Free Web NovelChapter 271: Chapter 251: Dao of Dragon, Immortal, Human, and the Incomplete Great Dao
[Beizhu followed the flood dragon, joining the North Sea Xuanlong Army, heading beyond the high walls to conquer a continent world for the great Ancestral Dragon.]
[As Beizhu passed through the gate symbolizing the boundary, his view suddenly opened up to a vast expanse, with towering mountains piercing the clouds, making him exceedingly excited.]
[However, before this excitement could settle, his body seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, involuntarily starting to fall. Simultaneously, the Candlefish clan also fell like raindrops, plummeting into the waters below as if dumplings were falling from the sky.]
[This scene made the aquatic races riding the waves in the distance burst into laughter.]
[The mottled flood dragon with a black top, white bottom, and a red head was the leader of Beizhu. It was accustomed to this and shook its large head to remind its subordinates below in the sea, "This is not the world of the Ancestral Dragon. To fly at the sky’s edge, one must diligently practice the Sky Soaring Skill."]
[The black-red flood dragon added, "Those with shallow cultivation, remember not to leave the waters for too long, or else they will die of thirst."]
[Beizhu, of course, knew "fish out of water would die," but the Candlefish clan and he had been in the North Sea for thousands of years and were used to swimming in the sky. In the understanding of Beizhu and the Candlefish clan, the sky is the ocean.]
[Beizhu inquired among the aquatic race alliance; their ancestors had followed the True Dragon outside, and each world’s rules are different. Some are all flame, some are all air; the differences in world rules are not significant, but in special worlds, ordinary aquatic races cannot even use their ’gifts’ except for the ’True Dragon.’]
[The aquatic race relies on strength, with the flesh body being dominant, because magical power and gifts cannot ensure the survival of the race in various worlds.]
[Beizhu realized it deeply.]
[Beizhu carefully examined himself, confirming his magical power could still be freely wielded in this otherworld. He looked up to the sky, where a colossal rift suddenly tore open, and a torrent of water cascaded down like a waterfall, mercilessly engulfing stretches of land.]
[On the vast continent, startled beasts fled in all directions, trying to escape this impending catastrophe.]
[Meanwhile, the aquatic army charged down like a raging tide, unstoppable. Under their assault, majestic peaks crumbled one after another.]
[Conquering the world seemed so easy... Against the aquatic army, the beasts on the continent offered no resistance, as easy as overpowering primitive beings.]
[Beizhu, having no special ability, remained vigilant and had the Candlefish clan set up an ’array,’ also instructing the allied tribes not to spread out. The alliance leaders knew "Beizhu" had profound cultivation and was the strongest, so they followed orders.]
[Other aquatic races, not inclined to think, formed an instinctual reliance over three thousand years of behavior, "Maintain the luminous Candlefish, everyone has grass to eat, no need for hunger or death."]
[Beizhu led the back of the aquatic army, commanding the great water to topple the border mountains; though the aquatic army advanced a hundred thousand miles, they did not encounter a counterattack from the beasts on land, and he relaxed, thinking he might have been overly cautious.]
[Just then, the earth and heaven trembled in the distance, and a mountain peak at the continent’s center suddenly rose from the ground, transforming into a Mountain Giant God. With a simple shake, an abyss without bottom appeared, swallowing the seawater.]
[Subsequently, a pillar of magma rose, evaporating the water, and under the natural might, portions of the aquatic army also instantly evaporated in the magma pillar.]
[Violent winds whipped up tornadoes, lightning crashed into the ocean, countless aquatic races turned to charcoal in an instant, and Beizhu at the army’s edge also suffered a lethal blow.]
[In an instant, a third of the entire tribe was electrocuted to death, with Beizhu bearing the brunt but only sustaining minor injuries, maneuvering the Candlefish clan to seek shelter below.]
[The four great elemental giant gods of mountain, fire, wind, and thunder were manifestations of celestial might, and with a casual swipe, large swathes of the aquatic races were obliterated to ashes.]
[Beizhu glanced over, spotting entities with millennia of Dao practice among them.]
[Several flood dragons commanded wind and rain, battling them, as the sky darkened, lightning and thunder roaring, followed by the retreat of the flood dragons one by one.]
[The four great giant gods pressed in long and hard, the might of mountain, fire, wind, and thunder bombarded against the ’Greyscale Gate,’ but the gate only trembled slightly, and the four great giant gods were enraged yet could not destroy the ’Greyscale Gate.’]
[Meanwhile, the aquatic races poured endlessly from the gate, and amidst the world, the four great giant gods of mountain, fire, wind, and thunder stood, blocking the gate’s breach. With a casual move, a tide formed of aquatic races collapsed inch by inch, transforming into a monstrous sea of blood.]
[Such ’beings’ birthed by Heaven and Earth Qi were invincible; they were as great as the ’True Dragon.’]
[Beizhu escaped calamity, looking back at the Heaven and Earth Giant Gods, not understanding why the Dragon Race’s ’True Dragon’ had yet to act...]
[Beizhu dared not return, hiding alongside his tribe in a river deep within the continent.]
[Both sides had fought for three hundred years at the ’Greyscale Gate,’ or rather, the Giant Gods of Heaven and Earth had blocked the gate and slaughtered the aquatic race for three hundred years.]
[Beizhu occasionally approached to observe the situation; with the True Dragon not acting, he saw no possibility of overcoming such a great existence, realizing the aquatic race merely served as cannon fodder to wear down the giant gods’ mighty force.]
[After ten years, a grey claw finally slowly stretched out from the gate, gently grasping the four giant gods of heaven and earth; no matter how they struggled, it was futile, and the grey claw slowly retracted.]
[The world fell silent, and the great waters quietly engulfed everything.]
[Then a grey high wall rose, representing the Sea of Heaven!]
[The Candlefish clan felt a release all over, swimming in the grey Sea of Heaven, cheering with joy.]
[Beizhu stood stunned.]
[The world rules of this realm had been altered by the grey high wall...]
[He gazed at the yet undissipated sea of blood, in which, besides the beasts of the continent, ninety percent were ’aquatic races’! Beizhu instantaneously understood, realizing the aquatic race’s true mission.]
[Whether they lived or died, each had its purpose.]
[Living meant eradicating vast indigenous life, facilitating the grey True Dragon’s massive form to squeeze into this world smoothly.]
[In death, as long as the aquatic death toll was immense, the grievances, tribulation qi, blood qi, and evil qi would summon the descent of the grey True Dragon, annihilating everything.]
[For the subsequent ten thousand years, Beizhu experienced several invasions of different worlds. Regardless of whether it was the Heaven and Earth Giant Gods, Ancient Gods, or True Gods of any world... all appeared so insignificant and powerless under the claw of the Grey True Dragon.]
[He learned the name of that Grey True Dragon—Ancestral Dragon!]
[Destructive Claw.]
[During the ten thousand years, Beizhu cultivated in the Black Water of the North Sea, growing his physique from ten zhang, to a hundred zhang, to a thousand zhang. His Dao Practice spanned three thousand years, making him stronger than the Flood Dragons favored by ordinary storms, yet he could not become a True Dragon.]
[His Primordial Spirit was not a ’Dragonfish’, which, in the eyes of other Aquatic Race creatures, was a strange being: a head, seven orifices, a trunk, and upright limbs, but without hair or scales, appearing extremely weak at a glance.]
[Only Beizhu recognized this strange being, a human!]
[In other worlds, Beizhu had never seen the existence of ’humans’, only Dragons, Heaven and Earth Giant Gods, fur-clad beasts, and scale-armored Aquatic Race creatures.]
[Information in the North Sea was isolated, and each person’s Cultivation Method varied. Beizhu could only explore alone, wanting to find the Azure True Dragon possessing the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl, yet his ability could not leave the North Sea Realm.]
[Whirr, whirr, whirr—]
[The High Walls once again summoned the Aquatic Race, and Beizhu went beyond the High Walls, skillfully arranging the Candlefish Grand Array, commanding a great water to flood the world, then immediately began observing the life of this world.]
[Beizhu’s pupils constricted.]
[Leading the beasts was a Heaven and Earth Giant God, shockingly a humanoid life form! Masses of Heaven and Earth Qi transformed into limbs, featureless faces adorned with colorful robes!]
[They were named—Celestials!]
[Meanwhile, from the sea below, the Dragon Race soared up, a True Dragon holding a Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl in its claw. From it, the East Sea, South Sea, West Sea, and North Sea were moved, while a grey High Wall rose slowly.]
[The Aquatic Race occupied the Sea of Heaven, standing high above.]
[This world could indeed accommodate the existence of True Dragons.]
[True Dragons emerged in full force.]
[Beizhu led his army, engaging in battle with the Celestials’ beast army. They, too, were skilled in Magic, Arrays, Divine Techniques, Martial Arts, weapons, even Magical Artifacts!!]
[Possessing wisdom and using tools, like demons of the Aquatic Race!]
[Yet, they called themselves Immortal Beasts!]
[But the number of the Aquatic Race was vast, with True Dragons present, balancing the forces on both sides.]
[Beizhu commanded the Candlefish tribe, fighting a thousand-year battle at the edge against the Immortal Beast White Crane tribe, with no victor. A True Immortal noticed Beizhu, casually unleashing a Destruction Calamity.]
[The Candlefish Grand Array was instantly broken, Beizhu severely injured, and with the Candlefish tribe fled into an unnamed great mountain, falling into slumber.]
[The Celestials outnumbered the True Dragons, and the Dragon Race temporarily fell into disadvantageous position. However, the Dragon Race had moved the Four Seas world, occupying more than half of the continent, with the Aquatic Race far outnumbering the Immortal Beasts.]
[In the end, both Dragons and Celestials suffered mutual destruction, with heavy losses.]
[Both sides simultaneously attained Dao, yet the Great Dao was incomplete, unable to overcome one another, thus retreated, leaving the Aquatic Race and Beast Race to continue their endless battles.]
[The bloody rain poured incessantly, until ten thousand years later...]
The Celestial Derivation Volume abruptly stopped.
Ning Xunqiu was bewildered.
During the war between Dragons and Celestials, Beizhu, although gravely injured, escaped into slumber, but wasn’t dead. Why did the Celestial Derivation Volume cease its Inference?
He picked up his pen to rewrite the Celestial Derivation Volume.
The next moment, a prompt echoed beside his ear.
[This is the predetermined reality of the Cyan Heaven Realm, unalterable.]
"The predetermined reality of the Cyan Heaven Realm?"
Ning Xunqiu pondered.
"Is the Sea Heaven Realm now the Four Seas?"
[Yes.]
Ning Xunqiu mused.
"So this is a segment of the past in the Cyan Heaven Realm, before the Ancestral Dragon and the Divine Land attained Dao, during the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth..."
"The Three Saints of Divine Land, the Ancestral Dragon, and I alike, can only attain an incomplete Dao in the Origin Realm."
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