Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 158 - 150: Anomaly

”The situation with the devil beasts in the mountains lately seems a bit off!” Having just killed a devil beast, Li Zhirui couldnʼt help feeling uneasy about the past few days.

He didnʼt know what was going on, but in recent days, the devil beasts had become increasingly aggressive and irritable. Sometimes, they would attack even when he was just passing by.

Their strength had also increased significantly. The opponents he had picked for Xiaoqing had nearly severely injured him several times.

Given the situation, Li Zhirui didnʼt dare linger in the mountain range. So, after dealing with the devil beast, he immediately turned and flew away from Great Snow Mountain.

After he returned to the marketplace, he was surprised to find that the number of cultivators had substantially increased. Connecting this to the situation in the mountains, Li Zhirui instantly guessed what would happen soon.

Beast tide!

A beast tide was about to erupt in Great Snow Mountain!

The cultivatorsʼ discussions in the streets confirmed Li Zhiruiʼs guess—they all intended to take advantage of the beast tide to hunt more devil beasts and earn resources to enhance their strength.

However, Li Zhirui also learned from them that the beast tide of Great Snow Mountain was somewhat different from that of the Boundless Sea.

The former primarily aimed to devour cultivators to increase their own cultivation and, incidentally, hunt mortals for food.

Therefore, it would erupt every few years. There was even an instance where it erupted consecutively for more than a decade, year after year.

The latter, due to the abundant resources of the Boundless Sea and the relatively smaller number of cultivators at sea, combined with the faster reproduction rate of Water Devils compared to their land counterparts,

meant that the purpose of a Water Devil beast tide was mainly to cull their numbers with the help of cultivators and then to select worthy younger generations for nurturing.

In other words, the beast tide of Great Snow Mountain was extremely dangerous. The death of Foundation Establishment cultivators was an exceedingly common occurrence, and sometimes even third-level devil beasts would come down the mountain to capture cultivators.

As for this marketplace, itʼs impossible to say how many times itʼs been destroyed by beast tides.

But dangerous as it was, the gains were also substantial, or else these cultivators wouldnʼt be rushing here now, seeking to secure good positions.

After listening to the discussions, Li Zhirui felt somewhat tempted—not for the spirit materials from the devil beasts, but for the opportunity to polish his own mana and solidify his foundation.

Having returned to his temporary cave abode, Li Zhirui seriously considered his earlier thoughts. Deciding that participating in the beast tide, despite its dangers, had more advantages for him, he began to prepare his supplies.

In reality, there wasnʼt much he needed to buy. He could refine Spirit Pills himself and only needed to purchase some talismans for emergencies.

In the following days, Li Zhirui didnʼt go out, quietly waiting for the devil beasts to emerge.

Half a month went by in the blink of an eye.

One day, even Li Zhirui, who was absorbing Spiritual Energy in his cave abode, could feel the tremors of the earth beneath him.

”The beast tide is here!” Li Zhirui immediately rose and quickly walked towards the tall and sturdy city wall outside the marketplace.

The city wall wasnʼt far from the marketplace, but by the time he arrived, the better spots had already been taken by powerful cultivators or those who had teamed up.

Furthermore, considering that he would release Da Qing and Xiaoqing for battle, Li Zhirui specifically chose an isolated and spacious area.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground trembled violently, and the deafening roars were accompanied by a black tide made up of countless devil beasts on the horizon—Long-haired Snow Pigs, Cold Wolves, Ice Fang Giant Tigers—all kinds of devil beasts, grouping in clusters, densely packed like an all-encompassing black flood striving to submerge everything.

The devil beasts that formed the Beast Tide were mostly first-order devil beasts, but there were not a few second-order devil beasts either. Their fierce and bloodthirsty aura hit them in the face, and just one glance was enough to make peopleʼs scalp tingle.

And this was actually just a larger part of the Beast Tide!

Many more devil beasts left the Great Snow Mountain from other places, and a large part of them would also face the interception of the cultivators.

However, the Great Snow Mountain was too long, and the Great Void Tao could not establish such a lengthy defense line, so a considerable number of devil beasts still slipped into the Great Void Province, wantonly slaughtering the mortals.

The reason why most of the devil beasts hurried down the mountain here was because a large number of cultivators had gathered in the marketplace. If they could break through the marketplace, there would be a great amount of flesh for them to enjoy.

In the eyes of the cultivators, devil beasts are prey, so what are cultivators but blood food to the devil beasts?

Li Zhirui was also facing such a terrifying scene for the first time; the Beast Tide he had handled in the past was nothing compared to this.

If he were to face one or even several second-order devil beasts, Li Zhirui would be confident in killing them.

But this terrifying Beast Tide, comprising tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of devil beasts, let alone him, even Golden Core cultivators would be trapped within it.

Roar!

The devil beasts, looking at the city wall blocking their path, howled at the sky and began their attack.

The Long-haired Snow Pigs roared, condensing ice crystal spears, Cold Wolves gathered blades of the cold moon in their mouths, and the Ice Fang Giant Tigers opened their mouths wide as Vengeful Ghosts attacked the city wall.

Although the city wall had several third-order Formations in place, it began to wobble quickly under the joint attack of tens of thousands of devil beasts, with protective shields trembling and walls shaking as if they would collapse at any moment.

Of course, the numerous cultivators could not let them continue to wreak havoc like this, and they all struck out to attack the devil beasts.

Li Zhirui, with a grave expression, condensed the frost and snow into a vicious Ice Dragon dozens of feet long and lunged forward.

Xiaoqing flapped her wings, rolling up the snow on the ground into a blizzard that swept toward the Beast Tide.

Da Qing, on the other hand, cast layer upon layer of defenses to protect the three of them in case of any unexpected incidents.

This unforeseen event referred to the cultivators nearby.

When the nearby cultivators saw Li Zhiruiʼs signature spell, they immediately recognized his identity, but in this situation, they did not have time to care about others and turned back to focus on the devil beasts before them.

First-order devil beasts were nothing but clay dogs crumbling under the Ice Dragon, hardly withstanding a few large-scale attacks before falling.

But the second-order devil beasts were not so easy to deal with—a Long-haired Pig with a massive body actually stopped the Ice Dragon with its robust physique and wrestled with it!

Xiaoqingʼs blizzard was shattered by a White Jade Snow Sculpture, and if it werenʼt for Li Zhiruiʼs request for him not to leave the city wall defense, Xiaoqing would have probably charged out to fight the Snow Sculpture by now.

Li Zhirui, with a grave expression, controlled the Ice Dragon, and his opponent, the gigantic Long-haired Pig, turned out to be at the late stage of Foundation Establishment!

That meant he could not resolve the opponent unless he used all his strength.

However, Li Zhiruiʼs main purpose in participating in the defense against the Beast Tide was to make his Mana more solid; the harvest was not so important, so he still maintained his early-stage strength, struggling to battle the Pig Devil.

But during this process, Li Zhirui could feel the Mana in his Sea of Magic becoming a bit more solid.

As for the other cultivators, their goal was the first-order devil beasts, the Spirit Materials on their bodies, so they dealt with them quite easily.