Chapter 36: The Beast Tide Erupts

All this was just the beginning, and then there was a huge wolf howl from the other direction, the sound was not much weaker than the Fire Lion King, it was the Wind Wolf King with wings on his back, descending from the sky and ordering the wolves.

At this time, the huge horn on the city gate of the four sides sounded again, the trumpet was short and urgent, and at the same time, there was a rumbling of war drums, and every blow was shocking, encouraging the monks and warriors in the city, and then a long man's voice was heard in the air, the sound was not loud, but it was clearly transmitted throughout the entire Jingyuan City:

"Be careful, everyone, the first wave of beasts is about to break out. Jingyuan City Lord Tang Yu stepped into the air, his eyes locked on the Wind Wolf King, and after the Jingyuan City Lord issued a warning, Jing Yuanwei on the various city walls also let out a long howl in response.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the entire Jingyuan City, and a monk and warrior who had long been ready to go climbed the city wall, or controlled the crystal crossbow, or stood behind the giant Lingyuan cannon and began to operate....

And Ma Yun, as the commander-in-chief of Chengnan, naturally left to deploy everything a long time ago.

Everyone was busy, because the war was imminent, and these unruly monks and warriors in the past had become extremely cooperative. In a few moments, a team of 300 people was formed into more than a dozen teams.

As for Xia Mu, because of his special identity, and because he was not familiar with those Spirit Yuan Cannons and Crystal Burst Crossbows, he became an idler, looking here and there, looking at leisurely.

In the end, Xia Mu was assigned to a section of the city wall by Ma Yun, and defended this section with the three hundred monks and warriors there.

At this moment, Xia Mu stood on the city wall and looked into the distance, only to see that the fire lions had stopped roaring and were slowly moving towards the city wall, as if a piece of magma was flowing over, making it impossible to see the end at once.

So many fire lions moved together, their soles slapping on the ground with a dull thumping sound, and the sound was uniform, like a well-trained team, naturally exuding an astonishing momentum, bringing an indescribable pressure to the people on the city wall.

However, although many monks and warriors had solemn faces, they did not mess with themselves, obviously they had experienced the beast tide in the past, and only those who participated in the defense of the city wall for the first time would be shocked by the scene in front of them, and their faces gradually turned pale.

It's just that these people obviously know very well that if they escape, the end may not be better than being buried in the mouth of a fierce beast, not to mention that they may not die in the face of a fierce beast, but they will definitely die if they escape, so even if they are very afraid in their hearts, they still choose to be prepared to resist desperately, and if they are lucky, they may survive.

The movement speed of the lions gradually increased, and the hideous and terrifying form gradually became clear.

The fire lion group at the front is almost all the most ordinary fire lions, they are weak but numerous, and they are most suitable for cannon fodder, and behind these ordinary fire lions, there is a flame lion whose body size is several times that of ordinary fire lions, and the hair on his body flutters like flames, majestic.

As for those fire lions, they have not yet been seen, and they seem to be still hiding in the shadows, ready to strike a fatal blow at any time.

Seeing this, Xia Mu's brows furrowed inadvertently, the large number of fire lions was not terrifying, what was terrible was those fire lions that were commanded by high-level fierce beasts.

At this moment, Xia Mu was standing with dozens of monks from the Fetal Palace realm, responsible for protecting the martial artists of this section of the city wall, as well as the Spirit Yuan Cannon and Crystal Explosion Crossbow they controlled.

Since the previous beast tides, these warriors, as well as the Lingyuan cannon and the crystal blasting crossbow, are often the primary targets of the fierce beast group, and they will always cause huge losses to the fierce beast group, it can be said that after each beast tide, among the low-level fierce beasts that died, almost more than seven layers were killed under these spirit yuan cannons and crystal explosion crossbows.

Therefore, there will be special monks responsible for protecting these spirit cannons and crystal blasting crossbows, as well as the warriors who control them, after all, if any of these three things goes wrong, it may cause the defense of this city wall to fall into chaos and become a breakthrough for fierce beasts.

As for those monks above the Shentai realm, they are responsible for sitting in various towers, and once an elite-level fierce beast appears, or which city wall is lost, they will rush to the rescue in time.

When Xia Mu was initially assigned to this city wall, he was not valued by these fetal palace realm cultivators, but after hearing that Xia Mu was the young man who challenged the immortal halberd, the contempt in his eyes disappeared, and instead, under the joint recommendation of everyone, he served as the leader of these dozens of people.

At this moment, Xia Mu stood on the city wall with his bare hands, and beside him, a big man over thirty years old with a meaty face was carrying a seemingly ordinary iron rod, looking at the approaching fire lions with a fierce face.

And just as everyone was waiting, suddenly a loud noise like thunder suddenly came from behind them, and then more than a hundred balls of light with a volume of several zhang in size bombarded out of a huge cannon and fell fiercely in the center of the lion herd only a few miles away from the city wall.

In an instant, there was a loud rumbling sound, the ground shook three times, and more than a hundred balls of light exploded all over the lion group, and thousands of fire lions were involved in it in an instant, and they were blown into powder on the spot.

This is not the end, immediately after the ball of light, there are ice crystal arrows several feet long, before they fly into the lions, they burst in mid-air, turning into countless tiny ice picks and bombarding the fire lions, these ordinary fire lions, in the face of the ice picks are also powerless, they were pierced through the body at once, and they were killed.

Seeing this scene, Xia Mu's expression moved, and he couldn't help but look back at the huge Lingyuan cannon and crystal blasting crossbow behind him, he didn't expect that these two things could produce such a great lethality under the explosion, and they destroyed nearly 10,000 fire lions in an instant, but after sending out this first wave of attacks, Xia Mu suddenly found that there were no follow-up light balls and ice arrows flying out.

Obviously, there is a gap between the attacks of war-type weapons like the Spirit Yuan Cannon and the Crystal Burst Crossbow, and this attack interval is obviously not very short, and it takes a certain amount of time to gather energy before it can explode again.

The fire lions in the distance also seemed to know the disadvantages of the Spirit Yuan Cannon and the Crystal Bursting Crossbow, so after the bombardment stopped, they immediately launched an attack, and a large number of flame lions rushed out from the rear, leading the fire lions to run quickly.

There was a "rumbling" vibration on the ground, which was more spectacular than the galloping of ten thousand horses, and in just a few miles, the fire lion group arrived in a few blinks of an eye, and tens of thousands of fire lions launched a fierce attack on the southern city wall that was more than ten miles long at the same time.

One after another, the fiery lion rose into the air, and the sharp claw blades popped out of the palms of the flesh, and they were firmly inserted into the city wall, and then with a kick of their hind legs, they ran on the city wall like a cornice.

But at this moment, the four walls of Jingyuan City shook violently, and then countless spiritual lights emerged, and runes came out through the walls, turning into arrows and shooting out, and a large number of fire lions were caught off guard, and they fell down one after another by piercing their bodies.

The runes imprinted on the city walls are not fictional, they can manifest at critical moments, burst out with huge lethality, and instantly clear a large area of fire lions.

However, the number of fire lions is too much, even the rune array can't bombard it, and the attacks have intervals, although short, but enough for some fire lions to rush up the city wall.

And the monks at the head of the city had been waiting for a long time, and before a fire lion stepped on the city, a huge iron rod hit directly, smashing the head of the fire lion, and in an instant, the fire lion fell down from the city with a whine, and it was the big man next to Xia Mu who made a move.

For a time, the light and arrows on the city wall were like rain, and the sword and sword shadows on the city head, the shouts of killing and the roar of the lion were intertwined, echoing on this city wall more than ten miles long.

Xia Mu didn't make a move immediately, but retreated sharply to avoid the first wave of attacks from the fire lion group, walking back and forth on the city wall.

In his opinion, these ordinary fire lions who have climbed to the top of the city are all cannon fodder, and the number is limited, and dozens of other fetal palace realm monks alone are enough to deal with it, and the really terrifying thing is those flame lions that have crashed under the city wall, but they have never made any moves.

In the west direction of the city, facing the Fierce Beast Mountain Range, although it was too far away to really see the specific situation, it was also faintly visible that there were countless fierce birds in the sky constantly rushing down, and there were still wind wolves on the ground that were no less numerous than the fire lion pack.

Obviously, in the quadripartite city wall, the west of the city is the direction where the fierce beasts focus on attacking, and there is also Tang Yu, the city lord of Jingyuan City, who is personally in charge.

The first wave of attacks from the tide of fierce beasts began to erupt in the afternoon and lasted until the evening, and the entire Jingyuan City seemed to be filled with a strong smell of blood, and the corpses of fierce beasts were everywhere under the city walls.

The sun sets and the moon rises, the night has gradually fallen, and a new moon is rising, but the attack of the beast herd does not show any signs of stopping, but it is becoming more and more ferocious and violent, especially the wind wolves in the west of the city, bathed in the moonlight, the power in the body seems to have awakened, and the strength has been partially improved.

And the fire lion group in the south of the city has already been in turmoil, some of the flame lions have begun to act, and began to attack the city wall, the real terrifying thing about the beast tide, from the moment the dark night came, Fang Cai gradually began to reveal.

These flame lions could be four or five zhang tall with a single leap, and their movements were as fast as lightning, and almost all of the light arrows condensed by those rune arrays were dodged by them, and they easily jumped onto the top of the city.

The monks guarding the head of the city naturally controlled the spirit weapon attack without thinking, but the body of these flame lions suddenly skyrocketed, and their bodies were shrouded in flames, easily resisting the attacks of these spirit weapons, and then the sharp claw blades ejected from between the soles of their feet, and they slaughtered these monks with their bodies.

In an instant, the flames filled the city, and the monks at the head of the city immediately fell into a bitter battle, and more ordinary fire lions took advantage of this opportunity to rush up to the head of the city, making it more and more difficult to defend the city.