Jiang Wang and Ji Huo Yu Ling had a certain unspoken agreement, both avoiding mentioning Ji Huo Yu Xiu’s name. But when they talked about that pair of eyes, they were, of course, referring to Ji Huo Yu Xiu’s deep eyes.

So, the person Ao Kui was searching for in Ji Huo Department was Ji Huo Yu Xiu?

Was this why Ji Huo Yu Ling sent Ji Huo Yu Xiu to be with her?

Jiang Wang realized he had been mistaken about one thing. Previously, Ao Kui had used the issue of the body totem spirit to threaten, saying even Yu Chan would die. He thought Ao Kui was hinting at the danger related to Ji Huo Yu Xiu’s body.

He was, of course, vigilant about Ji Huo Yu Xiu’s special status and had made corresponding arrangements. He could ensure even Yu Chan’s safety. That’s why he didn’t return to Qing Huo Department immediately, but followed the causal thread to Ji Huo Department.

But looking at it now, Ao Kui clearly didn’t know Ji Huo Yu Xiu. Ao Kui might not have known exactly who he was looking for, only that the person was in Ji Huo Department. So, he simply killed everyone!

If he didn’t find the special one, and didn’t have time to distinguish true from false, then after killing everyone, that special person would naturally appear!

If the danger Ao Kui mentioned was unrelated to Ji Huo Yu Xiu, then what danger still existed on the Qing Huo Department side?

Qing Wang? Qing Huo Yuan Chen? Wu Zhi Di Ku?

Bai Yu Xia’s voice rang out at this moment: “Dong jia, I’ve found a small problem!”

Jiang Wang turned his eyes: “What problem?”

Bai Yu Xia stood among some ruins and transmitted: “Your guess isn’t wrong. Ao Kui didn’t randomly find a populous tribe to massacre. He chose Ji Huo Department with a very clear purpose. I’ve already examined all the battle traces. From the beginning, he intentionally spared the lives of Ji Huo Department’s core figures. He wants to obtain some intelligence, to seek something in Ji Huo Department! It’s just that we arrived too quickly, so he had to interrupt his actions and hide in Ji Huo Palace.”

Jiang Wang knew Bai Yu Xia wouldn’t just say things he already knew: “And then?”

Bai Yu Xia said seriously: “From the moment I arrived, I felt something wasn’t right. Ji Huo Department’s population of a million was slaughtered clean by Ao Kui. The corpses are all here, but the scattered souls are far too few. At first, I thought they had become nutrients for this great array, but I just discovered that’s not the case. Three thousand zhang underground, there’s a huge pit cave. That position hasn’t reached You Tian yet, but it’s not far off either. Ao Kui is raising ghosts there! Many souls are being urged into evil ghosts there.”

The matter of cultivating evil ghosts alone wasn’t exactly novel. To put it cruelly, it was merely Ao Kui making full use of the deaths of Ji Huo Department’s million people. Their flesh was destroyed into blood corpses, their souls into evil ghosts… With Ao Kui’s cruelty, it was too easy to do!

But they had seen it on the rock paintings at Sheng Shou Mountain.

The Floating Land world once had evil ghosts! There was even a period when evil ghosts rampaged through this world.

Later, in that blank segment of history, the evil ghosts all disappeared.

Now, Ao Kui was making them reappear. To say there was absolutely no plan involved, Jiang Wang was the first not to believe it.

“Good,” Jiang Wang’s voice sank low, “This world is very lively now. Floating Land human race, evil ghosts, star beasts, dragon race, present world human race, all present. I actually want to see what else will appear.”

In the Ji Huo Department tribal land, filled with blood-red eyes, the chanting gradually grew grand.

Jing Li Monk Liuli was also motionless, and the Buddha light shone everywhere.

He had already pushed his Buddhist dharma to its limit.

In groups of evil corpses, the navel fire had already extinguished, their eyebrows and eyes were amiable, and they swayed towards the outside of the Tian Tu Wan Jue Array.

Dissolving the baleful qi of a million blood corpses and dispelling the influence of the Tian Tu Wan Jue Array were extremely great tests for his will and cultivation.

And he only focused on this one matter: chanting sutras.

Outside Ji Huo Palace, hollow copper tubes were erected one by one. Runes that prohibited the yuan force of heaven and earth floated on the surface of the copper tubes, and in the middle of the copper tubes was a whooshing wind sound.

Xi Ming used one hundred and eight yuan-emptying tubes to drive away all the heaven and earth yuan force within a three-chi range of Ji Huo Palace. That wind sound was actually unrelated to wind, but was the shock caused by the twisting and breaking of yuan force.

“Ji Huo Yu Ling!” Jiang Wang ended his sound transmission exchange with Bai Yu Xia, looked around, and then shouted towards the fire shrine: “What else are you hiding from me? Tell me everything, and I can let bygones be bygones!”

“I truly didn’t hide anything from you, adult! Please don’t force me again—” Ji Huo Yu Ling said in pain, “Everything I know, I’ve already told you!”

But as the words left her mouth, she realized her surroundings were silent, as if she hadn’t made a sound!

At this moment, she just realized that Jiang Wang’s question earlier had actually only echoed in her ears!

What did this mean?

She just realized something was wrong, and the voice in her eyes had a concrete manifestation. Just now, it wasn’t that she hadn’t made a sound, but that the words, just rising but not yet falling, had already detached from her influence. And under the manipulation of a terrifying force, they manifested as a clear human shape at this moment.

Jiang Wang’s driving sound stood before her!

Although this fire shrine’s defense was astonishing, the protection of the creation book was naturally stable, and the guard of the remaining strongmen of Ji Huo Department was also quite attentive.

But she shouldn’t have spoken to the outside of the fire shrine.

Since it allowed sound transmission, it allowed Jiang Wang’s invasion!

He couldn’t solve Ao Kui by listening through sound, but standing before Ji Huo Yu Ling presented no problem at all.

Now, this was their second meeting.

The surrounding warriors came forward, but all were stopped by Ji Huo Yu Ling raising her palm.

Jiang Wang looked at her calmly, his voice transmitted only in their ears: “Now tell me, why does the magic dragon want to find Ji Huo Yu Xiu?”

Ji Huo Yu Ling closed her eyes and said painfully: “Yu Xiu is my child, and also a source of disaster. Those who come into contact with her are mostly unfortunate. Her friends, her pets, her father… What truly made me determined was the latest page of the creation book that we witches deciphered. The book says ‘the world has disaster, heaven tilts Yu Xiu’. This world will be destroyed because of her. That’s why I sent her to you, an outsider from heaven. I thought if you took her to the present world, she could be safe, and our Ji Huo Department could also avoid disaster.”

Jiang Wang thought of the page of the creation book that even Yu Chan and the others had deciphered, “the world has Wei, Wei at its…”

If “Yu Xiu” was analogous, then was “its” also a name there?

Its Ming?!

Ji Huo Yu Ling continued: “Before you arrived, the magic dragon blocked us in the fire shrine and once said she wanted to find someone born holding a creation book. If we handed them over, we could be spared death. I only knew that when Yu Xiu was born, she indeed held a page of the creation book.”

Born holding a creation book, huh? It had a certain meaning of destiny from heaven, indeed quite mythical!

Jiang Wang said: “Where is that page of the creation book? Bring it for me to see.”

“Just there,” Ji Huo Yu Ling raised her hand and pointed to the dome, where an ancient mud version book hung, slowly rotating under the excitement of the totem, providing force to the fire shrine against external enemies: “It’s the page that the witches just deciphered.”

Jiang Wang silently recorded the creation divine text on the mud version book. Ear Immortal’s manipulation of force ended just right, and the figure manifested by the voice dissipated.

Outside the fire shrine, Jiang Wang stepped back and waved his hand, manifesting the creation divine text with Ru Meng Ling and handing it to Bai Yu Xia: “You research these, look at this segment of creation divine text, see if the decipherment is correct or not.”

With another snap of his fingers, he intercepted a wisp of force from that creation book and flicked it to Xi Ming’s front: “Verify this wisp of force, see if it’s the same one that contended with the heaven Buddha force at Sheng Shou Mountain!”

With another shake of the yellow talisman, he summoned two Immortal Palace strongmen. They directly carried the corpses on the ground like chickens, four or five in one hand, and flew towards the outside of the array range.

The Immortal Palace child yawned on his sleeping chair: “Old master, good—”

And then fell back asleep.

He had been sleeping a lot lately.

Not long after, Xi Ming raised his head from the pile of strange mechanisms: “You guessed right, what collided with Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo at Sheng Shou Mountain was this kind of force!”

Another puzzle solved.

That ruin at Sheng Shou Mountain was where the Floating Land human race worshipped the creation book in ancient times. Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo was initially hidden in Ya Gan Lake, but soon after, a change occurred, to the extent that Ya Gan Lake dried up overnight and became Ya Gan Tian Keng. It was reasonable to speculate that some force in the Floating Land world discovered it, and a contention occurred during the process of breaking the seal.

One year later, Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo killed his way to Sheng Shou Mountain and battled with the creation book, thus leading to the collapse of Sheng Shou Mountain.

During this period, Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo’s actions were definitely unrelated to Ao Kui. Ao Kui himself was struggling to protect himself.

Then was it the counterattack of Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo’s spirituality?

The transformation of spirituality during the battle between Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo and the creation book allowed the several totem spirits who hurried over to see a way to break through the bottleneck… Everything matched up.

So what did the creation book represent?

The origin force of the Floating Land world?

Bai Yu Xia raised his head at this time and said: “This page of the creation book you gave me was deciphered incorrectly. The word ‘Qing’ doesn’t match.”

“Are you sure?” Jiang Wang asked.

Bai Yu Xia said: “Whether good or bad, we are all scholars, and we have seriously researched the evolution of creation divine text. Although we haven’t achieved correct decipherment yet, eliminating errors is no problem. If this word is placed here as the word ‘Qing’, it completely contradicts the temperament of the whole page of the creation book. The person who deciphered it has a problem, either incompetent or harboring evil intentions.”

Jiang Wang had some thoughts: “It’s also possible that the problem lies with that witch wish.”

Bai Yu Xia was completely immersed in thinking about the creation divine text, frowning and saying: “Combining the context, using the word ‘Jiang’ here seems more suitable. But it’s not guaranteed. We need some ancient materials for comparison to finally determine it.”

The world has disaster, heaven descends Yu Xiu!

A single word difference, a thousand differences in meaning!

This was absolutely not

Just a deciphering error, this was a struggle for power.

Jiang Wang suddenly understood what the creation book was, and truly understood Ji Huo Yu Xiu’s special status, understood what Ao Kui wanted to do by coming to Ji Huo Department.

This kind of targeted leap in knowledge instantly increased the threat of the San Mei True Fire attached to the Wan Ling Blood Light Cover. It almost burned through the Wan Ling Blood Light Cover on the spot. Only by Ao Kui mobilizing his force in time could it be sustained.

Then what about now?

Ji Huo Yu Xiu was sent away by Ji Huo Yu Ling early on. Ao Kui couldn’t find the person he wanted to find in Ji Huo Department, and now he was blocked in Ji Huo Palace again.

After the original plan failed, what method would Ao Kui think of to remedy it? How would he act?

“What do we do next?” Bai Yu Xia said: “We can’t help much here either. Why don’t I go take a look at Ya Gan Tian Keng?”

“There’s no need to go to Ya Gan Tian Keng, it was just Qi Huo Ru Shi Bo’s earliest hiding place. There won’t be anything useful there now. Even if there is, it will all be Ao Kui’s trap. You’d still have to fight him with wits and courage, putting in double the effort for half the result.” Jiang Wang lifted Dao Shu Jing Feng and sent piles of corpses on the ground outwards: “Let’s wait a bit. Qing Wang’s army is coming soon. We have a great advantage, there’s no reason not to use it.”

Up to now, his methods had not been triggered, and even Yu Chan was temporarily not in danger. Since no accident had occurred, then Qing Wang, who held the king power, would definitely discover the situation in Ji Huo Department and dispatch troops.

In this chess game where they couldn’t see the opponent many times, and could only make lonely moves, every single living Floating Land human race was a force standing on his side.

Bai Yu Xia then also helped move corpses, trying to reduce the pressure on Jing Li.

No sound came from inside Ji Huo Palace, and Ao Kui didn’t try to waste words.

Outside Ji Huo Palace, Jiang Wang and the others were all busy with their own affairs.

Inside the fire shrine, there wasn’t even a whisper.

The Ji Huo Department tribal land, which had almost become a graveyard, was trapped in this strange silence.

Time passed bit by bit in such silence.

Drip.

Drip.

It had just rained, and although it had stopped, the lingering feeling remained.

When raindrops slid from the eaves, time was concretely measured.

It could be seen and heard.

Ji Huo Yu Xiu leaned on her wheelchair, sitting quietly in the long corridor, looking up at the red clouds on the horizon, and the yellow bronze sky curtain that the cloud light couldn’t fully cover.

Her lips moved, silently reciting the sutra that mortal eyes couldn’t see.

At the other end of the corridor, there was an armored soldier from the general’s mansion. He had always stood there quietly. At this time, for some unknown reason, he suddenly walked towards this side.

Blue Sky Guest’s residence was not open to idlers, and this strip of corridor was already considered outside the courtyard.

There weren’t many armored soldiers inside the mansion. Although they were said to be guards, they served more as sound transmission tubes, relaying the Blue Sky Guest’s various instructions. To make the Blue Sky Guest feel at home, Qing Huo Yuan Chen’s scrolls were moved out early – even if these Blue Sky Guests didn’t care, their activity range was fundamentally only within a small courtyard.

Since coming to Floating Land, everyone had been busy. Even Yu Chan, who was guarding, was always burying her head in piles of old papers.

In the long corridor, there was only this armored soldier and Ji Huo Yu Xiu.

Of course, separated by a wall was the Blue Sky Guest’s residence. If you shouted, the nearby servants could hear you.

But they were all very calm.

The armored soldier was completely covered in armor, even his five senses were hidden under the face armor.

His voice penetrated through the gaps in the armor plates, like a cold wind blowing: “Little friend, sitting here alone, what are you thinking about?”

“Thinking about Mother,” Ji Huo Yu Xiu said.

“You are still small,” the armored soldier’s voice said.

Ji Huo Yu Xiu still raised her head, still looking at the red clouds on the horizon: “When I was smaller, I couldn’t sleep, and I always pestered Mother to sing me a lullaby. Mother didn’t have time, so she arranged for a wet nurse to sing to me. I liked listening very much and could obediently fall asleep!”

The armored soldier said: “You can also be obedient now—”

Ji Huo Yu Xiu suddenly turned her head to look at him: “Do you know what song that is?”

Looking at the strange witch wish mask, the armored soldier said calmly: “What is it?”

“I’ll sing it for you to hear.”

Ji Huo Yu Xiu opened her mouth and sang—

“Little white rabbit, white and white again
Two ears droop down.
Loves to eat heart and liver, loves to be made into a dish
Eyes red, red, truly cute!”

Several alliance masters who went to Wenzhou to attend a wedding all tested positive. I was wondering why my stomach had been so uncomfortable these past few days…

Thank you to book friend “Xiao Feng Han Yue” for becoming the alliance master of this book. This is the 472nd alliance for Chi Xin Xun Tian!

There will be one tonight at 8 PM.

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