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  Chen Jing, after the departure of Xun Ling, devoted himself to studying the "Witch's Curse" book. On the surface, he never showed any signs of being affected by the curse that haunted the deceased, but only he knew how worried he was that one day he would be completely controlled by the curse and become a mindless zombie. Perhaps at that time, outsiders would still call him River God, Chen Jing, and say that he was Ye Qingxue's junior brother, but in reality, his true self would have disappeared.

  As he flipped through the pages, he came across a spell called "Chaos Curse". After reading it for a while, he understood that this was the same curse that had been cast on the people in the town. This curse captured various spirits and souls from heaven and earth to form a spell, which could be wandering souls or the souls of dead animals. If one could find vengeful spirits, the curse would become even more powerful once it was formed.

  It's precisely because the people in the town were affected by these curses that they behave strangely, some making animal noises, some thinking they are female, and some thinking they are not from here.

  He quickly flipped through the pages, his heart sinking slowly as he turned to the last page, closed the book and let out a long sigh, feeling disappointed. The book contained many unimaginable curses that made Chen Jing feel a thrill of fear.

  Finally, he saw five striking big characters - Cursed Nightmare of the Dead Soul.

  These few words were no different from the others in terms of font size or thickness, but to Chen Jing's eyes, they seemed particularly jarring. He hastily looked away tightly.

  "When heaven and earth were formed, living spirits emerged. With life comes death. The world is divided into yin and yang, living spirits are born in the yang world, while dead spirits exist in the yin world. Between life and death, each has its own beginning. Living spirits in the yang world, if they suffered greatly before birth and harbored deep resentment in their hearts, may transform into vengeful spirits after death. The place where vengeful spirits emerge is bound to be a place of evil omen. Vengeful spirits are cunning and can devour souls and snatch vital energy, existing outside the three realms and beyond the five elements, with their magical powers determined by the place they emerged from... Vengeful spirits can entwine themselves around living spirits' bodies, attaching themselves to their souls, without knowing how to resolve it."

  Chen Jing felt a chill in his heart as he read this. On the book, he saw the "Curse of the Lost Soul", but what he saw was almost despair.

  "Could it be that Yu Yu is a vengeful spirit?" Chen Jing thought to himself.

  The moon rose in the sky, Chen Jing stood in front of the temple, his hands clasped behind his back, and the moonlight fell on his pale blue robe, igniting a faint mist. The demons surrounding the town scattered, not because there were no demons who wanted to enter the town these two days. Firstly, Chen Jing's reputation was too great in this area, secondly, the demon had not left and was still wandering around the town, even if some of the more powerful demons thought they could take advantage of Chen Jing's distraction to make a move, they would have to retreat.

  Chen Jing once told Xulíng that in the midst of wind and rain, there were demons who came to the temple. The two demons that merged into the wind and rain were the ones that had been to the River God Temple. One was a crow, and the other was a human-shaped black smoke.

  "Alas, that spirit is gone, what a pity."

  "Yes, the mirror in her hand is too terrifying for us, and I don't know where it came from."

  "Besides being a mirror, she can also devour souls and swallow spirits. What other person in the world has such abilities?"

  "You're saying she's like us, but her soul is solid and has a hint of yang energy, as if she arrived in this world very early on. If that's the case, then she must not have been an ordinary person when she was alive, or else her spirit would have been worn away by the ubiquitous restrictions in this world."

  "She must have recovered some of her memories and attained enlightenment. If we get a chance, let's go visit her."

  "We must be careful then, she seems kind but is actually ruthless and will show no mercy."

  They conversed in the darkness, and the nearby grass and trees seemed to be tainted with a hint of evil. A gust of wind blew by, and the black smoke dispersed with the wind, as the crows flew up into the sky and vanished into the distant mountains' dark shadows.

  Chen Jing put away the "Witch's Curse" and took out the "Huang Ting" from his bosom, looking at it carefully, still unable to understand a single word. He thought back to when he was young, following the old swordsman for so long, listening to what he had said, everything replaying in his mind like a movie, all the places they had been, all the things they had seen, but most of the time it was silent, just like a silent film. Occasionally there were sounds, and when there were, it was always the old swordsman speaking, saying words that Chen Jing would suddenly remember later on.

  "How could this be?" Chen Jing thought with a puzzled mind.

  This "Huang Ting" including the cover is only four pages, and the actual text is only written on three pages. The three pages after that seem to have been cut off by some sharp object, and a hint of murderous intent can still be felt.

  Placing the "Huang Ting" in the moonlight, the moonlight shines on it, bringing out a layer of light and making it look mysterious. Apart from this, the text above has not changed at all. Taking another deep breath, he put away the "Huang Ting" and took out the "Ji Jian Xin Jing". This is a divine thought engraved on a piece of spiritual jade, then covered with a layer of seal to prevent the divine thought text inside from dispersing. From the technique used, it is obviously a technique from within the past thousand years.

  The method of offering sacrifices to the sword recorded in "Ji Jian Xin Jing" is much stronger than the "Sacrifice Sword Technique" that Chen Jing saw in the Thousand Luo Mountain Cangjing Pavilion. There are various methods for sacrificing swords, including blood sacrifice, spiritual sacrifice, divine sacrifice, and law sacrifice. These methods are not suitable for any sword, but rather for different swords, using different sacrificial techniques. The Misty Heaven Sword in Chen Jing's hand is a product of the blood sacrifice method, which belongs to the technique of making ordinary swords communicate with spirits. Before being sacrificed with blood, Chen Jing's sword had been nurtured by divine thoughts for a long time, which is a way of sacrificing swords that possess a certain spiritual energy. Therefore, even after so many years of nurturing with divine thoughts, Chen Jing still did not achieve spiritual communication.

  Chen Jing had already read through the "Sword Sacrifice Scripture" and understood that the various methods of sacrifice were only initial differences due to the different qualities of the swords. However, once the sword became spiritualized and formless, all methods would have to be used again. Just like Chen Jing's own Misty Heaven Sword, which was initially awakened through blood sacrifice, now needed to undergo spiritual refinement, followed by divine refinement and finally, law refinement.

  After the blood sacrifice and spiritual communication, there are three ways of practice: Ling Lian, Fa Lian, and Shen Lian. These three methods run through the entire process of sword cultivation until the sword transcends the mortal body and enters the pre-heavenly realm. When the sword takes shape after the sacrifice, the most important thing is to cultivate it, because the sword has reached a formless state, so this will be an important stage of cultivation.

  Among them, Ling Lian and Shen Lian had been doing it before Chen Jing knew this term. Ling practice is not like washing with one's own spiritual energy before taking shape, but rather using the spiritual power of heaven and earth to refine, just as his process of drawing the nine heavenly thunders with a sword was a kind of ling practice. This method of ling practice is the most dangerous, and if there is any mistake, the thunder will disperse the sword halo. However, Chen Jing, as the river god, used the spiritual power of the river domain to refine the most.

  As for the spiritual refinement, it is to envelop and cultivate with spiritual thoughts. Chen Jing has always done so. His physical body cannot move, he can only fuse his yin spirit into the sword spirit and walk in the world. The last method of refining Chen Jing had never done before, and previously he had not even heard of it. It wasn't until he obtained the "Heart Sutra of Sacrificing the Sword" that he knew there was such a thing as spiritual refinement.

  According to legend, the pre-heavenly spiritual objects all contain a hint of the Great Way within. Some are a single spell or technique, some are an array formation, and others are a scripture. Therefore, when refining a spiritual sword, many people will imprint something into it after it has become formless. This can be a spell or technique, an array formation, a mysterious talismanic art, or even a special scripture.

  Of course, in the "Ji Jian Xin Jing", each step has a clear division. After transforming into a shape, the methods of offering sacrifices to the sword are: fusion method, planting gods, forming embryos, and giving birth to spirits.

  Chen Jing hadn't thought of what to print yet, so the fusion step had never been completed.

  The moonlight flows quietly with time.

  He gazed at the "Ji Jian Xin Jing" in his hand, but his mind wandered off, thinking of many things. Those past events seemed to condense into fragments of images under the moonlight. There were many unknown places he had been to with the old swordsman since childhood, a few years of stable life in Ba Ling City was also the happiest time, and the time spent hiding in the library of Qian Luo Mountain reading Taoist scriptures. These seemed to become clearer and more transparent due to the polishing of time.

  He also remembered when he fell into the river and was rescued by Yan Luoniang and Yan Laotou from the village in front of the river, and then placed in the Temple of the River God. After that, everything became a reality after becoming the River God, as if the temple had opened a true gate to heaven for him.

  "I'm now just a spirit wandering outside, the River God Temple is where my physical body resides. If someone were to destroy the statue after I leave, it would be like my soul flying away and dispersing, and I wouldn't be able to stay here for long." Chen Jing thought about what method he could use to take care of both places at once. As soon as he thought of this, he began to think carefully, but only the two places, Xiu Chun Wan and Jun Ling Town, were relatively close together. However, if there were several more places like that, then he would be completely unable to take care of them all."

  "Divided attention?" Chen Jing couldn't help but think of this in his mind. This technique, as legend has it, was once possessed by someone in ancient times who could split their thoughts into hundreds of people, each with their own consciousness, and each one was an independent thought, yet all were subject to the original self. This legend is well-known to everyone, and the profound principles are also understood by all, but those who can actually achieve it are extremely rare.

  In ancient times, the most common method was to cultivate the Innate Spiritual Treasure **. It's actually similar to Chen Jing's current state. At that time, he also thought he had cultivated an external incarnation, but in the end, he found that his true self and intentions were all here, and there was no consciousness in the fleshly body, which didn't conform to the characteristics of external incarnation technique at all, it could only be considered as possession technique. In terms of swordsmanship, this is a highly advanced sword control technique.

  To meet the two conditions, one of them is to have something that resonates with oneself. In ancient times, most people used a pre-heavenly spiritual treasure that had been cultivated for many years, while some were physical objects, even hair. Of course, demons mostly use things left behind after transformation, such as scales, horns or hair. The other condition is naturally a strong divine consciousness, and it's only possible when the divine consciousness is strong enough to separate.

  This is something Chen Jing cannot achieve.

  Guī Yuān had brought back "Divine Travel Through the Starry Sky" many years ago, which was a Daoist scripture that Chén Jǐng later saw again on Fāng Cùn Mountain. He couldn't confirm if it was the same one because when he wanted to take it out and look at it, he was interrupted by a young boy. However, Chén Jǐng did not deny that it was an extremely brilliant Daoist scripture for cultivating the yuan shen (primordial spirit), directly pointing to the Great Way of Long Life, and very pure.

  That year, he heard from Guī Yuān that he recited the "Divine Journey Through the Starry Sky" once and memorized it. He couldn't determine whether it was because his mind was focused at the time or if Guī Yuān had cast a spell. Every word in the "Divine Journey Through the Starry Sky" he remembered clearly.

  At that time, he left the statue of God to find Ye Qingxue in order to refine his spirit, and it can be said that he was thinking day and night, and within a few months, he condensed his spirit.

  This yin spirit belongs to the condensation of thoughts, and at first, it was naturally just a messy and complicated collection of various ideas. Through quiet contemplation, they could be gathered together, slowly forming a yin spirit that became more refined over time, eventually becoming the yuan Shen. However, Chen Jingming can now clearly feel that this yin spirit wants to further condense but is unable to do so. This is because the River God's seal is binding it, preventing the yin spirit from further refinement, or it could be said that this is a prohibition set by the Heavenly Court for all gods and spirits. This feeling only appears when one has no thoughts, no desires, and a clear mind. However, in recent days, he has felt that the restraint of the River God's seal seems to be weakening, and he doesn't know if it's due to changes in the world or because his grasp on the river domain is becoming more profound.

  As Chen Jing's mind became clearer, he would often have some unfounded feelings. Just like he felt that the world was about to undergo a great change, feeling the constraints of the imperial edict, feeling that if he could just incorporate the entire Zhen River into his divine domain and form a Zhen River Imperial Edict, he would be able to break through the Embroidered Spring Bend Imperial Edict and eliminate the ban.