jdhmnovel Chapter 109 Beast Tide 11
Chapter 109 Beast Tide 11
"Where did they go?" Yingyue looked around and realized that only she and Cheng Jiu remained.
Without other distractions, the elder brother's wife rekindled her hatred for her brother-in-law who had hired someone to kill her husband.
The guards standing by were unable to intervene in the fight between the two, even though it was a one-sided beating.
Meanwhile, the daughter beside her, having finally recovered from her breakdown, was now trying her best to dissuade her. Torn between her adoptive mother, who had doted on her since childhood, and her biological father, whom she had never met.
As for Yingyue and Cheng Jiu, although they are liars, they haven't been exposed yet, have they?
On the other hand, although Cheng Jiu wants revenge, she hasn't made a move yet according to the plot.
So the two seemingly innocent people just stood there watching.
"They must have gone to see Xinglian. Isn't it called Xinglian Yuan?" Cheng Jiu didn't even need to think to guess what they were going to do. She privately assumed that Gong Yu and Huo Yan must have gone with them as well.
"Junior Sister, should we go take a look too?" Yingyue was very curious about this so-called Star Lotus.
"Forget it, they definitely won't find anything," Cheng Jiu refused.
"Why?" Yingyue asked curiously. Although she, the thief, couldn't find anything in the story, Li Buxi did take the Star Lotus at the end.
“This formation was set up by Senior Brother Feng. The Star Lotus is fictitious. Senior Brother Feng himself probably doesn’t even know what the Star Lotus is,” Cheng Jiu said.
Yingyue suddenly realized.
Suddenly the scene before my eyes froze, shattering into pieces.
A dozen or so Nascent Soul stage demonic beasts suddenly appeared out of nowhere, chasing Qin Che and his group as they jumped and leaped about.
"What happened?" Yingyue looked over and sprinkled some purple powder over there.
The group of monsters chased after them for two or three steps before collapsing to the ground, completely disoriented.
"Brother Feng, doesn't he clean his own array plate?" Gong Yu asked breathlessly.
"Let's go out first, we'll talk after we get out!" Qin Che said.
Gong Yu readily agreed, and after breaking the formation, the group returned to the courtyard.
"Can you tell me now?" Yingyue asked curiously.
“There is no such thing as a Star Lotus,” Gong Yu replied.
"Didn't we enter an illusionary formation?"
Cheng Jiu asked curiously. Although the sensations there were indeed quite realistic, drawing inspiration from that storybook, it was definitely an illusion array!
"..." Gong Yu fell into deep thought. Yes! "The study is the core of the formation!"
"Is that Star Lotus the core of the formation?" Cheng Jiu guessed.
“It’s not a piece of ink on the table,” Qin Che replied from the side. “We turned the study upside down.”
"Unexpectedly, Senior Brother Qin accidentally damaged the inkstone," Gong Cheng said.
"As soon as the formation was broken, those dozen or so Nascent Soul stage demonic beasts rushed straight at us, and we didn't even have time to react."
Gong Yu explained why they were being chased so frantically: it wasn't that they couldn't beat them, but simply because the monsters suddenly appeared in front of them! They couldn't react at all.
Cheng Jiu looked at the array plate on the table. Although she was a half-baked array cultivator, having studied it, she never expected that a real array cultivator's array plate would have such an effect.
Huo Yan nodded in agreement. Of course, he wasn't the one being chased. With Gong Cheng, Gong Yu, and Qin Che, three people with extremely high presence, the monster simply ignored him.
"Want to play again?" Gong Yu asked, holding the array plate.
Upon hearing this, the others shook their heads, saying no, no.
Since they weren't playing games, the six of them started chatting.
As they talked, the topic turned to the sect's recent activation of a grand formation.
Why do I say that? Because the sect's grand formation is basically only activated in times of life and death. Although there were indeed more than a dozen demonic beasts at the Tribulation Transcending stage or above that appeared at that time, and junior disciples were indeed no match for them, the sect has more than just junior disciples.
Although most of them are no longer with the sect, some of their strength has been retained, and the most critical moment has not yet arrived.
Qin Che, as the sect leader's disciple, knew some inside information: "As you all know, this beast tide has developed to the point where the small towns under our sect's jurisdiction can basically not be defended. Other sects, except for Medicine King Valley and Dragon Abyss Sect, are basically in the same situation."
"Medicine King Valley, Dragon Abyss Sect." Cheng Jiu wondered, "They're both among the five major sects, so why are they so outstanding?"
Suddenly, I felt an urge to ask Li Weixin and Liu Shaoyuan.
"Medicine King Valley is rich. Even small towns have set up ninth-grade formations. They don't go near the wilderness and even hire people from the Dragon Abyss Sect and the Wuji Sect. Even if they are just defending the city, it would be difficult for ordinary beast tides to break through." Qin Che sighed.
The others were also shocked by the extravagance of Medicine King Valley. Each of the five major sects occupied five main cities, under which there were five large cities, under which there were five medium-sized cities, under which there were five small cities, and under which there were towns and villages.
The small cities in Medicine King Valley are all equipped with ninth-grade defensive formations, and anyone who has used a ninth-grade defensive formation knows how quickly it consumes spirit stones.
Only Medicine King Valley, with its deep pockets, could afford such extravagance. They're incredibly wealthy!
Cheng Jiu exclaimed that if wealth could move mountains, she declared Medicine King Valley to be invincible in this world!
"The Longyuan Sect is not near any dangerous places, and their sect is basically full of sword cultivators who are crazy, so their combat power is very strong. Moreover, with Lord Qianli around, nothing grows wherever he goes, so the Longyuan Sect is not under much pressure to defend the city."
The Wuji Sect is located near the Western Regions, which is extremely dangerous, with beast tides comparable in scale to those here.
As for the Yunxiao Sect, it is attacked by sea beast tides every year. This year's beast tide has come early, so Yunxiao Song not only has to guard against the beast tide, but also against the sea beast tide.
They are under the greatest pressure. It is said that the small and medium-sized cities along the coast have been abandoned, and only their large cities remain. Qin Che finished explaining the basic situation of the five major sects as he spoke.
"Although the extent of the disaster is different, the five major sects are basically able to maintain the situation, the people under their jurisdiction are protected, and the casualties are relatively controllable."
However, there are a total of twenty-seven main cities in the cultivation world. Apart from the five major sects under our command, the Tianji Sect only occupies the main city of Jin Guan City. With their strength, they can only protect this main city.
The remaining cities under the jurisdiction of Mingyou City and Jinguan City suffered heavy losses in this beast tide. Although many families and large sects lived there, they were powerless to resist the beast tide.
Compared to our five major sects, the law of the jungle is even more brutal, and those forces do not protect the people outside their jurisdiction at all.
The Loose Cultivator Alliance was indeed in charge, but it was a disorganized group and it would be difficult to quickly solidify a powerful force. Adding to this the chaos of Netherworld City, this beast tide was also far more severe than expected.
"We've already received a distress call from them. Medium and small cities have all been swallowed up by the beast tide, and even large cities are unlikely to survive this wave." Qin Che said, a look of pity flashing in his eyes.
Everyone present fell into an unspeakable silence. According to Qin Che, this devouring was definitely not like the cities they had taken over. Most of the people were still brought into the medium-sized cities by the spirit beasts that came to support them and the senior protectors.
With demonic beasts entering the city, and most of the inhabitants being people of low cultivation level with no power to resist, it's easy to imagine what would happen.
"So Master activated the great formation, ending this wave of beasts ahead of schedule, and organized senior brothers and sisters to go to support them, led by the elders," Qin Che concluded.
"Fortunately, we live under the jurisdiction of the five major territories."
Cheng Jiu could hardly believe that she had known beforehand that Mingyou City was a chaotic and disorderly place.
There was no powerful force to regulate the order there, so it was quite cruel. She hadn't expected it to be so cruel. Suddenly, she felt very fortunate to be living under the Cloud Soaring Sect, where at least the most basic order was observed.
Otherwise, given her reckless entry into the black market, she would have been practically courting death under the jurisdiction of Mingyou City.
So what if she took the Heavenly Thunder Seed? There are plenty of people blinded by greed.
Cheng Jiu silently examined his actions in the black market and suddenly realized that he had been both lucky and daring back then.
The others agreed and started talking about other topics. The cultivation world is vast, and many things happen every moment, but what people talk about most are romance, love, and everyday life. There's no way around it; people can't escape these kinds of things.
For example, Yingyue heard from her senior sister about a junior sister from the Yunxiao Sect who studied formations. A few days ago, someone claiming to be her parents came to the Yunxiao Sect and asked her to help her younger brother and sister join the Yunxiao Sect.
The junior sister said she didn't know them and that if they came looking for her again, she shouldn't blame her for being impolite.
Then they kicked the couple out. The couple kept making a scene in front of the Yunxiao Sect, cursing the junior sister for being unfilial. They were thrown out by the Yunxiao Sect disciples, who warned them that if they continued to cause trouble, they would be considered disrespectful to the Yunxiao Sect!
When Qin Che heard that the junior sister's surname was He, he saw Cheng Jiu looking at him with a strange gaze.
Qin Che slowly shifted his gaze to Huo Yan, who remained calm and composed, staring steadily at him.
The two looked at each other, and finally Qin Che was the first to surrender.
Yingyue also mentioned that her senior sister used a formation at her wedding banquet to make her father marry her fiancé in her place. Her fiancé ran away from the wedding, and the ingenuity of the formation attracted the attention of the elders of the Yunxiao Sect, who then took her as their disciple.
Gongcheng and Gongyu listened with great interest, but Yingyue sensed that something was off as she spoke.
He looked at Cheng Jiu and the other two: "Junior Sister, what's wrong?"
Qin Che scratched his head: "It's probably because you said I was unmarried!"
"Hey!" Yingyue and Gongcheng Gongyu, who had no idea what was going on, widened their eyes.
"It was me!" Qin Che said with a hint of despair, then looked at Cheng Jiu, who was feeling guilty after hearing Qin Shixiong's gossip: "Junior Sister, there's no need for this! I'm the one who asked you, Senior Brother Huo, to spread this."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Jiu's ears perked up. Could there be more to this gossip about the elopement? For example, she had always been curious as to why her older brother had so readily released her senior brother Qin Che.
If it was just the elders and their father acting on their own initiative, he could have told Senior Brother Qin Che from the beginning that some things are understandable, while others are not.
"What exactly happened to Senior Brother?" Yingyue pressed, seeing Qin Che's nonchalant attitude. She was extremely curious.
The inside story must be even more exciting, right?
"Don't let my brother's seemingly bad appearance fool you, he really isn't a good person!" Qin Che began with a pointless statement: "I wasn't tricked into coming home! I knew from the very beginning!"
"?" Cheng Jiu was stunned and looked at Huo Yan beside him. Senior Brother Huo did not say that. How could this melon be faked?
"Then, senior brother, if you know, why did you still go back?" Cheng Jiu felt it didn't make sense. He knew, yet he still went back and ran away from the wedding. What was his motive?
"My brother and sister-in-law are very much in love!" Qin Che sighed as he talked about this. "Speaking of which, He Ru and I are childhood sweethearts! The Qin family and the He family are close."
When I was a child, I went to the He family's house and played with her. Speaking of which, I was the one who taught her the first cultivation technique!
Looking back now, I think it was probably that little brat who deliberately led me to teach her.
After all, I knew the incantations for cultivating immortality, but my father wanted me to join one of the five major sects, so he never let me cultivate.
"So, Senior Brother, you're smitten?" Cheng Jiu thought of his childhood sweetheart, who was so clever and mischievous. Ah, maybe it was love at first sight in their childhood. But why did he run away from the wedding?