Chapter 314: One Stroke Becomes a River, Riding a Deer North

Staring at the white fog ahead, Qian Chen leaned on the bow of the boat and slowly raised the feather fan in his hand, waving it flatly.

With a sweep of his large sleeves, the river surface in front of the tower ship suddenly rose, giant waves surged, pushing the tower ship onto the crest of the waves. The river flow ahead suddenly reversed, stopping the tower ship's flying arrow-like momentum.

The Flowing Wind Array on the ship shook slightly and then collapsed on its own.

The tower ship stopped in the center of the river...

The people on the ship felt this change and walked out of the ship cabin one after another. Yuan Hao and the group of Reincarnators, the two Core Formation old men with a group of juniors, the family clan children on the ship, Xu Yang, and Zhang Huaien and others all came to the deck.

Zhi Xia turned to look at Qian Chen, seeing him staring at the front with focused expression, her heart became more and more suspicious. When Zhu Wuchang attacked before, he could only manipulate the water beasts in the river to forcibly block the tower ship, which showed that Qian Chen's plan had indeed caught the pursuers off guard.

But this time, the interceptor had not appeared, yet Qian Chen could take the initiative to stop the tower ship.

Qian Chen waved the feather fan again.

After the wild wind rolled up and the Flowing Wind Array dissipated, the remaining origin qi surged up again, its momentum ten times more violent than before. The whistling wild wind showed white wind lines, blowing the water waves on the river to the sky, lifting waves several feet high.

The wind blew into the river, the thick fog rolled and retreated rapidly, but it only retreated for dozens of feet before it seemed to encounter an invisible obstacle, blown by the wild wind like boiling water, but it never retreated another half step.

Yuan Hao's trembling voice came from the side. He looked at the fog barrier that shrouded the river surface and no longer retreated, his tone solemn and difficult, even carrying a trace of horror: "It's an array!"

"Someone has set up a great array to block the river!"

Qian Chen pinched his fingertips, his lips moving as if muttering something. He was focused, not caring about the various things beside him or the exclamations of the crowd, as if besides the three feet of void in front of him, nothing else could attract him.

Zhang Huaien stepped back in small steps, quietly moving behind Qian Chen. He subconsciously wanted to reach out and grab Qian Chen's back collar, but inexplicably felt a chill like ice water pouring over his head.

Zhang Huaien's small animal-like intuition made him silently give up this subconscious move.

Yuan Hao's expression was ugly. Looking at the rolling fog on the river, he muttered to himself: "Across a thousand miles, sealing the river with one array... It's just the main mission of the Five Virtues, how could there be such an array master making a move?"

Gao Hu was even more unbearable, feeling that since entering the reincarnation space, the shocks he had received were not as good as today.

Fear made him unable to help but take two steps back.

Du Xiuniang's expression was also stagnant. It was precisely because she followed a strong person like Yuan Hao who was proficient in arrays that they knew the horror of the array path.

The array path was to leverage the power of heaven and earth with a hair's breadth of force; it was the divine ability with the most terrifying power and the strongest killing power.

In comparison, the sword path had to look up to it!

Therefore, the most powerful killing divine ability in the world was the combination of the sword path, which was invincible in single-target killing, and the array path, which was invincible in group attacks—the sword array!

Yuan Hao had only obtained some fur of the array path, but in the missions of the reincarnation land, he had already used this to win against the strong while being weak several times... or rather, the array path itself was a path of cultivation that could ignore magic power, cultivation base, divine abilities, and Dao arts, and redefine strength.

With the blessing of the array path, fighting Core Formation with Penetrating Law, fighting Yin Spirit with Core Formation, and even fighting Nascent Soul with Yang Spirit, were all too natural.

It had almost become common sense in the hearts of cultivators.

And a person who could intercept the Dajiang with an array, how could their cultivation be just Core Formation? The most desperate thing in the world was facing an enemy whose cultivation suppressed you, and whose methods could suppress you even more.

Not far away, the two Core Formation old men looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The old man surnamed Jiao shook his head and said: "This journey is really full of twists and turns. Staying at home, receiving the flattery of those juniors, made me think that my cultivation was already remarkable!"

The old man surnamed Huan sighed: "They are all monsters! These characters, the polite ones call us fellow Daoist, the disdainful ones probably view us as ants!"

Following behind them, the juniors who were still in high spirits and pointing at Yuan Hao, Qian Chen, and others before, looked at each other.

The ancestors are ants, then what are we? Mustard insects?

Qian Chen calculated, put down the hand that was pinching, and laughed: "What a powerful array! Before seeing Yuan Hao, that half-bucket of water, shaking around there, I thought my array cultivation was also quite remarkable!"

"Now it seems, this is the level that the array path of the Central Lands should have!"

"The person who set up this array has array cultivation hiddenly above mine. This time I have to raise my spirits. In an array duel, if you are not careful, even a Nascent Soul True Immortal can capsize."

"Roar!"

A roar like a bull came from the river surface shrouded in thick fog, shaking in all directions.

In the white fog, a shadow like thick ink, like the ink marks of calligraphy, carried a bit of unrestrained intent, circling like a dragon.

A black dragon head protruded from the thick fog, and on the dragon head sat a scholar in white.

He held the dragon horn. His appearance was no longer young, but his scholarly aura was very heavy. His beard hung down sparsely under his jaw, and his expression was gentle and indifferent. Clearly, it was a scholarly temperament, but he was loosely draped in a Daoist robe.

Clinging to the dragon horn, he raised the brush in his right hand, which was hidden with ink marks, and wrote on the river surface!

The ink dragon circled down, and a stroke of ink marks was drawn long.

Where it reached, the Dajiang was cut off, and the river water rushing east was suddenly diverted, turning a corner close to a right angle, changing from east to south. The river surface of thousands of miles was suddenly diverted!

The river surface of the Dajiang was wide for a thousand miles, and under this stroke, it suddenly became a flow.

It was as if a horizontal river without head or tail, circulating back and forth, had been opened up on this thousand-mile river surface. When the water flow reached there, it returned to the horizontal river and flowed south.

"There is a scholar... one stroke becomes a river!"

Du Xiuniang muttered in a low voice, the shock in her heart indescribable.

Yuan Hao had already seen that this river flow had no head or tail, circulating back and forth in the Dajiang, continuous and endless. Clearly, one could go straight down to Jiankang by following the river water, but at this time, if one followed the flow, one would inevitably sail into this horizontal river, endless, without head or tail...

Because this horizontal river was transformed by the array.

If the Dajiang were there, he could still use the momentum of the river water flowing east into the sea to calculate the Gate of Life. Blocking the river to set up an array, those with slightly inferior array cultivation were almost difficult to act, because the river flow had a head and a tail, and it would inevitably come out from the Gate of Life. The Dajiang came mightily, its momentum was peerless, fixing the Gate of Life, no matter how the array master moved, it could not be shaken.

In this way, as long as one was slightly proficient in the array path, one could break it by following the trend.

Unless... like this person, just by relying on the array, one stroke becomes a river, and the river water becomes a flow itself.

Such array cultivation was terrifying and awe-inspiring.

Yuan Hao didn't even have the heart to challenge it!

"One stroke becomes a river!" Qian Chen stared at the scholar riding the dragon and coming. The ink dragon circled, raising the water flow, shuttling through the array. Behind it, more than a dozen ink dragons followed one after another, circling the scholar and dancing.

"One, two, three... sixteen!"

Qian Chen counted carefully once, touched his chin and said: "Ten!"

"Alas! Truly young and frivolous..." Qian Chen shook his head slightly.

The two old men on the tower ship were dumbfounded, wanting to speak but suspicious first, trembling: "How, how could it be him? Why would the Wang family help Sun En? Didn't they fall out long ago? Xianzhi True Person hasn't visited Sun En for sixty years, why this time?"

"Xianzhi True Person's ink dragon! That person... is Wang Ningzhi!"

Xu Yang said: "Those sixteen ink dragons are Xianzhi True Person's beloved objects. Originally, they were eighteen ink carps raised by the True Person in his early years. In his early years of fighting, two were broken, so the True Person released them back into the Dao Academy lake. They have not appeared in the world for a long time. Today, he can summon sixteen ink dragons."

"Only his brother, Wang Shuping, can do it!"

"Shuping is devout to the Daoist sect. In the past, he followed Xianzhi True Person to join Sun En's sect, but he was not as talented as his brother, so his reputation was slightly inferior!"

The old man surnamed Huan sighed: "Now it seems, he is just internally talented. Just based on this one stroke becoming a river, who dares to say that he is inferior to his brother?"

Under the gaze of the crowd, Qian Chen untied the oil-paper umbrella on his back and stood up holding it. His movements were not hurried or slow, as if stepping on this array that intercepted the Dajiang was just a spring outing.

He casually summoned the Ear Dao God and placed it on his shoulder. A white deer stepped across the river from the shore, jumped lightly onto the deck of the tower ship, and came to Qian Chen's side. The white deer lowered its head and went to nudge Qian Chen's right hand.

Qian Chen touched its ears and turned over to ride on the white deer.

The white deer turned into a leaping white shadow, jumped down from the tower ship, stepped on the water waves, and galloped towards the array that blocked the river.

"There is a Daoist riding a deer north!" Du Xiuniang muttered: "So... so that's it. I originally had suspicions, now only that peerless Princess remains!"

All the Reincarnators remembered the hint from the Lord of Reincarnation when they entered this world. But facing this array that blocked the river, they still didn't have half a grasp in their hearts. Who told the Lord of Reincarnation to mention a few people, but not mention the result of this battle.

Even if Qian Chen played the zither earlier and drove away Zhu Wuchang, but facing such an array, who dares to say he can win?

On the tower ship, everyone's mood was uneasy.

Watching Qian Chen ride the deer and come, Wang Ningzhi said calmly: "Entrusted by others, I will only block you for three hours. Do you still insist on breaking the array?"

Qian Chen smiled: "Being able to witness such an array is the joy of a lifetime, how can I miss it!" Wang Ningzhi nodded slightly upon hearing this, and said with his hands in his sleeves: "Please enter the array!"

Qian Chen opened the Heaven-Luo San.

In the horizontal river flow, water droplets like fine rain scattered from the waves on the river, and the waves stirred up white foam, as bright as snow, submerging the four hooves of the white deer, as if coming stepping on snow.

Qian Chen sat horizontally on the white deer, an oil-paper umbrella covering his head, and stepped into the horizontal river flow.

Once entering the horizontal river, it was like stepping into an endless long river from north to south.

He went against the current...

Wang Ningzhi sat on the dragon head, sighed slightly, turned his hand, and the brush and ink danced, and he saw that Dajiang suddenly picked up by the tip of the brush. The waves even affected the outside of the array. At the center of the river where the tower ship was, giant waves cracked the sky, and the whole tower ship was swaying. Xu Yang and the two Core Formation old men on the ship made moves one after another to stabilize it.

They saw the thick fog ahead dissipate. Qian Chen was holding an oil-paper umbrella, under the overturned Dajiang, the surging river flow poured down, in imminent danger.

The river overturned, the whole Dajiang suddenly turned over, wanting to suppress Qian Chen under it.

This heaven-collapsing and earth-cracking power of heaven and earth made Qian Chen's small figure instantly disappear into the array. The few people on the tower ship couldn't help but exclaim, and Zhi Xia and others were even more worried in their hearts.

At this time, a spiritual light rose high, like a blue sky rising.

The surging river water hit the Heaven-Luo San, the clear light was vigorous, but it didn't shake in the slightest.

The Hun Tian Qing Luo spread out like the sky, supporting Qian Chen's head. In that array where there was only a river, no sky and no earth, it supported a blue sky and divided heaven and earth.

From then on, the river flow could only flow below, and could no longer pour down.

The rolling river flow, like a torrent destroying everything, just rushed over mightily, also carrying the power of billions of jun.

Qian Chen pressed down casually, an invisible pressure, alive and pressing down the giant waves that cracked the sky, spreading for hundreds of miles, suppressing the surging river flow.

One person rode a dragon and came, one stroke opened the river, and set up an array to block the river.

One person rode a deer north, one umbrella supported the sky, and suppressed the horizontal river flow. ===== CHAPTER 315 =====