Chapter 144 Plan

Shortly before the attack on Wuliang Mountain, Ma Benxin, who was the first to receive news of the beast tide, immediately gathered everyone and went to Lingyan Mountain.

"Yinglong, come with me for a while and find a way to kill more monsters to reduce the pressure on our defense."

"yes!"

After flying north for dozens of miles, the two landed on a barren mountain. Ma Yinglong looked at his clan leader with some curiosity and asked him a question.

"Chief, why are you stopping here? Aren't we supposed to be killing monsters? We should be heading north."

Ma Benxin looked at him and shook his head helplessly.

"You little rascal, you usually seem pretty smart, how come you haven't realized yet that this beast tide is a great opportunity for us?"

"A good opportunity?"

Ma Yinglong was somewhat puzzled. The beast tide was causing chaos, and cultivators were trying to avoid it like the plague, but his own clan leader was saying it was a good opportunity.

"Think about it carefully. Now that the Xu family has added a Foundation Establishment cultivator, even if our Ma family has three sets of Heavenly Gang Formations, we will not be able to reverse the disadvantage. If it were any other day, it would be fine, we can't do anything to the Xu family."

But now is the time when the beast tide is raging. We secretly used some methods to lure some of the demonic beasts to the Xu family's Wuliang Mountain. If Wuliang Mountain is breached by the demonic beasts, then it can only be considered the Xu family's bad luck.

Upon hearing this, Ma Yinglong immediately revealed a sinister smile.

"Chieftain is truly visionary; this is indeed a good idea. However, Chieftain, how easily do you expect these demonic beasts to obey?"

Ma Benxin, with an expression that suggested he had expected this, took out a jade bottle from his pocket. Ma Yinglong's eyes lit up when he saw it.

"This is?"

"I obtained the second-tier demon-attracting powder from the ruins of a former cave dwelling. I used some of it before, and the effect was excellent."

"If it weren't for this plan, I wouldn't have dared to use these things. Just a little bit is enough to drive the monsters mad."

Upon hearing the introduction from his clan patriarch, Ma Yinglong's face hardened. He licked his lips as he looked at Ma Benxin and then spoke.

"Clan leader, why don't we both not only send some to the Xu family, but also to the Li family?"

Upon hearing this, Ma Benxin's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly looked up at Ma Yinglong, only to see a hint of madness in the other man's eyes.

"Yinglong, are you preparing to...?"

"Clan leader, the reason we are being courted by the Li family is because the strength of the Dian and Xu families is roughly equal to that of the Li family. Neither of them can do anything to the other, which is why we have value."

"If the Xu family is defeated this time, the Dian family will definitely be swallowed up by the Li family. In the end, only the Li family and we will be left within a thousand miles. Do you think the Li family will show us any mercy?"

Ma Yinglong's words were soft, yet they struck Ma Benxin's heart with a heavy weight.

"What you say makes sense, and you've thought further ahead than I have. It's true. The Li family has always been arrogant and unreasonable. If the Xu family declines, it certainly won't be a good thing for us."

Here's the arrangement: Yinglong, you take some of the demon-attracting powder and sprinkle it towards the Xu family's direction, and I'll take the rest and arrange it towards the Li family's direction.

"Oh, and Yinglong, sprinkle some for us and the Dian family too. That way, if the Li family realizes something's wrong later, we can clear ourselves of suspicion."

"The clan leader's considerations are indeed thorough, yes!"

Ma Benxin quickly made up his mind, nodded sharply, and immediately took action.

"Yinglong, be careful."

Looking at Ma Yinglong, he gave him a soft reminder.

"yes!"

Several hours later, as the pale yellow powder disappeared into the sky, the roars of the surrounding monsters intensified.

"Hmph, no matter how powerful your Li family is, this time we'll teach you a lesson you won't forget."

Ma Benxin looked towards the direction of Li Jialing's grave, a look of revenge flashing across his face. His hatred for the Li family was no less than that for the other families.

If possible, he desperately wanted to see the day when the other family collapsed. He then quickly disappeared from the spot, carefully erasing any trace he had left behind.

Soon, the pressure on the Li family's defenses increased dramatically, with hundreds and thousands of demonic beasts rapidly attacking the defenses set up by the Li family.

"Chieftain, the first line of defense in the north has been breached."

Li Luo returned from the front, still carrying an uncontrollable aura of menace. Upon hearing his report, Li Luo hurriedly inquired.

"What are the casualties in our Li family?"

"Rest assured, clan leader, I have already quietly withdrawn our Li family members when the defense line was in danger. Those who are at the forefront are those rogue cultivators who value money over their lives."

According to statistics, we have three seriously injured and twenty-one slightly injured. The lightly injured members of our tribe have recovered and are ready to return to the front lines at any time.

He breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that his own side had suffered no major casualties.

"That's good. Come on, let's go out and take a look. If there's an opportunity, let's kill a few second-tier demonic beasts and stabilize the battle line."

The two set off quickly and soon arrived at the second defensive line.

Standing on high ground and looking down, they saw that the densely packed monsters didn't even have a tiny gap between them. Every now and then, a monster would let out a scream, as if it had been trampled to death.

"How can there be so many? During the last beast tide, there were only this many monsters on the seventh day after it broke out."

Seeing the terrifying scale of the monsters, Li Luofang felt a chill run down his spine, and at the same time, he had a bad feeling. This beast tide was even more terrifying than the one he had ever experienced before.

The second line of defense was set up on the rolling hills, which had been urgently reinforced beforehand. It was now using the high ground to kill the monsters.

However, there were simply too many monsters. As the corpses lay on the ground, the other monsters stepped on them and quickly attacked upwards.

These small hills are only a hundred or so feet high. Before long, the corpses might pile up to be as high as the hills, at which point they will have no choice but to retreat again.

"Luo Jing, contact Zhi Feng and Zhi Nian and tell them to come over quickly to stabilize the second line of defense. The beast tide will take at least three months to break out."

If we don't stabilize the situation as much as possible at the beginning, we'll probably have no choice but to rely on our family's formation to hold out.

Li Luo realized the situation was bad and quickly sent out a signal. Then, he and his group landed directly in the herd of beasts.

"Bang!"

The two crashed to the ground like meteorites, and the moment they landed, a tremendous surge of spiritual energy rippled outwards in all directions.

The closer first-tier demonic beasts screamed as if they had been hit head-on by a heavy object, their bodies even turning into meat patties. Those further away were slammed several feet away by a tremendous force.

The moment the two Foundation Establishment cultivators made their move, the pressure on the Li family's defensive cultivators was greatly reduced.

"Clan leader, the elder is invincible."

The Li family cultivators on the second line of defense burst into laughter and cheered. Before they could continue laughing, the earth shook and several second-tier demonic beasts crossed the herd and arrived at the front.