With such a natural chasm barring their way, the Beast Race had no choice but to withdraw for the time being, even though this Beast Tide was greater in scale than any before it. The vast tide slowly receded.
At the sight, the armies of cultivators rejoiced. Those who had arrived later as reinforcements, in particular, felt that despite its terrifying appearance, the Beast Tide's actual offensive power amounted to little. The Lingze Defense Line would surely be the final point of this invasion.
Some cultivators, however, remained pessimistic. They had noticed the changes in the Beast Tide's strategy and tactics, and they had also seen how much greater its numbers had become. Countless bitter battles were certain to follow.
As the Beast Tide withdrew, many cultivators flew down from the embankment wall, leaped across the great river, and went to dig Beast Cores out of the corpses strewn across the ground.
Most of the cores they dug out came from Fierce Beasts of the second tier or above and were worth a considerable sum, prompting the cultivators to scramble for them.
Mu Bai was about to lead the Discipline Enforcement Army to stop them, but Dao Zun Chang Feng held him back. "Let us watch how things unfold first and see whether the Beast Race is playing a trick!"
Sure enough, the moment Dao Zun Chang Feng finished speaking, a chain of explosions erupted on the battlefield ahead, killing large numbers of cultivators digging for cores.
As it turned out, when the Beast Tide retreated, it had left many grievously wounded but still-living beasts hidden among the corpses. When Human Race cultivators came onto the battlefield to dig out cores, they chose to detonate their Beast Cores and perish together with them.
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