78: Chapter 78 Arrival at the Battlefield

For Cultivators, a month's time passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, the Yao Race attacked the city dozens of times, and Taihe Prefecture City was even breached once, resulting in the slaughter of a large number of Mortals and Cultivators. Fortunately, Golden Core Masters from the other Golden Core factions in Dayan arrived in the end, averting the tragedy of the Yao Race continuing to slaughter the Human Race.

Among them, Daoist Wuyou was heavily injured due to fighting three Tier 4 Yao Kings alone, and even had his legs torn off in a sneak attack by a Yao King. Therefore, he spent the rest of the war healing his wounds and was unable to make a move.

On the other side in Qingzhou, the battle situation was even more tragic. Not only was the Golden Core Master of the Tianyan Sect killed, but Chongshan Prefecture also became a living hell, with countless Mortals and Cultivators slaughtered, which was far more tragic than here in Taihe Prefecture.

When several Golden Core Masters went to reinforce, the entire Chongshan Prefecture was reduced to a stretch of bones spanning ten thousand miles.

There was also a portion of the Human Race taken back by the Yao Race to be kept in captivity as rations; such occurrences were not rare.

Those Golden Core Cultivators had no choice but to retreat and guard Qingzhou City, using Qingzhou City and the mountain gate where the Tianyan Sect was located to jointly block the Yao Race's army.

After a month of peace, Qinghe County finally welcomed the Yao Race's army.

Fortunately, the main target of the Yao Race here in Cang Prefecture was Taihe Prefecture, so the strength of the dispatched Yao Beasts was not very strong, merely led by a few Tier 3 Yao Beasts.

On this day, Chen Changqing also received a summons and needed to mobilize ten Family members within the Family to participate in the battle.

Before leaving, he first visited the old Clan Chief Chen Xuanlin and had a meal with his Family.

Watching several young children surround him while calling him Uncle Changqing, his heart was filled with satisfaction.

One of them was the son of his biological brother Chen Changling, who was already five years old and could test his Spiritual Root in another year.

The others were the children of his eldest brother Chen Changtian, as well as third sister Chen Changyun and fourth sister Chen Changxin.

As the leading figure of the Chang generation, Chen Changqing naturally won the adoration of many children, and even the younger ones among the Chang generation deeply admired Chen Changqing.

After finishing the Family matters, he bade farewell to the old Clan Chief, Chen Xuanyi, and Chen Yuanwen, and led ten Family Cultivators toward the battlefield.

Chen Yuanjin and Yang Tian stood aside. Originally, she was also going to participate in the battle, but she was stopped. Anyway, the Family did not need her to worry too much now; Chen Changqing and the new generation of Chang generation Cultivators were enough.

Before leaving, Chen Changqing even specially sent a congratulatory gift to celebrate her marriage with Yang Tian. After Chen Yuanjin received it, inside was a set of High Grade Tier 1 Flying Swords, along with a High Grade Tier 1 defensive Magical Artifact. With these two gifts, her strength improved greatly.

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A qingye boat shuttled rapidly across the region of Qinghe County.

The Chen Family members standing on it all felt a sense of pride in their hearts. Back then, the Family would be driven to wits' end just over the distribution of a tiny bit of resources. Now, not only did the Family not have to worry about resource issues, but even such a means of transport was something the Family could easily pull out.

Of course, most of this credit belonged to the Chen Changqing before them, because this qingye boat was brought out by Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing stood at the very front, closing his eyes to rest his mind. He was very calm and did not care about the thoughts in the hearts of the Family members behind him.

Before long, they arrived at the checkpoint that needed to be guarded.

Generally speaking, Qinghe County was divided into three battlefields: one was the southern Wanshou Mountain Range, one was Longchuan County, and the other was over at Taihe Prefecture.

Yao Beasts haunted all three places.

What Chen Changqing was responsible for was the Wanshou Mountain Range; the Yao Beasts here were the most numerous, but their overall strength was relatively weak.

As soon as they arrived, they ran into an acquaintance—Zhao Huaiyi of the Zhao Family. This person once had the intention to assassinate him, but right now he had no time to settle scores with him; after all, the Family and the Zhao Family still maintained a certain level of shared interests.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao." Chen Changqing stepped down from the qingye boat and cupped his hands in greeting.

Hearing Chen Changqing talk to him with the posture of an equal generation, Zhao Huaiyi suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart, but immediately afterward, he sensed the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining aura—no, the First Layer Foundation Establishment aura emanating from Chen Changqing. Filled with doubt and surprise, thinking he had perceived wrongly, he released his Divine Sense and this time clearly perceived the Foundation Establishment aura emanating from Chen Changqing. How could this be possible?

His eyes widened, his expression shifted consecutively, and his heart was incomparably shocked, leaving him speechless for a moment.

Seeing him still silent, Chen Changqing understood what he was thinking and spoke again, "Fellow Daoist Zhao, trust you have been well since we last met."

"Chen Changqing, you actually? Achieved Foundation Establishment? How is this possible?" Zhao Huaiyi widened his eyes with an incredulous look on his face, but the fact was right before his eyes.

"Pure luck, pure luck. Chen just had some good luck and broke through to Foundation Establishment about a month ago." A smile hung on Chen Changqing's lips, and his tone was calm.

Zhao Huaiyi was stunned again. Good luck? Can you break through to Foundation Establishment just with good luck? Of course, he didn't think it was as easy as Chen Changqing said. Hm? It seemed that the kid in front of him had just turned twenty years old. Wouldn't that make him even more of a Prodigy than Lin Feng? Thinking of this, he felt a bit fortunate. Fortunately, his Family didn't make a move back then, and he himself didn't touch the Chen Family either; otherwise, he wouldn't know what his end would be like now.

However, this kid actually broke through to Foundation Establishment quietly. He himself was already fifty-five years old just cultivating to the Perfection of the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, and the Dao Foundation he condensed was only a Low Grade Dao Foundation. Precisely because of this, after nearly twenty years of Cultivation, he was now only at the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment.

In this lifetime, let alone reaching the Purple Mansion, it was hard to say whether he could even reach the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment.

Moreover, in the Zhao Family, only Zhao Yuangang forged a High Grade Dao Foundation, while all the other Zhao Family Foundation Establishment Cultivators had Low Grade Dao Foundations.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, trust you have been well." Zhao Huaiyi said with a bitter smile at the corner of his mouth.

Chen Changqing nodded and inquired about the situation here.

Zhao Huaiyi truthfully informed him. He wouldn't try to gloss over this matter; leaving aside the fact that one would know the situation here after staying for a day or two, the main thing was that there was no need to offend the Chen Family over this, especially offending a Cultivator with a high probability of achieving the Purple Mansion. Although the Purple Mansion stage was strictly controlled by various Golden Core factions, a few slots were still released every few years.

After listening, Chen Changqing finally gained a little understanding of the situation here.

A few days ago, a Tier 3 Yao Beast led thousands of Low Grade Yao Beasts to continuously attack the Formation. Meanwhile, Cangwu Shangren led a group of Cultivators responsible for maintaining the Formation while opening gaps in the Formation to let some Yao Beasts in to be killed.

Chen Changqing and the others were responsible for killing those Yao Beasts that came in.

The other two battlefields also adopted this method, then gradually depleted the number of Yao Beasts.

Over the past few days, hundreds of Yao Beasts had died here, almost all of which were Tier 1 Yao Beasts, along with several Tier 2 Monster Beasts.

Now, there was less than half an incense stick's time remaining before the next opening of the Formation gap. Therefore, some Cultivators were currently recovering to cope with the next battle, while some Cultivators explained the situation to the newly arrived ones. By the way, the Cultivators responsible for supervising the battle also took out contribution tokens and handed them over.