Chapter 1945 - 227: Jiang Ning Takes Action!

Cang State.

Connected to the Chu Land, divided into five regions by a large river known as Cangshui.

The river originates from the western mountain ranges, flows eastward, traverses the entire Cang State, and finally merges into the vast East Sea.

Cangshui’s mighty flow divides Cang State into five territories.

The territories are named Beicang Prefecture, Dongcang Prefecture, Southwest Cang Prefecture, Nan Cang Prefecture, and Central Cang.

Among them, Central Cang is the most prosperous, being the richest area in Cang State.

Dingqing Peak, where the Sword Washing Pool is located, lies within Cang State, situated in Beicang Prefecture.

At this moment, Jiang Ning’s Primordial Spirit hovered above Jiuxiao, his Heavenly Eye shining brightly from his brow, gazing southeast of Beicang along the invisible lines he had traced.

"Found it!"

His heart steadied, the Heavenly Eye at his brow had locked onto a region.

In an underground cavern, adjacent to the East Sea.

The cavern was deep and sunless.

Yet at this moment, scarlet light was emanating from within the cavern.

Jiang Ning saw within the cavern, a mountain of human heads, numbering in the thousands.

Beneath the heads lay a Blood Pool emitting a scarlet glow.

Beside the Blood Pool, a figure sat cross-legged.

It was a man.

A man around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.

Radiantly handsome, carrying a strange allure.

The man sat beside the Blood Pool, surrounded by threads of scarlet, like blood strands dancing like Spiritual Snakes, occasionally flowing into his nostrils.

"Is this the murderer who wiped out over three thousand souls at the Sword Washing Pool?" Jiang Ning murmured to himself.

At this moment, he could see within the Blood Pool, each head connected by invisible lines to the corpses far off at the Sword Washing Pool.

Simultaneously, he could see that every causal line tightly wound around the man’s body.

Before the heavens, there are no true secrets.

His gaze focused.

In the next moment, his silhouette vanished from Jiuxiao.

...

Dongling Marquis Mansion.

A rainbow light merged into Jiang Ning’s corporeal body.

Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes.

"Brother Jiang..." Xiao Wuque just began to speak when Jiang Ning raised his hand to interrupt.

"Among the Thirty-six Prefectures of the Nine Provinces, incidents have occurred only in Sunan County City and the Sword Washing Pool. I’ve already identified the murderers, one hiding in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, the other by the East Sea."

Xiao Wuque’s pupils constricted upon hearing this.

"Brother Jiang, what...what do you plan to do next?" he began to ask, his words taking an obvious turn.

"Although I don’t carry the name of master and disciple with the Martial Saint, we share the essence of such a relationship; he has done me a favor!" Jiang Ning slowly stated.

As his words fell, he cast a glance at Xiao Wuque.

"I’ll return shortly; feel free to have breakfast at my mansion first."

The next moment.

A rainbow light shot up into the sky.

In just an instant, it vanished from Xiao Wuque’s view.

At this moment, the rainbow light that rose from Dongling Marquis Mansion fell into the eyes of many.

An incident in Sunan County City, an incident at the Sword Washing Pool.

When Xiao Wuque received the news, various powers gradually received the news as well.

And Xiao Wuque arrived at Jiang Ning’s mansion, yet waited for quite a while before Jiang Ning awoke.

...

On the other side.

Above Jiuxiao.

Clouds spread like the sea, vast and boundless.

A golden light and rainbow traversed a thousand miles in an instant.

In a fleeting moment, it soared over countless mountains and rivers below.

Transforming into a rainbow with all its strength, gaining transformation from the roots of the Primordial Spirit, its speed was multiplied compared to before.

In just a moment.

Cangshui appeared in Jiang Ning’s view.

...

By the East Sea.

The waves surged, pounding the jagged rocks.

The salty sea breeze, mixed with water vapor, blew across the Rough Stone Beach by the shore.

At this moment.

A golden and silver intertwined rainbow plunged straight from Jiuxiao, like a meteor piercing the sky.

Suddenly.

As the golden and silver intertwined rainbow descended to the ground, it abruptly halted in mid-air, completely defying physical principles. In the face of this rainbow, inertia and potential energy seemed nonexistent.

Subsequently, the rainbow dispersed.

Jiang Ning’s figure landed on the ground.

Long hair danced in the sea breeze, eyes shimmering with a murderous intent.

At the moment of settling, he perceived everything within a thousand-mile radius; it was clear this wasn’t a trap, nor were there ambushes.

His figure flashed, arriving at the cavern entrance, then lifted his leg and stepped in.

Deep within the cavern, dark and profound, a foul wind struck, and the light gradually disappeared.

But he no longer needed a light source.

The spiritual intensity of the Heavenly Immortal Realm allowed everything within a thousand miles to vividly imprint in his mind, let alone a single cavern.

Moments later.

He stopped his steps.

Ahead, he saw the presence of array patterns.

In his current realm, everything was perceived and controlled by him.

And he refrained from directly entering the cavern earlier, precisely to examine the presence of these array patterns up close.

In his eyes, golden and silver light flowed, the virtual shadow of the Primordial Spirit manifested, slightly larger than his physical body.

With a sweep of his Heart Spirit, the network of array patterns within the cavern appeared crystal clear.

A large formation, designed to trap and kill enemies.

Then, he stomped down with his foot.

Boom—

The ground shattered, fissures spread.

The cavern began to collapse behind him, those invisible array patterns tearing apart.

An unimpressive large formation, due to geographic alterations, was directly broken.

And within the cavern.

The pile of heads, stacked into a mountain, trembled and rolled into the Blood Pool.

The Blood Pool surged, its scarlet liquid splashing several feet high, spattering on the cavern walls, the stench permeating the entire cavern.

Beside the pool, the man slowly opened his eyes.

A silhouette had already appeared before him.

The visitor was none other than Jiang Ning.

Seeing the newly arrived Jiang Ning, the man’s strange eyes and paper-white face showed a hint of an unusual color.