Chapter 1167: Initial Lightning

Splash.

When the water is full, it overflows, and the deep waves swirl.

Ten thousand hectares of floodwater splashed out, smashing into the Huai River, and the thunder rolled.

A child with a runny nose, blocking an ant's path with his index finger, raised his head.

Under the eaves, the swallow nest returning north was empty. Crows, orioles, and ducks in the pond all called out, mixed with the barking of neighborhood dogs.

Green moss stuck to the corners of the walls, spreading quietly. There were not many guests drinking tea in the teahouse on a rainy day, but there were always one or two with leisure, liking this quiet atmosphere of listening to the rain. The water in the teacup rippled, circle after circle, and the copper wind chime under the porch rang incessantly.

That was not the ding-dong sound of being hit by rain.

But a kind of noisier, more disorderly, more terrifying sound, like... the ground was trembling.

The shopkeeper held the pole, standing stiffly at the door.

"Neigh..."

Lightning struck, illuminating the street.

The black horse raised its hooves, standing diagonally.

Drenched in rain, the cavalryman clamped the horse's belly tightly, waved the horse whip, and split the black snake that rushed out of the street.

The spring cold was biting, the snake woke up from hibernation, its movements stiff and slow, but it crawled down the mountain like flying, crossing the street.

Before the cavalryman could control the panicked black horse, a subtle sound rose from underground, and then small pieces of soil were lifted. Under the stone slabs, in the mud, in the sewers... it was not one or two, but large groups of ants, centipedes, and woodlice crawling around, finally forming a vague order, bypassing the panicked horse hooves, toward the front.

His heart sank.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for the cavalryman to believe that there were so many insects hidden in the ground, and at this time they were all as if startled, drilling out of the ground.

Chickens flew, dogs barked, and mice ran away cleverly first.

Earth dragon turning over?

The cavalryman was surprised that there would be an earth dragon turning over in Nanzhili. This was something that mostly happened in the northwest.

"Clang."

The shop signboard smashed to the ground, splashing mud and water. Squinting, the cavalryman saw the shopkeeper standing with his back to him, looking up, half of his foot stepped into a puddle, and he turned his head back.

Flying birds rose from the fog mountain, toward the west and north, black and heavy, facing the thunder and wind and rain.

The forest birds flew away, and the waves surged.

"Plop."

The horse whip fell to the ground, rolling and hitting the signboard.

The black horse was frightened and overturned, smashing bricks and stones, pressing on the cavalryman. He couldn't care about crawling out from under the horse's belly, his breathing stagnated at this moment.

That is...

What thing!?

Circling the water pillar, the wing tips and feathers tore through the thin clouds, the flying birds made a curve, crashed into the water pillar, were wrapped in white steam, flapped their wings and struggled to choke on water, sinking deeper and deeper, suffocating and twitching.

"Ha... ha..."

Heavy breathing, violent breathing.

The Flood Dragon retreated slowly, observing vigilantly.

The waves were magnificent, schools of fish swam inside, gathering into another lake in the sky. The sky and the earth were calm and windless at the same time, and the water was not moving, forming two silver mirrors that were as clean as new, reflecting the objects, beautiful and magnificent.

Half a canine tooth was missing.

The Bai Yuan was like an ant, holding up a corner of the porcelain base, lifting a pen holder.

Under the pen holder, the Flood Dragon became another ant.

The spectacle was astonishing.

The ability to control water was unparalleled.

The Flood Dragon gradually believed that the Bai Yuan was the second true water lord born of heaven and earth after the Dragon Lord. There were always a few exceptions in heaven and earth. It was said that certain situations occurred, leading to the water lord favored by heaven and earth no longer being a dragon, but a white-haired monkey.

But this move was powerful but not threatening, thick but not sharp.

For mortals, it was the majesty of heaven, but for the strong, it was just a breeze, and smashing it all down was no different from taking a bath.

Not to mention the monkey was so strenuous and laborious even just lifting it up, using it to attack?

In the Ze Ding, the blue tide fell one after another. One after another, the long qi of heaven and earth combined with ten thousand essences, turning into azure spirit fish. Liang Qu didn't even have time to see the effects of many long qi.

【Water Essence: 1421】

Eight spirit fish lay in the dry Ze Ding, jumping.

This was the eighty thousand remaining from the one thousand great merits.

【Stretching across the great river, shining like the sun】

【River Governance Degree: 0.6】

Lifting the water pillar added 0.1.

Not enough.

Not enough.

Overturning the river and overturning the sea...

Still not enough!

"Ah.!! Move!!!"

Roar, roar, roar again.

The Bai Yuan hugged its arms tightly, shaking the pillar crazily.

The skin on its arms cracked, the muscles on its back split, strands of blood flowed and stained the white hair, and the Sea-Fang Master assisted with all her might, repairing.

Thud!

The water pillar trembled.

As if the Bai Yuan couldn't hold it up, it knelt on one knee.

Countless waves collapsed down along the water pillar. That was like putting a pen holder into an ice cellar and then taking it out, water droplets condensed on it, gathered and dripped down. The difference was that this inconspicuous "water droplet" was enough to easily submerge a county town.

What is this monkey doing?

Digging its own grave?

The Flood Dragon became more and more frightened, hesitating whether to go up and interrupt, but also worried that this was some kind of trap. Who would do such a meaningless and big-flaw thing in a life-and-death battle?

The Bai Yuan knelt in the void, the water pillar was unstable, tilting diagonally.

Without hesitation, the Flood Dragon flicked its tail, dodging to the side, outside the pillar tip. Unexpectedly, the water pillar fell, but didn't smash down, slowly changing direction, chasing it.

Flicking its long tail, it changed direction, missing it. The Flood Dragon felt the pillar tip fly over its head, changing from close to far.

Golden eyes expanded, the Flood Dragon suddenly lowered its head, staring at the ant under the "pen holder" who was trying its best.

The Bai Yuan was bathed in blood, roaring without stopping, annoyingly making the dragon feel annoyed.

But it held it.

It held the falling and tilting water pillar, borrowed the inertia of the tilt, pulled it backward, the whole ape leaned back with all its might, its lumbar spine almost folded in half, making people worry if that dragon bone would break.

The tilting sky-reaching pillar straightened, then tilted backward, and finally smashed down diagonally.

The "ant" not only lifted it, it stirred the pen holder!

Rumble...

Hooves, puddles, insect swarms, bluestone slabs trembled incessantly.

Pedestrians fled, the crowd surged.

Grabbing the black horse, the cavalryman became a reef in the flowing water, just like the shopkeeper picking up the signboard at the door.

No one knew where the water pillar grew from, growing until everyone could see it.

Looking very close, but actually very far.

It towered like a cloud, majestic like a mountain, mostly hidden above the clouds, as if it wanted to break through the firmament, break through the Heavenly Palace, take down the Jade Emperor's plaque, even the Tianshan Mountains in the northwest were not as high as it, reaching the sky and the earth.

If one had to compare, it must be the "North Pole Xuanji", sixty thousand miles high, twenty-three thousand miles in diameter.

But the cavalryman knew that the bottom of the water pillar must be the Jianghuai Great Marsh.

Only the Jianghuai Great Marsh had the volume to produce such a huge, majestic water pillar, but he couldn't believe it in his heart. How far was the Jianghuai Great Marsh from the capital of Nanzhili?

Several thousand miles? Ten thousand miles?

What kind of person, what kind of means, what kind of purpose could erect a sky-reaching water pillar in the Jianghuai Great Marsh, standing so clearly visible to the capital of Nanzhili!?

Waves rippled, breaking through the dark clouds.

The water pillar trembled suddenly, and water foam like a waterfall swung around, collapsing down.

The next moment.

The stagnant breathing began to flow backward, and the cavalryman's pupils expanded to tearing.

The "North Pole Xuanji" began to move! Began to shake! Began to rock!

Circle after circle, time after time, round after round.

Dark clouds stirred, thunder gathered, and gale winds entangled.

The wine signboard on the flagpole flew toward the sky; the damp fallen leaves left the puddle; the crowd screamed, the cloaks behind them wrapped around half their bodies, dancing violently, making people unable to open their eyes.

Wind, rain, thunder, and lightning spiraled toward the center, winding toward it, just like a spoon reaching into a casserole, stirring the refined salt inside, stirring out a vortex of drawing water.

Strange and great power, terrifying.

"Your Majesty..."

Electricity is the light of the sun. If the yang qi is weak, the light is not seen. If the yang is prosperous and wants to reach but is suppressed by the yin. Its light is then emitted, so it is called initial electricity.

"Ah!!!"

Tooth blood seeped from the gums.

In the lead-gray clouds, white light continued, thunder entangled on the pillar tip, winding into a roaring thunder dragon.

Boom!

The "pen holder" pressed toward Jianghuai, pushing horizontally and flicking.

The gale hit his face, the smooth silver mirror was broken, the dragon shadow and ape shadow shattered, and the sky and earth rose in waves.

The villagers swarmed, and were swept into the Water God Temple by the stick wind.

【Stretching across the great river, shining like the sun】

【River Governance Degree: 0.7】

Boom!

The "pen holder" pressed again, and the gale came again.

There were vortexes in the sky and on the earth at the same time, a cloud vortex and a water vortex, rotating symmetrically.

The ancestral hall was crowded, and people couldn't find a place to stand.

【Stretching across the great river, shining like the sun】

【River Governance Degree: 0.8】

Boom!

The "pen holder" pressed for the third time, and the Bai Yuan turned into a blood ape.

The Jianghuai Great Marsh began to tremble and spread, revealing a vortex eye, opening its eyes to the sky, and the falling water level was refilled by the vortex.

The Iron-Headed Fish was shocked, circling the Dragon Palace, sand and dust rising.

In the Dragon-Man territory, the three elders, Long Eying, Long Binglin, Long Yanrui, and Ao Qingtian tore open their snake bodies, retreated from the enemies, and looked at the firmament at the same time, feeling the surging water flow with their fingertips.

【Stretching across the great river, shining like the sun】

【River Governance Degree: 0.9】

The "pen holder" pulled back, about to press down, stirring out the fourth time. The Flood Dragon could no longer restrain itself and rushed up.

"Little Water!"

"Get out of the way, let it bite!"

The poisonous fangs pierced the Vortex God Armor. While the Sea-Fang Master was struggling, she wriggled her flesh to avoid the sharp fangs, witnessing the Flood Dragon bite through the "water shell", penetrate the Bai Yuan's shoulder and neck, and spray venom.

Turning their heads to look at each other.

Golden eyes against golden eyes, fierce against fierce.

The broken ape canine teeth against the snake venom hook fangs in the dragon kiss.

Under the Divine Might, the Flood Dragon's entanglement was irrelevant.

Not painful, not itchy, not painful, not itchy!

The blood ape protruded its canine teeth, tore open the arm wound, pulled out the blood vessels, drank the dark red blood in large gulps, swallowed the snake venom.

The Flood Dragon's golden eyes shrank.

What is this guy doing?

The venom dissolved the water film attached to the inside, the five internal organs were like burning fire, the pain was unbearable, the gums were completely corroded, scarlet and bleeding, and the remaining teeth were crumbling.

【Water Essence +6017】

【Water Essence +6498】

【Water Essence +7123】

【Water Essence:】!

A strand of long qi suddenly turned into a spirit fish.

Nine spirit fish jumped at the bottom of the tripod.

The belly was pierced, from the throat to the abdomen, the flesh and blood were eliminated by the venom, turned into blood water, and then flowed out from the flesh hole. The blood ape endured the severe pain, stretched its head to bite the Flood Dragon, bit out dragon blood, ground its teeth and sucked blood, ate its meat raw, and then swung the water pillar.

【Water Essence +137】

【Water Essence:】

Boom!

Jianghuai surged.

Thunder dragons and wind dragons descended from the nine heavens, entangled and merged into the water dragon.

The ten thousand miles of dark clouds disappeared, and the universe was clear.

"Amitabha."

The old monk looked from the mountaintop and prayed with his hands together.

Behind him, a group of river otters sat in a circle, holding a wooden fish, wearing yellow robes, and followed suit.

【Stretching across the great river, shining like the sun】

【River Governance Degree: 1】

【Can consume ten spirit fish and one point of governance degree to advance the Vortex Palace and grasp the supreme domain of the Huai Vortex Water Lord in advance—Pseudo-Small Ze Kingdom!】

"Open!"

Open? Open what?

The Flood Dragon intended to disintegrate the Bai Yuan, but under the Divine Might, its whole body was weak and powerless. Except for the venom which was lethal, relying only on physical brute force, it couldn't pull the tough blood ape at all.

【Water Essence: 13】

【River Governance Degree: 0】

In the qi sea, three fairy islands on the clouds suddenly produced smoke. From the center of the triangle, a jade-white gate was built.

"Looking sideways at the Heavenly Pass, the pavilion path is even more bleak. Six Heyi of heaven and man, reaching the sky and cutting off the earth, perfectly integrated into one, the pass that exhausts the body and spirit to break through is the Heavenly Pass, it is the pass to break the circle, the pass to break the extreme.

As for what will be knocked out when knocking on the Heavenly Pass, it is not the same for everyone.

In the past, the Dragon Elephant Martial Saint knocked open the five heavenly passes of blood, flesh, bone, skin, and tendon, and five great demons emerged. He beheaded them one by one, and his body became a saint.

The Vajra Ming King knocked out the angry-eyed Vajra, obtained the Ming King body, and obtained the Arhat status...

Ze Kingdom... is it a Heavenly Pass?"

The Bai Yuan stood in front of the jade gate.

The jade gate was surprisingly high, with thousands of reliefs on it, messy, with all kinds of beast heads, and to see the full picture, one had to look up.

"Why is it so high?"

The Bai Yuan jumped up in anger, clasped its hands together, aimed at the gate edge, and smashed the jade gate into the sea of clouds with a cannon-fist, burying most of it, level with the ape.

Thud!

The Bai Yuan kicked open the gate and stepped into the shadow.

"Whether it's a mule or a horse, pull it out and take a walk!"

"Pfft!"

In the darkness, two points of golden eyes lit up.

Inside the Vortex Palace, the vortex water and essence water were drained, and the water beasts were forced to shrink into a ball. The fat catfish, which was kicked and kicked by the old toad to grab space, was bruised and swollen, vaguely begging for mercy, suddenly feeling the sky wide and the earth wide, boundless.

【Vortex Palace advanced to Pseudo-Small Ze Kingdom】

A dream of yellow millet.

Open eyes, see dragon horns again.

Swish!

The aura exploded, and the blood ape locked by the dragon body disappeared without a trace.

How is it possible.

The Flood Dragon's golden eyes trembled.

It was absolutely certain that its favor from heaven and earth was much higher than the Bai Yuan, at least three times. In Jianghuai, it could completely suppress its shuttle ability, it was absolutely impossible to escape, and what was the momentum that just rose?

Suddenly.

Felt something in its heart.

The Flood Dragon looked up at the sky.

Sunny and bright, the wind was pleasant, just looking at the weather, today was absolutely a good day for fishing—if you didn't look at the water pillar above your head.

The sun shone on Jianghuai without obstruction. The blood ape blocked the sunlight. It crawled out from the middle of the water pillar, hugged the pillar body with its arms, and cast a cross shadow on the dragon head. The Sea-Fang Master wriggled her flesh to fill and repair the throat that had been completely corroded by the venom.

The sunlight was dazzling, the shadow was gloomy.

Only the pair of molten golden eyes were clear and bright.

"Flood Dragon! I f*** your ancestor snake!"

Splash!

The clouds and mist were pushed aside, opening the curtain.

The water vapor of the Great Marsh was pressed, squeezed into white mist, and rolled away along the curves on both sides of the water pillar.

Roaring and spraying internal organ fragments, the Bai Yuan took a bow step, held the water dragon pillar with both hands, force rose from the ground, penetrated the shoulders and back, like throwing a javelin, aimed at the dragon head...

Smashed straight down!

The Flood Dragon intended to shuttle and move, but was surprised to find that the demon that couldn't use supernatural powers and move freely had become itself.

The river wind whistled, and the turbid flow emptied.

The vacuum was quiet.

Couldn't escape left or right.

The Flood Dragon didn't dodge or hide, the dragon roar rushed to the sky, and it went up to meet it.

Thud!

The water pillar sank into the Great Marsh.

The sky and the earth floated silver mirrors again, fitting together, seamlessly.

The vast water surface rippled with a transparent ripple, spreading endlessly to the four wildernesses, the earth trembled, silt floated, and broken water grass flew.

The blood ape reached out, curled and stretched, climbed a few times, flashed to the end of the sky-reaching pillar, muscles knotted, and pushed violently.

Thud, thud, thud.

The sky-reaching pillar was cut off inch by inch.

In the center of the Great Marsh, the sound waves were towering, and waves of flood surged and splashed.

The sky light poured down, Pingyang Prefecture, Nanzhili capital, Chizhou, Lanzhou, Xige Prefecture... it cleared up in an instant.

"Die!!"

Boom!

The sky-reaching pillar in his hand shook violently, the huge force numbed his palms, almost overturning the blood ape. Liang Qu stabilized his figure, pressed down again to nail the Flood Dragon, and suddenly saw two points of golden light constantly magnifying.

Flood Dragon!

The Flood Dragon broke through the water pillar and swam upstream!

Hugging the sky-reaching pillar, golden eyes burning, the blood ape activated the supernatural power, ten thousand water dragons flew out, biting the Flood Dragon.

Facing the blood ape's golden eyes, a strong sense of weakness struck. The Flood Dragon circled the water pillar. A moment of carelessness, it was bitten by the water dragon, and a thousand followed, dragging the Flood Dragon into the bottom of the water, continuing to accept the water pillar's impact.

"Come again!"

The water pillar shook again, the blood ape let go and threw it, a completely different black dragon cut through space, rippling waves, squeezed into the water pillar, mixed in the white dragon group.

The Flood Dragon's pupils expanded and contracted, wanting to avoid, but unexpectedly, the waves around its body flashed from all directions at the same time, falling into a predicament, unable to move.

The black lines shook, and blood splashed.

"Little Water, it's hurt!" The Sea-Fang Master was pleasantly surprised.

Broken dragon scales mixed with dragon blood, scattered and floating, the Flood Dragon felt an unprecedented irritability in its heart. The dragon body swayed, breaking free from the ten thousand white dragons.

"Little Water!"

"I know."

The golden eyes in the water rapidly magnified. When it was about to face the Bai Yuan, the Flood Dragon was surprised to find that a light gray "mist" was floating around the Bai Yuan, spreading and polluting at high speed.

Water mist?

How can water mist be born in water?

Before the Flood Dragon could understand, the blood ape jumped out of the water mist, its fists wrapped in gray flow, as if wrapped in a layer of gauze, ethereal and flowing.

Where the gray water mist spread, the Flood Dragon's control over the external environment completely disappeared.

How is this possible?

The Bai Yuan's realm was far inferior to it, and its favor from heaven and earth was not as good as it, why could it not control the surrounding water environment, and even more could not suppress the Bai Yuan's shuttle supernatural power?

Thud!

The top of its forehead was heavy, the Flood Dragon's mind was beaten into a blank, and it flew out backward.

It curled its dragon body, huddled for defense, prepared to welcome the blood ape's storm, and pondered whether to summon the Southern Frontier avatar back, using the time difference to eliminate the opponent.

Unexpectedly, after one punch knocked the Flood Dragon back, the blood ape borrowed force to flip, escaped into the water flow, and suddenly disappeared from the Great Marsh.

Appeared again.

The Flood Dragon's face changed drastically.

"Iron-Headed Fish!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1168 =====