You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

Chapter 65 Blood-Patterned Flying Sword, City God's Seal!

Magical flying sword!

Even with Chen Yang's current spiritual cultivation, he couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement. What man of the Great Xia Dynasty hasn't fantasized about flying on a sword and slaying enemies eight hundred miles away?

The blood-red dagger, about nine inches long, lay quietly inside the wooden box.

Chen Yang carefully pinched the hilt with his thumb and forefinger and picked up the small sword.

The small sword felt warm to the touch.

The blood-red blade felt like real flesh to the touch, which was quite peculiar.

"Is this the magic flying sword?"

Chen Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "How amazing... It feels like a different form of flesh and blood!"

"Master Chen has excellent taste!"

Wang Lin: "This magical flying sword is made from the legendary 'Blood-Veined Steel'... It is said that 'Blood-Veined Steel' is extremely rare. Even a piece the size of a fingernail is extremely expensive. It is a rare and precious material formed after a special ore absorbs the flesh and blood of a powerful person and undergoes thousands of years."

“For an ordinary Taoist master, even owning a single Blood Pattern Flying Needle is a luxury. The materials used in this Blood Pattern Flying Sword are enough to forge ten Blood Pattern Flying Needles!”

This kind of thing can no longer be measured in money.

If you don't have the strength and status, let alone buy it, even if you're worth hundreds of billions, you might not even be qualified to hear about it.

"So precious?"

Chen Yang quickly replied, "I was just doing my duty. How can I accept such a grand gesture?"

He said this.

He did not put down the "Blood Pattern Flying Sword" in his hand.

Chen Yang could roughly guess what the Special Administration Bureau was thinking... The situation in the human world is becoming increasingly chaotic, with more and more demons and monsters. Now that the higher-ups of the Great Xia know his identity, it's normal for them to send him some treasures.

"The invasion of the demon spirits concerns the safety of 14 billion people in the Great Xia Dynasty. If it weren't for Master Chen telling us about the demon spirits' weaknesses, we would still be completely clueless. This merit alone is worthy of any treasure!"

"In that case, I'll accept it."

Chen Yang closed the wooden box. If his spiritual realm hadn't yet reached the "object manipulation" realm, he definitely would have been tempted to refine and play with the "Blood Pattern Flying Sword".

Wang Lin then took out an even smaller box from his pocket: "Master Chen, this is the second treasure prepared for you by headquarters. Please take a look."

"Oh?"

This box is also made of wood and is very exquisite, but it is only three or four inches in size.

It was delivered along with the Blood-Patterned Flying Sword...

Could it be another magical artifact?
Chen Yang opened the box and found a seal inside. The seal was made of jade and exuded a peculiar aura, quite similar to his "Night Wanderer's Decree"...

But, it needs to be a bit more advanced!
"This is……"

Chen Yang's eyes flickered slightly as he carefully took out the seal.

He turned the seal over and saw a majestic figure dressed in military attire, holding a magic sword, carved on its bottom!

The figure was inscribed with the four characters "City God Protects" in relief seal script above, and the four characters "Exorcise Evil and Protect Security" below. It was surrounded by a series of complex seal script characters, which looked like scribbled characters, yet seemed to contain a peculiar power.

The seal is inscribed with the six characters "Yinzhou County City God Seal".

"City God's Seal!"

Chen Yang asked in shock, "How could your Special Administration Bureau have something like this?"

According to the "divine hierarchy" of the underworld, the City God is a "high-ranking deity." Any City God can protect a region in the human world, equivalent to a regional governor dispatched by the "underworld." They are the core of the underworld system, possessing the functions of balancing the order of the yin and yang realms and supervising the activities of ghosts, ghost officials, and "gods" in the human world.

It can examine human good and evil, and even has the power to project the "Book of Life and Death". It can also help to avert disasters and difficulties, such as exorcising evil spirits and praying for a good harvest. Its power is boundless!

If Chen Yang wants to become the "City God", he first needs to accumulate enough merits to be promoted to "Day Wanderer", then accumulate more merits to become "Underworld Marshal", and then enter the "Underworld Bureau" to have a chance to become the City God.

Thoughts flashed through my mind.

Chen Yang subconsciously tightened his grip on the "City God's Seal".

He might pretend to be modest about the Blood Pattern Flying Sword, but this thing... let alone being modest, even if Wang Lin were kneeling on the ground begging him to return it, Chen Yang wouldn't even bat an eye!
This thing is too attractive to the underworld officials...

Just like the jade seal engraved with the eight characters "By the mandate of Heaven, may your life be long and prosperous" was irresistible to all the men of the Great Xia Dynasty!
Under Chen Yang's persistent questioning, Wang Lin revealed the origin of the "City God Seal".

"Master Chen..."

"Although this City God Seal was sent to you by headquarters, it... was actually unearthed in our Xixia Prefecture."

It turns out that this City God seal was unearthed from "Yincheng," the provincial capital of Xixia Prefecture.

"Yinzhou Prefecture?"

Chen Yang asked in surprise, "Wasn't Yincheng called Xingqing Prefecture before?"

Wang Lin said, "After this City God Seal was unearthed, the headquarters specially sent an expert over. According to that expert, Yincheng was renamed Xingqing Prefecture after the Western Xia Dynasty established its capital there. In earlier times, it was called Phoenix City... and during the Tang Dynasty, it was called Yinzhou Prefecture."

"So, the City God Temple ruins you unearthed were built at least during the Tang Dynasty?"

Chen Yang's mind began to race.

"Ali" was a princess of the Western Xia Dynasty...

Like most Western Xia people, Chen Yang, although born and raised in Western Xia Prefecture, was not very clear about the history of the "Western Xia Dynasty". He only knew that the Western Xia Dynasty was in the "Song Dynasty" at its peak.

"That means that during the Tang Dynasty, there were still City Gods in the human world..."

"At that time, Yin and Yang were not yet separated?"

“No… Lord Cui said that the earliest time of the severing of the connection between heaven and earth can be traced back to the time when the Yellow Emperor ruled the human world. In the end, his successor, Zhuanxu, joined forces with the powerful beings of the three realms of heaven, earth, and man to set up the seal on heaven and earth.”

Chen Yang guessed that when the seal on heaven and earth was first formed, the path between yin and yang was not completely severed.

As for whether any changes occurred in the Three Realms afterward, that remains unknown. At least during the "Song Dynasty," the Yin and Yang realms were separated, and the road to the Yellow Springs was severed, which led to the gathering of "Li Ali" and his group of dead souls in Red Mountain City.

Later, the spiritual energy in the world dried up, and we entered the Dharma-ending Age.

These ghosts, evil spirits, demons, and monsters either died or slept, and only gradually revived after 2012.

After accepting the Blood-Patterned Flying Sword and the City God's Seal, Chen Yang inquired about the situation at Five Dragon Mountain.

"The Five Dragons Mountain has been sealed off by the military, so the demonic spirit cannot devour the lives of the people, and the mist cannot expand... I heard that headquarters is inviting experts from various Daoist sects to clear out several misty areas."

Chen Yang then inquired whether the Special Administration Bureau had unearthed anything similar to the "City God's Seal." Wang Lin replied, "I don't know the specifics, but I suspect there probably are."

"After all, there are many ruins of temples for the earth god, mountain god, and river god among the people of the Great Xia Dynasty."

Wang Lin seemed to remember something and said, "By the way... Master Chen, do you still remember that wisp of evil god's remnant soul in Qukou Village? Our people found traces of digging in Wu Jinhai's land, and the land has been sealed off and excavated."

Experts speculate that the ruins of a temple may be buried underground!

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PS: Thank you so much to the generous donor, Delu Mengyuer, for the 500 Qidian Coins!

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