44: Chapter 44 Monster Attacks the City

In White Cloud City, where the situation was constantly changing and dangers lurked everywhere, the atmosphere on the city wall was so heavy it felt as if water could be wrung from it.

Chen Fei stood like a towering mountain, proudly at the very center of the city wall, his resolute face appearing even more stern in the whistling wind, his deep eyes fixed on the Yao Beast horde outside the Formation, which continuously surged and attacked like raging waves.

To his left, Huang Youcai and Chen Jun stood guard like two formidable door gods, majestic and awe-inspiring.

The members of the guard team were all solemn, fully concentrated on casting their Spells, their hands rapidly dancing in the air, their fingertips shimmering with various colors, accompanied by their incantations.

One after another, splendid and powerful Spells, like brilliant meteors, trailed long tails of light, whistling towards the clawing, snarling Yao Beasts outside the city. Each explosion of a Spell was accompanied by the roars and screams of Yao Beasts. For a time, light and dust intertwined outside the city, and the battle was extremely tragic.

To Chen Fei's right stood a Mid Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator with a troubled and tightly furrowed brow. He was Li Lei, an Inner Sect Disciple of the Four Seas Commerce League.

It was originally just an ordinary training trip; he merely happened to pass by White Cloud City, intending to rest there briefly and ease his weary body and mind. However, he never expected that the gears of fate would suddenly turn at this moment, and a sudden beast tide would cruelly trap him on the brink of life and death.

As a Disciple of the Four Seas Commerce League, he was well aware of the responsibility and reputation he bore. Under the watchful eyes of everyone present, with gazes all around, even a fleeting thought of escape in his mind would be enough to cause him to lose all face and ruin his reputation.

Therefore, he could only suppress his inner fear and unease, and brace himself to hold his ground here.

Chen Fei and Li Lei, these two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, had not yet attacked the numerous Qi Refinement Stage Yao Beasts below, which were like ants.

Their minds were as clear as a mirror; they clearly knew their mission and responsibility.

On this cruel battlefield, preserving strength was the key to dealing with the crisis.

They were like leopards hidden in the shadows, quietly waiting for the best moment. Once the more powerful and troublesome Foundation Establishment Yao Beasts on the other side attacked the city, they would strike swiftly like arrows from a bow, delivering a fatal blow.

This beast tide was like a nightmare, suddenly descending upon White Cloud City without warning.

The outer city of White Cloud City, lacking the protection of a Formation, therefore had no rent. Most of those living there were Mortals who were powerless, as well as Qi Refining Early Stage Cultivators who had just begun their cultivation journey and possessed weak strength.

The beast tide came ferociously, like a surging black current, instantly engulfing this peaceful area.

Most people had no time to react at all. Amidst the terrified screams and the roars of Yao Beasts, lives were mercilessly crushed like fragile ants.

In just that brief moment at the beginning of the beast tide, thousands of vibrant Mortal lives came to an abrupt end, and dozens of Qi Refinement Stage Cultivators also unfortunately perished in this catastrophe.

The scent of death permeated the air, pungent and despairing.

The survivors, shrouded in the shadow of death, fled in panic towards the inner city.

At this critical moment, Huang Youcai quickly took out the sub-Formation Flag left by Wang Bin, and relying on his familiarity with Formations and years of experience, successfully activated the Formation.

Now, this crucial Formation Flag has fallen into Chen Fei's hands; it is like a key guarding White Cloud City, controlling the life and death of everyone in the city.

Within White Cloud City, those Cultivators below the Qi Refining Late Stage, though their cultivation was shallow and seemed insignificant in the face of such a powerful beast tide, were still useful.

They were systematically arranged in various key positions throughout the city, ready to pour all their strength into injecting Spiritual Qi to maintain the normal operation of the Formation whenever the Formation's Spiritual Qi became insufficient.

After all, with their cultivation, standing on the city wall and attacking outwards, the power of their Spells was simply too limited, like an ant trying to shake a tree, unable to cause substantial damage to the Yao Beasts.

At this moment, the safety of the entire White Cloud City depended entirely on this one Formation, and the energy supply for the Formation relied on the precious Second-Grade Spirit Vein within the city.

This Second-Grade Spirit Vein was like a massive energy source buried deep underground, continuously supplying Spiritual Qi to the Formation, supporting that thin, yet life-and-death-critical, protective light shield for the entire city.

Everyone understood in their hearts at this time that the only thing they could do was to silently wait for rescue to arrive amidst this endless torment.

They had to do their utmost to protect the safety of the Formation, because this was their only hope for survival.

Once the Formation was breached, what awaited them would be the tragic fate of being mercilessly devoured by Yao Beasts. The entire White Cloud City would be reduced to a bloody slaughterhouse, and countless lives would vanish in an instant, leaving behind only dismembered limbs and endless despair.

Even Wang Bin's four Dao Companions received no special treatment at this life-and-death moment.

Chen Fei's gaze swept over the city wall, looking at the low-level Yao Beasts outside, which were like surging tides, densely packed, and relentlessly attacking the Formation. His brow furrowed into a tight ' river' shape, his heart filled with helplessness and anxiety.

He knew this was a common tactic for Yao Beast attacks. These low-level Yao Beasts, or even wild beasts that had not yet undergone Awakening, were nothing more than cannon fodder to be casually driven in the eyes of Advanced Yao Beasts.

They were driven in large numbers to the front of the Formation with the purpose of consuming the Formation's energy and the Spiritual Qi of the Cultivators on the city wall.

These low-level Yao Beasts possessed astonishing reproductive capabilities, like wild grass that grows back with the spring breeze.

It was precisely because of this that every few decades, the Advanced Yao Beasts hidden deep within the Demon Beast Mountain Range would meticulously plan a beast tide to invade the human towns surrounding the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

For them, this was a win-win situation, as it could effectively weaken the power of Human Race Cultivators and also appropriately consume a large number of low-level Yao Beasts.

Otherwise, the forests of the Demon Beast Mountain Range would probably be completely devoured by these locust-like low-level Yao Beasts sooner or later.

The high-level figures of both sides seemed to have reached a subtle understanding over these long years, but this particular beast tide outbreak seemed somewhat unusual, as if a giant stone had been thrown into a calm lake, breaking the established pattern.

Outside White Cloud City, nearly twenty Foundation Establishment Yao Beasts gathered majestically on a towering hilltop. They varied in form: there were tigers, several zhang long and exuding power, their sharp claws gleaming coldly in the sunlight as if they could easily tear through anything;

There were massive, coiling pythons, their cold scales like hard armor, occasionally flicking their tongues, emitting a chilling aura;

There were also agile wolf Yao, their fierce green eyes like two faint lights in the darkness, revealing their bloodthirsty nature;

And there were pig Yao, with big heads and ears, seemingly clumsy but actually ferocious.

Among this group of Yao Beasts, the leaders were the Azure Flame Bird and Fox Seven, a red fox.

The Azure Flame Bird was eager for revenge. If not for the red fox's persistent obstruction, with its fiery temper, it would have long been unable to suppress its inner impulse, and would have recklessly charged at the Formation to attack personally, instead of being forced to watch from below with resentment.

It was only after the red fox patiently explained the beast tide to it in detail, and informed it that White Cloud City's Second-Grade Formation had extraordinary power, and even if a Foundation Establishment Yao Beast attacked personally, it would still have to pay a great price to break it in a short time.

Moreover, Yao Beasts outside the Formation could only passively attack the Formation, while Cultivators within the Formation could flexibly attack the Yao Beasts outside. With this ebb and flow, a rash attack would undoubtedly be courting death.

The Azure Flame Bird had also witnessed Chen Fei's formidable methods and knew he was no ordinary individual, so it dared not take risks lightly.

Furthermore, when it first witnessed the tragic scene of human dismembered limbs and blood covering the ground in the outer city, most of the anger in its heart dissipated.

It had previously lived deep within the Demon Beast Mountain Range, where there were also traces of humans, but those humans were all slaves of Yao Beasts, living miserable lives at their beck and call.

Although there were occasional instances of Yao Race devouring humans, it had never personally experienced such a large-scale, bloody, and cruel scene of human death.

No wonder these few humans attacked its wife for no reason today. Both the Human Race and the Yao Race were on each other's food chains; how difficult it was to live in peace.

Alas! But since things had come to this, as a member of the Yao Race, although it had briefly struggled between the greater good of its race and personal feelings, it ultimately chose to stand with the Yao Race and continue to participate in the siege battle.