A Gruesome Scene! A Talking Wolf Monster!

Early the next morning, Chen Qinglin took Chen Xiaoxiao and Chen Qingyun onto the Green Feather Eagle, letting the two of them experience what it felt like to be in the air.

Having survived this Beast Tide, the people of Qingyan Town who had lived through it all felt the joy of having escaped death.

Yet many Martial Artists and soldiers had perished because of it, forever remaining by the town walls.

The mood in town was rather low as well, but the Beast Tide had not completely passed.

Even Dingyuan County was still under the threat of the Beast Tide.

Now, no townspeople dared travel the road from the town to the county, and news had become somewhat cut off.

Chen Qinglin decided to take a look around the towns near Qingyan Town before heading to the County Town.

Qingyan Town had blocked this wave of the Beast Tide and also gained no small opportunity from it.

So many wild beasts and Mutant Beasts had been slaughtered in Qingyan Town; what followed would be a period of growth for its Martial Artists.

More Martial Artists would emerge, and everyone in the Body Tempering Realm would see their martial cultivation improve to a certain extent.

After fulfilling Chen Xiaoxiao and Chen Qingyun's little wish, he sent them back to the Iron Sword Martial Arts School.

At this stage, it was still better for the families of the martial school disciples to stay gathered together.

Riding the Green Feather Eagle, he flew north from Qingyan Town. He remembered there were two or three towns in that direction...

Qingshui Town. When Chen Qinglin arrived, he found that the town's situation was fairly good.

It had not yet encountered the Beast Tide, but from high in the sky, he could already see Mutant Beasts appearing in the surrounding mountains.

Qingshui Town was also hastening its defenses, but the town only had Qingshui Town Chief, a single Inner Qi Realm cultivator. It would likely be difficult for them to hold out.

There was no need for Chen Qinglin to reveal himself. He headed straight for the mountain region where the Mutant Beasts had appeared.

He killed the two Second-order Mutant Beasts and several First-order Mutant Beasts, snuffing out the Beast Tide while it was still budding and giving the Green Feather Eagle an extra meal in the process.

As for the few remaining First-order Mutant Beasts, they would not be able to gather a Beast Tide. Only Second-order Mutant Beasts developed the slightest trace of intelligence.

First-order Mutant Beasts merely hunted by instinct.

He departed silently, and Qingshui Town never even knew someone had come.

Only a few people caught sight of the Green Feather Eagle flying overhead.

On his way here yesterday, he had already looked over the task his Master Fu Shenxing had assigned him: to assist in Dingyuan County's defense.

The Great Xuan Dynasty would also send people to reinforce them later. Considering the Inner Disciples from all over, Qingfeng Mountain allowed them to return and support their hometowns first.

But since most Inner Disciples were only at the Inner Qi Realm, no one expected them to repel the Beast Tide. Every County Town would have at least one True Essence Condensation Realm Martial Artist sent to hold the fort.

These True Essence Condensation Realm cultivators were either sect Martial Artists or people from the Great Xuan Dynasty.

County cities would have Origin Embracing Realm Martial Artists stationed there, while the provincial capitals did not need support for the time being, as they already had numerous Martial Artists within them.

There was more than one Origin Embracing Realm Martial Artist among them.

Cloud, Cang, and You Provinces fell within Qingfeng Mountain's defensive range. If Dingyuan County received a True Essence Condensation Realm Martial Artist to hold the fort, it would likely be a Qingfeng Mountain outer sect Elder or an inner sect steward.

He then visited another five towns. These were all the towns in Qingyan Town's direction.

Two of them were much like Qingshui Town. Before they encountered the Beast Tide, Chen Qinglin casually eliminated the danger for them.

One town was locked in a brutal battle to defend against the Beast Tide.

Thanks to Chen Qinglin's arrival, the most threatening Second-order Mutant Beasts and Demonized Mutant Beasts were slain.

As for the other two towns, only after Chen Qinglin arrived did he truly witness the horrific scenes within them.

One of the towns was a complete hell on earth...

The entire town had been breached by the Beast Tide. The bloodstains and severed limbs by the walls spoke of the savage battle that had taken place before.

Almost everyone in the town had died, and every building had been destroyed.

The collapsed houses and dug-open cellars left him even more silent. Standing amid such ruins, he felt a wordless fury rise within him.

The other town had likewise been breached by the Beast Tide. Its walls were covered in blood, yet there were not many signs of battle, as though there had been no resistance at all.

There were no mountains of corpses or seas of blood in town as he had imagined. There were bloodstains, but not too many—perhaps the amount left by several dozen to a hundred people.

Yet every other person in town had vanished, not one to be seen.

Chen Qinglin called out and searched through the town, but did not receive a single response.

His heart sinking into ashes, he was just about to mount the Green Feather Eagle and search for clues from the air when a small, skinny, foul-smelling figure cautiously poked his head out to look.

Once the figure saw him clearly, it began shouting loudly. Only then did Chen Qinglin turn around.

Walking closer, he saw that it was a little boy of around ten.

The stench of human waste wafted from the child.

"Everyone can come out! It's a big brother, a real person! Someone has come to save us! Wuwuwu..."

The child shouted in every direction. As he shouted, tears began streaming down his face without him realizing it.

After quite a while, a few people gradually emerged from their hiding places.

At the sight of Chen Qinglin, they all wept with joy.

Yet Chen Qinglin sensed that something was wrong.

What did the Little Boy mean by "real people"?

Only after questioning them did he learn that the strange beasts that had launched the Beast Tide against this town could actually speak human language!!!

They were also far stronger than the town mayor. The moment they met, the mayor had been killed instantly, without even the slightest chance to fight back.

The other Martial Artists had met the same fate—slaughter.

The town's residents had been gathered together by those bizarre beast-shaped creatures, which then followed their scent and searched every house one by one.

In the end, they had all been taken out of town. As for where they had gone, no one dared follow them, so naturally no one knew.

And at the very beginning, there had been even more people than there were now who had used various methods to conceal their scent and hide.

But after some time had passed, the sounds outside the town stopped. Their hearts finally eased.

Then a human voice appeared in town, saying it had come to save them.

Most of those in hiding wept with joy and rushed out, only to witness a sight that filled them with terror.

The one speaking was a huge Wolf Monster standing upright on two legs.

Before dying, some people had shouted for those who had not come out to hide well. They had cried out things about wolves that could speak human language, about monsters, and so on.

The few remaining people had been slower to come out, and thus escaped disaster.

Just hearing the description terrified them beyond measure! They did not dare move an inch.

Until Chen Qinglin arrived.

"Little brother, could you protect us and take us to the County Town?" one Middle-aged Man asked. At those words, hope also rose in the eyes of the others.

Chen Qinglin gave the man a cold glance and ignored him.

He had seen it clearly just now—the place where this man had emerged was the same place where the Little Boy had popped out and called for him to stay!

What bold Little Boy!

He told them to continue hiding in town. There was no longer any danger in the town, and they could move about freely.

Seeing that Chen Qinglin ignored him, the Middle-aged Man did not dare say anything more. He lowered his head sheepishly, but after hearing Chen Qinglin's following words—

He and the other men and women raised their heads and looked around.

There was actually a hint of excitement in their eyes?

"Big brother, can you help me find my parents? They were both taken away!" The Little Boy looked up and asked cautiously.

The instant the beast horde entered the town, his parents had smeared his body with excrement, hidden him away, and told him not to come out.

"If your parents are still alive, I'll help you find them," Chen Qinglin said as he looked at the child.

"What's your name?"

"Big brother, my name is Fang Yi. My father is Fang Shuwen, a schoolteacher."

"Alright. Big brother will remember that."

Chen Qinglin gave Fang Yi a serious look, then swiftly vanished from where he stood.

He returned to the city gate. Upon careful observation, he found faint human footprints within the town.

Outside the town, however, only the beast horde's tracks remained.

Looking at the animal tracks branching in all directions, Chen Qinglin leaped onto the city wall for another look...

A feigned formation?

It knew how to use schemes. Was this still a strange beast?

Or rather... this! Was a Demonic Beast!

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