Chapter 1682: Chapter 1682
Chapter 1682: Chapter 1682: Sea Beasts Attack the City
The waters of the other seas in the vast world are primarily deep blue, but the waters of the Black Sea are pitch black like ink, different from all others.
If one overlooks the Black Sea from the sky, it resembles a massive dark abyss, terrifying to behold.
The Black Sea is windy and wavy throughout the year, with howling winds rolling waves several zhang high forward, continuously crashing against the shore rocks, each strike accompanied by a thunderous boom.
At this very moment, under the clear sky over the Black Sea, the water appears even darker; tens of thousands of sea beasts, like an army of underworld ghosts, emerge from the sea floor, swiftly advancing toward the shore.
These sea beasts comprise hundreds to thousands of species, including sea snakes, beavers, seals, sea lions, and whales. Most have massive bodies, hideous faces, and exude a powerful aura.
Tens of thousands of sea beasts, after landing, twist their bodies, transforming into human forms, holding various spiritual artifacts from the sea floor, roaring and wailing as they charge toward the Immortal Stone City.
The foremost dozen or so sea beasts are more than a zhang tall, with formidable bodies, menacing auras, and strength comparable to Thunder Tribulation Experts. As they run, they sweep forward like a violent storm, with a muffled thunderous roar, creating an impressive momentum.
Behind these sea beasts follow tens of thousands more, each akin to a human Soul Severing Expert, each one releasing a strong aura, with tens of thousands of these auras combined forming a formless gas wave over ten li wide, crashing toward the Immortal Stone City.
The targets of these sea beasts are the hundreds of thousands of human warriors within the Immortal Stone City and the cultivation resources they store.
Their eyes emit a greedy and fervent light, some drooling nauseating saliva from their mouths.
“Charge into the Immortal Stone City; those human warriors will be a feast for us!”
“Their cultivation resources will be used by our Sea Clan!”
The leading sea beasts spoke human words, their voices rumbling like heavenly thunder.
Tens of thousands of sea beasts echoed in response, accelerating their attack, and in the blink of an eye, the Immortal Stone City appeared in sight.
Just then, from above the Immortal Stone City, large swaths of ‘dark clouds’ floated down. These ‘dark clouds’ hovered in the air a thousand zhang away from the sea beasts, and soon after, nearly half landed on the ground, moving towards the sea beasts.
These swaths of ‘dark clouds’ were, of course, the hundred thousand Martial Artists of the Immortal Stone City, ready to meet the sea beasts outside the city and protect the Immortal Stone City from damage.
Although the human warriors from the Immortal Stone City numbered a hundred thousand, more than half as many as the sea beasts, the sea beasts’ destructive power was so formidable they could almost each fight two.
Therefore, even though the human warriors had the upper hand in numbers, their overall strength was nearly equal to that of the sea beasts, and the sea beasts might even be a bit stronger.
This was precisely why Wei Zhengtian had the Wei Family descendant who came to sound the alarm seek help from the Wei Family branch outside the city.
Every time the sea beasts launched a large-scale invasion of the Immortal Stone City, the Wei Family would collectively gather to resist the sea beasts, ensuring no harm came to the Immortal Stone City.
As long as the Immortal Stone City remained unharmed, that Stone Statue would not be damaged.
It is better for the Wei Family to perish than for the Stone Statue to be damaged. This was the ancestral command of the Wei Family, and for tens of thousands of years, they have made it their duty to protect the Stone Statue.
Though sea beast invasions always targeted cultivation resources and human warriors, the Stone Statue stood so prominently in the city’s center that if the sea beasts entered, with their aggressive and destructive nature, the Stone Statue could not be preserved.
Hence, keeping the enemy outside the city was the duty of the Wei Family. As the leaders of the Immortal Stone City, the Wei Family went out to battle, and the city’s strongmen followed suit.
“Brothers and sisters, the Immortal Stone City is our shared home. The sea beasts are fierce. If allowed into the city, our home will be destroyed. Do you agree?”
Wei Zhengtian, seeing tens of thousands of sea beasts surging, knew this time would not be easy to deal with. His pupils narrowed as he raised his voice.
“No, we do not agree!”
“Fight them to the death!”
“Our children are in the city; we cannot let the sea beasts come near!”
“Unite as one, fighting side by side, we can surely kill all the sea beasts!”
A hundred thousand human warriors raised their battle cries, each summoning their spiritual artifacts, engaging the sea beasts from both the sky and the ground.
For tens of thousands of years, the battles between the Immortal Stone City’s human warriors and the sea beasts have been countless. They knew that against the ferocious sea beasts, no reason prevailed; only combat, repelling them with great force.
From the side of the sea beasts, a roar like a mountain’s collapse and the sea’s tumult echoed.
A hundred thousand human warriors and tens of thousands of powerful sea beasts clashed on the beach ten li outside the Immortal Stone City, starting a fierce and hot-blooded melee.
The few Thunder Tribulation experts within the Immortal Stone City gathered around Wei Zhengtian and Shi Hongye, ready to charge at the dozens of Thunder Tribulation Realm sea beasts at their command.
Several breaths later, eight streaks of light soared in. Eight Thunder Tribulation Experts from the Wei Family branch arrived to join the fray.
This gave the human side more Thunder Tribulation experts than the sea beasts.
While the sea beasts and human experts were locked in combat, within the Immortal Stone City, things were calm. The city’s residents believed their side could win.
For tens of thousands of years, sea beasts repeatedly attacked the city; yet, no matter how large the scale, the Immortal Stone City had never fallen. This gave the residents great confidence, believing the legendary fierce sea beasts to be just that.
To the west of the Immortal Stone City, mountains stretch unbroken, with no strong Spirit Beasts residing there. Moreover, the tall, sturdy walls have ensured no spirit beasts ever attacked from this direction, making the residents believe it was the safest.
However, while a hundred thousand human warriors fought tens of thousands of sea beasts on the coastal side of the Immortal Stone City, nearly ten thousand sea beasts suddenly appeared in the mountainous west.
Those sea beasts came silently over the mountains and valleys, not being noticed until they were within ten li of the Immortal Stone City by a Wei Family branch guarding there. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ NoveI-Fire.ɴet
A disciple of that Wei Family branch ascended to sound the alarm and rang the Immortal Stone City’s alert bells. Still, most of the city’s strongmen, including the Wei Zhengtian couple, had been drawn to the coastal fray and were locked in combat, unable to pull away.
The Thunder Tribulation Experts from that Wei Family branch had gone to support Wei Zhengtian and others, leaving only Soul Severing experts among the family’s young generation. Although over ten thousand warriors from the Immortal Stone City rushed to support them, they couldn’t stop the assault of ten thousand sea beasts.
“The sea beasts are cunning, splitting their forces! What should we do?”
A Wei Family youth saw the ten thousand sea beasts crossing mountains and was close to tears as he spoke.
“The ancestral edict states that the family may perish, but the Stone Statue must remain intact! Now, we must give it our all! If we cannot stop the sea beasts from entering the city, we will retreat into the city to guard that Stone Statue!”
Another Wei Family youth, eyes bloodshot, shouted fiercely.