Ning Cui Mountain, the second line of defense was also abandoned, the demon beasts besieged for ten days, the second line of defense was beaten into a pile of mud within a radius of three kilometers, two hundred-meter-high hills were flattened twenty or thirty meters, and the blood of the monks and demon beasts was mixed together, making the soil change color.

Tens of thousands of troops have retreated to the third line of defense, this line of defense is also the last effective line of defense in the defense of Ningcui Mountain, 300,000 mortals are ten kilometers outside the defense line, this line of defense is broken, mortals can only go up the mountain to take refuge, as long as a mountain peak is broken again, more than 100,000 mortals will be slaughtered.

The third line of defense is a small pocket array, three small peaks are distributed in a triangle, and the valley in the middle has built a city wall, which is linked to become a herringbone, and the herringbone mouth is the route of the demon beast's attack.

At night, Lin Xiao took a few cronies to patrol along the city walls and mountain peaks, with the increasing intensity of the war, the casualty rate among the monks has increased greatly, and now the number of monks killed in the battle is more than 3,000, 2,000 are seriously injured, tens of thousands of people are lightly injured, and 50,000 monks have been reduced by one-tenth.

So now, it is a great test of the willfulness of the monks, for the disciples of the Heavenly Saint Sect, Lin Xiao is trustworthy, plus a large number of high-level Heavenly Saint Sect monks are also here, so their emotions are quite stable, and their morale is relatively high.

However, among these 50,000 people, only 15,000 were Heavenly Saint Sect cultivators, and the rest were all drawn from various sects, what these people thought in their hearts, Lin Xiao didn't know.

It is precisely because of this that no matter how busy and sleepy Lin Xiao is, he must insist on patrolling the camp, because only by letting the low-level monks see Lin Xiao's figure will they feel at ease and make them feel that the higher-ups have not abandoned them and are still fighting for them.

"Boss"

"Nanyu, what's the situation on your side?"

"Everything is fine, it's fine"

"Okay, I'll continue to patrol, you be careful"

Met Ye Nanyu, Lin Xiao asked a few words briefly, and left, in the battle of nearly a month, the pressure of the three spiritual light monks was the greatest, and they fought repeatedly, and even fought with the purple-eyed demon king several times, but there were no results, so they could only barely protect themselves.

"Boss"

"Master"

"Wen Xin is also here, what are you discussing?"

"Boss, there's a bad situation"

"What's the situation, how bad is it"

"There is not enough food for mortals"

"What's the matter, didn't you send enough food before the war?"

Lin Xiao was suddenly shocked, there were 300,000 mortals on the mountain, if there was a famine, it would not be a trivial matter.

"Boss, I did send a lot of grain before, but the original warehouse on the mountain was not enough, it was too late to build, a few days ago a heavy rain drenched a lot, these grains are moldy, people can't eat, people will die, and the consumption has exceeded our expectations.

After the mortals went up the mountain, we sent a lot of people to help build houses, build camps, dig trenches, and build castles on the mountain, so that the consumption of these young people was about double that of the original.

And our monks' spiritual rice is also about to run out, we have been fighting for twenty-eight days, 50,000 monks, all of them are open to eat during the war, everyone's Xuan Qi consumption is very large, and I don't know how long it will take, so everyone is saving Xuan Jing and eating more spiritual rice to refine Xuan Qi, and we don't dare to stop it."

"How long can mortals' rations last, and how long can monks' spiritual rice last?"

"Mortals have half a month left at most, and the monk's words are about seven days."

"From tomorrow, send more people out to collect the corpses of demon beasts, let the people of the Huotou Army find a way to make the spirit meat more delicious, the spirit rice will start to be quantified, set how much you let people study, match more spirit meat, and transfer the spirit meat that cannot be eaten to the mortals, give priority to taking care of the young and strong, and then children, women and children, my minimum requirement is that there will be no famine, no starvation to death"

Lin Xiao said with a calm face, the beast tide had made sufficient preparations before, but the plan was still not as good as the change, so Lin Xiao had to lower his requirements, not guaranteeing that they would be able to eat enough and not starve to death.

"Yes, the master, if you start to throttle now, it will not be a problem to double the time, but we still have to end the beast tide as soon as possible, our previous spiritual rice production has been reduced a lot, and next year's planting has also been affected, if you don't replant, next year's spiritual rice and mortal food will have big problems, and the gap will be at least hundreds of millions of catties."

"So much?"

Lin Xiao was surprised again, although he knew that Lingmi was a bulk material, there would not be so much shortage.

"It's not much, master, there are more than 40,000 people in our Heavenly Saint Sect, and the quota for the Open Vein Cultivator is one catty of first-order spiritual rice for three days, and one hundred and twenty catties a year, and before the war, it was thirty-five thousand people, which is more than four million catties of spiritual rice, and the Condensing Vein Cultivator has one catty a day, and before the war, it was more than eight thousand, and it was also more than three million.

And there are many Purple Mansion monks, one pound of second-order spiritual rice a day, before the war, there were more than 800 Purple Mansion monks, and they got 300,000 catties of second-order spiritual rice, but the Purple Mansion monks are basically not so luxurious, plus they are all dragged with their families, so most of them are also converted into first-order, a ratio of one to ten.

The Daogang monk is a quota of ten catties of second-order spiritual rice a day, which is also converted into first-order spiritual rice to eat, which is only the monk's rations.

Several hotels in Gongming City are also provided by the sect, according to the passenger flow, at least a few million catties of spiritual rice are consumed every year, and the other is the dragon horse, if the dragon horse wants to maintain its physical strength, it has to be fed with refined grain, this refined grain is made of spiritual rice, a dragon horse usually consumes ten catties is not a problem, if you fight, you have to double, now our Heavenly Saint Sect has about more than nine thousand dragon horses, you count."

"How did so many lingmi solve it before?"

"Most of them are planted in this area of Ningcui Mountain, almost 100,000 acres of large and small Lingshan are cultivated, the yield is high and low, it can produce 70 or 80 million catties a year, a small part is planted in Qiyun Mountain, a small gap is considered to be purchased, the normal price is three catties of Lingmi a piece of Xuanjing, if there is a shortage, the amount will be discounted, but it will also have to be tens of millions of Xuanjing expenditures, and the financial resources of the sect will collapse."

"To fight a war is to fight for money, and the ancients did not deceive me"

Lin Xiao said with a wry smile, this truth is really true, it is the same everywhere, Li Wenxin is still a monk's spiritual rice, and now there are still millions of acres of mortal spiritual land destroyed on this side of Ningcui Mountain, this gap is probably even bigger, and now at least millions of people have been affected.

"Yes, so the head should plan as soon as possible, there is already a big gap from now on, if it is a few more months, even if it is replanting, the yield will be reduced a lot, and the problem is even greater."

"I know, I will send a letter to Li Yiwen and ask him to step up the purchase of a batch, at least the warehouse of the sect must be filled, and the price of spiritual rice may skyrocket after the war."

"The most important thing is to end the war, the harm caused by monsters is too great"

"I know, I'll ask Yun Shaoyang how it's doing, they've been fighting for more than half a month, it's time to close the net."

Lin Xiao nodded, if you don't want a famine in Wuguo next year and large-scale deaths and injuries to mortals, it is indeed necessary to end the beast tide as soon as possible, it has been almost a month, and it is estimated that Wuguo's side can also close the net.

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Chen Qinggu, Yun Shaoyang, and the leaders of the forces of the Heavenly Eclipse Kingdom and the Lu Kingdom were holding a banquet in the military camp, and there were some extremely delicious demon beast spirit meat on the table, and everyone was feasting on it.

Compared to other places, the pressure on Chen Qinggu's side is indeed the smallest, and Yun Shaoyang is not in a hurry to eliminate all the demon beasts, so there are small battles every day, but there are no big battles, and the small days are extremely good.

While eating and drinking, a transmission note flew in, Yun Shaoyang stretched out his hand to catch it, and with a sweep of his divine sense, he finished reading the content inside.

"Everyone, stop for a moment, Lin Laozu has something to say"

"Old Ancestor Lin, Heavenly Saint Sect Lin Xiao?"

"Then there is that Lin Ancestor"

"Yun Ancestor, did Lin Ancestor say something?"

"Lin Laozu asked us, how the results were, he asked us to close the net"

Yun Shaoyang replied, staring at everyone and observing their expressions, in the past half a month, Yun Shaoyang was actually not sad about the elimination of demon beasts, so in more than half a month, they had eliminated less than 50,000 demon beasts, and most of them were killed or injured when the demon beasts took the initiative to attack the mountain, and this result was not as good as those scattered cultivators who came out of Gongming City.

"Yun Ancestor, it's not that simple to collect the net, we are now defending the mountains and occupying the geographical advantage, if we take the initiative to attack, then we will have to fight with the demon beasts, and when the time comes, if we want to destroy these 300,000 demon beasts, at least tens of thousands of people will have to be killed and injured."

"That's right, according to the mountain, we have no problem, the mountains are high and the forests are deep, this is our advantage, now we want to give up our advantage and fight with demon beasts, don't we let us die, don't do it"

"Everyone, but if we don't act at all, the Heavenly Saint Sect will blame in the future..."

"This..."

"Yun Ancestor, I don't know what you think"

Everyone quickly kicked the ball back into Yun Shaoyang's hands, they were still very wary of Wuguo, they were very afraid of becoming cannon fodder for Wuguo, but they were even more afraid of Wuguo's revenge, once they annoyed Wuguo, it was really a matter of words to annex them.

"Monks and demon beasts are a major matter of the two races, and it is the unshirkable responsibility of our monks to destroy demon beasts, I think it, we must start collecting the net and fighting demon beasts, but our strength is also problematic, the tiger king is extremely powerful, with me alone, how can it be the problem of the tiger king, so when the time comes, it doesn't seem to be a problem to fight for ten days and half a month."

"Yun Lao Zu is right, we only have tens of thousands of people, and the demon beasts are hundreds of thousands, how can it be so easy, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's just right, let's destroy the demon beast little by little, we can't be in a hurry, we can't be in a hurry"

Yun Shaoyang's words immediately made many people echo, and they didn't stop hunting demon beasts, killing a few today, killing a few tomorrow is not the same as killing, one day they can be killed, anyway, the territory is not occupied by Lu Country and Tianyi Country, what are they anxious about, they are not in a hurry at all.