Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 1206 Use First, Pay Later, Thunder Tribulation Transforms into Treasure (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Two Chapters Combined)

"Stab~"

Rubbing the collar with my fingertips, I could smell the burnt iron.

“If you bake it any longer, it will burn. I don’t care about this precious garment. Give it to me, alter it, and keep it for my disciple to wear.”

Why is the weather so humid and stuffy today? It shouldn't be like this in the dry and cold winter.

Wu Lingxu loosened his fingers, turned his neck, and felt the friction between his clothes and the skin of his neck. It was always uncomfortable to wash clothes on rainy days and not be able to dry them in the sun, so he had to let them slowly air dry. Even if he used his qi and blood to steam them dry, the moisture would soon adhere to them again. It was very unusual.

"Is it going to rain heavily?" Fei Taiyu looked up at the sky, his gaze piercing through the dome, and a chess piece fell between his fingers. "As people live longer, they're bound to encounter some unusual weather..."

Thick clouds gathered in the distance, with two flashes of white light occasionally leaping out from within their dark gray interior.

"Crackling..."

One by one, the remnants of the netherworld's flesh pills tumbled along the blood groove, bouncing endlessly. The scarlet pills rolled to the bottom and melted, their viscous blood clinging to the ghost mother and seeping into her interior.

The Ghost Mother's Cave was shrouded in a hazy, red light, a mixture of reality and illusion, light and darkness, clarity and obscurity...

Two hands held up the treasure vase, turning back and forth like lotus leaves, reflecting on the stone wall. The five fingers were slender, and the beautiful and smooth arms of the ghost mother were like gray snakes intertwined, suddenly overlapping.

The small asteroids in the "death" position gradually shifted to the "life" position!

In an instant.

All the people and beasts living in the marshland felt a strong and powerful suction force, trying to pull them away from this place. Their bodies sank uncontrollably downwards, as if sinking into the abyss of the sea, with nowhere to lean on in the sky or on the ground.

"Croak!" The frog guerrilla panicked, clinging tightly to the anchor and kicking its legs.

"Croak!" The fat catfish frantically thrashed its small fins on both sides, struggling to swim upwards.

Wu Cangshou took a step forward, jumped with all his might, and landed on the fat catfish's head. He patted the catfish's claws, urging it to climb faster, no, to swim harder.

The afterimage above my head flickered, and colorful lights flashed.

The old toad, having broken through the hard stone skin, leaped out and lingered for a long time. In mid-air, it grabbed the frog's leg and, through somersaults, managed to hover, performing a flawless spin and displaying its power.

Piece after piece of grayish-white toad skin was torn off, flung off by the old toad, and swallowed by the frog's mouth before it could be thrown away.

Head, back, abdomen, buttocks, hands, legs... all the limbs, down to the last arm, were shed, leaving only two thin flaps on the frog's eyes.

The old toad didn't stop; it kept spinning.

"Are you done yet?" Wu Cangshou didn't understand. Old Toad had clearly timed it, so why was everyone almost at their limit, yet the task wasn't finished? He kept urging them on.

"Adversity makes one stronger." Liang Qufu suddenly realized, and shouted, "Congratulations, Frog Master! Congratulations, Frog Master! You have become a great demon!"
Great indeed is the divine being, adapting to the changing times. Born in response to destiny, acting in accordance with Heaven's will. The dragon leaps majestically, the roc soars freely. It has overthrown the frog clan, and thus has defiled the heavenly realm!

"Thorn."

The seven-colored light was so dazzling that it obscured the surrounding environment.

With a few scattered fragments, the old toad grabbed with its webbed feet, tore off the last two grayish pieces of toad skin from its frog eyes, stuffed them into its mouth and swallowed them whole. It stretched out its limbs, its light rapidly receding, and landed heavily on the ground, croaking wildly to the sky.

The croaking of frogs was astonishing, resounding throughout the heavens and earth, even penetrating the marshland and echoing the Blood River.

A large fish in the riverbed startled and swung its tail, creating ripples.

Liang Qu opened his eyes wide.

His physique hasn't changed; he's still a spherical figure, as tall as one person and as wide as one person.

The color is such a rich green paint!
The old toad is brownish-yellow with a hint of sky blue, the most common color among frogs. Its belly is round and pure white, and it has toad bumps on the two ridges on its back.

Now the bumps have turned dark gold. At first glance, the surface color is still greenish-blue, but it actually has a layer of colorful "oil sheen", as if organic oil is floating on the surface of water, spreading out a thin film of rainbow light when viewed from the side, with the colors constantly changing!

It looks extraordinary.

"Quack!!!"

Frogs stretch out their webbed feet, pierce through the water, and clasp their hands tightly together.

"Lord Liang, you flatter me beyond words, I am deeply grateful!"

"Frog King, you uphold the good without exceeding its merits, and condemn the evil without overstating its faults. Throughout history, among all demons, only Frog King has ever been one! Even the great demon has never been one! And from now on, the Demon King will be none other than Frog King!"

“Liang Qing! Considering the high position and the danger it poses, one should think of humility and self-discipline.”

"Frog Master! A true gentleman, he cultivates himself with humility."

"Liang..."

"You two, what are you babbling about? The Heavenly Tribulation is almost reaching the Underworld, is it over yet? Didn't they say that if the people of the Underworld find out, you're dead? If you're over, get out of here. You're going to get struck sooner or later, whether you stick your head out or not, you're going to get struck! There's no escaping it!" Wu Cangshou stood on the fat catfish's head and cursed loudly, not even bothering to address him as the Prince of Huai.

"Frog Master, how is it?" Liang Qu asked expectantly.

Pay later, now's the time!
The old toad, refreshed and no longer showing signs of decline or aging, stood with his webbed feet on his hips, exuding an air of authority: "I have become a great demon. A mere tribulation is nothing to me! Now, follow my command. I will make the following arrangements..."

Boom~
Dark clouds descended, and lightning struck the Blood River, exposing its riverbed, which was surrounded by a ring of crystal stones.

"There's no time to give orders, Frog King, go out and redeploy!"

If the Heavenly Fire Sect discovers that he can come and go freely, it will attract a heavenly tribulation and send him to the underworld, which will surely be a disaster. Liang Qu gave up resisting, grabbed the old toad's webbed feet, and made the entire swamp country follow the pull and sink downwards.

It felt like I was on a roller coaster, and a chill ran down my lower abdomen.

The old toad and frog croaked loudly.

Not long.

As the people and beasts continued to fall, they were overjoyed to see "bodies" that were exactly the same as their own. At the same time, the old toad's "body" also underwent a transformation, covered with a layer of stone skin and bursting with countless cracks, radiating a seven-colored precious light.

The old toad was overjoyed.

Eat it one more time!
As frogs grow and mature, they shed their skin, just like snakes and lizards. The toad skin shed by frogs is considered a highly nutritious substance.

Traction, sinking.

The transparent barrier returned, and everyone, beast and human, paused, falling back into their own bodies, reborn from the dead, becoming one with the other…

"Boom..."

Long Eying stared intently at the sculpture, while Hai Fangzhu waited outside.

Fishing boats on the pier bobbed and swayed with the waves, making a clanging sound. Doors and thresholds collided, and half of the bright red Spring Festival couplets, made of sticky glutinous rice paste, fluttered wildly in the air, with a corner of the character "福" (fortune) shaking in the wind. A strong wind swept up fallen leaves, withered grass, and dust, creating ripples on the river's surface.

Big Fatty and Second Fatty's two frog legs trembled, while the turtle demon half-shrank its head and looked around.

The Martial Saint and the Demon King positioned themselves in the Big Dipper constellation, their eyes fixed on the dark clouds overhead.

A flash of white light disappeared, followed by thunderous roars and the growth of branching electric trees.

Again!
The sudden lightning strike and mysterious disappearance just now were a feint. Now that it's boiling again, could it be a real heavenly tribulation?
A thunderbolt from the blue sky, a lightning bolt streaking across the sky.

A thunder dragon coiled around and crashed down!

The thunder dragon descended from mid-air, its body graceful and its head ferocious. Without any strange disappearance from mid-air, it fell straight down.

"it is true!"

King Yue was certain. With a flash of his spear, he flicked his wrist, and the spear wrapped around the thunder dragon. He controlled the direction, bent the shaft, and flicked the spearhead. The thunder dragon split in two, transforming into two smaller dragons that intertwined and circled each other.

Behind the King of Yue, the Vajra King Buddha sat cross-legged, his body a hundred feet tall. Golden light emanated from his hands, which he clenched and crushed, turning two small dragons into ten thousand electric snakes that flowed into the great swamp.

A flash of white light appeared in the turbulent swamp, and the underwater world was instantly brightened. Big Fatty and Second Fatty felt a tingling sensation all over their bodies, like when they were kids eating fish and the fish found an opportunity to bite their tongues.

It's uncomfortable, but acceptable.

"It's not over!"

King Su shouted in a low voice, changed his footing, and pulled King Yue and King Ming backward.

Lightning flashes and dragons leap, thunder roars and rain falls.

Thunder roared, rain fell, and the wind howled even stronger.

It rained heavily.

The second electric dragon, mixed with rainwater, illuminated the darkness and fell straight down.

The electric arcs on the dragon's body danced and shimmered along the raindrops, drawing them out as if it were growing flowing manes all over its body.

Under the leadership of King Su, the forces of heaven and earth were manipulated.

The Big Dipper turned its "spoon" shape, with the Frog King in front and the Turtle King next. The Frog King took off first, and the dark red anchor extended and retracted, hooking the agile electric dragon. The Frog King gripped the anchor handle with its webbed feet, twisted, pulled and yanked, and removed the dragon's head.

The dragon's head and body separated and fell.

The Turtle King retracted all five limbs, transforming into a large, shiny black shell. With a powerful thrust, the black shell smashed the dragon's head and body, then transformed into ten thousand electric snakes that slid off the smooth shell, illuminating the great swamp once more.

The frog and turtle tribes shook.

Disrupt the trend, decompose, guide...

The initial test was not difficult. King Yue and King Ming, who made the first move, even recovered faster because they cooperated and restrained their strength. At this moment, there was no trace of their attack. Even if the Thunder Dragon were ten times stronger, it could still be weakened layer by layer and withstand the attack without taking any damage.

If they really do fall one by one...

Boom~
The Leichi Pool boiled again, and the water that had been brewing in the copper kettle for a long time finally boiled.

The Frog King shouldered the massive anchor, and the King of Yue gripped his spear tightly. Suddenly, from within the dark clouds, viscous plasma liquefied, revealing a pale blue thunder dragon's tail. Then came a second, a third, a fourth...

The pale blue light was mixed with deep blue, and within the deep blue, a faint purple light flickered and danced.

The dragons' bodies were intertwined in a dense array, and they danced wildly in the Thunder Pool!
Clearly! Nothing is ever perfect, and nothing can be achieved in two ways. The lightning tribulations wouldn't strike one at a time. Three lightning dragons struck down simultaneously!

"Wow."

The Spring Festival couplets could no longer hold on and were torn off the lintel by the wind, swept into the air, and shredded into pieces.

The spearhead and the large anchor emerged together.

The great lake flickered repeatedly.

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple. Why would the heavenly tribulations come one after another?" The Central General of the Seven Stars withstood the falling lightning, cleaved the little dragon in two with his claws, and directed it towards the Great Swamp. He inadvertently noticed a gash on his tortoise claw and felt a pang of heartache. "Damn it, how can a demon who has ascended to become a great demon be more powerful than a demon king?"

Heavenly tribulations have spirits.

If three aren't enough, let's add five!
The Big Dipper constellation can be integrated into a unified whole to a certain extent.

Prince Su and Prince Jing, acting as the core of the formation, each destroyed one of the five. The Frog King and Prince Yue then used the same tactic, with General Yuan leading the charge, to destroy the fifth one, causing their condition to decline.

Big Fatty and Second Fatty trembled in succession. The dozens of demons were all affected by the lightning bolts, which were not fatal, but they were still shocked, giving them an indescribable fear.

"careful!"

King Su suddenly shouted.

Everyone sensed that two hundred miles away, in the East River, three “river stones” suddenly coalesced into one, then vanished in a flash, and floated back to their sides.

All people and beasts must rouse their spirits, knowing that the real boss has appeared; now is the moment of true confrontation!
Almost at the same time.

The vast marsh was pitch black, as were the dark clouds, except for a brilliant flash of lightning in the center of the sky.

The divine waves surged and roared, tearing apart everything in their path, thundering and shattering the sun.

The aura of the calamity clouds surged once more.

Ten thunder dragons roared down!

The densely interwoven power grids illuminated my pupils.

The sky and earth were a blur of light and shadow as a giant ape, thirty feet long, leaped through the air and burst out of the water!

Liang Qu grabbed the four thunder dragons by their seven-inch mark with both hands and feet. With a roar, he gripped their bodies tightly and smashed them apart. The remaining six dragons attacked, but were blocked by the spearhead and the Buddha's True Qi.

boom!
The strong wind dispersed the water mist
The golden Buddha statue cracked open and was slowly repaired; General Yuan broke off half of his tortoise claw and cried out in pain.

Looking at the white ape again, its fur was slightly charred and its palms were burned, but it was not seriously injured. Enveloped by the swirling waters of the marshland, it recovered in the blink of an eye.

“Ape King…” King Su’s gaze was solemn.

In the middle of last year, the dragon traveled upstream and saw the white ape who had just been promoted to demon king. Now, looking at it again, its aura was incredibly powerful, a mere year and a half later.

"The reincarnation of the Demon Emperor...?"

Suddenly, it took flight in an even more astonishing manner, accompanied by a thunderous roar as the dragon and snake came to life.

The more obstacles there were, the more the Thunder Pool boiled, giving no one a chance to breathe. The moment the white ape leaped out of the underworld, the Heavenly Tribulation and Duobao were only separated by a swamp. They could no longer stop the scattered thunder dragons from finding their target, and the dragons stretched out their heads!
"Xiao Shui!"

"clear."

Liang Qu dodged to the side, wielding a water jet to bombard the thunder dragon. A searing pain spread through his palm, the lightning striking like a venomous snake.

Contrary to what Prince Su had imagined, the white ape did not appear as relaxed as he thought. This heavenly tribulation was extremely penetrating, and looking at Prince Su and the others, they shouldn't be acting so exaggeratedly.

Is it [Spirit Transformation]?
Each time he transforms into a spirit, he draws upon the image of the white ape seen by others in the water. With this thought in mind, Liang Qu ignites his inner fire, and in an instant, water mist spreads out, only to be controlled and swept back, gradually replacing the white ape that has been transformed into spirit in the river, turning it into distilled water, and greatly reducing the burning pain in his palm.

it works!

The thunder dragon danced wildly, never ceasing for a moment, its surging true energy, supernatural powers, and spells filling the heavens and earth.

The Buddha statue clasps its hands together, soldiers weave through the crowd, and a giant anchor and a tortoise shell intertwine.

Prince Su, surrounded by shimmering light, devoured the thunder dragon like locusts until it was reduced to bone and vanished without a trace; Prince Jing created a clone, which disappeared, and the thunder dragon vanished as well.

Liang Qu leaped and flashed to support all sides, swirling water dragon pillars and stirring up surging eddies.

With nine beings of the sixth realm working together, the Heavenly Tribulation was temporarily unable to overcome them. However, both sides had to determine a winner, and under no circumstances should they attempt to compete with Heaven and Earth in a prolonged contest.

It seems to be holding up well right now, but in reality, it's like a frog being slowly boiled in water.

Where is the turning point?

"Frog Lord! What about your command and deployment?" Liang Qu asked urgently, wielding the dragon pillar and shattering the thunder dragon.

The old toad grabbed the fat catfish's long whiskers: "Move five miles to the left, and use Liang Qing's move, the Water Column! Pierce them!"

Without asking what the point was, Liang Qu turned around and said, "Prince Su! I need an opportunity!"

"it is good!"

Without asking any questions, Prince Su took half a step forward, and the stars in the sky manifested as phantom images, blocking the falling lightning.

The white ape clenched its fists and grasped at the air, causing the entire swamp to tremble like a bed sheet. From the center, it pulled out a water dragon that soared into the sky, connecting the Yellow Springs below and the clouds above.

The old toad tugged again: "Three miles to the right, insert it again!"

The thunder dragon circled around and struck down.

Prince Su raised his hand and grabbed the dragon's tail in front of the white ape, throwing the thunder dragon out, only to have it shattered by Prince Jing.

The white ape roared.

The water column shot skyward again!

Two straight columns of water pierced the thundercloud, like a pair of straight chopsticks. The originally graceful thunder dragon seemed to be clamped by the chopsticks, and its graceful figure froze.

How is this going?

The expressions of the Martial Saint and the Demon King changed slightly.

However, before the situation could stabilize, the first water column was shattered by the thunder dragon, turning into a torrential downpour. Liang Qu tried to repair it, but was stopped by the old toad.

"Keep going! Don't worry about anything else, just hurry." The old toad didn't stop; it tugged at the fat catfish's long whiskers, continuously issuing orders, "Six li back, insert; twenty li to the left, insert; forward..."

The white ape turned and darted about, its movements swift and unpredictable. One after another, water columns pierced the ground and shot into the sky, reaching straight up into the clouds.

Occasionally, a thunder dragon would coil around and shatter the water column, but gradually, the white ape became more and more adept at it, and the thunder dragon was slightly slower.

"What is Da Shun doing?"

The Southern Frontier and Northern Court were unaware of the Old Toad's advancement, let alone that the Great Demon Tribulation required the help of a group of sixth-realm beings. They simply wondered what a group of Martial Saints and Demon Kings were doing together.

Hit. Hit whom?
Could it be... a land-sea alliance? A joint military exercise?

boom! boom! boom!
One after another, water columns disintegrated and reformed, some standing outside the thunderclouds, some inside, connected to each other, flashing with lightning.

Ze Ding trembled.

Stretching across the great river, shining brightly like the sun.

River dominance: 1.3

Dominance unexpectedly increased by 0.1.

A fierce wind swept through the area, and various colored lights took turns appearing. The Frog King, Su King, Yue King, and others were constantly trying to buy time for the white ape, but gradually they realized that the focus of the heavenly tribulation's attack seemed to have shifted to destroying the water columns, and that this was a more important priority than striking the target.

No, that's not right.

Without shattering the water column, the target cannot be hit!

The martial saints and demon kings understood the key point, and their pupils widened.

Liang Qu felt like he was Spider-Man, who was planting iron rods and striking them, trapping Venom, leaping and darting among them, constantly planting water jets as the old toad instructed.

The thunder dragon stretched out its head, with water columns on both sides, piercing through the tribulation clouds, disrupting the brewing, half-assembled body and causing it to disintegrate.

At first, the heavenly tribulation thunderclouds could resist, but as they grew in scale, the densely packed "sky pillars" wove together to form a cage, trapping the thunder tribulation within. Whenever a thunder dragon descended, it would circle inside the cage!
Especially when the white ape controlled the water flow and captured Wei Lin from the ranks of the great demons and grandmasters, he had many martial saints boil water to distill it and replace the weak points of the water column.

One hundred and seventy-two pillars reach the heavens and the earth, connecting the great marshes below and piercing the thunderclouds above.

The Thunder Dragon struggled within, violently charging, and finally transformed into streaks of light that spread across the water's surface like a spiderweb, flashing briefly.

The Martial Saint and the Demon King dispersed their supernatural powers and magic, and stood there watching in astonishment.

"solved?"

My palms burned, and my chest heaved.

Liang Qu took two steps back, bringing the heavenly calamity into full view.

like……

It's not that difficult?
The golden eyes blazed fiercely, the clouds of calamity stagnated, and the lightning seemed to flow but not pass through, as if a person had been struck on acupoints and could not circulate their vital energy.

What is the underlying principle?

"Croak, croak, croak!" Inside the swamp, an old toad perched on the head of a fat catfish, croaking wildly to the sky, "A mere tribulation is as easy for me to handle as flipping my webbed feet, go in, all of you!"

"Go in? Go where?" Liang Qu had just caught his breath, his thoughts still lingering.

The old toad, full of pride, swung its large webbed feet:
"The seventh, sixteenth, twenty-seventh... nine water columns. Go inside and you can undergo the Heavenly Tribulation to temper your body and consume the Heavenly Tribulation. Consider this your reward."

(End of this chapter)