Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 120 - 118: Golden-winged Thunder Eagle (Extra - for the reward from book friend Wu Lin Meng Zhu)
Chapter 120: Chapter 118: Golden-winged Thunder Eagle (Extra Chapter for the reward from book friend Wu Lin Meng Zhu)
Under the vast sky, three streaks of sword light were flying in a triangular formation along the boundary of the oasis and the desert.
Seeing these three streaks of sword light, the originally active demon beasts on the ground tucked their tails and hid in burrows or under the shade of trees, only daring to come out again to forage and play after the sword light had disappeared out of sight.
Zhouyang stood on his flying sword, patrolling the land below with his teammates Yue Mountain and Yan Yunfei, while being somewhat distracted by his own thoughts.
It had been two years since he arrived at the Red Tiger Mountain Oasis.
For the past two years, he and his teammates Yue Mountain and Yan Yunfei had to fly out of the protective array of Red Tiger Mountain every month, spending at least three days to patrol around the entire oasis.
There were eight such patrol teams on Red Tiger Mountain, each consisting of three Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
Their main task of patrolling the oasis was to monitor and prevent Tier Three Demon Beasts from sneaking into the oasis to wreak havoc, and to provide assistance to calls for help from low-tier cultivators.
Zhouyang only found out after staying on Red Tiger Mountain for a while that the reason the Yellow Sand Sect didn’t eliminate all the demon beasts in the oasis was mainly to provide training and hone the magical combat skills of their low-tier disciples. They also treated the entire oasis like a huge spirit beast garden.
Ultimately, the demon beast materials that the low-tier disciples or loose cultivators of the Yellow Sand Sect harvested from slaying the demon beasts in the oasis would be purchased by the Ministry Hall of the Yellow Sand Sect, then transported to the Pill Pavilion, Artifact Hall, and Talisman Hall in the sect. These materials would be made into finished spirit pills, magical artifacts, and spirit talismans to be stored in the treasure vault or sold to the sect’s shops across various places.
After understanding these things, while he admired the foresight of the high-tier cultivators of the Yellow Sand Sect, some worries in his heart not only didn’t decrease but rather grew significantly. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Because to effectively train their disciples, besides having patrol teams like theirs regularly patrol the oasis to prevent Tier Three Demon Beasts from entering and causing trouble, the Yellow Sand Sect hadn’t established any other safety guarantees at all. Each year, they even set a notable number of death quotas.
According to the information he gathered, in recent years, the number of low-tier cultivators who went missing on the oasis each year exceeded a hundred. These were mostly loose cultivators who came to hunt demons, but many were also the low-tier disciples of the Yellow Sand Sect.
These were only the cultivators who had registered their names at Red Tiger Mountain. As for those who went missing without registering their names or disappeared after leaving the Red Tiger Mountain Oasis, their numbers were probably even higher.
Did all these missing low-tier cultivators really perish at the hands of demon beasts?
"Fellow Daoist Zhou, are you still thinking about the news we received a few days ago? Don’t worry, when those demon cultivators finally can’t resist showing themselves, their end won’t be far off!"
Perhaps noticing Zhouyang’s distraction, the leading Yue Mountain, flying in front, suddenly turned his head to offer a few comforting words.
It turned out that a few days ago, Xiao Bufan had suddenly gathered all the Foundation Establishment Cultivators on Red Tiger Mountain and announced some infuriating news.
Half a month ago, in just a few days, two Foundation Establishment Clans were exterminated by demon cultivators from the Blood Slaughter Demon Sect. Not only were all the cultivators in those two clans annihilated, but even nearly ninety percent of the hundreds of thousands of mortals from those two clans were slaughtered by the demon cultivators, with fewer than ten thousand survivors!
The oasis where these two clans were exterminated didn’t belong to the Baisha River Oasis Cultivation Realm, but it was just over ten thousand miles away from the Baisha River Oasis, making Zhouyang’s face change when he heard the news.
Upon hearing Yue Mountain’s comfort, even though he wasn’t thinking about this matter at the time, he still immediately expressed his gratitude: "Thank you for your comfort, Fellow Daoist Yue. I also believe that Elder Cao and Elder Jiang, the two Golden Core Ancestors, won’t stand by and let the demon cultivators run rampant."
"That’s right. With two Golden Core Ancestors here, a few Purple Mansion Stage demon cultivators can hardly cause..."
Tweets!
Tweets!
The abrupt shrill cries from the sky immediately interrupted Yue Mountain’s words.
"That is... oh no, it’s a Tier Four Demon Beast!"
Amidst the piercing cries, Zhouyang lifted his head to gaze towards the direction of the sound and then cried out in shock as his expression drastically changed.
Before his exclamation ended, Yue Mountain, who also noticed the situation, had already dropped his sword light in panic and loudly called out to the other two: "It’s a Tier Four flying demon beast, quick, let’s escape through the ground!"
Whoosh whoosh!
Almost as soon as Zhouyang and Yan Yunfei heard Yue Mountain’s call and followed to drop their sword light, their bodies glowed with yellow light and melded into the ground. Meanwhile, two golden eagles with wings spanning over ten feet wide suddenly appeared above the three like two golden lightning bolts, crossing several miles in an instant.
As soon as these two golden eagles appeared, dazzling golden light shimmered over their wings as if they were cast from pure gold. From their wings erupted thumb-thick golden lightning bolts, and then, with a twitch of their wings, these golden bolts of lightning scattered with a "crackle," transforming into two golden thunder nets that fell towards the ground.
Under the ground, Zhouyang originally thought that once he dove underground, he’d escape this calamity; after all, whether or not flying demon beasts would use earth escape, they generally avoid hunting underground due to habits and safety concerns.
But he had not held this notion for long when he sensed two waves of spiritual qi that made his heart skip a beat, comparable to the powerful divine sense of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Oh no!
His heart was startled, and he couldn’t afford to lament the losses; he immediately activated two Tier Three defense spirit talismans and poured eighty percent of his magical power into the "Qianyang Golden Light" defense divine techniques.
This was the first time he had fully committed to deploying the defense divine techniques during battle, and due to the massive influx of magical power, the golden glow of the magic instantly formed a golden cocoon, enclosing him entirely. From the outside, his figure was hard to distinguish, and only a dazzling and blinding golden light could be seen.
However, within breaths after Zhouyang had set up these layers of defenses, a tightening golden thunder net penetrated the earth and ensnared him.
The golden thunder net tightened layer by layer, and the defense Zhouyang made with two Tier Three spirit talismans burst like fragile balloons upon pressure. Subsequently, the golden thunder net seamlessly contacted the golden cocoon enclosing Zhouyang.
The moment the golden cocoon met the golden thunder net, Zhouyang felt his entire body go numb as though electrocuted, and his hair bristled instantly.
Thunder magic is particularly frustrating for its strong penetrative and infiltrative power, even transmitting the numbness sensation through a defense shield to the cultivator inside.
Among the Five Elements Magic, only earth defense techniques can completely isolate such paralysis, yet Zhouyang’s "Qianyang Golden Light" was of gold, precisely countered by thunder magic.
If not for his body being tempered by "Qianyang Immortal Light," reaching the durability of a Tier Two middle grade spiritual artifact, it wouldn’t be merely his hair bristling now; it would be his entire hair igniting.
Regardless, the powerful pressure from the shrinking golden thunder net rapidly thinned and faded the "Qianyang Golden Light" surrounding Zhouyang’s body. If he couldn’t think of another way before the light dissipated, he would likely face certain death.
"I’ll risk it!"
With a grim expression, Zhouyang gritted his teeth and infused the majority of his remaining magical power into the "Qianyang Treasure Pearl," using the power of this Tier Seven spiritual artifact to release a pure golden "Qianyang True Flame" at a corner of the thunder net.
The golden flame, merely the size of a fist, when in contact with the golden thunder net, instantly burnt through it like fire burning a rope net, quickly creating a breach.
Utilizing the gap burned by "Qianyang True Flame," Zhouyang maneuvered like a nimble fish, swiftly escaping through the opening, then without looking back, poured his remaining magical power into the "Earth Escape Technique," desperately diving deeper underground.
Meanwhile, in the sky above ground, after releasing the golden thunder net, the two gigantic golden eagles merely glanced at the ground before transforming into two golden electric lights, shooting toward the depths of the oasis, heading directly for Red Tiger Mountain.
A quarter of an hour later, the two enormous golden eagles appeared outside Red Tiger Mountain, without a word unleashing countless golden thunderbolts, attacking the mountain protection array.
"What’s happening? Why have these two Golden-winged Thunder Eagles, usually residing within the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, suddenly gone crazy and come to attack Red Tiger Mountain? Who has provoked these creatures?"
On Red Tiger Mountain, Xiao Bufan frowned at the two giant golden eagles outside the mountain, his heart flaring with anger.
"Golden-winged Thunder Eagles" are Tier Four top grade demon beasts, sparsely distributed only in the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, fewer in number than Tier Five demon beasts.
Xiao Bufan, being a Purple Mansion stage cultivator of the Yellow Sand Sect, knows some secrets unknown to ordinary people.
Such as knowing that within the Broken Cloud Mountain Range lives a five-tier demon beast level "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle," which serves as the personal mount of a Tier Six Demon King, with most Golden-winged Thunder Eagles in the mountain range being descendants of that Tier Five demon beast.
A thousand years ago, a Golden Core stage cultivator from the Boundless Desert Sea Cultivation Realm attempted to forcibly tame a Tier Four "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" as a mount, angering the Tier Five "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle." It led ten Tier Five demon beasts to annihilate the cultivator and his family.
Since then, high-tier cultivators in the Boundless Desert Sea Cultivation Realm who know this event have refrained from daring to target "Golden-winged Thunder Eagles."
Therefore, upon seeing two "Golden-winged Thunder Eagles" attacking Red Tiger Mountain, Xiao Bufan instantly realized someone must have done something to provoke them, causing them to leave the Broken Cloud Mountain Range and attack Red Tiger Mountain, the nearest human cultivator spirit mountain.
"This matter must be reported to Master immediately!"
A shadow flashed in his eyes, as he promptly took out a "Child Snail" from the "Mother and Child Golden Conch" and blew it to communicate, reporting the situation to Cao Wenjin stationed at the Yellow Sand Sect Mountain Gate.
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