On the night of the massacre, I dug up the ancestral tomb.

Chapter 173: Composure

At this moment, Li Yourong also flew out of the cave on her sword and stood beside Yang Jiuli.

She gazed into the distance and felt a chill run down her spine when she saw the winged pythons attacking the west gate tower.

"A beast tide..." Li Yourong said with a solemn expression.

"Master Li..." Huang Cheng bowed to Li Yourong.

Yang Jiuli also cupped his hands in greeting to Li Yourong.

Liu Hu bowed in greeting.

Li Yourong nodded slightly, then looked at Yang Jiuli and said, "With the beast tide approaching, I'm afraid there will be a turmoil in Black Wind City. You two stay in the cave for now, and I'll go and ask how to handle this matter!" In Black Wind City, there was only one Foundation Establishment cultivator, Li Jun.

However, there were two winged pythons in the late Foundation Establishment stage outside the city.

Behind the winged python were three Foundation Establishment demon pythons.

With such a formation, it is highly likely that they will break through the city and enter.

Moreover, a steady stream of demonic beasts were arriving from behind.

If a few more Foundation Establishment level demons were to appear, or if any unforeseen events were to occur in the city, the great formation would surely break.

Therefore, Li Yourong only glanced at it and did not exchange many pleasantries with Yang Jiuli before preparing to ask the clan elders for a solution.

"Master Li, please go," Yang Jiuli said. "This beast tide has come so suddenly; we must be careful of those with ulterior motives colluding with us from within."

He added one more piece of advice.

"I understand!" Li Yourong nodded.

After saying that, she cupped her hands in greeting and headed towards the Black Wind Palace.

"Ninth Brother..." Huang Cheng looked at Yang Jiuli with a questioning expression.

The sight of the monstrous beasts rushing towards him from the distant mountains and forests sent chills down his spine and filled him with a strange unease.

"You should go to the cave and make some preparations first..." Yang Jiuli said.

"Ready?" Huang Cheng asked, his expression questioning.

"This beast tide is coming... we probably can't hold out... we need to prepare for evacuation," Yang Jiuli said.

"Evacuate..." Huang Cheng was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized and said, "I understand, I'll go pack my things now."

After saying that, he cupped his hands to Yang Jiuli and flew down with Liu Hu.

Yang Jiuli also flew towards his own cave.

Soon, he entered the cave, and with a flick of his hand, Xiao Bing appeared.

"Go and find out why these winged pythons attacked the city..." Yang Jiuli said after feeding Xiao Bing a Beast Spirit Pill.

Xiao Bing made a cute hissing sound.

"Remember, do not reveal your identity. You must disguise yourself as a demonic python from the Black Wind Mountains," Yang Jiuli instructed.

Xiao Bing flicked its tongue and nodded, as if to say, "I know."

Then, its body glowed with light patterns, disappeared into the ground, and it fled towards the west of the city.

"Humans have human language, and beasts have beast language. Xiao Bing is a member of the demon python clan and was born with a language... It has escaped outside the city and should be able to communicate effectively with the attacking demon pythons..." Yang Jiuli murmured as he watched Xiao Bing leave.

"Only by understanding why these demonic pythons launched the beast tide can we better deal with this crisis!" he said calmly.

……

At this moment, a ripple spread through the city.

A malevolent aura permeated the array of light high in the sky.

However, Li Jun led four elders of the Li clan into the array chamber and activated the near-third-tier "Black Wind Wolf Array".

However, with only one Foundation Establishment cultivator and four Qi Refining cultivators activating this formation, it was clear that its full power could not be unleashed. The surging magical power was only enough to repair the formation's light barrier, which had been dented by the attacks of the two Foundation Establishment demons.

Many independent cultivators from the city flew into the sky and looked towards the west gate.

"This is a beast tide..."

"What's going on... there's a beast tide!"

"That...that seems to be a Foundation Establishment level demon..."

Many independent cultivators were filled with fear and unease.

"All cultivators, return to the city tower... This beast tide... will be quelled by the Li family!"

Li Chengfeng flew in riding a winged eagle, surveying all directions as he spoke loudly.

Beside him were four late-stage Qi Refining cultivators from the Li clan who flew over on late-stage first-order winged eagles.

They kept an eye on the rogue cultivators to prevent them from causing trouble.

"Can the Li family quell this?" some people wondered.

"Fellow Daoist, may we leave the city?" At this moment, someone wanted to leave the city.

"If anyone wants to leave the city, they must be led by the Li family. No one is allowed to fly freely within the city!" Li Chengfeng said.

At this moment, Li's biggest worry was that a cultivator with concealed cultivation might use a second-tier barrier-breaking talisman to break through the city's protective barriers.

Therefore, they need to gather these people together, check and count their numbers, and see if any Foundation Establishment cultivators are hiding among them.

We'll make further arrangements.

Upon hearing this, some people were displeased.

Some people want to say more.

High in the sky, a black wind suddenly stirred, emanating a terrifying pressure.

"The beast tide is approaching; this is a critical time. Anyone who commits any misconduct... will be killed without mercy!"

Li Jun's authoritative voice resounded from within the array's light barrier, accompanied by an incomparably terrifying pressure.

He now controls the formation, and his divine sense is integrated with the formation, so his words can be transmitted throughout the entire Black Wind City through the formation.

When the sound rang out, the rogue cultivators who had wanted to say more had no choice but to follow Li Chengfeng toward a tower in the city.

Every cultivator entering Blackwind City is registered daily.

At this moment, the Li family's cultivators immediately began compiling the roster to investigate whether there were any spies among them.

This is the most urgent task.

After all, if someone were to collude from within and without and break the great formation, the beast horde outside the city would surge in and the entire Black Wind City would be flattened. Under the command of a second-tier winged python, even the cultivators of the Li family would find it difficult to guarantee a safe evacuation, and the situation was far from optimistic.

After seeing the rogue cultivators in the city being guided to the city tower in an orderly manner, Li Jun in the array room finally breathed a slight sigh of relief and muttered to himself, "It seems that there are no hidden Foundation Establishment cultivators among this group of rogue cultivators. The situation is still under control."

Even if a Qi Refining cultivator has a second-tier barrier-breaking talisman, they cannot unleash much power to break this near-third-tier formation.

Li Jun's only worry was that there might be Foundation Establishment cultivators hiding in the city, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

If that were the case, once the formation was breached, a second-tier demon could seize the opportunity to infiltrate the city. With the help of both inside and outside, he would be powerless to fight alone, and the consequences would be unimaginable. With these thoughts in mind, he activated his divine sense and locked onto the area around the west gate.

Li Jun's divine sense was attached to the array's light screen, allowing him to see everything outside the city clearly.

"Two late-stage second-tier Yin Sha Winged Pythons...and one mid-stage second-tier and two early-stage second-tier Yin Sha Winged Pythons."

"There are a total of thirty-six late-stage Tier 1 runes..."

"There are more second-tier powerful demons rushing in from behind..."

Seeing these demonic beasts and winged pythons, Li Jun felt extremely solemn.

"If the formation breaks... I simply cannot fight against so many second-tier demons!" Li Jun thought to himself.

Then, a thought struck him, and he spoke from within the formation.

"Fellow Daoists outside the city, why do you attack my Black Wind City?" Li Jun's words resounded through the array's light screen.

"My Li clan currently has an ancestor preparing to form his core... If you retreat now, this matter can still be left unresolved... Otherwise, once my clan's ancestor successfully forms his core... we will surely raze your Black Wind Mountain Range... leaving your Winged Python clan with nowhere to stand!"

Rolling sound waves emanated from within the array's light barrier, spreading through the air like waves, shattering the attacks of many demonic beasts. Even the flames spewed by the two late-stage second-tier winged pythons were shaken by the sound waves, halting their advance and causing them to retreat.

"Sizzle..."

However, Li Jun's response was the snarling of a late-stage second-tier winged python with a slightly protruding forehead, as if it were about to grow horns.

Its eyes were bloodshot, and gray blood mist rose from its body.

The blood mist actually evolved into a celestial foundation phenomenon around it, 'Flame in the Wind'.

The gray blood mist rippled in the air like lake water.

There is a gray tornado above.

There was a fold of flame within, resembling a lotus flower.

When human cultivators establish their foundation, they will condense various immortal foundations due to differences in their cultivation techniques and the spiritual objects used for foundation establishment.

Monsters often awaken their inherited bloodline when they break through, thus condensing bloodline phenomena or bloodline supernatural powers.

If one is a low-level demon beast with mediocre bloodline, even if one steps into the second tier, one may not be able to establish a celestial foundation.

Only by consuming special spiritual items during a breakthrough can one have this opportunity.

This second-tier demonic python, however, consumed a second-tier Azure Flame Lotus during its breakthrough, thus establishing its immortal foundation, 'Flame in the Wind'.

This time, the second-tier demonic python unleashed its Immortal Foundation power, and its aura far surpassed that of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

call!

The demonic python let out a hiss, its eyes flashed, and a surge of spiritual power swept out, causing the Dao Foundation Phenomenon that had evolved in front of it to move abruptly.

A fierce wind howled, and a tornado swept towards the Black Wind City Wall ahead.

Hurricane-force winds.

getting bigger.

In just a few breaths, the tornado, which was one zhang wide, became three zhang wide.

The azure flame lotus within the tornado expanded, burning with raging flames.

"Fellow Daoist, let's talk this out." Sensing the terrifying power contained within the tornado, Li Jun's voice quickly rang out.

However, the tornado did not slow down.

As Li Jun finished speaking, it had already reached the front of the city gate, only a few feet away from the protective light screen.

Seeing this, Li Jun had no choice but to immediately control the formation, gather the power within, and unleash the defensive technique "Yin Sha Whirlwind".

In an instant, the array's light barrier rippled, evolving into a huge vortex that swept forward.

The whirlwind grew larger and larger, like a vortex that could devour everything.

In an instant, the tornado and the vortex collided. Within the tornado, a cluster of flames, like a lotus flower blooming, suddenly exploded, and surging emerald flames roared out from within, crashing against the massive Yin Sha vortex.

In the blink of an eye, the Yin Sha vortex was shattered by the flames, and a surging flame swept out and crashed into the array light screen in front.

Under the impact of this force, the array's light barrier trembled and caved in.

The array's light barrier undulated, like a whirlpool in the ocean, dissolving and absorbing the flames that impacted it.

However, a force of array power forcibly restored the dented array light barrier to its original state.

However, the raging flames rolled in from the front, layer upon layer, causing the array's light barrier to constantly dent, only to be repaired by the array's power.

After a dozen or so breaths, the energy emanating from the raging flames finally dissipated.

The array's light barrier returned to calm.

Li Jun, who could control the formation, was not having an easy time.

His consciousness merged into the formation.

Each powerful surge of flame struck him as if he had been struck by a heavy blow.

"The power of this strike has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment!" Li Jun thought with a chill in his heart as he stood in the formation room.

The full-force attack unleashed by this second-tier Daoist, who activated his Dao Foundation 'Flame in the Wind,' just now clearly surpassed that of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Meanwhile, outside the western city.

After the second-tier demon who had established a celestial foundation made its move, another second-tier late-stage demon also launched an attack.

Although this great demon did not rely on spiritual objects to build its immortal foundation and manifest extraordinary phenomena, it still possessed inherited bloodlines, and it spewed out yin winds as it attacked.

The eerie wind howled, and actually condensed in the air into a wind spear that was 36 feet long, piercing towards the array light barrier outside the city.