Chapter 147: Divide and Transform

"Yu Lin, what should I do?"

Da Yu looked at Yu Lin, who had appeared beside him, and asked anxiously.

Yu Lin raised his hand and pointed at him: "What did you just see?"

"Can't block it, the flood is too fast! Too urgent!"

"Then, you need to try a different method."

Yu Lin didn't continue speaking, but instead pointed at the bronze axe at his waist.

Normally, Da Yu used it for felling trees and breaking rocks.

"Axe?" Da Yu looked at the axe, recalling Yu Lin's words.

An idea was brewing in his mind.

When he lifted the bronze axe, it trembled slightly in his hand, as if responding to his inner insight.

He looked up at the sky; Yu Lin's figure had already vanished into the rain curtain, as if never having appeared, yet the words "try a different method" rang in his mind like a startling thunderclap.

"Divert!"

"Divide and Transform!"

Those five characters split the Chaos like a bolt of lightning.

Da Yu suddenly grinned, unbothered by rainwater splashing into his mouth.

He shouted to the heavens, "Yu Lin, thank you!"

His voice reverberated through the downpour, briefly overpowering the flood's roar.

In the next instant, Da Yu planted his foot.

The ground thundered open with spiderweb-like fissures, and his figure shot upward like an arrow released from a bow.

Rain burst into fine mist beside him, and his raincoat rustled in the gale.

From the air he surveyed the land, his gaze blazing as he locked onto a towering mountain in the distance.

He raised the bronze axe high.

Da Yu crushed the round bead hidden in his chest—the Qiongqi Compensation Fifty-Year Lifespan Pearl.

Human Defeats Heaven Ring!

A forty-year lifespan turned into Golden Light that wrapped the axe blade, and the axe instantly burst with dazzling radiance, turning the rain curtain within a hundred zhang into a gilded hue.

"Open—!"

The roar seemed to rouse the deities of the Nine Heavens.

The axe light poured like a galaxy, drawing a perfect arc across the sky.

Where the Golden Light passed, raindrops evaporated, dark clouds dispersed, and even time seemed to pause for a heartbeat.

The mountain split.

It wasn't a collapse, but as if a divine hand had cleaved it from within.

The peak slowly separated along the smooth cut, revealing a river channel in the middle.

The flood instantly found an outlet, roaring with deafening cheers as it surged into the newly opened passage.

The turbid flow raced down the split mountain, finally dividing into two tributaries, and the water's force immediately lessened!

That single axe not only split the towering peak but also pierced the heavens, tearing the heavy dark clouds asunder!

In an instant, celestial light burst forth.

The split clouds resembled two Heavenly Gates slowly opening, with ten-thousand-foot Golden Light cascading down like a waterfall.

Sunlight pierced the rain curtain, refracting a rainbow halo in the mist.

Da Yu's figure descended slowly from the sky, standing steadily atop the split mountain peak.

Golden sunlight bathed his bronze-colored body, rain coating his skin with a flowing layer of gold foil; he lifted his head, letting the light wash away the rain from his face, and the wrinkles between his brows relaxed in the halo.

At that moment, heaven and earth fell silent.

Da Fei was the first to burst out of the cave; rain struck his face, yet could not hide his wide-open eyes.

His mouth opened involuntarily: "This......"

People behind him surged out one after another, but the instant they saw what he saw, everyone froze as if struck by a petrifying spell.

That towering mountain, that towering mountain, was now split in two!

And the figure standing atop the peak—Da Yu—bathed in sunlight, resembled a deity walking among mortals!

"Si Sikong..........."

"Si Sikong... split the mountain...!" a young man murmured, his voice filled with unspeakable awe.

His knees gave way uncontrollably, and he collapsed heavily to the ground, mud splashing and soaking his robe, yet he remained oblivious.

The words were like a stone tossed into a calm lake, stirring ripples upon ripples.

One after another, they knelt before Da Yu in worship.

Seeing this from the peak, Da Yu leapt down to their side, pulled a person up, and said:

"Get up, don't kneel!"

"If you kneel again, I'll punish you!"

Hearing this, the crowd finally rose, and Da Yu gave Da Fei a hearty smile:

"Da Fei, I understand!"

"Understand what?"

"Divert rather than block! Everything has its limit! You can block for a moment, but not forever!"

"Look," Da Yu pointed to the newly opened channel, where the flood flowed gently along the split mountain.

"Water must flow, just as people must breathe; if we block its mouth and nose, preventing its release, it will naturally become angry!"

"So."

"We must divert, we must split and transform it; since a single pair of mouth and nose can't exhale a great breath, give it several! Breathe many times!"

"If one river channel can't drain the water, then two, three! Even more! Until it can discharge the water!"

Da Fei listened, thought it was indeed that, and immediately nodded, saying, "You speak of the extreme!"

"When the rain clears and the sky brightens, go back and inform the Emperor!"

"Surely the Emperor will praise you! Hahaha."

He laughed heartily, sweeping away the gloom that had weighed on his heart.

Da Yu also laughed.

It was a laugh at himself for seeing through the confusion, a joyous delight at the bright path of flood control!

He thought to himself, "Yu Lin."

"Thank you!"

But he did not see.

In the distant valley.

A lone figure rode a Qilin, nibbling a wild fruit, withdrew his gaze from him, and said to a Golden Dragon that was presently recording the recent scene with a brush on paper:

"Lord Golden Dragon, I'm heading back first; as for the affairs of Wu Zhi Qi and the Gonggong Tribe... you stay behind to watch over them, okay?"

"Oh, right—when Da Yu marries the Tu Shan clan, you can call me."

Lord Golden Dragon looked up, patted his chest, and said, "Got it, got it."

"Leave it to me; rest assured."