Chapter 172: Might Of Divine Union
Hao Yi let out a fierce shout that steadied the army’s morale. Although this vile beast could speak a word or two, it clearly did not possess Dan Qiao Realm strength.
What it had said earlier had indeed disturbed the hearts of many martial artists.
The Green Lion Beast’s eyes were like bronze bells. Its body shook, sending out waves of surging demonic essence that crashed toward Hao Yi’s Ink Flood Dragon.
Both forms were enormous, over a hundred meters long. Under Divine Union, their oppressive might was like a prison, majestic as the heavens.
In their fierce collision, they even overturned much of Bai Shan Town’s city wall.
“Vile beast, how dare you block the Beast King Sect!”
Hao Yi’s gaze sharpened, and nine short knives appeared at his waist.
The nine flying knives were crafted from silver jade, intricately engraved, infused with spiritual power, and exuding an extraordinary aura.
As his flying knives shot out, they whistled one after another from his waist, spinning into a silver blade flower in midair.
The Feather Flying Knife instantly filled with true essence, manifesting a blade over three meters long, slashing toward the Green Lion Beast.
A spirit tool?!
Ma Tianhong and the others saw this and their pupils contracted, never expecting Hao Yi to possess a spirit tool flying knife.
A third-order treasure, though unable to be controlled internally, was still like adding wings to a tiger when driven externally as it was now.
The Green Lion Beast roared and struck, its green demonic essence turning into terrifying waves crashing down.
The Feather Flying Knife directly slashed through, leaving several ferocious crevices on its body.
Another feral beast roared as it charged, its fur shining like vast gold, with menacing inverted horns on its head, like an ox and a wolf—it was a Gnash-tooth Wolf.
It flung several sharp beams from its horns straight at Hao Yi.
The Ink Flood Dragon True Intent’s Flood Dragon Claw descended from the sky, seizing its horns and slamming it into the ground.
The Green Lion Beast pounced over, its injured body making it even more berserk.
Hao Yi’s figure soared into the air, coordinating with the Ink Flood Dragon. The nine Feather Flying Knives swirled continuously, attacking the Green Lion Beast.
For a moment, it was a dragon-tiger battle. The Divine Union clash made it so that within two or three hundred meters, no person or beast dared approach.
“Shriek!”
A ferocious cry rang out as the Three-headed Vulture flew in, spitting several beams of black light from its mouth.
“Ma Tianhong, what are you waiting for?”
Hao Yi commanded the military formation. As the formation activated and merged with him, it virtualized a golden-armored giant.
He swung his huge hand, smashing down the black light.
But the next moment, the Green Lion Beast and Gnash-tooth Wolf attacked again, tangling with him in combat.
Ma Tianhong’s arms shook, and his golden scale fist armor blasted out two powerful streams of true essence, tearing apart a second-order feral beast in front of him.
“Attack together!”
The pitch-black Back-through Ape behind him merged with him, transforming into a giant ape over ten meters tall, striding toward the Three-headed Vulture.
Lin Zifang and Zhou Yaokun nearby received the signal and also transformed, summoning Ice-hiding Snake and Cold Mountain Hou True Intents, charging straight at the Three-headed Vulture and Gnash-tooth Wolf.
All three were Fourth Realm of True Intent Divine Union martial artists, even if not as powerful as Hao Yi.
But when they fought, it was still an earth-shaking spectacle.
The four people and three beasts fought chaotically in Bai Shan Town.
With the feral beasts unrestrained, they now rampaged in chaos, continuously charging and killing through the entire Mountain Guard and martial artist ranks.
The Mountain Guard continuously strangled them, their auras linked with Hao Yi’s. Every Mountain Guard disciple seemed empowered with much greater strength.
The disciples of the three families cooperated together, constantly resisting the feral beast assaults.
Though not forming a formation like the Mountain Guard, their coordination was like a dagger, tearing through the entire feral beast group.
Bai Yun, Du Yuan, Bai Chenyao, and others cooperated in combat, leading a team of inner and outer disciples to target and kill first-order perfected and second-order feral beasts.
Like a dagger, breaking open the situation.
Su Yan was the most flamboyant—or rather, the commotion he caused was only slightly less than the Divine Union fights.
He charged directly into the densest area of feral beasts. The Heavenly Python Dharma Body coiled around him, spear in hand—even second-order mid-stage feral beasts could not withstand a single strike from him.
He directly summoned his three True Intent Beast Spirits. His body’s Star Constellation True Essence poured into the Beast Spirit True Intents, linking the Six-Winged Blood Centipede and Shadow Horn Spider together as well.
The true essence links were like starry rivers connecting constellations, with true essence flowing continuously, forming a mysterious and powerful bond.
Roar!
Several early and mid second-order feral beasts sensed the threat and proactively surged out, enveloping hundreds of feral beasts.
Su Yan sneered, his eyes slightly closing as the Insect Consciousness Seed spread out. His spirit swept over the entire battlefield like a giant hand.
“Star Constellation Formation, rise!”
Soaring fluorescent light rotated continuously.
The three beast spirits and two fierce insects immediately charged into the beast group.
A second-order wolf beast charged in, but the Poison Star Ape swung its massive arm, snapping it in half at the waist. Starlight surged from its mouth, sweeping away a swath of feral beasts.
Some feral beast flew toward him, not even reaching Su Yan.
The Star Moon Centipede spat several beams of white light, piercing it directly in midair.
In just one clash, four or five second-order feral beasts were lost.
As the True Intent Beast Spirits and fierce insects reached their positions, the Power of Star Constellations formed a pentagon, converging in the center and instantly crashing down like a meteor starfall.
In an instant, within the range, whether second-order feral beasts or first-order ones, all turned into corpses under this attack.
The true essence attack was like a meteor shower, but its danger was enough to chill everyone’s heart.
Everyone was stunned by this commotion.
Even Hao Yi glanced over and inwardly drew a cold breath—such an impressive skill.
He then narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing joy, and said in a deep voice: “Junior Brother Su, command the Mountain Guard and join the formation!”
A tiger tally flew toward Su Yan like a flying knife.
He grabbed it, immediately feeling a vast power.
It came from the military formation, the formation condensed from the linked minds of numerous disciples.
Holding such a token, Su Yan could not fully command the formation.
But he could join it to control and mobilize some of the formation’s power.
He opened his eyes and poured true essence into the tiger tally.
Instantly, true essence surged, swirling around him.
Su Yan calmly ordered: “Squad captains control the whole army, form up to strangle clustered feral beasts! Disciples above True Intent Realm, assault second-order feral beasts!”
He took the lead, forming the Star Constellation Formation and combining it with the Mountain Guard formation, directly targeting two late second-order feral beasts.
That squad captain was fighting a feral beast and being suppressed.
As soon as Su Yan arrived, Star Picking Hand descended from the sky like a great seal, pinning it to the ground with cracking sounds as its bones shattered.
“Thank you, Junior Brother.”
The squad captain was both shocked and delighted, not expecting this junior brother to be so formidable.
With Su Yan leading, the speed of strangling feral beasts undoubtedly increased greatly.
Hao Yi freed up his hands, and the Feather Flying Knives attacked in succession.
The Green Lion Beast wanted to fight desperately, but how rich was Hao Yi’s combat experience?
His figure shifted, and a flying knife pierced the Green Lion Beast’s brow. Soon after, he directly slew it.
With one second-order perfected feral beast dead, the balance was immediately broken.
Ma Tianhong and the others instantly unleashed their power, plus Hao Yi’s Ink Flood Dragon suppression.
Soon, the Gnash-tooth Wolf was also struck at a vital point, most of its body pierced through, blood pouring like a waterfall as it fell dead.
Looking at the last Three-headed Vulture, it had long harbored thoughts of escape.
But before it could withdraw, Zhou Yaokun’s embodied Cold Mountain Hou spat out over a hundred ice spikes, piercing it directly.
Its wings were a mess of flesh and blood, one ferocious head smashed to pulp. Its body fell limply, only for Lin Zifang’s Ice-hiding Snake to bite through its neck.
The battle gradually neared its end. Su Yan withdrew his True Intents bit by bit, relying only on the Six-Winged Blood Centipede to continuously strangle feral beasts. Though not as before, the commotion was still considerable.
After a full half day, the feral beasts in Bai Shan Town were finally killed into chaos.
Feral beasts scattered everywhere, with nearly all second-order feral beasts wiped out.
After Hao Yi slew the last late second-order feral beast, Bai Shan Town was recaptured.
“Tally feral beast materials and enter the city to rest. Mountain Guard disciples, beware of possible feral beasts hiding in the town.”
As orders were issued one by one, the Mountain Guard and various martial artist teams entered the city, beginning to clear potential dangers in Bai Shan Town.
For the street-fighting search this time, Su Yan did not take action.
His gaze swept over the battlefield. Bai Shan Town’s city walls were tall and imposing, with thick bricks and stones. Though the buildings were crude, the city walls were particularly exquisite.
The houses in the city varied in height, but visibly, it had once been a bustling street scene.
Yet now, it was a scene of ruined walls and broken buildings, with tall structures collapsed, streets shattered, littered with disordered objects, feral beast corpses, and traces of looting and destruction.
Feral beasts were not humans. After breaking into Bai Shan Town and devouring large amounts of blood food, they would scatter to hunt prey, neither able nor willing to loot the town’s possessions.
But now, between houses and shops in the town, there were many signs of rummaging.
It was clear how many people had taken risks here to grab resources that could not be transferred from the town in time.
“They ran quite fast.”
Su Yan scanned all of Bai Shan Town but found no trace of Cheng Han from the Sacred Weapon Path earlier.
The disciples continuously cleared Bai Shan Town, finally carving out some footholds.
The Mountain Guard and inner and outer disciples had casualties, but not too heavy.
The Ma, Lin, and Zhou families had slightly more.
Su Yan arrived at the city wall edge on the outskirts of the town, where a hundred-meter collapse crevice lay before him.
The formation patterns on the city wall abruptly ended here.
Hao Yi, Ma Lin, and the three family heads were all here.
A tall, slender woman in a white dress holding a wolf-hair brush stood before the group.
Her wolf-hair brush sketched and dotted, true essence flowing as her spirit poured in, drawing a vivid beast pattern.
But the beast pattern had just formed when it quickly dispersed, failing to resonate.
Xu Qingyin shook her head, turned, and said: “The suppressing object is destroyed, spirituality dispelled. The entire city wall’s formation patterns are ruined, completely devoid of spirituality—this was done deliberately.”
“Junior Sister Qingyin, can you tell which sect’s style it is?”
“I don’t know.”
She hesitated, looking at them: “The Divine Union battle just now was right in the town, likely destroying many traces. Indeed, it’s hard to tell.”
“Sacred Weapon Path.”
Lin Zifang’s gaze was stern as he said to Hao Yi: “Commander Hao, what more evidence is needed? The person in charge at Old Temple Entrance was a Sacred Weapon Path disciple, and the earlier assault had Sacred Weapon Path soul soldier True Intent. How much more proof?”
His words were indignant—the Lin Family had lost many disciples in the battle.
“With Old Temple Entrance not wiped out, Bai Shan Town will likely face constant harassment.”
Zhou Yaokun said darkly.
The Bai Family of Bai Shan Town had only Bai Lingyun this legitimate son left. Though aided by uncles and elders, the strongest was merely Second Master Bai Yan.
Bai Yan was a True Intent Realm Third Realm Condensing Momentum Stage martial artist at great accomplishment, but still a long way from Divine Union.
During the feral beast clearing, the Bai Family disciples had some kills, with Bai Lingyun fighting the fiercest, yet still falling short.
Zhou Yaokun saying this now was not complaining, but a reminder.
The Bai Family could not protect all of Bai Shan Town.
Hao Yi’s gaze swept over, his eyes lowering slightly. His face was expressionless, impossible to tell what he was thinking.
“Mountain Guard disciples will garrison for three months.”
A flicker in Zhou Yaokun’s eyes, but he smiled on his face: “That is excellent.”
Three months was a test period.
Bai Shan Town needed someone capable enough to take charge.
If Bai Yan and Bai Lingyun proved reliable, three months would suffice to stabilize their footing.
But if not, whether Ma Tianhong or Lin Zifang took power, it would make little difference.
“Commander Hao, what about the city formation issue?”
The question came from Ma Tianhong.
Hao Yi looked at Su Yan, then said: “My junior brother will take charge of this. The Mountain Guard will cooperate, of course with help from the family heads.”
“Young Master Su, what about matters here?”
Ma Tianhong looked at Su Yan with a concerned expression—who could tell he had just sent gifts last night?
Su Yan slightly raised his eyes and said flatly: “Exit the city to suppress bandits.”
Ma Tianhong and the others were slightly stunned, then nodded: “We’ll go scout the news now.”
Suppressing bandits could not just target Sacred Weapon Path’s Old Temple Entrance—all bandit cultivators who looted and caused chaos were likely in Su Yan’s sights.
This was no small commotion.
The group made their respective arrangements, then went to handle their tasks.
The Mountain Guard split off some to return to Feng City, then gradually escorted Bai Shan Town residents back from various places.
Though Bai Shan Town was damaged, the overall structure was intact. With residents returning, after about four or five days, it gradually regained much of its former appearance.
Ma Tianhong, Lin Zifang, and Zhou Yaokun’s three families moved frequently. On the third day, they began sending reports on bandit cultivators outside the city.
Occupied mountain peaks or hidden mountain valleys, all scouted one by one.
Bai Yun, Du Yuan, and others personally led teams, with Ma Family disciples like Ma Lixue joining as well.
In five days, they swept three large camps and two small ones, killing over a hundred bandit cultivator martial artists, even including True Intent Realm Third Realm Condensing Momentum martial artists.
Heads rolled inside and outside Bai Shan Town. Even in Ma Wang Town, Liang Shui Town, and other three towns, they killed many thief spies.
One could say the three families’ cooperation dismantled many bandit cultivator setups.
In a short time, the entire four-town area became much safer.
Inside Bai Shan Town, Su Yan resided in a mansion.
“Junior Brother, going on like this, I’m afraid we won’t find anything. I think the Sacred Weapon Path people have withdrawn.”
Du Yuan frowned slightly, quietly offering a suggestion.
“Not necessarily.”
Su Yan shook his head, revealing a smile.
“Killing is just the beginning. Senior Brother, stay calm—this play has only just started.”
Du Yuan did not know what his junior brother was thinking. Making such a big show definitely would not uncover much, but aside from this method, there seemed no other way.
“One can hope.”
As his voice fell, someone came to report that someone from the Bai Family had come to invite them.
