Loyal Heart Roaming the Skies

The entire space seemed to freeze for a moment, and everyone, whether on the upper city or the lower city's twenty-seven cities, instinctively held their breath.

Then the giant beast lifted its foot.

A tiny black figure shot out from the ground and once again stood in front of the giant beast.

The people erupted in excitement!

The soldiers on the city walls of the upper city slammed their spear butts on the ground in unison.

"Might!"

"Might!"

"Might!"

For their invincible war god who protects the country, the Commander-in-chief of the Beiping Army, Zheng Chaoyang!

Fierce battles suddenly broke out all over the city.

Looking up at the high places, one could see black smoke rising from many places in the lower twenty-seven cities. Each black smoke represented a curse.

In terms of scale, these curses represented by the black smoke were not powerful, but there were nearly a hundred of them!

If each one represented an existence full of hatred and resentment like the white-haired old woman, then this city...

Jiang Wang couldn't help but wonder, as the wet nurse of the crying woman in the deep courtyard, why did the white-haired old woman have such deep-seated hatred?

Individually, these powers, this resentment, and these curses were not terrifying. Any cultivator in the Circulating Realm could eliminate them independently. But once they were gathered together using a certain secret method, it was enough to provoke the ferocity of this giant turtle-like beast.

Once the power of the curses was wiped out, the giant turtle-like beast with the bloodline of the Overlord would be instantly appeased and return to its original state.

But the upper city did not calm down because of this.

"City Lord Yin Guan of the twenty-seven cities, for his ineffective governance and for influencing the sacred beast with sinister means, he is guilty of a heinous crime! He shall be punished by being devoured by the sacred beast to atone for his sins!"

After a moment of silence, another shout suddenly rang out.

"Damn it! Go find him!"

Obviously, everything that happened today was planned by the lower city's City Lord named Yin Guan. Moreover, he managed to escape even with the main force of the country present!

With the order from the capital, the cultivators scattered in the lower twenty-seven cities not only did not return, but even more elite cultivators rushed down from the capital.

The important figure in the upper city who gave the orders obviously believed that Yin Guan was still in the lower twenty-seven cities and was determined to seal off the area tightly. They would search every inch and find him.

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"Cousin!"

Jiang Wang suddenly heard a voice that was almost crying. He followed the sound and saw the woman who had been crying in the deep courtyard and burning curse paper dolls.

She was on the main street, her face ashen. Tears streaked across her beautiful face.

Jiang Wang had deliberately alarmed her family before, hoping that her family would control her and prevent her from causing trouble again.

But he didn't expect to run into her on the main street after going around in a big circle.

This was too coincidental!

And her cousin, who was called out by her, turned out to be Yin Guan, the one who caused such a big commotion. He was the City Lord of the twenty-seven cities!

Jiang Wang felt a headache coming on and calmly turned around, using the crowd to conceal himself.

He was just a passing traveler in the country and didn't want to get involved in such a big trouble.

"Miss, what were you shouting just now?"

Just then, a man who was dressed completely differently from the Beiping Army cultivators stood in front of the woman named Mu Qing. He smiled and said, "It's nothing, why are you running away?"

As he spoke, he reached out lightly and effortlessly grabbed the woman's wrist.

"Let go of me!" The woman struggled hard but couldn't break free. She coldly rebuked, "I am from the Su family, the political family of this city!"

Unlike the political system in Zhuangguo, in Youguo, the City Lord changed every six months. Only the most outstanding person in each city had the qualifications to become the City Lord and govern for half a year.

But because the time was too short, there was actually a family in each city that handled mundane affairs. That was the true core family in each city.

The Su family where Su Muqing belonged was the political family of the twenty-seven cities.

Of course, their power was not overwhelming. For major matters, they still needed the decision of the upper city.

The sacred beast that protected the country regularly patrolled the borders, which made the control of the entire country by the capital very deep.

In the half-yearly assessment, if the City Lord performed well, they would have the opportunity to enter the upper city to cultivate as a reward. If they performed poorly, they would be devoured by the sacred beast as punishment.

Su Muqing's cousin Yin Guan was such a City Lord.

"Hahaha, the political family?" The man with a powdered face laughed and pulled her along as he turned around. "That's even better!"

"Stop!"

Although Jiang Wang had been avoiding attention in the crowd, he had been paying attention to what was happening here.

The person who spoke up to stop them was not him, but Xu Xiangqian, the despicable Xu Xiangqian he had encountered before.

His high forehead was very eye-catching."In broad daylight, under the vast sky! What are you planning to do with my cousin?" The man questioned angrily.

Originally, the pink-faced man's act of kidnapping someone in the street had already caused great dissatisfaction among the bystanders. However, due to his identity as a cultivator from the upper city on a mission, they were worried that Su Muqing might indeed be involved in today's incident and dared not intervene.

Now that Xu Xiangqian stepped forward, the crowd began to side with him, subtly surrounding them.

Seeing this, the pink-faced man showed no fear, but a look of contempt instead.

"Your cousin?" He turned his head, looked at Xu Xiangqian, and laughed, "What's your name, and what's hers? Where does she live, and how old is she? Speak now, and if you get one thing wrong, I'll kill you!"

Su Muqing wanted to speak, but he held her chin, preventing her from making a sound.

With his words, some of the cultivators from the upper city also rudely pushed through the crowd, closing in on Xu Xiangqian.

Only those cultivators in the Negative Stele Army uniforms were still meticulously carrying out their tasks, searching around.

Xu Xiangqian was stunned. He had indeed stepped forward out of goodwill, but he couldn't possibly know the details about Su Muqing. Naturally, he couldn't answer the pink-faced man's questions.

"Everyone saw that, right? He dared to lie while I'm carrying out official duties. I wonder if he has any connections with those heretical sects?" The pink-faced man laughed, turning back to Xu Xiangqian, "I can arrest you right now, lock you up for ten or eight years, believe it or not?"

"Bring it on!" Xu Xiangqian didn't act like a scholar at all, and immediately rolled up his sleeves, "If I'm afraid of you, I'm not your grandfather!"

"I do hope you can keep up this tough act." The smile on the pink-faced man's face faded, and he said coldly, "This man is suspected of being connected with the rebel Yin Guan, seize him!"

In the midst of the chaos, a clear voice suddenly shouted, "Hold on!"

A handsome young man with white hair pushed through the crowd.

"Her name is Su Muqing, she lives in the largest house at the end of the street behind you, turn left, then right at the end. As for her age, I can't tell you, because a woman's age is a secret, and you're not worthy to know."

"I can testify that Su Muqing calls Xu Xiangqian her cousin! Do you have any other questions?"

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PS: There was just an earthquake o,o, but it doesn't affect my updates!