Chapter 71: Walking the Dragon! Metamorphosis

After sensing that his speed had reached its limit under the boost of the undercurrent, and being extremely close to the Jianghe Ruhaikou.

Baichuan's gaze sharpened, he took a deep breath, and the next moment his whole body arched up, gathering strength.

Like a bowstring drawn to full, he swung his dragon head violently upward and Burst forth.

"Boom!!"

In an instant, the flood dragon burst out of the water!

The massive dragon head violently broke through the surging river surface, sending up countless crystal-clear water droplets; before they could splash outward, the snake body that followed bursting out of the water carried tremendous impact and shattered them, turning them into billowing mist!

Amidst the white expanse of mist, under the sunlight and the rumble of thunder-like sea sounds, the enormous snake body shot skyward from the river, like an agile flood dragon playing in the water, soaring into the clouds!

At this moment, Time seemed to pause; he seemed like a true dragon ascending to the heavens, the azure sky right before his eyes, and beneath him the deep, bottomless ocean.

Just then, a seagull happened to fly past, startled by the suddenly soaring "flood dragon," and for a moment its wings stiffened, forgetting to fly.

At this, Baichuan laughed inwardly — how could he refuse food that delivered itself?!

A dragon mouth bit it directly.

Then Time seemed to flow once more.

Accompanied by the seagull's pitiful cry, Baichuan also drew a graceful arc through the air before plunging heavily into the sea.

At this moment, the snake-like, dragon-like monster leapt from the narrow river waters into the vast, boundless ocean.

This meant the dragon entering the great sea, and also meant a certain metamorphosis in Baichuan's Spirit, vague yet real.

"Boom!"

Another tremendous crash, and from then on, the "flood dragon" that had burst from the water vanished, disappearing into the vast deep sea.

What a pity that such a soul-stirring scene was witnessed by no one.

……

Having already swum into the slightly cold seawater, Baichuan's heart now felt a surge of exhilaration.

It was as though he had imitated the legends of his past life and performed a "walking dragon" ceremony; at this moment, his thoughts seemed to undergo a metamorphosis too, becoming Transparent.

Perhaps this was a kind of psychological suggestion?

Just like in his past life, some people afflicted with terminal illnesses beyond the cure of medicine and herbs, given only half a year to live, because of their own optimism and cheerfulness, had stubbornly lived as long as five years.

Sometimes the power that comes from the will is not false, especially since Baichuan had only recently truly verified the real existence of the will.

But these were not matters for a little snake who was bent on becoming a flood dragon — these were truly not things a little snake wanting to become a flood dragon should be considering.

Perhaps only when he no longer faced crises in the future and had leisure time would he consider these things.

After pondering his own peculiar state just now, Baichuan unceremoniously chewed the bird corpse in his mouth piece by piece underwater.

Sure enough, this time he was not choked by seawater rushing in; the excess seawater was all expelled from his body by the gill filaments that had mutated into a mane.

Obviously, he had succeeded!

Since that was the case, he should truly set forth toward this ocean.

……

Time slowly passed; a month had already gone by.

At dawn, the orange fireball began to rise from the sea horizon.

The dazzling light slanted down onto the rippling water surface; refracted by the seawater like a prism, the light was broken down into countless beautiful colors that shone upon the clear seabed, making the flowers, stones, plants, and shells of the seabed reflect one another in splendor.

From time to time, crabs scuttled about imperiously, or small fish and shrimp swam past.

It was extraordinarily beautiful.

Everything seemed so wonderful and peaceful.

At this moment, a slight movement suddenly appeared on the pink coral reef.

A school of small fish with pale cyan fins swam leisurely past.

As they swam by, a strange-headed, strange-brained big fish suddenly poked out from a crevice in the coral reef.

It suddenly opened its huge mouth and lunged forward, instantly passing through the school of fish and biting several small fish. In an instant, a faint bloody color spread.

The sudden turn of events startled the school of small fish into no longer swimming leisurely; they flicked their tails and rapidly scattered in all directions.

Seeing this, the big fish paid no more attention, for it had already bitten enough food; it opened and closed its huge mouth filled with fine, dense small teeth, crushing and swallowing the fish in its mouth one after another.

Suddenly, its whole body stiffened, its huge mouth stopped opening and closing, its body began to roll sideways continuously as if trying to turn its belly up, and its whole body began to twitch and spasm.

As if some unknown creature was attacking it, or it had been poisoned?

At this moment, not only it, but everything alive around seemed to have suffered some kind of invasion.

Countless small fish, shrimp, and even slightly larger crabs and small octopuses twitched as if they had gone mad; some had already rolled over, trembling, and began to bob up and down with the water currents — those were already dead.

Following the appearance of all this, not long after, the water in the distance trembled, as if……no, to be precise, a giant hunter had indeed appeared.

The newcomer had a slender, agile body of nearly seven meters or more, its whole body covered in hard, metal-like scales; beneath its belly grew two legs, three claws in front and one behind, all extremely sharp and keen.

At its forefront, a huge head shaped like a flood dragon's, a pair of sharp, knife-like eyes carried an imposing authority without anger. Its long, narrow mouth, like a wolf's maw, was filled with hard, sharp teeth.

As its figure swam, the thick, blood-red mane behind its head fluttered differently with the water currents; seen from afar, it was like a swimming dragon setting out from the sea's Long Gong.

This newcomer was none other than Baichuan, who had already been in this ocean for over a month.

Since that day of entering the sea, Baichuan had been completely liberated, living a wonderfully beautiful life.

Every day either eating or sleeping, utterly peaceful.

Because the competition in the ocean was simply too small for him, who was already considered a hegemon even on land.

With a body of nearly seven meters, plus the underwater weapon of electric current, few fish could contend with him; often they were eaten by him before they even appeared.

Of course, this might also be because he had always stayed in the Qian Hai area, where there were no large predators.

Or rather, the ocean's resources were too abundant, so abundant that there was no need to fight for life and death like land creatures.

It could be said that this past month had been another period of rapid point growth for him.

Now, after a month of accumulation, his points had once again returned to as many as 13 points.

As for why it was 13 points instead of 15, of course it was because he had strengthened another ability — one he had wanted back when his bones were broken —

Regeneration LV2!

This was the ability of the sea cucumber from the ocean.

Unfortunately, it still couldn't let him quickly heal wounds on his bones; it could only repair internal organ damage on top of restoring flesh and blood.

But just this recovery had increased several times over, and for him now, internal organs were no longer a vital weakness!

Of course, one couldn't speak too absolutely — it was only to a certain extent.

(End of this chapter)