Chapter 377: Chapter 257: Past, Present, Future—My Reign, Part 3

Within Cyan Yang City, the citizens were startled awake everywhere, powerless against the emergence of the Great Ghost Venerable, they could only tremble in their homes, praying to their ancestors for safety.

One house after another was destroyed, one citizen after another hiding was dragged out by the Great Ghost Venerable. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

They did not perform any rituals, but cruelly bit off their heads.

The soldiers sent by the government, even the skilled ones, had no power to fight, meeting an incredibly tragic end.

Familiar faces to Qin Yuesheng—Bai Hao, Xun Sheng—all died right there.

Not long after, people from the West Qi Mountain Temple arrived, not only failing to subdue the Great Ghost Venerable, but their bodies were taken one by one for the final ritual.

At dawn, Jiang Taicang crawled out from a pile of ruins, the Great Ghost Venerables had already left before dawn, not far from him lay the corpse of Daoist Qingfeng.

Unexpectedly, he boldly searched the body of Daoist Qingfeng, finding a book on External Forging Skill, a martial arts text, a health cultivation book, and a sword.

This was the starting point of Jiang Taicang’s martial path.

...

A cave.

Jiang Taicang was bound tightly sitting against the wall, beside him were seven or eight people in the same condition.

Not far away, a blood-red flag stood planted in the soil, moving without wind, emitting low wails from within, extremely eerie.

A disheveled old man in a black robe drank from a jar of wine as he approached, after counting Jiang Taicang and the others, he grabbed a crying girl and dragged her to the flag.

As he grasped the girl, a blood-red claw appeared instantly, and the girl’s soul was forcibly torn from her body.

This scene immediately terrified everyone present; it was their first time seeing a person’s soul.

The old man threw the girl’s soul into the flag, which soon produced wails and howls, followed by the girl’s cries, before all fell silent and calm.

The girl’s soul apparently became sustenance for the hidden entity within the flag.

The girl’s corpse was slowly dragged out of the cave by the old man.

As days went by, the number of people in the cave dwindled daily, taken by the old man for the same ritual.

When Jiang Taicang’s day came, a white-clothed swordsman arrived, immediately engaging the old man in a deadly duel.

Ultimately, the old man had the upper hand, killing the white-clothed swordsman, but he too was left barely alive, gravely injured.

In the end, he could not endure, succumbing to his injuries, dying inside the cave.

Jiang Taicang managed to cut his ropes using the broken artifact of the white-clothed swordsman, successfully obtaining the relics from both the swordsman and the black-robed old man.

...

A giant stone relic.

Jiang Taicang was impaled with arrows, bloodied as he lay against a wall, his right eye was blinded by poison, half his face scraped raw by what seemed like a weapon similar to an iron brush.

A severed dog’s head bit fiercely onto his hip, its eyes wide open, refusing to rest in peace.

"Jiang Taicang! You are surrounded, surrender the Forging Record, or you won’t leave alive today!"

"Jiang Taicang, you demon! Daring to kill my pet dog, I, Desert Wolf King Duanmu Lei, won’t let you off!"

As the calls drew nearer, Jiang Taicang mustered his last strength and rammed his head into the wall, intending to die instantly to avoid the tortures from his pursuing enemies, sparing his dignity.

Where Jiang Taicang aimed his head, there was a white Time Holy Wheel inlaid in the wall.

Bam!

The twenty-eight Yellow Pearls on the Time Holy Wheel shattered as his head impacted, releasing River of Time’s mysterious aura, enveloping Jiang Taicang, turning him to ashes that disappeared on site.

When Jiang Taicang opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on an extremely familiar bed.

The room’s arrangement and layout were equally familiar.

This was... from his childhood memories, in the Jiang family.

...

Realizing it, Qin Yuesheng couldn’t help but exclaim in excitement, not expecting Jiang Taicang’s experiences would be so thrilling, just reading it made one feel the danger and fear.

"The question he asked me before was surely because he comes from a future I do not belong to, precisely, a future where I am not Qin Yuesheng’s," Qin Yuesheng murmured.

The last part of the memory featured the ’Forging Record’ heavily, prompting Qin Yuesheng to focus on what treasure this was, which nearly caused Jiang Taicang’s death at the relic.

Crushing the light orb containing the record, a flood of new information surged into Qin Yuesheng’s mind.

Material selection, forging cauldron, fire control, forging technique, crucial elements...

All sorts of knowledge Qin Yuesheng had never heard exploded forth, leaving him astonished.

This was actually a crafting method focused on mixing various materials together, thereby forging a Divine Weapon like the Celestial Demon’s Blade or Dragon-Slaying Sword.

"A treasure indeed, with good enough materials, even ordinary people could forge Divine Weapons like Celestial Demon’s Blade and Dragon-Slaying Sword," Qin Yuesheng laughed.

No wonder those people went to such extremes to kill for the ’Forging Record,’ forcing Jiang Taicang into such a dire situation.

A Divine Weapon is a significant power boost for martial arts masters, irresistible to anyone.