Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 1140 The Crimson Gold Gourd, Gazing Towards the Heavenly Gate (Part Two)

The blue tide surges.

A bright red gourd, as vivid as blood, hangs high in the cauldron, rising and falling with the waves. Its crimson light bursts forth, reflecting the blue tide in a reddish hue. Sparse, dark yellow lines adorn the surface of the gourd, like yellow stripes growing on a ripe loofah.

The so-called Ba Fruit is a reddish-brown gourd with yellow stripes.

The first fruit!
The first authority!
Since Liang Qu was promoted to Zhenxiang and ascended the Wangyue Tower, he learned of the existence of the drought demon and was given an important task by the Holy Emperor. Five years have passed since then.

Five years—how many five-year periods does an ordinary person have in their lifetime?
From the hidden stakes in the Great Snow Mountain, the blood sacrifice to Blue Lake, to the key to the Dream Dynasty, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Plate, and now to the super-grade blood treasure.

Various forces, different times, various information conditions, various preliminary preparations, one after another leading plan, one after another backup plan, constantly exploring, pondering, and adjusting, involving the mobilization of countless human, material and energy resources, and the mediation of multiple forces, finally found and obtained a perfect solution!
There was no blood sacrifice for the people, no opening of the underworld, no struggle among the eight forces that triggered a great war, and no earth-shattering and sky-collapse.

Picking fruit quietly under the tree.

What is ability?

That's ability!
In the entire world, there is only one person who can achieve this: a "ghost" who has died once.

he!
Marquis of Xingyi!
The humerus.

His laughter was deafening.

Dust settled in the courtyard and floated violently within the beam of light.

While packing her things and belongings in the cave, Lao Mengyao, who had not yet left, looked up in confusion.

Why is Master smiling so happily?
When my brother got into trouble, the elder laughed, and everyone gathered around. The whole day has been strange…

Caught up in the emotions, Lao Yingtian touched the premium blood treasure in his arms, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face. His gains were so huge, and Liang Qu, as the "mastermind," would naturally get 91% more than he should. Judging from his laughter, he must be very happy.

"Are you hiding something from me? Is there a conspiracy? An affair?" Lao Mengyao rolled her eyes, glancing back suspiciously.

"Take your things. This is an adult matter, kids shouldn't pry." Lao Yingtian pressed Lao Mengyao's head down and turned to the bundle.

"Are you even looking? I've finished packing!"

“Then let’s go, stop dawdling.” Lao Yingtian grabbed his sister’s bundle and carried it on his back. “Master punished me by making me copy the sect rules a thousand times. Can you copy half of them for me?”

"Why should I copy your mistakes for you?"

"Your brother dragged you to the Heavenly Fire Sect, begging and pleading, and you didn't even say thank you once. So what if you copied the sect rules five hundred times for me? Want to have a competition? Five hundred times, let's see who can copy it faster, and whoever is slower will lose a fourth-grade blood treasure!"

"Shameless! I'm copying your handwriting, how could I possibly be faster than you..."

The brother and sister left together.

"call!"

The turbid air was exhaled, dispersing the floating and sinking particles in the pillar of light.

Liang Qu, sitting down on the stone chair with a stern expression, listened to the siblings' conversation, suppressed his smile, hid his fangs, and took a long breath to shake off all his fatigue.

With a single decisive move, the matter of the Great Snow Mountain and Blue Lake was completely resolved, bringing a long-awaited sense of ease.

Next, we will arrive in southern Xinjiang. Once the unrest in southern Xinjiang is resolved, the world will return to a static peace where all parties are quietly developing.

"How do I refine the pseudo-dragon?"

Once the joy subsides, what remains is reflection and reverence for the outcome. Reverence brings increased experience and leads to personal growth.

Looking at the fruit again, Liang Qu unconsciously rotated his wrist.

pain.

Simply by sinking his consciousness and observing with his mind's eye, Liang Qu felt a faint pain in his right hand, as if he had returned to Blue Lake once again. The intense burning pain transmitted from his palm was unforgettable.

The power of the Ba fruit is the drought demon.

It's not burning or high temperature, but severe dehydration can cause the same painful sensation.

"It's true that the fruit has a physical form, but ordinary people simply can't get close to it..."

Upon opening the [Vortex Palace], the water inside vanished into thin air, a truly shocking sight.

From the moment Liang Qu grasped the fruit in his hand to the moment he put it into the Ze Ding, it took him about fifteen breaths. Each breath was six seconds, so in one and a half minutes, the Ba Fruit he touched actually separated him by a dimension, completely evaporating all the vortex water and essence water within the [Vortex Palace] divine power, leaving not a trace!
Or.

Fortunately, he had the [Vortex Palace] which allowed him to hold on for so long. If it were an ordinary grandmaster, three breaths would be too long; he would have already turned to dust!
"Calamities arise from floods and droughts, causing widespread famine and devastation; power, possessions, refining rituals, advancement rituals, boundary rituals..."

Liang Qu scanned the area, pondering it carefully.

His first reaction wasn't that the Ba Fruit was mysterious, but that he couldn't take a shortcut using the essence of the marsh.

In the past, the vital energy of heaven and earth was released and then immediately withdrawn. To refine and consume this vital energy, one only needed the essence of ten thousand waters and the amount of one top-grade treasure fish to transform it into a spirit fish. There was no trouble or worry about finding a medium. Apart from the search, there were almost no obstacles to consuming vital energy.

This time is different.

When the Ba Fruit appeared, Ze Ding did not immediately collect it. Instead, he waited until Liang Qu thought that Ze Ding could not collect it and took the initiative to reach out and grasp it, running back to Hantai Mansion before he reacted and put the Ba Fruit into the cauldron.

Secondly, among all the messages, there was no mention of consuming Water Essence.

But it doesn't matter.

Contentment brings happiness, while greed brings worry.

The information that Zeding can provide is already valuable enough!

Zeding Information has always been concise; the essence lies in what is condensed.

The power and authority of the ruler need no further explanation. The barren lands and the three-year drought were things that had long been known. Such an exaggerated severing of productive forces was precisely what the Great Shun Dynasty feared.

If we only consider the power of drought, compared to other powers, it may not be that strong in combat, but if it is in the hands of a powerful force, it is enough to cause chaos in the world and trigger mass extinction of the lower classes.

Uproot the source.

Having such a powerful weapon in one's own hands brings an indescribable sense of security.

And "disaster" belongs to...

View up and down.

Liang Qu touched his chin.

"The Drought Demon belongs to the category of disasters, while the Green Maiden belongs to the category of cures. This reveals two major categories of fruits, which should not be ranks but types. The Drought Demon Fruit, the Snake Fruit, the Flying Bird Fruit, and the Flood Fruit are collectively known as the Four Disasters. The Snake Fruit, the Flying Bird Fruit, and the Flood Fruit should all belong to the category of disasters: floods, epidemics, and wars?"

The characters for "disaster" and "treatment" are easy to understand literally.

A night of wind and thunder drove away the drought demon, and only then did we realize that rain had come to earth.

If drought demons are considered a calamity, then the Green Maiden is the product of drought demons reaching their extreme and then reversing course, which will inevitably have a strong promoting effect on the prosperity of all things.

Besides disaster relief and treatment, are there any other categories?
Neither of these sounds like a direct result of increasing combat power.

Further down.

Refining Ritual, Advancement Ritual, Boundary Ritual...

Given Liang Qu's current perspective, all three are not difficult to understand.

Obtaining a position is not the same as controlling it.

If the position of the drought demon could be determined, Liangqu wouldn't have dehydrated and turned into a dried-up monkey just by touching the position.

To truly master a fruit, one needs to "refine" it. Refining different fruits requires specific rituals, similar to the need for a medium to absorb qi. This process can take anywhere from a few years to over a hundred years, making it extremely difficult. Otherwise, why would a dragon bother to stay in its dragon palace for decades, acting like a lovesick fool?

"Living without water, yet not stiff after death" is clearly the refining process of the Ba Fruit.

If we're talking about the literal conditions, Liang Qu felt he completely met them.

He died, but he didn't stiffen.

Under the protection of the withered tree that has come back to life, the corpses are all warm.

Similarly, he is dead, so theoretically he doesn't need to drink water, and his soul state can't produce any water either.

The fact that the drought demon showed no reaction suggests that things are not so simple and that there must be something more exaggerated and abstract going on.

For example, if he touches the fruit in his soul state, he will be sucked into a "dried-up corpse" and his right hand will become a deformed hand. Is what evaporates inside "water"?

The drought caused by the Ba fruit is not merely a matter of extracting water in the superficial sense.

Authority is almost a conceptual force.

Jin Yi goes without saying.

The former Holy Emperor clearly outlined the method for promoting the drought demon, even specifying the target: the pseudo-dragon of the Southern Frontier.

The creation of the false dragon in southern Xinjiang is an attempt to artificially create a dragon king, turning the three great rivers in the world capable of giving birth to a dragon king into four.

Da Shun was unwilling to allow such a major hidden danger to appear on its borders.

"I have such difficulty refining it myself, how can I let a pseudo-dragon refine it?"

Liang Qu was worried.

He felt that using the Blue Lake Fruit to cure the false dragon in southern Xinjiang was an impossible task.

The fake dragon isn't stupid. Whether refining the Ba Fruit and becoming a river god conflict is another matter. After going through all the trouble of refining the Ba Fruit, it's just waiting to be burned to ashes by you, becoming an "auxiliary ingredient" for advancing to the next level.
Liang Qu scratched his head.

Old difficulties and troubles are resolved.

New difficulties and troubles have emerged.

The False Dragon of Southern Xinjiang is a demon king, the strongest being at the pinnacle of power in the world. With Southern Xinjiang behind him, he could easily defy the wishes of the False Dragon and Southern Xinjiang, allowing them to refine the Ba Fruit and then burn it. If he had this ability, he could overturn the current state of the world.

This is why he hopes Ze Ding can receive the position fruit.

Both running away and Ze Dingshou could have yielded the best results, but the latter would have kept all factions completely unaware, giving them more room to maneuver.

"Let's take it one step at a time. Let's go to southern Xinjiang and observe first. Who knows, maybe the fake dragon is an idiot."

The ability to safely obtain the Ba Fruit was a product of the continuous development of events.

The more urgent the situation, the more calm we must remain, maintain strategic focus, and wait for the right strategic opportunity.

The more you know, the better you can see things from a higher perspective.

Set aside your thoughts.

Liang Qu looked at the last item of Ze Ding Guang Hua, which was also the most shocking item after receiving the position fruit.

【Boundary Marker】!
[Boundary Ritual: The Ba Fruit, Ying Fruit, Fei Fruit, and Yong Fruit gather together as the Four Calamities, with the Water Lord as King, capable of drawing light to the calamity boundary.]

Disaster world!

The voyeur said that both the Whale King and the Great Ancestor of the Great Li Dynasty were exploring the path to becoming a rainbow body—to become a realm master.

Is the disaster boundary a boundary?

With the four calamities gathered, the Water Lord reigns supreme... It must be said that, based on Liang Qu's understanding, Wuzhiqi is also a symbol of calamity, a malevolent god. The gathering of malevolent gods among the four calamities signifies that they themselves must possess four other rank fruits.
The old dragon king possessed two position fruits.

"What kind of world is this that's been created?"

Liang Qu was speechless.

Floods, droughts, epidemics, wars, and a violent madman named Wuzhiqi as the leader.

Three years of drought, three years of flood, plagues on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, soldiers and bandits on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and rest on Sundays? No, on Sundays, Wuzhiqi randomly selects someone to beat up.

Hell, perhaps?
He couldn't imagine that ordinary people could survive in such a world.

In comparison, the "underworld" of the Great Li Dynasty was quite nice, at least it had spider lilies to eat.

However, the appearance of the [Boundary Instrument] gave Liang Qu an extremely clear path to advancement and a goal to strive for.

"The furnace requires a large-scale fruit. Once multiple compatible and suitable smaller-scale fruits are gathered under a large-scale fruit, it may be possible to create one's own small world! Advance to Rainbow Transformation!"

Four passes and seven routes.

Skin, flesh, bones, and blood; galloping horses, beacon fires, hunting tigers, phoenixes, dragons, furnaces, and rainbows.

The path of cultivation has never appeared so clearly before my eyes!

He had a vague sense of something.

"The skin, flesh, bones, and blood form the foundation; the blood barrier breaks through to the visceral barrier; one naturally contains a breath of pure and mysterious energy, which opens the acupoints and propels one straight forward like a galloping horse."

The galloping horse opened its nine orifices and established nine major foundation pillars. The smoke signals built thirty-six veins on the foundation pillars of the nine orifices, forming the three bridges of heaven, earth, and man.

Hunting tigers on the three bridges, building walls and towers, each tower burying a supernatural seed, this is the point, line, and plane.

Absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth, capturing fragments of rules, advancing to the highest level, transforming the Three-Tiered Tower into the Three-Tiered Heavenly Palace, uniting essence, energy, and spirit, and achieving the Sea of ​​Qi!

Liang Qu's eyes shone brightly, sparkling with brilliance.

After the basics are established, points, lines, and planes are transformed into a three-dimensional celestial palace, with each element interconnected.

After reaching the Heavenly Palace of Perfection, one must knock on the Heavenly Gate to become a Celestial Dragon.

What is a celestial dragon?
Liang Qu was still confused, only knowing that the Heavenly Dragon was incredibly powerful, but he now understood that the furnace needed to obtain a Great Position Fruit and a power over heaven and earth!
From furnace to rainbow, it has created a new world.

How big is the gap between these two worlds, this "self-nature" and "external nature"?

Looking beyond the middle, one can take a strategic, top-down approach and work backwards.

Hua Hong pioneered a new world.

The furnace holds the power over heaven and earth, and is one with heaven and earth.

Zhenxiang already has a three-dimensional celestial palace.

What's missing to connect them in the middle?
"Knocking on the Heavenly Gate is to violently open one's own 'Heavenly Palace,' leaping from three-dimensional to dimensional, transforming into a 'hand' that rushes out! Or rather, a 'horn'! The 'horn' holds great power and can transform into a single entity of heaven and earth. By leveraging this single entity, it can unify other powers and create a truly unique small world!"

"'hand'……"

Liang Qu was having a brainstorming session at that moment.

[Can consume ten spirit fish and one point of dominance to advance the Whirlpool Palace and prematurely seize the supreme domain of the Huai Whirlpool Water Lord—the Swamp Kingdom (Pseudo) (Small)!]

Is this a 'hand' or a 'horn'?
"Looking sideways at the Heavenly Pass, the pavilion road seems even more distant. The unity of heaven and man, the connection between heaven and earth, the perfect harmony, the barrier that one must break through with all one's body and spirit, is the Heavenly Pass, the barrier that breaks the circle, the barrier that breaks the extreme."

As for what one will find when knocking on the Heavenly Gate, it varies from person to person.

The Dragon Elephant Martial Saint once opened the five heavenly gates of blood, flesh, bone, skin, and tendons, and five great demons emerged. He killed them one by one and became a saint in his physical body.

Vajra King prostrated himself before the wrathful Vajra, thus attaining the form of a Wisdom King and the rank of Arhat.

The words of the King of Yue came to mind.

“The barrier to breaking the circle, the barrier to breaking the extreme…” Liang Qu murmured to himself, “So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is!”

"The Sick Tiger's Dragon Elephant Martial Saint, Zhang Longxiang's Five Great Demons, and the Old Monk's Wrathful Vajra are all personifications of the resistance from the Heavenly Palace within the body to a 'corner' outside the body!"

"Why should we strive for harmony between humanity and nature? Why should we seek to transcend the heavens and sever the earth?"

"The unity of man and nature is to merge with heaven and earth, to solidify oneself by reaching the heavens and seizing the earth, and to sever the boundary between 'self' and 'outside'!"

Together, the two help practitioners see that "wall".

Once you see it, forcefully push it open from within and burst out!

The Dragon Elephant Martial Saint, the Five Great Demons, and the Wrathful Vajra are all mixtures of their own spirit, body, and the universe!
Break it.

Knock it open.

It is called the Heavenly Gate!
A sudden realization dawned on Liang Qu's mind; it came hard-won and vanished just as quickly. He reached out, grasped it firmly, and pulled hard.

The world is spinning.

cramped.

Extremely cramped.

It felt like jumping into a small, dark, cramped box, making me feel uncomfortable all over, and I couldn't stretch myself out no matter how hard I tried.

It's like the low pressure before a storm, making it impossible to exhale freely.

I saw it.

He saw it.

That's a "wall," a "door." We must knock on the gates of heaven, open it, let the resistance inside escape, and shatter it!
"call."

"suck."

With his chest heaving violently and a hurricane-like sound echoing around him, Liang Qu opened his eyes and slowly withdrew from the cramped box.

We can't push it open, and we can't push it open now.

He didn't know what would happen if he broke through to Martial Saint again in the Blood River Realm, or if a second Blood River Stele would appear, which would be terrible.

"Ha! This is what it feels like to knock on the gates of heaven!"

Liang Qu clenched his fist, filled with excitement.

Pluck a single fruit, and gaze towards the heavenly gate!

As long as we can knock on the door...

After circulating the "Ten Thousand Victories Embracing the Origin" technique for a while, Liang Qu forcibly suppressed his excitement.

It's time to go back.

Judging by the time, the Hebosuo fleet has been heading south and should be arriving at Nanhai County soon, with an error margin of no more than three days.

Previously.

Having been a member of the Heavenly Fire Sect for several months, I've gradually become familiar with its comings and goings and no longer need to be too cautious.

"Let's go to the desert."

Extremes beget their opposites; things reach their extremes and change; water brings disaster.

He vaguely grasped the pattern of how the results appeared.

The Ba Fruit appears in a pure blue lake, where water vapor and malevolent energy converge and are born.

The Ba Fruit ascends to the level of the Green Maiden, and is then consumed and burned by Martial Saints and Demon Kings to quell the calamities.

Based on this pattern, it's unclear where Fei Guo and Yong Guo will appear.

However, the floods were a boon...

……

Yellow sand fills the sky.

In December, despite being in the desert, the sun is high in the sky, and the midday temperature is still not high, so you need to wear a cotton-padded coat.

Liang Qu bent his palm to build a sunshade, and with his golden eyes he observed the world.

Beneath the celestial axis and terrestrial axis, all kinds of qi (vital energy) have nowhere to hide, displaying a myriad of colors.

Despite not finding the target, the journey was filled with unexpected surprises.

"A brilliant idea is coming out soon, what a coincidence!"

Riding a dragon, it soared into the sky.

He drew his spear, twirled it, and slashed vertically.

The world was black and white, deathly silent.

boom!
The earth churned.

His body hit the ground.

In a small tribe not far away, the chieftain, wrapped in a fur coat, pushed aside his maid and scrambled to his feet in fear.

"What happened? Quick, quick, go and investigate!"

The dragon-spirit silk fluttered in the wind.

Liang Qu stood at the dragon's head, carrying a spear and waiting.

The twenty-mile-long canyon appeared out of nowhere, with quicksand cascading down on both sides like waterfalls and springs.

The workings of nature are subtly changing.

Half an hour later.

Ze Ding trembled.

[If a wisp of yellow sand is obtained and merged with the essence of ten thousand lakes, a spirit fish will be born, which can elevate one to a higher level of status and favor.]

Inside the cauldron, three long strands of energy—one yellow, one red, and one green—intertwined.

An unexpected surprise.

"Has it crossed the border?" Liang Qu looked up at the sun, took out a map, and pointed it in the right direction.

"Marquis of Xingyi!?"

(End of this chapter)