The cultivators within the entire Windless Valley, regardless of their cultivation level, seemed to have been ignited, with countless cultivators standing ready, each face a mixture of fear and excitement.
"Here they come! Fourteenth Squad, assemble!"
Xu Ji's expression turned grave as he uttered a low shout. Immediately, the thirty-odd Qi Refining disciples behind them gathered around the three.
Outside the formation, the roaring sound of waves swept over in an instant.
Observing the waves up close, Zhang Ling was shocked.
The waves appeared much lower than the mountain peaks they were on, but upon crashing against the formation, they stirred up waves over twenty zhang high.
Moreover, wave after wave followed. In a short span of time, the waves had approached the summit of their mountain.
A booming sound came from the formation's light screen, and the ground trembled slightly.
If not for the formation's protection, Windless Valley would have been submerged in an instant.
Numerous sea beasts riding the waves also launched their attacks.
The first thing Zhang Ling saw were the silver-glowing small fish. These fish-like beasts flashed with silver light and transformed into bolts of lightning, crashing over.
Instantly, large patches of silver light formed before their eyes, colliding with the formation's light barrier, creating a series of strange popping sounds.
The attacks of these small fish failed to shake the formation's light screen, but their dense numbers were enough to make one's scalp tingle.
"Attack!"
At that moment, Xu Ji commanded the Qi Refining disciples beside him to attack, and they busied themselves.
With a muffled sound, a boulder the size of a millstone shot from a trebuchet, flying into the silver fish swarm.
Then came a loud bang, as a flash of fire erupted within a three- to four-zhang radius of the fish swarm, blasting a large number of silver fish into minced meat.
A series of explosions followed, instantly eliminating a large patch of silver fish.
However, Zhang Ling's divine sense scan revealed that although their attacks were significant, the situation was far from optimistic compared to the thousands upon thousands of sea beasts.
Zhang Ling lightly tapped his storage bag, and with a flash of his flying sword, he grasped it in his hand, ready to attack.
Xu Ji, however, said to him, "Junior Sister Wang, Fellow Daoist Zhang, we don't need to attack these low-level sea beasts; these disciples are enough. If second-order or higher sea beasts appear, it won't be too late for us to attack."
"We must maintain our mana at its peak. This beast tide can last for several hours, or even several days. We must not be careless."
Zhang Ling nodded, naturally not objecting, as this person was the leader of their squad and had rich experience.
"The sea beast tide has begun! You must not leave your posts without authorization. Once you've withstood the initial sea beast attacks, the beast tide will be nothing to worry about!"
At that moment, a full-bodied shout came, resounding almost simultaneously in the ears of every cultivator. All the cultivators who heard this shout were jolted.
Zhang Ling looked up and saw a white-robed cultivator standing in the air on the highest mountain peak beside them.
The voice just now came from this person, whose surname was Wu, and was another Golden Core cultivator in Windless Valley.
These words greatly boosted the morale of the cultivators defending against the sea beasts.
Zhang Ling felt slightly more at ease, not because of this person's words, but because Windless Valley now had three Golden Core experts. Besides this person, the other two were the bald old man who brought them here and the old woman they had met before.
With three experts and a formation, as long as the beast tide didn't last too long, they could cope. For this, they had prepared for a full few years. Although most of the cultivators here were Qi Refining disciples, and there were only three to four thousand people, there was no shortage of supplies.
In the waves, all kinds of fish-like demon beasts were rushing forward, heading straight for the formation's light screen.
At the same time, a large shadow appeared in the sky. Huge fierce birds resembling sea swallows and seagulls flapped their wings and swooped down while making sharp cries.
As soon as these fierce birds arrived, they flapped their wings, and countless wind blades flew straight down like rain.
The prepared Qi Refining cultivators immediately manipulated some large instruments, smashing red stone balls one after another, blasting and obliterating large swaths of wind blades.
Other types of offensive and defensive measures were also deployed. A giant black arrow flashed, soaring into the sky. Then, it transformed into countless golden arrows, instantly killing hundreds of flying demon beasts.
The formation protecting the crowd was also not a simple defensive formation. A stream of azure light shot out as the light screen flowed.
These lights stretched out into thin azure light screens. Whether it was a wind blade attack or other sea beasts' water swords and water balls, they were bounced back upon hitting it, instead killing large numbers of sea beasts.
For a time, all kinds of sounds filled the air. In this short period, Zhang Ling estimated that their squad had killed thousands of sea beasts. Even the seawater had turned red.
But the fish-like beasts seemed to know nothing of death. Their numbers did not decrease at all, and different types of fish-like beasts appeared.
Like a strange fish with a half-zhang-long pointed beak, charging like sharp swords.
There were also some black things that looked like black balls, not fish-like at all.
But when this monster jumped out of the water, it turned into a black net, like a black cloth, sticking to the formation's light screen. No matter how the light flickered, it could not be driven away.
Moreover, when these monsters were killed, their bodies would turn into a brown liquid, sticking to the light screen, emitting a sizzling corrosive sound.
Suddenly, in the water in front of them, a five- or six-zhang-long flatfish appeared.
The monster was covered in blue and countless red dots. It opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and spat out fireballs the size of heads, hitting the light screen of the formation in front of it, causing a burst of shaking.
Zhang Ling frowned. It was mixed with water and fire spiritual power, and was not weaker than a second-order monster.
Without thinking, he knew it was a second-order demon fish.
Zhang Ling no longer hesitated. With a wave of his hand, the flying sword in his hand flashed and transformed into seven or eight yellow sword shadows, shooting towards the monster fish.
Beside him, Xu Ji and Wang Caidie also made their moves. They each attacked a huge sea beast.
Xu Ji manipulated a flying fork, swimming nimbly in the sea like a fish, cutting across a huge, bulging pufferfish. But the pufferfish suddenly exhaled.
Its spherical body flashed, and in a series of bubbles, it crashed like a meteor, knocking away more than a dozen small fish and disappearing into the sea.
Xu Ji had no time to search for its trace, commanding his flying knife to slash at another giant octopus that was spewing black mist.
Wang Caidie, on the other hand, was wielding a blue flying knife, entangled in a fight with a black-skinned shark.
