Beast Tide Approaches! Hundun Emerges!

After watching Lan Yunxiao leave, Taishu Yun remembered that he still had something to ask.

"Father, how are things with the Beast Tide?"

"According to the scouts' reports, the Beast Tide has already formed. Part of it is charging toward us, and it will probably arrive the day after tomorrow," Taishu Feng said gravely.

"Father, is there anything Jing and I need to do?" Taishu Yun asked after thinking for a moment.

"Of course. You and Jing only need to kill Third-Order Fierce Beasts and above. Leave the remaining First-Order and Second-Order Fierce Beasts to us," Taishu Feng instructed.

"Why not let Jing and me handle them all?" Taishu Yun was somewhat puzzled.

Taishu Feng smiled. "Fighting Fierce Beasts is something every clan member must face. If you leave everything to the two of you, then one day, the fire in their blood will be ground away. That is very dangerous. Do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand, Father."

Understanding his meaning, Taishu Yun nodded. Living in the Cloud Dream Mountain Range, fighting Fierce Beasts was the most normal thing in the world. It was precisely because of this that the clan members' fierce blood and will to fight had been forged.

If they were always protected, then over time, that fierceness in their blood would vanish, and their will to fight would be worn away completely. Once that happened, the Four Great Families would sooner or later be swallowed by the Fierce Beasts.

On the path of cultivation, if one did not advance, one fell behind.

Returning to the courtyard with Little Fire, he discovered that Taishu Jing and Little White were still lying on the roof.

"Jing, be careful not to lead Little White astray like this," Taishu Yun said, waking him up.

"Don't worry, I won't. Besides, we're meditating, right, Old White?"

Taishu Jing opened one eye, glanced at Little White, and spoke lazily.

Snort!

Little White let out a puff of breath through its nostrils in response to Taishu Jing.

"Old White?" Taishu Yun's face twitched. When had the two of them become so close? Old White? It sounded like a friendship between people of different generations. Should he start calling Little Fire Old Fire too? That sounded terrible.

"The Beast Tide will arrive the day after tomorrow. We'll be responsible for dealing with Third-Order Fierce Beasts and above," Taishu Yun reminded him.

"No problem," Taishu Jing replied.

"..." Taishu Yun shook his head and said no more.

The day after tomorrow arrived quickly.

That day, the Four Great Families of the town had all assembled their forces. Armed with weapons, they gathered at the town gate, standing ready in battle formation as they stared intently ahead.

At the very front, the heads of the Four Great Families held Spirit Weapons in their hands, their expressions solemn. A chilling, murderous air spread outward as everyone waited silently for the Fierce Beasts' assault.

Awoo! Moo! Roar!

Countless beast roars came from the distance. The ground began to tremble, and pebbles bounced up and down. As time passed, they bounced higher and higher, showing just how many Fierce Beasts were charging toward them!

Above the crowd, One Dragon and One Phoenix hovered in the air. They were Little White and Little Fire. On their backs stood Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing, upright and imposing. Ahead of them, dust swept across the horizon, countless beastly shadows flickering in and out of sight within it.

Not only were there Fierce Beasts on the ground, but flying Fierce Beasts were also heading straight for the town from the sky. They gathered into a dark cloud and rapidly closed in.

Stretching out a hand to gauge the distance, Taishu Jing figured that, with his range, he could start fighting now. The sooner they finished, the sooner they could call it a day.

"Jing, leave the Fierce Beasts in the sky to you. Little Fire and I will go help below."

Taishu Yun spoke to him and descended with Little Fire.

"Then let's get to work," Taishu Jing murmured.

He reached out and clenched his hand in the air, and the Starfall Bow appeared in his grasp. After more than half a year of refinement, the Spirit Weapon had become even more ancient and simple, its divine charm restrained within. A faint aura of the Great Dao emanated from the bow, and the moment it appeared, it automatically drew the spiritual energy of heaven and earth toward itself. Its rune marks glimmered faintly, like scattered starlight.

Holding the bow in his left hand, Taishu Jing looked ahead. The flying Fierce Beasts had gathered together like dark clouds blotting out the sun as they flew toward them.

His expression remained calm, but his eyes sharpened slightly. Taishu Jing finally raised his right hand and drew forth a bowstring condensed from starlight, curving it into a half-moon. Countless streams of spiritual energy gathered, platinum spiritual power surged from within him, and five arrow feathers of different colors condensed out of thin air upon the bowstring.

Ring!

A crisp arrow cry rang out. Arrow Momentum burst forth and wrapped around the arrow feathers, slicing through even the air with its sharpness and producing hissing sounds.

"Go," Taishu Jing said softly.

The five arrow feathers flew from the string, transforming into five streaks of light that shot toward the Fierce Beast horde in the sky. The five arrows spun through the air and formed a terrifying vortex that grew larger and larger. Wherever it passed, space twisted violently, and even tiny black cracks appeared.

Boom!

A tremendous blast erupted amid the Fierce Beast horde, bursting into enormous flames. Raging fire swept outward and swallowed the entire sky. Countless miserable beast cries rang out, followed by huge fireballs falling one after another with beastly shadows wrapped inside them. Like moths flying into flames, they plummeted like flaming meteors.

As though fire rain were falling from the heavens, countless charred Fierce Beasts dropped from the sky.

"Fierce Beasts are falling from the sky!"

"It's the young master!"

"Jing has already made his move. They've reached our side as well," Taishu Yun said from Little Fire's back as he watched the Fierce Beast horde charging toward them. They were incomparably savage, overflowing with Sha Qi and killing intent. Only a dozen or so zhang remained before they crashed into them.

"Kill!"

Taishu Feng and the heads of the other three families shouted at the same time. Surging killing intent rose to the heavens as everyone raised their weapons and charged at the Fierce Beast horde with peerless murderous intent.

Humans and Fierce Beasts plunged into chaotic battle. Blood sprayed everywhere, impossible to tell whether it was human blood or Beast Blood. In a single clash, great numbers of First-Order Fierce Beasts were instantly killed. The heads of the Four Great Families and more than a dozen elders engaged the Second-Order Fierce Beasts in battle, while the rest fought bitterly against the First-Order Fierce Beasts, blood and bones flying.

Among everyone present, the heads of the Four Great Families possessed the highest cultivation, all of them at the peak of the Spirit Vein Realm. The elders were all at Lesser Accomplishment of the Spirit Vein Realm or above, while the rest were below Lesser Accomplishment of the Spirit Vein Realm or in the Blood Bone Realm.

There were nearly a thousand humans, while the Fierce Beasts numbered several times as many. Even so, the Fierce Beasts had not managed to tear open a gap. As time passed, many people's eyes turned bloodshot with slaughter, their bodies dyed crimson with Beast Blood. Even the heads of the Four Great Families were no exception.

This was only the beginning of the Beast Tide. Ordinary First-Order and Second-Order Fierce Beasts were merely the vanguard. Third-Order Fierce Beasts would appear next, perhaps even Fourth-Order Fierce Beasts. However, the chance of that was very low, and even if a Fourth-Order Fierce Beast were overseeing the tide, it would not act, because none of the humans here possessed strength worthy of its intervention.

For the moment, no Third-Order Fierce Beasts had appeared, so Taishu Yun had yet to act. Though the battle was brutal, he still restrained the urge to intervene. He understood his father's words very clearly. This was a Trial of Blood. Even if they escaped this one, there would be another. He could not protect this place forever.

Fierce Beast fire rain continued to fall from the sky, smashing onto the ground and even onto other Fierce Beasts, causing the flames to burn even more fiercely. This fire carried an aura of the Dao, and Dao Law Runes flickered within it. This was the Fire Dao, not ordinary flame.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sound of arrow feathers ripping through the air rang out endlessly in the sky. Wave after wave of Five Elements Arrow Feathers bloomed with invincible killing power amid the airborne Fierce Beast horde. There had seemed to be more than a thousand flying Fierce Beasts, but in this brief span, more than half had already vanished, all slain beneath Taishu Jing's arrows.

"Beyond the Five Elements, there are Yin and Yang, life and death. Transforming the Dao into arrows is also a form of understanding the Dao," Taishu Jing muttered.

The Yin Yang Life Death Diagram appeared in his eyes, black-and-white runes flashing as a black arrow feather and a white arrow feather condensed in his hand. They carried the auras of positive and negative, Yin and Yang.

The arrow feathers tore through the air. The black and white arrows drew toward each other, entwining and spinning, until a small Yin Yang Diagram formed at their tips. Along the boundary where Yin and Yang met, wisps of gray emerged, carrying a mysterious aura.

Boom!

Even more tyrannical than the Five Elements Arrow Feathers from before, the instant the Yin Yang Arrow Feathers struck the Fierce Beast horde, Taishu Jing clearly saw space shatter like a mirror being smashed, revealing an even stranger darkness within. Although it was restored in an instant, that shattered space directly swallowed the entire group of Fierce Beasts.

It was that wisp of gray. Where Yin and Yang converged, something even more mysterious had been born. Taishu Jing sensed within it a kind of disorder and chaos.

"I once heard that in the beginning, heaven and earth were Hundun. Then heaven and earth first separated, Hundun divided into Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang transformed into the Five Elements. Could it be true?" Taishu Jing murmured.

"Let's finish off these birds first," Taishu Jing said, raising his hand to fire several streaks of arrow light and kill the last few flying Fierce Beasts.