Beast-controlling fairy clan

Under Zhou Daoyi's suggestion, Zhou Chun finally succeeded in staying.

Also left behind were a total of eighteen Qi-refining monks from the Wang and Yang families, plus Zhou Xinlan from the Zhou family.

From this personnel arrangement, it is not difficult to see what the intentions of Zhou Daoyi and the other three Zifu period monks were.

After staying, Zhou Chun did not immediately lead the people to clean up the monster beasts that had wandered into the inland areas. Instead, he led the people to continue digging holes and burying corpses, burying the corpses of monster beasts all over the mountains and plains in the ice. Inside the cave.

However, not all of the monster corpses this time were obtained by the Zhou family, so some would have to be divided between the Wang family and the Yang family afterwards.

As for the casual cultivators who have also contributed, they have already filled their storage bags, so naturally there is no need to give them any benefits.

After burying the corpses of thousands of monsters, Zhou Chun led people into the inland area behind to clean up the fleeing monsters.

He sent more than a dozen of his Qi Refining Stage monks to the nearest towns to put them in contact with the local mortal government forces. As long as they learned about the monsters, they would personally rush there to eliminate the monsters.

In just two days, Zhou Chun killed twenty-three murderous monsters.

But the good times didn't last long. Not long after, Zhou Chun received news that the main force of the beast tide that besieged Qing Lingzi's stronghold once again broke out into more than two thousand low-level monsters and rushed towards the inland.

These low-level monsters all move in groups of three to five, and their traveling routes are completely different, making it impossible to intercept them like before.

Obviously, these low-level monsters were deliberately released to distract the Jingguo monks.

If Qing Lingzi ignores these monsters, many mortals will die at his hands after they enter the hinterland of Lanzhou.

But if we really divide our troops to clean up these monsters, the stronghold's protective power will be weakened.

So Qing Lingzi set his sights on the various immortal cultivating families in Lanzhou, asking each family to form a team to clean up these monsters, whether they were recruiting cultivators from their own clan or paying to hire casual cultivators.

As a result, the Zhou family was assigned fifteen more quotas, including the quota of a foundation-building monk.

"This is really unreasonable!"

Even though Zhou Chun had always had a good temper, he became a little angry after learning about this incident.

The total number of Qi Refining Stage monks in the Zhou family who are capable of fighting is less than 130.

Now half of the manpower has been mobilized. In this case, fifteen people from the Zhou family are required. It is simply squeezing people to death and forcing them to a dead end!

"No, I have to go back to my family first!"

After thinking about it, Zhou Chun decided to go back to the family gate immediately.

On the grounds that he needed to recover his mana, he asked the monks from the Wang family and the Yang family to form a team to slowly clear out the lone monsters, while he secretly returned to Jiufeng Ridge.

After flying for several hours, he returned to the family.

As he expected, Zhou Mingde, who was in charge of the family, was also worried about the fifteen indicators.

"Masachun, you came back just in time. Tell me, what should we do about this?"

"It is really impossible for the family to draw out so many people now. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, the family's losses will be very serious. But our Zhou family has not only received this order. If we don't follow it, I'm afraid it won't be possible at all." Explain!"

Zhou Mingde frowned and looked at Zhou Chun, also stumped by this matter.

He also did not expect that he, a monk in the Zifu period and a big Zhou family, would be troubled by such a big or small thing.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun had already thought about this on the way here.

Facing Zhou Mingde's inquiry at this time, he immediately replied: "In my opinion, this matter can only be solved by hiring casual cultivators!"

Hearing his answer, Zhou Mingde couldn't help frowning and said: "But now most of the casual cultivators in Lanzhou have gone to the front line, and those who are left either don't want to participate in this war at all, or they are so weak that they have no strength to participate in this kind of war." !”

"Those casual cultivators who don't want to participate in this war are just afraid of danger. As long as we are willing to spend money, we will give each of them ten first-level high-grade magic talismans, and promise to reward them with a first-level high-grade magic weapon afterwards. If the hiring fee is higher than Qinglian Temple, there will always be someone willing to take the risk!"

When Zhou Chun said this, he gritted his teeth and said: "If we still can't recruit enough people, we can only recruit some casual cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining to make up the number. In short, we can't let anyone find fault with the number of people!"

"Okay, then I'll do what you said, Zhengchun. I will immediately ask Jiahe, Jiapeng, and Zhengyuan to recruit people from several nearby casual cultivator strongholds."

Zhou Mingde gritted his teeth and knew that this was the only feasible way at present, so he immediately arranged for three Zhou family foundation-building monks to recruit people.

Zhou Chun, however, couldn't wait until the results came out. He didn't even bother to rest, and immediately left the family and returned to his original location.

Fortunately, with the heavy reward, the Zhou family still hired fourteen Qi-refining stage cultivators with varying levels of cultivation, and Zhou Jiahe took them to the designated place to meet.

But the good times didn't last long. Within two days, Zhou Chun learned a piece of news that changed his face drastically.

The Biyanze frontline stronghold has been lost!

It is said that a fourth-level mid-level demonic beast appeared in the beast tide. This beast started from the ground. Under the cover of the main force of the beast tide, it used its innate magical power to cut off the earth veins at the location of the frontline stronghold, causing the spiritual veins to follow. The collapse and chaos affected the performance of the protective formation, and eventually led to the formation being forcibly breached!

This sudden change caused the monks in the frontline stronghold to be suddenly surrounded by a tide of beasts, resulting in extremely heavy casualties.

Zhou Chun was able to learn the details of the matter quickly because he bumped into a Zifu period monk who had narrowly escaped from the stronghold and learned what happened from his mouth.

But before he could inquire more, the Zifu period monk had already fled back to his family in a hurry.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Chun was also panicked and hurriedly asked the Qi Refining Period monks from the Wang and Yang families to go home on their own, and then returned directly to the family with Zhou Xinlan.

He didn't know whether Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan and the Zhou family monks who were taken to the stronghold were dead or alive, but he knew that as long as those people survived, they would definitely return to the family first.

And once this frontline stronghold is lost, the consequences will be very serious!

Although Zhou Family's Jiufeng Ridge is quite far away from the frontline stronghold, if the beast tide spreads rampantly in Lanzhou, it won't be long before it reaches there.

After rushing all the way and spending several hours, Zhou Chun finally returned to the Jiufengling family mountain gate.

What made him happy was that the clan leader Zhou Daoyi, who had been worried about him on the way, had already returned to the family ahead of him.

But this happiness did not last long before it was completely dispelled by Zhou Daoyi's subsequent words.

"Although I successfully fought my way out of the beast tide with the help of Qing Qing and Vulcan Jackal, Dao Quan and I were separated by the beast tide at that time, and now our life and death are unknown!"

"Besides, those monks in the family who are in the Qi Refining Stage are all in danger, and it is difficult for anyone to escape from them!"

With just two words, all the joy in Zhou Chun's heart was gone, and his heart suddenly sank.

For the Zhou family, whether it is Zhou Daoquan who is in the later stage of foundation building and is expected to open up the Purple Mansion, or Zhou Zhenglan and other more than 20 family Qi refining stage monks, they are undoubtedly people who cannot be lost.

However, it is not difficult to know from Zhou Daoyi's words that Zhou Zhenglan and other Qi Refining Stage monks are all in danger.

Zhou Chun's mind flashed one by one with the voices and faces of the clansmen who fought together a few days ago. He couldn't help but look at Zhou Daoyi with wide eyes and asked: "What happened at the frontline stronghold? I only heard that it was a fourth-level mid-level The monster beast dug up the earth and the dragon cut off the earth veins, disrupting the spiritual veins, causing the guardian formation to be breached by the beast tide. But are so many monks in the stronghold vulnerable to attack without the guardian formation?"

Hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi couldn't help but pursed his lips, and replied with a lingering fear: "It's true that the formation was broken due to the appearance of the Earth-turning Dragon, but that was the main reason why we were defeated and fled. , or because of the Red Dragon Hall Master of Hualong Sect and the fourth-level middle-grade red fire dragon!"

"At that time, that person and a dragon suddenly came out. The three golden elixir monks hidden in Qinglian Temple could not stop them at all. The breakout lineup formed by us was defeated by the leader of the Red Dragon Hall, and we managed to survive. The people can only flee in all directions and find their own way to make a living!"

After hearing this answer, Zhou Chun also fell silent.

The master of the Red Dragon Hall, if I remember correctly, should be a late-stage Jindan monk.

The strength of the fourth-order mid-grade red fire dragon may be even stronger than that of a late-stage Jindan cultivator.

Such a combination suddenly appeared on the battlefield, coupled with the fourth-level mid-level earth-moving dragon...

Zhou Chun could already imagine how bad and desperate the situation was at that time!

Under such circumstances, it would be great if Zhou Daoyi could save his own life and escape. If he wants to rescue others, he will indeed be unable to do anything!

At the moment, he could only ask in a low voice: "Then what should we do now? Since even a powerful man like the leader of the Red Dragon Hall has appeared in Lanzhou, the beast tide here in Lanzhou will definitely not just wreak havoc in the mundane land. How should the Zhou family deal with this matter?"

"There is no other way now. We can only prepare for the worst first. If there is an irresistible tide of beasts coming towards the family, we can only give up Jiufeng Ridge first in order to protect the remaining monks of the family. It's heavy!"

Zhou Daoyi shook his head and spoke in a low voice how to deal with it.

Do you want to give up Jiufeng Ridge?

Zhou Chun was speechless after hearing this.

Reason told him that this was the best choice.

But emotionally, it was difficult for him to accept this result.

Because once this is done, the Zhou family's decades of hard work will be in vain, and everything will start all over again!

At this time, Zhou Mingde, who had been silent until now, suddenly waved his hand and said: "Okay, Zhengchun is tired after coming all the way. Let's go back and rest first. I will arrange for others to do these things."

He has already had the experience of leaving his hometown. Compared to Zhou Chun, he is undoubtedly more able to accept the worst outcome.

"Then I'll take my leave first!"

Zhou Chun looked at the two elders with a heavy expression, bowed before retreating.

At this time, none of them really could do anything.

It all depends on how the three major sects, Qinglian Temple, Yuelun Sect, and Yanyang Sect, will respond to this matter.

Obviously, Qinglianguan is more anxious than the Zhou family about the loss of the Lanzhou frontline stronghold.

The location of Lanzhou is very important for Qinglian Temple. It connects Lianzhou, Yunzhou and Lingzhou where the Qinglian Temple Gate is located.

If this place is completely occupied by monsters, the supply line between the Qinglian Temple Gate and the Yunzhou front line will be cut off, and it is even possible that a tide of beasts will invade the gate.

So just a dozen hours after the Lanzhou frontline stronghold was lost, four Jindan stage monks and more than a dozen Zifu stage monks rushed over from the Qinglian Guanshan Gate and the Yunzhou front line.

These people, together with Qingyangzi and other Golden Core monks who had withdrawn from the front line, focused on the leader of the Red Dragon Hall and the fourth-level monsters in the beast tide, preventing them from continuing to lead the beast tide to advance and spread.

However, they were able to keep an eye on the fourth-level monsters, but there was no way to stop the army of beasts that had already rushed into the hinterland of Lanzhou.

Most of the monks from various cultivating families in Lanzhou were transferred to the frontline stronghold of Biyanze. As a result, they suffered heavy losses due to the loss of the frontline stronghold. At this moment, there was no way to send more monks to form an army to intercept the beast tide.

Even their own mountain gate is facing the threat of the beast tide army at this moment.

"The He family of Qingzhu Mountain has evacuated in advance. The mountain gate of their family has been trampled by the beast tide. According to them, the beast tide is spreading in all directions, and its main force is moving towards Lianzhou. It is no longer away from our Zhou family. Six hundred miles!”

On Pagoda Peak, several senior officials of the Zhou family gathered together and were sharing the latest intelligence news.

As the tide of beasts broke into the hinterland of Lanzhou, monks from all over the place fled. All kinds of news were flying all over the sky. It was difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Most of the information the Zhou family received came from the monks who had fled to Jiufeng Ridge.

Now the information sent by the He family from the alliance family is the first official information they have received so far.

And this information is also very important.

After reading the information, Zhou Chun immediately expressed his opinion and said: "Lianzhou is the foundation of Qinglian Temple. If the beast tide enters it, it will shake their foundation. They will definitely not sit back and watch this happen!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Mingde nodded and said, "Zhengchun is right. Unless it is unthinkable, Qinglian Temple will never let the war spread to Lianzhou!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Mingde also said in a low tone: "In my opinion, Qinglian Temple will soon increase the number of troops from our Zhou family, which is close to Lianzhou, and use our family as a fortress to defend Yulian from the enemy." Out of state!”

Can we defend the enemy outside Lianzhou?

Zhou Chun's expression changed, and he quickly said: "If it is true as the Supreme Elder said, then I will move those secular clan members now, at least to keep them hundreds of miles away from the family mountain gate!"

"Yes, this matter must be done immediately."

Zhou Mingde nodded and agreed with Zhou Chun's suggestion with a solemn expression.

At this moment, a familiar voice to the three of them suddenly sounded outside Zhongping Hall.

"Zhou Jiahe asks to see the Supreme Elder and the clan leader. He has something important to report to the two elders!"

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