The beast tide was here and Hu Tao was ready. He sent most of his qi into the ball attached to the end of his chain, greatly increasing its size. He saved the rest of his qi for when the spirit beasts got closer. He wouldn’t be able to pull off his idea if he ran out of qi before the stampeding beasts came closer. This giant ass ball wasn’t easy to move with just his bare strength. He still had his limits. 

“Are you even listening to me?! Get back with everyone else and wait till the beasts come to us!” The chick from before yapped in his ears. 

“Yeah, listen Ju Ju-” 

“It's Jie!” She corrected. 

“Whatever. Maybe that barking orders to people worked in that cozy little noble family of yours but here, shit don’t work like that. You keep trying to tell me what to do and I won’t be so forgiving anymore.” Hu Tao’s killing intent started leaking. 

“You’re infuriating!!! I don’t care anymore! If you want to die, then go die! But don’t you dare interfere with my plan and get the rest of us killed!” Jie stormed off in a huff and Hu Tao smiled. 

  Finally, now he could focus solely on the beasts ahead of him. All that yap yap yap in his ears was getting on his nerves. If he didn’t know any better, he would think that she wanted his dick instead of his life! Getting involved with nobles was always fun though. They have so many internal problems that if you take care of one, three more come spilling out into the open. 

  Those animals were close enough now. Hu Tao could see the last row of the animals coming out of the woods. The tide wouldn’t start to split until they reached about midway across the grassy plain. He planned on attacking before they split to cause the most damage. Which was right now! 

  Hu Tao lifted the giant ball with his chains and threw it into the air before following after it. He made sure to line up his shot perfectly down the middle as he appeared behind the large sphere. His fists were covered in his chains as he punched it with all of his strength towards the beast tide. The sphere blasted through the skies without restraint. Any spirit beasts staring at that unstoppable object felt like they were staring death right in the face. Their fates were already sealed and there was nothing they could do but accept it. 

  And accept it they did. The metal ball absolutely demolished every spirit beast that was in the middle row of the beast wave. The large giant ape in the back was the only survivor in the middle row. It tried to catch the spinning ball before it got hit by it but its power was far greater than it expected! It tore the skin off of its hands before being able to stop it. Seeing its hands in such a state enraged it. It wanted to beat on its chest to show its rage but it couldn’t even do that! Its hands were severely injured. If it tried anything with them, a terrible pain would shoot up in its body. It glared at Hu Tao and promised to kill him when he got there. 

  Hu Tao gave it the middle finger in response while laughing. He did most of the work so, his participation score at the end should be good enough to get something good. Hu Tao used his chains to pull him over the defensive barriers in front of the front gate. This allowed him to get a nice seat on top of the barrier as the beasts came in. Hu Tao’s attack affected the wave more than he thought it would. 

  A small portion of the animals were heading towards the front gate while most of them went to the left and right walls. The weaklings on his side started cheering for joy and praising the heavens after seeing the pathetic number of animals coming towards them. If they were excited about something like this, then they won’t last long on the upper floors. Not that Hu Tao knew what was on the upper floors either. Last time he came here, he barely survived the beast tide and still lost. What he meant was that they didn’t have the right mindset for the tower if they were glad that someone else saved them.  

“It looks like you’re not all as you seem either...” Jie spoke, suddenly appearing next to him. 

“Unless you came up here to suck my dick, you can go back down.” Hu Tao shooed her away. 

“Argh! Why would you say something like that when I was trying to... Forget it! Go die creep” She did hop back down and Hu Tao was very thankful. 

‘So, she can listen...’  

  The rest of those weaklings could handle the remaining beasts. In the meantime, he could look out for any other interesting fighters here. On the right side, there wasn’t anyone in charge like Jie was for his side. All of them were on the ground fighting the beasts before they could damage their wall. The rest were providing support from the back for the injured. They definitely weren’t going to last long unless someone at the Qi Consolidation rank took on the beasts. Most of the spirit beasts from the front of the wave were in the Qi Gatherer stage. The only ones above that were the three Redback Apes at the 1st stage of the Qi Consolidation realm. 

  The left side was handling it better than the right side. Most of the factions in the Inner Court were placed over there. Hmm... Maybe he should make things a bit harder for them since they refused to fight him earlier. Hu Tao got up and sent his chains down towards the weak beasts trying to break the defensive array he was on. His chains wrapped around two beasts ramming their heads against the barrier. He whipped them over to left’s side wall and watched as they crashed against it, damaging it. Those standing on the left side’s wall were confused as the two beasts damaged their wall.  

  Where did they come from?! Because of it, their wall got damaged somehow! They looked up in the air and didn’t see any flying beasts. Something didn’t feel right... It only took a few more seconds before even more animals were splatting on their wall. They tried to stop them from cracking their side of the wall. Some attacked the animals before they dropped and knocked them away from the wall. Others used their swords to slice the beasts in half. And a small portion even caught some of them with their strong bodies! 

  This was when Hu Tao stopped throwing them and let the left side understand just who was fucking with them. He grinned while tossing a helpless boar in one hand and catching it repeatedly. How would they react to this? Would they want to fight? Would they cross over to the front side of the town to fight him? Hu Tao was excited, if they didn’t stop him their lost was all but guaranteed. 

“Hu Tao, you crazy bastard!” 

“Fuck off!” 

“Why don’t you go die in a hole somewhere!” 

  To respond to all their kind words and complements, Hu Tao aimed the boar in his hands towards one of the wooden spikes used to defend against the beast tide. He tossed the boar directly at the wooden defense and watched as it completely destroyed it as it died on impact. This made them real pissed. All the strong guys were too busy dealing with the beasts up front. One of them was already dealing with the Redback Ape with their golden flames. They could do nothing but glare at Hu Tao while doing their best to defend against his living cannonballs. 

“Is this even allowed!? Shouldn’t the tower punish him for directly putting the village at risk!?” 

“We need someone from the front to come back or our wall will be destroyed!” 

“But who is strong enough to deal with Hu Tao!? We need them to-” Her words were cut off as a tossed snake just bit her face. She died from the venom within seconds. 

  The ones defending the wall called out for help but no one could spare any attention to them while defending against the beast tide. Hu Tao would’ve continued terrorizing the little weaklings but he has some business to attend to on his side. His side’s Redback Ape was staring at him. You don’t see that type of stare from just anyone. It’s surprising how realistic these spirit beasts act. Just looking into those eyes filled with fury made it feel like he was going to fight someone worth fighting. 

  Hu Tao hopped off the top of the barrier and landed in front of the gorilla. He was the only animal remaining on their side and he wanted Hu Tao’s head. The feeling wasn’t mutual but it could be entertaining to see just how much of a work out this dumb monkey can give him. It was one stage below him and didn’t look like a mutant. How much of a fight could this be? 

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