Gu Mingwei ran all the way to the Nancheng Temple, where a sea of people had already gathered. The air was filled with hushed whispers and murmurs. She took a glance around before pushing her way into the crowd. As she squeezed through the crowd towards the temple, what she heard most were phrases like: "What a true god... How awesome... Slaying demons with just one sword... Now we can finally rest easy."

  She heard it in her ears, her heart was excited, and she thought to herself that he had already beheaded the demons. She didn't know why she suddenly felt this excitement in her heart, which was even more exhilarating than when she herself beheaded the demons.

  When she squeezed to the front, she saw a dark and majestic bridge, with a group of strangers guarding it. She could feel an unusual aura emanating from these people. Looking around at the crowd watching from a distance, she felt embarrassed to approach. Then she heard someone nearby discussing the River God's manifestation and the sword that vanquished the demon, and she immediately pricked up her ears to listen.

  Yan Luoniang and her master traveled in a big way, taking one step at a time, covering several miles, shrinking the distance to just an inch. Along the way, they didn't stop for a moment, and the route they took was the same one Yan Luoniang had taken with her fellow disciples before.

  A line of nine people, all the disciples of Guang Han Palace have arrived. They silently followed behind the master of Guang Han Palace, the atmosphere was extremely heavy. This atmosphere appeared after Yan Luo Nang returned to the sect alone, to be precise, it appeared on their master's body. In Chen Jing's eyes, their master had a kind of indifference to life, but in their eyes, there was an additional concern, although they were usually very strict with them, they knew it was for their own good.

  "They're all dead, all of our seniors are dead."

  This is the message that Yan Luo brought back to Guang Han Palace, and they still remember their master's eyes were filled with sorrow at that time.

  All the way forward, the little ones fled far away. Even ordinary people could feel the aura of killing emanating from Yan Luoniang's body. That heavy killing intent was indistinguishable as to whether it came from her or the Guan Han Sword in her hand.

  Guang Han Palace Master wore a white robe and walked at the front, while his disciples followed silently in a row behind him.

  "Master, it's just ahead in that mountain valley."

  Yan Luoniang pointed ahead at a valley shrouded in gloomy air and said.

  Guang Han Palace Master didn't say a word and charged straight into the mountain valley.

  At that time, Chen Jing didn't know he had entered the underworld from here and came out in a distant place in Heiying State. Yan Luoniang, however, truly felt the increasingly dense evil aura in the valley, and as soon as she entered the valley, a chill rose in her heart, weighing heavily on her mind.

  Guang Han Palace's leader strode straight into the depths of the mountain valley, and behind her, each of her disciples held a magical treasure in their hands, emitting a faint glow, although they had not been summoned, they were already prepared.

  "Hehe, food has been delivered again."

  A voice that intimidates people's minds and spirits echoes from the depths of the valley.

  "Food? Are you sure you can eat it?"

  "Huh, no, there's killing intent."

  In the valley, the evil energy of yin was even more dense than when Yan Luo's daughter came. From the sky, you couldn't see the bottom of the valley at all, only a line of people walking straight into the depths of the valley. Wherever they passed, the evil energy of yin was pushed open, as if a sword pierced through the darkness.

  On the darkest tree at the deepest place, a crow stood there, and under the tree, a figure stood quietly.

  "What kind of people are you? How dare you trespass on the Yellow Spring Ghost Road." The crow on the tree said coldly.

  However, the Taoist nun who was walking in front suddenly pulled out a broadsword from her hand without making a sound. A white light had already risen in the valley, and the white light seemed to be moonlight shining through dark clouds.

  In the process of drawing her sword, Yan Luoniang's master Guang Han Palace Master appeared in front of that tree with one step and slashed down with his sword.

  "Ah......" A short and terrified scream rang out.

  The crow felt an overwhelming killing intent as soon as the sword was drawn in Guanghan Palace, and it didn't dare to resist. Its body quickly drilled into the tree trunk, and the human-shaped black shadow under the tree didn't even try to resist, turning around and drilling into the tree. The sword light chopped down, splitting the tree in two halves under its glow.

  The sword hummed in the valley, and the sword light drove away the dark fog. And that tree was restored to its original state after the sword light passed by.

  Only in the valley below, under a large black tree, stood Yan Luo Niang and her group. The dark-robed woman and the crow on the tree had already disappeared. The disciples behind the master of Guang Han Palace looked around vigilantly, as if searching for something.

  The master of Guang Han Palace gazed at the pitch-black tree, coldly saying: "I'd like to see where you can escape to. Even if you hide in those temples, what's the use?" As she spoke, she slowly drew out the already-sheathed Guang Han, a faint sword hum spreading out. All that could be heard was her murmuring: "In the past, when you were invincible under the Ancestor's hand, how many great demons and witches surrendered to you. Now, you've been dormant in this world for too long, so long that no one remembers the two words 'Guang Han' anymore."

  The words fell, the sword came out of its scabbard, and a burst of sword light shot up, a sword shadow chopped down towards that pitch-black big tree.

  The big tree is silent and separate, the yellow fog rises in the tree, the yellow fog does not know where it comes from, and it does not float in the void, but surges within a certain range.

  "Go." The master of Guanghan Palace let out a low shout, and stepped into the yellow fog, while the disciples of Guanghan followed closely behind. Yan Luoniang held a green lantern in her hand as she entered the yellow fog last. Having gone through a life-and-death trial once, she already had a feeling of being reborn.

  In the city of Ba Ling, there are lights in every household.

  This is the first time they have shown a lively and festive atmosphere since they found out that all the city gods in the city had gone wrong. On the same day, four powerful gods were invited into the city, on the same day, monsters appeared in the four city god temples in the southeast, northwest, but were either captured or killed by the invited gods.

  This day almost made them forget that the main city god temple in the city center still lingered with evil spirits.

  In the night, four city temples next to each other all lit up bonfires, and many people were holding torches. And those who demolished the City Temple had already changed shifts twice, it can be seen that this was a strategy for changing gods after discussion among the four city defenders.

  The whole city of Baoling was brightly lit that night, except for a strip in the middle which was dark and gloomy.

  In recent months, Chen Jing's mind has become much clearer due to his quiet cultivation. Since entering the city, he has clearly sensed a dark and evil aura surrounding the people, although it has not yet invaded their hearts, it is much clearer than before.

  I recalled the divination under the willow tree by the White Bridge, and Qin Chenghuang being controlled in the City God Temple at the city center. I felt a faint unease in my heart. However, he also sensed the other three deities, although they didn't communicate, but they all exchanged greetings with each other.

  Demolished the City God Temple in one night, built it up in three days.

  When the temple was completed, it was already quiet and peaceful throughout the whole city.

  The city of Balin looked calm, but there was a suppressed tension, even the people's shadows in the lamplight seemed to have an unspeakable urgency. The evil spirits in the City God Temple had only appeared occasionally in recent years, but what really made them decide to invite the gods again was the action of Junling Town, which belonged to Balin's territory. Although it was under the control of Balin, it had its own freedom in this aspect. When the city guards of Balin discovered that Junling Town's invitation to the River God was incredibly effective and drove away the evil spirits, revealing a profound power, their minds immediately became active.

  At this time, the City God Temple was no longer the focus of faith in Baoling City, because several years had passed and the City God had not shown any signs of divine presence. Instead, evil spirits began to appear. The city guards discussed it among themselves and decided to go in four different directions to invite the gods back. Since Nanmen was closest to the Jian River and it was Nanmen's guardian, Yan Zhong, who first proposed the idea, he naturally went to invite the river god of the Jian River. The other three groups went to another city over a hundred miles away to invite the City God. Everything was discussed and agreed upon, and on a certain day, they would all enter the city together, then begin construction by demolishing the old temple and rebuilding it.

  The whole city is lit up like a flower, illuminating the entire city of Baling with a hazy glow. Whether viewed from the sky or by people in the city, there is a sense of enchantment.

  In the city of Balin, four city guards invited back four gods. They seemed to have forgotten that a city can only have one main god, and now they had brought back four at the same time. It appeared to be an attempt to suppress the evil energy in the city, but it had already left hidden dangers. However, for the people of the city, those were matters for later, matters between gods. When everything returned to calm within the city, whichever god was still present would naturally have incense offered to them at their respective temples.

  Gu Mingwei had always wanted to get closer, but she didn't dare to. She had been standing here for a long time already. In her ear, she heard someone next to her say that the other three gods were the main city gods of the three cities, and their status was much higher than that of the river god.

  In human world, mountain and river temples' land gods cannot enter the city. Now inviting the River God to enter the city can be said to be a kind of indirect promotion of the River God's status.

  Gu Mingwei listened to them discussing the other three gods' positions being higher than Chen Jing's, and he felt a growing sense of discontent. As time passed, it became more intense, until he couldn't help but say: "I heard that the River God appeared in the afternoon and beheaded an evil demon, right?"

  Those who were discussing also recognized her as Miss Gu's daughter and didn't show any fear. One of the aunts said, "Yes, that evil spirit almost escaped."

  Gu Ming's heart was unhappy again, being killed is just being killed, why say that he almost escaped, isn't this saying that the river god almost couldn't kill the evil demon? Before she could say anything else, someone else said: "I heard that the city east Shou Chun Cheng invited the city god to be unbeatable, with a wave of his hand, the entire eastern city god was knocked down, and the evil demon died inside."

  "The Taoist from the west of the city, who was invited by Zhong Li, was even more formidable. It's said that with just one blow of his breath, the god statue in the western city temple caught fire and the evil spirit was burned to death. It's said that at the time, the evil spirit screamed for a whole incense stick's worth of time."

  "Alas, the ones from Beining Nalan City are truly formidable, they possess divine abilities that can communicate with heaven. I've heard people say that the true form of Prince Nalan from Beining has appeared before, and he simply took out a gourd to capture the evil demons, then smiled at everyone saying this is exactly the right medicine for brewing wine."

  Several people were excitedly talking, completely forgetting that there was a Gu Mingwei next to them who had an uncomfortable expression.

  PS: Tomorrow (March 12th) at 8pm, there will be a book club gathering on YY, YY number: 53279088

  Book club number: 94495795.

  Everyone is free to join whenever they have time.