Xueling City is a city controlled by the Xue family, a cultivation clan.
Ten thousand years ago, the Xue family was most skilled at drawing talismans. Relying on this business, the Xue family also had a place in the cultivation world.
At that time, there were not many cultivators with spiritual roots on the Wuyuan Continent, and most spiritual roots could be inherited. Therefore, the main forces in the cultivation world were cultivation families, which were much stronger than sects that mainly relied on finding disciples with spiritual roots from ordinary people.
The Xue family controlled dozens of cities, with Xueling City in the far north being just a small city under their control.
Xue Bocheng, the city lord of Xueling City, is from a collateral branch of the Xue family, but he only has the cultivation level of the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.
Although Xue Bocheng's cultivation level wasn't very high, he was very skilled at drawing talismans. He was able to draw fourth-grade talismans even before he formed his core, making him an absolute genius in talisman drawing.
This is also the main reason why he, a member of a collateral branch, could become the lord of a city without having formed his core.
Although Xue Bocheng was highly talented in drawing talismans, he had a fatal weakness: he was too timid!
Xueling City, under the jurisdiction of Xue Bocheng, was one of the fifty cities first attacked by the beast tide. Moreover, Xueling City is located in a canyon and is a pass leading to the southern plains of the Wuyuan Continent.
If the demon beasts controlled by the Demon King break through the pass of Xueling City, the beast tide will surge southward, unstoppable, and no other city will be able to withstand the trampling of the demon beasts.
Ten thousand years ago, in order to protect Xueling City, a Nascent Soul stage protector of the Xuanling Sect led ten Core Formation stage protectors to withstand the beast tide in the canyon where Xueling City was located.
In the end, this Nascent Soul stage protector perished along with the three protectors of the Demon King at the time. Of the ten Core Formation stage cultivators, only three survived!
This was absolutely the most brutal battle ever fought against the beast tide.
Ancestor Wanquan was a Core Formation stage cultivator who survived the war. After he completed the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map in Xueling City, his tears gathered into Crescent Lake outside the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons.
It has to be said that the spirit of the artifact is definitely vengeful, as it arranged for Su Qing and Xuan Qingye to be placed in Xueling City, where the battle was most fierce.
They have never won a battle to defend Xueling City!
After all, it was a battle to defend the city that resulted in the loss of a Nascent Soul stage elder and seven Core Formation stage cultivators.
Su Qing had only read a little bit of history from 100,000 years ago in the Xuanling Sect's library, and knew nothing about the details of the city defense battle, let alone the Battle of Xueling City.
At this moment, she hovered in the air on her sword outside the city wall of Xuanling City. Not only was she not afraid of the talismans flying out of the city, she even casually threw out a stack of more powerful talismans.
This imposing aura immediately stunned the soldiers guarding the city.
In the eyes of the Xue family, the Xuanling Sect was just a sect of decent size, but they did not expect that Su Qing, a disciple of the Xuanling Sect, was not simple at all.
City Lord Xue Bocheng climbed the city wall and saw Su Qing calmly weaving through the beast tide. With a casual flick of her wrist, she threw out a talisman that was enough to severely injure any approaching monsters. His eyes widened in astonishment.
Xue Bocheng had fantasized countless times about wielding talismans, charging into the beast tide, and taking the lives of the monsters.
But he only thought about it; with no courage whatsoever, he didn't dare to step out of the city gate.
Not only Su Qing, but also Xuan Qingye, casually threw an ice spike that pierced the forehead of the monster. The monster, which was two or three meters tall, crashed to the ground and was instantly trampled into mincemeat by the monsters behind it. It was a heart-stopping sight.
Han Chen and Yu Kui worked together more and more seamlessly in hunting monsters. Xue Bocheng watched as the two of them killed a five-meter-tall diamond ape.
So strong!
Xue Bocheng stared, his eyes wide with amazement.
However, as a very talented talisman master, his gaze remained fixed on Su Qing.
As she looked at it, she couldn't help but admire it. Was the talisman in her hand really a talisman?
Why are talismans thrown away like waste paper?
Xue Bocheng himself is a talisman master. How much spiritual power and effort does it take to draw a single talisman? Everyone uses them sparingly. How can you just throw them away like this?
They simply don't take talismans seriously.
Moreover, why is it that Su Qing's talisman is more powerful than his own, even though they are both explosive talismans?
When facing the same third-tier demonic beast, Su Qing's talismans could explode and cause it to bleed profusely, while his own talismans only caused ordinary superficial wounds...
"Cultivator Su Qing requests that the City Lord of Xueling City open the city gates so that we can discuss how to resist the beast tide!"
Su Qing frowned and looked at the short, fat man on the city wall. This guy was staring straight at her, looking like he was about to drool.
"Father, cultivators from the Xuanling Sect are about to enter the city," Xue Zheng, a tall young man standing beside Xue Bocheng, reminded him.
Xue Bocheng then snapped out of his daze at Su Qing's extravagant display of flying talismans.
"Oh, right, into the city." Xue Bocheng nodded and said, "Quickly let the cultivators of the Xuanling Sect into the city. You, you go and greet them personally!"
As for Xue Bocheng, he was a talisman master who only knew how to draw talismans in seclusion, and he didn't have the courage to face the beast tide!
Therefore, after leaving the city wall, Xue Bocheng returned to the city lord's mansion to prepare to welcome the distinguished guest.
"Squeak, squeak!"
The city gates of Xueling City finally opened slowly.
Upon seeing the city gate open, Su Qing and her three companions threw out dozens of explosive talismans and, using the smoke from the explosions, flew towards the city gate on their swords.
Even so, there was still an agile and cunning fourth-tier phantom snow fox, like a white light, following behind Su Qing and the others, trying to follow them into Xueling City.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
With the sound of three arrows piercing the air, the fourth-tier Phantom Snow Fox was pierced through the throat by three arrows, fell to the ground, leaving a pool of black blood, and died.
Inside the city gate, a cultivator clad in armor stood there, holding a black bow in his hand.
"Xue Zheng, the young city lord of Xueling City, welcomes the cultivators from the Xuanling Sect!"
Xue Zheng welcomed the four people into Xueling City, and the city gates slammed shut again!
Xueling City was originally a small town in the far north. Most of the people living here were from the Xue family. The houses in the city were mostly made of wood and looked simple and rustic.
Xue Zheng led Su Qing and the other three towards the City Lord's Mansion.
The City Lord's Mansion is located in the very center of Xueling City. Su Qing could sense that this City Lord's Mansion was significantly taller and more magnificent than the other buildings.
Upon entering the city lord's mansion, he saw the short, fat man staring intently at him with gleaming eyes.
"Talisman masters from the Xuanling Sect! Welcome, welcome to our Xueling City! Oh dear, a beast tide has struck our Xueling City, and this one is larger than ever before. It's wonderful that you've come to our aid," said Xue Bocheng.
Su Qing nodded and said, "This beast tide is indeed very large. We came by flying on our swords, and we can't even see the end of the beast tide."
ah?
"Then, is it a scale of over a thousand demonic beasts?" Xue Bocheng asked tentatively.
He doesn't even know the scale of the beast tide? Su Qing frowned. Is this city lord really stupid or is he pretending?
“There are at least ten thousand,” Su Qing said calmly.
thump!
Xue Bocheng was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
In the past, Xueling City only faced beast tides of two or three hundred monsters. This time, the beast tide is larger, with over a thousand monsters. Isn't that a lot?
"How could there be so many!" Xue Bocheng murmured. "How can our small Xueling City withstand the attack of tens of thousands of demonic beasts?"
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