Ch 103: Usurp the Position of the Huai River God!

A dazzling and terrifyingly powerful light suddenly appeared, sweeping across all directions.

This light was so intense and blinding that many people watching covered their eyes and screamed in agony. Some even rolled on the ground uncontrollably… It was as if the sun had fallen from the sky!

No, the intensity of the light had surpassed the fiery red sun in the heavens.

As the thunderous roar that exceeded all others echoed across the land, the brilliant lotus still descended unhurriedly. The Xuanwu’s giant claws that approached it were silently erased, and the Xuanwu’s Black Water energy that burst out rampaged wildly.

A black hole the size of a fist appeared in the center of the lotus. It was as if the Black Water had disrupted some kind of balance, causing the brilliant lotus to spin faster and faster—

Countless cracks rapidly intertwined in all directions, and the void shattered into countless silver-white fragments like glass.

In Zhang Shicheng’s terrified and frozen gaze, the lotus landed on top of his head—

Within the endless light!

The Xuanwu-transformed Zhang Shicheng was erased from existence, and at the same time, the light continued to expand rapidly…

Chu Mo hovered in the sky, opening his palm. Endless divine fire swirled around him, reflecting off of him like the Red Emperor. He gently pressed down. The flames actually condensed out of thin air into an incomparably huge inverted world—

Suppressing the outward spread of the obliterating energy.

The civil officials and generals on the city walls all collapsed to the ground, breathing rapidly, their pupils filled with confusion, fear, and horror… flashing one after another.

They still couldn’t accept that they had almost died at the hands of their rampaging general. Instead, that Sage, as an enemy, had pulled them back from the brink at the critical moment—suppressing the outward radiation of energy, so that they wouldn’t be reduced to ashes along with Gaoyou City.

When the radiance died down.

In the original place, only a giant pit remained, encompassing hundreds of kilometers and of unfathomable depth.

Chu Mo’s expression was indifferent as he used the God-Seizing Method.

Strands of black qi seeped out from the void. With Chu Mo’s breathing, it merged into his body and was completely devoured by him.

Chu Mo began to allocate points.

【Year 10: You have successfully fused and digested the divinity of the Black Emperor. A large number of insights have appeared in your mind, and your perspective on the world has undergone earth-shattering changes.

You vaguely sensed that you could go a step further, but at that time, you might be suppressed by the heavens and earth, or you might be forced to ascend.

You have successfully awakened the Supernatural Power: Black Emperor.

Your control over the water attribute has greatly increased. You have mastered the Xuanwu Divine Form and control over Black Water! Standing on the land of the Divine Province, you will enjoy additional blessings from the Black Emperor. 】

Chu Mo’s eyes narrowed, discovering that in his perspective, in addition to the fiery fire-attribute source laws, there were now also water-attribute source laws. Moreover…

“Compared to analyzing and mastering the Red Emperor before, the current feeling is so much better.” Chu Mo felt the divine power gradually solidifying within his body and smiled silently.

Perhaps this is the difference between usurping divinity and analyzing divinity?!

Of course, although it was said to be usurping divinity, Chu Mo was not as reckless as before, directly fusing it into his main divinity. After all, in this era, the Black Emperor resided high in the heavens.

If he really did that, perhaps there would be very serious consequences in the future. So he chose to completely crush the divinity into laws, integrate them into his body, and transform them into Supernatural Powers! However, with divinity as the foundation, the Black Emperor Supernatural Power was also much stronger than the Red Emperor Supernatural Power.

While Chu Mo was thinking, he walked slowly, arriving above Gaoyou City. Lü Zhen’s expression changed several times, torn between opening the formation diagram to let the other party in, or…

Then, Chu Mo gently reached out and tapped, and a huge opening appeared out of thin air in the formation diagram. Chu Mo calmly walked in.

“…This?!” Lü Zhen’s hands and feet went numb, and his heart turned cold. Only now did he understand that his previous entanglement and hesitation were no different from a joke.

“You…” Chu Mo had just uttered two words when Shi Nai’an suddenly knelt down, kowtowing deeply to Chu Mo.

“With a Sage before us, how can we not obey?” Shi Nai’an said sincerely, “In order to resist the attacks of the Northern Demon, in order to protect the people from being harmed by blood sacrifices, this is what we should do!”

Without the slightest psychological barrier, a Sage was the best excuse to surrender.

Sages are natural leaders of scholars! If Zhang Shicheng were still alive, the Dao of Loyalty would have made them hesitate, but the other party was dead, and before his death, he did such a thing, harming loyal ministers… What else was there to say? Mencius once said: When the ruler regards his ministers as dirt, then the ministers regard the ruler as an enemy.

The others present also reacted and knelt down with a thud, responding in unison…

Only some generals who had a very close relationship with Zhang Shicheng suffered from a lack of culture. At this moment, they looked at each other, dumbfounded, at a loss, not knowing what to say.

Chu Mo gazed at Shi Nai’an with a strange expression, as well as Luo Guanzhong, who also knelt down beside him. He remembered that the Heroic Spirits of these two in the main world had awakened, and… their qualities seemed ridiculously high?!

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If novelists were not a non-prominent school of thought from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and had never produced a Sage, these two would definitely have become Sages at the end of their lives! But even so, in the future, having written two of the Four Great Classical Novels, they were second only to Sages among the Hundred Schools of Thought.

“You will temporarily manage Gaoyou, as well as the forces under Zhang Shicheng.” Chu Mo waved his hand gently, and two streams of purple qi instantly landed on top of Shi Nai’an and Luo Guanzhong’s heads, causing Shi Nai’an’s expression to change drastically. He kowtowed joyfully, “We will respectfully obey the Sage’s orders.”

Li Hangsu’s eyes were red, and his heart was filled with remorse. Earlier, considering his close relationship with Zhang Shicheng, he was a step too late. Just this one step made all the difference.

Afterwards, Chu Mo gently reached out and grabbed towards the distance. The City God, who was spying on the situation from hundreds of kilometers away, suddenly felt a palpitation in his heart and sensed a fatal crisis. Just as he wanted to plunge into Gaoyou Lake, his figure was forcibly dragged out with a sonic boom.

He crashed heavily in front of Chu Mo.

“…This humble one is willing to surrender! This humble one is willing to surrender.” The City God prostrated himself on the ground, his dragon whiskers trembling, his dragon head obedient, not even daring to raise his head.

Lü Zhen and Jiang Hui’s eyes twitched, and they were speechless. When Zhang Shicheng was around, this City God was so unrestrained and arrogant. Every time he took action against an enemy, regardless of their strength, he would demand a hundred virgin boys and girls.

However…

With a thought from Chu Mo, the purple light transformed into a dragon-head guillotine, which fell with a thud. Without the slightest sympathy or hesitation.

The City God only had time to let out a miserable scream before his body and soul were destroyed.

With a slight inhale, the terrifying and abundant power of divinity merged into Chu Mo’s body. Moreover, he abandoned his cultivation and began his first re-cultivation after breaking through the peak.

【Year 30: You have digested all the divine power of the Transcendent Fifth Realm. You have successfully broken through to the Transcendent Third Realm. 】

【Year 40: You have returned to the peak of the Transcendent Sixth Realm. And you have completely analyzed and digested the divine laws. You have gained some insights into the Huai River water system!

You have successfully obtained the Divine Position: Broken Huai River God. 】

A large amount of information appeared in Chu Mo’s mind, and his expression became strange. Fast cultivation speed was nothing, after all, this time he had completely consumed the Black Emperor’s divinity… Perhaps this cultivation speed was the normal speed for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng, this batch of heaven-chosen ones favored by the Five Emperors.

What he was focused on was… the Huai River God! The Huai River was one of the Four Rivers! Looking at the Divine Province, it could be said to be an extremely important water system, nurturing countless people on the Jiangbei Plain. From ancient times to the present, it had been given extremely important divinity.

The Huai River God could even be traced back to the time when Yu the Great controlled the floods. The first Huai River God was Wu Zhiqi. This water monkey was one of Sun Wukong’s prototypes! Ranked among the ancient giant gods.

“If I can collect the complete Huai River God position and solidify the God position into my Heroic Spirit Skill…” Chu Mo’s heart was pounding. Perhaps when he traveled to an even more ancient period in the future and used Heroic Spirit Interference, he could get an unexpected surprise? Of course, it might also be a fright.

“No, even in the main world…” Chu Mo’s eyes flickered. Although the main world was vast and boundless, it was, in the final analysis, obtained by infinitely expanding from the foundation of the Divine Province. Its terrain and water systems were not much different from the original.

In other words, the main world also had the Huai River water system, and it was unimaginably vast, its scale surpassing the Milky Way in the sky… At the very least, according to the geographical knowledge Chu Mo had learned, Shangnan was located on the edge of the Huai River water system.

If…

“…Thinking about this now is still too early. Moreover, if it were really that easy, someone might have already inherited the Huai River God position and possessed control over that water system.” Chu Mo forcibly dispelled the distracting thoughts in his mind. He estimated that there should be some influence, but expecting to directly obtain control over that divine river, which was comparable in scale to the Milky Way, was still too much wishful thinking.

For example, this City God probably awakened as a Heroic Spirit in reality… If it were really that easy, his Awakened One would probably be enjoying himself in the Huai River now…

“G-Great… Sir!” Shi Nai’an opened his mouth tremblingly, his teeth chattering.

However, Chu Mo soared into the sky and sped towards the west.

“That direction is…”

“It’s… it’s Chen Youliang! Next, could it be that…”

“This kind of thing… My God, what kind of virtue did that Zhu Yuanzhang accumulate?!”

The eyes of the group of people watching turned red. They sighed and lamented, their moods complicated. They felt that if they had a Sage to protect them so shamelessly, they might also be able to unify the world. Was that Zhu Yuanzhang the Sage’s biological son?!

“Not good!” Li Hangsu belatedly realized, his expression changing drastically, “The City God is dead! The general is also dead… We have suffered a great loss of vitality. If that Chancellor Tokto’a…”

The scene was deathly silent.

The people who reacted all felt their bodies trembling.

“Where is Zhu Yuanzhang? Quickly send someone to connect with him! Gather the strength of both sides to resist Chancellor Tokto’a’s attack… and wait for the Sage to return!” Shi Nai’an forced himself to calm down and issued one order after another.

Overawed by the Sage’s remaining power, coupled with the purple qi on Shi Nai’an’s head, the chaotic army and forces under Zhang Shicheng barely began to move…