Chapter 313: Thick Fog Seals the River at Jin Ling Mouth

On the tower ship, everything was silent. Zhi Xia and Xu Yang were still trapped in emotions of self-doubt, while the two Core Formation old men stared at the direction Zhu Wuchang left, sighing for a long time before saying: "The younger generation is to be feared, isn't it?"

Yuan Hao's fists hidden behind his back trembled slightly.

Gao Hu opened his mouth even wider, hesitating: "This is fake, right!" He turned his head to whisper to He Fan beside him: "You say, have we fallen into an illusion array again?"

Du Xiuniang's expression was solemn, and she opened her mouth on the team channel: "This person cannot be made an enemy."

"I was wondering why there were no reinforcements; it turns out the real reinforcements were right beside us! With such a strong person escorting us, the mission difficulty seems to have lowered a bit!" Luo Tong touched his head and laughed foolishly.

Zhi Xia came back to her senses, looking at Qian Chen, who was putting away his zither and standing up, as if he had just come to the bow of the boat to play a tune on a whim.

She also looked at the empty river surface for dozens of miles, the remnant scene after a battle of magic.

It seemed that the scene just now, where ten thousand ghosts gathered into sword qi, the flying hooks slashing through ten thousand miles of cloud sea, and countless water beasts and big fish gathering into a tide and fiercely killing towards the tower ship, was just an illusion, gradually blurring.

In her ears, there was only the lingering zither sound and the bright moon in the sky, as clear as before!

There was actually such zither sound in the world; such a sword array; such an enemy who came across the river and then quietly went away.

Zhi Xia let out a long breath and sighed to the person beside her: "Are the friends that the Princess of the Sima family makes all so powerful?"

Zhang Huaien said blankly beside her: "I don't know about Princess Qingcheng's friends! But I know that among the nine sect sons of the royal family, not one has this kind of ability! Just based on this battle, I fear this person is qualified to be listed among the Twenty-Eight Characters of the Divine Land."

Xu Yang raised his breath beside him and said: "With Daoist Brother Yu Chen protecting us, it seems your trip to the capital this time will be without danger!"

"That's right!" Zhang Huaien comforted himself: "Even Zhu Wuchang returned in defeat; I really can't think of what danger there could be later? Could it be that the Zhang Tian Shi will make a move himself?"

Qian Chen casually summoned the six sword ghosts, pondered for a moment, and said to Yuan Hao: "This sword is stained with fierceness and has already deviated from the right path. If you set up the sword array again, I fear it will erode your temperament. I will go back and wash and refine it before returning it to you!"

Yuan Hao really wanted to say: "No need to wash and refine! It's very good now, the power is great, I like it very much!" But he knew that with his previous posturing, there was no need to think about pleasing these righteous plot characters.

Even if the six talisman swords were detained, he didn't dare to say anything.

He could only watch Qian Chen leisurely return to the ship cabin.

The few Reincarnators were as obedient as quails and didn't want to bicker with Qian Chen over these six talisman swords at all. Yuan Hao sighed and went back to re-set up the Flowing Wind Array. When the water beasts attacked, everyone intentionally or unintentionally avoided the tower ship, so the ship's hull was not damaged, and it continued to drift downstream.

Qian Chen returned to the ship cabin, took out the six talisman swords, pondered for a moment, and refined the six sword ghosts into six gods and demons using the method of refining heavenly ghosts, and then, using them as the main spirits, carefully drew six divine talismans.

This was his first attempt to confer gods and demons using the method of divine talismans.

In his thinking, the method of the Demon Path for refining gods and demons already had the shadow of the Divine Path. If the Daoist method of driving the Divine Path was a divine talisman, then the Demon Sect's method of governing the Divine Path was refining gods and demons.

Therefore, the whole process was unbelievably easy.

Qian Chen looked at the six god and demon talismans, his face collapsed, and he complained: "Why was it so easy!"

He threw the Demon God Talisman in front of the desk and sighed: "I am really a Daoist disciple! Why is everything related to the Demon Path always so handy? Could it be that I really walked the wrong path?"

Qian Chen was very helpless, turning the six sword ghost gods and demons into the spirits of the talisman swords, commanding hundreds of talismans, and re-washing and refining them into six talisman swords.

Because there were six gods and demons equivalent to Supreme Rank Golden Cores as sword spirits, and the sword spirits themselves were extremely compatible with the sword array, finally, the defect that the talisman swords were slightly weaker in essence was also compensated by the god and demon talismans. The power of these six talisman swords suddenly increased several times. With the six swords combined, the power approached that of a perfect magic treasure. In this way, even if Yuan Hao was an idiot, he couldn't help but think more.

Therefore, Qian Chen had to hide most of the power of the god and demon talismans, carefully maintaining the power of the talisman swords at a level only slightly better than before.

But after being washed and refined by him, although the talismans that made up the talisman swords did not increase, there were six true talismans leading between the talismans, and the sword light was already much more agile, and the quality increased quite a bit.

As long as Yuan Hao went back and continued to refine talismans into them, the power would continue to grow.

"The gods and demons of the Demon Path are equivalent to a wisp of a cultivator's split soul. I am proficient in the method of using demons to control demons, and my control over gods and demons is stronger. The tricks on these six talisman swords involve my Demon Path body. After those Reincarnators go back, unless they spend a large price to ask the Lord of Reincarnation to check, they won't be able to discover the tricks inside!"

"Hmm! I see they are all poor ghosts; they shouldn't be able to afford the money for the check!"

Qian Chen touched his chin and said: "Now, it's time to return the things to them!"

In the seventh month, the heat had gradually dissipated, and cool breezes blew over the Dajiang, carrying a chill of early autumn.

The tower ship sailed for a night, and the Tai Bai star gradually appeared in the east. The sky was about to turn white!

Qian Chen walked to the deck, threw the six talisman swords to Yuan Hao, and said to him: "There are quite a few rough spots in the seals of these six talisman swords. Taking the opportunity of washing and refining, I helped you perfect them!"

Yuan Hao took the talisman swords, thanking him profusely with his mouth, but full of suspicion in his heart.

Du Xiuniang transmitted sound through the Lord of Reincarnation: "How is it? Is there any problem with the Flowing Cloud Hundred Talisman Swords?"

Yuan Hao sensed slightly, closed his eyes and said: "The seals are indeed perfected quite a bit. After washing and refining, the aura is purer. Perhaps it is because the sword ghosts were refined into the talisman swords, the sword light's spirituality has greatly increased. But I don't know if this person has done any tricks on them!"

"If he did do tricks, what should we do?"

"It's nothing more than suspecting our origins! Who told me to use the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Souls move in front of them. Now that Zhi Xia is indifferent to us, and Zhang Huaien is also a bit distant... These plot characters have pedantic personalities and deep prejudices between right and wrong. When I performed that move, I was already prepared!"

"As for the tricks he did, at worst, for this mission, we will temporarily not use this set of talisman swords! After returning to the land of reincarnation, can he still use any means against us across the countless realms?" Yuan Hao sneered.

"It's a pity, if those six sword ghosts were still there..."

Du Xiuniang comforted him: "Since we already know that Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Souls can trigger the subsequent changes of the sword array, when we reach other mission worlds, we can just try a few more times... The water in the Earth Immortal Realm is too deep!"

"Just two plot characters appearing casually are so terrifying! We must act carefully!"

Not sleeping all night, but meditating and resting for a long time, Zhi Xia, who had recovered her energy, was in high spirits. She greeted Qian Chen and said: "Morning!"

She looked at the scenery on the right bank of the river. There were already ships on the Dajiang waterway, and there were signs of human habitation on the shore. The tower ship sailed on the waterway close to the center of the river, lightly passing ship after ship...

Zhi Xia said excitedly: "We are almost at Jiankang!"

She came to the ship's side, pointed forward and said: "I recognize this place; it is a busy waterway. Not far ahead is the Jin Ling Ferry on the Dajiang. After passing Jin Ling Ferry, walk another five hundred miles of waterway, and it is Jiankang!"

"Actually, after passing Jin Ling Ferry, it counts as reaching the Jiankang Prefecture." Zhi Xia laughed: "At that time, we will enter the city along the Longcang Pu, and I will invite you to play in the flower buildings on both banks!"

"Longcang Pu?" Qian Chen said: "Could it be the Huai River that people often talk about?"

Looking at Jin Ling Ferry from afar, Zhi Xia laughed: "There is a story behind this! It is said that when the Qin Qin Shi Huang was on his eastern tour, he passed Moling from Huiji. When he went down the river, he passed Jiankang, but he saw the dragon qi rising to the sky here, mountain dragons and water dragons gathering, forming a magnificent dragon vein, and there was even imperial qi hidden!"

"The Qin Qin Shi Huang sent a fangshi to observe the qi and asked the doctor, only to know that this place was where the King of Chu buried gold to break the dragon in the past, known as Jin Ling! For ten thousand years, although Jin Ling suppressed the dragon vein, the dragon qi was still endless!"

"So he ordered to break Zhong Shan, pierce the stone cliffs, chisel the continuous ridges, and open the Longcang Pu to enter the Dajiang from the north. Lead the river dragon, break the mountain dragon, and make the dragon vein fight itself!"

"In the past, during the chaos of Wei and Jin, the family clans moved south. When the Sima family passed through Jiankang and wanted to set the capital there, someone brought up these two things, saying that the dragon qi of Jin Ling had been broken and it was not suitable to set the capital there anymore."

"The Emperor Wu of Southern Jin asked the Zhang Tian Shi Zhang to make a move to survey the land. One day, the Zhang Tian Shi Zhang invited the Emperor Wu to travel together, from the Dajiang through the Longcang Pu directly into Moling Lake."

"The Emperor Wu was anxious. When the boat arrived in the lake, he asked the Zhang Tian Shi how the kingly qi of Jin Ling was. The Zhang Tian Shi laughed loudly and pointed at Zhong Shan. He saw that Zhong Shan beside Moling Lake was pale yellow, one pale qi like a snake, one yellow qi like a turtle. It was the two dragons of Jin Ling mountains and waters that were suppressed by the Jin Ling of Chu King and broken by the river chiseled by the Qin Emperor!"

"Seeing this, the Emperor Wu was very regretful, sighing that both dragon qi were severely damaged and it was difficult to turn into a dragon shape. The Zhang Tian Shi smiled without saying a word. When the turtle and snake qi were fighting, the Zhang Tian Shi threw his sword into the lake, directly piercing the Jin Ling dragon vein. At this time, the turtle and snake qi were surprisingly coiled together, the snake coiled on the turtle, turning into Xuanwu, together resisting the Zhang Tian Shi's sword!"

"Only then did the Emperor Wu realize that although the two dragons of mountain and water were fighting, their essence was yin and yang, and they had long been yin and yang helping each other, turning into Taiji, but they were covered up by the magic cast by the Marquis of Wu of the Immortal Han in the past. With one sword from the Zhang Tian Shi, Xuanwu was born. Only then did the Great Jin set the capital in Jiankang and establish the fortune of the south!"

"Later, this lake was passed down as Xuanwu Lake!"

Qian Chen listened with great interest and nodded slightly: "The immortals who buried gold and repaired the river in the past clearly all held back. The dragon qi was broken but not endless, only breaking the fortune at that time. But it left a glimmer of life for the future."

"It's just that although there is a glimmer of life, the situation was broken after all, the foundation of the dragon vein is insufficient. Although Xuanwu is a dragon species, it is more than enough to defend, but insufficient to advance. Yin and yang help each other, the fortune is long, and the prosperity is continuous, but after all, it lacks the domineering spirit to set the world, not as good as Chang'an and Luoyang."

Qian Chen said calmly: "This Jin Dynasty is just a trend of partial peace!"

Zhi Xia smiled without saying a word. Whether the Jin Dynasty is partial peace or not, what does it have to do with them?

"Ahead is the Jin Ling Ferry! The reason why this place can be a ferry is because in the thousand-mile Dajiang, there is an island in the center of the river, which suppresses the water vein, making the water flow gentle. Also, cultivators of past generations have set up seals here to suppress water monsters, so that ordinary ships can safely cross the river at this ferry!"

Zhi Xia stretched and said: "After passing Jin Ling Ferry, it is too close to Jiankang! I don't believe that now that the ship has arrived here, those people still dare to come and intercept!"

Qian Chen leaned against the ship's side, looking forward.

At Jin Ling Ferry, thick fog covered the river surface, and even the Zhenjiang Island could not be seen.

At this time, the east was gradually turning white, the morning fog in the distance was pervasive, and the river was white and vast, with water vapor curling, covering the sun and stars. The water and sky were the same color, which was extremely magnificent.

Qian Chen was in the mood to appreciate this beautiful scenery.

But he turned his head and said to Zhi Xia: "You really have a crow's mouth!" ===== CHAPTER 314 =====