I, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, am being kept by the state.

Three days later, in the East China Sea.

Zhao Huaiyuan stood with his hands behind his back on a small boat.

The sea was originally as calm as a mirror.

But at that moment the wind direction suddenly changed, and the seawater began to surge uneasily.

On the distant horizon, dark clouds were gathering at an alarming speed, turning the entire sky inky black.

"They're here."

Zhao Huaiyuan's eyes were calm, and the power of his domineering body began to operate spontaneously within him.

Rumbling--

A deep, rumbling sound came from the depths of the sea, as if some enormous creature was awakening on the seabed.

The wind grew stronger, and the waves began to surge, one higher than the next.

The small boat rocked violently on the sea. An ordinary person would have lost their footing long ago, but Zhao Huaiyuan remained motionless, as if his feet were rooted to the ground.

"General Zhao, the tsunami is expected to arrive in three minutes!"

Chen Dong's voice came through the headset, tinged with obvious nervousness.

"We've detected wave heights exceeding ten meters, and they're still rising!"

"understood."

Zhao Huaiyuan's answer was concise and powerful.

He raised his head and looked into the distance.

At the edge of the horizon, a white line was rapidly approaching.

That wasn't an ordinary wave; it was a moving wall of water.

Ten meters, fifteen meters, twenty meters...

The waves are still rising.

"All vessels must evacuate immediately!"

Chen Dong's voice grew even more urgent, "General Zhao, you should hurry too—"

"No need."

Zhao Huaiyuan interrupted him.

"I'm here to suppress it."

After he finished speaking, he took a deep breath.

The domineering power within his body erupted instantly, and an invisible aura surged skyward from his body.

The tsunami is getting closer.

The wall of water was already clearly visible, standing at least thirty meters high, blocking out the sky and the sun.

A huge shadow fell, and the roar of the sea was deafening.

Zhao Huaiyuan slowly raised his right hand.

"Give me……"

His voice was deep, but every word seemed to burst forth from the depths of his chest.

"town!"

boom!

A golden wave of energy erupted from his palm and instantly surged toward the wall of water.

The moment the shockwave collided with the tsunami, a section of the 30-meter-high water wall was sheared off, and countless water droplets exploded, turning into a sky full of mist.

But that's about it.

The tsunami's momentum paused only slightly before it roared and surged forward again.

"not enough."

Zhao Huaiyuan narrowed his eyes, and the power of his domineering body surged wildly within him.

He could feel that he had used too much force in that palm strike, and that the power was too dispersed.

To suppress a tsunami, you can't rely on brute force; you have to find the key point.

Just like on the battlefield back then, a single bullet hitting the enemy's vitals is better than a hundred shots fired indiscriminately.

"Again!"

Zhao Huaiyuan took a deep breath, and this time he did not rush to make a move.

His eyes were fixed on the wall of water, observing the flow of the seawater.

A 30-meter-high tsunami may appear to be a single entity, but it is actually composed of countless undercurrents.

These undercurrents collided and overlapped, ultimately forming this destructive force.

"Found it."

He saw it.

There is a point in the lower middle part of the water wall.

That place is where all the undercurrents converge, the core of the entire tsunami's power.

If that point is breached, the entire tsunami will collapse instantly.

Zhao Huaiyuan raised his right hand. This time, he did not use all his strength, but instead concentrated all his domineering power in his palm.

The golden light grew brighter and brighter, eventually condensing into a ball of light the size of a fist.

"break!"

The ball of light was released and shot precisely at the core point.

Boom—!

A huge hole suddenly appeared in the middle and lower part of the tsunami.

Immediately afterwards, the entire wall of water began to tremble violently, and countless cracks spread outwards from the hole.

Click, click...

The sound of shattering glass kept ringing out.

The next second, the 30-meter-high tsunami collapsed with a roar, turning into a shower of water that plunged into the sea.

The disaster that was supposed to destroy the coastal city was thus thwarted with a single blow.

"It's done."

Zhao Huaiyuan withdrew his hand, his face expressionless.

But he could feel that with that last strike, his control over the power of the Overlord Body had improved even further.

Chen Dong's shocked voice came through the earpiece.

"General Zhao, you...you really suppressed the tsunami?"

"Um."

"This..." Chen Dong didn't know what to say for a moment.

He had just witnessed the 30-meter-high water wall being shattered by a single palm strike on the surveillance footage.

This is beyond what human power can do.

"Are there any other tsunamis?" Zhao Huaiyuan suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Chen Dong was taken aback. "You want to continue?"

"Once is not enough."

Zhao Huaiyuan flexed his wrists. "I need more real-world experience."

Chen Dong remained silent for a moment, then opened the documents at hand.

"There is a typhoon warning in the South China Sea, and a large-scale storm surge is expected to form the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll go to the South China Sea."

Zhao Huaiyuan turned around, and the small boat beneath his feet began to change direction.

......

In a basement in the northwest, in a makeshift laboratory.

Wearing a pair of specially made goggles, Qian Youmin stared intently at the instrument in front of him.

Beside him, Sun Mingde and several other elderly men also looked serious, and the air was filled with a tense yet excited atmosphere.

They did not sit cross-legged or close their eyes to meditate.

High-precision spectrometers, quantum entanglement detectors, biopotential monitors... these devices, which should be found in national-level research institutes, are now centered around a single core.

The dragon-shaped necklace that emitted a faint golden light.

"Lord Dragon Lord, the 'spiritual energy' you mentioned manifests as a high-frequency energy fluctuation in our instruments."

Qian Youmin's voice trembled slightly as he pointed to the pulsating curve on the screen, "It has extremely strong penetrability and activity, and can resonate with biological cells and accelerate their metabolism."

Li Chen's voice emanated from the necklace, calm yet authoritative.

"That's right. Spiritual energy is the foundation of the cultivation world and the source of cultivators' power."

"We tried to simulate its frequency using electromagnetic waves, but with little effect."

Sun Mingde added, "This energy seems to be impossible to capture and replicate directly using existing physical methods."

"That's natural."

Li Chen said calmly, "If spiritual energy could be replicated so easily, the cultivation world would have been conquered by technological civilization long ago."

Qian Youmin was not discouraged; instead, his eyes shone even brighter.

"But we discovered that it can be booted and stored through specific media."

He picked up a clear glass test tube containing a pale golden liquid.

"These are trace elements extracted from the dragon energy overflowing from the Dragon Lord. After special processing, they can temporarily stabilize the spiritual energy."

"Oh?"

For the first time, a hint of interest appeared in Li Chen's voice.

"We call it 'spiritual elixir'."

Qian Youmin explained, "Although it cannot be used directly for cultivation, we speculate that it may serve as a 'catalyst' to help mortals sense and absorb the scarce spiritual energy between heaven and earth."

"That's a good idea."