Chapter 654: Perfection in Sword Mastery, a Thousand-Mile Soul Pursuit

Chapter 654: Chapter 271: Perfection in Sword Mastery, a Thousand-Mile Soul Pursuit

Chen Ping learned that in Yujing City, after Ji Hai initially left behind the Rising Dragon Platform as a destiny treasure, he immediately sensed something amiss and was about to lead people to intercept it.

If Ji Tang’s actions succeed in this Capital City, this most densely populated place, under the exhaustion of fate, millions of common people will suffer and face disaster.

He had used the Azure Dragon Seal to extract fate.

More than anyone, he knew what it looked like when the world’s fate was being frantically drawn.

At that time, just after breaking through to the Divine Martial Realm, to refine the Stinging Dragon Dharma Body, Chen Ping tested and extracted the fate needed to break through the Second Layer and Third Layer.

As a result, six misfortunes appeared within the Southern Region.

Two places flooded, three suffered from military disasters, and another had a volcanic eruption…

The abrupt decline in the Southern fate led to the emergence of Wind and Cloud Pavilion, Situ Yun created a huge mess, and the Crown Prince of Great Li even brought the “Great Killing Artifact” Soul-Annihilating Gourd, leading troops into the region to ambush him.

If not for his deep foundations and formidable strength, he might indeed have been swept away by this wave of “misfortune.”

Then, chaos engulfed the Southern Region, Hu people’s armies pressured the borders, and such disasters were something no one wished to see.

This was already so dangerous without exerting much effort in absorbing fate.

But Ji Tang, his family’s Rising Dragon Platform, was likely made to imitate the Azure Dragon Seal, with a similar unique efficacy.

Truly making a move would turn the inner region’s populace into hell, and a thousand-mile fertile land into an inferno, not just an empty utterance.

Chen Ping even suspected whether a world-ending flood might occur in this most prosperous domain.

Natural disasters, whatever form they manifest in, are not surprising, but he did not wish to see it at all.

“It’s too late; Yujing City is already in motion. Ji Tang indeed is making a desperate gamble, ready to go down with everyone.”

Several people were just about to set off when Ji Mingyue’s expression suddenly changed, stopping in motion, and took out the half-refined “Celestial Observation Mirror.”

This mirror is a middle-grade spiritual artifact, which Situ Yun, relying on the Celestial Secret Manual and the mirror’s unique functions, crafted the Wind and Cloud List and the Wind and Cloud Pavilion’s assassin group, weave. Its biggest function was not to harm or entrap the enemy but to investigate and understand the enemy.

In some respects, its ability to oversee the world could almost rival the Azure Dragon Seal’s fate-suppressing and qi-observing capabilities.

Ji Mingyue, upon obtaining it, was like holding a cherished treasure. She did not overly value the two attacks Chen Ping released for reflection, instead simply using them to protect herself.

On the contrary, she adeptly utilized the mirror’s ability to secretly investigate and spy.

Even before deploying troops, Ji Mingyue had sent many personnel to investigate some secrets concerning Yujing while instructing her subordinates to contact various experts and monitor the royal family, understanding the enemy and oneself to prevent any unexpected situations.

Naturally, Chen Ping was aware of these matters.

“Did Wuxiang Zen Temple and Pure Yang Sword Sect get involved?”

Chen Ping’s eyes cooled slightly, realizing the crux of the issue.

Back when the Beizhou’s Black Lotus Sect Venerable Mingyu sneaked into Yujing plotting a decapitation strategy, the world claimed Ji Tang’s cultivation was sky-high, forcefully driving back that Black Lotus Sect Venerable.

Afterwards, when Chen Ping mastered the Southern Region, he carefully discerned the news of that battle and understood clearly that the prowess of that battle did not necessarily lie with Ji Tang being formidable. That Ji Family ancestor and Venerable Mingyu merely exchanged moves with neither side gaining the upper hand, yet Venerable Mingyu hurriedly departed.

However, at the time, there appeared two other presences, forcing Venerable Mingyu to flee in panic.

These two presences, though slightly weaker, were also of the Divine Martial Realm.

Indeed, it was the Royal Daoist Academy’s State Preceptor Venerable Chi Yang, and Wuxiang Zen Temple’s Zen Master Baoshu.

Such two experts in Yujing City naturally held significant status; the Great Li Dynasty had consistently repelled Beizhou; these two high-end combat forces rarely acted, but to say they had no contribution, Chen Ping would not believe.

Chen Ping’s troops headed west, breaking through the pass inch by inch, seizing cities naturally without forgetting to instruct Ji Mingyue to find ways to send personnel to strategize against these two Divine Martial Realm experts.

In the dynasty’s struggle for power, customarily, Divine Martial Realm was not supposed to interfere in wars.

But if one were to take such rules seriously, they would indeed be foolish. Throughout history, one has only seen impoverished people rigidly adhere to rules, rarely seeing those high above using rules to restrain themselves.

Thus, Divine Martial not interfering in wars is merely a notion to appease Jianghu People and pacify common folk.

Chen Ping did not believe it at all.

However, in wooing the two sects, basically no positive response was obtained; according to Ji Mingyue, Monk Baoshu, when seeing their envoy, merely served tea without stating a definite yes or no.

While the Pure Yang Sword Sect’s patriarch Venerable Chi Yang was even harder to meet; the envoy drank a lot with his sect’s Dao attendant, then, drunkenly unaware, passed out.

The next day going to seek people, even the Dao attendant was nowhere to be seen.

Hence, neither Chen Ping nor Ji Mingyue was sure what thoughts those two venerables, who had sustained luxurious lifestyles for years, harbored in their hearts or how loyal they were to the Great Li Dynasty.

With their skills, if Ji Tang were to execute grievously unjust actions, crazily plundering the fate of heaven and earth to fatten oneself and escape this world, they could not be completely oblivious.

No matter how aloof and unconcerned, when encountering such “demonic” actions harming the world, if they remain negligent, naturally, they cannot be left unaccounted later.