Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Of course, the path of strength is difficult to follow, and Liu Qing has been persisting in it, but he will not be single-minded in following only the path of strength. After the True Scripture of Talking Earth revealed its true form, Liu Qing's path of Hunyuan Dao has another option in addition to the path of strength.

The True Scripture of Earth is a treasure of the earth. Liu Qing had previously constructed the river god system of the Jing and Wei rivers under the guidance of the True Scripture of Earth. If the earth element tunnel of his clone Liu Bai is also integrated, then the fusion of mountains and rivers will form a complete tunnel.

With the treasures of the earth and the complete Dao of the earth, Liu Qing may have already obtained the Primordial Dao Fruit of the Dao of the earth before he even achieved the Great Dao of Power.

His thoughts had wandered a bit too far, so Liu Qing shook his head, pulled them back, and once again floated in the canal, continuing to widen the waterway, quell the flood, and continue his journey.

"Master Uncle, the Buddhist Maitreya suddenly appeared from the clouds above the disciples' camp, took Liu Bai away, and headed south along the canal."

Wen Zhong suddenly transmitted his voice to Liu Qing, who looked through the floodwaters at the Maitreya Buddha floating on the water's surface a hundred feet away.

"I already know."

There was no sign of Liu Bai by Maitreya Buddha's side; perhaps he had been placed somewhere to strike him at a crucial moment.

When Liu Qing first met Liu Bai, he neither immediately melted Liu Bai nor captured him. Liu Qing did this on purpose, wanting to see who Liu Bai was behind.

It was just a dragon-walking journey. Although there were people who tried to rob him along the way, he also thought that the hostile forces would take this opportunity to transform into human thieves and block his way.

However, these tribulations that befell Liu Qing were also their own tribulations.

The evolution of the Netherworld in the Lesser Thousand Worlds, the advancement of his cultivation realm to the late stage of the Divine Realm, and the strengthening of his original form as a dragon just now, caused his strength to surge once again. Maitreya Buddha's intervention to transform the human tribulation was a good opportunity to test his strength and solidify his surging cultivation.

Liu Qing's dragon eyes pierced through the murky floodwaters, glaring fiercely at Maitreya Buddha.

Maitreya Buddha responded with a ferocious expression. At this moment, he was no longer the compassionate and peaceful figure he had been when he manifested in the Three Realms; he was clearly a murderous evil monk.

No matter how well you disguise yourself, there will eventually be a time when the disguise is removed.

He faced Liu Qing, who had killed his attendant and stolen his innate top-grade spiritual treasure, the Golden Bell, as well as his acquired top-grade spiritual treasure, the Human Seed Bag.

Maitreya Buddha decided to stop pretending and use the most brutal methods to kill this enemy.

"Snake demon, do you feel your heart tremble with fear when you see the Buddha in person?"

"Back then, I, the Buddha, hesitated to attack you because of our agreement, even though I was a Great Luo Immortal. Now that you, a snake demon, have become a dragon, haha, Heaven has eyes! Let me, the Buddha, become your tribulation, and I will have no more scruples!"

Maitreya Buddha bared his teeth and said fiercely, "Today, I, the Buddha, will send you to the Western Paradise!"

Liu Qing sneered: "Maitreya, you are only at the mid-stage of the Great Luo Realm, and you have no spiritual treasures. Do you really think you can kill me with just your magic and supernatural powers?"

"Who gave you confidence?"

Suddenly, Liu Qing let out a dragon's roar and flew out of the floodwaters of the canal. Because he was a dragon, he could not manifest human form, so Liu Qing used his true form as a green dragon to rush straight towards Maitreya.

Maitreya stretched out his right hand, and instantly Buddhist light emerged, pressing down on Liu Qing. In an instant, amidst the torrential rain, a giant golden palm descended from the sky and struck Liu Qing.

Liu Qing flicked the dragon's tail and pulled it out from bottom to top. With a loud bang, Liu Qing's dragon tail was shaken back, while Maitreya's Buddha palm was shattered.

"What a snake demon! Its body is so huge and its strength is so brute!"

"However, it's ultimately just brute force. Let me show you the methods of a Great Luo Realm Buddha!"

Maitreya Buddha was not concerned at all. He was only surprised by Liu Qing's physical strength, but not worried about anything else. After all, no matter how strong the physical strength was, the cultivation was still shallow. How could a mere Divine Realm cultivator be a match for him, who was at the Great Luo Realm?

In the Three Realms today, no saints are appearing, and those at the Great Luo Realm are already top-tier powerhouses.

Maitreya Buddha clasped his hands together, and a radiant light appeared. Simultaneously, a pair of hands slowly clasped together appeared in the rain, and Liu Qing was in the center of the hands.

With the cultivation of the Great Luo Realm, one can already mobilize the power of heaven and earth. As the Buddha's palms appeared in prayer position, immeasurable power of heaven and earth was gathered between the two palms, carrying the power of suppression and confinement, restricting Liu Qing's escape, intending to suppress Liu Qing into a pile of minced meat.

Liu Qing, however, was not afraid. His eyes flashed with boundless fighting spirit. He opened his mouth and spat out the Qiankun Ruler and the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, each slashing at a Buddha's palm.

You have the power of heaven and earth, I have the power of the small world gathered by the Qiankun Ruler. You have the ability to imprison, but my Panlong Eight-Tone Cone comes with innate killing energy. Let's see if you can imprison me, or I can penetrate you!

Boom boom.

Two more violent impacts ripped through the torrential rain, tearing apart the very fabric of space itself.

A chaotic vacuum appeared in the original place.

Maitreya Buddha's clasped hands shattered and vanished into nothingness, while the Qiankun Ruler and Panlong Eight-Tone Cone controlled by Liu Qing flew back.

In the second round, even with Maitreya going all out, he could only manage a draw with Liu Qing.

Maitreya Buddha's expression turned somewhat solemn: "You snake demon are quite capable!"

Even if he hated Liu Qing, he couldn't ignore the facts and continue to underestimate him. Rumor had it that Liu Qing's combat power far exceeded his cultivation level, and what he saw now confirmed it. This snake demon's cultivation level was shallow, but he possessed supernatural powers, strength, and spiritual treasures, making his combat power far exceed his cultivation level.

"But in the end, it's like an ant trying to shake a tree, impossible to resist. Today, I, the Buddha, will no longer accept Liu Qing and will definitely kill you here!"

Suddenly, golden light surged around Maitreya Buddha, and his body began to grow larger in an instant. In the blink of an eye, it had grown into a hundred-foot-tall golden body, like a golden Buddha.

Then, a burst of Buddhist light appeared, manifesting hundreds of arms around the body. Each arm held a magical treasure or made hand seals, and various Buddhist supernatural powers and spells struck Liu Qing along with the torrential rain.

"Bald monk, you're the only one allowed to possess the Golden Body Technique and the Thousand-Armed Divine Image. Do you think I don't have them?"

With a fierce dragon roar, Liu Qing immediately unleashed his great supernatural powers of manifesting heaven and earth and having three heads and six arms.

According to the Dharma of Heaven and Earth, when in human form, it can be a thousand feet in size. Now, the Azure Dragon's body is already twelve hundred feet long. With the amplification from the Dharma of Heaven and Earth, it will immediately grow into a ten-thousand-foot-long dragon.

The hundred-foot-tall golden statue of Maitreya Buddha was like a fly in front of a ten-thousand-foot-tall dragon.

Maitreya Buddha has a thousand-armed divine image, while Liu Qing has the method of having three heads and six arms. Suddenly, the body of the green dragon transformed into a huge creature with three dragon heads and nine dragon claws.

The Azure Dragon unleashed its three heads and six arms, instantly transforming into a ten-thousand-foot-tall three-headed dragon. From the mouth of one of its heads spewed out various supernatural powers and spells, all of which were water-based. At this moment, heavy rain fell, and floods covered the land, amplifying the power of the water-based supernatural powers.

Faced with the Buddhist supernatural powers displayed by Maitreya Buddha's thousand-hand hand gestures, all of them were shattered by the water magic, and all efforts were in vain.

Meanwhile, the other two dragon heads controlled the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone and the Qiankun Ruler, continuously striking at Maitreya Buddha.

Maitreya Buddha had his Golden Bell and Human Seed Bag taken away by Liu Qing. He now possessed several upgraded Later Grade Lesser Spiritual Treasures. How could he possibly withstand the Innate Grade Upper Grade Qiankun Ruler and Panlong Eight-Tone Cone?

Seeing the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone and the Qiankun Ruler coming at him, Maitreya Buddha hurriedly used the few remaining low-grade spiritual treasures to defend against them.

Unexpectedly, it was shattered after only a few contacts.

Maitreya Buddha has completely lost his spiritual treasure and can only use Buddhist supernatural powers to resist Liu Qing's spiritual treasure power.

"Snake demon, if I hadn't lost my most useful magical treasure, how could you possibly be a match for me?"

Maitreya Buddha was so angry he could grind his teeth. The Golden Bell and the Human Seed Bag were both his natal spiritual treasures, which had been refined for tens of thousands of years. He thought that as a Great Luo Immortal, he was unable to take action, so he lent them to the Yellow-Eyebrowed Boy to capture Liu Qing.

Unexpectedly, not only did the Yellow-Eyebrowed Boy fail to be suppressed, but he also lost his life at Liu Qing's hands and had the magical treasure he had lent him stolen.

Maitreya Buddha struggled to withstand Liu Qing's repeated attacks with his magical treasures, feeling increasingly frustrated. If the Golden Bell and the Human Seed Bag hadn't been stolen, he wouldn't be being suppressed by Liu Qing now.

While feeling frustrated, Maitreya Buddha was also secretly alarmed. Although the exchange had only lasted a few rounds, both had used their full strength. With his cultivation at the mid-stage of the Great Luo Realm, he was actually unable to defeat Liu Qing, a mere snake demon at the Divine Realm. Instead, Liu Qing was at a disadvantage and was being suppressed.

"Bald monk, stop making excuses. If you can't win, you can't win. Why make excuses and make me look down on you for no reason!"

"You keep saying you want to suppress me, so I will use your own methods against you and suppress you!"

Liu Qing suddenly flicked his dragon tail, and the ten-thousand-foot-long dragon body snaked down from the clouds, its nine claws like steel hooks, viciously grabbing at Maitreya Buddha's limbs, wanting to tear him to pieces.

Maitreya Buddha hurriedly used his Thousand Hands to defend, but Liu Qing's two dragon heads then controlled the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone and the Qiankun Ruler to attack. Maitreya Buddha had no choice but to continue using his Thousand Hands to defend.

Unexpectedly, Liu Qing was just waiting for him to do so.

The thousand-armed deity statue that Maitreya Buddha displayed used most of its arms to defend against his dragon claws and magical treasures.

Suddenly, Liu Qing opened the large mouth of the dragon head in the middle and spewed out the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover, releasing nine fire dragons that burned towards Maitreya Buddha.

Although the power of the nine fire dragons was limited by the heavy rain, their spiritual essence, as manifestations of a superior innate spiritual treasure, should not be underestimated.

"Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover? How do you have the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover of the Great Master Taiyi?"

Maitreya Buddha was immediately alarmed. Faced with yet another innate top-grade spiritual treasure, and one that was already infamous for its killing power during the Investiture of the Gods, he panicked and hurriedly tried to dodge.

However, the power of the world contained in Liu Qing's Qiankun Ruler tightly bound Maitreya Buddha, preventing him from escaping for a short time.

Although it only restricted him for half a breath, it was enough.

The nine fire dragons instantly coiled around the golden body of Maitreya Buddha. Under the boundless fire, the golden body of Maitreya Buddha rapidly shrank, burning from a hundred feet to ten feet.

This is because almost half of the magical power in my body was burned by the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover.

Maitreya Buddha finally broke free from the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover. Seeing his empty magical power, he was greatly alarmed and hurriedly swallowed spiritual medicines and pills in an attempt to restore his magical power.

But Liu Qing would not sit idly by and watch him regain his magical powers.

Liu Qing coiled the enormous dragon's true form around Maitreya Buddha, and its three heads unleashed a barrage of various magical spells and supernatural powers, such as water thunder, water blades and ice arrows, yin winds, and fang swords. (End of Chapter)