Chapter 53: The Dragon King of the Long River
The Changhe Dragon King’s surname is Ao and his given name is Kang. He was born at the end of the Lich Catastrophe. He is the sixth son of that generation of Dragon Kings and the uncle of the current Four Seas Dragon Kings.
Because of his extraordinary bloodline, Ao Kang stayed in the dragon egg for only three thousand years. After he was born, it took him another three thousand years to enter adolescence.
During this period, Ao Kang's experience was similar to that of the three-tailed fox. He spent most of his time playing and frolicking in the Dragon Palace, carefree.
Compared to the Qingqiu Fox Clan, the Dragon Clan has been one of the most powerful clans in the prehistoric world since the beginning of the world, with a more complete and more powerful heritage.
Li Anran originally thought that he could get a lot of benefits this time.
But what he didn't expect was that the ancient dragon clan passed down the knowledge of martial arts through the method of two dragons playing with a pearl.
He could only see the process of teaching, but had no way of knowing the specific content.
However, he did not gain nothing during these six thousand years.
In addition to some ancient secrets, he also learned how the dragon clan had gradually fallen from being a powerful clan in ancient times to being bullied by everyone today.
It all started when Gong Gong angrily struck Mount Buzhou, causing the Milky Way to flood the earth.
After a great battle between the two races of liches, both were defeated.
One retreated to the bitter cold land of the far north, and the other hid in the underworld.
Although Nuwa joined hands with other saints to cut the feet of the divine turtle and refine the five-colored stones to repair the sky successfully, the water from the Milky Way still poured down and raged on the wild land, turning almost every place into a swamp.
This gave the dragon clan, who had been hiding in the deep sea to recuperate since the first catastrophe of the dragon and phoenix, an opportunity.
The dragon clan took advantage of the chaos and power gap in the ancient land, and in just a few thousand years, they led the water clan along the rivers, lakes and occupied most of the ancient land. Not only did they recreate the glory before the first calamity of the dragon and phoenix, but they even surpassed it.
But at this time, the water of the Milky Way began to gradually recede, and the land area gradually expanded.
The human race living on the half of Buzhou Mountain began to expand outward rapidly and grow stronger.
The dragon clan naturally didn't want to see this scene.
So they began to stir up trouble and control floods, submerging farmland and destroying villages. While continuing to expand the scope of water bodies, they wiped out the human race in the bud.
At the beginning, the human race was no match for the dragon race. The human race suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat back to Mount Buzhou.
Seeing that the human race was about to be destroyed, Nuwa's brother appeared among the human race and became the first Human Emperor.
Immediately afterwards, Xuanmen also took action!
With the help of Xuanmen, the number of human Qi cultivators increased rapidly. With the help of disciples from the three religions, the human race soon gained the upper hand in the battle with the dragon race.
By the time Emperor Yan Shennong came to power, the human race had already gained absolute dominance.
Most of the dragons were driven back to the deep sea, and only a few were unwilling to give up and relied on some big rivers and lakes to fight like trapped beasts.
The upper echelons of the dragon clan realized that something was not right and wanted to reconcile with the human race, or rather, the Xuanmen behind the human race.
The human race rules the earth, and the dragon race rules the water.
However, he was hit hard by Xuanmen.
"You keep yelling, you keep yelling, I'll beat you to death, you old loach, and it won't be a big deal!"
This is what Nezha said to the Dragon King of the East China Sea when the latter tried to file a complaint with the Heaven. This is also the attitude of Xuanmen towards the dragon clan.
The dragon clan held on for another hundred years, but could no longer hold on and had no choice but to seek refuge in the newly established Heavenly Palace.
The Xuanmen looked down on the Dragon Clan, but the Jade Emperor was short of manpower and needed an ancient clan like the Dragon Clan to enhance his prestige.
The two sides hit it off.
The dragon clan became subjects of the Jade Emperor and obeyed his orders.
The Jade Emperor appointed the dragon clan as the Lord of Water, commanding all water clans in the world.
At that time, Emperor Huangdi was competing with the god of war Chiyou for the throne of the human emperor.
Both the Heavenly Court and the Xuanmen chose to support Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi.
Therefore, under the mediation of Heaven, Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi reached a reconciliation on behalf of the human race and the dragon race and formed an alliance.
From then on, humans regarded the dragon as a totem and worshipped it in all four seasons.
The dragon clan no longer caused trouble, but became water gods who guarded the rivers, lakes and brought rain and clouds.
As for those dragons and water creatures who had previously died at the hands of humans, they became water monsters, water monsters, evil dragons and vicious floods.
The dragons were naturally very satisfied with this, but soon they were no longer happy.
Because, after Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi became the Emperor of Man, the Jade Emperor granted many fiefs to the Dragon Clan because of their contributions to the world.
The Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, the Dragon Kings of the Four Rivers, the Dragon Kings of the Five Directions, the Dragon King of Yunmeng Lake, the Dragon King of Pengli Lake, the Dragon King of Heze...
In the four seas, four rivers, thirty-eight mountains, and twenty-four directions, whether in lakes, seas, rivers, deep pools, ponds, or even in wells and springs, there are well dragon kings and spring dragon kings.
It was also at this time that Ao Kang was canonized as the Dragon King of the Changhe River by the Jade Emperor.
Ao Kang's father, as the Dragon King of the Dragon Clan, saw through the Jade Emperor's plan, but he had no way to stop it.
Once when he was out, he accidentally bumped into the Three Goddesses of Jiejiao and was cut into two halves by Yunxiao with a pair of scissors.
Since then, the once prosperous ancient dragon clan completely collapsed and had almost no chance of rising again.
And because there are too many Dragon Kings, and they all set up their own factions without any constraints, there are more and more people who act recklessly.
This gave the Jade Emperor and the Human Emperor an excuse to kill the evil dragon.
There was even a dragon-slaying platform in heaven that was specifically used to execute dragons.
It is conceivable how many dragons died during this period of time.
By the time of the Conferred God Catastrophe, the dragon clan's inheritance had been interrupted and their status had plummeted.
Li Jing, a mere general of a wandering cultivator, dared to call . Nezha even killed the Third Prince of the East China Sea and skinned him alive just because of a disagreement.
During the Journey to the West period, any monster with some ability dared to go to the Dragon Palace to beg for money and regarded the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas as fat sheep.
Ao Kang witnessed the power and arrogance of the dragon clan during its heyday, and watched his peers die one by one on the dragon-slaying platform. The rest became spineless people who could only nod and kowtow to the Jade Emperor. One can imagine his hatred for the Heavenly Court and the Xuanmen.
However, no matter how much hatred it has, it only dares to hide it deep in its heart, not daring to reveal it, let alone take any action.
Until a hundred years ago, the monkeys caused chaos in the Heavenly Palace and the demons in the three realms were rampant, which made it realize that the Heavenly Palace was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.
It just so happened that at this time, he met the Great Sage Jiao Demon King who covered the sea among the Seven Great Sages!
The Demon King Jiao claims to be a descendant of the ancient Yinglong. He has practiced hard for thousands of years just to overthrow the rule of the four Dragon Kings, who are the running dogs of the Heavenly Court and traitors of the dragon clan, and restore the glory of the ancient dragon clan.
Under the instigation of the Jiao Demon King, Ao Kang began to eliminate dissidents and used the rules of heaven to send the water dragon kings in the long river system who were at odds with him or were determined to be loyal ministers of the heavenly court to the Dragon Slaying Platform one after another.
At the same time, he also recruited soldiers and horses on a large scale in preparation for his future rule over the world.
Unexpectedly, after not only did not support him, but instead believed that he was bringing the dragon clan into an irretrievable situation and wanted to file a complaint in the Heavenly Court to expose him.
Ao Kang was furious and joined forces with the Jiao Demon King to kill the Jishui Dragon King, but the news still leaked.
In desperation
Afterwards, Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, and Nezha led a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals to capture Ao Kang according to the emperor's order.
However, because Jambudvīpa is the ancestral land of the human race and is suppressed by the human race's destiny, both gods and Buddhas will be suppressed and can only exert the strength of the realm of Huaxu Hedao at best.
This battle became extremely difficult.
With the assistance of Huang Feihu, the Great Emperor of Tianqi Rensheng of Mount Tai, Li Jing and his sons set up a huge net and it took them nearly twenty years to finally capture Ao Kang and his subordinate, the Dragon King, the god of water.
However, the Dragon Demon King escaped at the last moment.
After Nezha sent these dragon kings and water gods to the heavenly prison, he hurried to the mortal world, probably to capture the Jiao Demon King.
Li Anran was thinking when a voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Boy, I think you are a man of great character and ambition. Why do you want to waste your time in this prison?"
Li Anran looked back and met the golden dragon eyes of the Changhe Dragon King.
