Fourth-order Demonic Beasts attacking industries along the coast had not been uncommon in the past.
But before, it had always been a few Fourth-order Demonic Beasts quietly coming ashore, waiting for a chance to ambush industries guarded by fewer cultivators.
Now, however, several hundred Fourth-order Demonic Beasts had landed. This was no sneak attack—it was a decisive battle.
Wang Daoyuan ordered the Soul Chasing Bees through the queen bee to return at once. Unfortunately, Third-order spirit bees were still far too slow before Fourth-order Demonic Beasts.
Of the several thousand Low-grade Third-order Soul Chasing Bees he had sent out, more than half had been lost.
It was unrealistic to hope that the Soul Chasing Bees could discover the traces of Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts, so Wang Daoyuan recalled them all.
After sweeping through the area, this group of Fourth-order Demonic Beasts found nothing of value.
After all, Demonic Beasts had no need for artifact-refining materials. Mines were worthless to them.
As for industries such as Spirit Fields, the spirit plants cultivated there had all been moved away, leaving behind only bare earth.
There were more than twenty thousand li between the Heavenly Secret Sect's mountain gate and the western coast, with hundreds of industries of every kind scattered in between.
The Demonic Beasts spent more than half a day sweeping through them before reaching the vicinity of the mountain gate.
By then, the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation had already been activated, shrouding the entire Heavenly Secret Sect mountain gate within it.
Although Heavenly Secret Mountain possessed only a Peak Fourth-order spirit vein, its formation had been passed down from ancient times and had once been a Seventh-order formation.
With cultivators controlling it, even a Low-grade Fifth-order Demonic Beast would need a very long time to break through it personally.
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