Chapter 1431: Seeing the Human Race Again

After crossing the long river, Li Yan once again concealed his form and began to fly at a low altitude, searching the area.

The number of demonic beasts here began to decrease again, as if the long river was a dividing line. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth here grew a few degrees richer.

This made Li Yan a little strange. Logically, the better the spiritual energy here, the more demonic beasts there should be.

But he soon realized something. This should be an area of human cultivator activity, so those demonic beasts would not easily cross the long river.

Sure enough, after a careful search, and after flying forward for another two hundred li, a village finally appeared in his line of sight.

In this village, there were many humans, but after Li Yan confirmed, he found that they were just a group of mortals.

This village had about a dozen households. It was just that at this moment, the village was in a state of chaos, with people wailing and crying.

About thirty or so villagers, both men and women, were holding knives and spears, hiding behind a long wall built of green stones.

Most of these people held spears, and there were also a small number of sabers and swords.

However, what surprised Li Yan was that a few people were actually holding a few talismans, looking as if they were ready to activate and deploy them at any time.

There were small holes in the gaps between some of the green stones on the long wall, and those mortals were looking at the other side of the long wall through these small holes.

Occasionally, they would suddenly thrust their spears and long swords through some of the small holes, directly stabbing at the other side.

On the other side of the long wall, at this moment, there was a demonic beast that looked like a wild boar, but was as large as an adult elephant. Amidst continuous angry roars, it was constantly ramming against the long wall.

From the power of the demonic beast’s attack, Li Yan could see that it was also a first-rank demonic beast.

This demonic beast was covered in black fur like arrow feathers, like a huge hedgehog, covered in a layer of black steel armor.

Every time the demonic beast rammed against it, although the long wall was hit with continuous loud bangs and shook violently, as if it would collapse at any moment, the wall was actually able to emit some faint light, blocking most of the impact force of the other party.

At the same time, the spears and long swords in the hands of these villagers, every time they were thrust out through the small holes, would also emit some faint lights of various colors.

It was these spears and long swords that, when they stabbed the demonic beast, were actually able to leave some scars on the other party’s body, but they were not very deep. It was obvious that the demonic beast’s defense was extremely strong.

‘Mortals using formations and spirit artifacts?’

Li Yan could tell at a glance that there were simple defensive restrictions on this long wall, and the weapons in the hands of those villagers were actually some inferior spirit artifacts. Moreover, they still had talismans in their hands.

These mortals themselves had no magical power to activate these things, so the formations and spirit artifacts here should be driven by Spirit Stones.

The formation itself had a Spirit Stone slot, which was easy to solve. But what about those spirit artifacts?

Li Yan then carefully observed those spirit artifacts and found that the spirit artifacts in the hands of these mortals should also have been specially refined, with a Spirit Stone slot added at a certain position.

In this situation, although Li Yan had not yet seen them use those talismans, he thought that the talismans should also have been specially refined, and it should be very easy to activate them.

‘The art of artifact refining in the Immortal Spirit Realm has already reached great accomplishment. If this were in the Mortal Realm, and these immortal items were equipped to those mortal dynasties, I don’t know how many more people would die in batches!’ Li Yan thought to himself.

Among the group of people below, there was a burly man, holding a long spear, standing behind the wall, constantly observing the situation on the other side.

Then, he constantly directed others to attack, as if he was the leader of these people.

And the people beside him, one by one, looked a little nervous. The people here were all young or middle-aged, and among them were even a few young and beautiful women.

They were also holding different weapons, occasionally striking out with all their might.

“Its body is huge. When it rams over, multiple people stab it at the same time… You, you, you, pay attention when you intersperse, don’t hinder others’ attacks… Here it comes… Don’t be afraid to waste Spirit Stones, activate all their power, all of it, all of it!!” the burly man roared continuously.

“Village Chief, we can’t hold on here. We should try using the talismans!”

“Village Chief, I’ll lead some people to harass it from behind. A pincer attack from both sides might be able to kill it…”

“Defense… defense, quick, quick, quick!”

Many voices shouted at the same time. Some people’s faces had turned as pale as paper. The attack power of this demonic beast was too strong.

Once the wall’s defense was broken, even if they held spirit artifacts and fought against it, the human wall they formed would be too weak. With just one touch from the other party, it would be torn apart like paper.

If one of them stabbed the other party with a spear or a saber, this demonic beast might be injured, but the force of the other party’s charge could instantly knock them over.

Just the terrifying rebound force, transmitted to the end of the spear shaft, could pierce them through. Under the rebound of the great saber that was slashing at the other party, their own arms holding the saber would also be directly broken and sent flying.

The burly man who was called the village chief had beads of sweat constantly rolling down his forehead. How could he not know the current danger? His heart was also extremely anxious.

They had been here for many years, and the situation of demonic beasts appearing was very rare.

Including this time, it was only the fourth time. But the demonic beasts of the first three times were mostly agile. With the defense of the formation, they had all been killed one by one in the end.

But this demonic beast today should not be a species from this side of the river. Why did it appear here?

This demonic beast was extremely ferocious. Just from the damage they had inflicted on the other party after their attack, this demonic beast might be about to advance to the second rank.

With the appearance of a demonic beast of this level, they had already tried their best to resist, but they had not been able to scare the demonic beast away, let alone kill it.

Of course, the burly man knew that the villager was right. Sending people out to go around and attack from both sides was the best choice at this time.

But the villagers who went out would basically have no chance of surviving after the first wave of attacks.

What’s more, could he really send other people out at this time? He would definitely have to lead by example. Otherwise, once many people died, his own prestige would be reduced, and it would be difficult to manage the entire village again.

“Damn it, just as this year’s harvest is in sight, once it’s harvested, we can go back and rest for half a year, but this kind of disaster has to happen!” the burly man cursed in his heart.

And just as he gritted his steel teeth and was about to pick some people to go out with him from the side to open the formation restriction, suddenly, a few villagers who were probing through the small holes cried out in alarm again.

“Not good!”

“Village Chief, it has other skills…”

“Concentrate… defense!”

A series of voices came, which made the burly man’s heart tighten.

“It has other skills?”

They had been in a stalemate with this demonic beast for half an hour. Apart from ramming with brute force, it had also shot out the black fur on its body like arrow feathers, but they had all been blocked by the formation on the long wall.

However, it was precisely those black, arrow-feather-like hairs that had caused many cracks to appear in their own formation.

A possibility immediately came to the burly man’s mind. The other party still had this kind of innate skill, which was a secret art of killing a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of one’s own.

Therefore, this demonic beast had not used it all this time. And just as this thought had just flashed through his mind, two loud bangs had already resounded.

On the other side of the long wall, the huge wild boar demonic beast’s eyes were already crimson. There were many wounds on its body, and some blood was constantly flowing out.

It had long since smelled the fragrance of the food on the other side. Although these mortals had no spiritual power in their flesh and blood, because they had lived here for many years and breathed the rich spiritual energy of this world, their flesh and blood also had a great nourishing effect.

After a long attack without success, it was even injured. This demonic beast’s ferocity was aroused, and it let out a roar to the sky.

Then, its four hooves kept kicking and pawing at the ground. Amidst a flurry of flying mud and rocks, in the blink of an eye, it had already dug out a large pit.

It suddenly shook its head, and two snow-white tusks, four feet long, suddenly flew out from the side of its mouth. With a string of blood beads, flashing with a layer of demonic red light, they turned into two red bolts of lightning and stabbed fiercely towards the long wall in front.

And in the eyes of this wild boar demonic beast, a look of great pain also appeared at this moment. It could only barely use this innate divine ability. It would also suffer a considerable backlash, its skin and flesh tearing open.

Only after it had advanced to a second-rank demonic beast would it be able to use this innate divine ability freely.

This made it become even more frantic in its great pain, and its ferocity became even more powerful.

“Boom! Boom!”

It was only four or five zhang away from the long wall in front. This distance was just right for it to charge and accumulate even stronger power.

At such a short distance, two thick, demonic red lights instantly hit the long wall.

Two loud bangs immediately came from the long wall. The faint green light flashing on the wall immediately made a sound like a mirror shattering.

Then, a series of rumbling sounds resounded through the world again.

A large section of the great stone long wall, in the continuous loud bangs, rose into the sky!

In the air, it turned into pieces of rubble of various sizes. These rubble, like a swarm of locusts and arrow rain, with a sharp “whooshing” sound of breaking through the air, shot towards the surroundings. The defense was instantly broken!

Instantly, a series of miserable screams came from below. Many figures behind the wall, amid wails, fell to the ground one by one.

Some, after falling to the ground, rolled around in pain and screamed loudly. Some just fell to the ground and never moved again.

“Defense, defense, don’t panic!” the burly man roared.

In just a moment, seven or eight people had fallen to the ground. He even saw two women, in a fit of trembling, their bodies riddled with holes by the rubble, blood arrows spouting like fountains.

This made his heart ache. But just as his cry had just come out, an irresistible force had already swept over.

He quickly looked up and saw a cloud of dark clouds in the mid-air, pressing down on the crowd behind the broken wall like it was covering the sky and the earth.

Although the burly man and the others were panicked, it was not the first time they had resisted a demonic beast.

Those who could still stand, one by one, reacted extremely quickly. Amidst roars, they raised their spears, sabers, and swords and went up to meet the huge black shadow that was pressing down. One after another, talismans left their hands and flew into the sky!