Chapter 286: The Record of Heavenly Master Xu Slaying the Flood Dragon, Part Two

The two fierce swords, though wanting to show off and stir up their baleful might, could not stray too far from Xu Jia, otherwise they would lose his protection; they kept their eyes locked tightly on the other small Earth Immortal-level flood dragon.

The Golden Flood Dragon Sword was fine; having tasted blood, it was already full, and it would likely take half a month or so before it could taste blood again to restore its might.

The Silver Flood Dragon Sword, however, had not yet had its fill, and thus it trembled all the more, eager for action.

"Useless trash!" Shunji Furen threw out the Black Calamity Cable; this cable had been refined from a hundred-zhang-long cable on the surface of Poyang Lake, and because it was covered in water weeds and floated on the water, the common folk mistook it for a water monster and offered incense to it, allowing it to gain sentience; later, it obtained the blood of a flood dragon essence and developed the intent to transform into a dragon, and was refined into a magic treasure by a black fish essence.

This cable transformed directly into a black-Qi demonic flood dragon, entangling Zhang Fajing; it did not seek to achieve a great feat, but only to free up a moment to go and slay Xu Jia.

Anji Furen rode the Six-Eyed Flying Fish into the air; the Six-Eyed Flying Fish released an evil light, shooting toward Xu Jia's altar, but it was absorbed, transformed, and reflected back by the suspended Taiyin Dharma Mirror.

It shot straight through the Six-Eyed Flying Fish's skull, causing it to fall, forcing Anji Furen to take to the air herself and spit out a cold light, which then stabbed toward Xu Jia.

It was the Fish Bone Sword from her brain, her life-bound magic treasure.

Once this sword rose, the Silver Flood Dragon Sword acted like a beast off its leash and charged out; the two flying swords, one transforming into a green fish and the other into a silver flood dragon, entangled and fought, gradually moving further away.

Xu Jia's flying sword was refined according to the orthodox sword immortal method, and its material was also Golden Mother and Silver Essence; although it could not compare to the essence of Western Geng Metal, it was still of superior quality, only its realm was a bit lower.

The black fish essence's flying sword, although its cultivation was higher and its tempering deeper, was merely refined from fish bone and Dharma Realm cold iron; its refining method was not that of an orthodox sword immortal, but rather an Outer Path, and its quality was inferior.

Therefore, as the two swords fought, the Silver Flood Dragon Sword actually held the upper hand; if it came to a hard clash, the Silver Flood Dragon Sword would not fear nicks or cracks.

Although Anji Furen felt pained that her flying sword did not have the upper hand and instead risked being damaged, she sought a quick victory and brought out her black fish pouch, releasing a million black fish gu.

The black fish gu used the souls of the black fish's descendants as their essence, refined using Outer Path demonic arts; once released, they stirred up the Water Qi and transformed into water-shaped demonic fish, which could be considered a type of "water gu."

Yet, before they could get within three feet, they were blocked by a barrier; it was Xu Jia's Three Sovereigns Ten Thousand People Umbrella. The Heavenly Demons and Yin Demons within the umbrella, upon seeing such soul-based gu insects, were not afraid but delighted; one by one, they changed from the appearance of kind-hearted people with good wishes back into their original forms, surrounded by wisps of black Qi, and began to catch the fish, stuffing them into their mouths and emitting sounds of intoxication.

This gave Anji Furen a fright: "Are you not of the righteous path? Is this what you call the righteous path?"

It was not just her; Zhang Fajing, who was fighting the demonic dragon transformed from the Black Calamity Cable, also wanted to shake off the entanglement as quickly as possible, but seeing such a change in the Ten Thousand People Umbrella used by Xu Jia to protect the altar, he was momentarily stunned and was almost struck by the demonic dragon; fortunately, his Golden Light Cloud Robe was powerful and dissipated the force.

This Ten Thousand People Umbrella went without saying; it was a gift from the people of Dexing to thank Xu Jia for first killing that Dharma King, then slaying the flood dragon, and governing the waters to rebuild. It had three layers in total, and the cloth was made of scraps cut from their own clothes, embroidered with names, with cloth strips hanging under the banners, on which were written words of gratitude such as "Eliminating harm for the people" and "Boundless Merit."

Gathering the wishes of ten thousand people, it was an instrument of merit and a treasure of humanity.

It was just that many common folk worshipped Xu Jia and made wishes to him as if he were a God Immortal; their desires outweighed their wishes, and Xu Jia had to separate himself from them, which was why he consecrated this treasure.

For one, it held three Heavenly Demons in its hand, summoning his own Three Corpse Demon Gods, thus separating the desires of all living beings and the wishes of all living beings into one body and two parts; it was precisely this, and even summoned ten thousand Heavenly Demons out of thin air to oppose the ten thousand people, becoming a strange magic tool of "one thought, god and demon," being both a demonic tool and a merit tool, somewhat like the methods of the Esoteric Buddhist sects.

This treasure not only had the function of protection and the ability to test through illusions, but could also take the initiative to attack; the only difference between it and the so-called "Heavenly Demon Banner" or "Ten Thousand Soul Banner" was likely just its form.

Xu Jia did not care about this; he had always used it for "righteous purposes" and never for "evil purposes."

Each of the various Heavenly Demons was protected by the "wish power" of the common folk; although they were filled with black Qi, there was a halo of light behind their heads. Those who were full returned to the Ten Thousand People Umbrella, looking serene and transforming into the appearance of heavenly beings, while those who were not full continued to fish.

Anji Furen stopped caring about this; she opened her large mouth, and the hunting teeth in her mouth transformed into flying nails and shot out, mixed with a black bead, which was a type of Inner Elixir.

A thousand-year Inner Elixir strike was something the Ten Thousand People Umbrella could not protect against. After resisting slightly, it was about to fall onto Xu Jia's head.

But at this moment, the Five Elements Demon Gods, the Nine-Child Mother Demon Gods, and the Charming Maiden Demon Gods stepped forward to protect him, intercepting and resisting; they were his Body God Protectors.

These Demon Gods were formidable demonic ghosts that Xu Jia had cultivated into Outer Path Body God Protectors; they were originally commanding generals, and after being beaten to pieces, they merely transformed back into the source of Sha Qi, and after some time, they could recover.

The Golden Flood Dragon Sword, although it had just eaten its fill and did not want to move, also stood forward at this time and swiped away the Inner Elixir.

By this time, Xu Jia's altar ritual was already prepared; he pointed his Taiyin Copper Coin Sword toward the heavens, and a sense of might grew between his brows.

Anji Furen was greatly alarmed and retreated dozens of steps in succession.

"Tiangang, Tiangang! Great Sage, Kui, Qiao (secret name), assist my divine might, release the Five Thunders Heavenly Tribulation Fire, quickly, divine soldiers, fire, Jijiru Luling, boil the sea!"

Suddenly, thunder descended from the sky; this thunder was not lightning-shaped, but spherical and ghost-fire-shaped, appearing in purple-blue, hundreds of eerie clusters.

Each cluster was extremely huge, like a millstone.

They had no weight and drifted down slowly, but the power contained within was enough to make everyone dare not ignore them.

Especially Shunji Longwang, who shouted loudly: "Your father is still in the Water Mansion; do you intend to boil your father as well?"

Xu Jia had been brewing this for a long time; his complexion was pale and sallow, and he almost fell from the clouds. This Thunder Law was an orthodox Heavenly Dipper Thunder Fire Method; as the saying goes, the higher the altar, the greater the power. Although Xu Jia had not set up a nine-layer altar, by setting up an altar on the clouds, he was already very close to the "Heaven."

At this moment, what the Dharma Altar was borrowing was not the Spirit Machine of the Earth Veins, but the Heavenly Origin Qi, or rather, calling directly upon the Hao Tian Yuan Qi Hai, invoking the true name of the Tiangang Great Sage, borrowing Dharma Power and Divine Ability, and then amplifying it dozens of times through the Dharma Altar amplifier.

From thunder fire the size of a human head, it was amplified to the size of a millstone, and it was not just one, but hundreds; to be precise, three hundred and sixty-five.

Who would have thought that this slow-moving thunder fire, upon hearing Shunji's voice, would pursue him, its speed increasing more than a hundredfold, as if it possessed a "target-locking" skill.

Anji Furen also fled rapidly, wanting to escape; you've brought out this thing, what the hell am I supposed to fight you with! But as soon as she moved, the thunder fire followed her. Xu Jia secretly transmitted his voice to his own side: "Do not move around, and do not shout; this thunder fire was borrowed by me, and it might not listen to me. It possesses the power of natural thunder and the Spirit Machine of the Dharma Realm; one cluster is enough to blast an Earth Immortal to death."

Once Xu Jia said this, Zhang Fajing did not dare to move, even though his Primordial Spirit had left his body and was not carried by his physical form.

Shunji Longwang and Anji Furen, seeing these thunder fires flying rapidly toward them, transformed back into their original forms and swam in the air at extreme speed; after all, they were in the God Immortal Realm, and their speed was not visible to the naked eye, but no matter how fast they were, they could hardly be faster than the thunder fire.

Xu Jia thought to himself: "Although I summoned this thunder fire, can it be used to collect Thunder Sha and Thunder Gang to refine my methods?"

Except for a Pure Yang Primordial Spirit, which can bathe in thunder fire without being destroyed, anyone with even a little bit of yin impurities would be burned to ashes by you.

Although these two were in the God Immortal Realm, neither had a Pure Yang Primordial Spirit, and they only felt their souls fleeing in terror.

A moment later, several flood dragons that were moving around were struck by the thunder fire and exploded instantly; a huge water pit rose on Poyang Lake, and one could directly see that the mud under the lake bed had been blasted into a large hole.

Subsequently, the thunder fires exploded one after another; after the thunder fires exploded, the great array previously laid out by the Sanshisan Zao Hua Long Qi began to sway.

These Earth Immortal-level puppets refined from dragon corpses, as well as the many Daoist soldiers, could not resist either and began to spontaneously combust.

The water of Poyang evaporated, underwent electrolysis, and then occurred on a larger scale of explosions. The explosions caused the instability of the thunder fire, which also exploded along with them; some exploded in the air, some in the water, and only the dozen or so thunder fires that had successfully locked onto their targets followed behind Shunji Longwang and Anji Furen, getting closer and closer.

Shunji Longwang, seeing no way to hide, panicked and fled to the place he was most familiar with, the Suolong Jing that had originally suppressed him, and dove into it, blocking the well mouth with a red pillar.

When the thunder fire exploded, the red pillar melted instantly and fused tightly with the well wall; the Talisman left by the Eight Corners in the well was instantly triggered by the huge energy, and chains of Talismans rose up; Shunji Longwang under the well exclaimed: "How can there be more!"

The next moment, these Talisman chains pierced through him, linked to his cervical spine dragon bone, extracted Dharma Power from his body, and merged with the well body.

He struggled, stirring the Earth Veins into unrest, and for a time, there were mudslides on Xi Shan and landslides on the eastern mountain.

On the other side, Anji Furen dove into the Laoye Temple; the Laoye Temple had flourishing Incense Fire and extremely vigorous human Qi.

Many monsters, when crossing the Thousand Year Tribulation, all had to find people to build a temple for them, then protect a few nobles to become high officials, and request an imperial edict from the court, before they dared to safely cross the Thousand Year Tribulation.

Anji Furen was the same; she followed her past experience of crossing the tribulation and entered the Laoye Temple.

Who would have known that this thunder fire did not follow the rules and crashed in directly.

Boom! With an explosion, the Laoye Temple was razed to the ground; the statues of the two demons exploded, and the imperial edict, the Dharma regulations of the Heavenly Master's edict, and the Incense Fire transformed into a barrier, resisting a portion of the Dharma Realm's damage, but the damage to the real world was not something these regulations could resist.

Anji Furen was blasted until she was covered in dirt, the scales on her body were seven or eight-tenths destroyed, bleeding continuously, and she began to dive downward from the well in the temple.

The remaining thunder also dove into the Well, instantly exploding and causing the well water to boil.

Anji Furen's physical body was boiled, turning into boiled fish, and her Primordial Spirit emerged wrapped around her black bead Inner Elixir, intending to dive into a wealthy Household Official's home; at this moment, only one last thunder-fire remained behind her.

However, Xu Jia had already descended from the clouds, blocking her path in advance, and aimed the "Three-Eyed Tiangang Thunder Firearm" at this black bead Inner Elixir.

Although this Three-Eyed Tiangang Thunder Firearm was a Magic Tool that had just been refined, it was perfectly suited for the atmosphere right now.

Ignite!

"Bang!"

Thunder-fire erupted from the barrel, and the pre-refined lead pellet flew out, striking this Inner Elixir.

Don't look down on it just because it's an Inner Elixir; it was actually the size of a human head, for it depends on the size of the demon—it is impossible for a demon dozens or hundreds of feet long to have an Inner Elixir the size of a malted milk ball.

The explosion of the lead pellet triggered the thunder-fire.

Xu Jia timely escaped into the Dharma Realm, tore through space, and left the crime scene.

But the explosion still scorched the clothes on his back clean away, exposing his buttocks.

It was burning hot.

"Damn it, I am full of righteous energy, how could I be burned by thunder-fire reinforced by Tiangang righteous energy?"

The explosion melted Anji Furen's Inner Elixir and completely refined her Primordial Spirit to death, burning away all the yin dregs, memories, and thoughts.

It finally fell to the ground, becoming dark gold, but its shape was now irregular...

Anji Furen, this thousand-year Great Demon, was refined to death just like that.

"Your Thunder Law is quite innovative," Zhang Fajing said, unable to help himself as he looked at Xu Jia's back, which had been burned bare.

Xu Jia silently turned around to present his front to others.

(End of this chapter)