Three or Four Thousand? This Was Thirty or Forty Thousand Strange Beasts!

Song Zhong was far too familiar with this region. Leading the cultivators, he quickly headed toward the valley where the Thunderous Beasts had gathered.

This time, however, they did not fly and instead traveled on foot, making their pace much slower. It took three hours before he returned once more to the place where the Thunderous Beasts were gathered.

Those Thunderous Beasts had already grown familiar with his aura. After he reached the valley entrance, not even a single Thunderous Beast flew out.

Song Zhong stood at the entrance without entering. Pointing into the valley, he called out to the cultivators behind him, "Everyone, this is the valley I was talking about."

As he spoke, he prepared to step into the valley.

But in the next moment, Su Xiangyi's voice rang out. "Wait."

He looked at the dozen or so cultivators beside him, pointed toward the valley, and ordered, "You, go in with him."

Although Song Zhong was also human and also a cultivator, it was better to be cautious.

The cultivators who had been singled out were unwilling, but they still quickly flew forward.

Just as they were about to enter the valley, a flurry of urgent whistling sounds tore through the air.

In the next moment, one Thunderous Beast after another appeared in their sight.

Those strange beasts sensed Song Zhong's aura and could not be bothered with him. But when they sensed the auras of the other cultivators, it was a different matter entirely.

"Strange beasts!"

"There really are three or four thousand strange beasts."

The cultivators hurriedly retreated. They had no idea how many strange beasts there were, but since that human had said there were three or four thousand, then there should be three or four thousand.

In the next instant, bolts of lightning crashed down.

The cultivators who retreated too slowly were instantly blasted apart by the horrifying lightning.

"There really are strange beasts."

"Everyone, prepare yourselves."

The cultivators behind them had long been ready. Sensing the Lightning Power erupting from the valley, they gathered their auras.

They had over two thousand cultivators. In a one-on-one fight, those strange beasts would be no match for them. Even if the beasts outnumbered them two to one, they would still be enough to slaughter them.

In the next moment, Thunderous Beasts flew out one after another, while the cultivators simultaneously unleashed spell after spell.

For a time, every strange beast that had just flown out was engulfed by a torrent of countless spells. Some of the beasts at the very front were even directly blasted to death by the spells.

But soon, even more Thunderous Beasts flew out. Lightning carrying scorching heat descended from the sky, dyeing this whole stretch of heaven and earth fiery red.

Spell after spell shattered beneath the bombardment of that lightning.

Meanwhile, even more Thunderous Beasts continuously flew out from behind. At a glance, their sheer numbers blotted out the world, packed so densely that it was impossible to count how many strange beasts there were.

Terrifying lightning fell like heavenly tribulation, scattering spell after spell before plunging into the ranks of cultivators.

In an instant, cultivator after cultivator exploded. Some were struck by dozens, even hundreds, of lightning bolts at once and were blasted straight into dust.

In the blink of an eye, clouds of blood mist burst forth among the cultivators.

"Something's wrong!"

"Why are there so many strange beasts? Three or four thousand? There are definitely more than ten thousand of them—no, not even just ten or twenty thousand. It feels like there are thirty or forty thousand!"

"Damn it! That human cultivator said there were only three or four thousand!"

"He actually dared to falsify the intelligence! I'll definitely kill that human cultivator!"

"Run!"

The cultivators instantly turned and fled into the distance.

How were they supposed to fight so many strange beasts?

Behind them, Thunderous Beasts rapidly gave chase.

Song Zhong stood in the valley, and those Thunderous Beasts did not pay him any attention at all.

"What a pity. These Thunderous Beasts flew out too quickly. They really have no brains. If they had waited until all those cultivators entered the valley before encircling them, how much better would that have been?

"Now it depends on whether the other strange beasts appear. Then, just like those cultivators surrounded us before, they can surround these cultivators like dumplings."

Song Zhong was in no hurry to fly away and simply waited in the valley.

What a joke. These Thunderous Beasts could not do anything to him, but he could not withstand the other strange beasts.

It was better to wait here for now.

He waited there for nearly three hours.

Then, Thunderous Beasts flew back through the void one after another.

"They're finally back. I hope those cultivators were all wiped out."

Only then did Song Zhong unfurl the Wind Sparrow Wings and follow the lingering auras.

With so many cultivators and strange beasts flying around, even after three hours, their auras remained in the air. Finding them was not difficult.

As for those cultivators returning?

He knew this region far too well. There was nowhere nearby to hide.

Even if some cultivators had escaped, they would have fled far away and would not return so quickly.

Gradually, rich waves of bloody stench drifted through the air.

Song Zhong accelerated and flew onward.

Before long, corpse after corpse entered his sight.

Most of the bodies on the ground belonged to cultivators of various races, though there were also some strange beast corpses.

"Sure enough, those strange beasts that vanished earlier appeared again. Such a huge commotion must have drawn them over. Then they surrounded these cultivators and wiped them out."

Song Zhong swiftly raised his hand and began collecting Universe Rings one after another.

At the same time, at the edge outside this barren land.

Su Xiangyi and six cultivators from the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect had gathered there. Other than Su Xiangyi, every one of them looked utterly bedraggled, and several bore obvious injuries.

Su Xiangyi's face was dark. Suddenly, he rose to his feet and said coldly, "Rest and recover here for a while. I'll go over there and take a look."

Their cultivation was strong enough, and they were fast enough, that they had managed to escape.

But many more cultivators had surely died there. With so many cultivators, that was a vast amount of resources.

He wanted to see whether he could obtain those resources!