Chapter 792: Primordial Water God (1/2)
Everyone discovered in this moment that Ashu’s eyes had turned a pure green. A beam of sheer, unadulterated greed shone out of his richly green pupils at the sight of what they’d encountered.
Lu Yun had never seen the holy lord like this before. It seemed that an obsession rooted in the deepest parts of his heart had been triggered, related to that of creation itself!
Without waiting for his companions to react, Ashu blurred into a streak of green light and chased after the kun fish that’d disappeared into the black sea.
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“No, stop him!” Lu Yun’s expression shifted drastically and summoned a giant out of black seawater at almost the same time. Undulating ripples formed his head and his feet were planted on top of two dragons—the primordial water god Gonggong!
He’d first used Mastery of the Five Elements to summon connate water essence, then used that water essence to manipulate the connate kui water in the area, using that water of pure yin to manifest Gonggong’s body.
The primordial water god manifested with the strength that he’d possessed at his peak in olden times. One had to say, in a place where the power of the five elements gathered like this, the world was Lu Yun’s oyster. His nascent spirit was powerful enough to call upon connate elemental essence and he could do with it whatever he wanted to. The Gonggong that he manifested was pretty much the bonafide primordial water god!
“Stand guard over me!” Lu Yun roared and took a cross-legged position on the fortress ship, bending his mind to controlling his projection.
The Venerated Sacrosanct Demon Sovereign transformed into his skeletal form without a word and set himself on fire with Hadal Bonefire. Not daring to deploy the Fire Altar, the priest of flames kept a weather eye on their surroundings. She’d been here once before, but hadn’t been in possession of the true Fire Altar then, so she hadn’t prompted the ocean’s backlash. However, she was well aware of what terrors lurked in the deep.
“So strong… his dao method is stronger than the art of incantations and far more perfected!” murmured the priest of flames when she looked at Gonggong off in the distance. “But there’s still a flaw to this dao method—it’s not complete yet!”
“What kind of flaw?” Lu Yun suddenly opened his eyes in question.
The young priest’s face spasmed in fright at the response and she answered haltingly, “It’s not real enough! What you’re projecting is just an external copy and not the real thing. Or put another way, you’ve manifested just a replica of yourself.”
Lu Yun blinked and frowned in consternation. “But I’ve never met the real water god. If I had and gained a deep enough understanding of him, I’d be able to project the real deal.”
“No, you’re wrong!” the high priest cut him off. “Even if you’d met the real water god, you’d still be projecting a replica and wouldn’t be able to call upon his true strength.
“I can tell that your observation method borrows from the energy of heaven and earth to observe all things. All things, and not yourself, so you should forget your own existence and think of yourself as the real water god.
“The water god is a divine spirit of water, making water its true essence. The world is the heart of things, which makes that Gonggong just a replica of what you see with your heart.” She gave voice to a strange syllable as she spoke, igniting the flames on the Fire Altar to form a man wreathed in fire.
Though the man was coalesced through the art of incantation as deployed by the priest, there was nothing indicating his origins whether by presence or aura. He seemed to have nothing to do with the priest of flames.