Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 1168 Yan Lai Ye (Part 2)

"Woo~~~"

The yak horn blared into the sky, and Heyuan Prefecture trembled with the sound. After finishing their morning drills, the soldiers, who had not yet eaten or rested, donned their armor, mounted their horses again, and picked up their spears.

"Hurry, hurry, assemble at the drill ground! Assemble at the drill ground! There's no time to eat now, we'll eat when we get back. A-Wu, go and notify the first, second, and third battalions to assemble right now!" Yang Xu rushed into the camp, banged on the gong, and interrupted one non-commissioned officer after another who was sitting down to eat.

A-Wu grabbed a mouthful of rice from the bucket and stood up.

"General, what has happened?"

"Something has happened in the Southern Frontier. There are no fewer than a dozen Martial Saints and Great Shamans fighting each other. The Northern Court is taking advantage of the situation to move south. The Dragon Elephant Martial Saint and the Wolf Lord have already started fighting. Shuofeng, Quanwang, Yingyang, and Qingwang have joined the battle. There are also more Martial Saints moving behind. The Eight Beasts have already moved. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Put on your armor! Put on your armor! Within ten breaths, all of you must assemble."

Everyone was startled and put down their bowls and chopsticks. Suddenly, a strong wind howled, and the tent shook violently.

Yang Xu stepped out of the tent and looked up.

Meteors streaked across the sky from south to north, colliding and creating dazzling sparks that spread outwards, turning half the sky's clouds into a fiery spectacle.

The crisscrossing gales shattered the sky, like smashing solid ice in a water tank with a stone in the morning.

The one at the beginning of the year was more chaotic and larger than the one in the middle of last year.

"Quickly, quickly, assemble!"

A strong wind howled, and inside the golden tent, a meteor streaked across the sky, heading straight south. The Great Khan of the Northern Court gripped his astrolabe tightly, and seeing the border generals responding simultaneously, he let out a long sigh of relief.

"Pass on my order: summon the Shuobei and Naiman..."

"Father, after the great war two years ago, the various tribes have not yet had a chance to recover and are quite resentful. The internal strife in the west has not been quelled either. If we rush to send troops now, wouldn't that just add to the chaos?"

"Foolish! Incurable idiots!" the Khan roared. "The people of Da Shun say that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold. Now we're letting the Southern Frontier suffer a bitter battle alone. Once they're completely defeated, they won't recover for decades. Then Da Shun, this fierce tiger, can focus on dealing with us. Life will be ten times, a hundred times harder than it is now! This isn't a battle of chance, but a top-down, south-to-north pressure!"

"Great Khan, the second demon king of Jianghuai has arrived in the southern border! The Sea Monk of the East Sea has also arrived!"

"Merchants are treacherous, let alone demons. If they dare to go to the Southern Frontier today, they will dare to come to my Northern Court tomorrow. I hereby issue the following order: From now on, no sea merchants are allowed to trade in the waters above and below my Northern Court, and the Eight Departments are not allowed to communicate with each other. Anyone who disobeys this order will be executed. Even the Mermaid King and the Sea Monk are not allowed!"

……

The anchor crashed down, shattering the mountain peaks, sending rocks tumbling down and creating towering waves.

Dust billowed up, only to be suppressed by a torrential downpour.

A massive black shadow broke through the murky water and descended upon the mountain. A large, robust frog with a curved head and colorful red cloud-like patterns on its body flattened the mountain peak, stretched out its belly, picked up a large anchor from the ground, and carried it on its shoulder.

Before the great shaman of the southern border could examine it closely...

Dark shadows floated in the Lucang River, and a black tortoise shell floated on the water, bulging up into a hill. After reaching a height of ten feet, the surface tension of the water could not be maintained, and it broke open from the top, splashing water and churning down the torrent, forming layers of white foam.

The tortoise shell is shiny, containing the three elements of heaven, earth, and man, and its profound meaning is mysterious.

Frog King, Turtle King.

The two kings of Jianghuai arrived together.

Thunder rumbled and claps echoed.

The Great Shaman of Southern Xinjiang and the Martial Saint of Great Shun clashed, their attacks intertwined, both ignoring the arrival of the Demon King.

The two kings remained unmoved, the mountain dragon remained unmoved, and the great shaman of the southern border also remained unmoved.

On the surface, the two demon kings are heading towards the white ape and the dragon. If we rashly make a move, we will only drag them into a vortex of conflict, making the situation even more unfavorable and the battle will become one-sided!
With the Great Shun Martial Saint in front, the Demon King descending from the side, and white apes and dragons running rampant behind... if this continues, even the previously separated Lu Cang River and Lao Ai Mountain may not be able to hold on.

Da Shun dared not actively invite disaster, lest he displease the Demon King and ruin the excellent situation.

However, no matter how much you ignore it, what is meant to come will still come, and what is not meant to come will also come.

The actions of the Northern Court caused concern for the Martial Saint of the Great Shun Dynasty, but the Great Shaman of the Southern Frontier was not pleased.

The shadows rise again over the Lu Cang River, its eight legs spread out extravagantly, its size boundless.

Following the turtle and frog kings, the third king has appeared.

East Sea Demon King!

"Sea Monk!" Centipede withdrew and spat, "You are a sea merchant and a water beast. You should be neutral between the two races and the two nations. Your actions today are a disgrace to your eight claws! After today, when I, the Dragon King of the Lu Cang River, achieve my goal, my Southern Frontier will never trade with sea merchants for generations to come!"

Umibozu felt ashamed.

She gave Centipede an apologetic look, then her expression turned serious, and she looked south.

The two "mountains" follow the river, shimmering and shifting sideways.

After circling the heart of southern Xinjiang, a revitalized white ape dragging a dragon suddenly appears at the Lucang River.

The turbid waves parted, white steam billowed, and a faint golden light floated in the air.

Umibozu gathered his thoughts, spread out his eight arms and legs, like a peony in full bloom.

"Turtle King, Frog King!"

Two golden lights shot out, and the white ape leaped out of the river without stopping, rushing straight forward and plunging into the blooming peony stamen from top to bottom.

Wow.

The white ape sank, causing the water to churn.

With its eight legs intertwined, Umibozu completely enveloped the white ape's limbs, like a closed flower bud. Every muscle was writhing and changing, spreading out and reshaping like liquid.

The two kings moved in unison, gathering wind and thunder, and joined forces side by side.

歘.

The dragon followed closely behind the white ape, its body covered in white mist that clung to its scales, flowing like long ribbons. Its vertical pupils, like the sun, faced the combined power of the two kings without showing any change in expression.

The anchor shell emerged, and the water surged.

The upstream and downstream sections were breached simultaneously, exposing the riverbed silt.

The two colossal black shadows retreated violently. The Frog King crashed into the mountain peak, and the Turtle King sank into the riverbed. Both kings coughed up blood. The Flood Dragon was unharmed, paused slightly, stared intently at the White Ape, swung its tail, and continued forward.

At the river exit, crossing the eddy current escape path, General Yuan, rushing to provide support, smoothly reversed his turtle claws, paused briefly, and paddled back. Monkeys on the mountain clung to the rocks, jumping and stomping with their feet, screaming continuously.

Life is in grave danger.

"Work together!"

The roar rose again.

The snow-white ape, its golden eyes blazing, leaped out amidst the splashing water.

The shimmering waters of the Lucang River reflect the burning golden light.

In his field of vision, Liang Qu no longer saw himself through the water droplets floating in the air, but a "solid" white ape, with unprecedented power bursting out from its body.

"Roar!!!"

A white ape descended from the sky, its canine teeth bared, and slammed its fists together in a downward strike.

The two king turtles and frogs escaped the mud, shed their anchors and shells, and launched another attack.

Shell! Anchor! Fist!
The dragon tried to raise its head to resist, but upon meeting the golden eyes, it suddenly felt weak and sore.

Boom!
Ripples spread across the water's surface, and dust billowed up for miles.

The cannon punches slammed down, causing the dragon's skull to ache. Unable to withstand the combined attack of the three kings, the dragon's head crashed into the riverbed, leaving only its body thrashing about.

Halfway there, General Yuan's tortoise claws flipped back, as if he had just pushed back to gather strength, and he launched forward. The Shoushan monkeys, bathed in the storm, raised their monkey hands and cheered.

The dragon's head buried itself in the riverbed, emitting a large amount of white steam, followed by a roaring and shaking sound overhead.

"Come again!"

The Turtle King rotated with its shell on, surrounded by a gentle breeze; the Frog King twisted its body while holding the anchor, like swinging a chain ball; the White Ape gripped the two dragon horns, its muscles bulging, its body stretched like a bow, violently lifting the dragon's head.

The vulnerable jawline is exposed.

The tortoise shell struck, and the anchor was hooked.

"I'm coming too!"

Shoushan Mountain bursts through the rain curtain, and the monkeys on the mountaintop beat their chests and howl while being rained on. Turtle claws slap the water's surface, and General Yuan, separated by a hundred miles, strikes the dragon across the river, with water columns striking horizontally!

"Crack!"

The five kings joined forces to attack, and the river god and the water beast displayed their power. The scales on the dragon's lower jaw cracked, and drops of blood seeped out, scattering into the great river. The dragon, along with its thousand-foot-long body, was sent flying backward.

Boom boom boom.

The dragon's body swept across the earth, smashing the mountains.

Rolling around.

Countless wild beasts exploded into blood and gore, the lush green ground was flattened, revealing muddy red soil.

Meng Yi, who had suffered a crushing defeat at the front lines, secretly cheered.

A fight would be the worst thing; the real disaster would be a staged scheme to trap the Southern Frontier. Compared to that, the Demon King's choice of the Southern Frontier as the battlefield is insignificant.

Who will win?
"Our combination attack is truly exhilarating!" General Yuan, standing shoulder to shoulder with the three kings, showed no embarrassment.

Ignoring General Yuan's petty tricks, Liang Qujin focused his attention on the dragon in the mountains. Regardless of any ulterior motives, he decided to join forces now, as they were all in the same boat.

"Little Water, the dragon is very powerful and wasn't seriously injured." The voice of the Sea Monk rang in my ears.

"I know."

Having swallowed his body, which contained the seeds of dew and creation, the dragon indirectly received the essence of the water. Influenced by the golden eyes [divine power], it became weak and powerless whenever it attacked, but that was a significant weakening in attack, not a sign that it had become fragile.

"Are you alright?" Liang Qu clenched his fist.

“It’s alright. When you transform into a white ape, a layer of ‘water shell’ will gather around you, protecting me inside. Moreover, my vital organs can move. You focus on dealing with the dragon and don’t worry about me.”

"be careful."

"Hmm, what's next?"

"It depends on the situation..."

The two demons whispered to each other, a conversation kept secret from outsiders.

The old Octopus King once possessed the ability to transform flesh and blood into different species. One of his tentacles could transform into various large fish, or even be grafted onto other demons to monitor them, forcing the Sea Monk to be unable to transmit messages. This was originally a divine dragon creation cultivated on the basis of the Octopus Clan's innate talent. The Sea Monk of the same clan was no exception. When Long E Ying was piecing together his corpse, the Sea Monk threw a wrist tip as a "flesh-repairing agent" to heal the wounds.

With this function, it would be too dangerous for the newly crowned Demon King to directly participate in the battle, and he would also lack lethal means. So Liang Qu simply discussed it with the Sea Monk and merged into one, completely transforming into "flesh replenishment" and becoming a "solid white ape".

With eight claws and no bones, its entire body is made of strong muscles, making it even stronger than a python. When the two demon kings merge into one, the power they unleash is more than doubled, and it doesn't even affect the use of [Water Travel].

A bright white light shone, illuminating the world.

The clouds that had been gathering in the sky broke apart, and lightning and fire crisscrossed the sky.

Amidst the mountains, a dragon, covered in muddy red soil, slowly rose, shook its head to shake off the mud, its claws crushing the mountain peaks, its whiskers swaying, and stared directly at the Five Kings.

Having cultivated for so long, the appearance of the dragon is no different from that of a real dragon. When the rainstorm washes over it, the red soil turns bright red, and blood-like droplets cling to its scales as it is washed away. Its divine power is unfathomable.

The previous combined attack had even damaged their vulnerable jaw, leaving only a handful of dragon scales broken.

The dragon claws wiped the mud and water from its lower jaw.

The dragon paid no attention, its golden eyes sweeping over the Frog King before looking at the two Turtle Kings and the White Ape.

“Turtle King, General Peng Zeyuan, the cultivation of the turtle clan is not easy, and the Twenty-Four Solar Terms are even more difficult. As the leader of the water beasts, I will withdraw today, and it will be as if nothing happened. Sea Monk, you should also withdraw. From now on, sea merchants will still be able to travel freely in the Jianghuai Great Marshland.”

Silence.

The dragon looked at the mountain dragon again: "You are also of the same kind. If you help me today, I will help you succeed in the future."

The mountain dragon looked at the Flood Dragon, then at the white ape, and swayed its body, snaked back half a body, giving up the battlefield on the river. From the beginning, the pseudo-dragon of the Southern Frontier had not moved. Even when faced with the Great Shun Martial Saint's intense pressure on the Great Shaman of the Southern Frontier, it did not take any action, just like an outsider dragon, staying out of the matter.

"Neither side will help the other? That's fine too."

After saying this, the dragon's head spun in mid-air, and the dragon suddenly soared into the sky, raising half of its body to look down from above.

Lightning flashed, and the monkeys of Shoushan Mountain, terrified, fled into their caves.

"The demons of the world think I am insidious, but in reality, my magnanimity is no less than that of the old dragon king. Turtle King, General Peng Zeyuan, Sea Monk, Frog King, before the outcome of today's battle is decided, regardless of who is better or worse, you may leave at any time and I will forgive your past mistakes. But after the battle, it will be out of our hands."

"on!"

He abruptly interrupted the conversation, the white ape gripped the water dragon pillar with its five fingers, and tore through the rain curtain.

The Frog King leaped off the ground, the Turtle King retreated into its shell and spun around, while General Yuan circled around, waiting for an opportunity.

Attack from all four directions.

Lightning bolts grew in the sky, and a dragon raised its head, splitting its head and tail in two, swimming to the left and right!
boom!
The water column left a lingering image. A dragon was lifted up by the white ape dragon pillar, collided and glided along the river surface, splashing up huge waves. Another dragon entangled the two turtles and the three frog kings, and the dragon and tiger fought fiercely.

"Xiao Shui, it's that move from the middle of the year!"

"I know, that suits me perfectly!"

The white ape roared, spinning the water dragon pillar, and slashed down from the sky. Wherever the staff struck, the colors dimmed and the black lines broke.

The "half" dragon sidestepped the dragon pillar, coiled itself, and leaped, then wrapped itself around the pillar and spun upwards, revealing its venomous fangs as it bit at the exposed neck.

With its right hand grasping, the dragon pillar crumbled. The white ape then grabbed a long river with its left hand, gathering it into a water stick, which violently extended and rammed into the dragon.

The dragon crouched low, avoiding the dragon horn and the top of the staff. Without needing to use the dragon pillar to spiral upwards, it rose into the air as if by magic. Unexpectedly, the straight staff above its head suddenly turned in mid-air, transforming from a staff into a spear, and then from a spear into a dragon. The dragon bared its teeth and claws, knocking it away once again.

The dragon, flying across the river, touched the water with its tail, its thousand-foot body flashed, and it leaped directly behind the white ape. The white ape, in turn, used the "Water Travel" technique to flash back behind the dragon.

The two demon kings took turns spinning close to him.

Meng Yi climbed to the top of the mountain, but with his eyesight, he couldn't see how the two demon kings were fighting. He then looked at the other side.

The surging waves rose, and the Lu Cang River was in turmoil.

Without the suppression of the white ape [Divine Might], the Turtle King, Frog King, and General Yuan were caught in a fierce battle. The Frog King fought hard, his great anchor whistling through the air; the Turtle King stood at the forefront, enduring the dragon's attacks, occasionally scolding General Yuan for slacking off, not using his true abilities, breaking his promise, and being unworthy of the Turtle Clan.

The monkeys of Shoushan waved stones from the mountain, throwing them at the dragon whenever they had the chance. However, the monkeys were small and weak, and the dragon did not even notice that monkeys were throwing stones at it from the mountain until the monkey king ran into the monkey troop's latrine on the back mountain, picked up a stick, and threw it with all his might.

A wooden stick mixed with red clay fell.

The dragon's golden eyes darted around, and it turned its spear around.

General Yuan cried out in despair, forced to replace the Western Water Turtle King as the vanguard of the attack.

The riverbed is both exposed and covered.

In the battle between turtles and frogs, the dragon resembles a dragon but not a snake.

On the battlefield of the white ape, the dragon resembles a snake but not a dragon.

The dragon swept across the battlefield with cold eyes, multitasking and fighting against two sides simultaneously.

The white ape was strange; once he faced it, he felt inexplicably powerless. The combined power of the five kings was relentless, leaving him only able to passively take hits. Rather than that, it would be better to actively divide the battlefield, sending one part of himself to hold off the turtle and frog kings without suppression, preventing them from interfering, and making General Yuan hesitate. Then, he could send another part to deal with the white ape alone!

Transforming into a supernatural being, shedding one's serpentine form and creating a new destiny, is not about splitting into two, each retaining half or even less of its strength, but rather about each retaining more than seventy percent.

If the white ape can't suppress its strength, then use the snake form.

Snakes, with their fangs still intact and venom sacs still present, are masters of defeating the strong with the weak, achieving victory in a single strike.

The dragon, defying the natural order, overwhelmed the three kings.

"They must not be allowed to merge."

"Is it possible to go around the Yangtze and Huai Rivers?"

The white ape and the dragon flashed by extremely fast, each with their own thoughts. In front of the Great Shaman and the Martial Saint, they rushed out of the Lu Cang River, transformed into shooting stars, and rushed into the heart of the Southern Frontier.

Aside from the addition of the Sea Monk to his body, the dragon clone was 30% weaker, but it seemed as if nothing had changed, and he was back to his previous state.

The battlefield in the southern border region was like a quagmire, with everyone wanting to get involved, and even dragons and white apes rampaging around as if no one else was there.

Before the chieftain of Jiuzhaigou could no longer stay by the star chart, he ventured into the mountains and found an old man fishing while wearing a straw hat, and knelt down on the ground.

Waterfalls cascade down, and schools of fish swim around them.

Rainwater trickled down the straw hat, and the silver threads on the pole swayed.

"It's just the fall of one man from Pantong. Throughout history, there have been far more difficult times than this. Why bother me with such a trivial matter?"

"Today, it may seem that one person has fallen, but in reality, it means that the opportunity for our Southern Frontier is precarious and turbulent. Jiuzhaigou is loosely organized, and I cannot hold them tightly. If we lose the opportunity and do not seize the chance to rise, we can only watch the Great Shun Dynasty reign supreme for a thousand years."

"I will not make a move."

"Why?" the chieftain choked up. "I am your eighteenth-generation descendant."

The old man in the straw hat shook the pole: "Many things are too far in the past for you to understand. If I don't move, the Whale King will also have difficulty moving. If I do move, the Whale King will have an excuse to intervene. Let's wait and see."

Whale King?

The chieftain's thoughts were stuck.

The battle lines have been stretched out, with two dragons each going their own way.

After leaving the Lu Cang River, the white ape and the dragon no longer simply fled, but engaged in a fierce battle, frequently draining the river and sweeping across the mountains. They moved as elusively as dragonflies among rapeseed flowers, sometimes hovering and sometimes turning. Without the assistance of the three great demon kings, and with only the sea monk possessing him, Liang Qu found the battle increasingly difficult, feeling that the dragon's methods and supernatural powers were just as endless.

"Has Xiaoshui figured out what's going on?"

"There are some discrepancies, but not many."

"Can you win?"

Grabbing the dragon's horn, the white ape flipped and slammed it down. The dragon soared into the air, unharmed, then turned and bit back. Two water dragons wrapped around its arms, pulling the white ape away. The white ape and the dragon disappeared from the spot, one after the other.

"Yes! I told you, this suits me perfectly, Frog King! Shake it off!"

The old toad stretched out its long whiskers.

"backward!"

Sensing the great shaman of the southern border, the white ape that had jumped into the heart of the land turned back, shook off the dragon, and headed north a second time!
(End of this chapter)