Chapter 1471

Blue, a vast expanse of blue.

The sound of the tide in the ears, cool water vapor in the nostrils, a sticky sensation on the body's surface, like clothes that won't dry in a damp plum rain season, clinging to the slightly sweating body, turning into a half-sticky, half-not sticky glue trap.

The thick fog spread and surged, sweeping across heaven and earth.

The entire blood-red heaven and earth was filled with terrifying humidity, so dense that the air had something to cling to, relying on the surging and slapping blood-thread worms on the ground, suddenly gaining a ladder to cling to, rising from the mist of the earth!

Zhang Longxiang stood up upon seeing this, sealed his five senses, guarded the Lion King on left and right, and blasted apart the insect tide.

"What is he doing?"

Ge Zu didn't understand Liang Qu's action, suddenly entering meditation in front of everyone, preparing to "break through in battle"—not succeeding. There really was a hint of unique aura, oppressive and striking.

"Position fruit, it's a position fruit promotion!" Shen Daguan stared wide-eyed.

"Position fruit promotion? What's going on?" Ge Zu slept a lot, but that didn't mean he was dull; having cultivated to this point, he naturally knew what position fruit promotion was.

Innately nurtured or externally obtained position fruits, unlike self-cultivated ones, must complete specific rituals to keep growing—he widened his eyes, staring at Liang Qu with tightly shut eyes.

Everyone had been locked up for over a month, and besides that, the only thing they did was exterminate the blood-thread worms, refine the essence of heaven and earth, with no other actions—how could they just promote a position fruit?

【Chang You Fruit】

【Authority: Hong Sha】

【Attribute: Disaster】

【Disaster brings prolonged rain, rivers and lakes overflow, Chang You stirs the three rivers to boil and surge.】

【Refinement Ritual: Swallow the River, Spit the River】

【Promotion Ritual: Lock the Waves, Calm the Vast Sea, Stabilize the Sea, Quell the Flood Waves, Subdue Water Disasters, Store Away the Hong Sha, to Pacify the Four Directions, thus eligible for promotion to the Governing Attribute Fruit Wu Fruit】

【Boundary Ritual: Chang You Fruit, He Yu Fruit, Hua She Fruit, Ying Fruit, gathering the Four Disasters, the Water Sovereign as King, enabling the Guidance of Light of the Hong Realm.】

Lock the Waves, Calm the Vast Sea!

Stabilize the Sea, Quell the Flood Waves!

Subdue Water Disasters, Store Away the Hong Sha, to Pacify the Four Directions.

Three years, three years of water control!

The first two and a half years Liang Qu managed water control, the latter half year the Old Dragon Lord managed it.

Rising early, retiring late, trembling with caution, diligent and conscientious, never shirking labor or resentment, passing his home three times without entering, how much effort poured in, rushing or delaying, exhausting all strength, finally, in over a month of exile in the Blood River Realm, he healed the Yellow Sand River, thoroughly completing the Chang You Promotion Ritual!

White mist spewed from his mouth and nose, tearing through the long wind; Liang Qu's emotions surged, and he longed to let out a long howl to the heavens, throwing his whole being into the sensation.

From mouth and nose, white mist exhaled, tearing through the long wind, Liang Qu's emotions surged, he wished to long cry to the heavens, fully immersing himself in sensation.

Inside the Lower Dantian, a pale blue stone monkey embryo manifested, gradually misting, the half-winding blood river in the small world within shuddered violently, rushing and flowing, threads of mist converging into Liang Qu's body.

The misting stone monkey began to swell, swelling with transformation, transformation in obscurity, obscurity in, soon sprouting eight heads, eight tails, eight agile beast feet!

The mist-formed, swollen mist beasts gradually retracted, becoming increasingly distinct——

The mist-swelling mist-beast gradually gathered, gradually becoming clear————

【Ze Ding Reflects Radiance————】

【32】【Water Sovereign Governs Clouds, Bestows Rain, Grants Grace—Wherever Seen, All Waters Under Heaven Are at Peace】

【Wu Guo】

【Wu Fruit】

【Authority: Water Zheng】

【Attribute: Govern】

【Virtue is Moisture, All Rivers Return to Flow, the Water Sovereign Emerges from the Four Seas in Peace.】

Atop the Ze Ding, the beast-faced Bai Yuan roared, and brilliant light burst forth!

On the Ze Ding, the beast-faced Bai Yuan roared, light blazing forth!

In the Sea of Awareness, a brilliant expanse of clarity—nothing could be seen clearly, nothing could be seen at all.

Everywhere was a blur of golden halo, Liang Qu narrowed his eyes, only seeing the bronze wall connecting heaven and earth, on which the Bai Yuan roared angrily, then light arose, a strange divine beast with flying hair stepped out from the cauldron.

A flash of spiritual light in his heart, he had an awakening.

Morning Sun Valley, the deity said Tian Wu, is the Water Sovereign, between the North and South Waters of Hong Hong. It is a beast, also, with eight human faces, eight feet and eight tails, all greenish-yellow!

The divine beast Tian Wu stood tall, eight heads gazing, eight tails swaying, mysterious and powerful, it suddenly like a fine horse, high-spirited, raising its upper body, four front hooves, heavily stamping down!

Howling and surging, the sky-covering, earth-covering blue tide submerged Liang Qu, wrapped around him, and rushed into his mouth and nose in a frantic scramble; the choking sensation of water, absent for who knew how long, made him cough uncontrollably.

Howling and galloping, the azure tide flooded heaven and earth, submerging Liang Qu, enveloping him, rushing frantically into mouth and nose, the long-lost sensation of choking on water made him unable to stop coughing.

Ge Zu, Su Wang, Shen Daguan and several others clearly saw Liang Qu continuously spitting out white water, like a drowning victim just rescued.

The mist-formed position fruit fully retracted, condensed, and fused into Liang Qu's body, and a ripple of gray mist light undulated across his entire form.

The misted position fruit fully gathered, condensed, merged into Liang Qu's body, his whole body rippling with a wave of gray mist light.

Ge Zu and Su Wang both felt that annoying damp stickiness vanish without trace.

"Done?" Shen Daguan swallowed saliva, both unable to make himself believe it, yet yearning to witness the miracle.

【Vertically Manifested Azure】

【Eight human faces, exhaling mist to lock the river, where the two waters converge, all enter its embrace】

【Tian Wu stands by the abyss, tiger-bodied and greenish-yellow, wherever it resides, the Hong Sha returns to it】

【Wu Fruit】

【Authority: Transformation Zheng】

【Attribute: Govern】

【Governance is to gather, dispersing flows return to the meridians, eight heads align weapons, the world moves in unison.】

【Refinement Ritual: Lie in the Mist Tide, Absorb the Sha for Use】

【Promotion Ritual: In Morning Sun Valley, Water Sovereign sits, eight heads gather clouds, two waters unite. To govern chaos with mist, to order chaos with chaos, thus eligible for promotion to the Governing Attribute Fruit Zhi Fruit】

【Boundary Ritual: Wu Fruit, Qing Nv Fruit, Ju Ling Fruit, gathering the Three Governances, jointly worshipping the Water Sovereign, enabling the Guidance of Light of the Cang Ming Realm.】

【61】 Light poured into the sea of consciousness, awakening understanding of the authority's function.

It changed.

Liang Qu's first reaction.

The first time the Favor reached Perfection, the hint obtained showed Wu Guo's Authority was clearly 【Water Zheng】, yet now, under 【Favor Manifestation】, it turned into 【Hua Zheng】!

What is the difference between 【Water Zheng】 and 【Hua Zheng】?

The 【Realm Ceremony】 didn't change much, the result of the 【Advancement Ceremony】 likewise didn't change, but the method of advancement is completely different!

"Eight heads chant the Canghai Mantra, eight feet tread the Reverse Flow Pass, dredge water channels, harmonize Yin and Yang, to control flood and drought." transformed into "In the Chaoyang Valley the Water Earl sits, eight heads gather clouds, two waters merge. With mist control chaos, with chaos establish order!"

Why?

Is it the Favor?

Wu Guo emerged, the change didn't stop, inside the Lower Dantian, the Root Sea surged once more.

Liang Qu halted his thoughts, introspected his own body.

Having undergone Yellow Mud Mother's reconstruction, nurtured by Heavenly Water Morning Dew, his Lower Dantian was long a piece of fertile soil, half-swamp form.

However, at this very moment, 【Hong Sha】 swept clean, 【Hua Zheng】 descended, the fertile soil actually dissolved like water, shedding disorder, transforming from half-swamp into flowing earth!

Earth spread out in all directions, Liang Qu struck while the iron was hot, he once again crushed the Qi mass accumulated for a month, the Root Sea's scale rapidly leaped two thousand four hundred times, sprinting toward two thousand five hundred, leaving all others in the dust.

Before departure, both for converting the Harvest and for transplanting the peach sapling, "Sha" turned to "Zheng", "Calamity" turned to "Governance", shedding the old and emerging anew, the tiny peach sapling took root in the earth, growing wildly.

A mere Middle Rank Fruit, perhaps wouldn't have this kind of effect.

But Water generates Wood!

Wu Guo appeared, discarding the dross and selecting the essence, turning calamity into blessing, one reduction one increase, the change even more violent, as if constructing for Liang Qu a thriving small cycle, driving the Root Sea — originally composed of Yin, Yang, Water, Wood, Xuan, Huang, Earth — to expand.

Vast pressure descended upon heaven and earth.

The Lion King strove to seal his five senses, unaware of what happened in the outside world, only feeling the pressure increase by several degrees, thinking it was the Bloodline Worm's dying counterattack, vigilant for a moment, sensing himself unharmed, he set his mind at ease, unmoved, condensing the filth of heaven and earth.

Zhang Longxiang single-mindedly protected the Lion King's Dao.

Shen Daming stared blankly, unable to stop himself from freezing.

"Succeeded————really succeeded————"

Rank Fruit Advancement!

The Rank Fruit Advancement he had pursued all his life, in a sudden, unheard-of, inconceivable way, abruptly appeared before his eyes.

"Why?" Shen Daming murmured.

He completely couldn't see, since everyone was exiled until now, what Liang Qu had done, that could make the Rank Fruit undergo metamorphosis.

Ge Zu's expression was inscrutable; possessing a Self-Cultivated Rank Fruit, he still had a path ahead, actually making it easier for him to accept than Shen Daming.

He likewise wanted to go up and ask Liang Qu what he did, whether a Small Rank Fruit advancing to a Middle Rank Fruit was the so-called method of trying to get out, but Ge Zu soon halted his steps.

Because he saw the little black fish jump out, Liang Qu took out a treasure box from the fish's mouth, emitting curling cold air.

Five fingers covered in frost.

Liang Qu opened the container, the aura of what it contained leaked slightly, in a moment the two thousand li Blood River steamed dry and withered, evaporated into thin air!

Fierce red baleful sha danced wildly, unstable.

But when Liang Qu reached out and grasped it, that ferocious drought sha was crazily suppressed.

"That is————" Ge Zu was entranced, scalp tingling.

Another Small Rank Fruit?

"Mei Fruit!" Shen Daming's voice was hoarse.

"Mei Fruit?" Ge Zu turned his head.

"Discovered in the Great Snow Mountain in the past, attempted to pluck it, unexpectedly Great Shun struck first and seized it, its destructive power among Small Rank Fruits is also first-rate, hard to surpass!" Shen Daming said bitterly, "Huai Wang this is———— one Advance one Refine?"

Ge Zu was speechless.

One Advance one Refine?

Self-Cultivation produces Great Rank Fruit, Universal Ascension to Middle Rank Fruit, Refining Small Rank Fruit, three kinds of Authorities!

"What kind of freak is this, could it be born bearing heaven and earth's fortune, to oppose Great Li's Taizu?"

Liang Qu grasped the Mei Fruit, normally his arm would have started cracking, peeling skin, but with Wu Guo's help, there wasn't the slightest effect.

【Ba Fruit】

【Authority: Drought Sha】

【Category: Calamity】

【Calamity is flood and drought, the world suffers famine, drought demon arises in the four fields causing disaster and injury.】

【Refining Ceremony: Live without water, die without stiffening】

【Advancement Ceremony: One night wind and thunder drive away the drought demon, only then know sweet rain comes from the human world, burn the drought demon, remove calamity sha, pray for sweet rain, can advance to Governance Category Rank Fruit — Qing Nv】

Live without water, die without stiffening!

The Mei Fruit's Refining Ceremony, as early as before his Jingzhe death to death-and-resurrection period, had already fully matched. Soul not eating not drinking, is living without water; Blood Sha divine ability manipulating corpses, active before people, is dying without stiffening. Thus should have completed once, and at that time the Rank Fruit was right beside him, right inside the Ze Ding.

Why at that time it didn't complete Refining, Liang Qu suspects because the Mei Fruit was gathered inside the Ze Ding, isolation too strong, later he specially crafted a container.

All Small Rank Fruits are Calamity, Refining all have side effects, previously there was Chang You, then there was Mei Fruit, adding frost to snow, fearing it would shrink the Root Sea, unfavorable for Tianyuan gestation, hence always hesitated.

Now————

Not only has the timing arrived, the soul is outside, likewise matching the Refining conditions, there is no more suitable node than today.

The red-gold small gourd held in the palm, fierce red light resonating with heaven and earth.

The Bloodline Worm tide surged, rolling and falling onto the dry riverbed.

Introspect own body.

The fluid-like Root Sea gradually dried up, slowly thickened, the Mei Fruit resonated with Liang Qu's Lower Dantian!

The dry pain in the palm lessened, the changes in the Lower Dantian intensified, vaguely an internal-external transposition occurred.

Liang Qu, having undergone the refinement of the Chang You Position Fruit, understood it with absolute clarity.

Refinement.

It was truly, unmistakably undergoing refinement!

Shen Da Xian stared fixedly at the transformation.

An unprecedented event.

Liang Qu closed his eyes to regulate his breath; after the Ru Shou and Wu Fruits, he could perceive yet another entirely new sensation gestating, growing within him.

In this way, he could advance to attack, retreat to defend.

The Calamity Realm lacked but a minor Position Fruit to win.

Willing to go all out, transforming into a Qing Nu, the Cang Ming Realm likewise lacked but a middle Position Fruit Giant Spirit.

Today, a complete metamorphosis!

【Can consume 10,000,000 Water Marsh Essence, transform Rectification Authority, causing Authority to return to transformation, converting into 50 points of Dominance】

【River Dominance: 49.9 (River Favorability: 55.9632)】!

【Marsh Spirit Promotion Conditions: Obtain 60 points River Dominance, 100 points River Favorability, completely fuse with Marsh Spirit Water Ape Great Sage (Deep Orange)】

Light brilliance flashed once more.

Without a doubt, Chang You's promotion was for this very moment.

If Liang Qu wished, he could promote to Marsh Spirit today.

But——

"Not now!"

Liang Qu dispersed the light brilliance.

Snakes and rats in the same nest, the Great Li Founding Ancestor and the Whale Emperor, opposed yet unified, both competition and cooperation; encountering a true crisis, they would surely unite.

Promoting to Marsh Spirit just like this, the accumulation is far from enough!

The Great Li Founding Ancestor, the Whale Emperor — both have soaked in the Furnace Realm for who knows how long; I got carried away with success and rushed in headlong, able to be imposing only for a moment.

If this causes them to feel I am beyond control, entering their attack range, tearing off all pretense to deal with me, the loss would outweigh the gain.

Silent until the moment, then a stunning debut!

Liang Qu not only wants to enter the Furnace, but to do so with an unprecedented posture sweeping through the ages, sweeping the universe!

If entering, then enter the most badass one!

He wants to be unmatched by ancients, unmatched by future generations!

The Wu Fruit is for Rectification, temporarily retained; it can both neutralize the Mei Fruit's side effects and assist in gestating the Heaven Origin.

Authority returning to transformation is but an instant's matter, no need to rush.

Already having a Position Fruit at his side, he must wait for the right moment to act!

The Bloodline Worm tide gathered once more, spreading upward; Liang Qu split off a portion of his mind, urged the Dragon Tiger Golden Body, and chopped out another Severing Jiao strike, continuing to wear them down.

The scorching heat dissipated, the autumn wind gradually cooled.

"Relax, relax, all you big bosses, big boss says everything is fully under control." The Third Prince extended a dragon claw, curling two sharp claws into a circle, soothing the crowd.

"It's already been two months——" the Tusi worried.

"Heh, just two months, didn't Ge Ancestor sleep for decades at a time?" The Third Prince waved a hand, then suddenly his tail flicked, "Wait, incoming call, incoming call!"

"Saying what?"

"Mm, operation commencing!"

The earth turned dark yellow, the blood red in heaven and earth vanished without a trace, the land cracked like tortoise shells, everyone landed on the ground, the last remnants of bloodline worms gathered, attacking with an instinctive malice toward life.

——

Black gold interwove.

Dragon Fubo chopped down, lines severed.

A drop of blood-colored red light fell out.

Dark blood smoke rose upward.

The Lion King's face was ashen, blood gurgled from both eyes and ears, a mass of sticky blackish-red mud coalesced in midair, writhing and struggling, emitting irregular eerie ripples; one glance nearly plunged one into bewilderment, countless chaotic memories crashing into idiocy.

"Huai King! How is it?"

"Is the way out relying on Huai King's middle Position Fruit?"

"What is the middle Position Fruit's function?"

Everyone rushed to ask.

Liang Qu took a deep breath, clenched his fists.

Two thousand six hundred thirty-two times the fertile soil root sea vast and boundless, Position Fruit promotion brought a one hundred fifty-fold surge, the harvest sufficient to rank in the top three.

Wu Fruit, Mei Fruit positive and negative effects mutually cancel; though they brought no benefit, neither did the side effect of root sea cracking appear, the blue light of Heaven Water Morning Dew still persists!

"One Wu Fruit is like this; if another Qing Nu could be added, removing harm retaining benefit, dual approach, Heaven Origin growth, twelfth stage, could it——"

Liang Qu's bold idea grew ever clearer, yet he dared not think further, fearing his hair would stand on end; hearing everyone's words, he broke from his thoughts: "The method does not rely on my middle Position Fruit."

"Then—— the Mei Fruit?"

"Also not the Mei Fruit." Liang Qu explained while releasing the Chuan Nation, torrents surging wildly, covering heaven and earth, "However, it's not that I can't tell everyone my Position Fruit's function, so when we fight later we'll have a clear picture."

"What?"

The cracked yellow earth slowly expanded, healed; everyone treaded water floating upward.

"My Position Fruit Authority is Transformation, able to reverse the nature of things, like water turning to mist, making all structures clear and distinct, opening them up, categorizing them, thus extracting the filth within, conducting a more fundamental healing."

"Wouldn't that be comparable to the Dragon Elephant King then?" Ge Ancestor asked.

Even inferior.

Ge Zu thought to himself.

Long Xiang Wang's healing was far more simple and brutal — as long as one wasn't dead, he could pull them back, and he happened to be able to guarantee they wouldn't die. Liang Qu's sounded troublesome, not to mention the effect might not be that good.

"No." Liang Qu shook his head. "Long Xiang Wang can only devour external injuries; I can turn fruit into saplings, turn life from water into mist. Forget it, let me give an example: a land suffers a calamity, causing a youth to develop poorly from childhood; even if his son later has comprehensive nutrition, this influence will still persist until his grandson before it completely disappears — yet I can make this influence directly withdraw!"

Everyone understood somewhat, yet not fully, still seeming to half-understand.

Liang Qu shook his head, not explaining further.

Boom!

In a few words, everyone had already stepped on the water surface to reach the highest point, seeing the water level continue to rise astonishingly; under the effect of this special heaven and earth, they directly reversed direction, arriving at the world's lowest point, rising anew from the water bottom.

Everyone was completely submerged, unable to understand where Liang Qu had stored so much floodwater.

"What exactly is Huai Wang's method?" Su Wang asked.

"Assimilate this heaven and earth!" Liang Qu's golden eyes ignited.

Light and color swirled in mist.

The Yinglong Killing Scripture recovered, gaining the blessing of the Creation Art, ten layers of Yinglong's favor, the Heavenly Pass and Earthly Axis operating at maximum.

What Liang Qu wanted to do was not use Chuan State to burst this shed Underworld fragment, this half-independent small heaven and earth — the possibility was unlikely.

He wanted to ————

Water flow order in all directions fell into complete chaos, power continuously colliding, continuously expanding, yet Chuan State's water still had not been fully released.

Swallow Heaven, Accept Earth!

What cannot kill him will ultimately make him even stronger.

The world's colors changed; Liang Qu guided this color, continuously adjusting this chaotic, independent half-world, and finally, the small world and Chuan State completely overlapped!

Not enough!

"Short one opportunity!"

Liang Qu pondered a moment, complying with Heaven-Man Unity, and with a backhand motion took out a ball of red light.

Essence of Heaven and Earth!

Transform to Righteousness!

Wu Guo authority activated, the Essence of Heaven and Earth underwent change!