Although the fourth-level formation on Bifeng Mountain has not yet been opened, Gu Wanchang meditates with one eye open every night;
At the same time, Yuqing Town and other mortal towns, in addition to formation protection, also have at least two foundation-building monks on duty.
Each of these foundation-building monks who were sent to garrison the mortal towns carried more than a dozen third-level spiritual talismans and a hundred second-level spiritual talismans. Coupled with the formations, there was no need to worry about insufficient firepower.
Indeed, as Qi Zhi said, there are not many monsters encountered in the southeast of Qingzhou.
But that's only a relative term. The number and quality of the monsters encountered by the four families in the Jiuqi Mountains at this time far exceeded the previous wave of monsters.
Fortunately, the Gu family is no longer the Gu family it used to be.
After so many years of development and growth, the Gu family's strength has undergone qualitative changes. Dealing with these monsters is difficult at best. With sufficient preparation, the disaster can be safely passed with minimal casualties.
It’s just that losing money is inevitable.
However, Gu Shining discovered something.
These monsters are very cunning. They are divided into different small groups. Each group of monsters only has a thousand monsters, and at most there are only about five thousand;
However, their actions are elusive.
Some small groups of monsters, no more than a thousand of them, dare to break into the third-level spiritual veins, fight fiercely with the fourth-level formations, and finally deliver food to them all;
But there is also that team of four thousand monsters that targets human towns;
Others seemed to be running aimlessly. Although they entered the Jiuqi Mountains, they bypassed several third-order spiritual veins, passed through the wasteland, and made a sneak attack on the Yun Family's Yuntian Mountains;
As a result, the Yun family killed and injured many mortals, but by the time they sent monks to kill those monsters, those monsters had already fled far away.
The Yun family and several other families jumped up and down in anger.
However, they are not the worst.
The worst offenders are those small families and casual cultivators who do not have the protection of the Zifu monks or the high-level formations to protect the mountain gate.
Even if the target of the monster is not them, as long as they encounter the monster, there is no chance of them being spared.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Hao, a casual cultivator who once relied on the Gu family to establish a family, and his family did not survive this disaster;
Even though the Gu family had sent foundation builders to support them, the Sun family's foundation was too weak. Even with preparations, the formation was still broken by monsters. Thousands of mortals in the family were not spared.
Seeing his tribe members losing to the monsters and dying in battle, Sun Hao was heartbroken, but he did not die with the monsters.
Before this, Sun Hao had secretly sent two of his clan's children with spiritual roots to Jiuqifang City.
Although the Sun family is gone now, with these two children with spiritual roots, given time, the Sun family may not have no future.
However, on his own, although it is easy to raise two children, it is difficult to train them to become talents;
After some hesitation, Sun Hao approached Gu Shining and wanted to become the guest elder of the Gu family.
Sun Hao has been attached to the Gu family for many years, and the Gu family knows him well, so Gu Shining agreed to his request after thinking about it for a while.
As for the second-level mid-grade spiritual vein celadon valley that was once rented to Sun Hao, it is natural that it will be taken back.
It's just that there are still several decades left before the 100-year lease term. Gu Shining wants to return the rent to Sun Hao, but Sun Hao refuses.
"I still have two descendants, and they both have spiritual roots. If the patriarch allows it, I hope they can enter the teaching hall to study together with the other children of the Gu family.
The remaining years of rent will be used as tuition fees for these two children. Chief, do you think this is okay?"
Sun Hao's eyes were full of vicissitudes of life, and his words had no confidence.
Gu Shining thought for a while and then agreed.
Regardless of the qualifications of these two children, Sun Hao is still a very capable monk. Over the years, he has managed the Sun family well. If the monster hadn't come suddenly this time, the Sun family might have been in trouble in a few decades.
, the next foundation-building period monk will appear.
What bad luck!
Of course, the Sun family is not the only one suffering from the same bad luck.
The other three families in the Jiuqi Mountains also suffered heavy damage due to this sudden attack by the demon clan.
In particular, these three families currently have no Zifu period monks in their clans. Facing the demon clan, they can only be beaten passively and barely retain one or two human towns, which is already very difficult.
Even some industries have been destroyed by the demon clan.
After three hundred years of hard work, half of the foundation was destroyed by one mistake.
After learning the news, the two clan heads of the Yu family and the Zhang family, who had not gone to war, wished they could commit suicide and plead guilty to their ancestors.
The acting patriarch of the Fang family even vomited blood and fainted on the spot.
The Jiuqi Mountain Range is such a big place. If someone has something going on, if they don't sincerely want to hide it, the other three families will know about it.
It didn't take long for Gu Shining to hear about the losses of the other three families and the condition of the heads of the three families.
After Gu Shining sighed, he sent someone to spread the news privately.
This monster attack also caused some casualties in the Gu family.
Although the news is a little vague, it is true.
This time, the Gu family suffered a total of seventeen casualties in order to deal with these monsters. Among them, there was also a Foundation Establishment elder who was seriously injured and could not recover. He was too old and had no time to heal, so the troops were dismissed. Even Gu Wanchang, a monk in the Purple Mansion period,
They all suffered serious injuries and need to recover for a while.
But compared to other families, the Gu family's losses are nothing.
Even the Yuntian Mountains behind the Jiuqi Mountains suffered more than half a million mortal casualties, and nearly a hundred monks were killed or injured.
The tens of thousands of monsters that poured into the southeast of Qingzhou were eradicated by the local family forces at the end of the war between humans and monsters.
As for the fourth-level monsters that commanded these low-level monsters, they were killed by the Jindan monks of the Haoran Sect.
But the demon king behind them, for some unknown reason, never showed up in this attack.
Let Ancestor Meihuo wait in vain and return disappointed.
However, these are all things for later.
On the other side, the people who were going to carry out the beheading operation had finally gathered together.
Two golden elixirs and ten monks of the Purple Mansion Stage.
To sneak up behind the monster clan and kill the leading fourth-level monster, it must be said that this is a bold plan.
If anyone else had come up with this idea, Gu Changhuan would definitely sneer at it, let alone take the risk to participate in this plan.
However, Gu Changhuan once heard Master Fenghuo mention that the masters of the Haoran Sect and the Tianfeng Peak were once and the current ancestor Zhantian were called the two heroes of the Haoran Sect.
One sword and one sword, the fighting skills are equally strong.
As for other things, if they don't count qualifications, He Rong is stronger.
After all, He Rong is handsome, gentle and polite, and can be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful person in Haoran Sect. Taoist companion Luo Yan is also famous for her beauty;
As for Feng Yida...
His appearance is a bit average, he is serious in speech and has a strong aura. Not to mention Taoist monks, even ordinary female cultivators will feel a chill down their backs if they look at him twice.