Watching the elders beside him offering their opinions and discussing the beast tide, Sect Leader Sun appeared relaxed, but his eyes were fixed on the approaching horde of wild beasts outside the city.
Although his cultivation wasn't high, he had been in charge of the Flying Cloud Sect for a hundred years and knew the sect's condition and foundation extremely well. He wasn't worried about Flying Cloud Island being breached by the wild beasts.
However, not long ago, the Great Elder, Huang Yun Zhenren, had secretly sent him a message, warning him to be careful of the wild spirits that could appear at any moment.
These wild spirits were powerful beings comparable to transformed demon beasts, and even Nascent Soul cultivators would find them difficult to deal with if they appeared.
This was his greatest concern, and according to the news that had come back, the first line of defense in the Wildlands had completely collapsed.
The battlefield had now advanced to an area tens of thousands of miles from the second line of defense. More than a dozen islands, including Flying Cloud Island, large and small, had been invaded by wild beasts.
Fortunately, Flying Cloud Island was located on the periphery, and although there were no other cultivators to reinforce them, they were only being attacked by scattered beast groups. As long as they held Flying Cloud City as usual, there wouldn't be any problems.
While Sect Leader Sun and the other elders in command were discussing the war situation, all the cultivators on the city wall were mobilized.
Of course, Zhang Ling and the other Golden Core cultivators were not among them. They mostly watched coldly.
High-level cultivators needed to maintain their spiritual power at all times to prevent the invasion of high-level wild beasts. They didn't need to take action unless the high-level wild beasts got too close to the city wall.
The low-level cultivators and mortals on the city wall, combined with the defensive equipment and the Immortal City Formation, were enough to deal with a small number of high-level wild beasts and a large beast tide.
Zhang Ling was now standing on a stone pier on the city wall, staring expressionlessly at the distant beast tide. At this time, the vanguard of the beast tide was only two or three miles away from the city wall.
The first to approach was the group of black-haired monster rats. There were a large number of these demon rats, a dark and swarming mass, rushing madly towards the city wall.
Various sounds and a flurry of activity came from the city wall. Many people were shouting and directing the attack.
"Third squad, load spirit stones and prepare to fire the spirit cannons."
"Thirteenth squad, adjust the attack direction and aim the Heavenly Fire Technique at that fifth-order demon rat."
The sound of wind being torn apart, the loud rumbling, and the various spiritual lights dazzled the eyes.
A team of mortals not far to Zhang Ling's left, under the command of several cultivators, were either loading spirit stones or moving small spirit cannons.
The cultivator teams, in groups of several, were controlling large catapults, throwing stones the size of several zhang.
Spiritual light condensed on the tall arrow towers, accompanied by cracking sounds. Every two breaths, a rain of fiery red arrows would be fired.
These fire arrows rose into the sky like fiery meteors, turned into streamers, and all fell into the beast group, each shot killing dozens of wild beasts.
At the same time, the arrow towers were also equipped with huge crossbows. Each of these crossbows was manned by a Foundation Establishment cultivator, who used their divine sense to control the giant crossbows, condensing a giant light arrow several zhang long every ten breaths.
It was launched like a giant spear.
Zhang Ling saw a black-haired demon rat closest to the city wall, opening its bloody mouth, a black ball of light the size of several zhang constantly swelling, as if to unleash some kind of attack.
But a golden light arrow several zhang long descended from the sky, piercing the beast to the ground. Then the light arrow flashed with golden light, and with a loud bang.
This demon rat, only at the fifth-order, was instantly blown into a bloody mess. Although it was not dead yet, half of its body had been turned into minced meat.
Then hundreds of fireballs rained down from the sky, with a series of loud bangs, the ground was lifted off a layer. The trace of the fifth-order demon beast was gone, leaving only a patch of black and red blood.
In the short span of a cup of tea, he saw several high-level wild beasts being annihilated into nothing in the dense attack. The number of low-level wild beasts that died was even countless.
This scene of shocking and bloody scenes was staged everywhere on the city wall. Spirit cannons, arrow towers, falling rocks, wooden thorns, sword rain, wind blades and other attacks swept the entire battlefield.
Various roars continued in the beast tide. Blood-stained bodies fell to the ground, and beast blood dyed the entire ground red. For a time, the area more than ten miles outside the city wall became a bloody place.
As time passed, the first wave of the beast tide attack gradually subsided after more than an hour. Soon after, all kinds of attacks also temporarily stopped.
After Sect Leader Sun announced the end of the first wave of the beast tide, everyone cheered. This battle greatly boosted everyone's confidence, and not even a single mortal died.
The mortal teams on the city wall sat down to rest. Some cultivators took out piles of food from their storage bags to supply these mortals.
But most cultivators were even more excited. Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators flew directly on their swords and other magical instruments, landing under the city wall to start cleaning up the battlefield.
Zhang Ling and other high-level cultivators also rushed into the battlefield like these cultivators and began searching.
While collecting materials from the wild beasts, they also solved the problem of those wild beasts who were not dead for a while.
Zhang Ling turned into a遁光, and in a moment he came to a dark toad.
Half of the toad's body was bloody and blurred, leaving only half of its body covered in a thick blood mist, and it was not dead for a while, and the croaking sound came from its mouth.
Although this beast had lost its mobility, its breath was extraordinary. This was an Ironwood Beast with the strength of the sixth order.
Seeing him arrive, the beast immediately shot out a scarlet tongue from its mouth, and whipped it fiercely.
Zhang Ling did not dodge or avoid, just waved his sleeve, a dark green flying sword instantly cut off the attack, and then the trend did not reduce the transformation into a zhang large green sword light, and suddenly the beast's intact half of the body also became two halves.
He casually shot out a spiritual light, wrapped the Ironwood Beast, and took out a fist-sized emerald green demon pill from its head.
This is a sixth-order wood attribute demon pill, Zhang Ling happily put the demon pill into the storage bag. Finally, he also collected the body of this half of the Ironwood Beast.
Before long, he returned to the city wall again. Under the section of the city wall he was responsible for, he found a total of six high-level wild beasts, but only harvested three demon pills.
Among them, the demon pills of the three high-level wild beasts had been broken into powder, leaving only a small amount of wild beast materials that were still useful.
Although these Golden Core cultivators basically did not take action in this first wave of the beast tide, as long as the high-level wild beasts who died in the area they were responsible for, they would be responsible for handling the battlefield.
This is a tacit rule among everyone, even the low-level cultivators who are still searching for wild beast materials below are the same. The damaged wild beast materials from this first wave of the beast tide alone made these cultivators a fortune.
Of course, there are also some valuable ones among the low-level materials, but the Golden Core cultivators will naturally not disregard their status and compete with the Qi Refining cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators for materials.
If they want to collect these valuable materials, it is not difficult, as long as they take some spirit stones and other resources, they can exchange with low-level cultivators.
