The shell naturally couldn't hear the angry words of the big red shrimp, her mood was both tense and expectant. She was the thirteenth daughter of the Shell tribe's patriarchal lineage, exiled for disrespecting her elders, a exile that lasted over thirty years. Along the riverbank, she sensed the faint oceanic aura ahead, thinking to herself: "Father King has finally summoned me back."

  She was exiled back then because the Dragon Palace sent someone to say that the spiritual servant of the Hai Bei clan had died, and they wanted the Hai Bei clan to send another spiritual servant. After discussion, it was decided that she would go, but she didn't want to go. After going, she lost her freedom forever and could never leave the Dragon Palace. She disobeyed the king, so she was exiled outside of Autumn Moon Gorge.

  Exile for the Hai Bei Yu Zu is a punishment second only to death. In the ocean, leaving the Autumn Moon Gorge shell is like a candle in the wind, and it can be swallowed alive at any time.

  She narrowly escaped death dozens of times, and was swallowed by other fish three times, but fortunately her shell was exceptionally hard, and she was excreted out before being digested. After wandering in the sea for over a decade, she finally arrived at the mouth of the Jing River, swam upstream, and came to Xiu Spring Bay.

  In front of the dark, in the darkness there is a point of clear light, this shell has passed through, more than ten years ago, she felt the breath of the sea from this river eye, and then went into it along the river eye, the exit is right in the middle of the sea area, at that time the shell just looked around in that sea area, didn't go back, and then returned to the Jing River again.

  This river is not a straight path to the sea, but rather a complex network of paths that stretch out in all directions. If it weren't for the fact that shells can feel the ocean's breath through the cracks and crevices like a spider web, they would surely get lost in this labyrinthine terrain. These small openings must lead to various places beneath the mountains, where naturally, there are not only shells, but also many lurking insects with all sorts of abilities, extremely dangerous ones at that. However, Shell has already traversed this path once before and is now better prepared, moving much faster than last time.

  For the living beings in this place, the shell's magical power is undoubtedly extremely high. Even in the outside world, ordinary Xuanmen disciples can't handle the shell. It's not something that ordinary people can do to make waves all the way from Dui Ting to Ba Ling City. The big red shrimp also has a spiritual symbol bestowed by the river god, and it can also control water magic, but he doesn't dare say that he can make waves all the way to Ba Ling, while the shell can do it, and it does so without flooding houses along the way.

  Before being taken into the Demon-Suppressing Tower, she had said that her method couldn't be disturbed. However, when she was finally taken in, not only did she withstand the tower's power to reach Ba Ling City, but also persisted for a long time before being taken in. Many people didn't notice this because Bei Kei was at a relatively distant Xiu Chun Bay and Chen Jing was about to leave Ba Ling City, so most people didn't see Bei Kei's ingenuity.

  Half a month later, the shell finally drilled out of the crack in the ground and came from the river domain to the sea domain.

  She sensed the call from the Autumn Moon Gorge, carefully confirmed the direction, and her body slightly trembled. A layer of mist rose from her body, engulfing her, and when the mist dispersed, the shell had disappeared, leaving only a dark current in the deep sea like the wind.

  The terrain in the sea is not much different from that on land, with high mountains and low valleys, and even more living things, various plants and organisms are indistinguishable.

  Just as the shell disappeared, a large tree not far from where the shell came out suddenly moved. After a piece of muddy cloud dispersed, a man with a tree-like face walked out of the muddy cloud. He was holding a huge three-pronged fork, which looked similar to the one held by the big red shrimp, but it was bigger. At first glance, he looked solemn and stern.

  If the shell is here, it will definitely recognize that this is a sea night yaksha, with a history of water and waves for thousands of years. In the Dragon Palace, if you want to conquer the general, most of them are held by the night yaksha. Although this night yaksha is just a sea night yaksha, in the sea it is equivalent to a mountain demon king on land. It's obvious that this place is his patrol area.

  He slowly approached the shell hole, crouched down, and at this moment a small octopus was about to come out of the sea eye. Seeing the night demon squatting in front of it, it immediately shrank back, and a cloud of ink-like water scattered around. However, the night demon, whose movements were always slow, suddenly stretched out his hand like lightning and stabbed into the sea eye. The mud spread out into a patch of water clouds, and when he withdrew his hand again, there was an octopus in his hand.

  The squid's tentacles were wildly twisting, entwining around Yasha's dark green arm, its mouth emitting a terrified and piercing shriek. Yasha's ferocious face was expressionless, with only coldness in his eyes. He opened his mouth and stuffed the still struggling squid into it, biting off half of its head with one bite, then stuffing the rest of the squid into his mouth to chew on, a ruthless and savage flavor filling the air.

  After eating the squid, his entire body suddenly became agile, as if the bloody breath had awakened the dormant evil spirit inside him. His eyes gleamed with a fierce light, and he looked in the direction where the shellfish had gone. His originally ferocious but calm face slowly changed, becoming more and more enraged. Suddenly, he let out a loud roar and chased after the direction where the shellfish had left.

  The seawater parted, and his speed in the water was as swift as a bird flying through the air.

  If one were to rank the demons listening to the Way in front of Xiūn Chūn Wān Temple by their magical powers, it would be difficult to determine a ranking because the difference in their magical powers is not great. However, if one had to say who was the most diligent, it would certainly be Bèi Ké (贝壳). She rarely speaks, as she is always cultivating her powers. Every demon listening to the Way in front of the River God Temple has an impression of Bèi Ké: a green shell floating amidst a cloud of mist.

  Embroidered Spring Bay and the entire world suddenly fell silent, occasionally with cultivators flying over the sky, also coming and going in a hurry. The originally bustling Embroidered Spring Bay had become desolate, with only the large red shrimp sleeping at the River God Temple. Apart from this, on the not-so-tall tree in front of the River God Temple, there was still a nightingale standing quietly in the darkness.

  Apart from the cold and deserted Xiu Chun Wan, there is another place that has become desolate, and that place is Ba Ling City. Although Qin Guang Wang's seal had been taken out by Chen Jing, the city had thoroughly transformed into a ghost town. Not only did ordinary people not dare to go there, but even immortal Taoist cultivators did not dare to enter.

  The road leading to Baling City has a stone monument erected with the inscription: "Baling Ghost City, mortals are not allowed to approach."

  Occasionally, some brave people who returned to Balin City said that they saw a woman on the city wall of Balin City. She was walking around on the city wall but didn't come out. Some people got too close and seemed to lose their minds, entering the city, no matter how hard those behind them shouted, they never came out again. After this incident spread, everyone dared not approach Balin City, and the woman on the city wall of Balin City was called the Female Ghost of Balin.

  Chen Jing didn't care about these things, and he couldn't care about them either. He certainly knew who the woman was. If it weren't for her, Chen Jing would have died in Bashan City. For Chen Jing, Bashan City was a special place where he had once taken refuge, painfully left the city, fallen into a desperate situation to save the people of this city, and yet transformed himself in this city.

  The Han River is 9,300 miles long and cannot be fully presented in Chen Jing's mind. The two ends of the Jing River are still vague for hundreds of miles.

  Chen Jing was cultivating, and since he broke the divine prohibition, his feeling towards this river domain had changed. Although he was still driving the spiritual power of the river domain, the primary and secondary had changed. Before, his spiritual power was the spiritual power of the Jingshui River, but now his spiritual power was his own, and the spiritual power of the Jingshui River was also his. Although it seemed like just a change in master and servant, it was actually a difference between heaven and earth.

  The spiritual energy of the river nourished the statue, and for so many years, the statue had been tempered by the spiritual energy without any signs of transformation. Chen Jing only felt the extremely dense spiritual energy on the statue, but did not feel even a slight change. However, this time after being struck by lightning, he felt that the statue had changed, and the lightning bolts seemed to have brought about a transformation, as if they were about to give birth to meridians.

  After so many years of Chen Jing being sealed into the divine image, his original body had merged with the divine image. As he rushed towards Mount Kunlun, the spiritual energy inside the divine image surged, and the most concentrated spiritual energy at the dantian position was struck by a thunderbolt, bringing out a hint of life, truly forming a space between reality and illusion, which became the divine image's dantian qihai.

  The elixir field is extremely small, but a small true spirit has condensed, however the blood energy that was born from the divine image under the thunder tribulation has disappeared. The stone statue is still a stone statue, only with a hint of subtle transformation, and in the divine image, there are fine spiritual marks like silk threads. These spiritual marks are transformed from spiritual energy, from head to limbs, the central part is the elixir field's sea of energy, and the most dense and spiritual mark is on the top of the head, the heavenly spirit cover.

  These meridian-like spiritual scars are not entirely formed by the condensation of spiritual energy, but are the network that is transformed from the divine image.

  The statue finally began to change after so many years.

  "River God, my shrimp, grandson of shrimp, and great-grandson of shrimp have all died out again. I've lost the incense inheritance once more."

  In the River God Temple, no one paid attention to the big red shrimp. He muttered to himself, looking at the rushing river waves. Although his words were always vague, occasionally there would be a clear one.

  "I don't even know if Shell Sister has arrived home yet."

  "I don't even know if the monkey has been skinned by humans."

  "That dark snake actually still has its kin."

  ……

  "It's been a long time since I went to Qianluo Mountain, let's go take a look..."

  The big red shrimp rushed into the river and disappeared.

  The major sects began summoning their disciples back to the mountain, as if they knew something was about to happen.

  Several days passed, and the big red shrimp returned from Qianluo Mountain. He reported to Chen Jing that there was a green snake that had become a spirit at the edge of the grass hut where the goddess of Qianluo Mountain practiced her cultivation. Its magical power was very strong, and it had tied him up for a whole day and night before letting him down the mountain.

  Chen Jing told him that it was the Wushan Mountain God who had passed by from the Evil Dragon Gorge, and the big red shrimp was shocked, saying: "It's her, I'll go recognize her again." After finishing speaking, he plunged into the water and disappeared.

  Although Chen Jing did not feel any changes in the world, he had a sense of foreboding deep within his heart. This feeling was as if it had always been there, like a fish in murky water that only becomes visible when the water slowly clears up.