Loyal Heart Roaming the Skies

Jiang Wang deliberately chose the other side of the city gate opposite the huge turtle beast and left the city.

He walked calmly in the city, but after leaving the city, he hurried all the way and soon arrived in the wilderness.

"Ah."

In the howling wind, he suddenly heard a sigh.

"I wonder why this traveler is in such a hurry?" Jiang Wang stopped and drew his sword.

Looking at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him, he slowly said, "Escaping, I have no choice but to hurry."

The person who appeared in front of him was a handsome young cultivator, dressed in ordinary clothes, with no expression on his face, but his eyes seemed melancholic.

He smiled, "You are the great savior of Youguo, the hero who destroyed the Qianjue Curse. Why are you running away?"

Jiang Wang sighed, "Maybe I'm not."

"Tsk tsk, I followed you just to take a closer look at our righteous envoy and moral model. It turns out you're just like everyone else." He shook his head and sighed, "I thought you were something special."

Jiang Wang said, "I just did what I had to do, it's not about justice. If Lord Yin has nothing else, I have to go."

At the rooftop of the restaurant, he saw one of the officials going to the city for duty, who was Yin Guan.

So Jiang Wang remembered his appearance.

Everyone thought he was still hiding in the twenty-seven cities, and the Fu Bei Army was still searching in the city. Fu Bei Army Commander-in-Chief Zheng Chaoyang personally blocked the gate. But he appeared in the wilderness outside the city under everyone's nose.

"Haha! Do you really think you saved this city?" Yin Guan sneered, "Youguo, in fact, is a hopeless country!"

"Maybe I saved it, maybe not. But at least I saved an innocent girl." Jiang Wang said, "As for whether Youguo has hope, that's something you people of Youguo should consider."

"You stopped Mu Qing and erased the first curse. Do you know why she resents? Have you asked her why she is willing to do such things?"

Yin Guan's voice was filled with anger, "Do you know how her only son died?"

"I didn't have time to ask, and I didn't want to ask."

"Her only son was the city lord of the twenty-seven cities two years ago!"

The little brother Qing mentioned by Su Muqing?

Jiang Wang's mind shook. He had thought that the old woman's son had suffered some injustice or persecution. In any case, it was a pitiful story that could be imagined, but it should not be a reason to hate the world.

There is a cause for every grievance, and someone to blame for every debt. Hatred should not involve the innocent.

He had thought of many possibilities, but this answer still surprised him.

Jiang Wang almost immediately thought of what Su Muqing said, "My cousin is very good, he is very good. But no matter what he does, he will die."

Yin Guan was the city lord who was going to report to the city today. According to Su Muqing, he would definitely fail the evaluation today and be eaten by the national holy beast.

But he directly arranged a plan to trigger the madness of the national holy beast and escaped from death. He even almost destroyed the twenty-seven cities directly. If the giant turtle beast continued to go crazy, the danger of the country being destroyed was not impossible.

Was he just trying to save himself?

"He was an excellent person. The three of us grew up together with Su Muqing. We both worked hard in our cultivation. In order to have more time to accompany Su Muqing, I deliberately hid my abilities and let him become the city lord that year. I thought it was a compensation. I didn't expect... that it directly pushed him into hell!"

"Do you know what it means to be the city lord of the lower city?"

"Youguo is divided into the upper city and the lower city."

"The upper city is the capital, and there is only one."

"There are a total of thirty-nine cities in the lower city. The names are from City One to City Thirty-Nine. Have you ever seen a city where only numbers are used as names? You wouldn't name a doghouse or a chicken coop because you know they are doghouses and chicken coops, and that's enough."

"The so-called change of city lord is just a cover! What the current political system of Youguo wants is to select the most outstanding and talented cultivators from all over the country to be eaten by that damn national holy beast! The one with the worst evaluation is actually the one with the highest talent. But talent has become the reason for death!"

"Only in this way can it continue to grow, stay in Youguo, and 'protect' this place!"

"But the gratitude and reverence of the people for protection is just the instinctive behavior of a wild beast protecting its food!"

Yin Guan's eyes were distorted by pain.

He laughed. Laughing at himself and laughing at this deformed country.

"I see!" Jiang Wang said.

"You see?"

"I just suddenly understood something." Jiang Wang said, "I thought Zhao Cang wanted to kill me. Now I understand that he did want to kill me, but he didn't have to do it himself. He announced in front of everyone that I had solved the Qianjue Curse, just to use you as a pawn."

"Because you are smart. You refused him. Smart people can see what this country is like. If you have a background, it's fine, but if you don't, it's better to let fewer people know. And me... do you think I should kill you?"

"Maybe I should." Jiang Wang tightened his grip on his sword, "Because you have your path, and I have mine."

"Don't you think you're wrong?" Yin Guan frowned, "The justice you think you have is actually just being an accomplice to a tiger!"

"Do you know..." Jiang Wang said, "Your cousin really loves you."

"What do you mean?"

"Do you know what impact that cursed paper figure will have on her?"

"It will make her seriously ill. And everyone in the Su family except her will die.""If I remember correctly, the Su family are also your kin."

"Kin?" Yin Guan laughed, "Do you know who revealed my true talent, making me the city lord of the Twenty-Seven Cities? It was Su Muqing's father, my own uncle!"

"All to consolidate his power with the food I could provide to feed the turtle beast. Even to climb into the upper city. He completely forgot how he became the head of the family, forgot how my mother died!"

Jiang Wang remained silent, he indeed couldn't blame him for this.

But he also had his own path, he wouldn't waver just because others had suffered.

Jiang Wang said, "But have you ever thought about how many people would die if the giant beast went mad and attacked the lower city? You can't correct one mistake with a bigger one."

"That depends on how you define a mistake." Yin Guan replied indifferently.

"So, the last question." Jiang Wang asked, "Why are you telling me all this?"

"Hahahaha." Yin Guan laughed heartily, "It's only now that I find you interesting."

He answered, "Because I'm just like you... waiting for someone. You're waiting for him to kill me, and I'm also waiting... for him to kill me!"

As his words fell.

From the direction of the Twenty-Seven Cities, a straight figure, like an arrow leaving the bow, shot straight towards them at a speed that almost tore through the space!

If he was an arrow.

Then the bow must have mountains as its back, and rivers as its string.

This arrow must pierce the sky!

That robust muscle, the overwhelming pressure, even from a great distance, let people know his identity - Zheng Chaoyang, the Commander-in-chief of the Bearing Stele Army!

Yin Guan, with a wave of his large sleeve, walked past Jiang Wang.

"They only miscalculated one thing. That is..."

As he spoke, he began to accelerate towards Zheng Chaoyang's direction.

"They never truly understood how talented I am. How strong I really am!"