Chapter 437: Walking Water and the View of the East China Sea
Mirage is a strange beast, shaped like a clam shell, which can swallow and spit out pearls.
There are sometimes clouds in the sea, such as palaces, pavilions, city walls, people, carriages, and hats, which can be clearly seen. It is called "sea market", and it is said that it is "caused by the gas of the dragon and mirage".
The so-called mirage is vaguely on the sea, and the mist is close at hand. This is a strange beast that is extremely good at illusion. The "mirage gas" it swallows and spits out can even be used directly as the raw material of large-scale illusion.
And the "mirage" created by the mirage itself is no different from the real one.
It has been recorded since ancient times: "The mirage's breath turns into a pavilion, and the flying birds fly there to rest."
Even the flying birds will rest on the pavilions formed by the mirage's breath, and there is no flaw.
Li Qi just passed through the mirage, but he didn't notice it at all.
At this moment, the big clam opened its mouth, revealing a pearl filled with the energy of the moon, on which gradually transformed into a real and illusory beauty.
She wore a round fan and a bun on her hair, which was soft and charming. At first glance, it was fascinating, and if you look closely, you can't take your eyes off her. It can almost be compared to the dancing of the Lingxiao Flower God.
"Gentleman, I have done everything you said. Can I leave now?" The beauty opened her cherry lips slightly and made a loving voice.
"Just leave, Mirage. What happens next has nothing to do with you. You have never done this." At this time, a black shadow appeared and disappeared under the water, running and standing in the clouds, changing strangely!
Not long after, an evil dragon came up!
The dragon appeared in the sea, and the sea waves were turbulent, and the turtles and crocodiles were turbulent!
The dragon surfaced, and its originally smooth and slender body suddenly became angry and fierce. Its scales were spread out, as flat as a knife, as sharp as a sword, and folded and sewn.
For a moment, all the water rushed, roaring and gushing like thunder and wind, flowing in all directions, and even the surrounding water turned black. The fish and shrimps were shocked and stiffened in place.
Seeing the dragon appear, the beautiful and soft Shen Ji breathed a sigh of relief.
She didn't dare to ask more, and immediately got into the mirage shell. As the heavy shell closed, she quickly got into the water and slipped away quickly.
This grade of dragon is undoubtedly the overlord in this sea area.
And the dragon in front of him is definitely a leader among the dragons. Just looking at his aura and the uncontrollable scales, this dragon may have reached the limit of his current cultivation and is already thinking about turning into a dragon.
It is not impossible for a dragon to turn into a real dragon.
In fact, due to the high birth rate of real dragons, quite a lot of real dragons are actually transformed from Jiaolong, so Jiaolong can be said to be the reserve army of real dragons.
It's just that the difficulty is really a bit outrageous, and there is only one result of failure, that is, death.
Jiaolong transforms into a dragon, which is a transformation of rebirth. It requires Jiaolong to go to the land, that is, to the continent of the world, choose a water vein as the starting point, and start walking on the water.
Before walking on the water, Jiaolong will face a choice, that is, simply restrain the power to advance, and not walk on the water, which is equivalent to giving up the opportunity to transform into a dragon, but can save a life.
If you choose to walk on the water, you can't regret it, otherwise you will generally be killed on the spot by your own cultivation.
The whole process of walking on the water is extremely difficult. In essence, it is to absorb the water veins along the way, use the power of these water veins to wash away your flesh and blood, crush your dragon bones, and finally use the essence accumulated along the way when the dragon enters the sea to reshape the body, so that you can turn into a real dragon.
It is impossible for a dragon to escape without making any noise. If it wants to go east and enter the sea through rivers, it is equivalent to hurting itself while spreading the power it bursts out.
Therefore, when a dragon escapes, it will generally cause a flood along the way, and even floods will erode thousands of miles, submerge countless houses, and destroy the water vein where it escapes.
Therefore, water gods, officials, heroes and heroes, and righteous knights along the way will stop the dragon and kill the dragon that escapes to prevent a disaster.
Such things have happened many times in the past. When a dragon escapes, it will cause floods, and then it will be intercepted and killed by people from all walks of life. The water gods will stop it, and the officials will stop it. I don’t know how many difficulties it will take to succeed in escaping.
If the dragon could fight in its prime, it wouldn't be so aggrieved. The most important thing is that the flooding is to destroy the original bones and flesh and reshape the body. So once the flooding starts, at least 60% of the dragon's power will be used for self-destruction, which means that the dragon will first seriously injure itself when the flooding starts, and then drag the seriously injured body all the way east.
Especially when it is about to reach the estuary, the dragon's flesh and bones are almost completely gone, and sometimes only half of the dragon head can be seen struggling in the water.
Not to mention dealing with the ambush, even staying awake is a difficult task at this time
But if all this can be done, when the dragon enters the sea, it can be reborn, from the body of a dragon to a real dragon, and become one of the true masters of the East China Sea.
On such a difficult and arduous journey, I don't know how many times it will have to cross life and death along the way to become a real dragon.
And... the most important thing is that the continent adjacent to the East China Sea... is Tang Country, the place with the lowest difficulty and the closest flooding distance, and it is a humane place.
Therefore, humans have no idea how many heads of water-walking dragons they have chopped off, and the hatred between the two sides has gradually accumulated.
In the past, when humanity had not yet been able to control the wind and rain, the dragons knew that they were in the wrong. In order to resolve their grudges and so that there would not be so many people to intercept and kill them when they went into the water, they took the initiative to show their goodwill, spread clouds and rain for humanity, and were responsible for various places. Good health.
With this relationship, that period was the peak period of transforming into a dragon.
It's a pity that today's human roads don't need dragons to spread rain. Therefore, Hualong has no way to take the human roads now. He can only go around from the Western Region or Wushen Mountain, or from the mainland north of Penglai, and enter the sea. The distance traveled by water has increased several times. It has become more and more difficult to transform into a natural dragon.
As for walking in the middle...humanity won't talk to you so much. If you come to walk in the water and want to cause a flood, I will beat you to death. There is no ambiguity at all, and I don't care about bullying the small.
And the dragon in front of me was so full of cultivation that even its scales couldn't cover it and exploded. It was obviously on the verge of transforming into a dragon. If he took a step forward, he would either become a dragon for the rest of his life, or he would choose to take a desperate risk and go. Water transforms into a dragon.
But he didn't seem to be in a hurry, but watched the mirage leave, then looked at the direction Li Qi left, and said to himself: "Master Wu Shenshan...it doesn't look like this, even the mirage is like this." If you don’t recognize it, it seems that my path through water can be decided in advance.”
After saying this, the dragon dived into the water, as if it had just appeared just to reassure the mirage.
However, at the same time, hundreds of miles away, Li Qi was looking here from a distance.
The old horse kicked his hooves uneasily. Even from such a distance, he seemed to feel some kind of uneasiness.
Obviously, Li Qi had already seen that it was an illusion.
Mirage aura is nothing special, let alone just a mirage. Li Qi has seen the aura of a mirage dragon. It is the aura of a true dragon after a mirage walks out of water and turns into a dragon. That was before he entered Taixue. At the banquet, a Chang'an student used it on him. (See Chapter 264 for details)
In front of Zhenzhiyun, this mirage has no effect at all, it is the same as nothing.
Li Qi just used the trick to see what was behind it, and watched the illusion created by the mirage.
Those illusions are not completely fictitious, but real life in the East China Sea. You can learn something from watching it, including the positioning method that Li Qi learned, which is also true.
It's just... you don't need to care about the mirage, but you can't help but care about the dragon.
"Fifth rank... is about to be promoted to fourth rank, so strong." Li Qiyuan looked into the distance and couldn't help but sigh.
It was indeed so strong. Among the fifth-grade dragons, it would be difficult to find anyone stronger than this dragon. Li Qi even had a feeling that even if this dragon and Yang Ning fought for their lives, the outcome would only be a 50-50 victory.
How strong must it be to be able to match Yang Ning to a fifty-fifty number?
He is very clear about the path of monsters following the path of heavenly evolution.
The monster cultivates and strives to become a demon dragon.
Demonic dragons can evolve into various things that Li Qi calls subspecies of dragons, such as Jiao, Chi, Qiu, Pan, etc.
Of course, this subspecies of dragon was named by Li Qi himself, but it was not actually the case.
Jiao, Chi, Qiu, and Pan, actually, are not dragons, but separate species. Dragon colts such as Lao Ma are also included in this. Like the so-called 'demon dragons', they are all for their own faces. It's gold.
However, among these types, if you want, you can transform into a real dragon by walking through water.
Among them, the dragon is the best at fighting and the easiest to evolve into a true dragon.
But... is it possible for a dragon of this level to transform into a dragon?
To be honest, Li Qi felt anxious.
Li Qi had also heard about the difficulty of walking through water, but it was similar to Yang Ning. The success rate was estimated to be less than 50%. The 50% chance of winning was because he had a lot of connections and the water gods and others passing by did not embarrass him.
There have been other successful cases of cheating in the past. There was once a dragon who was always kind, willing to do good, and chivalrous to help others. He had an unparalleled reputation and was well-known by everyone, and he reached the level of a 'hero'.
This is not something you can do with a good heart. It requires really strong skills and a genuine sense of loyalty in your heart.
This dragon finally succeeded in escaping because no one intercepted him along the way. Instead, there were countless people escorting him and helping him when he was in trouble.
Therefore, according to Li Qi's thinking, the demand of this dragon must be insufficient, and his strength is estimated to have reached its peak, and it is unlikely to improve.
So next, this dragon will probably have to go through the human connection stream.
So you are the connection he likes? Or... is he planning to make himself into snacks and give them to others in order to make other connections?
Forget it, when you first arrive, you need to be on guard against others, but there is no need to make enemies in advance. Just pretend you don’t know, be prepared, and wait for the opponent’s next move.
Before the other party's next move, let's go to Dongyu first.
Rent a boat on Dongyu Island and head to the deep sea.
Whether Li Qi wants to get in touch with the real dragons or the ingredients for cooking the sea pot, they are all in the deep sea.
Upon thinking of this, Li Qi turned around, mounted his old horse, and rushed towards Dongyu.
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Along the way, Li Qi saw many kinds of terrifying beasts and a bunch of special little creatures.
There is a giant turtle lying on the sandy island, with trees growing on it, like Yuan Island.
There is a flying snake swimming in the mist. The snake's skin is hard and cannot be cut. There are holes in it, which open and close sometimes, and sometimes there is light, just like the body of a dragon.
There was a big fish, thousands of feet long, with blue spots on its scales, a horn on its nose, and it liked to dance. Li Qi looked far away and saw five-colored clouds in the water.
There was also a divine whale, swimming alone, with huge scales piercing the clouds, huge fins protruding, a skull as big as a mountain, and flowing fat as an abyss. It leaped on the waves, sprayed mist, and spit water to form a river. Its body became an empty island, and its eyes fell and became a bright moon.
There was also a giant monster with ten claws, about five feet long and weighing eight hundred pounds. It had thousands of small fish followers. Li Qi caught them and roasted them. The meat was very sweet, boneless and tender.
There was also a flying fish with two wings, flying as fast as a bird. When it touched the line, it would emit light and shoot into the tide. When it took off, it was impossible to tell the direction. It rushed to Li Qi's arms and tasted very delicious when cooked.
There was a bird that looked like a quail, which was transformed from a toad. It looked like a shrimp when it entered the water and a bird when it came out of the water. It had puffy wings and black claws, and its cry was chirping.
There were also large shrimps, the biggest ones weighed seventy or eighty kilograms, with a head as big as a foot in diameter, shaped like a dragon, brightly colored, with two large whiskers like fingers, seven or eight feet long, eyes shining, red like blood amber, and their meat was fat, healthy and sweet, slightly coarser than ordinary shrimps.
In addition, Li Qi also encountered big waves.
Originally, the sky was clear, but the sky suddenly changed in the next second. In the blink of an eye, thunder and clouds suddenly surged, and huge waves of a thousand meters appeared. Countless fish and shrimps flew into the air and drowned, breaking through the waves, but saw a giant monster tumbling in the water. Li Qi could not see it, and could only see countless white water splashes, like millions of ice and snow falling from the sky, and like a whip of thunder, snow dancing in the air, which was dizzy to watch. At another glance, he found that the giant monster had disappeared and the weather was clear again.
There was also a strange sight, countless kelp algae gathered, like a forest in the water, corals grew together, colorful, small fish swimming, living on the rocks in the sea, kelp like leaves, the whole sea area was dark green during the day, and at night, countless small insects were seen in the water.
The insects feed on kelp, have colorful lights on their bodies, sleep during the day, and get up at night to eat algae. Billions of insects move together, and the precious light shines. The whole sea area shines like clouds, with five colors, and the light shines for three thousand miles, which is not inferior to the daytime.
It took only a few days to travel all the way, and Li Qi was amazed.
This... is the Taoism of the East China Sea.
The Tao of natural selection is also the Tao practiced by the real dragons.
In this place, creatures actively or forcedly exert their own strength, and become more adaptable to the environment in the cruel natural selection.
And the real dragon is probably the ultimate of the Tao of natural selection, the legendary perfect creature.
As a creature that can crush most enemies purely by blood, the real dragon has reached the ultimate of the Tao of natural selection.
Therefore, all life is heading towards the direction of "transforming into a dragon". As long as they transform into a dragon, it means that they have also reached the limit of life.
You don't even need to practice, you can get stronger by sleeping, and you can easily cross the outer void by relying solely on genes...
Li Qi's eyes were opened again, which made him more curious about Dongyu.