Chapter 136: River Demon

Whoosh!

A streak of eerie blue cold light pierced the rain curtain, carving a straight path through the dense veil of rain.

Raindrops evaporated into white mist the instant they touched that flowing light, leaving a conspicuous ripple of air under the dim sky.

"Si Wen Ming! Crouch!"

The witch spirit's warning and that murderous aura arrived simultaneously.

Da Yu had just begun cultivation, barely having time to react, when the chilling death already pierced the pounding rain—

Snap!

A slender hand suddenly appeared before him, the index finger and thumb pinching that flowing light with precision!

Da Yu could even feel the trembling of the flowing light struggling between the fingers.

Yu Lin, at some point already hovering in the air, squinted his eyes at a spot on the river surface, and the object his fingertips were pinching was a bone spur emitting an eerie blue cold light!

"Who wants to kill me?" Da Yu's heart jolted violently.

Before he could ask, Yu Lin's figure flashed, vanishing instantly, leaving only a sentence drifting on the wind:

"Take him back."

The witch spirit grabbed Da Yu's arm: "Come with me!"

The red dragon swished its long tail, turned sharply, and rushed to Wu Feng's side.

The three stood on the hillside, their gaze falling on the figure standing on the river surface under the distant downpour.

Wu Feng frowned and said softly, "What happened?"

He had just been busy rescuing people, so he hadn't seen Yu Lin's move.

The witch spirit shook its head, eyes narrowed, a trace of murderous intent showing: "I don't know what's going on either."

"An enemy is hidden in the water, attacking Si Wen Ming; the master is now looking for the one who struck..."

"Then..." Wu Feng nodded slightly in understanding, grinned, and said:

"The one who struck will be doomed."

He didn't know the striker's strength, but he knew Yu Lin's strength.

In Wu Xian Guo, a single mortal body can sweep away all Body‑refining priests, let alone he can wield witchcraft without borrowing a spirit pet...

Unless a deity intervenes.

Otherwise Wu Feng can't think of a way for Yu Lin to be defeated.

The witch spirit also understood what he meant, merely nodding without speaking.

Meanwhile, Da Yu clenched his fists.

He must cultivate harder; this time Yu Lin intervened, what about the next time?!

From today onward, train to death unless you die!

Da Yu took a deep breath, and when he looked at Yu Lin again, he found that he had vanished without a trace...

Boom—!

The river surface suddenly erupted a massive hole dozens of yards in diameter; the swift current seemed frozen by an invisible force, forming a perfect cylindrical passage.

In the next instant, a dazzling Golden Light shot upward from the riverbed!

Where the Golden Light passed, the downpour reversed, and the cloud layers dispersed.

It resembled a heaven‑splitting divine sword, cleaving the heavy black clouds with a hard crack; the sky‑wide rain curtain before the Golden Light was like fragile gauze, easily torn to shreds!

Sunlight hidden behind the clouds poured down, laying a golden path across the murky river surface.

Along both sides of the light path, the torn edges of the clouds glowed with molten‑gold hues!

The vanished Yu Lin emerged from the river, his robes dry, his hair unruffled, as if strolling leisurely across the water.

In his right hand he bore a massive creature split in two—a blue‑black jiao!

The jiao's fierce head drooped lifelessly, its two‑sectioned body still twitched slightly, eerie blue blood dripping onto the river with a "sizzle" of corrosive sound.

Clearly it had been crippled, no longer able to fight back.

Da Yu stared, mouth agape, his mind's confusion deepening:

"What exactly just happened?"

Jiao Ling, being a jiao that cultivated from a snake, harbored the greatest wish to ascend from jiao to dragon.

To that end, it even joined a Human Race tribe, solely because their chief possessed a Dragon Pearl...

If it obtained that Dragon Pearl, the chance of transforming from jiao to dragon and surviving the thunder tribulation would greatly increase!

Yesterday.

The tribal chief sent it here, telling it to break the dam during the heavy rain and unleash the flood...

Jiao Ling didn't know why he was to cause the flood, but he was ordered, so he simply obeyed.

Who gave him the Dragon Pearl?

Thus, as the downpour arrived, Jiao Ling used its tail to tear the dam apart, watching the river cascade down, submerging the Human Race tribe below, seeing them swept away by the water, not knowing where they were carried...

Its cold, vertical pupils reflected the collapsing dam.

Watching the raging flood engulf the tribe, a twisted exhilaration rose in its heart.

"These ants deserve to drown..." the jiao's tail swayed lightly, stirring a dark current.

The pent‑up resentment from serving the Human Race finally released a bit at this moment.

Suddenly, a dragon's roar echoed from the sky.

Jiao Ling jerked its head up, seeing a red dragon spiraling down, a human silhouette atop its head scattering a handful of pitch‑black mud.

"Self-Expanding Soil?!" Jiao Ling's pupils suddenly contracted.

It stared fixedly at the young figure in the air, its fangs grinding involuntarily: "Damn it!"

Ruined my affairs, I won't let you get away!

With a swipe of its claw, a zhang-long big fish was pulled before it by an invisible force.

This fish had already begun to develop spiritual awareness, its scales gleaming with metallic luster. Flood Dragon Command ruthlessly split its mouth open, its claws directly pierced the fish's body, forcibly extracting a spine that glowed with a cold light.

"Go!"

The bone spur shot out of the water, carrying a gloomy blue toxic gleam, straight for Da Yu's brow.

Flood Dragon Command could already imagine that scene——the skull bursting, blood and brain matter blooming in the air...... tsk tsk, how wonderful!

However, the next second, its smile froze.

A slender hand appeared out of thin air, lightly pinching the bone spur.

Flood Dragon Command's scales all over its body exploded outward.

It itself didn't dare to receive it like that, nor could it easily receive this strike!

This person is absolutely not someone it can oppose!

"Flee!"

With almost no hesitation, it swung its flood dragon tail, and its ten-zhang-long body shot like an arrow toward the river bottom undertow.

"I'll say I encountered a strong enemy when I get back.............. this was unexpected, at that time............" It madly darted about, calculating excuses.

Suddenly, the water ahead strangely stilled.

Flood Dragon Command horrifiedly discovered that the human figure that should have been on the shore was now standing on its escape route.

Golden light condensed in his right hand, illuminating the dark river bottom as if it were daytime.

Flood Dragon Command gulped and shouted:

"No, listen to my explanation! I am..........."

"Boom!"

Blinding golden light occupied its entire field of vision, causing its consciousness to fall into a daze.

After it regained its senses.

It could no longer feel the existence of its lower body, only able to sense that it was being lifted by someone.

Having come out of the river, it didn't know where to go.