He hastily collected his thoughts and looked at the city wall again. Suddenly, he had a feeling that this city wall was no longer the same as it used to be, because Chen Jing also felt the same emotions from the eyes of the city wall as he did from the ghost seal.
"Has he been controlled by Gui Yin?" Chen Jing thought to himself. He also recalled that Gui Yin was seen in the Qin Guang Wang City, where he almost got it, but was forced away by Jiang Liu Yun, and then Gui Yin was engulfed by darkness. In the darkness, a black-armored heavy cavalryman emerged, killing his way out, causing everyone to flee in terror, even Jiang Liu Yun suffered severe injuries. It wasn't until Ye Qing Xue used her purple wood hairpin to summon a Nine Xiao Divine Thunder to block him that Chen Jing clashed with the black-armored cavalryman once, and just one blow made Chen Jing's magic unable to circulate.
In this hall, apart from the city's guardian deity, Jiang Liuyun was also seated there. However, at that moment, a dark cloud hovered above his head, and the auspicious cloud that once floated above him had turned black. Moreover, something was missing within the auspicious cloud.
"Where did his green bead go?" Chen Jing thought in her heart.
It's clear that Jiang Liuyun is still alive, but it's unknown why he has been sitting here all along.
Chen Jing stepped into the hall, and there was no change in front of him. Only Jiang Liuyun opened his eyes, as if he had been waiting for Chen Jing's entry all along. Chen Jing stood at the door, looking at Jiang Liuyun, who also looked back at him with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Disciple Chen Jing pays his respects to Master Jiang." Chen Jing said, but he didn't even make a slight bowing motion with his body, nor did he lower his eyes.
Jiang Liu sat at the end of the river, coldly smiling and said: "Ye Qingxue deceived her master and destroyed her ancestors. You little beast are also a white-eyed wolf."
Chen Jing just looked on, not saying a word. Jiang Liuyun spoke again in a stern voice: "Shixiong has done nothing his whole life, but the biggest mistake he made was bringing Ye Qingshu back to Qianluo Mountain and accepting her as a disciple."
"Didn't the previous master die at your hands?" Chen Jing suddenly said. He should have called the former Thousand Luo Sect Master his master, but he didn't have much feelings for that cheap master whom he had only met a few times. Because all of his skills were taught by Ye Qingxue, and Ye Qingxue was more like a substitute teacher who took in disciples to pass on her art. So, Chen Jing and Ye Qingxue were nominally siblings as fellow disciples, but actually they were master and disciple.
"Hmph, he died by his own hands. If he hadn't wanted to pass on the position of leader to Ye Qingxue, how would he have ended up dead?" Jiang Liuyun said with a cold smile.
"It turns out that the sect leader really died at your hands." Chen Jing said.
The river flows and the clouds are silent, which is considered as consent.
Chen Jing thought that Ye Qingxue had been following Jiang Liuyun ever since the mountain gate was burned, thinking that Ye Shijie might have known it all along, but at that time she wasn't a match for Jiang Liuyun, so she just followed.
"Ye Qingxue's servant was quite patient, waiting until we were in the underground city of Qin Guang before making a move against me. She took advantage of my injuries to snatch the blue jade from my hand and trap me here. Hmph, if I ever get out of this place, I'll make sure she can't live or die in peace." Jiang Liuyun said coldly.
Chen Jing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly understood that he was trapped here, not because he couldn't get out. But what was holding him back? In the past, when he held the Qingzhu in his hand, under the five-colored light, even gods and immortals retreated. With Chen Jing's current level of eye power, he could see that the magical powers on his body were stronger than before, not weaker.
At this moment, a ferocious ghost burst out of the black seal in the city god's hand, with eyes full of resentment and hatred. It let out a silent roar, causing Chen Jing's mind to tremble, and a surge of resentful thoughts rose up in his heart, feeling that everything in this world was hateful and resentful. He was suddenly shocked, as the ghost's silent roar had actually awakened the curse attached to his soul.
At the moment when the ghostly object on the ghost seal let out a silent scream, the entire grand hall changed in an instant. Everything in the hall twisted like formless objects. Darkness surged forth, and from all directions, endless evil spirits seemed to have burst out of hell. The door behind Chen Jing simultaneously transformed into a dark and eerie cave, with cold winds howling and blowing in, as if connecting to a desolate void.
Chen Jing was in the midst of transformation in the temple hall, and a brilliant light burst forth from his body, transforming into a dazzling aura that took the shape of a sword. Within this aura, a blue butterfly fluttered its wings and flew about.
The butterfly's wings fluttered, and in the darkness, a white light seemed to be the only existence, instantly conjuring up a layer of light screen. Upon closer inspection, the light screen was like a blooming white lotus. It was also like a white whirlpool that could shatter any living being that entered it.
In the darkness, nothing can be seen, only the sound of sword humming spreads in the darkness. The darkness surges over the sword light, and a mournful cry rises one after another. Suddenly, a white whirlpool transforms into a flowing light that pierces towards the depths of the darkness, exactly where the city god was sitting before.
The sword light is like a silver rainbow, cutting through the darkness and slashing down.
The sword light suddenly stopped and flashed in the opposite direction, rushing straight into the gate, which had turned into a black hole blowing cold wind.
In the blink of an eye, the sword light had already entered the dark and mysterious cave, but the black hole seemed to have truly connected to a different world, or perhaps this city was billions of miles away from the outside world. The sword light continued to advance in the swirling black hole without ever disappearing, yet it still seemed to be moving forward, only for a moment it was like a star in the dark night sky, twinkling and flickering, uncertain whether it would disappear into the darkness at any moment, yet it always remained.
When Chen Jing came out of the City Guardian Temple, it was already several months later. He almost thought he would be forever trapped in darkness, fortunately, he didn't give up. In his darkness where he couldn't see the sky when he looked up and couldn't see the ground when he looked down, there were always evil spirits swirling around him, trying to erode the sword aura, but they were all cut off by the sword aura one by one.
He continued to use the Instant Sword Technique, continuously flashing by. Just as his magical powers were about to run out, he finally flashed out of the darkness. When he appeared again, he was still in the Cheng Huang Temple. A streak of sword light emerged from the void, turned around in the void once, and transformed into a blue-robed Taoist standing quietly in front of the City God statue.
Chen Jing looked at the statue of the City God, and as he gazed into its eyes, he found that they were identical to those of the real City God he had seen in the City God Temple - cold, icy, and evil.
In the darkness, he originally wanted to cut down the city with one sword, but suddenly a strong sense of danger surged in his heart, a kind of danger that could be fatal, so he turned around and left. Even now, he's not very clear what that danger was. Fortunately, after the evil spirit on the seal let out a roar, it didn't appear again; otherwise, Chen Jingzhong's 'Wandering Soul Nightmare Curse' would have been completely awakened. He doesn't understand why, even though his mind is merged with the sword spirit and his soul is in the divine image, that silent ghostly howl still makes the distant curse stir restlessly.
Taking a deep breath, he stepped out and disappeared into the City God Temple, only to reappear above the city of Balin. He gazed down at this metropolis with a population of 2 million, thinking about the City God in the temple, thinking about the divination of that Taoist priest, and then looked again at the rows of houses in the city, wondering: "Is Balin City going to become a ghost town?"
He looked up at the starry sky again, sighed silently, and turned into a stream of light that disappeared into the night sky.
The distance of hundreds of miles was traversed in an instant. The sword light whizzed by, like a meteor breaking through the sky, and wherever it passed, the sword hummed and swept across the air.
Suddenly, when Chen Jing returned to the River God Temple, he saw Li Xiangning leaning against the statue and fell asleep. Chen Jing slightly frowned, looking at Li Xiangning's appearance was quite haggard.
He stretched out his hand and drew a stroke in the air, and a spiritual symbol had already entered Li Xiangning's forehead. Li Xiangning slowly woke up, looking at Chen Jing standing in front of him, and excitedly kowtowed: "River God, you're back."
"What happened?" Chen Jing asked.
"General Shrimp and General Shell have been taken away by the Dragon King!" Li Xiangning said hastily. As a divine servant, he had naturally known Big Red Shrimp and Shell for a long time. The first time Big Red Shrimp met him, he asked to be called General Shrimp or Right General. Li Xiangning naturally agreed, and although Shell didn't ask him to call him anything, he was also a clever person and similarly referred to him as General Shell or Left General.
"What's going on?" Chen Jing furrowed his brow, his voice slightly cold.
A few days ago, a man suddenly appeared in front of the temple, claiming to be the Dragon King of Jinghe River. He said he wanted to re-seal the river god of Jinghe River, and if not, the god would lose his position. Then General Xia and General Bei appeared and fought with him, but they were caught by a spell he cast.
"When was this?"
"Three days ago."
"Does he have his palace where?"
"He said he lived in the deepest part of the Jialing River."
"Heh heh, the deepest part of the Qu River, I'd like to see just how deep it is and what kind of waves it can stir up." Chen Jing said in a low voice: "Hang the lanterns."
"Yes." Li Qian Ning's heart was racing with excitement, he had never heard Chen Jing say anything so grand and majestic before. The only time was at the Military Ridge Land God Temple when he said a passage that left him deeply shaken, making him realize what kind of River God he was, but still felt unsatisfied because that time Chen Jing's move was too brief, so short that he only saw a flash of white light before it was over.
Li Yanning lit the lantern that had not been lit for months, hanging it in front of the River God Temple. The originally dark temple suddenly brightened and turned hazy yellow, with a faint glow illuminating the empty space in front of the temple. Suddenly, many creatures gathered towards the River God Temple from the darkness.