Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 463 - 245: Sudden Change in Situation, Zhou Family Crisis [Subscription Request]_2

The sudden change left the cultivators inside the frontline outpost enveloped by the Beast Tide, with horrendously heavy casualties.

Zhou Chun was able to quickly learn the details of the incident only because he encountered a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator who had luckily escaped from the outpost. He learned of the events from him.

But before he could inquire further, that Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator had already rushed back to his own family clan.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun was also panicked and flustered. He hurriedly told the Qi Refinement Realm cultivators from the Wang and Yang families to return home on their own, and then he headed straight back to the Zhou Family with Zhou Xinlan.

He didn’t know whether Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan, and those Zhou Family Cultivators who were taken to the outpost were dead or alive, but he knew that if they survived, they would definitely return to the family clan first.

Moreover, the loss of the frontline outpost had very serious consequences!

Although the Zhou Family’s Jiufeng Ridge was some distance away from that frontline outpost, if the Beast Tide ravaged through Lanzhou territory, it wouldn’t take long for them to reach there.

Hurriedly making his way, after several hours, Zhou Chun finally returned to the mountain gate of his family clan in Jiufeng Ridge.

To his relief, he found that Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi, whom he was worried about all along the way, had already returned to the family clan before him.

However, his relief didn’t last long, as Zhou Daoyi’s subsequent words completely dispelled it.

"Although I managed to fight my way out of the Beast Tide with the help of Qingqing and the Fire Divine Jackal, Daoquan was separated from me by the Beast Tide at that time, and his life or death is now unknown!"

"Moreover, it is feared that the fate of the Zhou Family’s Qi Refinement Realm cultivators is more often deadly than lucky, and few might have escaped!"

In just a few sentences, all the joy in Zhou Chun’s heart dissipated, and his heart sank instantly.

For the Zhou Family, whether it was Zhou Daoquan, who was in the late stage of Foundation Establishment and had hopes of reaching the Purple Mansion Phase, or Zhou Zhenglan and the more than twenty other family Qi Refinement Realm cultivators, they were all irreplaceable.

Yet now, through Zhou Daoyi’s words, it was not hard to infer that for cultivators like Zhou Zhenglan, the odds were more likely to be dire.

Zhou Chun’s mind flashed through the faces and voices of those clan members who had fought together just a few days ago, and he couldn’t help but widen his eyes and look at Zhou Daoyi, asking, "What exactly happened at the frontline outpost? I only heard that a four-stage mid-grade Demon Beast, the Burrowing Earth Dragon, cut off the Earth Vein and disturbed the Spirit Vein, causing the Guardian Great Formation to be breached by the Beast Tide, but can it be that without the Guardian Great Formation, the cultivators inside the outpost couldn’t withstand even a single blow?"

Hearing this, Zhou Daoyi pursed his lips, his expression still haunted, as he replied, "The formation was indeed broken because of the emergence of the Burrowing Earth Dragon, but the main reason for our disarray and fleeing in panic was because of the Dragon Transformation Sect’s Red Dragon Hall Master and that four-stage mid-grade Red Fire Flood Dragon!"

"At that time, when that man and dragon suddenly came out, the three hidden Golden Core Stage cultivators from the Green Lotus Temple couldn’t stop them at all. The formation we had composed for the breakout was even more shattered by a single strike from the Red Dragon Hall Master, and those who survived were lucky enough to flee in all directions, each seeking their own way to live!"

Hearing this response, Zhou Chun fell silent for a moment.

The Hall Master of the Red Dragon Hall, if he remembered correctly, should be a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

The strength of that four-stage mid-grade Red Fire Flood Dragon was even likely to be somewhat stronger than a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

Such a combination suddenly appearing on the battlefield, and add to that the four-stage mid-grade Burrowing Earth Dragon...

Zhou Chun could already imagine how terrible and desperate the situation was at that time!

Under those circumstances, it was already fortunate that Zhou Daoyi could save his own life and escape; trying to save others was indeed beyond his power.

All he could do was ask in a low voice, "So, what do we do now? Since even powerful adversaries like the Red Dragon Hall Master have appeared in Lanzhou, the Beast Tide here in Lanzhou won’t just ravage the mundane world. How should our Zhou Family respond to this incident?"

"There’s no other way now, we can only prepare for the worst. If an unstoppable Beast Tide comes surging toward our family, then we will have to abandon Jiufeng Ridge to save the remaining cultivators of the family clan!"

Zhou Daoyi shook his head, his tone low as he suggested a course of action.

Abandon Jiufeng Ridge?

Hearing this, Zhou Chun was also speechless.

His reason told him this was the best choice.

But emotionally, he found it hard to accept this outcome.

Because once that happened, the Zhou Family’s decades of hard work would have been for naught, and everything would have to start all over again!

At this moment, Zhou Mingde, who had remained silent up until now, suddenly waved his hand and said, "Alright, Zhengchun, you must be tired from rushing here all the way, go back and rest first. I will arrange for someone to handle these matters."

He had already experienced the hardship of being forced to leave his hometown, so compared to Zhou Chun, he was undoubtedly more able to accept that worst-case scenario.

"Then, I shall take my leave first!"

Zhou Chun, with a heavy heart, glanced at the two elders, paid his respects, and then withdrew first. Experience tales at novelbuddy

At such a time, indeed, there was nothing anyone could do.

All they could do was to see how the Green Lotus Temple, the Moon Wheel Sect, and the Sunflame Sect, these three major factions, would respond to this situation.

Clearly, the Green Lotus Temple was more anxious about the loss of the Lanzhou frontline stronghold than the Zhou Family was.

The position of Lanzhou was extremely important to the Green Lotus Temple; it linked the temple in Lianzhou to Yunzhou and Lingzhou.

If this place were fully occupied by the Demon Beast, the supply line to the Green Lotus Temple and the Yunzhou frontline would effectively be cut off, and it was even possible that the temple could be pressured by the Beast Tide.

Therefore, just over a dozen two hours after the Lanzhou frontline stronghold fell, four Golden Core Stage Cultivators and more than ten Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators quickly arrived from the main temple of the Green Lotus Temple and the Yunzhou frontline.

These individuals, together with the Golden Core Stage Cultivators like Master Qingyang who had retreated from the frontline, kept an eye on the Red Dragon Hall Master and those fourth-order Demon Beasts within the Beast Tide, preventing them from continuing to lead the Beast Tide forward and spreading.

However, while they could keep an eye on the fourth-order Demon Beasts, there was simply no way to stop the Beast Tide Army that had already rushed into the hinterlands of Lanzhou.

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Most of the Cultivators from various cultivation families in Lanzhou had been dispatched to the Misty Swamp frontline stronghold. As a result, they suffered heavy losses due to the stronghold falling, and now there was no possibility of sending more Cultivators to form a great army to meet and block the Beast Tide Army.

Even their own sects were now threatened by the Beast Tide Army.

"The He Family of Qingzhu Mountain has already evacuated in advance; their family’s sect has now been trampled by the Beast Tide. According to them, the Beast Tide is spreading in all directions, with their main force moving towards Lianzhou, and it is already less than six hundred miles away from our Zhou Family!"

Atop Pagoda Peak, several high-ranking members of the Zhou Family gathered to share the latest intelligence reports.

As the Beast Tide broke into the hinterlands of Lanzhou, Cultivators from all regions fled, and various reports flew around, making it difficult to discern truth from fiction.

Most of the information received by the Zhou Family came from cultivators who had fled to the vicinity of Jiufeng Ridge.

The intelligence sent by the He Family, now allied with them, was the first formal report they had received.

And this report was extremely important.

After reading the report, Zhou Chun immediately offered his view, "Lianzhou is the foundation of the Green Lotus Temple; if the Beast Tide were to enter, it would shake their foundation. They would definitely not stand by and let this happen!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Zhou Mingde nodded in agreement, "Zhengchun is right. Unless there is no other option, the Green Lotus Temple will absolutely not allow the war to reach Lianzhou!"

As he said this, Zhou Mingde also spoke in a low tone, "In my opinion, it’s likely that the Green Lotus Temple will soon send reinforcements to our Zhou Family and other families close to Lianzhou, using us as bastions to fend off the enemy outside of Lianzhou."

Fend off the enemy outside Lianzhou, huh?

Zhou Chun’s expression shifted, and he quickly replied, "If what the Supreme Elder says is true, then we must now relocate the secular clan members. We need to ensure they are at least several hundred miles away from the family’s sect!"

"Yes, this must be done immediately."

Zhou Mingde nodded, agreeing with Zhou Chun’s suggestion with a solemn expression.

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly rang out from outside Central Peace Hall.

"Zhou Jiahe requests an audience with the Supreme Elder and the Clan Leader, I have important matters to report to the two elders!"