As the night grew darker, the surrounding Magic Beasts could no longer resist the lure of the demonized garden balsam and charged toward the plantation, heedless of danger.
Qin Baichuan directed everyone as they continually intercepted and killed the charging Magic Beasts.
Most of these Magic Beasts were third or fourth tier. Whenever a fifth-tier Magic Beast appeared, Qin Baichuan personally took action, fighting a prolonged battle before either driving it away or killing it.
Xu Qingtong had remained motionless throughout. His Divine Sense had already spread more than a hundred li away, where a sixth-tier Magic Beast and several fifth-tier Magic Beasts had been watching the plantation.
The sixth-tier Magic Beast had a foxlike head, limbs covered in thick scales, a hard shell resembling a tortoiseshell on its back, and a tail over a zhang long. It lay on the ground, its two fox eyes darting about.
Xu Qingtong seemed to have seen this monster somewhere before. It seemed to be called a Fox-Tortoise Beast. Intelligent and cunning, with extremely strong defenses, it was a difficult Magic Beast to deal with.
More than half an hour passed, and almost all the low-tier Magic Beasts around the plantation had been cleared away. Everyone was exhausted, and some had been wounded.
The distant sixth-tier Magic Beast watched a while longer before finally losing patience. With a wave of its forepaw, it led the fifth-tier Magic Beasts in a charge toward the plantation.
Xu Qingtong rose and walked out of the tent. With a movement of his Flying Heaven Wings, his figure became a phantom shadow and vanished into the distance.
As the Fox-Tortoise Beast advanced, it suddenly stopped, looking suspiciously at the man who had abruptly appeared before it.
"I know you've developed intelligence, so you should understand what I'm saying.