Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 215 Liu Qing breaks through to the Dharma Realm, his true form as a coiled dragon is thirty feet long.

The rain nourishes the parched earth and irrigates the withered rice seedlings, allowing the long-suppressed vitality to burst forth unrestrained in spring.

Two hours later, Liu Qing finished bringing rain to Lantian County, and then immediately moved on to bring rain to Wannian County. Another hour or two later, the rain in Wannian County was completed.

In this way, over several days, every night, Liu Qing and his river demons would split into two and bring rain to alleviate the spring drought until the drought completely disappeared before they stopped.

Humanitarian Merit: 100 points

Liu Qing gained 61 merit points from this rainfall, bringing his total to 100 points, enough to manifest a faint halo of merit above his head.

With merit and virtue, demons and monsters will retreat.

After the rain ended, Liu Qing returned to Dawan Lake to rest for several days.

While Liu Qing was resting, the eight incense burners were extremely busy. Because the drought was relieved by the rain, Liu Qing's name as the river god resounded throughout Chang'an City for hundreds of miles around and even spread to the surrounding areas.

The river god manifested his power, bringing rain and relieving the drought. With a way to survive, the people were naturally willing to offer incense and prayers.

Therefore, the Eight Incense Envoys are busy converting incense into incense silver. This is only in places where there is no River God Temple. In places where there is a River God Temple, Liu Qing's clone directly converts the incense.

The ingots of incense money were transported to Liu Qing himself.

In just a few days, the amount of incense money in his hands skyrocketed to nearly two million taels.

With a wave of his hand, Liu Qing spent a million incense silver to promote the first clone's divine position to the sixth rank.

His divine position changed from 'Seventh-Rank Dawan Lake River God' to 'Sixth-Rank Jing River River God'.

Thanks to his advancement in divine office, the cultivation level of his first avatar finally broke through to the early stage of the Dharma Realm.

Once you reach the Dharma Realm, you can try to comprehend the Dharma Realm and evolve the Incense Dharma Realm. Liu Qing transmitted the process of the evolution of the Mouth Bag Cave Heaven to his first clone to help him comprehend it.

The first clone, this sixth-rank Jinghe River God, has already reached the level that Wei Xiaokuan of the previous dynasty was granted by imperial decree.

The sixth-rank Jinghe River God is currently the highest-ranking deity in the Jinghe River system.

Before, the main branch of the Jing River was without a river god because of the Jing River Dragon King's family. Later, when Hong Gu gained power and was granted the title of "Jing River Goddess Who Responds to the World's Wishes," a god was finally established.

However, because Hong Gu's power and authority were aligned with the Dao and she had a high degree of freedom, the title of "Goddess of the Jing River Who Follows the World and Fulfills Wishes" that she was granted was merely a symbol, equivalent to the Holy Maiden of a sect in martial arts novels, without any specific power or responsibility.

It was then observed that after Hong Gu was conferred a divine title, she remained at Da Wan Lake and did not go to Jinghe. This indicated that her divine title was merely an honorary one, at most serving as a figurehead for Jinghe.

Of course, this title was quite appropriate for Hong Gu's personality.

Hong Gu was completely devoted to Liu Qing and did not want to be tied down by any specific divine duties. She was carefree and happy.

However, Liu Qing's first incarnation's title is different from Hong Gu's; it has a specific task.

The sixth-rank river god of the Jing River is now the highest-ranking river god in the Jing River system. According to custom, all the incense gods in the Jing River system must be under the jurisdiction of the first avatar.

The propagation of life in the Jinghe River, the transportation of boats on the water, and the regulation of rainwater for the people on both banks all fall within the purview of the River God's primary incarnation.

It can be said that the first clone was the highest controller of the Jinghe River system at this time.

Liu Qing looked up at the night sky. Under the influence of the Yin-Yang Divine Power, the murderous aura surrounding the night sky had become even stronger.

With the Heavenly Court losing control over the human world, now is the perfect time for the first avatar to take over the Jing River.

Later, with the addition of incense and silver, the other deities were promoted to nine seventh-rank deities, who became the river gods of the nine branches of the five lakes and four rivers of the Jing River system.

Below that, the clones continue to control the ditches, rivers, and pools under each branch of the water palace. Among them, long rivers like the Wuding River can be ranked as eighth-grade, and small pools like the Snake Pool can be ranked as ninth-grade.

In this way, the first clone temporarily controls the Jing River with a sixth-rank divine position, while the nine branch water palaces below it are seventh-rank, and the ditches, rivers, and pools below the water palaces are eighth-rank and ninth-rank.

The entire Jinghe River system will be controlled by his many clones.

Ever since Liu Qing transmigrated to this world of Journey to the West, found himself in the Jing River, and transformed into a dragon, he has been worried that he might be the unfortunate Dragon King of the Jing River.

Now, this hidden danger has completely disappeared.

Use your clone to enter the Jing River, while your main body goes to the Wei River. Once the Tang Dynasty is established and the secrets of heaven are briefly restored, how will your Heavenly Court launch an attack?
I am the Dragon King of the Wei River, and my avatar is the River God of the Jing River. There is no longer a Dragon King of the Jing River in this world. If you want to start the Journey to the West, you must kill the Dragon King of the Jing River to sacrifice to the flag.
Cut off my hair!
Caught in the midst of a calamity and still weak, this was Liu Qing's helpless situation.

If you had the strength of the Great Luo Realm or even higher, would you dare to mess with the Jinghe Dragon King?
Having made the above plan in mind, Liu Qing did not immediately send his first clone to take over Jinghe, because there was still one thing to be resolved there.

That was left behind by Wei Xiaokuan, and is now occupied by the river god of the Wei River system, as well as the mountain gods and land gods near the Jing and Wei Rivers, to serve as a sacrificial realm for the prosperity of future generations.

The first incarnation must take over the Jing River and retrieve the sacrificial realm.

How can I allow others to sleep soundly on my own bed?
If you want to take over the sacrificial realm, you need to be careful. I heard that there are five-rank incense gods in that sacrificial realm.

Liu Qing had visited several times before, and although he had never seen this fifth-rank incense god, to reach such a high position without Liu Qing's help, it must have taken hundreds or thousands of years.

Even a slightly weaker incense god, with at least a thousand years of foundation, is extremely terrifying. You don't know how far its cultivation and methods have reached in those thousand years.

With the incense offerings and blessings of the Sui Dynasty, City God Yang Zhen reached the Three Flowers Realm in just one or two hundred years of cultivation, and was able to worship the fifth-rank incense gods in the Dharma Realm. Although his incense offerings were not as prosperous as Yang Zhen's, he had accumulated a thousand years of cultivation and was probably no less than City God Yang Zhen.

Liu Qing himself is not afraid of the Five Qi Realm and can fight and defeat them, but he can at most draw against the Three Flower Realm. If the opponent also has a spiritual treasure, then it would probably be dangerous.

Taking all this into consideration, Liu Qing did not immediately allow his first clone to take over the Jing River.

We'll only go when we're sure we're confident.

After the first clone left, Liu Qing looked at the nearly one million taels of incense silver remaining in the Kounang Cave. After thinking for a while, he waited for two more days to gather one million taels of incense silver. Then, he used his gold-making supernatural power to transform the one million taels of incense silver into ten thousand taels of power gold.

Then, the ninth-rank river patrol captain who had achieved enlightenment was promoted to the eighth-rank water control captain.

At this point, Liu Qing had exhausted all the incense money in his hands, which had all been converted into divine power. From now on, he would rely on the faith of the people in his jurisdiction to generate income.

After this rainfall, the people of the newly incorporated counties of Lantian and Wannian have begun to build a river god temple for Liu Qing. After the river god temple is completed, incense will naturally flow continuously.

After the River God Temple was built, Liu Qing ordered his clone to move in and extend his reach outwards. The five lakes and four rivers under the jurisdiction of the Jing River system were all under the control of the clone.

After Liu Qing's clones were dispatched, his influence extended to the area within hundreds of miles of Chang'an City, encompassing the entire sphere of influence where Li Shimin rose to power. Through the river monsters and spirits within the waterways and the river god temples on the banks, he could detect any disturbance immediately.

As he said, Li Shimin did not blindly expand his territory, but instead utilized the potential of his existing territory.

In addition, Liu Qing reminded Li Shimin to pass on the news of his capture of Chang'an to Li Yuan in Jinyang.

Forced into a corner, Li Yuan had no choice but to raise an army in response, proclaiming himself King of Tang, thus helping Li Shimin contain the Sui Dynasty forces in the west.

With everything arranged, Li Shimin was instructed to notify him if needed, and a letter could be sent directly to Liu Qing via the canal. Liu Qing then began his seclusion.

This retreat is not a complete retreat, but rather a period of in-depth cultivation.

The Yin medicine harvested within the City God's realm, the river treasures obtained by his river demons after conquering the Five Lakes and Four Rivers, and the earth treasures that Liu Qing obtained within the demonic realm of the demon king, the long-armed ape, after slaying him.

Consuming these directly would waste a lot of spiritual energy, so Liu Qing planned to refine them all into pills.

As for the various spiritual materials obtained, apart from a portion being used to refine magical artifacts and various array plates, the rest were all devoured by the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

Despite consuming so many spiritual materials, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone didn't change much; only its spiritual essence became slightly more concentrated.

These are all acquired spiritual materials, and their grades are not high. The higher-grade materials were used by Liu Qing to refine magical artifacts and various array plates.

It's already quite good that it has improved the spirituality of the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone.

After processing the spiritual materials, Liu Qing devoted all his energy to refining pills. Every day, without fail, he offered incense to his teacher and then swallowed a Dragon Elephant Pill.

Then, he would use his inner spirit to transport the Dragon-Snake Qi-Eating Technique to continue comprehending formations, elixir formulas, weapon crafting, spells, and so on.

The deity then took out the Water and Fire Furnace to refine elixirs.

One by one, the spiritual herbs were put into the alchemy furnace and refined into pills, which were stored by Liu Qing or taken daily to absorb the source of heaven and earth and increase his cultivation.

And so, time passed day by day.

Five months later, Liu Qing refined all the Yin herbs, river treasures, and earth treasures he had harvested into pills.

During the process, he also consumed a lot of each kind of pill, including Soul Nourishing Pill and Spirit Protecting Pill to nourish the soul, as well as Water Essence Pill and Spirit Rhyme Pill to increase the source of heaven and earth energy.

Of course, he also needed one or two Dragon Elephant Pills every day. With the continuous increase in power from the Dragon Elephant Pills, Liu Qing's true strength had reached 120,000 jin.

The result is that all thirty-two split spirits within Liu Qing's body have now reached perfection and can be integrated with the Dao.

However, due to insufficient offerings of incense and silver, he did not achieve the status of a deity.

Liu Qing accumulated tens of thousands of points of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi again. He used these tens of thousands of points of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi to improve his cultivation level.

For every 160 points of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, one's Divine Power Realm level increases by 1%. Liu Qing consumed eight or nine thousand points to break through to the Dharma Realm.

[Realm Level: Dharma Realm 1%]

With the remaining Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, Liu Qing chose to upgrade all five of his talents—the Innate Twist, Innate Fire Wings, Innate Thick Armor, Innate Fang Sword, and Water Thunder Divine Power—to the perfect level.

Each level of advancement requires over 6,000 points of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, and a total of over 30,000 points of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi were consumed.

After the talent of the Serpentine Transformation was perfected, it did not evolve into a three-headed, six-armed form; the two are different supernatural powers.

The only difference is that the transformed arms are more flexible, the head has a wider field of vision, and the shape is also very different from the original.

The two-headed, four-armed form that emerges from the perfected Wei She talent is not the original form with one body, two heads, and four arms crammed in front.

Instead, it has two heads, one in front and one in back, and four arms, also one in front and one in back, essentially forming a single body with two parts.

In this way, Liu Qing can attack from both the front and rear simultaneously when facing an enemy, making his attacks much more powerful than before.

After the Fire Wings talent reached perfection, its flight speed improved even further, surpassing Shui'er's speed when walking on water. It was also comparable to the Five Elements Escape Technique, a great supernatural power. Liu Qing was confident that, within the Three Realms, the flight speed of his Fire Wings was only slightly slower than the Somersault Cloud, the Golden Light of Earth Escape, and the Golden-Winged Roc.

Once the innate thick armor is perfected, the defensive power of its scales is sufficient to withstand a full-force attack from a late-stage, top-grade spiritual treasure without injury.

After the Talent Fang Sword is perfected, the stealth function, attack range, and attack speed are further improved. In addition, there is a qualitative improvement in the penetration power.

Liu Qing took out a top-grade magic weapon-level armor, and the Talent Fang Sword pierced through it without any hindrance.

The terrifying penetrating power of the Fang Sword surprised Liu Qing. After hesitating for a moment, he mustered his courage and used the perfect-grade Fang Sword to attack the perfect-grade thick armor.

This is truly using one's own spear to attack one's own shield, a self-contradiction.

The perfect-level thick armor blocked the perfect-level fang sword, but the scales enhanced by the thick armor talent were also drilled with a small hole.

The fang-like sword pierced through the scales, but was narrowly blocked by them.

Liu Qing concluded that a perfect-grade Fang Sword, in terms of attack power alone, is no weaker than a low-grade spiritual treasure.

Liu Qing was overjoyed. Two Fang Swords? Wasn't that like having two more low-grade spiritual treasures specifically for attack?
The only mine chosen to be upgraded to perfection did not disappoint Liu Qing's expectations, its power increasing several times over.

Water mines belong to Yin thunder, but the water mine divine power after it is perfected will turn from Yin to Yang. After the water mine is condensed, a trace of Yang thunder will grow at the core. When it is launched to attack, Yin and Yang will immediately be reversed, with Yang hidden in Yin, and the power will increase dramatically, enough to kill any enemy below the Dharma Realm in one blow.

If it encounters a god of the underworld who is completely countered by it, this Yin lightning is enough to shatter an enemy of the same realm.

Seeing the performance of the four talents and the perfected divine ability, Liu Qing was overjoyed. With this boost, his overall combat power had increased significantly once again.

In addition, during this period, the innate mid-grade spiritual treasure Panlong Eight-Tone Cone and the acquired mid-grade spiritual treasure Mountain-Driving Whip were both completely refined, and Liu Qing's divine soul imprint was engraved on them.

In terms of its physical form, Liu Qing's dragon form has grown to thirty zhang in length, and there are faint signs that it is about to shed its skin again.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth was also completely depleted.

All previous gains have been transformed into strength.

Liu Qing then stopped his secluded cultivation, got up to light three incense sticks, and shamelessly called out "Teacher" again.

To everyone's surprise, when Liu Qing turned around, he found that the spot where the portrait had been hanging was now empty.

The teacher's portrait is gone.

Liu Qing was stunned.

Before the retreat, Liu Qing had set up isolation barriers inside and outside the meditation room, preventing even a mosquito from entering or leaving.

Why did this portrait disappear without alerting me, without a sound?
Liu Qing's eyes held a mixture of light and uncertainty.

Taking a deep breath and suppressing all sorts of guesses in his mind, he left the quiet room.

Outside, the sun shines brightly overhead.

Compared to five months ago, there are some inexplicable and strange things.

(End of this chapter)