Chapter 147: Battle Ends
Ever since the Spirit Fox Sect was annihilated, she had nowhere to go.
At first, she wasn’t interested in Wang’an County, but after seeing Wang’an County begin its renovation, she settled down there.
She built a small house for herself and lived on the outskirts.
But not in the area where the demonic beasts invaded.
She spent her days in the county town.
Her talent wasn’t high; she was only at the Late Qi Condensation Stage.
Joining the Flying Sparrow Sect wouldn’t be difficult, but what about after joining?
She excelled at Beast Taming, while the Flying Sparrow Sect had plenty of Artifact Refining secret techniques, which conflicted with her skills.
Longevity Sect…
This sect was truly strange.
Out of curiosity, Lu Yao stayed in Wang’an County for a long time.
When she discovered they were also building city walls, she found the action to be overly redundant.
Such fragile walls built of stone couldn’t even withstand the attacks of Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators; what was the use of building them?
Even Major Sects only built city walls for aesthetics and prestige.
Only rare Spirit Ores could forge incredibly sturdy Pavilions that could resist any magic attack.
But it was impossible to use such Spirit Ores to build city walls.
If Major Sects were like this, what about Small Sects?
As a result, this battle greatly surpassed Lu Yao’s understanding.
She noticed that the materials these cultivators used to build the city walls didn’t seem like the usual stone materials for construction she remembered, but a kind of grayish material. After construction, the city walls appeared cold and heavy.
But their resistance to erosion was so strong!
So many First Order Demonic Beasts, and also Magic Horned Snakes that liked to self-destruct and were disgusting.
Aside from the unavoidable stench, their venom couldn’t penetrate the city walls.
This was also why the Longevity Sect Players could always keep the battlefield confined to the outskirts.
The sealing and anti-corrosion properties were exceptionally good.
How was this possible?
Ordinary stone materials simply couldn’t withstand the corrosive effects of demonic beast venom.
This was where the wisdom of the Players came into play.
After all, ancient people were accustomed to cultivation and convenience; they weren’t good at industrialization.
The Players initially used simple cement to build the city walls and even conducted experiments with demonic beast venom.
Ordinary cement still couldn’t quite withstand the corrosive effects of demonic beast venom. In the end, they discovered that a certain type of Spirit Ore had some anti-corrosive properties against venom.
This Spirit Ore was a First Order material, very common, and also used for Artifact Refining.
The Players crushed it, mixed it with cement, and built the walls using Spiritual Energy. Once compacted, they could resist most First and Second Order venom erosion.
Even if it wasn’t 100% effective, cement was inexhaustible, the materials were simple and convenient, and if some parts were damaged, the Players could dismantle and rebuild them at any time.
This was much more convenient than modern industry!
Although this action seemed like a superfluous act to cultivators – like taking off pants to fart – it was purely unnecessary.
City walls couldn’t block cultivators’ attacks, so why build them?
As for protecting mortals – don’t talk such nonsense. If cultivators couldn’t protect themselves, why bother protecting mortals?
This was the conceptual misunderstanding on both sides.
Just tell me, was building the city walls useful in this battle or not!
Building city walls was to prevent isolated First or Second Order Demonic Beasts from suddenly killing their way into Wang’an County, as this could truly catch them off guard.
Moreover, the city walls could block a portion of their line of sight. The Players had now built many Workshops within the county town, mainly to prevent other cultivators and mortals from seeing them and having wild thoughts.
It was just that plain cement wasn’t very attractive, so they planned to make dyes to color the city walls.
In short, this battle had indeed caused a great shock to Lu Yao.
Her biggest shock was that when the battle began, the cultivators’ first priority was to have the mortals take cover.
One had to know that when demonic beasts attacked, everyone was struggling to survive; no one would think of protecting mortals first.
Lu Yao even saw new Players ） who had no cultivation （ watching the excitement on the city walls.
In any other place, such people would have been directly killed by cultivators.
They were of no use other than causing trouble.
Where did they get such audacity?
Yet, the cultivators didn’t seem to care at all.
She watched them work together to charge out and clear away the demonic beast corpses, and upon returning, they meticulously divided the materials from the corpses before burning them with fire.
There were even dedicated processing Workshops.
It was just that the smell was too overpowering.
It wasn’t until a large number of cultivators returned to Wang’an County that Lu Yao was certain they had won.
She heard there were still Third Order Demonic Beasts outside, but they had still managed to hold them off.
And the first thing the returning cultivators did wasn’t to rest, but to rush into the… Restaurant.
“I’m exhausted. I just dealt with a pile of corpses. I feel like a forensic doctor with excessive professional ethics from those TV shows.”
“When I was dealing with the Toad Snake corpses just now, I remembered I’ve never eaten snake meat.”
“…You guys are getting more and more perverted.”
“If it weren’t for the fact that no one here is managing things, I would have reported that Pharmacy. I wanted them to give me a discount given how hard we worked, but they acted like I was crazy. Damn it, not paying protection fees while living here? The Flying Sparrow Sect doesn’t even manage this!”
“Capitalists are all evil. When will Fan Guozhou and the others build their own Sect-owned Pharmacy?”
“Soon, I think. They’re definitely going to get it done this time. They’ve stockpiled too little medicine. If it weren’t for…”
At this point, the Players lowered their voices.
Because they also noticed other cultivators were present.
If it weren’t for the large-scale supply from the Peach Blossom Sect, these Pills wouldn’t be enough.
“When are they going to build an Artifact Workshop? I’m really envious seeing their Flying Magic Treasures and Combat Magic Treasures, but I don’t have enough Points to buy materials…”
Both Artifact Refining and Alchemy require talent, and the failure rate is too high. Ordinary Players still can’t attempt them in large quantities.
A large number of Players also returned to the safety of their Sect and chose to log off directly.
The number of Players as exhausted as Zhou Xiao was not small.
Most of the materials, after being processed by them, were temporarily donated to the Sect and placed in the Sect Warehouse.
Due to the excessive consumption during this battle, Song Jiulai also invested a large sum of money.
She didn’t hesitate to take all the Demonic Beast Materials; after all, she would take thirty percent of what was donated to the Sect.
The Players didn’t mind, as the Sect Master was a genuine miser who plucked a lot of feathers.
Song Jiulai didn’t say she collected all the materials from this demonic beast invasion because she still had a large batch of Tier 3 Spirit Herbs left to sell.
By the time Han Tian and the others rushed back, only corpses and the stench remained.
The battle had already ended. Han Tian, covering his nose, led people to deal with the corpses. Most Players had logged off, and someone always had to handle the aftermath.
Before logging off, Zhou Xiao complained to Han Tian.
“You’re just like that character in TV shows who always appears at the very end.”
Han Tian: “…”
It was noon, and the New Players were logging in one after another.
Zhan Sheng didn’t log in at five in the morning. She had overslept. After waking up and handling some work matters, she finally had time to log in and received the news that the battle had ended.
There was also a System notification sound.
“Congratulations, you have become the first Player in this Game with Gold Spiritual Root talent. You don’t need to attend the Sect test.”
Something unpleasant happened yesterday, and I forgot to ask for leave when I didn’t update. I’m very sorry for being busy lately. I’ll make up for yesterday with two chapters today, and another two chapters to compensate for the unstable updates these past few days, which won’t count towards the owed chapters. Today’s two chapters will be posted as usual later.
