155: Chapter 7 Unease Among the People, Soone Cries Out_1 155: Chapter 7 Unease Among the People, Soone Cries Out_1 The entire space seed to have paused for a mont, whether it was the upper city on the back of the turtle or the twenty-seven cities below, everyone subconsciously held their breath.
Then, the titan creature lifted its foot.
A tiny black shadow burst from the ground, once again standing in front of the behemoth.
The people erupted!
Military soldiers atop the city walls of the upper city simultaneously slamd their spear butts into the ground.
“Wei!”
“Wei!”
“Wei!”
For their You Nation’s invincible war god, commander of the Negative Stele Army, Zheng Chaoyang!
The elite cultivators who rushed into the lower twenty-seven cities also quickly identified the problem during the gap he had provided.
Throughout the city, battles suddenly erupted.
Looking up, one could see wisps of black smoke rising from many places within the twenty-seven cities.
Each plu of smoke represented a source of cursed power.
From their scale, these curses were not strong, but there were nearly a hundred of them!
If each one represented a being filled with hatred and resentnt like that white-haired old woman, then this city…
Jiang Wang could not help but wonder, as the crying woman’s wet nurse in the deep courtyard, why did that old woman harbor such intense hatred and resentnt?
These powers, these resentnts, these curses, none were terrifying on their own.
Any Complete Cycle Realm Cultivator could eradicate them individually.
But once aggregated by so secret technique, they were enough to provoke the ferocity of the massive turtle creature.
And once the power of curse was crushed, the giant creature with a dominant bloodline instantly cald down, returning to its original state.
But the upper city did not settle down because of this.
“City Lord Yin Guan of the twenty-seven cities, negligent in governance, and furthermore employed devious thods to influence the sacred beast, grossly evil and heinous!
Punished by being devoured by the sacred beast, to atone for his cris!”
After a mont of silence, the voice abruptly rose again.
“Damn it!
Go find him!”
Clearly, today’s events were orchestrated by that City Lord nad Yin Guan from the lower cities.
And he had escaped while the main forces of You Nation were present!
As the decree from the Capital City was issued, the cultivators scattered across the lower twenty-seven cities did not return but instead, even more elite cultivators surged down from the Capital City.
The commanding figure in the upper city clearly believed Yin Guan was still within the twenty-seven cities and was determined to seal off the area tightly.
Then, inch by inch, they would search and drag him out.
…
“Cousin!”
Jiang Wang suddenly heard an almost wailing voice, and looking in its direction, it was still that woman who cried in the deep courtyard and ignited the cursed effigy.
She stood on the long street, her face ashen.
Her beautiful features were marred by trails of tears.
Earlier, Jiang Wang had intentionally alard her family mbers so they could restrain her, to prevent this woman from causing trouble in her confused state.
But unexpectedly, after going in circles, he encountered her again on the street.
What a coincidence!
Moreover, her so-called cousin turned out to be Yin Guan, the one who made such trouble.
The City Lord of the twenty-seven cities!
Jiang Wang felt his head grow big, inconspicuously turned around, and used the crowd to conceal himself.
He was rely a passerby in You Nation, not wishing to entangle himself in such major trouble.
“Beauty, what were you shouting just now?”
Just then, a man dressed distinctly different from the Negative Stele Army cultivators, stood smilingly in front of the woman nad Mu Qing.
Although the woman was overwheld with grief, sowhat dazed and confused, she was not foolish.
Upon seeing this man who didn’t look like a good person, she imdiately turned and walked away.
She hurriedly explained, “No, nothing.”
“Hey!” That man had a not-too-bad appearance, except for being sowhat slick and greasy, dressed in a pink and white Confucian robe, laughing with a hehe, “If it’s nothing, then why are you running?”
As he spoke, he reached out gently, and without any noticeable movent, he had already seized the woman’s wrist.
“Let go of !” The woman struggled vigorously but couldn’t break free, and coldly rebuked, “I am from the Su family, the governance assistant family of this city!”
The political system of You Nation was different than that of Zhuang Country.
In You Nation, the City Lord’s position changed every half a year.
Only the most outstanding talents in a city were qualified to beco the next City Lord, governing for half a year.
But because the ti was so short, in reality, there was a specialized family dealing with mundane affairs in the city, which was the true core family of a city.
The Su family, to which Su Muqing belonged, was the governance assistant family of 27 cities.
Of course, their power wasn’t overwhelming.
For truly major matters, the decision still needed to be made by the higher city.
The Protective National Beast regularly patrolled the national borders, ensuring that the capital on its back had deep control over the entire nation.
In the evaluations every half year, if a City Lord perford excellently, they would qualify to enter higher-level cultivation in the high city as a reward.
If their performance was lacking, they would be devoured by the Protective National Beast as punishnt.
Su Muqing’s cousin, Yin Guan, was such a City Lord.
“Hahahaha, a governance assistant family?” The man with the powdered face laughed heartily and turned while pulling her along, “Then that makes things even easier to handle!”
“Stop right there!”
Jiang Wang had been avoiding attention in the crowd, but in fact, he had been watching the situation here the entire ti.
The people who spoke up weren’t him, but Xu Xiangqian, whom he had encountered once before, the one who always acted servile and cheap.
Xu Xiangqian’s extrely high forehead was very conspicuous.
“In broad daylight, under the open sky!
What do you intend to do with my cousin?” he asked angrily.
Originally, the crowd was very dissatisfied with the man abducting soone in the street, but due to the fact that he was a high city cultivator on a mission, they feared that Su Muqing did indeed have so involvent with the day’s events and dared not intervene.
With Xu Xiangqian taking the lead, bystanders gradually started to side eye, faintly encircling them.
Seeing this situation, the powdered-faced man showed no fear, his eyes filled with contempt instead.
“Your cousin?” He turned his head, looked at Xu Xiangqian, smiled, “What’s your na, what’s hers?
Where does her family live, how old is she?
Tell now, get one wrong, and I’ll kill you!”
Su Muqing wanted to speak, but he grabbed her chin, rendering her unable to utter a word.
Following his words, so nearby high city cultivators also roughly pushed through the crowd, closing in on Xu Xiangqian.
Only those cultivators wearing the Negative Stele Army uniforms continued to ticulously carry out their tasks, searching all around.
Xu Xiangqian froze for a mont, indeed he had only tried to do a good deed on impulse, but he could not possibly know Su Muqing’s situation.
Naturally, he couldn’t answer the powdered-faced man’s questions.
“You all saw it, right?
He actually lied while I was performing my official duties.
Who knows if he has any involvent with those mbers of the Heretical Cult?” The powdered-faced man started to laugh, then turned back to look at Xu Xiangqian, “I can arrest you right now, lock you up for ten or eight years.
Would you believe it or not?”
“Just try it!” Xu Xiangqian didn’t act like a scholar at all, and went straight to rolling up his sleeves, “I’m not afraid of you, not your grandfather either!”
“I wish you could keep this tough talk up,” the powdered-faced man’s smile imdiately disappeared, he said coldly, “This person is suspected of being connected with the rebel Yin Guan, take him down!”
In the ensuing chaos, suddenly a clear and bright voice called out, “Wait!”
A young man with a refined face but white hair stepped out of the crowd.
“Her na is Su Muqing, she lives behind you, turn left at that street, go to the end and then turn right, in the innermost, that largest house!
As for her age, well, I can’t tell you, because a woman’s age is a secret, and you are not worthy of knowing.”
“I will testify that the ‘cousin’ Su Muqing was calling for is Xu Xiangqian!
Do you have any more questions?”
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PS: Just experienced an earthquake O,O, but it doesn’t affect my update!
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