Inside the Cave Abode on Immortal Peach Mountain.
Li Ping and Zhang Tie sat facing each other in the pavilion.
Zhang Tie said solemnly, "Big Brother, the shop has been receiving a lot more Demon Beast hides lately. According to the Rogue Cultivators selling them, low-tier Demon Beasts around the Immortal City have suddenly grown more numerous for some reason."
"More low-tier Demon Beasts?" Li Ping looked thoughtful as well. "Could a Beast Tide be about to erupt?"
Windmist Immortal City lay deep within the Cloudmist Mountains, giving its cultivators easier access to the mountains' abundant resources and opportunities to hunt Demon Beasts.
But everything had its advantages and disadvantages.
The greatest drawback of the Immortal City's location was that it had to face the Beast Tides erupting from the Cloudmist Mountains head-on.
Demon Beasts reproduced at an astonishing rate. Whenever the mountains' ecosystem could no longer support their numbers, the third-tier Demon Kings within would deliberately drive the low-tier Demon Beasts outward.
Vast numbers of low-tier Demon Beasts poured out of the Cloudmist Mountains, forming a Beast Tide.
Li Ping had only been in the Immortal City for a little over twenty years and had yet to experience a Beast Tide.
However, he had read relevant records and knew that Beast Tides consisted mostly of first-tier Demon Beasts, with few second-tier ones. Third-tier Demon Beasts practically never appeared.
Past experience suggested that, with a third-tier formation protecting the Immortal City, a Beast Tide composed mainly of first- and second-tier Demon Beasts could not breach its defenses.
Even if one or two third-tier Demon Beasts attacked the city, it could still hold as long as Windmist True Person took action and paid a certain price.
Thus, even knowing that a Beast Tide might erupt, Li Ping was in no hurry