Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Intelligence indicates that during the flood, Liu Qing, while traversing the river, can widen the river channel by taking advantage of the floodwaters, quell the flood, and relieve the suffering of the people, thereby gaining merit.

Because of his merits, Liu Qing has a high chance of evolving into a five-clawed golden dragon after completing his dragon-walking journey.

The true form of the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon is related to Liu Qing's Primordial Dao Fruit. It's not a certainty, but having the true form of the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon as a foundation can increase the probability of ultimately obtaining the Primordial Dao Fruit.

Like those with innate physiques, they are qualified to attain the Primordial Dao Fruit. Don't underestimate this qualification; it signifies an opportunity and a probability of breakthrough.

Therefore, when Liu Qing was about to embark on the journey, he kept in mind the intelligence report and was determined to quell the flood and save countless lives on both banks during the journey.

Otherwise, like other dragons traversing the river, they would only care about their own dragon-like nature and ignore everything else, allowing the floods they create to ravage the lives of people on both banks. In that case, even if they eventually succeed in their dragon-like journey, they would only become a hybrid dragon.

For the sake of his future path, Liu Qing's journey with the dragon has become intertwined with quelling the floods.

The trees that had been swept up by the floodwaters from the shore blocked his path. Liu Qing opened his Small Thousand World and took in the trees that had been broken and blocked by the floodwaters.

There were also huge rocks and the carcasses of dead livestock, which were thrown into the small world in the same way.

With the blockages cleared, the Grand Canal's flood control capacity was immediately enhanced. The floodwaters that came from all directions were no longer blocked in this section, but flowed downstream in a mighty torrent along the Grand Canal's course.

【merit +1】

Unfortunately, the rain intensified, and more and more floodwaters poured into the Grand Canal. However, the Grand Canal was newly opened and its channel was neither wide nor deep enough to withstand the increased floodwaters.

Soon, the floodwaters from both banks filled the Grand Canal. The Grand Canal could not be dredged in time, and the river level rose rapidly, gradually overflowing the riverbanks and even flowing back into the banks.

Liu Qing knew that at this point, it was necessary to widen and deepen the Grand Canal to increase its carrying capacity.

However, the Grand Canal stretches for thousands of miles from north to south. If it were to be widened and deepened, such a massive project would make even Liu Qing's scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Suddenly, a clever idea flashed through Liu Qing's mind.

Since the Grand Canal cannot bear so much floodwater, why not swallow the floodwater into the microcosm? That way, there would be no need to go to the trouble of widening the Grand Canal.
Liu Qing hurriedly reopened the portal to the Lesser Thousand Worlds and placed it in the flood.

In an instant, the floodwaters poured wildly into the microcosm.

As the floodwaters gradually receded, Liu Qing suddenly awoke to find that a torrential downpour had occurred in that small world, causing a flood that had instantly drowned countless creatures that had migrated there earlier.

Wisps of malevolent energy rose from the corpses of the drowned creatures, drifting towards the sky above the Lesser Thousand Worlds, and eventually coiled around Liu Qing.

At the same time, after the floodwaters receded temporarily, the previous merits were no longer gained.

Liu Qing quickly closed the portal to the Lesser Thousand Worlds, ceasing the floodwaters from entering them.

The floodwaters from the main world were poured into the smaller world. While the floodwaters in the main world were reduced considerably, the smaller world experienced torrential rain, which then caused flooding, drowning living beings and generating evil energy.

Moreover, such a clever approach does not bring any merit or reward.

Although one cannot use a small world as a flood discharge point and cannot take shortcuts, one can use a small world as a place to temporarily store fallen trees, boulders, and animal carcasses that have blocked the river channel.

The Great Dao is moved. Liu Qing's journey with the dragon has earned him merit. He cannot take shortcuts; he must honestly widen the canal and deepen it. Only in this way can he receive the reward of merit.

Liu Qing completely stopped thinking about taking shortcuts.

They began to prepare to steadily expand the Hedao (a magical path) and carry out the Azure Dragon's act of opening the river.

He moved his eight-hundred-foot-long azure dragon body, swaying left and right like a snake or python moving through water, using the force of its swaying motion to widen the surface of the Grand Canal with his powerful body.

With each impact, the immense power of the body rammed into the sides of the river, pounding and moving the soil on both sides, squeezing it to the sides. Soon, after several impacts, the river on both sides had widened to a hundred feet.

The floodwaters surged in with a roar, creating huge whirlpools. Despite their immense power, they could no longer rise to the surface in the face of the widened river channel.

Liu Qing was still not satisfied, so he used his long-unused tail whip talent, swinging it left and right, smashing it against the riverbed on both sides, widening the riverbed once again.

It was expanded to five hundred zhang, resembling a lake.

After widening the river channel, Liu Qing prepared to deepen it, when he saw the huge azure dragon's body quickly sink to the bottom.

The riverbed was covered with nearly ten feet of silt. Liu Qing opened the portal to the Lesser Thousand Worlds and used his Elephant Devouring Talent to swallow the silt into the Lesser Thousand Worlds in a single swallow. This time, he was only using the Lesser Thousand Worlds as a storage artifact, not taking any shortcuts, which is why he was allowed to do so. In addition, swallowing the silt from the main world into the Lesser Thousand Worlds would increase the fertility of the land, nourishing the flowers, plants, and trees. It was all beneficial and had no harmful effects.

The silt was only about ten feet long, but the perfected level of the Elephant Swallowing Talent swallowed the silt from this section of the canal in an instant.

After the silt, there is wet mud at the bottom of the river. Liu Qing uses his talent for swallowing elephants to swallow this wet mud, thereby deepening the river channel.

Countless wet muds were swallowed up, piling up into small hills within the microcosm, enriching its landscape and causing the riverbeds to deepen continuously.

Liu Qing was only satisfied when the canal channel was deepened to a depth of one hundred zhang (approximately 33 meters).

The section of the canal that begins in Zhuojun has now been widened to 500 zhang and deepened to 100 zhang, making it hundreds of times wider than before.

After the canal was widened, its ability to withstand floods increased a hundredfold or a thousandfold, and the floodwaters that were about to overflow were able to flow back in.

The floodwaters, coming from all directions, rushed into this section of the canal. The rapid and fierce currents formed a huge whirlpool here, creating an extremely frightening scene.

Despite the terrifying force of the surging floodwaters, they could no longer nearly burst the canal's carrying capacity, which had been widened hundreds or thousands of times.

The floodwaters on both banks receded rapidly and flowed into the canal, revealing the slippery ground. The livestock, birds, and countless people who had been hiding on high places, waiting to die, were all overjoyed. They put their hands together, faced the canal, and bowed to thank the Dragon King for his mercy.

【merit +1】

Sure enough, after widening this section of the canal and solving the surrounding flooding, he was rewarded for his meritorious deeds.

After this attempt, Liu Qing finally understood how to navigate the dragon.

Liu Qing's journey through the dragon is not just about walking the dragon; it also involves calming the flood, saving lives, and accumulating merit during the journey. Ultimately, upon completing the journey, he will use the merit to evolve into a five-clawed golden dragon.

Having understood, Liu Qing no longer hesitated and continued to wade through the floodwaters. Every time he advanced a certain distance, he widened the canal channel, increasing its capacity to withstand floods and resolving the flooding disasters on both sides of that section of the canal.

Time and again, he cleared away the trees, boulders, and other debris that were blocking the riverbed. He then used his tail whip talent and water control abilities to widen the river. Finally, when he was in a good mood, he used his long-unused water puppet ability to condense the floodwaters into hundreds of-foot-long water pythons that helped to pound, widen, and deepen the riverbed in front of and beside him.

【merit +1】

[Merit +1].
After repeated actions, the canal was widened from Zhuojun southwards, and floods from both banks were diverted into the canal. The floods on land were quelled, and the lives on both banks were saved. The corresponding merits increased rapidly.

This merit is unlike the previous human merit, earth merit, and heaven merit. It seems to belong exclusively to Liu Qing after he becomes a dragon. Ultimately, the chance of evolving into a five-clawed golden dragon increases depending on the amount of merit he accumulates after becoming a dragon.

Traveling south along the canal, the canal channel was continuously widened, and the floods on both banks were quickly quelled after the channel was widened.

As the dragon-walking process progressed, Liu Qing's azure dragon body gradually changed. With each lash and pounding of the riverbanks, his scales became harder and his muscles and bones became stronger.

When the canal was widened to a hundred miles, Liu Qing suddenly felt a violent change in his body. When he looked again, he found that his body had increased from nine hundred feet to a thousand feet.

I originally thought that my true form, the Azure Dragon, would only reach a size of a thousand feet when I broke through to the Golden Body Realm. I never expected that I would reach a size of a thousand feet after only traveling a hundred miles.

Seeing initial success, Liu Qing was overjoyed. He raised his dragon head to look ahead, and his fatigue instantly vanished, replaced by renewed strength.

Liu Qing sank into the water once more, manipulating the water puppet to sweep away the silt and stuff it into the Lesser Thousand Worlds. Then, he used his Tail Whip talent to help the water puppet pound and widen the river channel. Afterward, he used his Elephant Devouring talent to swallow the silt and wet mud from the riverbed into the Lesser Thousand Worlds.

While Liu Qing was working diligently, he unknowingly widened the canal channel by another two hundred li.

The Azure Dragon's body grew once again, reaching 1,200 zhang in length. At the same time, its muscles and bones were greatly strengthened, and correspondingly, the Azure Dragon's power also saw a new increase.

Liu Qing roughly estimated that before walking the dragon, his physical body had about 20 million jin of divine strength. Now that he has walked the dragon for 200 li, his strength has increased by about 2 million jin.

Such a rapid increase in strength far surpasses the effects of consuming the Dragon Elephant Pill and the Myriad Dragon Pill. The Grand Canal stretches approximately three thousand miles from north to south. If the increase in strength continues at this rate, it is estimated that once the Dragon Crossing is completed, the physical strength alone will reach fifty million jin.

At that time, with just his physical strength, he will be able to defeat a powerful expert in the early stage of the Great Luo Realm.

Not to mention supernatural powers, spells, and the amplification from the power of heaven and earth as one comprehends the Dao.

Liu Qing's emphasis on pure physical strength indicates his intention to emulate Pangu and pursue the path of physical power. (End of Chapter)