Food gives me an entry, I will be invincible if I stay alive

Chapter 349 Wu Gou Shuang Xue, Butcher's Blade Hell
On that day, Chen Xu bound the dragon and returned to the waves.

The entire world trembled and echoed.

At that time, Cui Yunqi was covered in blood, and his soul was almost leaving his body.

Ning Siyu fared slightly better; the large Luo Misty Rain Umbrella in his hand emitted dappled light that enveloped him—

Yes, this precious umbrella is already half damaged.

The city was hit by floods, and half of the houses were submerged.

In low-lying areas, the water reached the rooftops; in high-lying areas, the water was at least several feet deep.

Apart from those who fled the city, most of the surviving residents climbed onto the rooftops.

People have never seen such a flood, nor such a dramatic change.

Even during the flood season, there is usually a rise in water levels between heavy rain and floods.

During this period, whether to flee or stay, people will have some time to react.

When has there ever been a disaster like this, with no warning signs and death coming out of nowhere?

What was particularly terrifying was the colossal dragon that rose from the river. When it roared, many weak people were not so much bewitched as to commit suicide, but were literally shaken to death or frightened to death.

Despair spread among the remaining survivors. Countless people climbed onto rooftops, braving the torrential rain, and looked up at the towering white waves on the distant river, weeping bitterly.

"I don't want to become a dragon, and I don't want to die!"

"Grandpa Divine Dragon, please spare my life! I have never done anything wrong in my life. Why should I die here..."

Some of the original inhabitants, who had survived the catastrophe ten years prior, cried out:
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Please spare my life! I wasn't among those who harmed you back then! I received your kindness and know you're not a bad person. I even secretly worship you in my old house..."

But the rainstorm intensified, and the floodwaters surged higher and higher.

The woman who cried out that she had once made offerings to Xie Huaizheng was holding a small child in her arms, her center of gravity swaying precariously.

Suddenly, a huge wave crashed in, and she lost her footing and fell straight off the roof into the floodwaters.

The woman hurriedly hugged her crying child tightly, screaming in terror, "Help!"

The waves surged and crashed, instantly engulfing her beneath the surface. For a moment, she vanished without a trace, and no one knew where the floodwaters had taken her.

Gudong Gudong——

In the east of the city, Yu Zhi and other students gathered on the roof of the school, using long bamboo poles and other tools to try their best to rescue people who had fallen into the water.

Everyone saw the woman fall into the water, but unfortunately, she fell into the water more than ten feet away from them. In such a violent storm, no one present could rescue her from that distance.

Pfft!
But then they saw someone on a distant rooftop jump into the water.

That was the woman's husband, who was also crying out, "Qinniang, you and the child are gone, how can I live? If I can't save you and the child today, I'll die with you..."

With a whoosh, a huge wave crashed in.

Before he could finish speaking, he too was swept into the water.

Yu Zhi, Master Lü, and the others were filled with sorrow upon seeing this.

Yu Zhi even gritted his teeth and said, "There is always true love in the world. I can't bear to see such a tragedy. I... I want to go into the water and try to see if I can save the couple and their child."

As he spoke, he handed the long bamboo pole in his hand to a classmate beside him, and then took off his outer garment and was about to enter the water.

His classmate tried to dissuade him, but only managed to say, "Yu Zhi, don't act impulsively..."

Before he could finish speaking, the classmate suddenly looked up, as if stunned, and exclaimed, "No, no! Yu Zhi, look..."

What to look at?
boom!
Yu Zhi didn't have time to see anything; he was too fast.

Before the man could utter a complete sentence, he had already leaped into the water and was swimming vigorously toward where the woman had fallen in.

Such recklessness would normally infuriate the classmates.

But the changes happening in the distance were too great; Yu Zhi's classmates only had time to call out a few times: "Yu Zhi!"

No one will have the energy to pay attention to him anymore.

Everyone was stunned, dumbfounded.

Even Master Lü, who was reaching out to grab Yu Zhi back, was only holding onto his outer robe, while gazing into the distance at the high sky outside the city.

Above the vast, rain-swept sky, a monstrous dragon, its body shrouded in billowing black mist, charged upwards with its head held high.

It has already transformed into a dragon, with its head and horns looking ferocious.

The half of its body that leaped over the Dragon Gate seemed to be about to pierce the entire sky.

At that time, the dragon's roar echoed, sounding like the heavens weeping.

Just when all beings were grieving and in despair, a young man appeared out of nowhere, seemingly stepping into thin air.

The man arrived against the howling wind, his robes billowing as if he were descending from the heavens.

He stretched out a hand and gently placed his slender palm on the ferocious dragon's head amidst the raging wind and rain.

Who is stronger, a seemingly insignificant human or a giant dragon that seems to be able to tear the entire sky apart?
At first glance, the answer seems obvious.

But the truth is, just as this person pressed his hand on the dragon's head, the evil dragon suddenly let out a painful roar.

"hold head high--"

The dragon's roar was like a knife cutting through the air, sending chills down one's spine.

Everyone looked up, their bodies trembling involuntarily.

I don't know if it was fear or excessive expectation, or perhaps neither... I was just instinctively overwhelmed by the sudden change in front of me, and my emotions spiraled out of control.

One student, his lips trembling, asked in a shaky voice:

"You, you saw that? I'm not seeing things, am I? That, that dragon, it's retreating! It's being pressed down by a hand, its body is moving backward?"

Another student wiped the rain from his face and stammered, trembling, as he replied:
"Yes, that's how it is... I saw it too!"

"The dragon seemed to be struggling."

"But it couldn't break free! It couldn't escape the pressure of that hand, and its neck was pulled out of the dragon gate!"

"Its tail was being pushed into the river, and the black mist around it dissipated in the rain..."

"No, you're mistaken. The black mist isn't dissipating in the rain; it's returning to the river."

"You're talking nonsense. How could the black mist possibly return to the river? If that were the case, wouldn't the river be polluted by the resentment again?"

"You, you, you're all wrong! This black mist didn't dissipate in the rain, nor did it return to the river; rather, it was extinguished by the sunlight..."

The students were all talking at once, arguing amongst themselves, when suddenly one of them exclaimed:

"Look, the rain has stopped!"

Yes, the rain has actually stopped.

The storm had stopped at some point, because everyone was so focused on the man and dragon in the distant sky that no one noticed the rain had stopped immediately.

But even more astonishing changes were yet to come.

The rain stopping is just the beginning.

The torrential rain suddenly stopped, and in the sky, the seemingly light but actually heavy hand had completely pushed the evil dragon's body out of the Dragon Gate, leaving only its head still resisting.

The dragon roared incessantly, seemingly trying to unleash even larger waves to shake back the people above.

However, despite its loud cry, the originally boiling river water gradually became calm and gentle as it retreated.

The waves are getting smaller and smaller.

Even the raging floodwaters that had already rushed into Pingyang City seemed to be gradually receding. Suddenly, Yu Zhihua stood up from the water, looking around blankly.

The floodwaters, which had almost submerged half of the city, suddenly receded on their own in a flash.

He was already swimming desperately in the storm, disregarding his own life and only thinking about saving people.

But now, where is the wind? Where is the rain? Where is the flood?
The water receded too quickly. A moment ago, it could still submerge a person completely, but a moment later it could only submerge half a person. And now, the water is so shallow that it barely covers Yu Zhi's ankles.

He raised his foot, and with a loud crash...

Finally, they heard exclamations from above: "The water has receded! That evil dragon has even pulled back more than half of its head!"

"We're almost there, almost there..."

What's coming soon?
Yu Zhi didn't understand what was happening, but then he suddenly heard the baby crying.

"Waaaah! Mom, I'm so scared, I'm so scared..."

He turned his head and saw that at the street corner where the water had receded, next to a broken wooden plank, the woman who had been holding the baby earlier was sitting up.

The child was wailing loudly, while the woman looked around in bewilderment, both surprised and delighted.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, my sweetie. It's alright, it's alright, the water has receded, and the rain has stopped..."

The next moment, a man staggered to his feet and ran towards the two of them in ecstasy.

"Qinniang! The floodwaters have receded. You're alright, Xiaolang's alright, we're all alright!"

The family of three was quickly reunited, overjoyed and relieved to have survived the ordeal, laughing and crying at the same time.

Yu Zhi stood alone to one side, and no one paid him any attention.

His heart was pounding wildly, joy spreading from his heart, engulfing his entire body, and rushing straight to his brain.

A strong feeling of dizziness washed over him. Fearing that it was all an illusion, Yu Zhi couldn't help but reach out and suddenly pinch his thigh hard.

"Ouch!"

Yu Zhi jumped up in shock from the pain.

He bumped into a pillar again, this time causing the building to shake. Finally, some of his classmates remembered him and leaned out to look.

But Yu Zhi was clutching his head, wincing in pain.

His classmates burst into laughter, wanting to mock him, but they couldn't bear to look at the magical scene unfolding in the distance.

"Look! That evil dragon has even lost its eyes; only its horns remain on its head!"

"How did this person... no, this deity, manage to subdue a dragon that had turned the entire Pingyang Prefecture upside down with just one hand?"

"Why does he look so relaxed, and why does that evil dragon seem to offer no resistance?"

"How do you know there was no resistance? Perhaps it's because that deity was too powerful, and all the evil dragon's resistance was futile?"

"Exactly, exactly. Just like when you and I are walking on the road, if we accidentally step on an ant, do you think the ant will fight back? Does it have the ability to fight back?"

Comparing the ant to the monstrous dragon that once stirred up towering waves only highlights the power of the one who subdued the dragon.

Yu Zhi listened from below, and for a moment his mind was shaken and he was mesmerized.

He understood why the water was receding. He felt as if his heart was about to leap out of his throat, or even pound so hard it would make him faint.

Yu Zhi had so many questions he wanted to ask, but he was too excited to say anything. He frantically found a ladder and hurriedly climbed back onto the roof.

No matter how many questions you ask, nothing beats climbing onto the roof and seeing it for yourself right now.

On the rooftop, the crowd was still chattering amongst themselves.

When shock reaches a certain level, all that remains in people's hearts is admiration and longing.

"Quick, look! The dragon horns are starting to leave the Dragon Gate too!"

"I dare not even imagine what kind of person that deity is, what their status is. If only we could befriend this deity..."

"Are you dreaming?"

"Ugh!"

Just as the dragon horns were about to completely disappear from the Dragon Gate, a soft sigh was suddenly heard.

This was not a sigh from anyone present, but rather the mournful female voice that echoed in the distant sky, a voice that had previously brought disaster to countless people.

It's "Lady Xie"!
Xie Jiang, the imperial envoy in charge of flood control in Tiannan Circuit ten years ago, is the daughter of Xie Huaizheng.

The woman's voice was plaintive, each sentence accusing:

"Your Excellency subdues the dragon with a single hand, possessing such great power. Why then do you oppose me, an orphan and a widow?"

If you have such ability, why don't you govern this corrupt and decadent land?
Why don't you open your eyes and see how difficult life is for all living beings!

"With your abilities, you dare to bully me, a widow and orphan with no one to rely on. My son and I only seek revenge..."

Before she could finish speaking, a voice rang out, "No, there's someone behind you. Xie Jiang, turn around and take a look."

Above the vast Yuancang River, Chen Xu felt the wondrous power of the [Binding Dragon Returning Waves].

The raging waves that filled the city receded under his will, and the water level of the Yuancang River was rapidly returning to normal.

Beneath his palm, the monstrous dragon, no matter how much it struggled, could not escape and was about to be completely expelled from the Dragon Gate—

At this point, Xie Jiang, who had only been heard but not seen, finally leaped out of the water.

Her white hair hung down to her ankles, and when she flew into the sky, the white hair fluttering behind her didn't look like hair, but rather like three thousand water plants.

No, it doesn't look like water plants; it looks more like countless wronged souls crying out in agony!

The moment Xie Jiang appeared, the entire sky seemed to dim for a moment.

As she spoke softly, an indescribable allure emanated in all directions.

She gazed at Chen Xu, and her sorrowful and poignant emotions seemed to emanate from the painting itself.

Such accusations are, in fact, a form of invisible attack.

Just as Xie Jiang's body flew higher and higher, and was about to fly in front of Chen Xu, a voice suddenly appeared behind her.

Xie Jiang looked horrified and turned around abruptly.

But instead, a huge writing brush pointed down: "Without rules, there can be no order! Here comes the shackles of evil!"

Who came after them?
That is naturally Wen Daoyuan!
It turned out that Wen Daoyuan was standing behind Xie Jiang, which was the so-called "there is someone behind you".

Xie Jiang screamed, and her white hair flew everywhere.

But is Daoyuan someone who can be easily defeated?
As the brush touched the ground, a huge cage, faintly glowing with golden light, appeared out of thin air.

With a loud crash, Xie Jiang herself... along with all her flying white hair, was trapped in the cage.

At the same time, the evil dragon in the sky was finally forced back from the Dragon Gate by Chen Xu.

The monstrous dragon let out a mournful cry, and with a bang, its entire body transformed back into a fish.

Only a strangely shaped dragon head remained, with the two dragon horns above it unchanged.

Chen Xu grabbed the dragon's horn, held the strange fish upside down, and dragged its entire body into the air.

Then, he stretched out his hand, and a huge Wu hook appeared out of thin air in his palm.

Wu Gou's eyes shone like autumn water. Xie Jiang, trapped in the cage, couldn't help but cry out in surprise, hurriedly asking, "What are you going to do?"

(End of this chapter)