Chapter 227: Shocking News

After Zhang Yuhe swiftly flickered his figure and collected the spoils of war on the ground,

he returned to the top of the city wall and quietly waited for the other Cultivators to return.

There was no other way.

He was not familiar with Heavenly Palace City after all.

Being alone, he truly had nowhere else to go.

When he was in Yingyue City, the Nangong Immortal Clan had even allocated an Immortal Cave residence for him.

But here in Heavenly Palace City, there was no such thing.

After all, his mission this time was to cooperate with others to guard Yingyue City.

Coming to Heavenly Palace City was merely a temporary reinforcement.

After a short while,

the Cultivators who went in pursuit began to return one after another.

Once a Chaos Beast started running, its speed was extremely fast, even surpassing the flying speed of Cultivators of the same rank.

It was still much faster.

Therefore, only the Chaos Beasts intercepted right at the beginning

were caught up to and beaten to death by them.

As for those Chaos Beasts that had already run a certain distance away, they could be considered to have narrowly escaped with their lives.

Moving in groups of threes and fours, the crowd excitedly discussed something while quickly returning toward Heavenly Palace City.

When passing by Zhang Yuhe's side,

everyone would respectfully greet him.

Because everyone knew

that being able to gain anything in this beast tide was entirely thanks to taking advantage of Zhang Yuhe.

If it weren't for Zhang Yuhe deploying a massive sword formation to completely control and restrict all the Chaos Beasts,

allowing everyone to beat stationary targets for quite a while,

where on earth could they have killed so many Chaos Beasts?

The greatest possibility was not them beating the Chaos Beasts to death, but being beaten to death by the Chaos Beasts instead.

In a sense,

Zhang Yuhe was their savior.

Therefore, as everyone passed by,

they would all respectfully offer a greeting.

Zhang Yuhe also nodded in acknowledgment.

He did not know these people.

To be precise,

he didn't know more than a few people at all.

Aside from the Cultivators who came out of the Ji'an Sea Area together with him, he only knew a few Cultivators from the Nangong Immortal Clan.

As for the others,

he basically couldn't recognize a single one.

There was no help for it; who asked him to have spent such a short time Cultivating the Dao?

And he had always stayed within the Ji'an Sea Area to Cultivate.

This time, in response to the mobilization of the Nangong Immortal Clan, it was his very first time

traveling far away from home within the Immortal Realm.

After another moment,

Yu Liwei and the group of Cultivators from the Ji'an Sea Area finally returned from the distance.

Their faces were filled with excitement.

Compared to the other Cultivators,

their harvests were evidently much greater.

After all, everyone had previously seen Zhang Yuhe unleash the Nine Heavens Primordial Chaos Sword Formation.

Therefore, right from the start,

they had already selected the Chaos Beasts they wanted to fight.

They were just waiting for Zhang Yuhe to deploy his sword formation Divine Ability to restrict the Chaos Beasts,

and then fiercely pound the stationary targets.

One had to admit that this feeling was truly exhilarating.

Everyone stepped forward one after another to offer respectful greetings.

Zhang Yuhe nodded in response to each of them.

At this moment, Nangong Youxi stepped forward.

She bowed to Zhang Yuhe and then said solemnly,

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Zhang, for stepping in to help. Otherwise, the consequences for Heavenly Palace City would be unimaginable."

Zhang Yuhe replied with a smile,

"Fairy Nangong is too polite. This is all what I ought to do."

"Besides, I believe that even without my intervention, the several Seniors would surely have a way to resolve the beast tide."

He certainly wouldn't believe that the Nangong Immortal Clan had already reached a desperate impasse prior to this.

If Heavenly Palace City were so easily breached by Chaos Beasts,

it wouldn't have stood tall on the Chaos continent for hundreds of millions of years.

Zhang Yuhe felt that

the Nangong Immortal Clan definitely still had trump cards.

It was just that they wouldn't use them until the critical moment.

After some polite pleasantries, led by Nangong Youxi, everyone came to a courtyard to settle down.

Nangong Youxi said to the crowd,

"Everyone, rest here for a moment. After the Old Ancestor returns, we will determine the subsequent arrangements."

Everyone nodded in response.

After all, it was still during the beast tide period, and besides staying in Heavenly Palace City, they couldn't go anywhere else.

Nangong Tianming and the other two Grand Unity Immortal Lords had been pursuing the Chaos Beasts and had not yet returned.

Especially Nangong Tianming;

he had previously been thoroughly disgusted by that Chaos Beast that used a dumping bucket,

which made the three Upper-Grade Extinction Celestial Cannons on his immortal ship completely unable to unleash their due power.

But now the Chaos Beasts were fleeing separately.

He only needed to avoid that Chaos Beast that could use the dumping bucket.

As for the other Chaos Beasts, wasn't killing them just a matter of casual choice?

Piloting the immortal ship, Nangong Tianming pursued closely behind the Chaos Beasts all the way.

The Upper-Grade Extinction Celestial Cannons on the immortal ship occasionally spewed out fatal rainbow light.

Whenever the rainbow light flashed, a Chaos Beast would inevitably fall.

Moreover, the ones beaten to death were all Seven-Star Chaos Beasts.

For Chaos Beasts below the Seven-Star level, there was no need to use the Extinction Celestial Cannons at all; Nangong Tianming could kill them with a flip of his hand.

Until after chasing for hundreds of millions of miles, seeing that they were getting closer and closer to Mingsha Ridge's lair,

Nangong Tianming had no choice but to return, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

However, his harvest this time could still be considered quite good.

Back at Heavenly Palace City, due to the large number of Chaos Beasts and their close cooperation,

they didn't give him a chance, and he hadn't managed to kill a single one.

But during the pursuit,

ruling on the sharpness of the immortal ship, Nangong Tianming killed a total of five Seven-Star Chaos Beasts.

It could be considered a huge harvest.

After today's battle,

Mingsha Ridge's Origin Qi was severely damaged.

Just the Seven-Star Chaos Beasts alone had eight of them killed.

As for those low-rank Chaos Beasts, there were even more than could be counted.

Nangong Tianming believed that

facing such massive losses,

Mingsha Ridge should no longer dare to harbor any designs on Heavenly Palace City.

Suddenly, Nangong Tianming frowned slightly.

An Immortal Transmission Mirror appeared in his hand.

After executing an incantation gesture and checking the information on it,

he couldn't help but be greatly shocked.

"Return quickly."

…

The Cultivators who came from various places for reinforcement were all arranged in an orderly manner by the Nangong Immortal Clan.

However, because the three Old Ancestors had not yet returned,

everyone was still unclear about the subsequent tasks.

Although the beast tide on Heavenly Palace City's side had been beaten back by everyone,

the beast tides in other places were still ongoing.

Therefore, everyone stayed in various courtyards with their respective commanders,

quietly waiting for subsequent arrangements.

Zhang Yuhe and a group of Cultivators from the Ji'an Sea Area were sitting upright in a small pavilion over the lake, warmly discussing something.

Right at this moment, Zhang Yuhe discovered that

Nangong Youxi, who was sitting nearby, suddenly changed her expression after taking out an Immortal Transmission Mirror.

This made Zhang Yuhe feel somewhat strange.

Surely another major event hadn't broken out, right?

He asked Nangong Youxi,

"Fairy Nangong, has something happened?"

Nangong Youxi put away the Immortal Transmission Mirror, then took a deep breath before slowly saying,

"Word has just been received that Niulan Mountain has successively breached Xuanyang City and Xuanyin City under the command of Wanxian Gate."

Speaking up to this point, Nangong Youxi paused for a moment before continuing to explain,

"Both Xuanyang City and Xuanyin City are Lord-level Immortal Cities, with multiple Grand Unity Immortal Lords stationed inside the cities."

Hearing this news,

everyone was so shocked that they involuntarily stood up.

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