With the approach of the beast tide, the population of Sifang City gradually increased. As for the beast tide, the monks living in the villages and towns around Sifang City are very keen to observe. In the last two days, more and more monks have crossed the Boundary River and fled the Wilderness Realm in a hurry. It was the hasty escape of these monks that made the monks living in the villages and towns feel the danger coming, and hurriedly harvested the grain, medicinal herbs, melons, fruits and vegetables planted by each family, led the livestock raised by each family, and dragged their families towards the neighboring Sifang City. Although the city of the Four Directions has just experienced a great turmoil, it is not the best place for these civilian monks to take refuge. But compared to the Dragon Group Guild that suddenly appeared in the last few days, Fengye City and Hongye City on the Blood Leaf Mountain Range were even more unbearable. At the very least, the Sifang City under the rule of the Dragon Guild does not collect entry taxes! What about Fengye City and Hongye City? Not only do they have to collect entry taxes, but they also have to check the space rings of foreign monks!

If it's just an inspection, but after the inspection, there will always be something missing, and those insatiable city gate officials even confiscated the space ring!

As for the beast tide that Sifang City is about to encounter, that kind of thing has not happened once a year, and it may even be twice a year in a disaster year, but I have never seen Sifang City be attacked by the beast tide!

What the civilian monks didn't know was that the reason why the Sifang City had no precedent for being attacked by the beast tide in previous years was because of the strength of the Sifang City's city defense array, and on the other hand, it was the strong support from the Thorn Kingdom in the east of the Blood Industry Mountains. As the first line of defense against the beast tide, the Sifang City will greatly attract the attention of the beast tide. Most of the power of the beast tide was consumed in the Sifang City, and the impact of the beast tide encountered by the Blood Industry Mountain Range was greatly weakened. Once the Sifang City could no longer withstand the attack of the Beast Tide, the Harvest City and Hongye City in the Blood Leaf Mountain Range, as well as the other forces of the Thorn Kingdom in the east of the Blood Leaf Mountain Range, would take the initiative to interfere with the Beast Tide to reduce the pressure on the Sifang City.

In most cases, at this time, the spirit beasts in the beast tide will be full of food and drink, lose their fighting spirit and want to return. At this time, the initiative of the human monk army is likely to kill a large number of spirit beasts that have become scattered because they are full of food and drink, and obtain various spirit beast materials from the spirit beasts that the monks need. Generally speaking, in the early and middle stages of the beast tide, Sifang City, Fengye City, and Hongye City are under pressure and losses, and in the later stage of the beast tide, it is the period when the wealthy families harvest spirit beasts to make up for losses and even harvest spirit beasts. After passing through the beast tide, the number of spirit beasts in the Wilderness Realm will be greatly reduced, and the surviving spirit beasts will successfully survive the famine and grow further. And after the beast tide, in addition to the civilian monks who have suffered heavy losses, most of the wealthy clans of the Thorn Kingdom will reap a lot of money. As for the small number of wealthy families who suffered losses in the beast tide, most of them were attacked by the enemy.

However, this time, because the four major families of the Quartet City Ma, Le, Ge, and Bi were expelled, the close connection between the Sifang City and the Thorn Kingdom has been severed, and the Sifang City is in the upcoming beast tide, not only is it impossible to get the help of the major forces of the Thorn Kingdom in the east of the Blood Leaf Mountain Range, but the beast tide will usher in the conquest of the Thorn Kingdom army after the beast tide!

Because the four major families and many family forces were uprooted, the four sub-cities of the east, south, west, and north of the Sifang City were also abolished, and the castles that blocked the communication between the four cities were also demolished one after another. In order to make room for these civilian monks who carried goods and cattle and sheep into the city, the Dragon Guild replanned the city under Zuo Zhe's strong request. As a result, the remaining mansions that originally belonged to wealthy families were completely razed to the ground, and the silos, warehouses and animal pens that rose from the ground were built in different categories. Since most of the monks had cultivated earth-based spells, the construction work was progressing very quickly. After moving in, it is enough to ensure the privacy of life as long as some reinforcement, soundproofing and anti-eavesdropping circles are carved on the outer walls of their respective residences.

Not only that, in the continuous occupancy of new residents, the Dragon Group Guild also sent a propaganda team to carry out the publicity work of "Sifang City does not need to pay taxes, and there are many benefits of joining the club". In addition, the civilian monks of the propaganda team were already familiar with the civilian monks in the villages outside, and some of them were relatives, and the civilian monks who had just entered the Sifang City were immediately attracted by the policies of the Sifang City. And most of the young monks who thought that their cultivation could go further, even rushed to the Dragon Group Guild's recruitment location to sign up.

Time passes day by day, and Zuo Zhe's strength is also improving day by day. By the seventh day, that is, when the beast tide was about to cross the boundary river, and the total number of residents of Sifang City had reached 180,000, Zuo Zhe's strength had already reached the bottleneck of the mortal realm soul melting level, and one step further was the transcendent level of the heavenly and human realm. But at this time, the system gave a warning that the clone could no longer be used to improve its strength! Specifically, the strength of the clone could not exceed the body, otherwise there would be a hidden danger of dominating the crowd. Although the doppelganger also belongs to Zuo Zhe, the doppelganger is still fundamentally different from the ontology after all. The biggest difference is that the ontology belongs to the ruling class, while the doppelganger is only the ruled class. Once the strength of the clone exceeds the ontology by a level or even a realm, the clone will not be willing to be driven by the ontology, and even be used as cannon fodder that can be sacrificed at any time!!

The mental strength and mental control have reached the limit of the mortal realm, and it seems that if you raise it a little more, you will touch the threshold of the heavenly and human realm. What Zuo Zhe wants to do now is to feel the world and become one with the world. Yes, the biggest difference between the realm of heaven and man and the realm of mortals lies in whether or not they can enter the otherworldly realm of heaven and man, the state of being able to merge with heaven and earth. As long as he can enter this state, the monk can manipulate the aura between heaven and earth to fight for himself in battle, not just mobilize the aura and spiritual power in his body. The most important thing is that when the monk's strength breaks through the transcendent level of the Heaven and Man Realm and reaches the Heaven and Man level of the Heaven and Man Realm, the monk can absorb the aura between heaven and earth anytime and anywhere, which is equivalent to cultivating all the time.

is only one step away from the realm of heaven and man, but Zuo Zhe has never been able to enter the otherworldly state. This is not because Zuo Zhe's spiritual control is insufficient or his spiritual power is lacking, but because Zuo Zhe lacks an opportunity, an opportunity to improve his strength. If it is a regular cultivator in the Spiritual Power Continent, it is completely dependent on years of cultivation experience, tempered tenacity and incomparable will, and concentration on incomparable desire for strength and other elements to forcibly break through the Heavenly and Human Realm. However, after all, Zuo Zhe relied on his clone to improve his strength in a few days. Although the main body has enough cultivation experience and spiritual control, it is still just a cultivation rookie in essence.