Chapter 162: Beast Tide
Another day passed. A full month after Duan Qing returned to the Third Heaven to recuperate, a conch sound that could be heard throughout the Second Heaven Island suddenly rang out from the top of the Moon Heart Mountain.
Duan Qing immediately flew out of the cave to investigate what happened. He found that people on the Moon Heart Mountain kept coming out of the cave like him and flew towards the market. He didn't know why, so he had to rush to the market with everyone.
Soon, hundreds of people gathered outside the market, and more monks continued to arrive. Duan Qing mixed in the crowd and observed secretly, and found that there were not a few people who were as confused as him.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, what is the matter with so many people gathering?" A person in the crowd next to Duan Qing asked his companion in a panic.
"Beast tide! It occasionally happens in the Sea in the Bottle. Every time it happens when the monsters are in a violent period, countless monsters will gather from the deep sea to the shallow sea near the Third Heaven and attack the Third Heaven." The person who spoke looked solemn.
"Then...then run away quickly!" The person who asked the question was frightened and stuttered!
"Run! How to run away? There are countless monsters outside now. If you don't have a spirit boat, you can't leave the third heaven even half a step! Besides, although the beast tide is dangerous, it is also an opportunity. Even if you have a demon-luring pill, it is difficult to lure out the monsters. At this time, there are countless monsters near the third heaven. As long as you can survive the beast tide, how can you get less? We cultivators come to the third heaven to hunt monsters and go against the will of heaven. Isn't it for cultivation resources? Now the opportunity is in front of us, why run away?" His companions were a little sarcastic about the person who asked the question at first, but they became more and more excited as they talked.
The cultivator who asked the question seemed to be touched after listening, and his expression became a little excited.
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From the constant discussions nearby, Duan Qing learned that it turned out that a beast tide had occurred, and the sound of the conch was also a warning of the beast tide. He saw that most of the cultivators around him were excited, and they were obviously looking forward to the beast tide.
A month ago, when he was avoiding the winged snake, he accidentally heard the three people talking about the beast tide. They mentioned that the beast tide only occurred once in the three heavens for several years. He thought that the beast tide should rarely appear, but he encountered a beast tide in the first year of his arrival in the three heavens!
At this time, more than a dozen figures flew from the direction of the three heavens island. The three people in the lead were an old man and a charming young woman, as well as a man with a stubble on his face. The three people led by more than a dozen people behind them flew over the heads of the people outside the market, and flew directly to the direction of the first heaven island without stopping.
Although he did not use the Qi-seeing technique to observe the dozen people, from their flying speed, Duan Qing could see at a glance that the dozen people were all in the Questioning Heart Realm!
"The three island masters and the worshippers have arrived, let's catch up quickly!" Someone reminded his companions.
At this time, more than two thousand people had gathered at the entrance of the market, and immediately more than one-tenth of them followed the dozen people on swords. The rest of the people who could not fly below the Transcendent Realm also gathered in the direction of the Second Heaven Iron Chain Bridge.
Duan Qing naturally did not want to be left behind, so he also flew to the First Heaven Island with everyone on his sword. He wanted to see what the beast tide looked like.
Hundreds of cultivators led by the three island masters directly crossed March City and flew all the way to the coastline of the First Heaven Island. Looking from the sky, they saw a black wave gradually approaching the coastline. When the black wave got closer, Duan Qing realized that it was not a wave, but a wave composed of countless monsters!
Even though he was prepared, he still felt a little numb when he saw this! How many monsters are there!
Duan Qing landed on the beach with everyone, and they all took out their flying swords and waited for it. Soon the beast tide approached the coastline. A team of only a few hundred people seemed so insignificant in front of the endless monsters.
At this moment, the three island owners at the head simultaneously sacrificed three spirit boats, each driving the spirit boat to attack the beast tide. The spirit boats were not suspended on the water like he saw last time, but half-submerged in the water, bringing up huge waves, with unparalleled power.
The speed of the three spirit boats in the water was not much slower than that of the boats that controlled the water. The spirit boat driven by the old man was the first to collide with the beast tide. Any monsters that touched the spirit boat were instantly smashed to pieces by the spirit boat, and more monsters were dispersed by the huge waves brought by the spirit boat.
Then the spirit boat driven by the charming young woman and the spirit boat of the middle-aged man with stubble also broke into the beast tide, tearing three gaps in the beast tide. The places where the spirit boats passed were full of monster limbs, and the sea water was dyed bloody.
The three people drove the spirit boats and rushed through the beast tide. After dispersing the first batch of monsters close to the coastline, they changed their formation, changing from a direct route to a roundabout collision. The three spiritual boats gradually formed a huge circle, with the head and tail corresponding to each other, forming a circular defense line in the sea area in front of the coastline, clearing a blank area in the front of the beast tide, and 70% to 80% of the beast tide coming from the back were blocked by the huge circle.
"It is worthy of being a flying spiritual treasure. Such a treasure is difficult to exchange for ten ordinary spiritual treasures!" Someone couldn't help but exclaim.
Seeing this, the morale of the people in front of the coastline was greatly boosted, and they cheered. Duan Qing was also surprised by the handwriting of the three island owners. He didn't expect that the spiritual boat could be used in this way!
In this way, the number of monsters that can reach the coastline is greatly reduced, but there are too many monsters. The number of the first batch of monsters that passed through the huge circle and arrived at the coastline is still far greater than the number of cultivators present.
Duan Qing used the Qi-Viewing Technique to look at the group of monsters and found that most of them were Qi-training stage monsters, and only about 20% of the monsters in the Transcendent Realm were in the Transcendent Realm. There was no monster in the higher Questioning Heart Realm, which made him secretly relieved.
When monsters attacked, the crowd dispersed, some in groups or alone, and scattered along the coastline to fight against the monsters. Many cultivators took the lead in casting body protection spells and rushed into the beast tide, and fighting broke out all at once.
Duan Qing would not be so ostentatious. Like most cultivators, he only used the sword control technique to strangle the monsters that landed, and kept an eye on the surroundings.
Compared with the monsters in front of him, he was more worried about the cultivators around him. Although the monsters were dangerous, they were only on the surface. He was isolated and helpless in the Three Heavens. If someone wanted to harm him, the danger would definitely be greater than that of the monsters.
At this moment, the cultivators who could stand in front of the coastline were at least in the Transcendent Realm. Countless monsters were strangled to death by hundreds of flying swords in a few seconds after landing. The dozen or so people in the Questioning Heart Realm who came from the Three Heavens Island with the three island masters flew directly into the sea and killed the monsters still in the water with swords.
Wave after wave of monsters hit the coastline as if there was no end. The entire coastal area almost became a sea of blood, and the bloody smell was filled with overwhelming.
After being blocked by the monks, the monsters continued to spread to both sides, and the monks who were fighting against them had to move to both sides. After half an hour, the battle line had been stretched several times longer than before, but even so, many monsters broke through the crowd and attacked the depths of the First Heaven Island.
During this period, Duan Qing deliberately changed the battlefield and came to the edge of the battle line. Although he did not kill the enemy with all his strength in half an hour, more than a dozen monsters in the Transcendent Realm died under his sword, which can be said to be a great harvest.