301: Chapter 301 Deploying Troops and Generals to Seize Mingzhou!

[Thanks to Fellow Daoist "Happy Bird Feather" for gifting two Great God Certifications. I've been busy these past few days and didn't have time to add extra chapters, so I'm making up for it today. 2/2]

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Qingyang City fell.

White Crane's palm strike had not only crushed the Golden Core City Lord but had also shattered the final line of defense of the tens of thousands of Cultivators in the city.

Deprived of the Formation's protection, Qingyang City was completely exposed to the fangs of the beast tide.

"Kill," Shi Pan ordered with a cold wave of his hand.

The Dark-Gold giant bear took the lead in charging, smashing the city walls and breaching the gates.

Countless birds and beasts poured through the breach, biting anyone they saw and killing with a single drop of blood. The Shangqing Sect's largest branch division in central Ming Prefecture was instantly reduced to a feeding ground for the Yao Race.

Bloodcurdling screams pierced the sky.

High up in the sky, the sea of clouds churned. Shi Jian watched everything in silence. White Crane stood beside him, the cloud patterns between his brows flickering as he breathed in the ambient blood energy and resentment of the world, stabilizing his newly formed Nascent Soul.

Just then, a streak of green light galloped from the east, tearing through layers of mist and landing before the man and the bear.

The green light dissipated, revealing Bi Luo's grey-robed figure.

He knelt on one knee, his head bowed low.

"Green Ape Bi Luo pays respects to the Old Ancestor, and greets Yao Monarch White Crane."

Shi Jian's eyelids twitched slightly. "Is the matter in the Liang Kingdom finished?"

"Replying to the Old Ancestor, the Holy Blood Sect has completely spiraled out of control. The four prefectures of the Liang Kingdom have been reduced to purgatory."

"The three Sects of the Liang Kingdom, Shangqing and Taiqing, along with the Eight-Clawed Giant Beast clan of the Eastern Sea, totaling twenty-two Nascent Souls, are locked in a death match in the heart of the Liang Kingdom."

"The Three Great Sects are too busy to look after themselves, and the Taiqing Sect and Shangqing Sect are also deeply mired in the quagmire. Seeing that the situation was favorable, I quit while I was ahead and withdrew."

"You did well."

Shi Jian nodded slightly, purple-gold thunderbolts flowing across his bear body. "The fire of the Holy Blood Sect has burned exceptionally well. You have done a fine job."

"However, today's chaotic era has only just begun. You still need to keep running about."

Bi Luo suddenly raised his head, a sharp light bursting from his emerald-green pupils.

Shi Jian raised his giant claw and pointed to the east. "This Ancestor will assign you a beast tide of one hundred thousand to head east and flatten the Qingguang Sect."

"The Qingguang Sect no longer has any value, so there is no need for its existence."

"From this day forth, there shall be no more Qingguang lineage in this world."

"This subordinate obeys!"

Bi Luo's chest heaved, his killing intent no longer suppressible.

He kowtowed abruptly, turned, and transformed into a streak of green light to flee.

Not long after, an ape's cry echoed through the mountain forests. Hundreds of giant apes of the Green Ape branch beat their chests, gathering into an army.

Carrying one hundred thousand low-level Yao Beasts with them, they charged straight toward the Qingguang Sect in the east like a blue-black tempest, ready to annihilate its lineage!

Just after Bi Luo left, a vast expanse of dark clouds surged from the southern horizon.

A dense moisture filled the air, and from the southern lands, a series of dull, incredibly heavy rumbles resounded.

A turbid waterline, dozens of miles wide, flowed upstream from the direction of Feng Prefecture, forcibly forcing open the river channels and pouring into the territory of Ming Prefecture.

In the surging water, Golden Crocodile's massive Dark-Gold body loomed, resembling an underwater mountain range.

Wan Xiang rode the wind and waves, carrying a turtle shell as large as a small hill on his back.

Behind them were hundreds of thousands of coastal water beasts and swamp Yao beasts.

They had not participated in the Nascent Soul confrontation in southern Feng Prefecture, but had instead used the waterways to quietly withdraw to the inland.

"Greetings, Old Ancestor!"

Golden Crocodile broke through the water, prostrating on the surface. Wan Xiang did the same, bowing his head and not daring to look at the entity in the clouds as he paid his respects.

"The waters of Feng Prefecture are muddy. Those fools from the Sea Race are fighting to the death with the Shangqing Sect. As ordered by the Old Ancestor, we have made a clean retreat."

Hearing Golden Crocodile's reply, Shi Jian looked down at the two Golden Core Great Yao and nodded slightly.

"Since you are back, do not idle."

Shi Jian turned his gaze toward the south of Ming Prefecture. "In the South Protectorate, there are two Golden Core Sects. One is named Luoxia, and the other is Daoqi Valley."

"Over the years, Daoqi Valley has captured many of our Yao fellows to serve as mounts and slave beasts."

"Golden Crocodile, Wan Xiang, you will lead the water army there, flood their southern territories, and leave not a single human alive."

"We obey the decree!"

Golden Crocodile laughed heartily, his massive body turning around as the vast waters diverted. Hundreds of thousands of water-dwelling Yao Beasts followed the terrain, surging toward the South Protectorate.

The human villages and towns along the way were instantly swallowed by the flood, becoming food for the water beasts before they could even scream.

"Shi Pan,"

Below, Shi Pan, who was cleaning up the battlefield of Qingyang City, immediately soared into the air.

"People have already gone to the south and east. I will leave the West Protectorate to you."

Shi Jian's tone was bone-chillingly cold. "There is an Iron Bone Sect there, a Body Cultivator Sect. For so many years, they have fed on the flesh and blood of our Yao clan's beasts to strengthen their bones."

"Their malice is monstrous. Take the Five Bear Lineages and shatter their bones, inch by inch, for this Ancestor."

"Rest assured, Old Ancestor. I, Pan, dare not forget the blood feud of our clansmen."

Shi Pan grinned savagely and turned to land on the ground, causing the earth and Rocks to rise and fall as if the mountains were shaking, swallowing Mortals and buildings.

"Dark-Gold, Thunder Bear, Rock, Frost-Snow, Primordial! Boys of the five branches, follow me on the western campaign!"

The earth rumbled. The five branches of the Bear Clan were all thick-skinned and possessed infinite strength.

Under Shi Pan's leadership, tens of thousands of giant bears stood like a high wall across the land, pushing forward toward the West Protectorate.

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On this day, the sky of Ming Prefecture collapsed.

A grand counterattack by the Yao Race was staged simultaneously across the four directions of Ming Prefecture.

To the east, the Qingguang Sect.

The sect-protecting formation had been battered day and night by a beast tide of one hundred thousand, and was already on the verge of collapse.

Bi Luo transformed into a green giant ape over a hundred feet tall, holding a massive club refined from hundred-year-old lightning-struck wood, and smashed it down.

"Boom!"

The Formation shattered. The remaining Foundation Establishment Elders of the Qingguang Sect were filled with rage; but as soon as they rushed into the sky, they were grabbed in Bi Luo's hand.

"The Qingguang Sect perishes today."

Bi Luo spoke coldly, his palm suddenly clenching.

Bang!

The group of Foundation Establishment Elders was instantly turned into a pulp of flesh, then swallowed in one gulp by the Green Ape, the taste truly leaving a lingering, endless aftertaste.

The Green Ape branch poured into the mountain gate. The once high-and-mighty Sword Cultivators and Spell Cultivators were like lambs to the slaughter under the sharp claws of the Yao Beasts.

The thousand-year-old heritage of the Qingguang Sect was turned to scorched earth.

To the south, the Luoxia Sect and Daoqi Valley.

The torrential floods completely submerged the spiritual mountains of both Sects.

Golden Crocodile thrashed in the water, a sweep of his Dark-Gold tail snapping the Main Peak of the Luoxia Sect in half. Wan Xiang, on the other hand, channeled heavy water to crush the resisting Cultivators in the Beast-Controlling Valley into meat pies.

The Yao Beasts enslaved by the Beast-Controlling Valley, upon sensing the aura of their own kind, turned on their masters one after another, even fighting with their lives on the line.

The South Protectorate was completely reduced to a watery Yao kingdom.

To the west, the Iron Bone Sect.

The physical bodies the Body Cultivators took pride in became a joke before the Bear Clan.

Shi Mo transformed into a Dark-Gold giant bear. Braving the Magical Artifact strikes of over a dozen Foundation Establishment Body Cultivators, he crushed their skulls with a single slap.

Shi Pan even engaged in close-quarters combat with the Golden Core Vice Sect Leader of the Iron Bone Sect who had stayed behind, tearing his arms apart and crushing his chest.

He dug out his Golden Core alive to devour, then swallowed the entire person into his mouth to chew repeatedly.

Slaughter spread across every inch of Ming Prefecture's land.

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