After losing control of the Temple of Life, the situation of the Thirteen Cities Alliance improved a lot.
Due to years of rule, most of the resources of the Thirteen Cities Alliance are in the hands of the Temple of Life and various city lords, leaving very few resources for the people below.
Therefore, except for the environmental advantages that the people of the Thirteen Cities have over the sand people, they are not much better than the people in the desert in other aspects.
The city lords of each city can firmly control the operation of the entire city by concentrating a large amount of resources.
After the collapse of the Life Temple, Chu Ci did not take these resources into his pocket, but asked the Earth Temple to return these resources to the people of the Thirteen Cities in another form.
Because of this, the people of the Thirteen Cities were very grateful to the Earth Temple, and many people even joined the Earth Temple and began to believe in the Earth God.
Nowadays, in the thirteen cities, there are underground temples built by believers spontaneously.
Under the influence of the Earth Temple, the Alliance of Thirteen Cities gradually established a new governance system. It no longer centered on the city lord's palace, but rebuilt its governance like normal outside cities with the patrol team as the core and the Earth Temple as the auxiliary.
system to maintain urban security and stability.
After the situation in the Thirteen Cities stabilized, in order to make up for the mistakes they had made and to repay the Earth Temple, they began to feed back the Spitting Fire Desert, selling food, stones and other resources at very low prices to help the sand people in the desert.
They rebuilt the city and restored their old life.
As the Baisui City closest to the Spitfire Desert, it has become an important hub for exchanges between the two sides. It has gathered a large number of sand people, and people from the desert come here every day.
Because there were too many sand people coming and going, the city gates of Centennial City were simply opened, allowing outsiders to enter and exit the city.
When Chu Ci first entered Baisui City, he thought he had entered the wrong place because the place was full of bare-chested sand people with scimitars at their waists.
Even the patrol team patrolling the streets, half of them are sand people.
If it weren't for the surrounding buildings and green plants, Chu Ci would have thought he was entering a city belonging to some tribe in the desert.
There are various markets set up in the city, where people from the Thirteen Cities sell goods and resources. Many sand people are in the shops or at the stalls, shouting loudly, and bargaining with the people from the Thirteen Cities.
There are even some places that have exclusive stalls for sand people for people in the desert to use, so that various tribes in the desert can trade with each other.
For these transactions, Centennial City generously did not charge handling fees, not even stall fees.
Today's Baisui City has become a large-scale trading city that integrates desert resources and the resources of the Thirteen Cities.
While walking on the road, Chu Ci could detect the change in the attitude of the sand people towards the Thirteen Cities.
In the past, people had to exchange rare resources to survive, but now they voluntarily bring things with them to trade.
All of this is inseparable from the influence of the Earth Temple.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chu Ci wouldn't have known that the Earth Temple was developing so well in Thirteen Cities.
Perhaps it is because the Temple of Life is so severely exploited that the Temple of Earth, which behaves completely opposite to it, is so popular among the people of the Thirteen Cities.
He found a random teahouse and sat down, looking at the bustling crowd outside, Chu Ci fell into deep thought.
In fact, he came here this time not to observe the situation in the Thirteen Cities, but to see the burning sun.
After discovering the aura of Zhuoyang, he followed the direction of the aura, hoping to find Zhuoyang.
As a result, I followed and arrived at Tianshou Mansion.
Chu Ci was surprised. He didn't know why Zhuoyang came to Tianshou Mansion.
What surprised him even more was that after arriving at Tianshou Mansion, the aura of Zhuoyang disappeared.
No matter how he searched, or even turned on his instant sense, he could not sense the presence of the scorching sun's aura.
This means two possibilities.
First, after arriving at Tianshou Mansion, Zhuoyang left using a method similar to teleportation.
Second, he deliberately restrained his breath to prevent others from noticing.
The first possibility is very unlikely. According to Chu Ci's understanding, Zhuoyang did not master the magic circle related to teleportation. The cross-border teleportation magic circle in his virtual world was built by Yan Shen for him.
As for the second possibility, Chu Ci felt a little confused.
All right, why is Zhuoyang concentrating his aura?
The purpose of restraining one's aura is simply to prevent others from discovering it.
But with the strength of the Burning Sun Middle God, no one can detect him even if he doesn't hide.
At least people below the median level would find it difficult to spot him.
Chu Ci felt that Zhuoyang must have encountered something that made him choose to hide.
So Chu Ci thought of the Thirteen Cities, and wanted to know through the Thirteen Cities whether anything unusual had happened in Tianshou Mansion recently. As a result, the Earth God Temple in the Thirteen Cities gave him a big surprise.
But that's fine, as it saves him from having to investigate on his own.
Since the influence of the Earth Temple is so great, wouldn't it be better to directly ask the people of the Earth Temple.
Thinking of this, Chu Ci closed his eyes and communicated with the statue of the Earth Temple.
Soon, all the earthly temples in the Thirteen Cities were surprised to find that their own gods were obviously spiritual!
This caused a sensation among many temple members. This was the first time the gods had reacted since the establishment of the temple!
In just a short time, the news spread at an alarming speed, and a large number of Earth God believers came after hearing the news.
The enthusiastic look made Chu Ci feel a little confused.
After all, your thirteen cities are also cities that have had false gods. As for seeing a god, do you have such a big reaction?
What Chu Ci didn't know was that the Earth Temple in Thirteen Cities was somewhat special.
During the period of chaos in the thirteen cities, Chu Ci sent many priests from the desert in order to help the thirteen cities restore order as soon as possible.
Due to the tense relationship between the desert and the Thirteen Cities, Chu Ci made a rule that the Earth Temple was not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the Thirteen Cities, in order to prevent people from the Earth Temple from taking this opportunity to abuse their power and become another Life Temple.
Unexpectedly, in the eyes of the priests of the Earth Temple, his order was understood to mean that their gods looked down on the Thirteen Cities and only sent them to save the Thirteen Cities out of pity.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Because of this, these priests who came all the way from the desert strictly abided by Chu Ci's orders and basically did not get involved in the planning and construction of the Thirteen Cities.
Even the people of the Thirteen Cities were grateful to them and their request to build an Earth Temple was rejected.
Today’s earthly temples in the Thirteen Cities were all built bit by bit by the later decision-makers of the Thirteen Cities who sent people to the desert to learn scriptures.
In the eyes of people in the desert, the earthly temples in Thirteen Cities are "unorthodox".
Not only the people in the Fire-Spitting Desert think so, but some people in the Thirteen Cities themselves also think so.
Because since the establishment of the Earth Temple, the gods have never responded to their prayers, which has devastated the people of the Thirteen Cities.
In fact, they had a misunderstanding. It wasn't that Chu Ci didn't respond to them, but that Chu Ci was in Yuanjie during that time and couldn't sense the situation in the outside world at all, and didn't know of their existence.
The avatar of faith only paid attention to matters in Jiuge City, which caused believers in the Thirteen Cities to have the illusion of being abandoned by the gods.
Under such circumstances, Chu Ci suddenly appeared. How could this not surprise and excite the believers in the Thirteen Cities, and why they had such a big reaction?
Although Chu Ci didn't know why the believers in the Thirteen Cities were so enthusiastic, it didn't affect his original purpose.
After a while of understanding, Chu Ci really discovered something unusual.
More than a month ago, a fire broke out in the mountain forest near Yuexia City. At that time, many people in Yuexia City heard a thunderous roar.
Later, the patrol team from Yuexia City sent people to investigate the fire and came to the conclusion that it should be a wildfire caused by lightning.
But what is strange is that the weather at that time was clear, the sun was shining brightly, and there were no clouds in the sky. It did not look like thunder at all.
After thinking hard to no avail, the matter was dropped.
After hearing about this incident, Chu Ci intuitively told Chu Ci that this incident was most likely related to Zhuoyang.
So he made a prompt decision and went to the location where the fire occurred based on the address provided by the priest of Yuexia City.
Since not long ago, there are still many traces of wildfires in that mountain forest.
A large number of trees were burned, and a burning smell spread in the air.
Chu Ci discovered something unusual on these burned trees.
Some trees don't look like they were burned down by wildfires, but more like they were broken by external forces.
In the area where the wildfire was most serious, a large crater attracted Chu Ci's attention.
This is a large pit filled with a lot of flames.
Even after such a long time, the temperature in the pit is still very high. Standing next to the pit is like standing near a volcanic crater, it is unbearably hot.
Sensing the breath of fire in the pit, Chu Ci took a long breath.
Sure enough, it's Zhuoyang!
He is in Tianshou Mansion!
Not only that, he also met his enemy here and fought with him.
Chu Ci could sense that in addition to the flame aura of the scorching sun, there was another aura in the pit.
However, this aura was too weak and was almost covered by the flame aura, making it impossible for Chu Ci to determine who his opponent was.
I don’t know if it’s because the aura has become weaker due to being dealt with by the Burning Sun, or if it’s just that it’s just weak.
Chu Ci suspected that Zhuoyang's opponent might be someone from the Temple of Life.
Based on the relationship between Zhuo Yang and the Star Fire God, he might have known for a long time that the Star Fire God died at the hands of the Temple of Life, so he tracked it down all the way.
Apart from these, Chu Ci found nothing else.
The aura of the scorching sun only exists in this area, and disappears after leaving this area.
Chu Ci was not disappointed by this. At least there was progress this time and it was confirmed that Zhuoyang was in Tianshou Mansion.
As long as Zhuoyang did not leave Tianshou Mansion, it would only be a matter of time before he was found. With Chu Ci's ability, it would not take a month to search the entire Tianshou Mansion.
Moreover, he is not alone, but also has a group of believers who are local snakes.
Thinking of this, Chu Ci dispersed his mental power and sent an oracle to all the priests in the thirteen cities, asking them to pay attention to the surrounding situation and report to him immediately if there was anything unusual, such as the appearance of inexplicable flames or the sound of fighting.
This large-scale oracle has attracted the attention of all the temples in the thirteen cities.
This is the first time that the God of Earth has sent down an oracle, and this must be done beautifully.
So then not only the temple personnel, but also the non-temple personnel and some patrol members who got the news began to pay attention to the situation in the city and its surroundings, and some cities even extended patrol routes outside the city.
With such a prepared attitude, one might think that someone is coming to attack the city.
Chu Ci did not expect these people to find Zhuoyang. His purpose of doing this was to send a message to tell Zhuoyang that he was coming.
As long as Zhuoyang is aware of Thirteen Cities' actions, he will understand what he means and will naturally come to him when the time comes.
Under the operation of Thirteen Cities, a steady stream of news came to Chu Ci through the priests of the Earth Temple every day.
However, most of the reported information was useless information. Some people even reported "abnormal" situations such as seeing a cat doing somersaults.
Of course, not all messages are useless.
Inside the Earth God Temple in Centennial City.
The incarnation of the stars, who had been prayed to by the priest, looked at a stone in his hand and frowned.
This is a blue stone that is only the size of a fist and looks ordinary.
But it was this stone that had just absorbed a little of his incarnation's divine power.
Although the amount of divine power absorbed was very small, Chu Ci was very surprised. He had never seen a stone that could actively absorb divine power.
And after absorbing his divine power, the color of this stone changed from cyan to blue.
After pondering for a while, the incarnation of the stars asked the priest who had been standing aside just now: "Can you please tell me more carefully, what is this thing?"
"Yes." The priest said respectfully: "Lord Earth God, this object is called the Transformation Stone. It was accidentally found by a member of our temple on the mountain three months ago."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "This stone is very strange. In fact, it was not cyan at first, but red."
"When our people first discovered it, they thought it was an ordinary soapstone, but after a while, the stone changed color and turned orange."
"I'm not afraid of your ridicule, Lord Earth God. As a big trading city, our Centennial City has a long history and rich experience in identifying treasures and treasures from heaven, materials and earth."
"However, we just can't recognize this color-changing stone. No one knows what kind of stone it is. Even if we look through ancient books, we can't find it."
"Later, we also called in treasure appraisers from other twelve cities, but none of them had seen this color-changing stone."
"Because this stone changes color every once in a while, we named it the Changing Stone."
"That's quite appropriate." Chu Ci's incarnation nodded slightly, and then asked: "But what does this have to do with what I told you?"
He asked the temple personnel to pay attention to some strange things, instead of asking them to collect some strange items.
"Lord Earth God, this is what happened." The priest pointed to the stone in Chu Ci's hand: "The abnormal thing I mentioned is exactly related to this stone."
"In addition to changing color, there is another strange thing about this stone."
"That is, when it rains, put this stone in the rain. After the rain stops, this stone will emit a burst of intense seven-color light."
"On a good day, this light will form a big rainbow that spans most of the city."
"Our temple staff was attracted by this rainbow, and that's when he discovered the changing stone."
rainbow?!
Chu Ci was shocked.
"Where did you find this stone?" Chu Ci asked quickly.
The priest thought about it for a moment and replied: