Chapter 1167: First Lightning

Splash.

Water overflows when full, dark waves swirl.

Ten thousand hectares of floodwater splashed out, crashing into the Huai River, thunder rolling.

Extending his index finger to block the ant's path, the child with a runny nose raised his head.

Under the eaves, the swallow nests returning north were empty. Crows, orioles, and ducks in the pond all called out, mixed with the barking of neighboring dogs.

Green moss spread quietly at the corner of the wall. There were not many guests drinking tea in the teahouse on a rainy day, but there were always one or two with leisure and elegance who liked 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 more noisy, more disordered, more terrifying sound, like... the ground was trembling.

The shop owner held the pole, stiffly standing 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 whip, and the whip tip snapped the black snake that rushed out of the cross street.

The spring cold was biting, the snake woke up from hibernation, its movements were 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 the ground, 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 chaotically, 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 like being startled, drilling out of the ground.

Chickens flew, dogs barked, mice were smart and ran away first.

Earth dragon turning over?

The cavalryman was surprised that Southern Zhili would also have an earth dragon turning over. This was mostly something that would happen in the Northwest.

"Clang."

The foot shop sign fell to the ground, splashing mud. Squinting, the cavalryman saw the shop owner standing with his back to him, looking up, half of his foot stepped into the puddle, and he turned his head back.

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

The forest birds flew away, and the light rippled.

"Patter."

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

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

That is...

What is it!?

Circling the water column, the wing tips and feathers tore through the thin clouds, the flying birds made a curve, crashed into the water column, 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 light was magnificent, fish schools swam inside, gathering into another lake in the sky. The sky and the ground were calm and windless at the same time, the water waves were not rising, forming two silver mirrors that were clean and new, reflecting the objects, beautiful and magnificent.

Half a canine tooth was missing.

The White Ape 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 amazing.

The ability to control water was unparalleled.

The Flood Dragon gradually believed that the White Ape 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 some conditions 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 great but not threatening, thick but not sharp.

For mortals, it was the majestic heavenly power, for the strong, it was just a breeze on the face. Smashing it all down was no different from taking a bath.

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

In the Ze Tripod, 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 Ze Essence: 1421】

Eight spirit fish lay in the dry Ze Tripod and jumped.

This was the eighty thousand balance of one thousand great merits.

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

【River governance degree: 0.6】

Lifting the water column added 0.1.

Not enough.

Not enough.

Overturn the river and overturn the sea...

Still not enough!

"AH.!! MOVE!!!"

Roar, roar, roar again.

The White Ape hugged its arms tightly, shaking the pillar crazily.

The skin on its arms cracked, the muscles on its back split open, strands of fresh blood flowed and stained the white hair, the Sea-Hai Fangzhu assisted with all her strength, repairing.

Boom!

The water column trembled.

It seemed the White Ape couldn't hold it up, kneeling on one knee.

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

What is this monkey doing?

Digging its own grave?

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

The White Ape knelt in the void, the water column was unstable, tilting diagonally.

Without hesitation, the Flood Dragon flicked its tail, dodging to the side, outside the pillar tip. Unexpectedly, the water column fell, didn't smash down, slowly changed direction, and chased it.

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

Golden eyes expanded, the Flood Dragon suddenly lowered its head, staring at the ant shouting hoarsely under the "pen holder".

The White Ape was bathed in fresh blood, roaring non-stop, noisily making the dragon feel annoyed.

But it pulled it.

Pulled the falling water column, borrowed the inertia of the tilt, pulled up backward, the whole ape leaned back with all its strength, the lumbar spine was almost folded in half, making people worry whether that dragon bone would break.

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

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

Rumble...

Horse 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 shop owner picking the sign at the door.

No one knew where the water column grew from, growing to where everyone could see.

Looking very close, actually very far.

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

If it had to be compared, it must be "Heavenly image covers the bamboo hat, Earth method covers the plate", the "North Pole Xuanji" with a height of sixty thousand miles and a diameter of twenty-three thousand miles.

But the cavalryman knew that under the water column must be the Jianghuai Great Marsh.

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

Thousands of miles? Ten thousand miles?

What kind of person, what kind of means, what kind of purpose could stand a sky-reaching water column in the Jianghuai Great Marsh, standing so clearly visible to the capital of Southern Zhili!?

Light rippled, breaking through the dark clouds.

The water column trembled suddenly, and water foam like a waterfall fell around, collapsing and rushing down.

The next moment.

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

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

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

Dark clouds stirred, thunder gathered, gales entangled.

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

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

Strange and great power, shocking and terrifying.

"Your Majesty..."

Electricity is the light of Yang. If Yang Qi is slight, the light is not seen. Yang is prosperous and wants to reach but is suppressed by Yin. Its light is emitted, so it is called the first lightning.

"AH!!!"

Tooth blood seeped out of the gums.

In the lead-gray clouds, white light was continuous, 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 the face, the smooth silver mirror was broken, dragon shadows and ape shadows shattered, and waves rose in the sky and on the earth.

The villagers swarmed, 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, the gale came again.

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

The ancestral hall was crowded, and people couldn't stand.

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

【River governance degree: 0.8】

Boom!

The "pen holder" pressed for the third time, the White Ape turned into a Blood Ape again.

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

The Iron-Headed Fish was shocked, circling the Dragon Palace, dust rose everywhere.

Dragon-man tribe land, three elders, Long Long Eying, Long Long Binglin, Long Long Yanrui, Ao Qingtian tore apart their snake bodies, retreated the enemy, 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, and bullied up.

"Little Water!"

"Flash away, let it bite!"

The poisonous fangs pierced the Vortex God Armor. While the Sea-Hai Fangzhu was entangled, she wriggled her flesh to avoid the sharp fangs, watching the Flood Dragon bite through the "water shell", penetrate the White Ape's shoulder and neck, and spray venom.

Looking at each other sideways.

Golden eyes against golden eyes, fierce against fierce.

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

Under the divine might, the Flood Dragon's entanglement was irrelevant.

No pain, no itch, no pain, no itch!

The Blood Ape protruded its canine teeth, tore open the arm wound, pulled out the blood vessels, drank the dark red blood, swallowed the snake poison.

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 fire, the pain was unbearable, the gums were all corroded, scarlet and bleeding, and the remaining teeth were crumbling.

【Water Ze Essence +6017】

【Water Ze Essence +6498】

【Water Ze Essence +7123】

【Water Ze Essence:】!

A 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 was 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 and bit the Flood Dragon, bit out dragon blood, ground its teeth and sucked blood, ate its meat raw, and then flicked the water column.

【Water Ze Essence +137】

【Water Ze 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 gloomy clouds disappeared, and the universe was clear.

"Amitabha."

The old monk looked out from the mountaintop and prayed with folded hands.

Behind him, a group of river otters sat cross-legged, holding a wooden fish, wearing yellow robes, and imitating him.

【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 advance to seize the supreme domain of the Huai Vortex Water Lord—Ze Country Pseudo-Small!】

"OPEN!"

Open? Open what?

The Flood Dragon intended to disintegrate the White Ape, but under the divine might, it was weak and powerless all over. Except for the venom which had lethality, relying only on physical brute force, it couldn't pull the tough Blood Ape at all.

【Water Ze Essence: 13】

【River governance degree: 0】

In the Qi Sea, three immortal islands above the clouds suddenly produced smoke. From the center of the triangle, a jade-white gate was built.

"Looking at the Heavenly Pass from the side, the pavilion road is even more distant. The unity of heaven and man, reaching the sky and cutting off the earth, rounding into one, the pass that exhausts the body and spirit to break through is the Heavenly Pass. It is the pass of breaking the circle, the pass of breaking 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-fold Heavenly Pass of blood, flesh, bone, skin, and tendon, and five great demons gushed out. 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 Country... is it a Heavenly Pass?"

The White Ape stood in front of the jade gate.

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

"Why is it so high?"

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

Bang!

The White Ape 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 golden eyes lit up.

In the Vortex Palace, the vortex water and essence water were drained, the water beasts were forced to shrink into a ball, the fat catfish that was kicked and punched 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 Ze Country Pseudo-Small】

A dream of yellow millet.

Open eyes, see dragon horns again.

Swish!

The aura surged and exploded, 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 White Ape, at least three times. In Jianghuai, it could completely suppress its shuttle ability, it was absolutely impossible to escape, and what was the aura that just rose?

Suddenly.

Felt something in its heart.

The Flood Dragon looked up at the sky.

Sunny day, pleasant breeze, just judging by the weather, today was absolutely a good day for fishing—if you didn't look at the water column 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 column, hugged the pillar body with its arms, cast a cross shadow on the dragon head, the Sea-Hai Fangzhu wriggled her flesh, filling and repairing the throat that had been completely corroded by the venom.

The sun was dazzling, the shadow was gloomy.

Only the molten golden eyes were clear and bright.

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

Splash!

Clouds and mist pushed aside, opening the curtain.

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

Roaring and spitting out visceral fragments, the White Ape took a bow step, hugged 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 down straight!

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

The river wind howled, the turbid flow emptied.

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 met it head-on.

Boom!

The water column sank into the Great Marsh.

The sky and the earth floated silver mirrors again, the two sides fitted together, seamless.

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

The Blood Ape reached out, stretched, climbed with a few jumps, flashed to the end of the sky-reaching pillar, muscles knotted, and pushed violently.

Boom, boom, boom.

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

In the center of the Great Marsh, the sound waves were monstrous, wave after wave of torrents, spreading and splashing.

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

"DIE!!"

Boom!

The sky-reaching pillar in his hand shook violently, the giant force numbed his palms, almost overturning the Blood Ape. Liang Qu stabilized his figure, applied pressure again to nail the Flood Dragon, and suddenly saw two points of golden light constantly enlarging.

Flood Dragon!

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

Hugging the sky-reaching pillar, golden eyes burning, the Blood Ape activated its 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, and by a mistake, was bitten by the water dragon. Thousands followed suit, dragging the Flood Dragon into the bottom of the water, continuing to accept the water column's collapse.

"Come again!"

The water column shook again, the Blood Ape let go and threw it, a completely different black dragon cut through space, rippling ripples, squeezed into the water column, mixed in the white dragon group.

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

Black lines shook, fresh blood splashed.

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

Broken dragon scales mixed with dragon blood, scattered and floating, the Flood Dragon's heart surged with unprecedented irritability, the dragon body shook, broke free from the ten thousand white dragons.

"Little Water!"

"I know."

The golden eyes in the water rapidly enlarged. When it was about to face the White Ape, the Flood Dragon was surprised to find that the pale gray "mist" scattered around the White Ape, spreading and polluting rapidly.

Water mist?

How can water mist be born in water?

Before the Flood Dragon could think clearly, 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 White Ape'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 could not suppress the White Ape's shuttle ability?

Bang!

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

It curled up its dragon body, hugged itself for defense, prepared to welcome the Blood Ape's storm, and thought about whether to summon the Southern Frontier clone back, borrowing the time difference to eliminate the opponent.

Unexpectedly, after one punch repelled the Flood Dragon, 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 =====