Chapter 21
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Chapter 21: The Monster Tide Calms
As the morning sun rose, the monster tide at the mines began to retreat, and Elder Yu hurried back to the Yang Family.
Seeing that the situation outside had stabilized, he prepared to venture into the deep mountains to find Master Yang Guanfeng.
However, just as he was about to set off, he suddenly felt a tremor in his heart, and his expression changed drastically.
“This is bad!”
Sensing the appearance of the fox monster still on the cliff, Elder Yu’s mind became chaotic.
The two children were still up there, and even with the mysterious stone, they were no match for a sixth-level monster—this was terrible!
He channeled his spiritual power to the max, leaping over the crowd and the courtyard, quickly reaching the cliff.
From a distance, he spotted the two children and hurriedly pulled out the magic disc, casting a technique to yank them behind him from mid-air.
After checking their bodies, he found that they were merely exhausted and didn’t have any serious injuries, which relieved him.
As he turned around to prepare for battle against the fox monster, he was astonished to discover that it was already dead!
The fierce aura surrounding it had not completely faded, indicating it had just been killed.
Elder Yu approached and saw a blood hole about the size of a finger piercing through the fox monster’s forehead, going through its entire body and exiting at the tail.
Other than that, the fox monster had no other wounds, showing it had been killed with a single blow.
Such an obvious spiritual impact was easy for Elder Yu to recognize.
Yet, he was puzzled; the highest cultivation level of the two children was only the second level—how could they have killed the fox monster in one strike?
While he wondered, Linghu and Lingqing walked over.
“Elder Yu, this monster was killed by the mysterious stone,” Yang Lingqing explained, handing a slightly warm Chen Yang to Elder Yu.
She then recounted Wang Lie’s intrusion into the restricted area, the subsequent monster tide, and how the mysterious stone continuously released fluctuations of spiritual energy to alert them.
“To think such a thing could happen!”
Elder Yu’s face was filled with disbelief. He stared at Chen Yang, contemplating for a long time as distant legends he had heard when he first entered the path of cultivation floated in his mind.
“This object is so extraordinary. Could it really have great significance?”
After this series of events, Elder Yu increasingly felt that Chen Yang was not ordinary and that he was likely more than just a rare mysterious stone.
However, with the remaining monster tide still present, it was not the time to discuss these matters.
Elder Yu led the two children down the cliff, taking care of a few beasts that had invaded and were hiding in the Yang Family.
With Elder Yu’s involvement, the front line quickly shifted to a one-sided battle.
The magic disc in his hand shimmered brightly as Elder Yu made a few swift movements in the air with his fingertips, causing the beasts before him to be crushed under a powerful gravitational force.
Seeing this display, the other beasts regained their senses, tucking their tails and fleeing into the deep mountains.
Thus, the monster tide that had attacked the Yang Family was completely quelled.
Despite heavy casualties among the personnel and extensive destruction of houses and fields, they had ultimately held on.
Elder Yu left the aftermath to Yang Feiyun and Yang Xiaolei and instructed the Three Spirits to carry all the monster corpses back to the restricted area.
He did not delay any longer, crossing Little Pine Mountain to find Yang Guanfeng in the deep mountains to slay monsters.
“Master!”
After half a day’s journey, he found the injured Yang Guanfeng returning.
At that moment, Yang Guanfeng looked dreadful, with a deep claw mark on his chest exposing bone and a large chunk of flesh bitten off his shoulder.
Old Yu hurried forward but noticed that Yang Guanfeng’s aura was not weak at all; in fact, it was remarkably strong.
“What!?”
Old Yu’s expression immediately showed uncontainable joy.
“Master, you’ve broken through your realm!”
Yang Guanfeng had indeed made another breakthrough, reaching the sixth level of Gathering Qi!
He smiled at Old Yu and said, “Haha, my weary bones sat idle during cultivation. Only after being clawed and bitten by this monster did I find it comfortable enough.”
“Hahahahaha! Breaking through in battle, even Old Yu is impressed by Master’s talent.”
At this point, he reminisced, “Ah, if only someone had guided Master to cultivate earlier, not to mention late-stage, perfected Gathering Qi would have been a piece of cake.”
Hearing this, Yang Guanfeng shook his head self-deprecatingly.
“It’s fate. Now that the younger generation of the Yang Family is thriving, I have no further desires.”
After consuming a Healing Elixir, Yang Guanfeng returned home with Old Yu.
Upon counting, they discovered that during the calamity, 484 people had died—family members, family soldiers, and villagers from the foot of the mountain who sought refuge.
After returning, Yang Guanfeng spent five days organizing everyone to clean the battlefield.
Simultaneously, he and Old Yu opened up a large burial site on the west slope of Little Pine Mountain to bury all the citizens who had died in this monster tide.
On the burial day, all the surviving citizens followed the Yang Family up the mountain to pay their respects.
The line of mourners stretched from the mountainside down to the foot of the mountain.
Yang Guanfeng stood before the 484 graves, facing the crowd, and declared loudly.
“This battle is the foundation of the Yang Family’s independence since Willow Leaf Town!”
“If we lose this battle, the Yang Family will cease to exist!”
“Fortunately, we have warriors! We have heroes! We have all of you!”
“This victory is not just for the Yang Family; it is a victory for all of you!”
“We have defeated the monster tide! Overcome the dangers! And triumphed over this unfeeling sky that treats all living things as mere animals!”
He paused, picked up a jar of wine beside him.
“I, Yang Guanfeng, toast to all of you!”
After drinking it all, he raised another cup and turned to the 484 graves, shouting, “To the warriors! To the heroes!”
His voice was deep and resonant, echoing throughout Little Pine Mountain.
Everyone behind him, regardless of age or gender, raised their cups, and together with Yang Guanfeng, they poured their drinks onto Little Pine Mountain.
That evening, the gates of the Yang Family swung wide open, inviting all the citizens who had endured this calamity.
Some raised their cups in celebration, some embraced and cried, some expressed fervent passion, and others fell into a daze.
All their emotions blended into the wine, into tears, and into the night.
The battle against the monster tide allowed the Yang Family to firmly establish themselves on Little Pine Mountain and intertwined the fates of the ordinary people who experienced this calamity with the Yang Family for generations to come.
Meanwhile, looking at other forces in the eastern region, every village had been destroyed, with not a single villager spared. It was said that even their bones were crushed and eaten, leaving nothing behind.
The army in Willow Leaf Town was almost completely wiped out, and one Gathering Qi cultivator died, but the city held. It was barely acceptable.
However, Baishi Town did not fare so well.
On the night of the monster tide, a late-stage monster attacked the town.
Even though the mayor achieved a breakthrough and reached the sixth level of Gathering Qi in battle, it was of no help; he ultimately became the monster’s meal.
After the city gate was breached, the horde entered and slaughtered at will, and the cries of despair from the townspeople sounded like a hellish nightmare, too terrible to behold.
In the end, a streak of light flew from the horizon—a blue flying sword.
The sword dashed through the city and slayed all the monsters, including the late-stage beast.
Afterward, two talismans fell, a beam of light enveloping the entire town, and the beasts within seemed to have their blood drained in an instant, becoming lifeless corpses.
After the monster tide, the population of Baishi Town was less than a third of what it had been before, and many families perished, leaving only a few cultivators.
Wang Xiong miraculously survived, but his son Wang Wei Yang died at the hands of the late-stage monster. The Wang Family, which he had worked so hard to build, was also wiped out in this great calamity.
