The world of martial arts, the immortal swordsman in the mortal realm.

Chapter 236, 251: You summon thunder and lightning, I summon the sword spirit!

After leaving the county town and arriving at the river dock, a temple indeed stood on the equally desolate and empty dock.

Two crocodile-headed, human-bodied demons sat brazenly by the pond at the temple entrance, their legs and tails submerged in the water. One held a pig's head, and the other grabbed a cow's leg, as they devoured the food.

These two crocodile demons were much smaller than the crocodile vanguard that Lu Chen had killed. Judging by their appearance, they were no more than 2.5 meters tall, and their auras were far less powerful than those of the crocodile vanguard.

Even so, for ordinary people, and even ordinary soldiers, it was still considered an unavoidable force majeure.

Seeing Lu Chen swaggering towards the River God Temple, the two crocodile demons turned their heads to look at him.

A crocodile demon opened its long snout, revealing sharp fangs covered in bits of flesh, and slurred a shout:
"Stop! What, what are you doing?"

Lu Chen remained calm and composed in his tone:
"Come and see the River God."

As they spoke, they did not stop walking.

"Come, come and worship the River God! Bring offerings!"

The other crocodile demon stared at Lu Chen with fierce eyes, drool dripping from its mouth:
"You, you're empty-handed, could it be that you intend to offer yourself up as a sacrifice to my king?"

Lu Chen's eye twitched slightly, and he said in a low voice:
"I want to make a pair of crocodile skin boots, a crocodile skin belt, and a crocodile skin armor... I heard that the river god is a dragon, so I came here specifically to borrow a crocodile skin from him."

Although the two crocodile demons weren't very bright, Lu Chen's words were clear, and they quickly understood what he meant, and immediately flew into a rage.

"Good, what audacity!"

"Dare to come and make fun of us! Let's eat him!"

"One person, half!"

boom!
The pond shook violently, and as water splashed, the two crocodile demons leaped out, soaring into the air and attacking Lu Chen from the left and right.

Perhaps seeing that Lu Chen was unarmed and pitifully "short and thin" compared to them, the two crocodile demons didn't even take any weapons and planned to tear him in half with their bare hands and eat him.

Seeing the two reckless crocodile demons, Lu Chen pointed his finger, and a sword light flashed at his fingertip. A sword aura shot out and pierced through the brow of the crocodile demon on the left with a "poof".

The sword energy pierced through the back of its head, then veered in mid-air, sweeping past the shoulder of the crocodile demon on the right, severing one of its arms at the shoulder.

That wasn't the end of it. The sword energy then turned towards its legs, circling around each of its knees, severing the crocodile demon's lower legs at the knees. Finally, it severed its tail at the root before the sword energy dissipated.

boom!
The crocodile demon on the left collapsed to the ground and died instantly without saying a word.

The crocodile demon on the right was even more resilient. Although it only had one arm left, it still rolled on the ground, letting out a deafening scream.

Lu Chen strode over, stomped on the crocodile demon's back, pinning it to the ground and rendering it immobile, and said coldly:

"I want to see your king. How do I summon him?"

The crocodile demon remained silent, only howling in agony.

Lu Chen kicked the crocodile demon away, sending it crashing into the temple gate, and said coldly:
"Go and summon your king! Tell him that I killed the Crocodile Vanguard as well."

The crocodile demon spat out a mouthful of blood, screamed in agony, and crawled to the statue with one hand. It took out three incense sticks, rubbed the tips of the sticks vigorously against the incense burner, and the incense sticks immediately ignited.

Holding incense sticks, it prostrated itself on the ground, repeatedly kowtowing before the statue of the deity, wailing hoarsely:
"Your Majesty, a cultivator has come to our door! He killed Crocodile Five and Six, cut off one of my arms and two legs, and severed my tail! He also claims that he killed Crocodile Vanguard! Your Majesty, you must avenge us!"

When the crocodile demon held incense and kowtowed.

Lu Chen noticed that in the temple, the one-horned black-clad god statue, clad in black armor, holding a spear with blue scales covering its shaft, standing on wave-shaped stone carvings, and with a similar height but a much thicker build than him, slowly inhaled a few wisps of smoke, after which it began to glow slightly.

When the crocodile demon announced the news, the statue's eyes suddenly lit up with a blood-red light. It first glanced down at the crocodile staff beneath the statue, which only had one arm left, and then its eyes rolled, casting a cold and sharp gaze at Lu Chen outside the temple gate.

Lu Chen remained expressionless, his hands behind his back, staring directly at the statue.

"You, damn it!"

A deep roar emanated from the statue, followed by a thunderous explosion that shot out a serpentine bolt of lightning, piercing towards Lu Chen like a spear.

The thunderous roar struck straight to the mind, possessing the power to shake and intimidate.

If one's mental cultivation is insufficient, upon hearing this sound, one will immediately be stunned into a daze, even to the point of mental blankness, and be pierced through the body by the serpentine lightning without any power to resist.

However, with the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Intent guarding his sea of ​​consciousness, Lu Chen was completely unaffected by mental shocks.

As for the serpentine lightning that resembled spears, it was powerless against Lu Chen, who was able to control wind and thunder and had also mastered the Thunder Tribulation Sword.

With a casual flick of his sleeve, the serpentine bolt of lightning changed direction and landed on the ground to the side, creating a crater more than ten feet deep with a loud bang.

Seeing that it could not harm Lu Chen by using the statue to cast spells from a distance, the statue looked at Lu Chen deeply with its eyes, the blood-red light in its eyes dimmed, and it turned back into an ordinary statue.

But Lu Chen knew that this dragon-type crocodile demon had not backed down.

Because at this moment, the wind blowing from the river suddenly became stronger, and the water vapor in the wind also increased tenfold, causing layers of waves to rise on the river surface.

Lu Chen unleashed a sword aura, first killing the crocodile-like creature that was still barely clinging to life, then slashing the statue to pieces. Afterward, he turned around, facing the cold, sticky river wind, and looked at the gradually rising waves on the river surface.

A huge whirlpool appeared on the river surface a hundred feet away, at some unknown time.

The whirlpool spun rapidly, emitting a thunderous roar. Then, it began to rise from its center, gradually growing higher and higher until it bulged out of the water and finally rose into a huge wave crest a hundred feet high.

This stretches from the foot of Langfeng Mountain all the way to the riverside dock.

Inside the "mountain" of Langfeng, there are countless aquatic creatures of all shapes and sizes.

Each fish is over ten feet long, with densely packed fangs, scales like iron, vigorous blood and energy, and fierce eyes.

There were also giant shrimp and crabs wielding enormous pincers, capable of clamping a water buffalo in two with a single blow, and a giant water snake several meters long, with its thickest part as thick as a water bucket.

There were also crocodiles of all sizes, which looked obviously trained, and they even formed a proper formation in the water.

Just as the restaurant owner said.

These aquatic monsters, which have not yet taken human form, number in the tens of thousands. If they were to clash on the water, they could easily annihilate a regular navy with thousands of warships and tens of thousands of soldiers.

The monsters in Langfeng Mountain are all just the lowest-ranking minor demons.

The core subordinates of the dragon-crocodile demon are all located at the top of the wave.

Hundreds of fish, shrimp, snakes, and crabs, barely resembling humans, clad in leather armor and wielding swords and spears, stood high above, their demonic aura soaring into the sky like a continuous cloud. Even higher, dozens of crocodile demons with human bodies and crocodile heads, each massive and imposing, exuding a menacing aura. And atop the peak of the wave, a throne formed from condensed water rose.

The dragon-like crocodile demon, which had no other crocodile features except for a single horn on its head and fangs in its mouth, sat on its throne with an air of grandeur, leaning on a blue-scaled spear with one hand, its gaze cold as it looked down at Lu Chen.

"Human, little Xiu, do you know your crime?"

The dragon-crocodile demon's voice was deep and resonant. When it first opened its mouth, it was at a normal volume, but when the sound traveled more than a hundred feet to reach Lu Chen's ears, it turned into a deafening rumble of thunder.

This time, the rolling thunder was no longer just aimed at Lu Chen's mind.

An extremely powerful shockwave continuously bombarded Lu Chen's entire body, attempting to penetrate his skin, shatter his muscles and bones, and even his internal organs.

Although Lu Chen remained unmoved, and his sword body cultivation, which had reached the "refining internal organs" stage, withstood the repeated impacts of the shockwave, he still felt a little uncomfortable, with a slight feeling of chest tightness and suffocation.

"This dragon-breed crocodile demon is indeed no ordinary monster..."

Lu Chen pondered to himself, looking at the hundred-foot-high wave peak, without answering, but simply pointed and shot out a sword light.

This is an ordinary flying sword that has not been upgraded.

Although it hasn't been upgraded, it has been tempered by his blood and is far more powerful than the flying swords of the Void Sword Sect.

But when faced with the flying sword, the dragon-type crocodile demon simply used its azure-scaled spear to gently pause at the crest of the wave below. A wave of water suddenly surged up, transforming into a giant crocodile that opened its mouth and swallowed the sword light into its belly.

The sword light surged and struggled within the belly of the giant crocodile, yet it could not break through. Instead, the true power of the sword was gradually dissipated by a dense and resilient force, as if it were bound by layers of dense silk, unable to exert its strength.

The dragon-like crocodile demon, having trapped the flying sword, looked down at Lu Chen and said arrogantly:

"I am a dragon, and this Tongtian River is my domain. You, a mere mortal cultivator, dare to challenge me to a duel by the water's edge? You truly do not know the immensity of heaven and earth!"

Are they stronger in the water?

Lu Chen's lips curled up:

"What about on the ice?"

As he spoke, he flicked his sleeve, and another sword light flew out, instantly freezing the water below and forming a layer of ice several feet thick.

The dragon-crocodile demon snorted coldly, and the tail of its azure-scaled spear throbbed once more, creating another wave that transformed into a giant crocodile, swallowing the ice sword whole.

Although the giant crocodile was quickly frozen into an "ice crocodile" and then shattered with a crash, wave after wave rose up without changing shape and directly rushed towards the ice sword. Through layers of resistance and dissipation, the ice sword was actually blocked at the "mountain waist" of the wave crest.

Seeing this, Lu Chen pointed his finger, and the ice sword slid down and stuck into the waist of Langfeng Mountain. A series of white halos burst out, and wherever the halos passed, large areas of Langfeng were frozen, even the little demons that had not yet transformed were frozen in solid ice.

"How much true energy do you possess to freeze my domain?"

The dragon-type crocodile demon slammed its spear heavily against the wave crest beside the throne. A black ripple spread out from the mountaintop, surging down like a black tide. Wherever it passed, the wave crest, which had been frozen in large areas, instantly thawed and turned into water.

The white aura emanating from the ice sword instantly collapsed upon impact with the black tide.

The dragon-crocodile demon grinned, revealing its sharp edges, and sneered:
"Being in the river, my true essence is inexhaustible. Even if you are exhausted, you cannot freeze my domain!"

"Is it?"

Lu Chen smiled slightly, and with a thought, activated the "Sword Six Mark":
"Summon the sword spirit!"

A strange spatial fluctuation emanated from him, enveloping the entire wave crest.

Then, ripples spread across the void around the wave crest, and four graceful and beautiful female figures appeared out of thin air, standing around the wave crest.

It was none other than the four sword spirits: Dugu Feng, Wanwan, Shi Feixuan, and Li Xiuning!
Summoning sword spirits out of thin air is a small achievement that Lu Chen has gained from comprehending "Sword Six: Void" during this period. He can summon his four sword spirits at any time within a hundred miles!

As soon as Dugu Feng and the other three appeared, their auras merged into one, and the four sword spirit imprints also merged into one at a higher level.

Once the sword formation was complete, the ice sword, empowered by the formation, suddenly unleashed an unprecedentedly massive halo that rolled outwards, instantly engulfing the entire wave crest. Not only did it freeze the entire hundred-foot-high wave crest in an instant, but the river water at the foot of the wave crest was also frozen all the way to the bottom.

Just this.

Amidst the surging waves, thousands upon thousands of lesser demons were frozen to death.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Chen harvested tens of thousands of killing calamity energies that were far more refined than those of the Turkic cavalry!
If it were just freezing the entire wave crest, it wouldn't be a big deal. The dragon-type crocodile demon was in the river, and its true essence was indeed almost inexhaustible. In addition, it had the natural talent of controlling water as a dragon, so it could thaw in no time.

However, once the sword formation was complete, it not only froze Langfeng, but also made the dragon-type crocodile demon momentarily dazed, realizing that the space it was in had also undergone some kind of change.

It felt as if it had fallen into an abyss of unknown depth, its vision suddenly turning pitch black, with not a ray of light visible above its head. Moreover, a powerful, oppressive force, like a mountain pressing down on it from all sides, was pressing it in, trying to immobilize it.

That's not even the worst part.

The most terrifying thing is that it felt its connection with the Tongtian River had been severed!

The water-based spiritual energy that originally flowed from the river, allowing it to squander its dragon-like talent at will and seemingly inexhaustible, has now completely stopped flowing, and it can't borrow even a trace of external spiritual energy!

Until now.

This dragon-crocodile demon, who had always appeared as a majestic deity, sitting regally on its throne and arrogantly looking down upon Lu Chen since its appearance, finally leaped up from its throne in shock, exclaiming:

"What formation is this?"

No one answered.

But suddenly, countless "starlight" lit up the pitch-black "sky".

But as the starlight descended, the dragon-crocodile demon realized with a start that it was not the radiance of stars, but rather streaks of dazzling sword energy!

The sharp sword energy descended, and on the summit of the wave, the dozens of humanoid crocodile demons and hundreds of various aquatic demons, who had been suppressed and unable to move by the invisible force pressing down from all directions, were instantly pierced through by the sword energy without any power to fight back.

In the Twin Dragons world, these hundreds of demons, who could easily slaughter a hundred thousand Turkic troops, were as vulnerable as lambs under the sword formation, and were slaughtered and harvested at will by the sword energy!
The dragon-like crocodile demon's eyes were bloodshot!

It's one thing for tens of thousands of lesser demons to be frozen to death, but these dozens of humanoid crocodile demons and hundreds of humanoid aquatic creatures were all core members that it had painstakingly cultivated and accumulated over many years. Unexpectedly, they were all wiped out in one fell swoop!
But anger is of no use.

Because it itself is currently facing a barrage of sword energy as dense as a rain of stars!

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