Chapter 1280 – Tide of Wild Beasts (I)
Hearing Zhang Kui’s words, Han Li’s heart tumbled a bit.
”Silver wolf” This naturally reminded him of the Silver Moon from back then.
This woman’s body was a silver colored wolf, and also claimed to be from the Silver Moon Wolf Clan, so he didn’t know if these silver wolves were Silver Moon’s kindred spirits.
However, regardless of whether this speculation is true, it seems that his current situation is of no use at all, and can only quickly put it aside in the back of his mind.
”If it’s just these ordinary wolves and beasts, even if they are more in number, they are not enough to be feared under our human race’s high city defense. What’s scary is that the beasts are usually led by some low-priced demonic beasts that have already turned on their spiritual intelligence. Among them, there are also quite a few mutated beasts that are between ordinary beasts and demonic beasts. These mutated beasts, although they don’t possess some incredible magical abilities like the mutated demonic beasts, they are still scary enough compared to ordinary beasts. Not only did their size, strength, and swiftness far exceed their counterparts. At least the average low-ranked body refiner wouldn’t be able to deal with it in a one-on-one situation.” The scar-faced big man said gruffly.
”So tricky! Are there many of these mutated beasts in the herd?” Han Li’s brows furrowed.
”Basically, one mutated one will appear out of a thousand beasts.” Zhang Kui said with less certainty under a brief thought.
”A thousand?” Han Li couldn’t help but smile bitterly as he swept his gaze toward the sea of green-colored beasts in the distance once more.
Even if he couldn’t accurately tell the number of these green wolves, there were at least millions of them, and with such a huge number, the number of mutated wolf beasts, even if it wasn’t in the tens of thousands, was definitely in the thousands. Such a large number of mutated beasts, in the attack and defense of a city where no JieDan level cultivators would appear, it was indeed a force deadly enough.
”Alright, let’s go to other places and take a look at the rest of the beasts.” After looking around for a while longer, Zhang Kui said with a sigh, seemingly not too optimistic about the prospects of this beast tide.
”What, is brother Zhang somewhat worried about not being able to defend this city?” Han Li asked with a smile even though he had followed the other party down the huge city wall as he had been instructed.
”Mister Zhang is indeed a bit worried. The few times that the city was attacked and massacred by beasts in the past, all of which were small cities like An Yuan City that had been newly established for less than 10,000 years, also coincided with the outbreak of a large beast tide, and coupled with insufficient preparation beforehand, they were only attacked and destroyed. And this time the beast tide, and leopard bird beast this kind of air demon bird, this kind of demon bird number will not be too much. But once each one was born, it was the existence of a grade one demonic beast. If the air can’t be defended against it, it’s really not a small danger.” Zhang Kui looked worried.
”Leopard beasts, are they this terrifying?” Han Li’s gaze flickered as if he was somewhat less than convinced.
”In terms of individual strength, the Leopard Fowl Beasts are not ranked too high amongst the flying demonic birds in the Beast Tide, but they are born with a body that can emit a virulent poison, and ordinary people will die from the smell of it. Unable to fight with them in close quarters, the only way is to shoot them down from afar. But this kind of demon bird is the kind of flexible, fast race, if the air power is not enough, it is difficult to really blockade them. And An Yuan City’s air-to-air power is exactly where the defense is weakest.” Zhang Kui slowly said.
”Insufficient air-to-air power, how could such a thing happen. Could it be that the Lord of An Yuan City doesn’t know that this matter is serious?” Han Li was greatly surprised now.
By now, he already knew that all secular power among human cities was almost always in the hands of the city lord.
”What’s the use of knowing. I’ve heard that this city suffered heavy losses during the last beast tide, depleting the strength that originally survived. Being able to restore the current defense force is already the result of this city lord’s painstaking efforts, and I heard that he even borrowed some weapons and soldiers from other nearby cities. There’s naturally nothing we can do about the power of the air.” Zhang Kui unexpectedly said something like this.
Han Li was somewhat speechless as he listened.
Soon after, when Han Li followed the scar-faced man and stood on the other side of the city wall, a sea of red beasts formed by a python over ten feet in size entered his eyes, looking even more daunting than the green-colored wolves.
The only kind of favorable news is, is this python beast mouth non-toxic, also will not spit poisonous fog, defense is also much easier.
Han Li sighed from afar after seeing a giant python whose size far exceeded that of its peers by several times appear from time to time in the sea of pythons.
This kind of mutated python coiled in a ball was more than ten zhang in length, and was not any smaller than a red jiao. If an ordinary person was entangled or swallowed by this kind of giant beast, one could imagine what would happen to them. Moreover, the number of these mutated pythons was naturally higher because the red python group was much larger than the green wolf group.
After looking at the two types of beasts, Han Li had some regrets that he didn’t see the leopard beast mentioned by Zhang Kui.
According to what the scar-faced man had said, this kind of demonic bird generally inhabited a hidden place, and until it was time to attack, the demonic bird group would not show itself.
”What are the beasts waiting for now, why aren’t they attacking right away?” Looking at the distant python group, Han Li suddenly asked so.
”The beast swarms have demonic beasts that have opened up their spiritual intelligence to lead them, so naturally they can’t attack in a swarm, they must have contacted the remaining two groups of beast swarms before deciding on a time to launch a joint attack so that we humans can’t take care of both. Generally speaking, this time is about a day or so. Let’s go, I think our Tian Dong Trading Company should have received the order to prepare for the city as well. In this kind of big battle, we are just a drop in the ocean, do your best. If we are really lucky enough to break through a bottleneck or comprehend something in the fight, it won’t be in vain for us to take such a risk and stay.” With a final cold laugh, Zhang Kui led Han Li back into the city and finally returned to the inn.
Sure enough, the guards in the inn had already received orders from the side of An Yuan City, and had to leave immediately to go somewhere to gather and prepare.
The brocade-robed man and the other Golden Jade Sect cultivators were invited to leave first.
Zhang Kui did not hesitate for a second, and immediately gave an order, the more than two hundred guards of the Heavenly East Trading Company all set off, and vastly walked out of the inn.
At this time on the streets outside, private teams and body refiners that had been drafted like the merchant house also abounded. It was just that most of their numbers weren’t as numerous and formidable as the Tian Dong Merchant Guards, with as few as five or six and as many as dozens of people walking together.
As Han Li and the others walked along, they naturally attracted extra attention. Among them were more than fifty knights riding one-horned giant wolves, making them even more eye-catching.
After all, this kind of mount called Mythical Wolf was one of the few types of warbeasts that humans had tamed in the Spirit World. Each one is carefully cultivated from childhood, the wildness will be exhausted, and only after the rider to cooperate with the body to play out extraordinary strength, so the price can not be expensive.
Only the Tian Dong merchant company such a rich and powerful merchant company, only have the ability to purchase so many mythical wolf war beasts for the escorting team.
The crowd and the other people on the street were all led to a certain huge square near a city wall, which was the very part of the city section that faced the Green Wolf Beasts.
There were already tens of thousands of bare-handed young and strong people and some teams and scattered body refiners in various costumes gathered there. Among them, there were also individuals riding Mythical Wolf Beasts, but among such a large number of people plus the Tian Dong Merchant Company’s knights, there were only more than two hundred of them. Around the square stood some of An Yuan City’s order-keeping soldiers, all of them heavily armed.
A middle-aged man wearing silver armor stood at one end of the square, saying something to a Confucian and a monk beside him, and seemed to be the person in charge.
When Han Li saw this person, his gaze condensed and he realized that this person was actually the commander of the gate guard that he had encountered when he entered the city gates.
The monk and Confucian beside him were naturally the two Immortal Cultivators who had been ordered to inspect their team. I don’t know what the silver-armored middle-aged man is capable of, but in this situation, he was still able to leave these two people behind.
At this time, the silver-armored middle-aged man saw that the crowd seemed to have almost gathered, and waved his hand behind him without saying a word.
A soldier with a loud voice immediately stood out and issued a series of orders that had been prepared long ago.
The orders began with all the knights in the field who had mounts being picked out first to form a separate cavalry team. Then another batch of terrestrial turtle carts came in the square, and the soldiers carried down a large number of weapons and a small amount of armor from the turtle carts, and then began to distribute them to those young and strong men.
As for those Body Refiners, they naturally couldn’t look at these ordinary blades, and stood in place with cold eyes.
At this time, another group of soldiers began to prepare those young and strong people who had been given weapons. Han Li and the other private teams and the scattered Body Refiners were temporarily set aside, temporarily unattended.
Just when these private guards and body refiners were somewhat alarmed, suddenly a long wolf whistling sound came from outside the city, this whistling sound was high and mournful, full of a thick crazy meaning.
Han Li heard the eyes narrowed, has not yet come to how to think about it, then outside the city walls on the ten thousand wolves whistling up, the beast whistles straight into the sky, thundering roll.
Those body refiners are okay, just a slight change in color, while ordinary people under the shock, only feel the world is only left with the sound of the beast whistling, and then nothing else.
But this is only just the beginning, the other direction, followed by “hissing” sound and strange whimpering beast roar.
These sounds although not as shocking as the sound of wolf whistles, but let a person listen to the body feel more chilled, behind the cool air straight up.
At this time the distant city wall set up a set of gongs, “when when” almost at the same time all were struck, and then heard in the air came a long man’s voice, the voice is not big, but clear to the entire square everyone’s ears: “Be careful, the beasts began to move to the city walls! ” It was actually a gray-robed cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage, with his feet on a flying sword, standing high in the air with his voice. And the one who made a warning in the air was not this person, almost every piece of sky in the entire An Yuan City had a cultivator who was hovering high in the air with a royal weapon, and all of them issued a warning sound.
All of a sudden the whole An Yuan City a commotion, a team has long been a team of soldiers, immediately wave after wave of the start to ascend the city wall, the huge crossbow on the wall, also immediately began to stand behind it, began to operate up ……