Chapter 1369

The Yellow Shahe River surged eastward, crashing into the riverbank, reefs, and sand, altering its course as the waters collided and swirled, sending up white spray that carried away a layer of murky silt, then, driven by the great momentum of heaven and earth, continued eastward, rushing into the sea.

However.

A thick finger pointed forward.

The mighty eastward flow of the river instantly collapsed; all the water seemed to gain its own will and direction, flowing chaotically and aimlessly, each strand desperately colliding with others, the river's current resembling a pot of boiling water, countless large fish crammed into a tiny pond, thrashing and fighting for food.

Tiny sounds gathered into one place, becoming thunder.

"Did it succeed? This is the power of authority. Strange—I can't see anything impressive about it; the water isn't even boiling—"

Lan Jicai stared wide-eyed, meticulously recording it, then continued letting his imagination run wild, unable to suppress his speculation and questions.

What kind of authority is this?

And what is the corresponding promotion and lineage?

Could Liang Qu also use this authority through a special possession link?

Fish and shrimp in the water tumbled onto the riverbed, struggling uselessly.

The Yellow Shahe River water surging westward kept flowing forward, pouring into this boiling pot, its motion becoming utterly disordered.

The boiling water at the eastern edge was already directionless—flowing east, west, south, north—as it departed, more returned; the incoming never ceased, the outgoing rarely made it east, like a funnel easy to enter but hard to exit, the water level rising ever higher.

Without water control, without building dikes, the Yellow Shahe River had already stalled; the originally slowly rising downstream water level now sank again.

"We can go deeper."

Bai Yuan further manipulated the authority—with just a thought, an idea, as natural as chest rising and falling with breath, as effortless as reaching for a teacup.

The chaotic water flow was split finer and finer, then collided again, utterly transformed into a waterfall-like grand scene, the sound swelling once more.

Water droplets leapt, endless moist vapor rose upward, spraying the face, while mud and sand followed, dust flying as well, choking mouths and noses.

Long Yao, Long Li, and the Third Prince covered their mouths and noses, retreating outward.

Long Chen and Long Zong Yin felt nothing, only growing more excited, even breathing heavily, taking in several extra breaths.

"No, not just that."

Bai Yuan closed his eyes, raised his hand, and seized—a handful of long-rusted weapons appeared; who knows how many years ago, soldiers crossing the river sank into it, buried alongside their rotting corpses in the Yellow Shahe Riverbed, similar ironware countless in number.

"Crack crack crack."

Fractures spread instantly, the rusted iron shattering on the spot into small fragments.

Bai Yuan frowned, his large hands patting and gathering, enclosing this pile of iron fragments.

Bang bang bang.

The small pieces shattered into even finer iron filings, some swept away by the water through the gaps between his fingers.

"Wrong, wrong."

The Flood Evil authority is like moving one's arm with a finger—just as a child born into the world first cries, then learns to crawl, then to walk.

Under Liang Qu's constant control, exploration, and forging, let this chaos be used at a deeper level.

"Rumble rumble rumble."

The river water boiled and surged, violent white steam rising from Bai Yuan's palm, continuously drifting away.

Liang Qu rejoiced, slightly pulling back a gap to peer inside—originally shattered into powder, the iron filings had actually become a mass emitting dazzling red light: molten iron.

The rusted iron filings had melted!

The utmost fine "chaos" caused the molten iron in his palm to no longer be affected by gravity, suspended in midair, then bombarded by disordered steam, its shape endlessly approaching a "sphere."

Withdrawing the authority, the water washed over it; the iron ball cooled rapidly, darkened, continuously emitting white smoke.

Finally, a completely smooth, mirror-like iron ball spun! Its curved spherical surface clearly reflected the golden eyes.

"Hey! So this is 'Flood Evil'? What a great surprise."

Bai Yuan smiled, nearly forgetting those waiting outside, utterly immersed in this manipulation of heavenly and earthly authority, rapidly mastering and exploring, his understanding of the Changyou Position Fruit growing swiftly.

It's somewhat like the talent 【Turbulent Flow】—before, Liang Qu called it a flush toilet; when the water turns chaotic, the fish inside float as if in midair, with nothing to cling to, naturally unable to swim, only able to crash to the ground. But upon reaching Wu Sheng, everyone can move through emptiness, so this trick becomes useless; below Wu Sheng, one breath can kill them; above Wu Sheng, turbulent flow becomes even easier to walk, reducing water resistance. In the end, it's only used to add bubbles to drinks, turning them into soda.

I never expected the Changyou Position Fruit, Flood Evil authority, to involve "chaos"—this thing far surpasses mere flood and brute strength.

In theory, Liang Qu could use the previous method to melt any material.

I just don't know—when applied to a Wu Sheng's body, how much effect would remain?

The cultivation of the Four Gates and Seven Ways essentially means growth of the "root"; the stronger one's own root, the weaker the relative external influence, incomparable to controlling ordinary water or ironware—but certainly not weak.

Martial arts techniques, divine powers of creation, heavenly and earthly authority.

Authority stands upon divine power!

"Too bad—I've grown stronger, but my methods have become singular."

Liang Qu turned his gaze inward, brows furrowing, secretly worried.

Chaos!

Disorder, confusion, a tangled mess.

The Changyou Position Fruit made his already difficult self-cultivation situation even harder; the cracked root sea shattered into soil dust, as if dried for thousands of years, semi-desertified—were it not for the old monk sending three relics, the situation would be truly dire.

The majestic Dragon Isle Xiandao also shattered into countless fragments. Dragon Tiger Golden Body, Slay Flood, Responding Dragon Killing Classic—Liang Qu's own divine powers became a mess, completely incomprehensible; even Bai Yuan's divine powers now pose some difficulty.

The side effects of refining the Position Fruit—whether they can be recovered in the future remain unknown.

"Could it be that as long as I master the Flood Evil authority, I must always be like this?"

"Without the Xiandao, how can I cultivate in the temple?"

The embryonic form of the Position Fruit has already appeared; I no longer need to cling to the third-stage line, can pour resources into advancing realms—but alas, the Xiandao is gone.

"Without the Dragon Tiger Golden Body, how will my happy life with Eying proceed? The double-moon flower-bird frame bed will be scrapped? Pah—I still have True Gang to sustain me; no, the Golden Body can still be used, can still be projected outward."

The Xiandao's collapse doesn't mean Golden Body is unusable—just that what emerges is no longer divine power.

Back when Liang Qu rode horses while cultivating Golden Body, during beacon fires he could slay flood dragons—but these were not divine powers, merely "techniques" cultivated, belonging to "martial arts."

Divine powers and the arts of creation are products of qualitative change—one is heavenly, one earthly; one transforms decay into marvel, the other merely compares strength in martial arts.

"Wait, Ashui, what are you thinking? Is now the time to think about this? You originally were supposed to conserve your energy and not act—controlling the water is the most important thing."

Liang Qu slapped his thigh, gathered his scattered thoughts, immediately released his perception, and the range of water control spread all the way, following the Shahe River, aided by the long-shaped flood state, greatly expanding his control distance!

Fortunately.

"Controlling water is me binding water to scour the riverbed; the ability to control water is innate, not a divine power, and moreover, combined with the flood authority, it's actually more convenient—it can break down the riverbed, making scouring easier, and there's the change of the marsh state—has it become the flood state?"

The marsh state turned into the flood state, changing from spherical to a long, strip-like shape like a river; Liang Qu temporarily didn't feel much difference.

It seems within the flood state, authority control is stronger? His water control range also became rectangular, no longer square, area reduced, but reach increased.

"The water control range becoming strip-shaped is also good—it perfectly overlaps with the Shahe River, water control perception becomes longitudinal, speeding up water control——"

Liang Qu felt slightly relieved.

Governing the Shahe River, making Changyou successfully advance to Wu Fruit, gaining forty points of ruling degree out of thin air is his fundamental purpose.

Although refining Changyou has drawbacks, those drawbacks don't affect water control at all—in fact, the effects are all good, increasing his confidence in subsequent water control.

Muddy water surged in circulation, vortices spread, unfurled, pulling the precious fish in the Shahe River one by one to his side, while continuing to gently calm the water flow.

"Do all martial saints who refine the minor position fruit suffer some negative influence?"

Liang Qu rubbed his chin.

Based on the information obtained from the Ze Ding, position fruits come in three attributes: disaster, governance, and control.

Disaster attributes are all minor position fruits—lust fruit, victory fruit, flying fruit, harmony fruit, Changyou fruit, combined victory fruit, transformed snake fruit, and so on—all are like this.

Governance attributes are all middle position fruits—Qingnv, Wu Fruit, Fengyi appear to be as well.

I'm not sure if control attributes are all major position fruits—after all, only Huai Jun and Yu Jun exist.

Why are all minor position fruits 【Disaster】?

Disaster isn't a good word—it makes one think of destruction and ruin; lust fruit and Changyou have verified this fact—destruction even affects the person themselves, like the legendary drought demon, resembling a desiccated corpse?

And corresponding to 【Disaster】, 【Governance】—just hearing it sounds good and peaceful.

It's normal that creation is higher than destruction—destruction has always been easy, creation difficult.

【Control】 I haven't encountered—is it a synthesis of both, greatly elevated, a state where I can create and destroy at will?

"There really is an influence—will this influence affect the furnace, so the furnace won't easily refine minor position fruits? Not quite right—Great Shun Immortal didn't refine it either, holding Changyou in hand, the turbulent flow disappeared—is it suppression or a special method?

Is my immortal island's recovery possibly linked to Changyou's advancement to Wu Fruit? Advancement success, natural restoration?

Hiss——good thing I refined the first position fruit as Changyou, not lust fruit!"

Thinking this through, Liang Qu broke out in a cold sweat.

Changyou's chaos is disruption, not taking advantage amid chaos, its "quality" hasn't decreased much—whereas lust fruit is drought; if I had refined lust fruit first, my self-nurtured position fruit would likely be more ominous than auspicious!

Refining lust fruit at least requires after the immortal pill.

Lan Jicai's slow work has its own benefits.

Finally——

"Can the position fruit refined into authority be changed back into ruling degree?"

Bai Yuan sat cross-legged at the water bottom, his heart rose to his throat—he now even dares not communicate with the Ze Ding.

If only unrefined position fruits can be returned, then he's purely like an old longevity star hanging himself—his plan went terribly wrong; to fill the ruling vacancy, he must find a way to capture a young dragon, revive it, refine lust fruit, then kill the martial saint with minor position fruits, take back Qingnv—difficulty so high, just thinking about it is suffocating.

Deep breath.

"Cut across with one blade—if the head falls, a bowl-sized scar! Worst case, just start over."

Communicating with the Ze Ding, blue tides rise and fall.

【Ding Master: Liang Qu】

【Refined Ze Ling: Water Monkey Great Sage (Deep Orange)】

【Authority: Flood Evil】

【Ze Ling Favors: ——】

The "boiling" scene disappeared, the dropping water level rose again.

The severed Shahe River reconnected with storage.

"Is it coming out?"

Lan Jicai held his breath, stared unblinking—truly more tense than the dragon people Long Eying and Dragon Sect Yin in the crowd; dragon people merely await the Water Sovereign's strength to grow again, he hopes to see the hope of the present era's first rainbow transformation.

Southern Holy Carriage, Zhang Longxiang embraced arms, facing north; Jianghuai Long Gong, tiger shark, swordfish, cuttlefish, seahorse,

turtle————various water beasts holding two precious fish each, arrived at the Long Gong square to queue and wait.

Peng Ze, Elemental General Zuo Si, left and right pondered, painstakingly thought, gritted his teeth, plucked a longevity treasure from Longevity Mountain.

Capital City.

Great Cauldron furnace fire Xiong Xiong, a liquid golden core flowed unevenly, slowly forming.

East Sea, North Sea, South Sea————

"Hehehe, summer lotus leaves large and round, lotus seeds fragrant and sweet, precious fish swimming inside—extend a flipper, catch one; extend two flippers, catch two—can't ever finish eating, la la la————"

The fat fish puffed its belly, sang the frog-frog song, waist bulging rhythmically, let out a satisfied burp from the sea mouth back.

The Shahe River surface completely calm, muddy water surged, sky due to water vapor evaporation, dark clouds covered the top, heavy rain fell, the river full of misty water flowers.

【Can consume ten million water marsh essence, flood evil authority, to make authority return, transforming into ten points ruling degree】

【Water marsh essence: thirty-eight million six hundred seventy-five thousand】

【River ruling degree: 12.4 (river favor degree: 92.0499)】

"Huu——"

Boom—

Branching lightning tore open the dark clouds, like an ancient tree growing toward the sky, simultaneously a huge water blister rose from the Shahe River surface and burst open.

The sound of breaking water mixed with the heavenly thunder—no one could tell them apart, only catching a flash of light and shadow from the corner of the eye.

"He's out!" Liang Qu shouted.

Everyone looked up in unison.

The dazzling electric light coated the massive figure with a layer of brilliant silver radiance, the heavens and earth dimmed, golden eyes blazing, that halo more piercing and majestic than the sun, like a charging wild boar, straight into the heart!

Long hair flowing, canine teeth bared.

Molten rock flowed in the golden eyes, muscles bulged in chunks, veins coiled, the breath exhaled from the nostrils tore apart water vapor, turning it into white mist.

Majestic!

Sacred!

Boundless pressure loomed overhead, mountains rose from flat ground, great rivers stretched across the wilderness.

The venerable Tianrenda Sect master, Su Longshan almost felt unable to breathe, couldn't help but prostrate, this pressure surpassed Liang Qu, was more domineering than the Mountain King.

Is this the true top demon king?

No, it's the top demon king plus a position fruit!

Below immortals, below demon emperors!

Golden eyes swept around, radiant and majestic.

Long Chen, Long Zong Yin, Long Binglin, Long Eying, Long Yanrui, Qian Bingyi, Su Guishan, Liang Qu, Xu Yue Long, Ran Bi Shi, Nan Si, Third Prince——

Known or unknown, close or distant.

All people and beasts gathered here.

Bai Yuan grinned, canine teeth sharp, it raised its right hand, pressed against the heavens, and with a mighty grasp, as if shattering a piece of tofu on a cliff, tore open the firmament.

Countless water vapors condensed into a sheet, crashing down to the earth.

Trickling streams flowed into the sand blessing, converging into scattered waterfalls, broken sunlight shone through the cracks, leaden gray clouds vanished instantly, clear skies for ten thousand miles.

Long Zong Yin saw Bai Yuan's raised mouth corner, saw the exaltation in aura, his heart surged, blood vessels strained, he could no longer restrain himself.

"Congratulations, Water Lord, on leaving seclusion!"

"Congratulations, Ape King, on leaving seclusion!"

In an instant, the Dragon people, turtle-claw fish, mountain pigs knelt on one knee with clattering sounds, officials of He Posuo bowed in unison.

"Wuhu!" The Third Prince shook his head, flung his chest, extended his dragon claws, clung to the white ape and swiftly circled, "Cultivation and combat, great success! Water Lord, myriad standings!"

Bai Yuan laughed loudly to the sky.

Raising a hand, a clear sound rang out.

One after another, large treasure fish flew from the yellow sand, flowing and spreading.

Golden scales, silver scales, red scales, deer bladders, ox bladders, unicorn——treasure aura radiated.

"Grand Elder, have these treasure fish stewed, regardless of strength, let all share! Today this king refines the position fruit, joy to be shared with all!"

"Thank you, Water Lord!"

"Thank you, Ape King!"

Cheers shook the heavens.

By the yellow sand, pots boiled rice, joy permeated.

Bai Yuan vanished in a flash, wind and lightning, returning to the Long Gong.

Air currents fluttered, flowing along the white hair, revealing the true form.

Various envoys raised the great hall, respectfully waiting, suddenly saw a shadow above, the Beggar King bowed down, shouting Ape King, yet was pulled up by the water flow.

Bai Yuan sat high on a hundred-zhang throne.

"Tell the Whale King elder brother and all worthy younger brothers, thanks for today's selection rite, leaving seclusion in haste, after I finish this matter, I will surely set a feast in the Long Gong to entertain the turtle faction!"

The news surged like a flood, exploded with a boom, flowed across the world, rushing and sweeping to every corner.

The position fruit emerged and was refined, in half a month alone!

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