The Lineage cultivators who had newly joined the formation operators generally had higher cultivation than those on guard duty, abundant combat experience, and fresh reserves of strength. With their help, the Peach Blossom Formation's power surged.
Wooden arrows poured from the Peach Blossom Formation like raindrops, hurtling toward the two Black Mountain Bears. Although the bears had powerful bodies and astonishing defenses, even they could not withstand this greatly strengthened rain of arrows.
In an instant, the two Black Mountain Bears were covered in wounds, blood streaming from their bodies. They hurriedly fled into the distance. Had they waited any longer, they would have left their lives behind here.
The miserable sight of the two Black Mountain Bears frightened the nearby demonic beasts into retreating as well. They no longer dared approach, only launching demonic arts from afar. Attacking this way, however, they posed little threat to the Peach Blossom Formation.
Seeing this, Second Elder Liu Qiushui sent the mid-stage Qi Refinement Lineage cultivators to pick spirit peaches as well, leaving himself and Sixth Elder Liu Shisheng to operate the formation and fend off the demonic beasts' attacks.
With the harvesting team enlarged, the picking went smoothly, and before long, every spirit peach in this Spirit Peach Orchard had been harvested!
Second Elder Liu Qiushui hurriedly led the team toward the next Spirit Peach Orchard.
Once they left the Spirit Peach Orchard, they discovered that the horde of demonic beasts outside had already moved far away.
On the way to the next Spirit Peach Orchard, they could see humans and demonic beasts still battling in the distant orchards, the thunder of spells striking ringing endlessly in their ears.
Everyone hurriedly picked up the pace, refusing to get entangled even with the demonic beasts they encountered along the way.
Since this Spirit Peach Orchard was farther away, it took them an hour to reach it.
By then, this Spirit Peach Orchard's Guardian Spirit Formation had already been breached. Judging by the sounds of fighting inside, however, it could not have fallen long ago.
Second Elder Liu Qiushui hurriedly led everyone charging into the Spirit Peach Orchard.
They saw a horde of demonic beasts seizing spirit peaches throughout the orchard, leaving chaos in their wake.
Of the two Lineage cultivators on guard duty, one had already fallen in a pool of blood, beyond saving. The other was struggling desperately to resist, his body covered in wounds. He looked as though he could not hold out much longer either.
He had only survived because the vast majority of the demonic beasts that had entered were busy eating spirit peaches and had no time to bother with him. Otherwise, he would have died long ago.
This Lineage cultivator was Liu Shilu, the fourteenth member of the Shi generation, and a body cultivator. Since he had a five-spirit root, his cultivation had only reached the third level of Qi Refinement even now. But his powerful body gave him combat strength on par with a mid-stage Qi Refinement cultivator, allowing him to hold on until this moment.
Faced with this situation, Second Elder Liu Qiushui hurriedly led the Lineage cultivators to rescue Liu Shilu. After feeding him a Lesser Restoration Pill to heal his injuries, he immediately led the others to drive away the demonic beasts.
Why drive them away? Because if they fought another great battle with the demonic beasts inside the Spirit Peach Orchard, the orchard would be ruined.
Fortunately, most of the demonic beasts had already eaten spirit peaches. The Long-Eared Macaques, for instance, had not only eaten their fill but were still clutching spirit peaches in their paws. Naturally, they were unwilling to risk their lives again.
As the Liu Household cultivators drove them out, most of the demonic beasts departed reluctantly. Only a handful refused to leave, and the furious Liu Household cultivators hacked them to death in a flurry of swords.
After driving away the horde, Second Elder Liu Qiushui hurriedly led the others in repairing the damaged formation and harvesting the remaining spirit peaches.
Looking at their clansman whose life and cultivation had come to an end, and the Spirit Peach Orchard scarred with devastation, every clansman present wore a look of grief and fury! The older clansmen bore it somewhat better, for this was a story that had repeated itself throughout the Lineage's history for over a hundred years!
Several young clansmen clamored in grief and anger to go out and fight the horde of demonic beasts to the death. But Second Elder Liu Qiushui stopped them and said, "What good would throwing your lives into a fight do? What you should do is seize every moment to cultivate and keep making yourselves stronger. Only then can you prevent something like this from happening. Going out now would only mean throwing your lives away!"
At these words, the clansmen fell silent. Yes! We're still too weak! Otherwise, how could something like this happen?
The events of the day shook Liu Changxu deeply. Before, he had only heard of such things. How could that compare with the searing impression of seeing them with his own eyes? Liu Changxu's resolve to grow stronger burned all the fiercer!
The young clansmen who had been just as deeply shaken as he was also silently swore in their hearts, I must work hard to grow stronger!
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