Chapter 304: Summoning Wind and Rain

The Inside Ze Ding suddenly hit bottom, with only a wisp of red Qi lingering.

The essence of the marsh gathered into a blue band of light, surging into his limbs and bones, a dry heat permeating his entire body.

The pleasure boat sped along, crashing through the curtain of rain, gradually trailing a white mist of water.

Liang Qu sat cross-legged at the bow, steady as Mount Tai, without the slightest jolting. He exerted his Qi and blood to the fullest to circulate his technique, and occasionally, the roar of a beast emanated from his body.

As the essence of the marsh poured in, the fusion rate of the Ze Rong continued to climb, crossing the forty-percent threshold.

The Inside Ze Ding trembled, and Wu Zhiqi began to emit a faint fluorescent glow.

【Ze Rong and Ze Ling fusion at 40%, innate skill comprehended—Summon Rain.】

Yet, unlike before, as Wu Zhiqi's light emerged, the Ying Long beside it seemed to be triggered, surging with fluorescent light. Immediately following, Tian Wu and the Chuan Zhu were ignited in succession.

【Ze Rong and Ze Ling fusion at 40%, absorbed a small amount of Ying Long patterns, innate skill comprehended—Summon Wind and Rain.】

【Ze Rong and Ze Ling fusion at 40%, absorbed a small amount of Tian Wu, innate skill comprehended—Summon Wind, Rain, and Fog.】

【Ze Rong and Ze Ling fusion at 40%, absorbed a small amount of Chuan Zhu Di Jun, innate skill comprehended—Suppress Wind, Stop Rain, and Settle Fog.】

【Ze Rong and Ze Ling fusion at 40%, absorbed a small amount of Chuan Zhu Di Jun, innate skill comprehended—Drive Away Water Sickness.】

Liang Qu frowned slightly but did not open his eyes.

He continued to refine and increase his Qi and blood, only casting his spirit down to realize his gains once the fusion rate increase was complete.

What was going on?

So many innate skills?

He communicated with the Inside Ze Ding.

【Ding Master: Liang Qu】

【Refined Ze Ling: Ze Rong】

【Ze Ling's Favor: Martial Dao Divine Connection Second Layer; Ying Long Pattern: First Layer; Tian Wu: First Layer】

【Innate Skills: Water Leap, Water Breathing, Water Prison, Ride Water and Waves, Deterrence, Vortex Aperture, Drive Away Water Sickness, Summon Wind, Rain, and Fog, Suppress Wind, Stop Rain, and Settle Fog.】

【Essence of the Marsh: 65 points】

Liang Qu stared at the Inside Ze Ding, his mind sinking, experiencing the three new abilities, gradually gaining some insight.

By absorbing Chuan Zhu Di Jun, Ying Long, and Tian Wu, the Ze Rong had expanded its authority!?

The Ze Rong's own ability should only have been "Summon Rain."

Absorbing Ying Long made it "Summon Wind and Rain."

Absorbing Tian Wu made it "Summon Wind, Rain, and Fog"!

Chuan Zhu Di Jun, however, was the opposite of Ying Long and Tian Wu; his authority lay in calming and governing water.

Thus, combined with the Ze Rong, it formed the completely opposite "Suppress Wind, Stop Rain, and Settle Fog"!

As for Drive Away Water Sickness...

【Wherever the traveler goes, water plagues are dispelled, and one is immune to all diseases.】

Great plagues often follow floods.

When the water recedes, silt and corpses coexist, and since floods often occur in summer, the damp, muggy heat is a paradise for bacteria and viruses.

Coupled with the exhaustion and terror of the flood, and the loss of spirit, resistance drops, making it extremely easy for plagues or infectious diseases to break out on a large scale.

With this authority, it was equivalent to a giant disinfectant, capable of curbing the spread of plagues caused by floods to a certain extent!

What an amazing water monkey!

Liang Qu had faint, further insights into the Inside Ze Ding.

Ying Long and Tian Wu both helped promote rain, while Chuan Zhu was the complete opposite.

The Inside Ze Ding had a human side and a beast side; perhaps the difference wasn't just in appearance...

"Suppress Wind, Stop Rain, and Settle Fog."

Liang Qu looked up at the sky, following his sea of consciousness perception, and pried at the authority.

Yet, what followed was an extremely terrifying consumption of physical strength!

Liang Qu's entire strength felt like a river bursting its banks, hitting bottom in an instant.

As the river wind blew, he swayed and tumbled headfirst into the Great Marsh.

"Plop."

The sound of rain covered the sound of him falling into the water.

The Fatty Catfish and other beasts kept charging forward, completely unaware that Liang Qu had fallen off the boat; only the finless porpoises on both sides of the boat wings and the Fist at the stern noticed.

Fist cut the rope at its waist with a pincer, jumped into the Great Marsh, swung its giant pincer, and scooped up Liang Qu.

Several finless porpoises scattered in succession, turned around to surround them, and two swam to the front to stop the beasts that were charging ahead blindly.

Fist held up the heavenly god and surfaced.

"Cough, cough!"

Liang Qu squinted, spat out two mouthfuls of river water, his whole body limp.

A single time stopping the rain had nearly exhausted him to death!

As he gasped for air, a wisp of golden light suddenly illuminated his vision.

Liang Qu turned his head to look, unable to help but raise his hand to shield his eyes, light and shadow interlacing on his face.

In the iron-gray clouds, there was a patch that was nearly transparent, bright enough to be joyful. Sunlight shone down from that gap in the clouds, like hot water melting accumulated snow, and the gap expanded rapidly. High in the sky, a fierce wind seemed to be driving away the dark clouds.

Liang Qu stood up unconsciously.

The rain had stopped at some unknown time, and a wash of azure blue appeared in a corner of the sky.

A clear breeze blew wrinkles onto the river surface, and water ripples gently slapped against him.

However, outside the sunlight, the heavy rain poured down.

The rainwater seemed to flow into a waterfall along the hole in the center of the clouds.

The Fatty Catfish and other beasts opened their mouths wide, looking at the unpredictable sky, feeling inexplicable awe at the strange sight of sunlight and dark clouds coexisting.

The entire scene was exactly as if a heavenly god had thrown a giant transparent glass jar with a wave of their hand, covering the water area of several square kilometers with Liang Qu at the center, without the slightest wind or rain invading.

"Only a few square kilometers."

Liang Qu pondered.

He wasn't surprised.

Even the most powerful skill depends on who is using it.

If it were the real Wu Zhiqi, it is estimated that the rain would stop everywhere in the lower reaches of the Jianghuai River.

The effect was smaller than imagined.

Fist helped Liang Qu back onto the boat to lie on his back.

The pleasure boat stopped temporarily, waiting for two quarters of an hour, and the hole in the sky began to be squeezed by dark clouds, gradually shrinking.

And the shrinking speed is constantly accelerating; at most, in half an hour, the hole will disappear completely.

"The volume of Summon Wind and Rain should be similar," Liang Qu guessed.

A heavy rain that can be called a downpour requires over two thousand tons of water accumulation within half an hour per square kilometer.

The few square kilometers where he stopped the rain had between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand tons of water within half an hour.

"Related to my water control quantity?"

Liang Qu suddenly realized.

He could control over sixteen thousand tons of water; it was definitely not a coincidence!

"At least there is room to spare."

Stopping a downpour within half an hour definitely cannot be said to be useless.

After a simple test, Liang Qu let the Fatty Catfish continue forward, while he buried his head in studying two books on water management.

The next afternoon.

Liang Qu spread out a map on the belly of the Red Mountain, circled his location, calculated the speed and distance, and found that he was not far from Huazhu County; he should be able to arrive by eight or nine in the evening.

Two hours faster than the midnight deadline set by Xu Yuelong.

It was just hard on the Fatty Catfish and the other beasts; the four of them hadn't rested much at all, constantly on the road, and now they were a bit unable to swim, whereas Liang Qu had even taken a nap while reading.

Approaching Huazhu County, broken wood and withered branches began to float on the water surface.

Liang Qu let the Fatty Catfish and the others come down to rest, replacing them with four ordinary finless porpoises to pull the boat.

At dusk, the pleasure boat entered the territory of the Heishuihe.

Liang Qu tried to control the water, and the control quantity hadn't decreased, proving that the Heishuihe was still within the coverage of the Jianghuai favor.

The Heishuihe was far from as wide as the Jianghuai River, but it was turbulent enough, with rolling green low mountains on both sides, the scenery completely different from Pingyang County.

The pleasure boat followed the current all the way up, but a group of people in the mountain forest noticed this strange pleasure boat. ===== CHAPTER 305 =====