Victor sprinted all the way and finally arrived at the periphery of the Qingyun Mountain range.
Just as he was about to go to the Qingshan Town ahead to check out the situation, he saw some vague black shadows appearing on the horizon.
At first, the black shadows were only the size of flying insects, but soon, they covered the sky and the earth. The beast tide had officially arrived!
The first to arrive was naturally the fastest flying type fierce beasts. Looking at the number, there were probably hundreds of them.
“There are only a few hundred, most of them are level-one and level-two fierce beasts. The highest level is only level-three, so they can still hold on for the time being.”
Victor was clear that the fierce beasts in the depths of the Qingyun Mountain were not gathered together, but scattered group by group.
If all the beasts rushed out of the Qingyun Mountain range and formed a beast tide, there would still be gaps between the arrival of the different groups of beasts.
In the beginning, they were just appetizers. The ones coming in later would be stronger and stronger. However, this gave Qingshan Town a chance to catch their breath, allowing them to hold on until reinforcements arrived.
The other half of the people of Qingshan Town had long been prepared to resist the beast tide. When they saw the beast tide approaching, they immediately drummed their drums to signal the entire army.
“Spear throwers, archers, get ready!”
As the captain of the city guard shouted, the 200 spear throwers and 500 archers immediately gathered and prepared to move out.
These were spear throwers trained by the Dayuan Dynasty to protect the towns near Qingyun Mountain.
Facing the flying beasts, only the spear throwers could threaten them. The arrows were too light and could not harm them.
However, the defender of Qingshan Town was not an elite force. There were only 200 spear throwers that were properly trained.
When the beasts entered the shooting range, the messenger flag was waved, and the 700 soldiers fired at the same time.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With the whistling sound of sharp blades cutting through the air, sharp spears and flying arrows shot out like a storm. The beasts in the air were hit by the arrows one after another. Some of the level-one and level-two beasts were heavily wounded, and they tumbled down from the sky.
Falling from a height of several hundred meters would mean death. There was no need for the army on land to deal the final blow.
Several dozens of the hundreds of fierce beasts were killed in an instant. However, the dead were all low-level fierce beasts. Among them, more than a dozen level-three fierce beasts, whose strength was equivalent to the fifth level of the spirit gathering realm cultivators, were not injured at all.
Moreover, after this round of fire, the fierce beasts had already rushed to the front of the army. The level-three fierce beast, the blue-eyed falcon, which was at the forefront of the group, dived down and directly hooked up a few soldiers, bringing up a rain of blood.
“Son of a b*tch! Get down here!”
Just as the level-three beast was about to soar into the sky, the captain of the guards leaped up and slashed down with his Zhanmadao, cutting off half of the blue-eyed falcon’s wings.
“Hiss…”
The blue-eyed falcon let out a blood-curdling screech, its body fell straight into the spear formation of the army, and it was stabbed to death by the weapons.
“Captain, well done!”
The city-guarding soldiers let out a series of cheers as the captain defeated a level-three beast with one strike. It had greatly boosted the morale of the allied army!
“Awesome!”
“As expected of a cultivator at the late stage of the level eight spirit gathering realm!”
“Brothers, what are you waiting for? Kill them!”
The soldiers cheered and thundered. For a moment, they threw spears, arrows, and javelins at the fierce beasts.
Cold gleams flashed, and the rain of blood attracted the attention of the other level-three beasts. They all charged at the city guards.
There were strong and weak level-three beasts. Their strength was roughly ranged from a level five late-stage to a level eight late-stage spirit gathering realm cultivator.
The one that Qi Kai had slashed down was merely the weaker one among the level-three beasts. Its strength was only equivalent to a cultivator at the early stage of the fifth level of the spirit gathering realm.
For a moment, the cultivators guarding the city were in danger, but Victor’s eyes lit up.
He had chosen to attack these high-grade beasts. He had been worried that they were too scattered and that it would be difficult to kill them.
Unexpectedly, because of Qi Kai’s attraction, these level-three beasts had gathered together. This was a good opportunity to attack.
“First spear team, support them!”
Qi Kai shouted loudly.
The cultivators defending the city were originally together with the archers and the spear throwers. Now that the archers need to retreat and be replaced by the spear team, it wasn’t easy to make such a change in the relatively dense army formation. Moreover, considering the troops of Qingshan Town weren’t elites, at a point in time, the formation was somewhat chaotic.
“Hiss!”
A Blood Crow, whose strength was equivalent to the fifth level of the spirit gathering realm, whizzed past, directly tearing a hole in the chaotic spearmen.
However, just as it was about to pick up a few spearmen and fly back up into the sky, hundreds and thousands of green light beams shot over.
These light beams converged into one after another, directly entering the Blood Crow’s body.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the Blood Crow’s body suddenly shook. Blood flowed out of the holes in its face as it directly rolled down from the sky.
Because its speed was too fast, its huge body was pushed over a hundred feet away by inertia.
A bunch of soldiers were knocked over by the impact. The rest of the soldiers raised their weapons to stab it, but they discovered that the Blood Crow’s eyes had already exploded. It spat out fresh blood and pieces of its internal organs. It looked like it was about to die.
Actually, when it was hit by the green spiritual energy beam just now, its internal organs had already been shattered by the force of the vibration.
“Dead… dead?”
Before everyone could react, they only heard a sharp whistle.
Xiu! Xiu! Xiu!
Streams of condensed green spiritual energy shot out.
Each stream of spiritual energy accurately entered the body of a level-three fierce beast. Those fierce beasts that were still ferociously pouncing before were hit by this inconspicuous spiritual energy beam.
Like a kite with a broken string, they fell to the ground, their bodies twitching and bleeding all over. It seemed that they were not far from death.
In just a few breaths of time, 11 of the 13 level-three beasts had died.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining two turned around and fled.
Victor naturally would not let them get what they wanted. With a flick of his two hands, two streaks of green spiritual power chased after them.
With two “Bang! Bang!” sounds, the two beasts were blasted into formless beings in the air.
In the end, the two level-three beasts smashed to the ground like two piles of rotten meat.
One fell among the cultivators guarding the city, while the other fell onto the long spear squad.
Looking at the two level-three beasts that were smashed to pieces, the people were in disbelief for a moment.
“They are all… all dead?”
Victor didn’t even take out his weapon from the beginning to the end.
He just shot out beams of green light, killing one level-three beast in one hit.
“Hiss! Hiss!” After more than ten level-three beasts were killed, the level-one and level-two beasts let out screams and started to run away.
“Stop them!” Victor’s eyes darkened. These beasts in the air were only the start of the battle. When the beasts on land arrived, it would be the start of the real battle.
When the time comes and the beasts in the air returned, it would be a big problem. They should kill as many as they could while they are all retreating.
Victor’s performance just now made his words sound like a military order. The spear throwers and archers only paused for a moment before they immediately reacted and began to attack.