Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone-Chapter 123: The Beast Tide Strikes (4th Update, Please Subscribe)
Chapter 123: Chapter 123: The Beast Tide Strikes (4th Update, Please Subscribe)
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"The beast tide is coming."
At this time, Lu Xuanji recalled some memories from his youth.
At that time, he was just at the third layer of Qi Cultivation, merely a weak boy, and could only hide within the Grand Array of Purple Sun Mountain, shivering as he watched the demon beasts rampage outside, sweeping through everything, engulfing all in their path.
Back then, he could only rely on the Mountain Protection Array, barely holding on.
At that time, Lu Fuming led more than a dozen Foundation Establishment Cultivators into battle, only to return heavily injured, with four Foundation Establishment Cultivators having fallen, and the rest were all heavily wounded.
It was precisely that battle which severely damaged the vitality of the Lu Family.
Soon after, the Old Ancestor of Flaming Sun attacked, almost annihilating the Lu Family.
Recalling the past beast tide, Lu Xuanji still shivered a bit.
Humans’ birth rates are not as high as the demon beasts’.
The demon beasts outnumbered humans by dozens, even hundreds of times.
Every hundred years, due to excessive reproduction, the demon beasts would launch attacks on humanity, engulfing the lands of Chu Country, Yue Country, and Wu Country. Many cultivator clans were exterminated, many loose cultivators were devoured by demon beasts. As for the spiritual fields destroyed in the wilds, cities, and villages, they were countless.
When the beast tide arrives, it’s a major disaster for humanity.
Although human numbers are less than that of demon beasts, the number of top-level human cultivators is not any less.
After rolling through for a while, the beast tide will also automatically dissipate.
Many human cultivators also take advantage of the beast tide to kill demon beasts, slay enemies, and seize various resources; similarly, demon beasts also seize this opportunity to kill human cultivators and acquire all kinds of resources.
All of this is said to be hell for the weak, heaven for the strong.
With the arrival of the beast tide, order plunges into collapse, it also becomes the best time for murder and treasure looting, and robbery.
In normal times, if the Lu Family found a certain clan displeasing, could they directly go and exterminate them?
They couldn’t.
Because the rules of the Dan Yang Sect don’t allow it.
But with the arrival of the beast tide, order collapses, anything becomes possible.
After murdering and looting treasures, the blame can be shifted onto the demon beasts.
After destroying a whole clan and killing the entire family, it can be pushed onto the demon beasts.
Anyway, after doing the bad deeds, they all blame the demon beasts.
In a certain sense, the appearance of the beast tide is tacitly approved by the human and demon races’ upper echelons.
It’s like a dam that has accumulated floodwaters for some time, needing to be released or the dam will collapse. Similarly, various rules bind cultivators, forbidding them from murder and treasure looting, exterminating whole clans, they can’t do this, can’t do that, and the demons in many cultivators’ hearts build up like floodwaters, just waiting to be released during the beast tide.
Additionally, talent can be trained and elites cultivated during the beast tide.
Order helps maintain social stability.
Human race cultivators establish sects, clans, nations, and so forth, building order, maintaining interest stability;
The demon race establishes the Demon Emperor Hall, conferring titles to qualified Demon Kings, building order, maintaining interest stability.
But order also leads to societal rigidity, unfavorable to upward mobility, unfavorable to racial development.
Thus, every hundred years, there’s a need to tear apart this order, allowing for upward and downward movement, entering chaos, giving the weak a chance to become strong, and eliminating incompetent forces.
Both the demon race and human race consciously use the beast tide to digest the excess population.
These are deductions he made from some books and historical records.
It may not be completely accurate, but it’s probably not far off.
Heaven and earth are unkind, treating all things as straw dogs.
Perhaps, in the eyes of those in high positions among the human and demon races, they are all just a bunch of straw dogs.
Perhaps tens of millions of demon beasts dying, and millions of humans dying, are just numbers to those in power.
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"I must go to the front lines, to Iron Ridge Pass." said the Grand Elder. "Old Ancestor Jin must also go, it’s an order, simply not to be refused. The strong must bear the mission of the strong, as for you, stay home and stand guard."
"Yes."
Lu Xuanji nodded.
"Remember, if things become untenable, abandon the entire Lu Family and flee."
In the end, the Grand Elder suddenly said.
"I will."
Lu Xuanji said.
The Grand Elder sighed inwardly, knowing that when that moment came, Xuanji wouldn’t leave.
Because he is the Lu Family’s Clan Leader.
"Be careful."
The Grand Elder advised, beginning to arrange everything.
One by one, flying ships were dispatched, and in less than two days, about three hundred thousand mortals congregated at Changyuan Mountain.
Here, food, drink, and other needs were all managed by the cultivators of the Lu Family.
It might have been a bit crowded, a bit chaotic, but the Lu Family cultivators were experienced and soon managed everything properly.
The array started functioning, enveloping Changyuan Mountain.
The array was at the peak second grade, and still somewhat unstable.
The Lu Family lacked a second-grade Array Master to control the array, so it had major vulnerabilities; against weaker enemies, it wasn’t a big problem, but against stronger foes, it was a big issue.
No wonder the Grand Elder advised that if it can be defended, defend it; if it can’t, then abandon it.
In the Grand Elder’s view, the clan was important, but also not important, at least not as much as him.
As long as he was alive, even if the clan was destroyed, it could be rebuilt.
But Lu Xuanji chose not to retreat.
The Lu Family is his home.
Without a home, what’s the point of living?
Back then, when Old Ancestor Flaming Sun came to destroy the Lu Family, he was just at the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation, and could only run; but now he doesn’t plan to run anymore. Once in a lifetime is enough.
Buzz buzz!
The Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron flashed and entered the Dantian.
The Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron contained half a cauldron of spiritual liquid, which could be rapidly refined to replenish battle losses.
The Heaven Mending Cauldron stood towering above his head, suppressing his destiny, and was also a precious defensive item, able to release Heaven Mending Qi to heal injuries in a crisis.
In his right hand, he held the Li Fire Sword, which had already entered the third grade.
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Boom boom boom.
With the intense sound of rumbling, dust rose in the distance, and waves of demon beasts appeared, surging like tides.
They began to flood Changyuan Mountain.
Crack!
At this moment, the demon beasts began their assault.
The array on Changyuan Mountain surged, transforming into waves to resist the onslaught of the demon beasts. frёewebηovel.cѳm
Boom boom boom!
The demon beasts launched magical attacks with fire rockets, ice blades, blood swords, etc., one after another, continuously attacking.
The grand array shook, the spiritual qi in the spirit vein rapidly depleting, yet the array remained solid, holding steadfast.
After two days, the wave of attacks from the demon beasts began to wane.
Some demon beasts started to howl.
Intent on retreating.
Lu Xuanji let out a breath of relief.
But just at this moment, a series of sounds came from among the demon beasts, and a black wolf appeared.
Suddenly, the demon beasts that were about to retreat gathered together, forming an even fiercer tide sweeping forward.
The array was defending, but by the fourth day, it was on the brink of collapse.
By the fifth day, the spirit vein was exhausting, the array was severely damaged, and it was on the verge of defeat.
Swish!
At this moment, Lu Xuanji’s figure flickered, stepping out of the Mountain Protection Array, shouting loudly, "I am Lu Xuanji, which son of a Demon King dares to fight me."
"Insolent human race, how dare you have the qualifications to fight me."
The black wolf sneered, issuing orders.
Immediately, there were wolf demons, dog demons, blood demons, and more, one after another, launching their attacks, with fire rockets, ice blades, blood swords, and so on.
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