68: Chapter 68 No-Fly Slaughter

The ground-based Yao Beast tide had already pinned down the vast majority of the defensive forces, and everyone's attention was firmly locked on the bloody battle below the city.

Now, this sudden aerial assault left the defenses of Wangshan Town in a precarious state; before this torrent of Yao Beast birds that blotted out the sky, the low-level Cultivators and Mortal Martial Artists were as insignificant as ants.

The wind howled violently, and the dive of the Yao Beast birds became increasingly frenzied.

The front row of Iron-Feathered Eagles had already neared the top of the wall, and even the bloodthirsty, violent crimson burning in their pupils was clearly reflected in the eyes of the defending soldiers; the shadow of death instantly enveloped the entire city wall.

At the critical moment!

Clan Leader Li Huaming, who had been standing quietly beside the Formation, curled his lips into a cold sneer, his hands suddenly moving in a blur as he executed hand seals.

Streams of pure spiritual light burst from his fingertips, precisely converging into the countless Formation eyes long buried beneath the Foundation of the city wall.

Hum—!

A low, heavy roar that shook the surroundings exploded from deep within the city wall, like a primeval giant beast that had slumbered for eons suddenly awakening.

Between the mottled, ancient brick seams of the city wall, countless complex and profound silver runes lit up in succession. The previously dormant Formation patterns seemed to suddenly possess life, spreading across the city wall, rapidly intertwining, and rising into the air.

In an instant, a clear, translucent light blue barrier rose into the air, like a giant bowl inverted over heaven and earth, steadily and seamlessly enveloping the entire Wangshan Town.

On the surface of the barrier, silver runes flowed ceaselessly, and the profound, vast aura of the Formation permeated the surroundings, deterring all directions.

The Second-Tier High Grade Formation, the Air-Restricting Slaughter Formation, was fully activated!

The first to collide with the Formation barrier were the vanguard of Iron-Feathered Eagles, possessing the fastest dive speed and strongest combat power.

Carrying the momentum of a ten-thousand-jun dive, they slammed fiercely into the invisible light barrier, fully expecting to tear through the city defenses and slaughter the humans in one go, but the scenes of flying flesh and collapsing walls they anticipated did not appear.

Instead, there was a series of dull, heavy thuds, like the sound of heavy hammers striking drums!

This seemingly thin and transparent barrier was, in fact, indestructible, containing terrifying resilience and backlash power.

The high-speed colliding Iron-Feathered Eagles were like creatures slamming violently into an invisible mountain of steel!

Their iron-hard wings instantly shattered, and their thick bones emitted teeth-gritting cracking sounds.

Their massive bodies were instantly bent and sent flying backward, hard feathers scattered across the sky, and scalding Yao Beast blood exploded in the air into clusters of tragic, beautiful blood mists, crashing down into the pile of corpses beneath the city.

The following Yao Beast birds could not stop in time and continued to crash into the Formation barrier, fearless of death.

One batch of Yao Beast birds struck the light barrier heavily, instantly breaking their tendons and bones, shattering their internal organs, and dying on the spot.

Another batch of Yao Beast birds was swept by the silver Formation patterns flowing on the light barrier, as if sliced by thousands of invisible blades at once. In an instant, their bodies were severed, and their mutilated remains, accompanied by broken internal organs and dripping blood rain, fell from the sky.

Some intelligent Yao Beast birds attempted to counterattack, opening their mouths to spew flames and poisonous mist, hoping to break the Formation with their Yao Beast power.

But all the attacks from the Yao Beasts that landed on the light barrier merely stirred up tiny ripples before being completely dissolved and rebounded by the vast power of the Formation.

The power of the backlash instantly swept through the surroundings, instead heavily injuring and killing swarms of their own kind.

The Formation operated at full power, the silver light becoming increasingly intense, and its slaughter power climbed step by step!

Several thick, condensed silver light chains shot out from the light barrier, agile as spirit pythons weaving through the sky, precisely locking onto a few First-Tier Yao Beast birds, the Scarlet Flame Eagles, that were attempting to flank and sneak an attack.

The Scarlet Flame Eagles flapped their wings frantically, struggling with all their might, and spewing raging flames from their mouths, but they could not shake the light chains in the slightest.

The silver chains tightened, strangling their bodies firmly. Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of bones cracking, several Scarlet Flame Eagles were completely severed at the waist. The remaining sparks, carrying their broken remains, turned into several falling fireballs, smashing into the stampeding beast tide below.

High in the sky, feathers flew, flesh drifted, and broken bones scattered; a tragic rain of flesh and blood poured down.

The Air-Restricting Slaughter Formation had effectively transformed into a cold, ruthless, and highly efficient aerial meat grinder. No matter how the Yao Beast birds charged forward, fearless of death, all their charges and counterattacks ultimately became futile self-destruction.

The young Martial Artists and low-level Cultivators on the city wall, witnessing the Divine Might of the Formation for the first time, gazed at the silver Formation patterns weaving across the sky and the completely annihilated torrent of Yao Beast birds, their eyes filled with deep awe and lingering fear.

If it were not for the fact that Wangshan Town had long laid out defenses against flying Yao Beasts, the city wall would have been breached by the birds by now, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.

However, Clan Leader Li Huaming, who was presiding over the Formation, did not look too relaxed; instead, a trace of gravity was etched between his brows.

No one knew that the spiritual power consumption to operate this Air-Restricting Slaughter Formation was terrifyingly high.

At a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, the light blue barrier enveloping the entire city was slowly dimming, and the slaughter power and defensive resilience of the Formation were being rapidly depleted.

Everyone saw the Divine Might of the Formation at this moment, but only he knew best that this aerial barrier, propped up with all his might, could not be maintained for long.

This was merely the opening prelude to the calamity of the beast tide; the truly dangerous life-and-death test had yet to arrive.

Just as the aerial battle situation was temporarily stabilized, the ground battlefield below the city wall had already neared a desperate situation.

Thousands of wolf-like Yao Beasts, gathered in packs and mixed in species, clad in scales and with fangs exposed, brought a biting, fishy wind as they broke through layers of corpses and fiercely charged into the deadly defense line less than a hundred meters from the city wall!

The Yao Beasts were about to approach within a hundred meters of the city wall.

On top of the city wall, Li Xuanjie's hoarse and weathered voice rang out once again, carrying the weight and perseverance of accumulated years: "Second batch of archers, prepare!"

This Li Family elder, whose Lifespan was already running out, was one of the few remaining clansmen within the Li Family who had personally experienced the previous beast tide.

The vicissitudes of having survived the catastrophe were etched across his brows and eyes. At this moment, his withered body stood on the city wall, once again shouldering the heavy burden of protecting his clansmen and defending the city pass to the death.

The moment his words fell, the Formation on the city wall shifted. Two hundred archers, all at the Peak of Body Tempering, stepped out steadily, precisely replacing the exhausted Innate Realm archers round by round.

Although these archers had not yet stepped into the Innate Realm in their martial arts cultivation, stopping at the limit of Body Tempering, they all possessed astonishing arm strength. Each could steadily draw a three-stone heavy bow, and the outstanding ones could draw a five-stone bow.

Such strength was enough to easily tear through the skin and flesh defenses of low-level Yao Beasts, becoming the first sharp line of defense for the city.

The archery skills of these Peak Body Tempering Martial Artists had long been tempered through thousands of trials and reached perfection.

Even though their True Yuan power was far inferior to Innate Cultivators, within the hundred-meter attack and defense range, their accuracy was flawless, and their close-range archery precision was no different from that of Innate Martial Artists.

The next instant, arrows filled the sky, breaking through the air, carrying biting winds, and at countless tricky and bizarre angles, precisely nailed into the vital points of the Swift Wind Wolves that had charged to the very forefront of the Wangshan Town city wall.

Without the slightest pause, a dense rain of arrows poured down suddenly, like black clouds pressing upon the city and a torrential downpour.

The ear-piercing, sharp whistling sound of arrows breaking the air pierced through the roar of the battlefield, falling densely upon the stampeding beast herd.