Chapter 543

The rain stopped.

More "rain" fell.

Starry points of light rain floated out.

Rock crevices, the backs of leaves, gaps in roof tiles.

Flowing light poured out from everywhere.

Fluorescent green spots danced in the air, like whirlpools of flowing light, making it easy to see the lushness of the entire valley.

The tips of the spreading grass branches were slightly heavy, blooming with small, yellow-green light flowers.

Liang Qu took two steps, and the group passed through a diagonal path, as if breaking through some barrier, arriving above the "water surface."

Fluorescent green waves rose and fell silently.

Like a river flowing through the entire valley, thousands upon thousands of courting fireflies gathered into it, flowing quietly.

Magnificent.

The Dragon Girls' eyes bloomed with gorgeous brilliance.

"It lives up to the name of Flowing Light Sea."

Long Binglin lowered his voice.

Seeing it with his own eyes, waiting a few days for this scene was by no means a huge price to pay.

Everyone slowed their breathing, fearing to disturb the forest spirits before them.

Long Eying reached out and caught a small insect that was fighting with another, its wings damaged, stumbling along.

The sound of splashing water suddenly rang out, and a huge black fish leaped violently from the pool, breaking the flowing river of light, scattering it.

The reckless little insect flew away in fright.

Splash!

The fat catfish missed and crashed into the pool.

A large amount of pool water overflowed, washing over the surrounding shrubs and flowing back in trickles from the rock crevices.

After assembling for half an hour, the toad put together three parts, suddenly thought of Liang Qu on the side, and stopped, still feeling unfulfilled.

The fat catfish caught a glimpse of the Dragon Girl's dissatisfaction, scratched its head with its whiskers, flicked its tail, and retreated, submerging until only its head remained.

Liang Qu laughed.

He waited quietly for the broken river of light to reconnect.

"It can be even brighter."

Even brighter?

Snap!

He snapped his fingers again.

The faint light of the world disappeared instantly.

The Dragon People held their breath.

Above the horizon, the scattered dark clouds gathered again, without a hint of humidity.

The pale purple starry sky and silvery moonlight disappeared, as if a black pot covering the sky had been placed over the valley.

In an instant.

The green river became the only light source in the valley.

Fireflies in the spirit valley, pearls falling on a jade plate.

A million fireflies floated, blooming into intense yellow flowers, illuminating their pupils.

"Truly beautiful."

The Dragon Girl said softly.

"What's going on? The weather changed again!"

"What strange weather tonight."

"Abbot, Abbot!"

Front mountain.

The Abbot of Linggu Temple was sleeping in his clothes; hearing the monks arguing and panicking, he walked out of the courtyard and stood dumbfounded, facing the sudden change in celestial phenomena.

The Abbot appeared, and the many monks found their backbone, gathering around and asking noisily.

"Abbot, what's going on? The weather tonight is so eerie!"

"Yeah, one moment it's sunny, the next it's cloudy; is there a ghost?"

"Nonsense, what ghost can change celestial phenomena?"

"I heard there's a grand sacrifice today, could it be..."

The Abbot interrupted.

"The heavens are being kind, go back and rest."

"This..."

The monks looked at each other.

Such celestial phenomena must be unusual; clearly, dark clouds covered the sky, yet there wasn't a hint of humidity when breathing.

"The heavens are being kind, go back and rest."

The Abbot said again.

After repeating it twice, the others couldn't ask anymore; thinking that a cloudy day clearing up wasn't a bad thing, they returned to their rooms one after another.

County government office.

Candlelight flickered.

The Registrar was writing an article, describing today's River God Grand Sacrifice, the boost in public morale, and preparing to find a person of high virtue at a later date to record it in the Huazhu County Annals.

At the window three steps away, he first heard the rain stop abruptly, then saw the sky clear up, and shortly after, dark clouds covered everything, yet there wasn't a hint of stuffiness.

He thought for a moment.

He picked up his brush and licked the ink.

"After the sacrifice, the heavy rain vanished that night, the starry night cleared up, the heavens were greatly pleased, perhaps it is an auspicious sign..."

The sky light turned purple.

The Dragon Girls didn't sleep all night, lying on a bed, whispering private girl talk.

Separated by half a room.

Liang Qu sat cross-legged, circulating his energy, calming the restless blood and qi after consecutive breakthroughs.

Inside his body.

Silver light was brilliant.

Seven major meridians and twenty-three minor meridians were shining brightly.

The Human and Earth Bridges were solid and stable, filled with blood qi, constantly nourishing his physical body as they circulated.

Both the Human and Earth Bridges were complete!

The number of meridians had directly doubled!

He was only two major meridians and four minor meridians away from the Heavenly Bridge.

If one counted the three extra minor meridians that needed to be opened due to the overlap of the two cultivation techniques, it was only seven!

"The fusion of the Water Wang Yuan still has feedback; subsequently, I should be able to open one or two more minor meridians."

Liang Qu felt it carefully, inevitably calculating the time of his breakthrough.

Achieved Wolf Smoke in April.

Both bridges established by the end of August.

In less than half a year, such speed—no one would believe it if he told them.

"Rare and hard to come by."

Liang Qu missed the Red-Scaled Great Snake quite a bit.

He wondered how it was living with Master Yue Wang, if it could eat its fill, and how it was sleeping.

The snake tribe was likely the biggest contributor to his rapid progress!

The Water Essence alone provided over a hundred thousand, completely coming with the sincerity of bribing a Hunting Tiger.

Coupled with the Soul Golden Lotus provided by Yue Wang, which increased his spiritual soul strength, it disguisedly weakened the difficulty of condensing each subsequent meridian.

With both working together, it was like splitting bamboo.

"Can I fight with an initial-stage Hunting Tiger?"

Liang Qu was eager to try.

"Uncle Fu! Long time no see! I've been specifically waiting for you!"

With the Earth Bridge of Dragon Tendons and Tiger Bones, it was absolutely impossible.

With the Earth Bridge of Capturing Dragons and Subduing Tigers, it might not be impossible!

The improvement of martial bones brought an incredible increase in strength!

Hating the sky for having no rings, hating the earth for having no handles, even the Dragon-Tiger Golden Body underwent some kind of transformation.

Capturing Dragons and Subduing Tigers is the absolute superior to Dragon Tendons and Tiger Bones, naturally making it the perfect constitution for practicing the "Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Capturing Vajra Art."

Judging by the name, the compatibility was completely maxed out.

The Dragon-Tiger dual qi was strengthening and feeding back at every moment!

The only problem was how to explain the change in martial bones.

Liang Qu didn't like to hide things.

Cultivation inevitably involves fighting, and fighting inevitably leads to exposure.

Was he supposed to kill every witness every time he secretly assassinated someone?

Too many secrets, being overly cautious, living unhappily, and even less likely to attract angel investors.

The behavior seems safe, but it's actually self-castration.

Even if it disguisedly attracts certain dangers, Liang Qu's underwater skills could still provide a safety net.

It's like gambling on stones, cutting a skylight.

You should let people know how great the jade under the raw stone is, but you shouldn't let people know exactly how big the jade wrapped in the stone skin is.

Selling at a high price while keeping the reality unclear.

"Insufficient innate nourishment will cause extraordinary martial bones to remain dormant, introverted, and self-protecting.

Since Capturing Dragons and Subduing Tigers is the superior to Dragon Tendons and Tiger Bones, why couldn't it be another kind of dormancy? It's just that, suddenly waking up, I need to find a reason..."

Coming out of Pingyang Prefecture, it had been a few days in total, and the change came suddenly.

Liang Qu needed to find a reason to transition, as a lead-in endorsement, to avoid the excuse being too thin; for this, he thought of a direction.

The Dragon People!

Former subordinates of the Jianghuai Dragon Lord, something incredible, it's very normal for something to trigger the awakening of martial bones.

Even saying that Dragon Tendons and Tiger Bones are compatible with the attributes of the Dragon People's treasures, not dormancy and awakening, but direct evolution, could also be rounded off!

But on the surface, what should be the excuse for the Dragon People to be willing to give up their treasures and provide him with strong support?

Liang Qu thought and thought, but had no clue.

"Wait and brainstorm."

Letting the Dragon People help edit it, naturally, it's best to ask the parties involved.

Put it aside for now.

Communicate with the Ze Tripod.

【Tripod Master: Liang Qu】

【Refining Ze Spirit: Water Wang Yuan (Purple) (Fusion: 1.1%)】

【Ze Spirit's Favor...】

【Innate Skill...】

【Innate Divine Ability: Water Travel for a Thousand Miles】

【Water Essence: 51,173 points】

Inside the Ze Tripod, the blue sea of water essence plummeted; the unprecedented accumulation disappeared by more than half in the blink of an eye.

Liang Qu knew his previous guess was correct.

"Gold-swallowing beast."

Seventeen thousand essence turned into five thousand; he had invested a full twelve thousand.

Water monkey turned into Ze, one hundred essence combined into one-thousandth.

Ze turned into Water Wang Yuan, one hundred thousand combined into 0.5 percent.

The two progressed, already proving the multiplier.

Astronomical numbers.

However...

【Born of divine seed, spirit of heaven and earth, enough to dominate a great swamp, summon wind and rain, those who see it bow; yet the meager fusion only lifts a tiny corner of this swamp overlord's power.】

Water Wang Yuan fully fused, it definitely goes beyond the scope of Perfected Form Grandmasters and Great Demons!】

Dominating a great swamp, Martial Saint, Demon King strength as a baseline.

Thinking of this, he felt relieved.

Liang Qu even felt it was quite a good deal.

"The Dragon People have a harvest every year in July and August, with Great King Lotus Seeds, a baseline of 32,000; Old Die, Vast Sea Blue Gold, can help absorb over a hundred essence a day, a baseline of over 30,000."

From now on, doing nothing, lying down and collecting the interest on the material foundation he had built, he could get 70,000 essence a year.

Exerting subjective initiative.

Panning for more Vast Sea Blue Gold, going out on more boats to catch fish, setting up two more dies, performing more great deeds—doubling it a few times was definitely not a problem!

If there's a chance, kill two more Grandmasters, steal a Dragon Pearl...