Chapter 192: Successive Promotions
[Fifth Soul Contract: Ming Long]
[Race: Psychic Armor]
[Attributes: Spirit, Dragon, Water, Wind, Thunder]
[Potential Level: King·Superior]
[Combat Power Level: Lord·Medium]
Chant
A dragon's roar filled with joy sounded in the water, and it was as if the tangible dragon power was spreading in the water palace. The Dragon Lady Deputy, who was busy dealing with things, was startled and a complex look appeared in her eyes. The busy Prime Minister Turtle looked in the direction where the dragon power came from in surprise.
“Hahaha, not bad, not bad!”
At the source of the dragon's might, a three-foot-six-foot-long dragon was flying around a laughing young man. Every part of the man and the dragon was filled with an emotion called joy.
However, Minglong, who had already caught up with Senmiao in terms of appraisal level alone, quickly came back to his senses from his joy. He turned the dragon head towards Feng Qingan, opened his mouth, and spit out a dragon sword with a green dragon wrapped around it, which was held in Feng Qingan's hand.
"Xunhai Sword!"
Feeling the power contained in this magical weapon, Feng Qing'an opened his mouth and exhaled, and a breath instantly turned into a strong wind that swept dozens of feet in front of him. If it weren't for the special place with the protection of the formation restrictions, the jade bricks under his feet would have been blown away.
This is the feedback from Ming Longjia. Every time the living beings that have signed a soul contract with him undergo a transformation and every time they become stronger, some of it will be reflected back to him as a beastmaster.
This time, the spirituality of the Xunhai Sword was devoured, and the Minglong Armor that replaced it was once again replenished with spirituality and possessed the power to control the wind. Feng Qing'an also received partial talent feedback and also possessed the talent to control the wind, but compared to the Minglong Armor, he was naturally not on the same level.
But Feng Qing'an didn't care. The Minglong Armor was too special. Everything it possessed was at Feng Qing'an's disposal. When the two were combined, Feng Qing'an's talent for controlling the wind, combined with the Minglong Armor's own magical powers, was even more powerful than the simple Xunhai Sword.
Chant
Looking at Feng Qing'an, who was holding the Xunhai Sword with a beaming face, the little dragon showed a look of worry at this moment. It knew that the magic weapon it swallowed was taken from the dragon girl by its master, and the master had promised to keep it for safekeeping.
"Don't worry. If she can't take the position of Suicune, she will keep it. Logically, I should return the sword to her. However, if she takes the position of Suicune, it will be an exchange. This sword is the price she paid. It's not too much to exchange a thousand miles of river for a magic weapon!"
Feng Qing'an smiled and said that the Dragon Girl had secured the position of Water Lord, because the Dragon Girl complained that she did not want to be Water Lord and wanted to travel around the world, but when all Water Lord's affairs were handed over to her, she turned out to be more serious and responsible than Feng Qing'an and handled all matters properly one by one.
When she was assigned to refine the water veins, the dragon girl was only resistant in words but her body was very obedient, because she also wanted to truly assume the responsibility of the Water Lord and exercise her authority as the Water Lord. The water veins must be controlled, otherwise it would be just in name only and a joke.
Chant
Hearing his master's solemn words, Ming Longjia immediately felt relieved. The worry that had just arisen in his mind was thrown aside, and he became cheerful and lively again.
"Come on, follow me to the ground and take a look!"
Someone is taking charge of the affairs in the Water Palace, so Feng Qing'an can be a hands-off manager. Although the Dragon Girl is not yet skilled, with the assistance of Prime Minister Turtle, it won't be a big problem. He only needs to supervise and observe from the side, and wait for the Dragon Girl to completely master the water veins before he can leave.
But if you want him to be truly at ease, you need long-term observation. This is not something that can be done in a short period of time. You should come back to visit him more often when you have time.
For a period of time afterwards, Feng Qing'an lived a very comfortable life. He patrolled along the Boliu River. If he encountered water ghosts or monsters that were breeding in the water and causing trouble, he would eliminate them. Occasionally, he would go ashore and visit the villages and counties built by the human race along the water.
Once he encountered something he didn't like, such as officials and clerks exploiting the people, Feng Qing'an, who didn't want to cause trouble and just wanted to solve the problem cleanly and efficiently, would naturally pick up his sword and start chopping.
In just less than two months, officials on both sides of the river, wherever the Boliu River flowed, were trembling with fear. Administration became particularly clean for a while. Officials in every county and prefecture became diligent and caring for the people. The chaotic and miscellaneous taxes were almost completely eliminated, leaving only the regular taxes imposed by the court.
There was no way. There really was a madman in this wave of Liujiang who dared to pick up a sword and kill people. He was the kind of person who would kill without burying the dead. He exploited the people and caused public resentment. He dared to attack the county government on the spot, tortured them in all kinds of ways, and finally beheaded them for public display.
According to some news that no one can confirm, this person even has connections with ghosts and gods in the underworld. The corrupt officials killed by him cannot rest in peace even after death. They will continue to be punished, and their sentences will be at least sixty years. Under such deterrence, it is difficult for officials from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to be dishonest.
No official wants to be tortured while alive, and even after death he will be punished by ghosts and gods. The long sentence is enough to make people despair just by hearing about it. In comparison, restraining oneself and living a hard life relying only on the salary issued by the court is nothing and is completely tolerable.
It's not that there were no officials who wanted to resist. They wrote letters to the court, asking them to send people to suppress the madmen. After all, they had studied hard for ten years and finally got their names on the imperial examination. Then they would go to the countryside to govern a place and educate the people. How could they endure such humiliation, just like cattle and sheep, to be killed at will?
But later, when the madman came to the court with a memorial that should have been reported, the officials on both sides of the river behaved themselves after giving the person who submitted the memorial a good lecture.
Who is this person in the hall? Why are you suing me?
It's not like they, the officials, haven't seen this kind of drama before, and have even participated in it themselves. But at that time, they were high up, sitting at the very top, dominating the fate of others. But now, they are the ones being dominated.
"Who are you? Why are you suing me? What are you dissatisfied with me?"
"You can explain it to me face to face. Why bother writing a memorial? It's too troublesome."
No official wanted to have any contact with that young man, let alone hear him say such words in front of them, or even have him slap them in the face with the memorial they had painstakingly written overnight.
If possible, they wanted to save their only remaining dignity in front of that lunatic instead of being humiliated like this.
"Being invincible is so lonely!"
After taking a stroll around Ningwu County and making sure that everything he had arranged and instructed earlier had been handled, Feng Qing'an returned to the river lazily. Before entering the water, he looked at the wheat fields on both sides and couldn't help but sigh.
Just as he finished speaking, a strong demonic aura rose into the sky from the lower reaches of the river, as if a demonic volcano had erupted. The strong demonic aura rushed straight into the sky and spread and expanded in the air.
The sky downstream of the river became gloomy at a speed visible to the naked eye, causing the people nearby to look at the sky in astonishment, confused as to why the sky suddenly became dark. Based on their experience, today should have been a clear, sunny day.
“…”
Looking at the evil cloud that seemed to be giving him little face, Feng Qing'an showed a bright smile on his face, but his smile did not last long, and his face suddenly tensed.
A stream of burning energy burst out from between his brows, spreading along his cervical vertebrae to his limbs and bones , making his entire body feel an extreme sense of fullness and swelling, as if his body was about to burst in the next moment.
This is the promotion feedback from the First Soul Contract!
Black Mountain has been promoted to a great demon!
Awoo——
A wolf howl that shook the heavens and the earth came from downstream, the voice was full of arrogance and indifference.
"Black Mountain encountered the enemy!"
Just by hearing Heishan's voice, Feng Qing'an judged Heishan's current state. He was probably encountering an enemy at the level of a big demon. However, the accumulation of a long period of time was released by Heishan at this moment, and he was promoted on the spot, and the situation was reversed instantly.
“It’s not a big deal!”
Even though Feng Qing'an knew that Heishan was about to take on the enemy, he remained calm, because he had already felt the change in Heishan's strength. After the twelve refinements of his demonic power, once he broke through, he would no longer be an ordinary lower-level demon.
[First Soul Contract: Black Mountain]
[Race: Phantom Wolf]
[Attributes: Monster, Beast, Fire]
[Potential Level: King·Superior]
[Combat Power Level: Lord·Medium]
"Spirit Parasitism"
Feng Qing'an projected a ray of his consciousness onto Heishan and saw his opponent, which turned out to be a giant ape that normally shouldn't appear in the water.
He has a green body and a white forehead, a sunken nose, a protruding forehead, protruding canine teeth, and is ten feet tall. He holds an iron stick in his hand and steps on the waves. With a wave of his hand, he has the power to turn rivers and seas upside down.
If you only look at its side or back, you'd think this giant ape is quite majestic and powerful, but when you look at its front, well, it looks too distinctive, so you might as well just kill it!
Feng Qing'an was calm and composed, and even had the mind to comment on the appearance of the water monkey. After all, his mount was a dragon-horse hybrid born in water, a giant ape born from water, there was nothing strange about it.
"Do you need help?"
Seeing this water monkey swinging the iron rod and being able to create huge waves hundreds of feet high, and each rod being able to draw the force of the river flow and smashing into the water surface with the potential to cut off the river flow, Feng Qing'an immediately realized that although this monkey was ugly, his natural magical powers were extraordinary.
Awooo~
After hearing Feng Qing'an's question, Heishan made a firm decision: no need!
"Identification!"
[Race: Black Water Green Ape]
[Attributes: Monster, Beast, Water]
[Potential Level: Lord·Medium]
[Combat Power Level: Lord, Lower]
Well, it's okay. Even after the promotion, Heishan was not familiar with the sudden surge of power. The tyrannical force he possessed over the water monkey was enough to crush it.
What's more, Heishan has extremely rich experience in close combat. Even in the water, Feng Qing'an doesn't think Heishan will be weaker than anyone else. He controls the flame that can burn souls. The nature of the soul-devouring ghost fire is inherently able to restrain all living beings with souls in the world.
As for the inexplicable appearance of this water ape monster, Feng Qing'an was not surprised. This was not the first one. A thousand-mile-long river without an owner was extremely tempting to a monster. Once it controlled the water veins, it could reach the sky in one step.
Not only can it help one break through the shackles of blood and step into new areas, but it can also allow one to gain a longer life and look forward to a higher realm. Therefore, when the thousand-mile river is vacant, it will naturally attract the surrounding monsters to gather and fight to the death.
Even for a great demon who has lived for a thousand years, it is difficult to resist the temptation of the position of Water God. Not everyone is like the ungrateful Xiaolongnu, who had the position of Water God forced into her hands with an unwilling look.
However, it is normal for big monsters to fight each other in bloody battles to compete for the position of the earth god. But the current situation in the Boliu River is obviously abnormal. Big monsters who are well-informed will not go near this river.
Only some wild monsters who have no background and have reached this level only by luck would recklessly rush into this river without knowing the danger, trying to refine the water veins and become the master of the thousand-mile river.
But such fools are a minority after all, and their strength is often not very strong among the big monsters. Of course, there are also some big monsters who are lucky and think that their hiding methods are strong enough.
Even if there are special means of concealment, as long as Feng Qing'an patrols the river, it is difficult to escape his sight. All false illusions are invisible in Feng Qing'an's eyes.
Features: Pure Yang
Compared to the Yuanling characteristic that is in effect all the time, there is also the Kunshen characteristic that can give Feng Qingan endless physical strength as long as he touches the ground.
The pure Yang characteristics brought almost no obvious external changes to Feng Qing'an, but only elevated his status to an extremely high position, which led to a result.
At present, no monsters can play some fancy magic in front of Feng Qingan. All illusions, concealment and deception are useless.
Therefore, Feng Qing'an was very keen on patrolling the river, and he especially liked to watch some big monsters who thought they were well hidden performing in front of him, and then when they let down their guard and thought they had hidden him, he would stab them with a sword.
At times like this, the expressions on the faces of those big monsters who want to play tricks are particularly interesting. Monsters at the big monster level are only smarter than humans, not dumber, so when they express their emotions, they will be more intense and rich.
"Heishan, you should restrain yourself a little. You can't rely on Senmiao to trade injuries with this monkey. It's a loss!"
Although Feng Qing'an promised Heishan that he would not send reinforcements, he had actually thrown away the Minglong Armor and notified Sen Miao. However, when he saw the fight between Heishan and the water monkey, he couldn't help it.
This water monkey's fighting style is ferocious and fierce, but Black Mountain is equally wild and arrogant. Facing such a brutal opponent, the wise choice would be to avoid its edge and wait until it is exhausted before counterattacking. However, Black Mountain chooses to meet the enemy head-on and advance without retreating.
When two great monsters that could stir up the rivers chose to fight in this way, there was naturally a bloody scene with flesh and blood flying everywhere and bones exposed. Above the hundred-mile river, there were only the howling of wolves and the crying of apes, and other creatures did not dare to make a sound.
