Chapter 437: The Cause of the Beast Tide
As for the Shuiwa tribe, because there is an earth spirit clan in the middle, Nalan Qinghuai doesn't know much, he only knows that the Shuiwa tribe is an amphibian race, and when they go down into the water, they are headed and snake-tailed, and when they go ashore, the snake's tail will change their feet.
The population of the Shuiwa people is probably close to 50 million if you add the dependent small clans, and the number of martial cultivators and immortal cultivators is also nearly half more than that of the Nalan clan and the Earth Spirit clan, which is the largest clan in the half-orc continent.
However, the infancy monks of these three major clans are almost the same, before the outbreak of the beast tide, each clan has two late Yuan Infant Stage, two Yuan Infant Middle Stage, and one more Shuiwa person in the early stage, which is also the reason why the three clans can maintain balance for a long time.
But after the outbreak of the beast tide, the situation was different.
The Nalan people suddenly lost the two late Yuan Infant Patriarch and the Great Elder, plus the previous Yuan Infant and the Patriarch's wife, the Nalan people lost four infant monks at once, and there were only two Yuan Infant Middle Stage left.
If the infancy of the Earth Spirit and the Shuiwa is fine, then the balance between the three clans may be upset.
Xiao Hua couldn't help frowning when he heard this, he wasn't worried that the balance of the three clans would be broken, it had nothing to do with him, he immediately thought of Nuwa as soon as he heard that the Shuiwa clan went down into the water and had two feet on the shore of the snake.
He remembered that the Divine Seal had said that after the formation of heaven and earth, the gods incarnated into nine tangible and physical gods according to their own imagination, and used material particles to shape many objects of different shapes at certain interfaces.
After that, the gods cast a spell and cast a flesh curse on these objects, so that there was life in the heavens and the earth.
And the story of Nuwa making people out of earth is widely spread, maybe one of the incarnations of these nine creation gods is a human head and a snake body, that is, our legendary Nuwa.
Therefore, since the Shuiwa tribe is a human-headed snake body and this is a new world, it is very likely that they are the first generation of creatures created by a certain creation god based on their own incarnation image, or previous generations.
If you put it another way, then the Shuiwa people in this world are equivalent to the direct descendants of Nuwa.
Xiao Hua couldn't help touching his bald head when he thought of this, and suddenly felt that his "extreme cleverness" really made sense.
After learning about the Half-Orc Continent, Xiao Hua asked about the situation of this beast tide again, and Qinghuai also answered them one by one.
As that Feng Elder said, their Nalan people had just begun to change three years ago, so they sent a team of Dan Stage Cultivators to investigate, but the result was that they never returned.
After that, they sent another Fifth Elder in the early stage of the Yuan Infant to continue the investigation, but they also never returned.
After that, they didn't send any more people, and only built an observation fortress in the canyon connected to the Brute Continent.
It wasn't until a year ago that the observation of the fortress found that the number of low-level brute beasts in the "Dust and Mud Gobi" had suddenly increased, and the patriarch felt that there was a possibility of a beast tide breaking out in the Barbarian Beast Continent, so in order to confirm this matter, he once again sent the Great Elder Nalan Feng to investigate in depth.
However, the Nalan people made two preparations, on the one hand, they sent the Great Elder Nalan Feng to investigate deeply, and on the other hand, they began to evacuate and gather their clansmen to Nalan Holy City to take refuge in defense.
As a result, it was less than three months since Nalan Feng entered the Brute Beast Continent, and there were really fifty or sixty second- and third-level brute beasts that passed through the canyon and entered the Half-Orc Continent, but they were killed by the observation fortress.
Realizing that the beast tide was about to erupt, the main city sealed the passage and ordered the fortress to hold as much as possible, while concentrating all resources and forces to launch a comprehensive defense in the main city.
As a result, ten days later, the beast tide really broke out, and the more than 100 Dan monks and nearly 1,000 martial cultivators in the observation fortress only defended for less than half a month, and the magic circle blocking the passage was breached, and the fortress was almost completely destroyed.
After that, the beast tide swept through the half-orc continent.
The Nalan people's holy city array was opened, the battle magic weapon was activated, and the morale of the whole clan against the enemy was high, and they had a fierce confrontation with the beast tide, and they were not broken for two whole months.
But two months later, twelve eighth-level elemental creatures appeared in the beast tide besieging the Holy City.
After these elemental creatures appeared, the attack of the beast tide instantly strengthened, and the seventh- and eighth-level brute beasts that were originally only roaring and roaring in the back actually took the lead in the attack, and it didn't take long for loopholes to appear in the city defense array, and the Nalan people suffered casualties.
The patriarch and several elders of the Nalan people found that the situation was not good, and while organizing people to repair the leaks, they wanted to capture the thief and capture the king first, so they fought a bloody way to the outskirts of the city to kill these elements.
But these twelve elemental creatures don't fight with them alone, and take care of each other in groups of six, so that the realm advantages of these elders can't be brought into play, and they finally kill a few, only to find that this elemental creature will be reborn.
The patriarchs and elders of the Nalan people did not believe in evil, and killed these elements many times in the next few days, but without exception, once these elemental creatures fell for a minute, they would inevitably burn and regenerate, and they could not be completely killed at all.
Only then did the Nalan people realize that this was a war that could not be won, but this time the whole clan had no way to retreat from the enemy, and once the city was broken, the clan would die, and the Nalan people had to resist hard, hoping that the beast tide would subside automatically.
But what is disappointing is that not only did the beast tide not recede, but half a month later, it broke through the city defense array of the outer city and poured into the outer city, and for a time the corpses were all over the field and the blood flowed like a river.
Since the inner city was too small to accommodate everyone, the patriarch of the Nalan clan ordered the third elder to take half of the martial cultivators to cover the mortals to break through from the west gate to the mountains to disperse and hide, and at the same time ordered the second elder to bring more than 2,000 immortal cultivators to protect the princess from the north gate.
The patriarch himself and his wife, the four elders of the Nalan people, took the remaining immortal cultivators and martial cultivators to block the beast tide to attract firepower, and lured the twelve elemental creatures and a large number of high-level brute beasts to the inner city.
The result of the inner city Qinghuai didn't know, he only knew that the second elder took their more than two thousand immortal cultivators to protect the princess all the way to fight, and after fighting out the immortal cultivation after three points, he finally fought a bloody way and withdrew from the north city gate here.
And here, that is, this "mighty martial sect", is not the martial arts sect of the Nalan people, but the ancestral land of the Nalan people.
This place is called "Taihao Mountain", which is the place where the first immortal cultivator of the Nalan people was born, and it is also the place where the Nalan immortal cultivator ascended after the advanced god transformation period.
There have been hundreds of immortal cultivators left here for a long time, and there are still a large number of small prohibitions on the mountain to defend the magic array, and it is with the support of these left-behind immortal cultivators that Qinghuai and them have repelled the chasing brute beasts and have been able to breathe.
After that, there were several small groups of beast tides, the level was relatively high, but the number was not many, and several impacts were repelled by them, and Qinghuai They also took the opportunity to set up traps in the canyon, so that the battlefield was far away from the mighty gate.
But it didn't take long for a huge tide of beasts to come, among which there were many large beasts that could fly, and these flying beasts crossed the traps in the canyon and attacked back and forth, and the mighty gate was almost destroyed.
Fortunately, the three elders who were in charge of covering the evacuation of mortals at the critical moment led the remaining nearly 10,000 martial cultivators to arrive in time, and only then did they once again repel the beast tide and resolve the crisis.
Since then, the brute beasts have rarely attacked, but they have been defending here until they meet Xiao Hua.
Hearing this, Xiao Hua couldn't help but secretly rejoice, if it weren't for the sudden retreat of the beast tide, these Nalan people, including the other creatures in the half-orc continent, would probably really be extinct, and they would definitely not be able to hold on.
It's just that why did the beast tide suddenly recede? Could it really be because the Great Elder of the Nalan people went to poke the lair of the brute beast?
If this is the case that can make the beast tide retreat, then if you directly kill the monster under the Black Spirit Peak, wouldn't you be able to directly resolve the beast tide crisis in this realm?
Thinking of this, Xiao Hua couldn't help but start thinking again, and Shenyin didn't say that he and Huang Ming wanted to do it themselves, now that he knows that there is a monster under Heiling Peak, then maybe this monster is the foreign force that Shenyin said.
If he could use the hands of the cultivators of this realm to clear it, wouldn't he and Huang Ming be able to complete the task directly?
"Qinghuai Daoyou, according to my investigation with Elder Feng, there is a super monster under the Black Spirit Peak of the Barbarian Beast Continent, and we think that this monster should be controlling the brute beast."
"This time the beast tide suddenly receded, it is very likely that the Great Elder entered the Spirit Peak and disturbed that monster, why don't you organize it and kill this monster once and for all?"
"This? I can't do this, I have to go back and report to the princess and the elders, and they will decide."
"Okay, but I have to warn you, although the beast tide has receded this time, maybe it will come back one day, if you want to do it once and for all, the best way is to kill that monster"
Xiao Hua emphasized that this is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, and you can complete the task without having to do it yourself.
Although this is a bit unorthodox, this matter is originally related to them, not only the Nalan people, but all the human races in this realm, including the demon cultivators, are related to this matter, unless they are willing to be destroyed by the beast tide.
So the conversation ended, Nalan Qinghuai went back to report, and Xiao Hua also returned to the room to continue to rest.