaneously, and the defensive formation, even if it was constantly changing mid-grade spirit stones, only lasted for more than a day!

  The moment the formation was broken, several demon beasts flew out of the beast group, a lion, a snake and an ox! The three demon beasts were all over two zhang in length, with an aura that seemed to be as deep as the ocean, clearly they were golden dan period demon beasts!

  Under the leadership of the three great golden elixir period demon beasts, the beast group rushed into the cultivators like wolves and tigers! The cultivators were all elites, but they couldn't withstand the huge number of demon beasts. Even with the help of the formation in the town, they only resisted for half a day!

  Even a Jindan cultivator rushed out to kill the Jindan-level demon beast and end the beast tide!

  Unfortunately, the beheading operation ended in glorious failure. Before they could even get close to the Golden Elixir period demon beast, the cultivators were surrounded by an endless horde of demon beasts. By the time they realized things weren't going well, they tried to escape but were surrounded by three Golden Elixir period demon beasts and even their Golden Elixirs were swallowed!

  The death of the Golden Elixir Master completely broke the confidence of other masters to resist, and the scene suddenly turned around. The masters only thought about escaping, but were hunted down by the demon beasts for nearly a hundred kilometers.

  After the war, statistics showed that one Jin Dan cultivator fell, more than a dozen foundation-building period cultivators died, and more than 8,000 Qi-refining period cultivators died, including many cultivators from the three major sects!

  However, the saying that there are always opportunities in danger has been correct. After a few cultivators escaped and returned to the city, they made a fortune! They obtained countless magical instruments and elixirs, their cultivation advanced greatly, making other cultivators jealous!