"Heh, this woman is indeed practicing toxic arts."
Zhang Ling couldn't help but take another look at this woman surnamed Tang. There were many types of cultivation methods in the world of cultivators, but there were extremely many people who practiced toxic arts.
Because ordinary poisons, for cultivators, could be resisted with some detoxification pills. These cultivators who practiced toxic arts were not very strong, but the woman in front of him could corrode second and third-tier monster beasts in the blink of an eye with her poisonous mist, so it seemed she was quite extraordinary.
Zhang Ling chuckled, and with a flick of his sleeve, two flying swords appeared beside him. At the same time, he also activated the jade Ruyi, and similarly rushed into the turbid air to hunt down desolate beasts.
Although both the black iron great bird and the red-tailed swallow were gregarious demon birds and their numbers were not small, Zhang Ling and the three Golden Core cultivators charged into them and slaughtered them in all directions, and for a time the air was filled with blood.
The three of them only spent a little over half an hour to solve the two groups of demon birds. Of course, there were also four high-level demon birds whose strength reached the fifth level.
In the end, Senior Brother Wu killed two, and he and Tang Qingqing each killed one. After solving this group of demon birds, the few people separated.
Senior Brother Wu had no patrol mission and returned directly to the sect. Zhang Ling took Lin Yan and others again to continue the patrol.
For the next half day, it was peaceful, and they did not encounter other desolate beasts, but the turbid air in the sky had spread to the entire Flying Cloud Island.
Although the degree of turbid air was very low at the beginning, and mortals could resist it, as time went by, the degree of turbid air increased every day within a few days.
The entire sky was dyed grayish-yellow, gloomy, and the number of desolate beasts that came with it became more and more, and it was no longer just demon birds.
After another few days, Zhang Ling and others no longer patrolled the periphery of the island, because they could no longer patrol it.
Fortunately, during this period, Flying Cloud City had built several layers of defense lines, and the fortifications had been built. At this time, all the monks on the island gathered in Flying Cloud City.
Zhang Ling was now sitting on a city wall, looking at the grayish-yellow scene in front of him, staring blankly. The sound of the wind roared in his ears, and outside was an endless grayish-yellow mist, flowing rapidly like a storm.
The entire Flying Cloud City was covered by a thin white mist, and these turbid air chambers did not enter. This was the city's protective array, said to be a set of thirty-six Flying Cloud Flags as array equipment, arranged the Flowing Cloud Array.
But now it has not fully stimulated its power. The complete Flowing Cloud Array can not only protect the entire immortal city, but also release a wide range of attacks.
Moreover, this array relies on the spiritual veins on Qiyun Mountain as energy, and it is endless.
As for the small Flowing Cloud Array arranged by the twelve elders of the Flying Cloud Sect as the array energy, using twelve Flying Cloud Flags, it is also quite mysterious and wins in being easy to move, integrating offense and defense.
Once a large number of desolate beasts come, the twelve elders will rely on the Flowing Cloud Array to rush out and kill the desolate beasts. This is the main force in destroying the beast tide.
The sound of the wind kept blowing, like ghosts crying and wolves howling, and powerful wind pressures kept hitting the city's protective array, and there were bursts of bangs.
The yellow mist storm that was rapidly flowing outside was a turbid mist storm formed when the turbid air was concentrated to a certain extent. It is said that this turbid mist storm is a natural phenomenon formed by the rapid spread of turbid air and the collision of heaven and earth aura.
The turbid mist storm is like a huge tornado, which will carry a large number of desolate beasts and spread outwards from the desolate area all the way. Once this storm is formed, it indicates that a large number of desolate beasts are about to arrive.
Low-level monks who enter the turbid mist storm will definitely die. Only high-level monks above the Golden Core can rush into the turbid mist storm to fight.
But even if they have the strength to rush into it, they will be affected to a certain extent. When fighting in it, the speed of spiritual power loss in the body will be very fast.
You also have to resist the erosion of turbid air, so you must wear the Tianxin Stone that resists turbid air on your body. Otherwise, their consciousness will be affected over time.
Zhang Ling looked at the outside without moving, seemingly in a daze, but his divine sense enveloped the surrounding ten miles, and he was always paying attention to the situation outside the city wall.
The city wall of Flying Cloud City is naturally more than this distance. Although the entire Flying Cloud City is built on Qiyun Mountain, there is no need to worry about the other side of the mountain, just guard half of the area.
But even half of the city wall is extremely long. Now all the high-level monks in Flying Cloud City, except for Sun Zhangmen and other monks who command the battle, all the other high-level monks, whether they are sect elders, loose cultivators, or family monks, are guarding a section of the city wall like him.
Each Golden Core monk must be responsible for guarding at least thirty miles of area. Baiyun Sanren is in the middle stage of Golden Core, and his current task is to guard the fifty-mile city wall area nearby.
Of course, in addition to him, a Golden Core monk, there are a large number of monks and mortals entrenched on both sides of this section of the city wall.
Mortals are in teams of one hundred, and every three mortals form a circle, with a half-zhang high and thick stone pillar in the center, with many spiritual patterns engraved on it.
Don't look at these stone pillars with strange shapes, they are a kind of low-grade spiritual weapon. The task of mortals is to add spirit stones to these spiritual weapons when the beast tide strikes, and drive these devices to release attacks.
The single attack is naturally not very strong, basically only equivalent to low-level spells like fireball, but it is this kind of low-level spell, once the number of attacks reaches hundreds of thousands, high-level monks must also retreat.
In addition to this kind of stone pillar, there is also a kind of black iron longbow, and these small catapults are controlled by these mortals.
Of course, monks are the most important combat power. Like those large spiritual cannons, ten-zhang high arrow towers, gravity catapults, etc., still need to be directed by monks.
These large spiritual weapons are for mortals to control, and they cannot control them, because the power of each attack of large spiritual weapons is at least an attack above the foundation building stage, and can even exert the power of a third-order spell attack.
Mortals who do not have spiritual power to protect their bodies from the waves of these attacks will be stunned in an instant.
But the number of monks is bound to be limited, and the beast tide is more than just one wave, there may be several waves or even continuous attacks for more than ten days. With the addition of these mortals, they can also share some of the pressure.
At this time, there are many Qi refining and foundation building monks standing on both sides of Zhang Ling. These monks are much more casual than mortals. Many people are sitting directly on the city wall, either meditating or laughing and talking.
Zhang Ling naturally saw this scene, but he did not scold these people. Monks are inherently unruly, and it is already very difficult to form this kind of temporary army formation.
There are more than 1,000 Qi refining monks and more than 50 foundation building monks on the section of the city wall he is responsible for. More than half of these monks are loose cultivators.
Of course, Lin Ran and his wife, Hu Jiazhu Hu Lin and other dozen direct descendants of the Hu family are also standing beside him. As for the other Hu family children, they have been assigned to other city wall sections by the Flying Cloud Sect.
