Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 218 Great Harvest: Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Treasures, Double Promotion to Official Rank and Authority

The first clone, riding on the body of Special Envoy, looked at Liu Qing's true form.

Liu Qing sighed and nodded.

The first clone stepped forward, spat out a stream of incense-infused divine power, which transformed into a seven-foot-six-inch ghost-head blade, beheading these mountain gods and local deities.

The seven-foot-six-inch ghost-headed knife cuts off the seven emotions and six desires, eradicating all karma.

At this point, all the worshippers within a radius of several hundred miles around Chang'an City who were loyal to the Sui Dynasty were killed.

After their deaths, the already dilapidated Dharma realm, which was already in ruins due to the collapse of faith and the cessation of incense offerings, could no longer be maintained and shattered one by one.

The incense and Dharma realm shattered, and all the treasures stored inside fell out.

Yang Yong, the City God of the Three Flower Realm, five Ancestral Spirits of the Five Qi Realm, and eight Land and Mountain Gods of the Dharma Realm—a total of sixteen incense Dharma Realms shattered, and the treasures that fell down piled up into small mountains.

Incense silver, power gold, river treasures, local gems, celestial spirits, spiritual materials, ritual implements, sixteen small mountains—their value is astonishing.

Even with Liu Qing's extensive knowledge, he was stunned by this overwhelming wealth.

Liu Qing opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing them all into his nasal cavity.

Because the City God Yang Yong, the ancestral spirits, the land gods, and the mountain gods all died, the binding formation they had jointly set up automatically disappeared, and the thousands of Tang soldiers inside, along with Mule Shixin, soon awoke.

After thanking Liu Qing for saving their lives, they dispersed into Xianyang City to inspect and check. Soon, good news arrived.

It turns out that the people in Xianyang City had all been put to sleep by Yang Yong and his group using the Nightmare Technique, but they were not killed. Now that Yang Yong and his group are dead, these people have all woken up.

Humanitarian Merit: 150 points

Although Yang Yong did not kill them, his obsession with nightmares caused irreversible damage to their souls. Liu Qing saved the people of a city, and therefore was also rewarded with human merit.

Outside the city, the tree people and mountain giants summoned by the land and mountain gods have all turned into ancient trees and piles of stones. The wild grass and vines that had been growing wildly and blocking Xianyang have all withered.

After all the matters were settled, Liu Qing wrote a letter and threw it into the moat of Xianyang City. River shrimp floated to the surface and carried it to Chang'an City.

Liu Qing then flew back to Da Wan Lake to digest the gains from this trip.

Snake Pool.

The densely packed water plants climbing on the wooden house in the middle of the pool suddenly shone brightly with green light. Within the green light was a strong demonic aura, and within the demonic aura was a powerful fluctuation of demonic soul.

Half an hour later, the green light dissipated and the demonic aura disappeared.

In the distance, in that nearly decaying wooden house, stood a girl dressed in green, exuding a strong scholarly air.

The girl was very pretty, holding a book of primers in her hand, like a well-read young lady from a prominent family.

"My master won't let me go to the human world, saying that humans and demons are different."

"Sir, you've misunderstood. I just want to go to the human world to see things, not to find the Master."

"While the master is away, hehe, I'll head down the mountain now."

"Human world, grass, here I come."

The water demon Cao'er was at the early stage of the Refining Emptiness and Merging with the Dao, and she could have already taken human form. However, the first clone left here by Liu Qing, following the instructions of the original body, had been preventing her from taking human form and from leaving the snake pool.

I can't bear to see a water demon entangled with humans.

They could have kept an eye on them, but when Liu Qing summoned his various clones to quell the rebellion of the evil god in Xianyang, the water demon Cao'er found an opening, transformed out of the snake pool, and headed towards Chang'an City.

Upon arriving outside Chang'an, the water spirit Cao'er watched the people queuing to enter the city and saw the bustling city through the open city gates.

His eyes widened in surprise: "So this is what the human world is like—"

With eyes full of anticipation, Cao'er followed the crowd in line, filled with longing for everything in Chang'an City.

In particular, Confucius was among them.

I wonder if he still remembers me.

Cao'er gripped the elementary primer tightly in her hand.

Just then, a tremendous pressure suddenly crashed down from the sky, and the grass groaned as it was crushed and collapsed to the ground.

The pressure continued, threatening to crush this water sprite into dust.

Just as Cao'er was filled with despair, a hand reached out: "Girl, why are you lying here? You look so pale, you must be sick. Wuji will take you to the city to see a doctor."

Liu Qing returned to Da Wan Lake.

In the underground meditation room of Yangxin Garden, the floor where the teacher's portrait hangs remains blank.

Liu Qing tried lighting three incense sticks, the smoke curling upwards.

Liu Qing smiled and sat down cross-legged.

He opened his mouth and spat out incense silver. This time, he killed sixteen incense gods in a row, and the incense silver alone amounted to several million taels.

This was after they jointly set up a sealing formation, consuming a large amount of incense, and then used the incense to cast a wide-ranging nightmare spell, pulling all the people of the city into a nightmare.

Otherwise, Liu Qing would have received several times more incense money.

Liu Qing inhaled the incense silver in front of him, and the dense incense divinity was swallowed. The incense divinity increased rapidly and, according to Liu Qing's will, evolved into a series of ninth-rank river god positions.

The ninth-rank river god of Liujiahe in Dawan Lake, the ninth-rank river god of Thirty Mile Canal in Dawan Lake, the ninth-rank river god of Heinihe in Fulong Lake, the ninth-rank river god of Jiuquhe in Shilang Lake, the ninth-rank river god of Honglinghe in Ankang Lake, and the ninth-rank river god of Fupingtan in Nanshan Lake.
After the river gods of the Five Lakes Alliance were fully evolved, Liu Qing intentionally began to evolve the river gods of the Malian River, Liupan River, Hong River, and Hei River as well.

Thus, the nine major branches of the Jinghe River system, as well as the numerous ditches, streams, and ponds within the five lakes and four rivers, all evolved into the nine ranks of river gods.

These five lakes and four rivers, with their ditches, streams, and pools, totaled two hundred and twenty, corresponding to nine-rank river gods, which also evolved into two hundred and twenty nine-rank river god positions.

Each ninth-rank river god that evolves consumes only one thousand taels of incense silver. For two hundred and twenty ninth-rank river gods, a total of two hundred and twenty thousand taels of incense silver are consumed.

Liu Qing also promoted the main water bodies of the four rivers and four lakes, excluding Dawan Lake, to the rank of seventh-grade river gods.

It takes 10,000 taels of incense silver to advance from the ninth rank to the eighth rank, and 100,000 taels of incense silver to advance from the eighth rank to the seventh rank.

The eight seventh-rank river gods consumed a total of 880,000 taels of incense money.

At this point, Liu Qing had evolved all the river gods of the five lakes and four rivers under the jurisdiction of the Jinghe River system, as well as all the ditches, streams, and ponds. Each water palace had a seventh-rank river god who led dozens of ninth-rank river gods to govern it.

The system of river gods for the five lakes and four rivers has been completed.

From the twelve avatars that had already attained Dao, Liu Qing selected nine out of the remaining eleven avatars, excluding the first avatar which had already been chosen to take over the Jing River. These nine avatars were then chosen to become seventh-rank river gods of the Five Lakes and Four Rivers.

The first clone is already the sixth-rank river god of the Jing River. The original seventh-rank river god position of the Dawan Lake is now vacant, and since the river god has already evolved, there is no need for further evolution.

The second incarnation is the seventh-rank river god of Dawan Lake, the third incarnation is the seventh-rank river god of Fulong Lake, the fourth incarnation is the seventh-rank river god of Shilang Lake, and the tenth incarnation is the seventh-rank river god of Heihe River.

The nine newly appointed seventh-rank river god avatars clasped their hands in unison: "We pay our respects to the original master and to the god lord!"

Liu Qing is both their true form and their divine master.

Nine seventh-rank river gods were created, but more than two hundred ninth-rank river gods held divine positions but lacked suitable candidates who were in accordance with the Dao.

Liu Qing could allow the thirty-two fully-formed spirit divisions within his body to merge with the Dao, but the number was far from enough.

In fact, among the river demons under his command, seven, such as Eel Master, Shad Steward, Shrimp Shallow, Little Alligator Dragon, Duckweed Demoness, General Qinghua, and Red-Eyed Toad, have already reached the Refining Emptiness and Integrating Dao realm.

If they were to abandon their physical bodies at this time, they could merge their spiritual essence with the Dao.

However, Liu Qing couldn't directly ask them, "I have many vacant divine positions. Are you willing to give up your physical bodies to merge with the Dao and become gods?"
The fear is that someone might be too loose-lipped and reveal Liu Qing's ability to independently assume divine roles.

So they had no choice but to wait until they died in battle or of old age before summoning their demonic spirits and bestowing upon them divine positions.

Besides, perhaps among these river demons under my command, some may have the opportunity to attain the Dao and its authority.

Speaking of authority and the Dao, Liu Qing could actually self-act as a god of authority.

The original body is currently an eighth-rank water-suppressing captain. The ninth-rank river patrol captain position that was previously evolved is vacant. After thinking for a while, Liu Qing used the gold-making supernatural power to transform 300,000 taels of incense silver into 3,000 taels of power gold. Then, he swallowed the power divinity and evolved three more power divine positions.

Ninth-rank Fog-Breaking Captain, Ninth-rank Wave-Raising Captain, Ninth-rank Water-Walking Captain.

With the addition of the ninth-rank river patrol captain that the original deity had relinquished, he now possessed four ninth-rank divine positions with authority. Among his bedmates, besides Hong Gu, there were Bai She'er, Xiao Ya, and Shui'er.

Well, after Sang Qingjun transformed into human form, the way she looked at herself was also strange. Remembering their friendship from back then, Hong Gu gritted her teeth and invited Sang Qingjun into her household. She drank a cup of tea offered by Sang Qingjun, which was considered to have established their relationship.

So, by this calculation, each person would have one divine authority.

Among them, Shui'er's cultivation level is now at the late stage of the Divine Power Realm. She had not yet achieved Dao Integration and was a Grassroots God, but she could achieve Dao Integration at any time.

Tianluo Xiaoya is in the late stage of Refining Emptiness and Merging with the Dao, and can also merge with the Dao. Bai She'er's cultivation has also progressed, reaching the early stage of Refining Emptiness and Merging with the Dao. However, her Yang Spirit is not yet perfect, so we'll discuss that later.

Sang Qingjun and Bai She'er are in similar situations. They are in the early stages of refining emptiness and merging with the Dao, and they also need to wait until they can merge with the Dao authority.

As for Hong Gu, she has been playing mahjong less lately and has finally become more diligent. Her cultivation level has reached the early stage of the Dharma Realm, and she is currently in seclusion to cultivate and comprehend how to evolve the Dharma Realm of Authority.

In fact, her claim of comprehending the evolution of the Dharma Realm of Authority was pure deception. As for comprehending it, Liu Qing clearly saw Hong Gu hiding in the house, opening her mouth and spitting out scrolls. These scrolls from the East Sea each recorded the experience of the East Sea Dragon Clan's predecessors in evolving the Dharma Realm of Authority.

The accounts of the experiences were so detailed, and so astonishing.

If the evolutionary authority of the Dharma realm is an exam paper, then these experience scrolls of the East Sea Dragon Clan predecessors are the qualified answers.

Hong Gu's so-called enlightenment was nothing more than combining the answers of these dragon clan predecessors and trying to copy them to get a perfect score.

Ugh, I hate cheating like this the most.

Liu Qing himself also planned to cheat.

But in retrospect, it doesn't count as cheating; at most, it's more like taking a shortcut.

Liu Qing wouldn't bother to comprehend the evolution of the power realm. He planned to directly absorb all the water vein powers of the large and small ditches and pools in the Jinghe River system into his Kounang Cave Heaven. Using the Kounang Cave Heaven as a foundation, he would use the water vein powers as bricks and the power of the powers as clay to evolve and construct his own power realm.

Since Liu Qing took over as the Lord of Dawan Lake, he has seized control of the water veins in the Dawan Lake area. Later, he had his clone merge with the incense offerings and occupy the position of River God, all in order to gather the scattered water vein control in the water and bring them together.

Attacking the Five Lakes and Four Rivers and seizing other water palaces is not only for the purpose of plundering the river treasures of other water palaces, but more so for the control of their waterways.

These water palaces and the ditches they govern are unlike the original Snake Pool. The Snake Pool was a new pool, with water eyes representing the authority of the water veins. It was directly discovered and devoured by Liu Qing.

The authority over the other water palaces and the ditches they governed, representing the water veins, had long since been scattered into the water over the decades and centuries.

To refine the power of the water veins, one must first gather it up little by little.

Liu Qing assigned his various avatars to occupy the positions of river gods in order to gather the authority of the various water veins on behalf of his main body.

Once all the water vein powers are gathered, they will be refined together. Based on the Kounang Cave Heaven and supplemented by the divine power of the powers, Liu Qing is confident that his power realm will be absolutely awesome.

Unfortunately, the river gods of each water palace have not yet been appointed, and the speed of gathering the power of the water veins is too slow. What Liu Qing urgently needs to do is to bring all these divine positions into the Dao as soon as possible.

With the seventh-grade river god of the Water Palace as the main force and the ninth-grade river god of the Water Vein as the auxiliary force, everyone will work together to gather the authority of each water vein as quickly as possible, allowing Liu Qing's true form to refine it and thus rapidly increase his cultivation level.

Unwilling to use the shad steward and eel eunuch, the only way is for Liu Qing to merge his clone with the river god.

Looking at the thirty-two perfected avatars within his body, Liu Qing thought for a moment, then used his Soul Splitting Divine Power to split each of the thirty-two avatars twice.

It split into one hundred and twenty-eight separate spirits.

As his cultivation level improved, his divine soul became much stronger than when he was refining the void and merging with the Dao. Liu Qing felt that he could split his soul once more.

Then he split these 128 spirits in two pairs, making 256 spirits in total.

Each of the divided spirits, though much weaker than when it was complete, still retains its yang nature and belongs to the yang spirit; it has not fallen into the yin spirit realm.

Liu Qing was overjoyed. If all 256 divine divisions were perfected, he would be able to merge all the divine roles he had evolved into river gods.

By then, all the lakes and rivers of the Jinghe River system will be under Liu Qing's control. He will also gather all the power over the water veins, and his power and Dharma realm will be fully evolved, resulting in another qualitative leap in his strength.

The main body enters the Wei River, competes for the title of Dragon King, while the first clone and a group of other clones control the Jing River.

The Jing and Wei rivers will be entirely under Liu Qing's control.

At that time, Liu Qing had barely gained a reputation in the Three Realms and had some ability to protect himself, instead of having a heavy burden on his heart from the great calamity of the Journey to the West decades later, as he does now.

When the great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods begins, the first to be sacrificed will be the Dragon King of the Jing River.

Although Liu Qing used his clone to take over the Jing River and planned to have his original body take over the Wei River to compete for the dragon, no matter how much he planned or struggled, he was ultimately too weak in the face of the mastermind behind the Journey to the West.

The worst-case scenario is that someone might suddenly decide that since there are no dragons in the Jing River, then they should have Cao Lingguan and Wei Zheng dream of beheading the Dragon King of the Wei River.

Screw you, if we really can't avoid it, then let's fight it out.

We still have several decades left. We should improve our strength as soon as possible, and then, at worst, we can overturn your game.

(End of this chapter)