Time rewinds to five days ago.

In the Star River Pavilion of the Mirage of Grand Void, Jiang Wang sat opposite Chong Xuan Sheng.

“Have you decided?” Chong Xuan Sheng asked, resting his hand on his knee.

“I cannot bear to see innocent people lying dead in the wilderness.

I cannot bear to hear the voices of justice silenced in the dark.

If no one raises a torch in the darkness, tonight will be an eternal night.

If no one speaks out for this, silence is complicity!”

“I am in Qingyang Town, and I have taken on the responsibility of governing this place. Therefore, this is my duty and responsibility.”

Jiang Wang also rested his hand on his knee, his spine as straight as a sword: “The City Lord of Jiacheng, I will definitely kill him!”

“The Xi family has been running Jiacheng for hundreds of years, and the head of the Xi family cannot be regarded as an ordinary Tenglong realm cultivator. The difficulty of killing him may exceed your imagination.”

“But for this journey, I ask for nothing else.”

Chong Xuan Sheng was silent for a while, then asked: “Have a fight?”

“No.” Jiang Wang refused: “I don’t want to vent this anger.”

Chong Xuan Sheng then understood that Jiang Wang’s attitude was irreversible. So he asked: “When do you plan to take action?”

“When I’m done with what I’m doing now, controlling the plague in Qingyang Town.” Only at this moment did a trace of exhaustion that he could not completely hide show in Jiang Wang’s voice.

At that time, he had been working non-stop for five days and five nights.

Looking at Jiang Wang’s eyes, Chong Xuan Sheng finally said: “Go ahead and do it, I will wave the banner for you!”

Jiacheng, under the inner city wall.

Xi Mounan held the Jiacheng City Lord’s Seal in his hand. As soon as an order was issued, the Thunder of Punishment arrived in an instant.

Breaking through seven flame flowers, as well as the Flower of Devouring and the Vine Snake Weaving Wall, it slammed down on Jiang Wang.

Mobilizing domain power to give life and take life.

Condensing power with authority, combining power with law, this is the authentic means of Legalism.

Jiang Wang was inevitably covered by the Thunder of Punishment.

Electric snakes scurried, leaving behind a patch of black.

There was even a faint smell of roasted meat.

He seemed to be dead. But his hand… still tightly gripped his sword!

He looked like a piece of charcoal.

But standing there, he looked more like a sword that refused to bend.

Even if he was about to die, even if he was already dead!

After repeatedly mobilizing the domain power, the light of the City Lord’s Seal in his hand dimmed. To accumulate it to perfection again, he didn’t know how much effort it would take. Xi Mounan had no time to feel distressed, but just stared at Jiang Wang intently.

With the help of domain power, the power of this Thunder of Punishment had far exceeded his ultimate strength, comparable to a strike from a powerhouse in the Inner Mansion realm.

Getting through the present was the most important thing, he would not hesitate to offend the Chongxuan family!

Dong, dong, dong…

He heard extremely light and subtle heartbeats.

Hiss, hiss… faint breathing sounds.

The heartbeat was initially weak, then gradually strengthened, and finally the heartbeat was like a drum.

The breathing sound was initially faint, gradually magnificent, and finally the breathing was like wind and thunder!

Thinking back to the battle between Ji Xuan and Miao Yu in the Inner Mansion realm, Jiang Wang was only catching Miao Yu and bearing a negligible aftermath, and he was already injured and vomiting blood. Now he was facing this Thunder of Punishment head-on.

The limited defense was instantly shattered, and he could even clearly perceive the process of vitality being annihilated. That feeling was very uncomfortable. The feeling of time was stretched, and that kind of pain flowed little by little.

And then.

A force was born from the Hall of Tongtian, originating from the long-silent Underworld Candle, spreading into the limbs and bones, and flowing into the blood.

This was the Flesh-Born Soul Return Technique that was once used on Miao Yu. Because of the long-term residence of the Underworld Candle, his body was fully capable of withstanding the secret technique of the White Bone Dao.

Immediately afterwards, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, the illusory images of the Four Spirits revolved around his body and disappeared into his skin.

The Four Spirits were complete, and wood energy was born.

The cyan wood energy originated from the liver, nurturing the five internal organs, from the inside out.

Finally, his heartbeat was like a drum, and his breathing was like wind and thunder.

The charred skin fell off, and the newborn skin was like snow.

Hair fell like ashes, and it grew before the spring breeze!

Newborn black hair reached his shoulders and scattered behind him.

Jiang Wang stood up abruptly, and sprang to Xi Mounan, who was showing a look of horror.

“Do you know why this seal failed to kill me?”

Jiang Wang shouted loudly. A sword! Like mountains collapsing and rivers overflowing.

But Xi Mounan used the Jiacheng City Lord’s Seal to block it in front of Acacia.

The extremely subtle cracking sound, heard in Xi Mounan’s ears, was louder than thunder.

Because this City Lord’s Seal was the gathering of the fortune of Jiacheng, and the aspiration of hundreds of thousands of people in Jiacheng.

It should have been indestructible and unbreakable.

How could it crack?

Xi Mounan was a smart man, and of course he could think of the reason.

But that was exactly why he refused to believe it!

“Listen.” Jiang Wang’s voice softened: “This is the sound of the people’s hearts breaking, the sound of your Xi family’s fortune coming to an end. You treat the people like weeds, and the people regard you as enemies!”

He flicked his sword back, like a shooting star passing by, its trace was faint, and its mark remained. Illuminating Xi Mounan’s angry eyes.

“Outrageous!”

Xi Mounan flipped his hand and summoned a Carp Pattern Red Flag. The flag unfurled, like crimson waves, drowning Jiang Wang’s sword.

“My Xi family has nurtured this place for hundreds of years, with the support of the people and the hope of the masses! How can it be scattered by a moment or an event? Ignorant fool, ignorant dog!”

The City Lord of Jiacheng, who always paid attention to his demeanor, was a little exasperated.

Losing soldiers and generals was not terrible, and a temporary victory or defeat was not serious. But it was precisely the shattering of the City Lord’s Seal that made him understand what he had really lost.

He had abandoned the past of the Xi family and lost the future of the Xi family.

“Do you think it is your Xi family that is supporting the hundreds of thousands of people in Jiacheng? You are wrong!”

Jiang Wang drew his sword in great anger.

“The farmers cultivate their fields, and the craftsmen work their jobs. Commerce flows through the fields, and scholars speak out for justice! This is the foundation of Jiacheng’s prosperity. It is the people of this place who have supported your Xi family for hundreds of years!”

Acacia was drawn out from the blood wave rolled up by the Carp Pattern Red Flag, and Jiang Wang did not hesitate, pushing forward, stabbing straight with his sword.

The people were like an angry sea, and the people’s hatred was like sea hatred.

The water that floats a boat can also capsize it!

With a sound of tearing silk, the surface of the Carp Pattern Red Flag was broken.

The long sword continued forward, as if it had never been blocked.

Xi Mounan changed his position three times in an instant, but was forced back by this sword.

Using the sword to imprint on the person.

Using the hearts of the people to stab the heart of this city lord.

Jiang Wang withdrew his long sword.

Xi Mounan spat out a mouthful of blood, splattering the Carp Pattern Red Flag with specks of blood.

He clutched his heart, but could not cover the shattered heart.

If he had not deceived the people, caused the suffering of living beings, and caused the City Lord’s Mansion to lose the hearts of the people, the Thunder of Punishment activated by the Jiacheng City Lord’s Seal should have killed Jiang Wang on the spot. No matter how mysterious the Flesh-Born Soul Return Technique was, and no matter how powerful the Four Spirits Body Refining Technique was, they were all water without a source. There would be no current result at all.

At this time, he suddenly remembered a passage.

That was what he said when he warned his proud son—

“If your eyes can only see three feet in front of you, then it’s better not to look. If your ears can only hear within a wall, then it’s better not to listen. The East King Valley’s Looking, Listening, Asking, and Cutting has turned you into a blind, deaf, and dumb person, only believing in the tiny bit of things you know!”

“Am I not also… using everything I have seen, heard, and experienced to block the future I can imagine?” he thought.

The Jiacheng City Lord’s Seal fell from his hand and crashed on the stone bricks of the city tower, shattering into pieces. Countless faint spots of light scattered, scattering throughout the Jiacheng domain.

It was exactly using family fortune to repay city fortune.

Using blood to sacrifice to the red flag!