"Hey!"

The giant ape bellowed furiously, its fur streaked with blood, and on the giant sword condensed from the True Water it held, a peculiar yet sacred beastly imprint appeared: An eight-headed creature with human faces, eight feet, and eight tails, coiled like a tiger.

With the burning of Essence Blood, Wuzhiqi had already been formidable, but upon the appearance of the imprint, its momentum soared to the limit. It let out a skyward roar, and where the sound waves reached, even the Kui Drum Thunder Sound was utterly suppressed. Yellow Dragon felt his head spin, his Primordial Spirit nearly shaken loose from his body.

"Eternal Waves."

Wuzhiqi's sword danced with the waves, whipping up towering surges. True Water took the form of countless Water Demons and Water Beasts, pounding upon Yellow Dragon's body with the giant waves, gnawing at its dragon flesh. The blue waves turned blood-red, revealing the gruesomeness of the scene.

"Ao!"

Yellow Dragon let out a pained roar, forcibly steadied its Primordial Spirit, and with an agape maw, bit down on the incoming giant sword.

The bright yellow Divine Light coated the giant sword, attempting to evoke the energy of Resting Soil, to transform the True Water sword into earth, emitting a strange friction sound. Bloodstains appeared at the base of the dragon's teeth.

But before it could retaliate, a large, furry hand had already grasped its dragon body, followed by the sight of the giant ape, wearing a fierce smile, biting into Yellow Dragon's neck.

Savage, brutal!

Flesh was torn by sharp fangs, producing terrifying sounds. Wuzhiqi bit into Yellow Dragon like a wild beast.

"Ah!"

Yellow Dragon screamed in agony, its dragon body struggling frantically, claws slicing through the giant ape.

Dragon and ape fought like beasts in combat, tearing and clawing at each other, blood gushing like a fountain, staining the river red. Strength surged in all directions, causing wave after wave of blood to undulate.

"The sword in Wuzhiqi's grasp is a Dao Artifact! The Third Grade Dao Fruit he seeks to ascend to lies within the sword!"

Tianxuan said, raising his hand to condense starlight, ready to intervene.

The Golden Dam, after all, was a Dao Artifact, not a Cultivator, and even though it could unleash the Power of a Dao Fruit, comparable to third-grade, it was not truly third-grade. Moreover, the suppression range of the Golden Dam was exceedingly vast, unable to concentrate in one place, allowing Wuzhiqi to forcefully break through the suppression.

And without the Suppressing power of the Golden Dam, even with the enhancement from the Dao Fruit, King Shu was still no match for a Great Demon like Wuzhiqi.

At this rate, King Shu would not only lose but would die.

But before Tianxuan and the others could come to the rescue, a surge of Wu Earth Divine Light suddenly erupted in the river.

"Roar! Wuzhiqi!"

The Yellow Dragon, struggling fiercely, its vast Qi Mechanism inhaling and exhaling, blasted out Wu Earth Divine Light, and a tremendous force burst forth from the dragon's body.

Boom!

The river water shattered, turning into a dense mist, exposing the riverbed and blasting mud into the air, shaking the surrounding mountains, and causing the earth's veins to tremble with it.

The over hundred yards tall Water Monkey was blown away, exploding into a mist of blood and flesh.

It crashed into a large mountain miles away, causing the landscape to collapse, rocks toppling down in a heap, the forceful wind uprooting countless plants and trees.

Wuzhiqi breathed heavily, slumped on the broken mountainside, shoulders, waist, chest – all a blur of blood and flesh, bones visible in places.

But in the end, he was still alive.

And King Shu...

In the last moment, King Shu had resorted to a Forbidden Technique to reverse flesh and blood, shock his Essence Qi, heavily injuring Wuzhiqi, while he himself paid with his life, his body perishing in self-detonation.

Blood waves churned, washing up numerous chunks of flesh, but it was unclear which were Wuzhiqi's and which were King Shu's.

"That really was quite a spectacle," commented the vast Red Dragon, descending slowly from the sky, the Great Venerable looking down upon the blood-red river, praised, "One used the power of Yu King Dao Fruit to break the boundaries of Demonic Attribute Dao Fruit, truly becoming a demon, while the other did not hesitate to perish..."

"Bravo! Excellent!" the Great Venerable cheered repeatedly.

Truly became a demon?

Everyone present was well aware of the origins of the Demonic Attribute Dao Fruit. Hearing the Great Venerable's remarks, they had no time to be shocked by King Shu's death, and instead, all turned to look at the giant ape.

The essence of a Devil Cultivator is still human, even if they can transform into a demon body, consume humans for cultivation, or even succumb to demonic nature, after death, when the Dao Fruit separates, they still revert to human form. Just like the demons before the End of Dharma era, no matter how much they change, after death, they still return to their original form.

Devil Cultivators are like demons in reverse, transforming their human forms into demon forms.

But according to the words of the Great Venerable, Wuzhiqi has broken this boundary and transformed from a human body into the Demon Clan. Now, he is Wuzhiqi, he is a Great Demon.

A nation on the brink of annihilation inevitably spawns disasters.

There were many among the crowd whose minds flickered with this thought.

At the same time, within the mist, a pair of dragon eyes blazed with the brilliance of the scorching sun, and a voice of authority, as if coming from the edge of the heavens, declared with finality, "In this battle, Wuzhiqi wins, and so..."

"Darkness discerns brightness."

An endless flood of light in an instant swamped heaven and earth, obscuring all things.

Jiang Li hurriedly closed his eyes, only observing through the mark on his brow like a Heavenly Eye.

The dam that had withstood two fierce battles, and which even a fourth-rank could not destroy, melted away like a candle in the light, vanishing into nothingness in an instant, leaving a vast empty space.

"The Fish Mouth"... gone.

A massive surge of bloody waves filled the void, and wave after wave of torrents came surging from afar, ceaselessly advancing.

The existence of the "Fish Mouth" was like a knife, dividing the flood into two streams, greatly reducing the force of the water. But now, the knife was gone, the torrents merged, an unstoppable force moving forward.

The red hue was swiftly devoured, and the water's surface rose frantically.

Without the "Fish Mouth," not only did the flood stop dividing, but the water-suppressing power of the Yu King Dao Fruit also struggled to cover this area. The flood that Wuzhiqi had been guiding for days finally erupted.

Although the sky was clear, several ominous clouds appeared out of nowhere, gathering together.

The sound of the torrential flow grew louder, with large patches of turbid color appearing in the water, the sign of river mud being washed away from below.

With the Golden Dam in place, even the strongest torrents could not wash away the river mud. But now, it was not only the river mud that was at risk, even the deeper veins of earth would suffer from the erosion of the water qi. Fortunately, there were still two other dams remaining...

As this thought emerged, the mountains suddenly began to quake violently, and a rumbling like distant thunder emanated from beneath the earth, as if... the earth vein was moving.

Jiang Li, proficient in Qimen Dunjia and with a certain understanding of geomancy, detected the anomaly of the earth vein immediately.

An area of a thousand miles around was experiencing tremors of varying magnitude, the epicenter shockingly nearby.

Jiang Li's gaze pierced through the flood and the land, seeing a rift opening up below the surface, splitting not far away and extending in two directions.

'Towards the Water Diversion and Tianhe Pass.'

A fissure slowly opened at his brow, luminance flowing, granting him further penetration, and a grand, majestic presence appeared within Jiang Li's perception.

Now, this essence was contracting.

"The Yu King Dao Fruit is leaving the Golden Dam," Jiang Li said softly.

Upon hearing this, Tianpeng, Kaiyang, and Yun Jiuye all showed expressions of astonishment, entirely unprepared for this turn of events.

The Golden Dam had stood for hundreds of years without damage, not solely due to the exceptional materials from which it was made, but also because of the enhancement by the Yu King Dao Fruit. If it were to lose the Yu King Dao Fruit, the dam might not withstand the destruction caused by a fourth rank.

"What's going on?" Elder Kaiyang showed an anxious expression.

"Why would it suddenly leave the Golden Dam?"

First, King Shu had suddenly fallen in battle, then the "Fish Mouth" had been destroyed, and now the Yu King Dao Fruit was departing from the Golden Dam; one piece of bad news followed another, washing away the joy of the initial victory.

"Success!"

Sitting collapsed on the remnants of a mountain, Wuzhiqi suddenly laughed maniacally at that moment, "Cackles! Success! My divine self has succeeded! The flooding of Liangzhou Province begins today."

This completely transformed Water Monkey, heedless of his injuries, kept laughing wildly, slapping the river water with his palms, looking overjoyed.

As if in response to his words, the waves surged wave after wave, strengthening continuously, and in a blink of an eye, it had already risen to the waist level of the mountains on either side.

"Unless destroyed by brute force, the Golden Dam would not collapse; this was the arrangement made by the forebears. But there's one situation that cannot be contained."

Tianxuan watched as the waves grew stronger, his voice turning cold: "Advancement. If the Yu King Dao Fruit actively departs from the Golden Dam, then this colossal Dao Artifact will lose its core and become a mere dam."

"Are you saying that this Water Monkey Wuzhiqi is going to ascend to become Yu King?" Elder Kaiyang said in extreme shock.

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