Chapter 256: A Sword Encirclement | Red Heart Survey [Translation]
Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on April 10, 2025
The killing intent surged wildly, yet was constantly absorbed by the White Tiger chapter.
Finally, at the moment of severing Master Liu’s head, Jiang Wang’s killing intent solidified, and the White Tiger chapter reached completion.
The White Tiger resides in the West, governs metal in the Five Elements, and presides over war and slaughter.
Thus.
The Four Spirits Body Refining Art, Azure Dragon chapter, Vermilion Bird chapter, Black Tortoise chapter, White Tiger chapter, all reached completion!
Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, the four spiritual shadows floated around Jiang Wang, and then plunged into his body together.
The four spirits converged, and this military body refining art was finally completed.
Jiang Wang felt as if he had inexhaustible strength, as if he could withstand swords with his body, and break spells with his fists – this was not entirely an illusion. Although a strong physique has always been the hallmark of a martial artist, military cultivators are also known for their physical strength.
Now Jiang Wang, with his physical strength alone, should be able to handle cultivators in the Wandering Pulse realm without any problem.
East, South, West, North, Wood, Fire, Metal, Water.
Standing on the earth, one can be the center.
Buddhism has the central Saha world, which in a sense symbolizes the self.
For Jiang Wang, the Four Spirits Body Refining Art meant that the five energies had achieved balance, and the treasures he had previously obtained could now be put to use.
Without much action, the Azure Cloud Sheep hidden in his arms kept shrinking, and the purest wood energy kept pouring into Jiang Wang’s body.
Like a spring breeze blowing, all things grew.
The fatigue of ten days of sleeplessness disappeared. Endless energy was constantly being born.
The Azure Cloud Sheep, a treasure that condenses the essence of the Wood Dao, born from the Azure Cloud Stone, the increase in wood energy is not only reflected in quantity, but also in quality.
It is a fundamental change.
As the Azure Cloud Sheep in his arms shrank, Jiang Wang clearly felt that his understanding of the wood element was deepening.
Binding Tiger, Sea of Flowers, Crown of Thorns, and even the Devouring Flower, Vine Serpent Entanglement…
All wood element spells opened a new chapter in his eyes.
He had a new understanding.
Taking Binding Tiger as an example, the previous Binding Tiger could only restrain ordinary Soaring Dragon realm cultivators for a moment.
Faced with experts like the Pig Bone Masked Man, Binding Tiger was almost ineffective. After adding the Crown of Thorns, it barely had a restraint time of no more than a moment.
But if Jiang Wang were to face the Pig Bone Masked Man again, he was confident that he could bind the Pig Bone Masked Man for half a moment with Binding Tiger itself. After adding the Crown of Thorns, the time might exceed a moment!
In a life-and-death battle, this is the key to victory.
In terms of cultivation speed, if Jiang Wang previously needed ten days to master Binding Tiger, after absorbing the Azure Cloud Sheep, the time would be shortened to five days.
The benefits brought by the Azure Cloud Sheep are more than that.
After his understanding of the wood element entered a new chapter, Jiang Wang clearly felt that he was already able to touch the threshold of a Grade B Lower Rank wood element spell.
Just like the help that Wang Changxiang’s innate Wind Sparrow True Spirit gave him, allowing him to master the Blowing Breath Wind Tornado in advance. The effect of the Azure Cloud Sheep is similar.
In other words, if the spell he won from Jiang Wuyong belonged to the wood element, he could now start trying to cultivate it.
The reason why he doesn’t have a sure grasp of being able to cultivate it… is because Jiang Wang only absorbed half of this Azure Cloud Sheep.
The other half was left for Chong Xuansheng.
A gentleman loves wealth, but he takes it in a proper way.
The same is true for cultivation resources.
Perhaps Chong Xuansheng doesn’t care, but Jiang Wang himself cannot not care.
Others have their own magnanimity, Jiang Wang has his own persistence.
All these changes happened in his body, and Jiang Wang never stopped.
Jia City is divided into inner city and outer city.
With the City Lord’s Mansion as the core, surrounded by the most luxurious restaurants, shops, casinos… the most prosperous core of the entire Jia City is the inner city.
Or rather, this is what many people regard as the real Jia City.
The real Jia City has nothing to do with the ordinary people living in the outer city. Even compared to those townspeople and villagers, they are already considered “city people”. But in reality, they are still “outside the city”.
A very obvious fact is: the disease that ordinary people are still ignorant of and can only call “plague”, has a much lower mortality rate in the inner city than in the outer city. It can even be said that it has been initially controlled. All the daily necessities of the inner city’s houses and courtyards are purchased by servants in a concentrated manner.
It cannot be denied that Xi Zichu has made efforts, but the so-called “matters have priorities”, this “priority” is manifested from the inside to the outside, first the inside then the outside, which is the embodiment of the gap between the outer city and the inner city.
The inner city also has high walls.
And as early as five days before the outer city began to be closed, the inner city had already been closed first.
Because at that time, due to panic, many people from the outer city began to flock to the inner city.
The Jia City City Lord’s Mansion “was forced” to isolate the inner and outer cities.
At such a time, many people would think about a question that they probably wouldn’t think about usually:
The outer city walls defend against fierce beasts and foreign enemies.
Who do the high walls of the inner city defend against?
With Master Liu’s status in Jia City today, his death is enough to cause a city-wide shock.
But the doors and windows on both sides of the street are tightly closed, and people are acting indifferently.
Not even a few gazes can be felt.
Jiang Wang remembered the first time he came to Jia City, and he was amazed that the water and soil here nurtured people. At that time, the crowds were weaving and bustling.
Young girls and young wives boldly and enthusiastically discussed whose son was handsome without any scruples.
The Xi family’s eldest son returned to the city in glory, attracting tens of thousands of people to gather and watch.
How lively it was then!
Now the streets are empty, not even a dog.
Is the cause of all this just the “rat plague” that these people don’t even know the truth about yet?
“Natural disasters are merciless, and human disasters are even more severe!”
Jiang Wang muttered like this.
He walked forward.
Ahead are high gates and thick walls.
The city gate was tightly closed, and Xi Munan, who had rushed over, was standing on the gate tower.
It could be seen that he was very haggard.
His usually well-groomed beard and hair were very messy at this time. Even in just a few days, they had been stained with a lot of white frost.
At this point, he had to admit that he had underestimated the terrible methods of the White Bone Dao, and he had to admit that he had underestimated the rat plague.
He had to admit that he had overestimated the methods of the Eastern King Valley, and himself.
He thought that everything could be resolved quietly, that ordinary people would not know what had happened, and that all disasters would be eliminated.
The Xi family would stand tall on this land as they had in the past.
He could even go further, to become the Prefect of the Rising Sun County, or even further…
Even now that the situation was so dire, he still made the wrong judgment – he thought that just relying on Master Liu could stop the fierce envoy of the Chongxuan family, Jiang Wang.
He didn’t even have to resort to force, it was nothing more than an exchange of interests. Just with a silver tongue, he could send Jiang Wang back home.
Master Liu himself thought so too.
His corpse was still lying on the long street, unclaimed.
At this time, Xi Munan stood on the city tower with his hands behind his back, and behind him was a guard of fifteen extraordinary cultivators. Nine in the Wandering Pulse realm, four in the Circulating Sky realm, and two in the Reaching Heaven realm.
This was all the extraordinary power that Jia City could freely mobilize now. That is, the “necessary guard force”.
And Jiang Wang stood in front of the city gate, holding a sword in one hand.
Looking down from the sky.
It was as if Jiang Wang alone surrounded a city.