Following Niu Man's order.

All nearby Chaos Beast tribes responded and mobilized one after another.

For these slightly weaker tribes.

The Great Sacrificial Ceremony held every hundred thousand years was their only opportunity to increase their strength.

Although under normal circumstances.

Various wars would frequently break out between Cultivators and Chaos Beasts.

However, the scale of these wars was never too large.

Moreover, the side that suffered losses was often the Chaos Beasts.

It couldn't be helped.

Who told the Cultivators to build Teleportation Arrays in their Immortal Cities.

Once an Immortal City was attacked, other cities would quickly teleport over to provide support.

But in the case of a large-scale melee like the Great Sacrificial Ceremony.

All Cultivator Immortal Cities within the entire region.

Whether they were ordinary Wei Cities or those towering Lord-level Cities.

Even the high and mighty King Cities would all come under attack from Chaos Beasts.

Under such circumstances.

No city could spare manpower to support others.

Even if they temporarily repelled the Chaos Beast offensive.

No one dared to leave easily.

For fear that the Chaos Beasts would double back and strike again.

It was precisely because of this.

Every time a beast tide broke out, many Immortal Cities would be breached.

A large number of Cultivators would be captured by Chaos Beasts and used as sacrifices to be offered to the True God Supreme.

Although Teleportation Arrays existed in every Immortal City.

When a beast tide erupted...

All Immortal Cities were in a state of war.

No one could guarantee which Immortal City was actually the safest.

Because even King Cities had records of being captured by Chaos Beasts.

As for the Lord-level Immortal Cities of various major powers, the number of those captured by Chaos Beasts was not small either.

For example, Li Jiuyue and the others whom Zhang Yuhe had encountered back then.

The Jiuli Sect they belonged to.

Originally also had a Taiyi Immortal Lord presiding over it.

They once possessed a massive Lord-level Immortal City on the Chaos Continent.

However, during an Immortal Tribulation several hundred thousand years ago, the Jiuli Sect's Lord-level City.

Was captured by Chaos Beasts.

Even the two Taiyi Immortal Lord Old Ancestors presiding over the city were taken away by Chaos Beasts to be used as sacrifices.

Therefore, in every Great Sacrificial Ceremony.

The Chaos Beasts of various tribes would have some gains.

Although their losses were not small either.

But in the eyes of those high-level Chaos Beasts.

As long as they could obtain a large number of sacrifices, no matter how great the losses, it was nothing.

...

Yingyue City.

A group of Golden Immortal Cultivators seemed to be talking and laughing.

But everyone would frequently and involuntarily cast their nervous gazes toward the distant wilderness.

Only Zhang Yuhe's expression remained calm.

Not a trace of nervousness could be seen on his face.

Because he had great confidence in his own strength.

Even before his breakthrough.

He could beat a mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast to death.

Now that he had reached the Golden Immortal Middle Stage.

Even against a Seven-Star Chaos Beast equivalent to the Grand Unity Realm, he would dare to exchange a few moves.

If he activated the Primordial Unity Divine Power.

He was confident he could kill an ordinary Seven-Star Chaos Beast.

Yingyue City was just a small Garrison City.

No matter how large the scale of the beast tide was.

Generally, Chaos Beasts with strength exceeding seven stars would not appear.

In that case, what did he have to worry about?

He only needed to quietly wait for the Chaos Beasts to come and seek their deaths.

Suddenly, Zhang Yuhe looked into the distance.

At the horizon.

Dark clouds filled the sky, slowly rising.

Rumbling sounds could be faintly heard from afar.

Nangong Youxi's expression turned stern as she slowly spoke to everyone.

“Everyone get ready, the Chaos Beasts have arrived.”

Everyone looked nervously into the distance.

Although the traces of the Chaos Beasts were not yet visible.

The tense atmosphere was so oppressive that everyone felt a bit breathless.

After a short while.

An endless sea of Chaos Beasts appeared on the horizon.

A massive number of Chaos Beasts were rapidly galloping toward Yingyue City.

Zhang Yuhe pushed his Divine Sense to the limit, carefully observing the Chaos Beast lineup.

Soon, he regained his calm expression.

After his Divine Sense swept over.

He had clearly seen the Chaos Beast Formation.

There were about twenty thousand Chaos Beasts below three stars.

As for Golden Immortal Realm Chaos Beasts of four stars and above, there were about thirty of them.

There were five Six-Star Chaos Beasts.

However, among these Six-Star Chaos Beasts, there was actually a mutated humanoid Chaos Beast.

This made Zhang Yuhe feel somewhat surprised.

Hadn't the mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast from the Liu Yuan Tribe been killed by him?

Where did this mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast come from now?

Of course.

He was only a bit curious and didn't care too much.

Since he could fight a mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast when he was at the Golden Immortal Early Stage.

Then now that he had reached the Golden Immortal Middle Stage, it was even less of a problem.

Zhang Yuhe did not take this mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast to heart at all.

In his eyes.

This mutated Chaos Beast was nothing more than a walking heavenly and earthly treasures.

And it had already been reserved.

Don't even think about running.

In contrast to Zhang Yuhe's calmness, the other Golden Immortal Cultivators on the city wall were filled with panic.

Nangong Youxi looked into the distance with a solemn expression.

When she saw that mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast, her heart couldn't help but tighten.

She was confident she could fight an ordinary Six-Star Chaos Beast.

Even if she couldn't kill it, she was confident she could repel a Six-Star Chaos Beast.

But facing a mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast, she didn't have the slightest confidence.

Despite this.

She had no intention of giving up.

Even if she couldn't win, she had to try first.

Nangong Youxi looked around and then said solemnly.

“In a moment, Fellow Daoist Zhang and Immortal Yu, come with me to deal with that mutated Six-Star Chaos Beast.”

“The others will rely on the Formation and try their best to hold back the remaining Golden Immortal Realm Chaos Beasts.”

Everyone's expression was silent.

Everyone knew that this would be a tough battle.

Although they had a Formation to rely on.

But Chaos Beasts were massive in size and their offensive power was exceptionally fierce.

Once the Chaos Beasts were allowed to get close to Yingyue City's walls.

The Immortal City's defensive Formation wouldn't be able to last for very long.

The Chaos Beasts only needed to launch a few rounds of attacks to break the Immortal City's defenses.

In other words.

If they wanted to hold back the Chaos Beasts, they had to fight outside the city.

Looking at the more than thirty Golden Immortal Realm Chaos Beasts in the distance, everyone couldn't help but feel a bit intimidated.

The gap in strength was a bit large.

Despite this.

No one had yet proposed to directly teleport and retreat.

Running away without fighting a single battle—where would they put their faces?

Moreover, Nangong Youxi would not allow everyone to just retreat like that.

The resources of the Garrison City itself were indeed not particularly important to the Nangong Immortal Clan.

But the role of a Garrison City was not just for resource extraction.

It was meant to guard Heavenly Palace City.

Wei Cities were established surrounding Heavenly Palace City.

When a beast tide arrived, they could attract and disperse the strength of the Chaos Beasts.

If they retreated directly.

Wouldn't these Chaos Beasts then charge straight for Heavenly Palace City?

The existence of Wei Cities was to reduce the defensive pressure on Heavenly Palace City.

Unless it was truly impossible to hold on.

Otherwise, Nangong Youxi would obviously not lead everyone to retreat easily.

Even if they only held on for a little while longer, it could reduce the defensive pressure over at Heavenly Palace City.

Even if they were to retreat, they would wait until they could no longer sustain the defense.

They had only just seen the silhouettes of the Chaos Beasts.

There was no reason to retreat directly just like that.

...