Chapter 112: Beast Tide, Yunyang Sect’s Helpless Solution
Master Taiwu spoke, and naturally the other elders did not say anything Li stood up and walked to the middle with a serious look on her face.
"Sect Master, fellow elders, you have all seen and experienced the beast tide.
I also know a lot about the beast tide.
In the past two hundred years, recorded beast tides have occurred at intervals of more than fifty years.
Therefore, many people habitually believe that a beast tide must occur at an interval of more than fifty years.
But this kind of summary experience has no sufficient basis at all.
Relatively speaking, I have discovered many signs that a beast tide is forming."
Zhao Li's expression was serious. She knew that she had to make the sect's top leaders aware of the seriousness of the matter.
Taiwu Zhenren on the side nodded and signaled Zhao Li to continue.
“First of all, our front-line defenses have been frequently harassed before.
Often there would be three or even four attacks within twelve hours.
The monsters' harassment and attacks are frequent and even getting more severe.
The day before yesterday, the harassment turned into a surprise attack, which also showed that the monsters had become more arrogant.
They also look down on us even more.
Related research also shows that the trigger for the beast tide is our display of weakness.
The more we suffer losses and retreat, the more rampant those evil beasts become.
If their rampage cannot be stopped, it may eventually lead to the formation of a beast tide.
At that time, it will be difficult to contain it.”
After she finished speaking, Sun Xuerong couldn't help but want to refute.
But Zhao Li did not give her a chance to interrupt and continued talking.
“I know that the Fifth Elder thinks this reason is a bit far-fetched.
After all, other sects have often encountered difficulties over the years and faced multiple attacks from monsters every day.
But I want to talk to the sect master and the elders.
Even if other sects faced more attacks from monsters, they were not in the situation we are in now.
Of course, these are just speculations. I, Zhao Li, will not come to waste the time of the sect master and elders.
I have further evidence here.”
As she spoke, Zhao Li walked out of the courtyard.
Soon, he returned to the yard holding something wrapped in sackcloth in his hand.
Throw the things on the ground and lift the sackcloth.
The things wrapped inside were actually the corpses of two little demons.
A raccoon cat demon and a scaly snake demon.
“These two monsters are the ones I killed during this monster raid.
Seeing these two bodies, the Sect Master and the elders should understand the evidence I mentioned."
While Zhao Li was speaking, several elders stood up and walked to the two monster corpses.
"The raccoon cat demon and the scale-armored snake demon don't seem to be the monsters that should be found in our wilderness."
“The Third Elder is right, these two kinds of monsters are not the monsters that live in the wilderness to the east of us.
The civet cat monster comes from the southeast and is a monster in the wilderness outside Tiangang City.
To reach the place where the scaly-armored snake demon lives, we have to go further north.
It is a monster that lives in the wilderness east of Jin State.
But these two monsters have now appeared outside our Yunyang Sect’s defense line.
Monsters have a strong sense of territory, and different monsters of this type are more hostile to each other.
But now, these monsters have gathered outside our Yunyang Sect’s front line.”
Zhao Li had said this and there was no need to say anything more.
Zhenren Taiwu and several elders were not young rookies, and they understood what this portended.
There were other excuses for the frequent attacks by monsters in the past.
But now, the monster from hundreds of miles away appeared here, which explained the problem.
The gathering of different kinds of monsters is a very obvious sign.
If there really is a beast tide, then the troubles that Yunyang Sect will encounter will no longer be what we are facing now.
The monster's sudden attack is nothing compared to the beast tide.
"Master, if it really is a beast tide, then it will be troublesome..." Several elders have been frowning since they heard the news.
Taoist Taiwu also had a serious expression on his face, but he was much calmer than the other elders.
"Master Zhao, have you been paying attention to these?"
Hearing the question from her clan leader, Zhao Li nodded.
“Since the beginning of summer, I have discovered some problems and have been tracking them.
It was just speculation before, and it was not until this raid that we found some direct evidence.”
"According to your judgment, how far has this beast tide reached? Can it still be stopped?"
Taoist Taiwu asked directly, and this is what everyone is most concerned about right now.
“Master, based on my years of research, I have also done a lot of investigations.
The formation of a beast tide never happens overnight.
In the early stages, there will be a one-year or even two-year formation period.
During the formation period, monsters gathered and food was scarce.
The monster will begin to show signs of frenzy and violent outbursts of ferocity.
If the formation period is not resolved properly, it will enter the rapid change period.
Monsters in the rapid transformation period will be even more violent and extremely aggressive than they are now.
The rapid change period is already very difficult to stop and prevent.
Many people even judge the rapid change period as the arrival of the beast tide.
The situation we are facing now is probably still in the formation stage of the beast tide.
During this period, the monsters will gradually become rampant and attract monsters from other areas.
Showing weakness all the time will allow the monster to gain the upper hand.
The formation period will gradually move towards the rapid change period.
If you want to stop it during the acute phase, it may be too late.”
Zhao Li looked at the senior executives in the courtyard.
“Sect Master, fellow elders, we absolutely cannot retreat the front line now.
The retreat of the front line of defense will naturally enhance the sect's ability to stop monsters.
Reinforcements can arrive faster and the terrain is easier to defend and more difficult to attack.
But if we retreat, we will be showing weakness to those beasts.
Not only can we not retreat, we must also strike them back with a severe blow, causing them to suffer heavy casualties so that they will not be able to gain any benefits.
Only in this way can we suppress this tide of beasts."
Zhao Li came here today mainly to talk about this matter.
Zhao Li even worried that if the front line of defense moved back at this time, the formation period would suddenly enter a period of rapid change.
In the courtyard, the high-ranking officials of the Yunyang Sect were all in hesitation.
After a while, Sun Xuerong asked back.
"Given our current situation, even if the frontline defenses don't retreat, it will be difficult for us to suppress the monsters' attacks.
If we can't stop those monsters, won't we still be unable to stop the formation of this beast tide?"
The other elders also nodded slightly.
Before one wave of troubles subsides, another one arises.
The problem of the disciples on the front line has not been solved for a long time, and now there is the crisis of a beast tide.
In spring, attacks by monsters are not as frequent and not as ferocious.
As a result, various problems occurred on the front line of defense.
The situation is more complicated now. How can we stop it?
Several people looked at Zhao Li, wanting to see how she would answer.
In fact, how could these old hands not come up with a solution?
In the blink of an eye, many ideas popped into their minds, but they didn't say them.
Zhao Li hesitated for a moment and looked at the sect leader, Master Taiwu.
“We need to seek help from other sects.
With the help of other sects, our pressure will be much less."
(End of this chapter)
