Chapter 400: Azure Dragon Rises to the Sky (1)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Ning Tian Prefecture, West Gate Docks.
Today, the scenery on the river was as usual. Ships came and went, and thousands of sails swayed. The docks were busy and lively.
Mei Zhanqing carried her luggage as she rushed to the docks. At this moment, she had already changed into a set of martial attire, with a leather hat and a sword at her waist. She had totally changed her identity to become a pugilist from the martial world, not a daoist.
She was travel-worn and walked in a hurry. She glanced around before hurriedly jumping onto a small dark boat. She threw a silver ingot to the boatman and shouted, “Stop chatting. I have an urgent matter to attend to. Set off immediately.”
When the boatman who was resting heard that someone had boarded the ship, he wanted to ask further, but the words he was about to say were smashed back by the silver.
He weighed the silver ingot in his hand and realized that it weighed two catties, causing him to immediately smile like a chrysanthemum flower. He immediately shouted for the guest to sit properly before immediately carrying Mei Zhanqing out of the port.
Mei Zhanqing hid inside the tent provided by the boat and quietly took out a few spirit bags. She opened them all, chanting a spell in a low voice.
A few similar-looking evil ghosts flew out and circled around before attacking the passersby at the port. In an instant, they pierced through many people.
These passersby could not see the ghosts, and they were not injured even when the ghosts passed through them. They only suddenly felt a chill all over their bodies and shivered. They thought that they were merely feeling chilly from the river wind and did not take it to heart.
However, they did not know that their bodies were already tainted by the evil ghost aura. In a few days, they would fall seriously ill.
The few evil ghosts were not only targeting the citizens on the docks, but also went to reside in the bellies of the ship that were already sailing on the river. They left traces everywhere, causing more and more people to be tainted by the evil aura.
“I hope I can delay the pursuers…”
Mei Zhanqing looked a little pained.
These evil ghosts were all vengeful spirits that she had refined with the Ghost Nurturing Technique. She could use these evil beings to harm people, and every one of them was carefully selected. In particular, she paid close attention to the birth characters of the dead.
To raise a ghost, she had to often nourish it with Yin energy. Otherwise, it would suffer a backlash. Every time she controlled an evil ghost, it would not only consume her Yin energy, but would also need to be refined again. Usually, she could not bear to use it easily, but today, in order to escape, she could not care less.
At this moment, Mei Zhanqing had already escaped from the Zhang family and planned to escape through a naval route.
The Zhang family needed time to seek help, and the time in between was a fleeting opportunity to escape. She did not dare to delay any longer and ran towards the West Gate docks.
Because she had fought with Wei Zifu many times, Mei Zhanqing had a good understanding of the tracking effect of the Qi Divination Technique. Therefore, she would occasionally release ghosts to spread evil aura on the way in an attempt to confuse the perception of the Qi Divination Technique.
This move was very useful to shake off Wei Zifu, but she did not know if Perfected Master Windwalker would fall for it.
Even if it did not work, as long as she could stall him for a short while, it would be worth it.
The reason why she spread all her Yin energy at the West Gate Docks was to let her aura blend in so that the pursuers would not be able to lock onto her immediately.
She knew that Zhou Jing could fly with the wind, but she felt that as long as she could take a boat and sail far away before the other party locked onto her, she still had a chance to escape.
In her opinion, Perfected Master Windwalker’s spells were profound, and there was a risk no matter how she tried to escape. It was better to take the naval route than the land route. At the very least, it would not be so easy for her to be surrounded and intercepted by a large group of people.
Mei Zhanqing was not completely confident that she could escape, but she did not want to sit back and wait for death. She had to do her best to escape.
If she waited until tomorrow, her fate would be in the hands of others. She did not want to do this, so she could only take the risk.
“I’m just unlucky to have encountered such an expert… However, as long as I can stay away from Ning Tian, Ling Fengzi will most likely not chase after me. Only Wei Zifu will bite me like a mad dog.”
Mei Zhanqing calculated in his heart and secretly prayed that the enemy would not catch up so quickly.
At this moment, there was a cry of surprise from the direction of the dock. Many citizens pointed at the figure flying over from the sky with surprised expressions.
Under everyone’s gazes, Zhou Jing landed on the ground. With a wave of his sleeve, he lifted up some of the surrounding ferryman who wanted to kneel.
He looked around with his Elemental Vision, before frowning.
At this moment, the West Gate Dock was filled with an evil aura. It was unknown how many people had been infected by the evil energies.
It was not only the people at the docks. There were also many sailors and fishermen on the river who were tainted by the black evil aura. At a glance, there were more than a hundred of them. For a moment, they could not differentiate who the real culprit was from the victims.
In addition, he also saw a few evil ghosts causing trouble. They were like dogs that were peeing everywhere, leaving traces in different places.
“As expected… Looks like I arrived in time. That Mei Zheqing hasn’t gone far.”
Zhou Jing’s expression did not change. He directly activated Merging Thoughts to control the wind energy to attack those evil ghosts.
These evil ghosts were unable to counterattack at all. They screamed miserably and were shattered by the wind blades that had been fused with mental strength. They dissipated in the wind. The whole process was as simple as cutting vegetables.
This kind of exorcism technique was already a good offensive technique in this world’s spell system, but it was useless for Zhou Jing, who found no combat value in it.
Although Zhou Jing did not know the methods of exorcism here, his mental strength attribute was far higher than the normal level of the cultivators in this world. It was not a problem for him to use his strength to kill a few evil spirits that had been refined by others.
“Let me see where you’ll be…”
After dealing with the troublemaking ghosts, Zhou Jing looked around and analyzed the evil spirits.
Along the way, he had already understood Mei Zhanqing’s intentions. She wanted to use this method to delay the time before the pursuers discovered her.
If it were Wei Zifu, by the time he found the real deal, she would have already fled. Unfortunately, the other party had met him, a person who could fly, and quickly locked onto her whereabouts, causing her plan to fail.