Chapter 317: Flood Dragon Walks the River

"The heart sinks into the dantian, the qi naturally condenses; the nine-turn reincarnation hides the true spirit. The spiritual sense is restrained to avoid heavenly secrets; the soul holds as one to guard the original clarity."

Above the dreamland cloud platform.

Li Rui sat cross-legged.

Muttering words in his mouth.

This technique was named "Nine Concealments of Heavenly Secrets," a cultivation method passed down from a certain sect in the north that had already been destroyed.

It was not a killing technique.

Its only function was likely to completely conceal one's aura. Li Rui had spent a huge price plus the connections of the Marquis Prefecture to get his hands on it.

These Nine Concealments of Heavenly Secrets were of an extremely high rank.

The only problem was likely that it was too difficult to practice; even in that sect back then, not many could master it. Of course, these were not problems for Li Rui.

Li Rui contemplated it daily, and with the comprehension bonus of the Great Dream Wandering Immortal, he finally achieved success.

Li Rui's mouth curled slightly upward, and he exhaled a long breath.

"It shouldn't be detectable now."

The True Dragon Qi had always been a thorn in his side. Although the Great Flood Dragon was dead, it was not guaranteed that it wouldn't be discovered by other demon beasts. If that happened, there would certainly be endless trouble, and he wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully.

Demon beasts were different from humans; humans might still fear his status, but demon beasts wouldn't care if he was the Marquis's instructor or Jiang Linxian's friend; they would certainly pounce on him regardless of their lives.

Therefore, the True Dragon Qi had to be hidden.

As long as the technique was not mastered, he would not leave the city.

Now that the divine skill was mastered, a thorn in his side was finally removed.

At dawn.

Li Rui woke up from the dreamland cloud platform; at this time, the sky was already beginning to brighten.

Having mastered the Nine Concealments of Heavenly Secrets, he felt refreshed and in a good mood.

He pushed open the door.

It was the same as usual: eating and practicing Wu Gong.

This day.

The originally clear and beautiful Qinghe suddenly stirred up waves.

Some fishermen downstream even saw a True Dragon swimming against the current. The pleasure boats floating on the Qinghe were tossed left and right by the waves; although there were waves, no one fell into the water because of it.

People on the shore with sharp eyes pointed at the surface of the Qinghe and exclaimed:

"Look quickly, it's a dragon."

With this shout, more and more people gathered, and for a time, the shore was crowded with people.

Some were even squeezed into the Qinghe water.

Those familiar with the water were still fine, but some "landlubbers" were in big trouble, splashing in the water, and before long, they sank to the bottom.

Water folk who were often by the river knew that people who fell into the water should not be rescued immediately.

People who did not know how to swim would struggle unconsciously after falling into the water and would crazily grab everything they could grab; by then, the rescuer would be dragged to the bottom of the water together.

Therefore, one had to wait until the person who fell into the water lost their strength before rescuing them. When the people on the shore were preparing to go into the water to save people.

An amazing scene appeared.

Those who did not know how to swim and fell into the Qinghe were washed directly onto the shore by waves. Although many fell into the water, not one person drowned because of it.

Everyone watched, feeling even more that it was a miracle.

For a time.

More and more people knelt before the Qinghe to worship.

"Big Brother, a vicious flood dragon has appeared in our Qinghe, stirring up trouble in the Qinghe."

Tan Hu heard the news.

He hurriedly found Li Rui.

Among the duties of the Anning Guard was the suppression of demon chaos.

Those demon beasts would avoid the Anning Guard whenever they met them. Now, a vicious flood dragon dared to break into the Qinghe openly; this simply didn't put the Anning Guard in its eyes and was slapping the Anning Guard's face.

Slapping the Anning Guard's face was also slapping Li Rui's face.

These past few days, Cao Wei had been ordered by Nie Siming to patrol the border, and Li Rui was responsible for sitting in Qinghe.

If something happened in Qinghe City, it was all Li Rui's responsibility.

Therefore, as soon as Tan Hu heard the news, he hurriedly came to find Li Rui.

"Vicious flood dragon?"

Li Rui's eyebrows lifted slightly.

This was truly a rare event. A flood dragon appearing in Qinghe; having stayed in Qinghe for decades, it was the first time he had heard of it.

"The Qinghe's weather is indeed far from comparable to what it was back then."

As the saying goes, deep pools raise flood dragons. The fact that the flood dragon was willing to come to Qinghe instead set off Qinghe's extraordinariness; otherwise, how could it attract a flood dragon?

"Take me to see it."

Li Rui became interested and immediately planned to follow Tan Hu to the Qinghe to see what was going on with that vicious flood dragon.

Wang Zhao and Yang Yong, upon hearing this, were also full of curiosity.

The two shouted for Liu Tiezhu in the backyard.

A whole house of people rushed excitedly toward the Qinghe.

They were not worried at all that the vicious flood dragon could stir up any waves.

This was Qinghe.

In the entire Yunzhou, besides Yunzhou City, the foundation of Qinghe could at least rank in the top three.

With Earth Immortal He Qiannian sitting in town and Nie Siming guarding it, nothing could go wrong.

Since there was no great danger.

Naturally, they had to go see what was going on with that vicious flood dragon.

The people of the Yu Kingdom always had some special feelings for the flood dragon kind.

Two quarters of an hour later.

Li Rui led Yang Yong and the others along the flow of people to the bank of the Qinghe.

He was suddenly a bit dumbfounded.

Where was there any sign of a flood dragon stirring up trouble? It was a scene of peace and tranquility. Large swaths of Qinghe people were kneeling on the bank of the Qinghe, each with a pious attitude, even more sincere than when sacrificing to their own ancestors.

"This..."

Tan Hu was also dumbfounded.

He had heard his subordinates report that there was a flood dragon in the Qinghe, but looking at the current situation, it seemed more appropriate to say it was sacrificing to the Jiang Shen.

Li Rui's eyes also revealed surprise.

Just as he walked to the riverbank, the calm Qinghe stirred up towering waves, causing those pious believers on the shore to exclaim repeatedly. "It's out, the River Dragon King is manifesting."

Someone pointed at the whirlpool in the middle of the river and shouted.

The matter of the River Dragon King in the Qinghe had a long history.

At least for as many years as Li Rui had been in Qinghe, he had heard of it for as many years.

Back when he was a groom for the Zhu family.

Once, a young son of the Third Master of the Zhu family went to play by the Qinghe and ended up drowning for no reason. The Old Master of the Zhu family at the time insisted that the Zhu family had offended the River Dragon King and arranged for three sacrificial animals to be offered to the River Dragon King. Li Rui still remembered that scene.

Mainly because the Zhu family was very generous that time, and they rarely had a meal of braised pork.

But don't say, since that time, the Zhu family had never had anyone drown again.

This matter was passed down more and more mysteriously among the servants of the Zhu family.

Later, as Li Rui's horizons broadened, he understood that there was no such thing as a River Dragon King in this world; it was mostly just some mountain spirit or demon beast causing trouble.

Everything was a coincidence.

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The Yu Kingdom did have River Gods, but those were great demons who had been sealed and legitimized by the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Observatory.

And at that time, the Qinghe had no Jiang Shen.

The whirlpool in the middle of the Qinghe grew larger and larger, and finally occupied half of the river surface, like a beautiful woman wanting to lift her veil; this was the moment that could best grab people's hearts.

The Qinghe people on the shore were each craning their necks, wanting to see what the River Dragon King looked like.

Yang Yong and the others were the same.

Tan Hu was full of enthusiasm, already unable to wait to have a go with the flood dragon.

Li Rui's expression became a bit strange.

Finally.

After a full stick of incense time, the crowd's appetite had been whetted to the extreme.

The river surface made a splashing sound.

They saw a creature with white scales all over its body, a slender posture, and wings on both sides, exactly the same as the divine dragon in legends, breaking through the water.

Seeing that flood dragon appear.

Wang Zhao and Yang Yong's expressions also became strange.

How did this Qinghe River Dragon King look more and more like the little white snake Li Rui raised?

Li Rui was speechless.

Because that River Dragon King was the Little White Flood Dragon.

The Little White Flood Dragon had returned to Qinghe from Yunzhou at some point, and he was completely unaware of this matter.

But the Qinghe people on the shore had completely different reactions.

"It really is the River Dragon King."

"Oh my heaven, I've seen a True Dragon."

For a time, the sound of kowtowing and praying on the bank of the Qinghe never stopped.

Yet they saw.

That "River Dragon King" swam its slender dragon body and slowly came ashore, and under the horrified gazes of the crowd, it came before Li Rui and then lowered its head.

A True Dragon bows its head!

Li Rui's reputation was already great in Qinghe.

Almost everyone recognized that the person who could make the flood dragon submit was the Anning Guard's Commandant Li of Qinghe.

"It's Official Li!"

Another exclamation.

These people all knew that Li Rui could fight and was a god-of-war-like existence in Qinghe, but they never expected that the River Dragon King of Qinghe would see Commandant Li as if a subject seeing an emperor.

Extraordinary.

A true immortal has appeared in Qinghe!

Li Rui's mouth twitched:

"Alright, that's enough."

After saying this.

He said loudly to the surrounding Qinghe people: "This is Lord Flood Dragon, a true Jiang Shen sealed by the imperial court, responsible for guarding the Qinghe."

Once these words were spoken.

The crowd finally realized.

Some well-informed people had long heard that the imperial court had chosen a Jiang Shen for Qinghe, but it had always stayed in the Annan Marquis Prefecture, so very few people had seen that Jiang Shen, but from the rumors, it seemed to be a flood dragon.

Didn't that correspond to the current situation?

But for those ordinary commoners, how would they know about any sealing and legitimizing?

They just held onto one principle.

That was that Official Li of Qinghe had subdued the River Dragon King.

At this time.

The Registrar of the County Government also arrived with the constables, just in time to see this scene, and upon hearing it was the Qinghe Jiang Shen, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Official Li, it's good that you are here."

The Registrar saw that Li Rui had already settled the matter and beamed with joy.

If Li Rui hadn't been here today, it might have been a case of "the flood washing away the Dragon King Temple," and it would definitely have been a fierce battle; by then, the County Government would have suffered, and he would have had to endure it himself.

Li Rui smiled slightly: "Official Zhao, tell these people to disperse."

Not long after.

Those pious believers on the shore who were reluctant to leave and kept looking back all dispersed.

One hour later.

The Little White Flood Dragon, which had been very majestic just now, appeared in the Commandant's Mansion.

It grinned:

"Big Brother, did you feel very majestic today?"

Li Rui was speechless.

Today's scene was likely a grand "triumphant return" play carefully planned by the Little White Flood Dragon, just to give him face.

"Xiao Bai is truly becoming more and more savvy."

The Little White Flood Dragon was very excited: "Big Brother, the Great Flood Dragon is dead, and the Marquis let me fulfill the duty of Jiang Shen. I have patrolled the river for many days, and today when I arrived at Qinghe City, I thought I must meet Big Brother."

Li Rui nodded.

Previously, the Little White Flood Dragon stayed in the Annan Marquis Prefecture to avoid the Great Flood Dragon's pursuit; Yuan Dingting had long known about this matter.

Now that the Great Flood Dragon had been beheaded, Yuan Dingting naturally wouldn't turn a Qinghe Jiang Shen into a koi in the Marquis Prefecture's pond, so letting the Little White Flood Dragon return to Qinghe was a matter of course.

"Xiao Bai, then work hard in the future, and strive to become a Jiang Shen or Sea God."

The Little White Flood Dragon was even more proud:

"With Big Brother here, at least I should be a Jiang Shen of the Red River."

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