80: Chapter 80 A Third-Order Monster Makes a Move

After resolving all the Yao Beasts, all the Cultivators also began to meditate and recover. Among them, a portion of the Cultivators had injuries that were too severe, so Cangwu Shangren personally used his Divine Sense to send all the healing Medicinal Pills to these Cultivators.

Seeing this, those Cultivators did not hesitate to consume the Medicinal Pills. When they had recovered almost enough, they stood up and bowed from afar toward Cangwu Shangren.

Chen Changqing took his own Yao Beast corpse out from the Storage Pouch, and then took out the token to hand over to the battle-supervising Cultivator for inspection and registration.

After retrieving the token, the number on that token changed from zero to five thousand six hundred points.

Among them, the merit points for the Striped Leopard were three thousand, three First-Tier High Grade Yao Beasts were six hundred, more than a dozen First-Tier Middle and Low Grade Yao Beasts were five hundred, and coupled with him helping another Foundation Establishment Cultivator kill another Tier 2 Monster Beast, he obtained another one thousand five hundred points.

After putting away the token, he estimated in his mind that one merit point could be exchanged for one Spirit Stone. In just this short moment, he had earned five thousand six hundred Spirit Stones. It seemed that after his cultivation base reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, the difficulty of acquiring Spirit Stones had also begun to decrease.

Of course, this was just his illusion. His own strength far exceeded that of a normal First Layer Foundation Establishment Cultivator. To give an example, that Zhao Huaiyi had fought with a Tier 2 Low Grade Yao Beast for a long time, not only damaging a Tier 2 Low Grade Magical Artifact, but he himself also suffered quite heavy injuries. The crucial point was that in the end, it was still others who helped him resolve the Yao Beast, so the merit points allocated to him were probably around one thousand.

After Chen Changqing recovered the magical power within his body, he stood up and observed everything around him. Among them, he discovered that a wisp of Divine Sense was observing him vaguely. It seemed that this Divine Sense had appeared ever since he started fighting, only it had not directly probed him before.

Chen Changqing looked up and saw that it was precisely Cangwu Shangren, who was sizing Chen Changqing up with a strange gaze. Chen Changqing felt vigilant inside; he was truly worried that Cangwu Shangren would discover his strength. However, Bai Yuqing had told him before that as long as she helped conceal his aura, she could ensure that even Cultivators whose cultivation base reached the Purple Mansion Middle Stage could not see through his cultivation base and strength.

He had not verified this point, so his heart felt somewhat apprehensive.

Not far away, Cangwu Shangren withdrew his gaze. When he scanned all the Cultivators with his Divine Sense just now, he noticed that the aura of one of the Foundation Establishment Cultivators was somewhat concealed. However, after carefully probing, he did not discover any abnormalities, so he attributed it to the possibility that this first-layer Foundation Establishment young Cultivator had simply cultivated some kind of aura-concealing Cultivation Technique.

Seeing that Cangwu Shangren no longer paid attention to him, Chen Changqing cupped his fists in a salute and returned to where his own Family members were located.

With the help of the Tier 2 Formation, the crowd from the Chen Family did not suffer any casualties. On the contrary, they killed quite a few First-Tier Yao Beasts, which could be considered as all of them obtaining a decent sum of merit points. Among them, the one with the highest cultivation base was Chen Yuanqing, whose cultivation base reached the Perfection of the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, and the merit points he obtained were as high as four hundred and twenty.

The rest of the people were basically around two hundred, but the consumption was also not small. Just maintaining the operation of the Tier 2 Formation required a hundred Spirit Stones for a single hour, and this spell battle lasted for a full few hours.

However, this result was already very good. Compared to many Cultivators whose bodies died and Daos vanished, the Chen Family members obtained more merit points than the Spirit Stones they consumed. It was not that no Cultivator here achieved this, but rather that very few did.

Many Qi Refining Cultivators nearby felt somewhat envious and jealous, but constrained by the Foundation Establishment Cultivator behind the Chen Family, they did not dare to do anything.

After all, the Qi Refining Cultivators without the help of a Tier 2 Formation were mostly Qi Refining families and Loose Cultivators; what dared they do?

Furthermore, the Qi Refining Family Cultivators belonging under the Chen Family's command did not receive much help either. At most, it was just when the Chen Family members had spare energy to help them slay one or two Yao Beasts. After all, it couldn't be that these Qi Refining families paid tribute with so many Spirit Stones every year and yet didn't help with anything at all, right?

A few more days passed, and the Yao Race continued to launch attacks. Chen Changqing and the others still adopted the same method to respond, and thus it went on day after day.

Because the number of Human Race Cultivators was not as large as that of the Yao Race, after a month of attrition, the Human Race Cultivators had already suffered quite a lot of casualties. Even within the Chen Family, some people suffered not-so-light injuries. This was still under the condition that Chen Changqing looked after them; the remaining Qi Refining Cultivators had no Foundation Establishment Cultivator to look after them, and their fates could not possibly be anywhere good.

Fortunately, the one-month time limit arrived, and a batch of Cultivators was replaced to be responsible for guarding.

Chen Changqing then led the Family Cultivators back to their own mountain gate to wait for the next summons. In the span of a month, he harvested a full thirty thousand plus merit points. This number already surpassed almost all the Foundation Establishment Cultivators present, with only two Late Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators surpassing him.

Of course, he could actually have obtained even more, but his trump cards would not be used easily so as to avoid arousing wariness in others.

As soon as Chen Changqing and the others returned to the Family, they discovered that the Clan Chief Chen Yuanwen was already in seclusion. According to what the old Clan Chief said, Chen Yuanwen used a blood lotus seed given by Chen Changqing to elevate his Spiritual Root quality, and incidentally, with the help of Chen Xuanyi, he consumed a thousand-year-old Spirit Medicine and entered seclusion to refine it, striving to step into the cultivation base of the Perfection of the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining earlier, so that he could then prepare for Foundation Establishment.

The matter of Chen Yuanwen planning to Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment was known only to a few of them. This could also be considered a Family secret; after all, if the Family had one more Foundation Establishment Cultivator, it might possess more chances of survival in this calamity.

Just like that, another month passed, and the Chen Family received a summons again. This time, Chen Xuanyi led the team. However, twenty Qi Refining Cultivators of the Chen Family were summoned this time, which indicated that the front-line battlefield was becoming increasingly tense.

The situation in Qinghe County was also becoming increasingly urgent, and many Cultivators felt restless inside. Among them, some planned to preserve their strength and flee immediately after the Formation was broken, while others thought about surrendering to the Yao Race.

However, some people took action early. A group of Cultivators thought that Qinghe County was very large, the Purple Mansion Masters could not look after every place, and they also had to constantly maintain the Formation. Therefore, they secretly slew quite a few Qi Refining Cultivators, planning to use these heads to surrender to the Yao Race. As a result, several Purple Mansion Masters noticed that something was amiss and immediately made a move to suppress and kill them as a warning to others.

These matters also spread to the Chen Family, but Chen Changqing was very calm. Every time there was a Human Race crisis, there would always be some traitors who liked to stab their own clansmen in the back. However, they could not be entirely blamed; some simply had different stances, because most of the Human Race Cultivators who surrendered had actually not gained much benefit from the Human Race side in the first place. On the contrary, the number of those harmed in the dark by their own clansmen was not necessarily less than those killed by alien races.

As days passed by, Chen Yuanwen's Immortal Cave still had no movement. Instead, bad news came from the front-line battlefield: Tier 3 Monster Beasts began to dispatch. They precisely seized the moment when the Human Race's Purple Mansion Masters needed to constantly maintain the Tier 4 Formation, which would result in situations where their magical power could not keep up.

The several Purple Mansion Masters, even with many Cultivators helping to maintain the Formation and quite a few Spirit Stones providing assistance, more or less experienced situations where their magical power fell short. There was no help for it; the Tier 4 Formation itself required a great deal of spiritual power to maintain.