Chapter 834: Body as Sky, Earth as Forge (1/2)

Though Lu Yun had only recovered to his peak strength and was thus leagues away from the Wei river god, he came from the future. Marvelous cultivation methods and battle styles abounded in his repertoire; it’d take only one small opening for him to doom the river god beyond any hope of reincarnation.

Sacred Origin Runes flared with dark-golden light overhead as Lu Yun crossed his arms in front of his chest and voiced a long hum. In this moment, all of the rivers, mountains, plants, and the rippling Wei River… everything in the vicinity was isolated from the world.

Shrieking and wailing, the river god watched with horrified eyes as beams of cerulean blue erupted from its chest. A ball of blue light roughly the size of a human head flowed out its chest, and its eyes dimmed the moment it appeared.

Its large body began to dissipate and return to the world. As it was only a tribute spirit and not a divine spirit, it could no longer exist after losing both its priest and divine decree.

……

“The divine decree of the Wei river god!” a delighted shout echoed. “If I get my hands on that, won’t I be the god of Wei River and rule over all fifteen thousand of its kilometers?”

The gleeful voice cut off the next second as it seemed to realize some things were better left unsaid. Hidden in the murky depths, it shot at Lu Yun, revealing itself to be an enormous spotted python, a riot of multiple colors splashed across its five-hundred-meter long body. Three feet thick and spitting out rainbow poison mist, it launched itself at Lu Yun to swallow the divine decree in the human’s hand.

This spotted python was far weaker than the river god from earlier, but it was neither a divine spirit nor a tribute spirit, so what remained of the Sacred Origin Runes on the ground couldn’t restrain it.

It was a gremlin of the water, which also didn’t make it a monster spirit. Monster spirits had their own power and could call upon monster spirit abilities, whereas gremlins made use of their natural talents and strong physical bodies.

However, though it was weaker than the river god, that still didn’t mean Lu Yun could easily fend it off. Its overbearing body came crashing down and smashed through everything the human youth had set up.

Wei River instantly boiled over as gremlins, monsters, and various divine spirits in its watery depths went mad with greed when they saw the divine decree. Ah Bao and Ah Niu scrambled to drive them back, striking them down wherever they popped up.

Roar!!

An enormous challenge rang out as an exotic beast charged out of the tribe. It rushed to Lu Yun’s side in one thousandth of a second and ripped the python’s head off with a swipe of its iron-like claws.

The pixiu!

In a critical moment of need, the tribe’s guardian showed itself. It blazed with the aura of a divine spirit and flooded the vicinity with its stormy presence, snarling and tearing the ground with fearsome power.

All of the beings that’d rushed out of the river ran off with whines and yelps, their tails between their legs after an utter rout. The pixiu was incomparably strong and had torn apart even the Bi Fang! It’d only been afraid before because the river god possessed a divine decree. Now that the river god was no longer, it was the unchallenged sovereign of the area.

ROOOOARRRRR!!

It threw its head back again and sent its voice across five hundred kilometers in all directions. Everything that heard it fell to the ground in a prostrate position of surrender, while cheers rang out from the Yan Tribe.

“Big brother Lieshan!” Ah Bao bounced back to Lu Yun’s side and tugged hard on his clothes. There was the tiniest bit of fear in her eyes as she had to meet enemies here with her own strength. She was no longer in the mountain, and thus unable to nimbly call upon her real power.

This was also the greatest reason why Lu Yun hadn’t wanted her to take the field.

“Eat this.” He shoved the divine decree into Ah Bao’s mouth. Off to the side, Ah Niu swallowed surreptitiously as he, too, wanted the decree since he was the Yan Tribe’s tribute spirit.

……

Ah Bao fell into a deep sleep after she devoured the river god’s divine decree.

Despite the lack of a boss, everything was deathly silent in the Wei River. The pixiu residing in the human tribe was a great deterrent—it was the mightiest powerhouse in the area after Ah Bao when there was no river god around.