Chapter 226 - 124: The Dragon Maiden’s Manifestation! In Fist and Foot, Weaponry, Archery, and Daoist Skill, All From the Prefecture Are Inferior to Me

Chapter 226: Chapter 124: The Dragon Maiden’s Manifestation! In Fist and Foot, Weaponry, Archery, and Daoist Skill, All From the Prefecture Are Inferior to Me

"Chen Chuan, grab a sampan from the lower deck and retreat first!"

The same scene was playing out among the three Grandmasters from the Wood Element, the Purple Mist Daoist School, and the Water and Fire Daoist School.

A Qi Cultivation Grandmaster could use their Qi to walk on water, submerged only to their knees. Although they would sink if their Qi ran out, they were still far better off than the disciples they had brought with them.

If those disciples didn’t take the lifeboats and escape first, they would be done for the moment the large ship capsized!

Xuu Mao of the Wood Element unleashed a Divine Thought, scattering a handful of Talismans in the air. In that same instant, a Purple Mist Long Saber slashed through the river’s waves, and an Iron Arrow imbued with True Qi came piercing through the sky!

Four Grandmasters, one Flood Dragon, and Duan Chenzhou!

Six Qi Dao masters, the likes of whom were seen in Anning County less than once in a Hundred Years...

...were fighting so fiercely that the docks trembled and the great ship capsized. The world itself seemed on the verge of being torn asunder!

Duan Chenzhou, who had originally arrived alone, saber in hand, planning to slay a flood dragon and intimidate the Grandmasters, was already a tricky opponent on his own.

But with a Flood Dragon now assisting him, the situation changed in an instant.

Watching that Great Flood Dragon rampage like a collapsing mountain range, its power was instantly, absurdly overwhelming.

It made Duan Chenzhou’s previously cautious expression change, becoming quite relaxed.

"Good, good, good!"

As he spoke, Duan Chenzhou shot a sideways glance at Chen Chuhe of the Fishing Trade, a wild grin spreading across his face.

"Third Master, after all these years, your fist techniques still haven’t improved much..."

"Back then, I could beat you until your family was forced into mourning robes. Now, I can make sure you join them in the afterlife!"

Chen Chuhe’s expression instantly darkened.

"And don’t bother bringing out the Dao Skills of the Wood Element to embarrass yourselves. Remember what happened to Mr. Xuu? He couldn’t even withstand a single wisp of my Master’s Dragon and Tiger thought before his Divine Soul shattered..."

"Have you forgotten so quickly?"

He watched as the Flood Dragon’s tail sweep shattered the saber of the Grandmaster from the Purple Mist Daoist School and destroyed the arrows of the one from the Water and Fire Daoist School, even as four small boats tried to flee across the river.

Duan Chenzhou, fighting with wild abandon, easily held off two Grandmasters at once. He clicked his tongue, a look of contempt on his face.

"A pity. You let the little brats from your four houses get away..."

However, no sooner had the words left his mouth...

CRASH!!

A dark figure, shouldering a sampan, slammed it down into the water. The impact sent waves surging and let out a thunderous crash, drawing Duan Chenzhou’s astonished gaze.

"What a kid!"

Ji Xiu had smashed the sampan down from his shoulder, launching himself into the air. Mid-leap, he nocked, drew, and fired four arrows!

By the time the arrows found their marks, he had already landed on the sampan. Amidst this stretch of sea, where Qi Dao raged and great waves churned...

...he stood upon the sampan, rushing forward like a ravenous beast, his eyes gleaming. Despite having rarely been on the water, he controlled the small boat as if it were an extension of his own body!

Meanwhile, the four Iron Arrows he had fired from mid-air had already crossed the vast distance. Like a flock of crows blotting out the sun, they caused the eyes of the four disciples from Jiangyin’s Grand Lineages and Daoist Schools to dim for an instant!

By the time they shook off the daze and came to their senses...

...the bottoms of their small boats had been pierced by the arrows, rendering them useless!

Lim Jing, the young True Inheritance disciple from the Water and Fire Daoist School, had an Iron Carved Bow slung over his back. His hair was a mess, his mind in turmoil. He kept glancing back at the battlefield, unable to focus on anything else.

But when he saw Ji Xiu, a youth of similar age, standing heroically and firing arrows to stop them from across the entire pier...

...rage surged within him.

"What kind of Arrow Skill could some mud-legged peasant from a backwater County possibly cultivate! Your Master is arrogant, and you dare to be just as arrogant?!"

’Why? How could a peasant like him know the Dragon Maiden Young Monarch of the Water Monarch’s Mansion and turn the entire situation on its head in an instant?’

He found it all utterly inconceivable. Humiliated but refusing to admit defeat, he immediately drew upon his Perfection in the Nourishing Stance Level, pulled back his Thirty Stones Treasure Bow, and fired three arrows!

At seventeen years old, with Great Success in Second Refinement, able to draw a Thirty Stones bow, and possessing an arm strength of three thousand jin, he could be called a youthful prodigy anywhere he went.

However...

THWUM! THWUM! CRACK!

Three consecutive arrows!

The very instant he drew his bow...

...once again, the youth unleashed Broken Jade. It shot forth like a thunderclap, and for a split second, it was as if a sky-blotting flock of crows had descended, causing the surface of the sea to go dark!

By the time Lim Jing came to his senses again...

...his three arrows had been completely shattered in mid-air.

He could only watch, helpless, as another three arrows shot toward him, perfectly aligned in a single file, fast as lightning.

Even though Lim Jing managed a desperate dodge at the last second, two arrows still struck his boat, and the third buried itself in his thigh. He let out a pained scream and toppled into the water with a SPLASH.

At the same time, Ji Xiu raised his eyes to the small boat from the Wood Element. He saw its young master, who was skilled in Dao Skill and had clearly reached Perfection in Qi Absorption and Grain Avoidance, but had not yet refined a Divine Thought.

The young master was scattering several Talismans toward him. With a breath, he turned them into nine twisting tongues of fire that lashed out to attack!

Ji Xiu looked at the Talismans, powered by a Divine Soul nourished by a mere dozen Dao Seals from Script Recognition and Locket Granting, and sneered.

"Such parlor tricks. You dare show off in front of a true master?"

He immediately performed the Yu Step, recalling the method Fan Nansong had once explained to his sister for breaking enemy Talismans and Daoist Skills in the Daoist Art Realm. Summoning his Divine Soul and rousing his Qi and Blood, he glared fiercely at where the enemy stood and let out a soft shout.

"Break!"

That one glare, backed by a Divine Soul nourished by Eight Hundred Dao Seals, struck Xuu Nan, the heir of the Wood Element who had cast the Talismans. Blood instantly seeped from his eye sockets as he felt a vision of a majestic, boundless sky rising within his own Divine Soul!

He let out a loud cry, his body trembled, and he passed out.

First he broke the arrows, then he broke the Dao Skill. It all happened in a flash, and before Ji Xiu could even free his hands...

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

...from the left, Chen Chuan of the Fishing Trade rammed his small boat straight at him. Leaping from it when he was just three zhang away, the light of his fist flared into existence!

And from the other side, Xu Ji, the True Inheritance disciple of the Purple Mist Daoist School, came slashing from the right, his saber trailing streams of purple Qi!

One from the left, one from the right!

In an instant, Ji Xiu was besieged, facing attacks from both sides!

"Let’s see you dodge this!"

The disciples from the Prefecture City, who had been completely stunned by Ji Xiu’s overwhelming power and outrageous methods, saw their chance. Swallowing hard, they forced themselves to rally their spirits.

However...

ROAR!

A faint but clear and resonant dragon’s cry rose into the air!

Before Chen Chuan could even see clearly, before his fist could even land!

Ye Longxiang’s Head, carrying a threefold Essence, brutally smashed into him. Tendons snapped and bones broke. Blood gushed like a fountain as he was sent flying backward, crashing into his own boat with the force of Land Sinking and River Flipping!

Then, seeing the Purple Mist Saber arrive, Ji Xiu looked at the wide-eyed True Inheritance disciple and grinned.

"So it was the dead bastard of a former Hall Master from your Daoist School... who cut off one of my Master’s arms?"

SCHLICK!

Like a blooming fire lotus, in that one instant, a powerful Sword Intent erupted from Ji Xiu’s body. Using his palm as a blade, he unleashed a burst of Force. The moment his hand met the Purple Mist Saber, a sound like the cry of a Dragon Elephant echoed from his very bones!

He borrowed the incoming force and extended his own, channeling the ferocity of the Sword Mountain and Fire Sea Stance to turn the Treasure Saber of Xu Ji... this True Inheritance disciple of the Purple Mist Daoist School... into scrap metal!

"These tricks of yours are no good either."

Afterward,

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

Ji Xiu steered the sampan, ramming about recklessly.

He fished out all four of the so-called prodigies from the Prefecture City—crippled, unconscious, or scared out of their wits—and trampled them all underfoot!

"The Prefecture City?"

"If everyone in my generation is just trash like you..."

"...then I can only say that when it comes to Martial Dao Skill, Fists, Feet, and Swords, or Arrow and Bow Technique..."

The corner of Ji Xiu’s mouth curled up. He glanced over to see the other battle drawing to a close. Overwhelmed by the ferocious pincer attack from Duan Chenzhou and the Black Flood Dragon, the four Grandmasters finally had their Qi Seas broken and were captured.

He just smiled and offered a quiet comment:

"None of you are my equal."

[The Tutor, Hunting the Sea and Riding the Wave, has demonstrated transcendent Water Attribute. By using Fists and Feet, Sword Weapons, Dao Skill, and Arrow Skill to defeat the Prefecture City disciples, you have refined the ’Hunting the Sea’ authority, causing your ’Riding the Wave’ Innate Talent to greatly increase!]

[Current: 52% → 58%!]

At the front of the docks, Huang Chan arrived with the Government Soldiers.

From another direction, the noisy dispute at the County Yamen having concluded, a disheveled Lord Zhao the County Magistrate and an unknown Jade Crown Young Master hurried over together.

Under the setting sun, the scene was one of utter devastation.

The youth stood alone on the prow of his boat, his skills in Fists, Feet, and Swords, his Dao Art, and his Arrow Skill all peerless, unrivaled in his generation.

In terms of sheer presence...

...he even faintly overshadowed the mighty, river-churning Flood Dragon and the Sword Dao Grandmaster at his side!