The divine symbol condensed slowly, much slower than when it was in Junling Town. However, he could clearly feel the process of the divine symbol condensing, a feeling that Chen Jing had always been puzzled about and couldn't quite put into words. But this time was different, with his previous experiences as a foundation, he carefully felt and quietly pondered, and suddenly, it seemed like he saw a large net blocking the nine heavens. His heart skipped a beat, and then the net disappeared, and no matter how hard he tried to sense it again, he couldn't feel anything.

  After a while, when I once again entered that state of no thoughts and no desires, I sensed a thin white mist, and threads of white mist continuously emerged from the void, gathering together.

  Chen Jing immediately knew that this was the power of faith, which he had seen before with the Butterfly's Broken Eye. A flash of enlightenment passed through his heart, and he realized that the Divine Decree Symbol was actually a condensation of the willpower of faith. Thinking about it again in conjunction with the formation process of the Jing River Decree Symbol, he understood that the positions of the gods of mountains and rivers were actually the same, but because there were no humans in the mountains and rivers, only wild beasts and demons, the power of faith was much weaker.

  Chen Jing's quiet feelings, a clear understanding rose again in his heart. This understanding was not particularly profound, but it gave him a general idea of how the divine decree symbol was formed.

  "To become a local deity, one must gain the recognition of three things: first is Heaven, second is Earth, and third are the living spirits between Heaven and Earth."

  The Tian in the past naturally referred to the Heavenly Court, but now it doesn't exist, so the formed Shénxìnghuì (Divine Edict Symbol) is blank. As for the second point, any god understands that there is boundless spiritual energy in the earth. The third point, the living beings between heaven and earth represent faith and incense offerings. In the past, a god would naturally be appointed by the Heavenly Court, then come to a place on earth, use the Divine Edict Symbol bestowed by the Heavenly Court to consecrate that unfamiliar land into their own divine domain, and slowly transform the spiritual energy of the land for their own use. For an earthly god, only when they can freely manipulate the spiritual energy of that land can they feel secure, can they suppress the local evil spirits, because the god's own magical powers are very weak.

  But now it's the other way around, first getting faith, getting a place of spiritual power, although the talisman formed in it is blank, with no magical spells inside, but also less restrictive, freer.

  Three out of two will make you a local deity.

  The current Chen Jing doesn't dare to say that he has obtained the faith and incense of the entire Chengling City South District, but at least he has already obtained some. Those who enter the temple to offer incense have their wishes and beliefs received by Chen Jing. Now Chen Jing is going to take the second step, sensing the spiritual energy of this land boundary and transforming it into his own use.

  The city of Balin fell into tranquility once again, with Chen Jing and the other three gods sensing and refining the spiritual energy of this land. Without the heavenly decree symbol or the power of faith, wanting to merge with the spiritual energy of this land would be equivalent to building a Taoist cave and arranging a formation array. In today's world, each sect has a master spirit symbol, which is actually this kind of divine symbol. They naturally also condensed into being through this method and were passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, generally speaking, the master of a sect has much higher magical powers than others in the sect, because he can mobilize the spiritual energy of an entire mountain.

  However, in the Taoist school, although this kind of talisman can also be condensed, generally only the first generation of the sect master will have it. Because he will engrave many things in the talisman, some are the core Taoist magic and divine power of the sect, and some will be the overall key to the mountain gate's protection and the large array, and lay down a ban, only by getting the method can drive it. Each sect has an incense hall, which naturally includes respect and sacrifice for ancestors, and another point is that when offering sacrifices to the sect master symbol, let the sect master symbol not disperse due to lack of incense.

  At this time, Chen Jing's divine thought was following the divine platform to sense the earth's energy in Ba Ling City, and that faith willpower was actually flowing with his thoughts. Wherever his divine thought reached, the faith willpower would moisten a patch of wet land from the hard and dull earth, allowing Chen Jing's divine thought to more easily and clearly sense the spiritual energy within the earth. It was just that the earth energy contained in this Ba Ling City was different from any other place before.

  If the Jinghe River Basin is refreshing and lively in his spiritual power, Junling is dry as gravel. Then this city of Balin is like a toilet pit. The spirit has been polluted long ago, and Chen Jing's mind probe immediately appeared with the sound of evil spirits, crying or laughing, and the sound of resentment was endless.

  He thoughtlessly conjured up an exorcism talisman.

  Only to see that the power of faith that was flowing with his divine thoughts suddenly changed drastically, transforming into a talisman to drive away evil, falling into the boundless dark land. Chen Jing immediately heard terrified screams in his ears, and in his mind, the pitch-black land surprisingly quickly quieted down a region. Chen Jing was first stunned, then overjoyed. He discovered the true use of the power of faith.

  That one talisman drawn with faith and willpower had already used up the little remaining faith, and after condensing another talisman with divine thought to drive out evil, it was discovered that the effect was extremely far apart.

  In the temple, people are still queuing up to burn incense. Every person who burns incense will say the same sentence: "May the river god drive out evil spirits as soon as possible."

  The same phenomenon also occurred in the other three temples, and people from each city domain did not only worship in their own temple, but would separately go to the other three temples. However, relatively speaking, there were fewer people from other city districts who came to the River God Temple to worship. The most crowded was the Nalan Wang Temple in the north of the city, which could be described as extremely congested. Nalan City was a large city, and more than ten years ago, one morning, people who got up early to worship discovered that the three characters "City God Temple" had changed to "Nalan Wang Temple". The writing style was bold and powerful, with an air of dominance, and from then on, people referred to the City God of Nalan City as Nalan Wangye. His reputation spread throughout the entire Jiuhua State, and even the entire world knew that there was a City God in Jiuhua State who dared to call himself king. In the realm of gods, titles were extremely important, especially among the underworld gods, where only the rulers of the Ten Halls of the Underworld could be called kings. The most famous one in the mortal world was Yanluo Wang.

  Gu Mingwei finally saw the River God statue, and it was indeed the person who had sent a sword token to him. It turned out that he was really the River God. Gu Mingwei couldn't help but think of the scene when Chen Jing sent the sword token at that time.

  "He was called Chen Jing and had even held him in his own arms." Gu Mingwei felt a slight burning sensation in his fingertips, looked up at the River God statue, and thought randomly to himself.

  Chen Jingrun naturally couldn't sense Gu Mingwei's thoughts from the wishes of so many people, and he was now working hard to expel the evil energy from the earth.

  The divine thought descended along the divine image, clearing the evil energy in the earth one by one. The talismans of driving out evil were rapidly consuming the power of faith. Although there was still a lot of power of faith in Junling Town and Jinghe Xiu Spring Bend, Chen Jing could not use it at all now that he was in this Baoling, not even the spiritual energy from those two places could be used, only the spiritual energy in his sword could be used.

  Cheng You's own body was a great Confucian, with a heart that cultivated the air of vastness and harmony, good at observing the air of heaven and earth. He had already stood on a high building with several other great Confucians who also had the air of vastness and harmony, looking at the overall atmosphere of the city.

  "A clean area has appeared with the River God Temple as its center. Can you see it?" Yan Zhong pointed at the River God Temple and asked the people beside him.

  Next to him, a scholar in his fifties, wearing a clean and elegant robe, nodded and said: "I saw a dazzling white light appearing at the River God Temple, calming down the dark energy that filled the entire city."

  Another man in his thirties said, "I am not comparable to Cheng Hou and Mr. Kong in terms of profound knowledge, but I feel that amidst this vast obscurity, a clear lamp has appeared, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden."

  Cheng Shou nodded and said, "At that time when I invited the River God to come, observing the atmosphere of the embroidered spring curved river temple, there was no magnificent splendor, only a gentle and serene light appeared, but in that piece of river domain, there was not even half a bit of evil spirit. It can be seen that the River God is indeed a true god, far superior to those false gods in the world today."

  For nearly a hundred years, there have been too many cases of humans being called gods, ghosts and spirits. Naturally, methods for debating true and false gods have slowly emerged. In the eyes of these great Confucians who can observe the aura of all things in the world, true gods will have divine light and color, and those with high magical powers will have divine light that pierces through the night, while false gods will be surrounded by dark light.

  "I went to three other places, and that Nalan Wangye's divine light was soaring into the sky, surging and majestic, his spiritual power must be extraordinary, it is the best among all the temples I have seen in these years. Indeed, he is worthy of being called a god who dares to claim kingship. The city gods of Shouyang City in the east and Zhongli City in the west are both surrounded by colorful clouds, although they look magnificent, but there is also black air mixed in, not necessarily true gods."

  Yan Zhong said with a worried look on his face.

  "Nor do we know that when the world is clear and bright, our Ba Ling City will still exist in the world. If it exists, which god will bloom with splendor and show off to the world?" The scholar next to him, who was nearly fifty years old, sighed and said.

  They were discussing here, but Chen Jing was somewhat disheartened. Or rather, it wasn't because of himself, but the power of faith was simply not enough for him to use. Although these people were more than ten times as many as those in Junling Town and Heqian Village combined, Chen Jing felt that they were only about the same as when he had beheaded the evil dragon at Yuxu River God's temple years ago. In his heart, he knew it was because not many people came to worship with true sincerity, but rather just paid lip service, without strong thoughts in their hearts.

  Insufficient faith, the talismans that were brought out by spiritual power to ward off evil spirits are like a drop in the bucket compared to the endless evil spirits above Baoling City.

  When the evil spirit is driven out to a certain extent, it can no longer expand. The closer you get to the center of the city, the heavier the evil energy becomes. In the gap where faith cannot keep up, a surging aura like a flood will come rushing in.