Chapter 1098: Chapter 604 Demonic Beast Tide Chapter 1098: Chapter 604 Demonic Beast Tide After advising Yan Yuanhao, Chen Mobai had originally planned to take Jiang Zongheng and Zhuo Ming for a visit to Sky Country.
Who would have thought that just after leaving the Boundless Desert, they encountered Yu Lian waiting in Rainbow Country?
“A demonic beast outbreak has occurred in Cloud Dream Marsh. Wind Rain Hamlet is besieged by four Rank-3 Demonic Beasts, and True Person Nu Jiang has sent a letter requesting assistance to the Sect…”
While Chen Mobai was previously in Rock Country, the Sect had already sent someone to Northern Abyss City, where E Yun immediately dispatched Yu Lian upon learning of the severity of the monster outbreak.
Fortunately, Chen Mobai had not concealed his itinerary, so Yu Lian was able to quickly trace their path and find them in Rainbow Country.
Knowing that they had entered the Boundless Desert, Yu Lian did not dare to venture in and waited at the place where they had gone in.
Upon hearing the news, Chen Mobai’s mind flashed with a series of plans, contemplating whether he could take advantage of this monster tide to draw the elite cultivators from Snow-blowing Palace and Back to Sky Valley into the midst of Yun Meng Ze.
Outwardly, however, he began to command the various departments of the Sect in an orderly fashion.
“Inform the Sect to have Xie Yuntian and Ma Wuniang lead the Sword Training Department and Spirit Beast Department to immediately go to Cloud Dream Marsh for support. In the Sect, also initiate conscription tasks, allowing disciples willing to go to Cloud Dream Marsh to register.”
“Order Rain Country, Yun Country, Lei Nation, and Sky Country to guard their territories and conscript cultivator families and Loose Cultivators within their domains to establish a defense line on the shore, not to let any Demonic Beast set foot on land.”
“Additionally, for Golden Cliff, I hope Brother Mo is not in seclusion. Please ask him to take action.”
“Ming’er, you return to the Sect. Zong Heng, you go back to the Scholarly Mansion. I must personally go to Cloud Dream Marsh to assist True Person Nu Jiang in stabilizing the situation there,” said Chen Mobai.
But as soon as Chen Mobai finished speaking, both Jiang Zongheng and Zhuo Ming shook their heads in disagreement.
They both insisted on accompanying Chen Mobai.
“Master, if I am always protected by you, how will I ever manage to accomplish the great task of managing the Boundless Desert?”
Having been brought out on a journey, Zhuo Ming’s horizon and aspirations had broadened significantly, resulting in some personal opinions.
Jiang Zongheng felt the same, unafraid of battle and seeing it as a good opportunity to temper himself and validate his own thoughts.
Chen Mobai was very pleased with this.
After all, he personally led the group, and with his protection, his two disciples were unlikely to face excessive danger.
Without further delay, the teacher and disciples immediately took the Teleportation Array towards Rock Country, where Chen Mobai began mobilizing troops and issuing commands.
In addition to his two disciples, Yu Lian and Qi Rui volunteered proactively. E Yun would have liked to join Chen Mobai in the campaign as well if he weren’t needed to keep watch over Northern Abyss City.
Also keen were Ding Ying and Lian Maozhi from the Longevity Academy.
Chen Mobai had not anticipated that the members of the Divine Wood Sect would have such a strong desire for battle.
It wasn’t until he was saying farewell over drinks with E Yun that the latter explained why every Foundation Establishment Practitioner was so bellicose.
They all knew about the appearance of Rank-3 Monster Beasts and had absolute confidence in Chen Mobai, so they wondered if they could earn merits on the battlefield to catch the attention of the Sect Leader, perhaps earning a Rank-3 Inner Pill in the process.
The news about Chen Mobai trading with Star Heaven Dao Sect for the Heterodox Golden Core Technique had already spread throughout the entire Sect in earlier years.
Since it concerned Core Formation and was possibly a shortcut, many Foundation Establishment Practitioners took great interest upon hearing it.
Even Meng Hong had approached Chen Mobai with the two fish he had caught to inquire about this matter.
To this former Sect Leader who had shown him kindness, Chen Mobai naturally did not conceal anything, directly imparting the Heterodox Golden Core Technique and Gold Core Transposition Technique to him.
Alas, Rank-3 Monster Beast Inner Pills are far too precious.
So upon hearing about the siege on Wind Rain Hamlet by Rank-3 Demonic Beasts and learning that Sect Leader Chen Mobai intended to personally lead the campaign, all the Foundation Establishment Practitioners knowledgeable in the Heterodox Golden Core Technique applied for battle.
When Chen Mobai left Rock Country, he was accompanied by Jiang Zongheng, Zhuo Ming, Qi Rui, Yu Lian, and Ding Ying–five Foundation Establishment Practitioners.
Since it was unclear how long the war with the Monster Beasts would last and the Longevity Academy needed someone to hold the fort, Chen Mobai asked Lian Maozhi to stay behind.
However, considering his eagerness for battle, Chen Mobai promised that he would have Jiang Zongheng return in a year’s time so Lian Maozhi could take his turn in Cloud Dream Marsh.
In addition to the five Foundation Establishment Practitioners from Divine Wood Sect, Tan Rong from the Iron Blue Market, upon hearing the news from Ding Ying, expressed that as a disciple of the Fire Vein and Five Elements Sect, she had an even greater duty to help Wind Rain Hamlet and requested to join the expedition to Cloud Dream Marsh.
After hearing this from Ding Ying, Chen Mobai nodded in agreement, recognizing her as a worthy Foundation Establishment combatant.
Besides Tan Rong, there were two cultivator families from Rock Country that accepted the Divine Wood Sect’s conscription and were willing to lead their family cultivators to follow Chen Mobai to Cloud Dream Marsh. Among them was Wang Xuan Ming of the Wang family.
Because of Wang Juyuan’s affair, the Wang family had greatly offended Divine Wood Sect, and Rock Country’s cultivator families, usually both friends and foes, seized the opportunity to suppress and appropriate many of their businesses.
E Yun naturally watched with indifference, and if not for Wang Xuan Ming bringing Wang Juyuan’s head to apologize earlier, he would not even have considered renting store space in Northern Abyss City to the Wang family the following year.
Wang Juyuan’s head was not enough!
So, when Wang Xuan Ming heard about the demonic beast siege on Wind Rain Hamlet, he gritted his teeth and, after making arrangements for his affairs with another young Foundation Establishment member of his family, led a group of older cultivators from his family to join the Divine Wood Sect in the fight against the demonic beasts.
As a result, E Yun’s attitude truly changed. After Wang Xuan Ming arrived with the cultivators from his family, he announced that the Wang family would henceforth be a close comrade-in-arms to the Divine Wood Sect.
Besides the Wang family, there was also an old ancestor from the Wu family. Although he was approaching the end of his life, there was no second Foundation Establishment practitioner in his family, so he wanted to die in battle against the demonic beasts in Cloud Dream Marsh, in order to obtain a Foundation Building Pill as compensation for his descendants.
The transportation of the Qi Practitioners and the recruitment of the various loose cultivators were then handled by E Yun.
Chen Mobai had already taken eight Foundation Establishment Practitioners with him to the neighboring Sky Country using the teleportation array. Here, King Zhou had prepared a force of five hundred Qi Cultivators to guard the shorelines, ensuring the demonic beasts did not come ashore to invade.
Among this force, the majority were from the local immortal cultivation families of Sky Country, as they would be the ones to suffer the most should the demonic beasts invade their lands.
Therefore, faced with such a situation, they responded swiftly. Even five Foundation Establishment Practitioners personally came over to help King Zhou guard the shore.
At this location, Chen Mobai took with him Zhou Bingyan and a Foundation Establishment practitioner named Zhou Zhenhong, both from the Zhou family of the Divine Wood Sect.
The reason for this was that the family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators often dealt with demonic beasts, valued their lives dearly, and were not very willing to go to Cloud Dream Marsh. King Zhou had no choice but to send out his own capable helpers.
Chen Mobai did not linger in Sky Country. After the group increased by two people, they directly used the teleportation array to travel to an island market near the mainland in Cloud Dream Marsh.
Because Wind Rain Hamlet was situated at the center of Cloud Dream Marsh, it required transferring through three teleportation arrays to enter directly.
The influence of the demonic beast tide had already reached here.
In Iron Blue Market, the large formation’s luminance flickered as dense flocks of Black Plague Birds familiar to Chen Mobai formed a dark cloud, screeching sharply and spitting out Wind Blades that battered the market’s defense shield.
“Foul beasts!”
Upon seeing this sight, Chen Mobai’s eyes grew cold. With a flick of his finger, he drew a yellow-skin gourd from his storage bag, which he had not used for a long time.
He uncorked the gourd and a blaze of orange-red brilliance shot out, soaring skywards like a laser beam, slicing in half the largest and most shrill-crying Rank-2 Black Plague Bird at the top of the market.
At the same time, Chen Mobai had already flown out of the large array!
The pitch-black flock of birds, driven into a frenzy by the demise of their leader, began flying chaotically in all directions. Spotting such a conspicuous flaming figure, they instinctively started reversing direction, fleeing.
But Chen Mobai controlled the orange-red radiance, circling half the sky around himself as the center, tracing a fan-shaped arc.
In an instant, along the circular plane swept by the Primordial Yang Sword Evil, hundreds of Black Plague Birds were simultaneously sliced into upper and lower halves.
However, Chen Mobai soon realized that many Black Plague Birds still managed to escape unscathed.
Amidst the sky filled with black feathers and blood, he once again spat out a stream of golden flames and steered it towards the cluster of surviving Black Plague Birds.
Even without deploying the Flame Sun Slash, just the power of these golden flames was enough to instantly melt these Rank-1 demonic beasts.
Even more piercing cries rang out, but under the immolation of the golden flames, they gradually turned to ashes.
A few Black Plague Birds seeing the bad turn of events managed to escape the flock before the flames spread.
Around the island, one after another, beams of spiritual light appeared–these were Foundation Establishment Practitioners like Jiang Zongheng.
In just the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, this group of Black Plague Birds, enough to give King Zhou and his people a headache should they attack the shoreline of Sky Country, was exterminated.
“Thank you, Sect Master Chen, for your assistance.”
The owner of the market was still an acquaintance of Chen Mobai, Tie Qingshan.
Without staying here, Chen Mobai led the remaining Foundation Establishment Practitioners, preparing to move on to the next market.
Unfortunately, when Tie Qingshan activated the teleportation array, there was no response on the other end.
“It seems that side has been breached by the demonic beasts!”
He said this with a grim voice. Nearly thirty years had passed without a demonic beast tide, and the major families had expended considerable effort to establish markets and build teleportation arrays in Cloud Dream Marsh. To think that in the end, they could not escape disaster.
If he hadn’t been lucky enough to encounter Chen Mobai coming here, he would likely have had no choice but to escape to the mainland through the teleportation array.
“Contact King Zhou, tell him to move the battle line forward, and send someone here to take command, securing this teleportation array!”
Chen Mobai pondered for a moment before saying this.
After clearing out the Black Plague Birds, the pressure on the shoreline wasn’t as great. He left behind Qi Rui and Zhou Zhenhong, two Foundation Establishment Practitioners, on the island just in case Wind Rain Hamlet fell and there was no way to retreat.
“Yes, Sect Master!”
Both understood the significance of the teleportation array and nodded with solemn faces.
Chen Mobai then raised the “Red Misty Cloud Silk,” this legal treasure, and led the remaining Foundation Establishment Practitioners towards Wind Rain Hamlet.
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