Chapter 211

One point of favorability, what exactly is the difference?

Liang Qu jumped into the water with anticipation, not expecting that he wouldn't experience the benefits; as soon as he entered the water, a feeling of unease that made him uncomfortable surged into his heart.

It was as if someone was pressing a fine needle against the center of his brow, bringing a trace of strange stinging pain.

What's the situation?

How could he get favorability, and yet the entire Jianghuai River felt malicious toward him?

Liang Qu stepped on the water surface and returned to the boat, and the needle-pricking sensation at the center of his brow dissipated.

Entering the water again, it was there.

He was a bit confused, looked at the fat catfish and Cannot Move and other beasts beside him, and asked them if they felt the same malice in the water and had any uncomfortable feelings.

The beasts looked at each other and shook their heads.

Only the fat catfish raised its body, patted its side waist where it had just been kicked by Cannot Move and left some claw marks, signaling that it was uncomfortable there.

Liang Qu resisted the urge to give it another kick.

Communicating with the Ze Ding in his sea of consciousness.

【Tripod Master: Liang Qu】

【Refining Refined Ze Ling: Ze Rong (Cyan) (Fusion Degree: 28.5%)】

【Refined Ze Ling's Favor: Martial Path Divine Power First Layer (River Lord Emperor); Ying Dragon Pattern: One Layer; Tian Wu: One Layer】

【Innate Skills: Water Leap, Water Breathing, Water Prison, Riding the Waves, Deterrence】

【Water Ze Essence: 2,500 points】

【River Favorability: 1.0001】

He hadn't misread it.

The favorability was just over one point, a positive number, not a negative one.

Where exactly did the malice come from?

Liang Qu frowned.

All along, he had had guesses about favorability; it was called favorability, but it was more like a type of permission.

Whenever favorability increased, his relationship with the Jianghuai River became closer, as if the Jianghuai River was opening its arms to him, and both water control and movement became easier and more relaxed.

This was something he had tested repeatedly, and Liang Qu even suspected that favorability could improve his good luck in the water.

It made no sense for favorability to increase and yet turn into malice toward him.

Unless the malice didn't come from the Jianghuai River...

Then who else could it be?

Liang Qu suddenly thought of the undercurrent that could move freely between the deep and shallow water areas.

The Demon Court from a long time ago seemed to also have a certain degree of control over the Jianghuai River.

At that time, the True Dragon was still there, but now...

Is it that flood dragon?

The more Liang Qu thought about it, the more he felt it was possible.

An existence that could make him feel malice in the dark was extraordinary, so he naturally had to look at a few targets with high combat power.

Currently, in the entire great lake, the strongest on the surface was that flood dragon; perhaps only it had the ability to make someone feel malice as soon as they entered the water.

Was he being targeted by the flood dragon? Why?

Liang Qu found it inconceivable.

The birth of a conflict must involve interest issues; when had he infringed on the flood dragon's interests?

Could it also obtain favorability?

Or did his favorability affect something else of it?

He had always been in the water; could the flood dragon sense his position?

Liang Qu paced back and forth on the bow of the boat.

The entire great lake was almost his treasure house; relying on this treasure house, Liang Qu had almost never been short of resources for cultivation.

A general's success is built on ten thousand bones; how could it be so easy to climb from the bottom?

Others worked hard to do tasks, save money, buy elixirs, and fight with others for opportunities; not to mention reaching the Galloping Horse realm, even the four barriers of skin, flesh, bone, and blood required experiencing countless life-and-death crises.

And he only needed to wait for the beasts to deliver things to his door; backed by the blue sea of the great lake, and with his master giving him techniques and martial arts, he walked the path others took ten years to walk in one year.

The only time that could be called dangerous was the fight with the crab monster.

The Whale Gang incident couldn't even be called that; that battle was an advantageous one.

Liang Qu racked his brains, and his gaze suddenly fell on the fat catfish; the fat catfish turned its head to look behind, and found that there were no fish behind it.

If it really was the flood dragon causing trouble, would the toad know what was going on? It was, after all, a top-tier great demon.

"Ah Fei, I have a very arduous task to entrust to you!"

The fat catfish looked left and right, and rushed into the undercurrent carrying a large iron anchor.

After a whirlwind, the fat catfish fell heavily to the ground; it raised its head and hadn't yet observed its surroundings when its head sank heavily.

A large iron anchor smashed into its head.

The fat catfish held onto the reef to stand up, found the iron anchor on the ground, hugged it, and smashed it heavily onto the ground.

After throwing it twice in a row, it carried the iron anchor and rushed to the toad's nest, only to find that Brother Toad wasn't home when it arrived.

In the cave, black-brown vines were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws; the fat catfish didn't dare to get close and could only hug the iron anchor and shrink at the entrance.

"Not here?"

Liang Qu, who received the fat catfish's information, had his eyes flash.

"Ah Fei, wait for the toad to come back, and ask it where it went."

The fat catfish waited for several hours.

A black shadow shot over from afar and stopped heavily on the ground.

A raging tide surged in all directions, and the entire bottom of the water was like a level-eight gale; the fat catfish hugged the iron anchor tightly and plowed out dozens of meters.

The toad finally noticed the fat catfish at its feet.

"Little brother?"

The water flow stopped, and the fat catfish hurriedly hugged the iron anchor and gave it to the toad.

The peculiar shape of the iron anchor immediately aroused the toad's interest.

"What is this?"

The fat catfish bit the iron anchor and smashed it onto the ground, dragging the large anchor and starting to swim; the entire iron anchor sank into the sand and stone, getting deeper and deeper, until it couldn't be dragged any further after more than ten meters, and then it waved its fins.

"A new type of ship anchor?"

The toad grabbed the palm-sized iron anchor with its webbed claws, and the more it looked, the more it felt the shape was good.

It inserted the large anchor into the ground, dragged it for a while, and the resistance really became greater and greater, until the entire large anchor sank into the soil.

The toad pulled hard, lifting a whole piece of ground.

This thing, it seems very suitable to be used as a weapon?

It's just too small, and the material isn't good either.

After a chaotic dance, the toad imagined itself carrying a large anchor as a weapon, and immediately puffed out its chest.

Seeing the big brother playing by himself, the fat catfish didn't forget the mission it was carrying, and hurriedly asked about the toad's previous whereabouts.

"Me?"

The toad sighed, returned to the cave, lay down on the fire bird's feathers, crossed its legs, and spun the large anchor on its hand.

"Today, I don't know what kind of madness that long worm is having, summoning several of us great demons, saying it wants to kill thieves; I don't know if the thieves are human or demon, and I don't know where they are specifically, only that they are in the south, and possibly on the shore."

The toad curled its lips.

In the south?

The range was too general.

The long worm's tone was as if it couldn't wait for them to push all the way to the shore along the south, killing whoever they saw.

Damn it.

If they really went to the shore and provoked public anger, human martial artists wouldn't be easy to deal with, and if they weren't careful, they would lose their lives.

"If it were a True Dragon's order, I would still have to consider it; as for the long worm, whoever wants to go can go.

Occupying the Dragon Palace by itself, expecting other demons to sell their lives, it's better to find a Mirage Insect to inhale some white smoke and have a good dream."

The fat catfish didn't understand, and only relayed the toad's words back.

On the other side, Liang Qu's eyes lit up.

It really was that flood dragon!

Fortunately, it could only vaguely sense the direction; in this way, Liang Qu was temporarily safe.

But why could he feel such targeted malice, while others couldn't? Didn't it not know the target?

"Could it be the reason for favorability? Is the Jianghuai River reminding me? The cicada knows the autumn wind before it moves?"

Liang Qu had too many puzzles.

The connection between the great demons under the great lake was so close; the toad seemed to have a relationship with the previous True Dragon; could it be one of the four great generals under the True Dragon?

Liang Qu remembered what the old giant clam had said initially, that there were four palaces outside the Dragon Court, and four top-tier great demons lived inside.

When the toad and the fire bird fought, changing the celestial phenomena was shocking enough; looking at it now, the toad's strength might be even higher.

Under the water.

The iron anchor broke through the water flow and sank to the bottom of the river.

"Little brother, you wait a moment."

The toad ran into its pile of sundries and dug out a large seashell; it was the one that had imprisoned the fat catfish initially; it liked the iron anchor that had been sent this time, and couldn't let the little brother suffer a loss.

What if it didn't come back next time?

"This is for you."

The toad grabbed a small fish emitting golden light from the seashell and handed it to the fat catfish.