Chapter 161 - 190: Divine Technique [Rainfall]! Rich Soil, Happy People, 100,000 Merit
"What the hell is this thing? It’s so ugly!"
Inside the cave, Su Bai carefully examined the thing that the 9th Layer tower had "spat" out.
It was actually a statue.
A strange-looking black statue.
It was about five or six meters tall, with four heads, eight arms, and a ferocious expression. Each head had three crimson eyes.
It couldn’t help but remind Su Bai of the Erlang Manifested Saint True Monarch. However, the thing before him was simply too ugly; it bore no resemblance whatsoever to his impression of the Erlang True Monarch.
Its fangs were bared, its eyes were like bronze bells, it was pitch-black, and it was completely naked.
Overall, it gave off a sinister and evil feeling.
He didn’t know what material it was made of, but it was extremely hard.
Su Bai summoned his Celestial Net Sword and slashed at the statue. He then poked it twice with the tip, producing a series of CLANGS.
He tried to channel the vast True Qi in his body. The dense Golden Purple True Qi enveloped the sword’s blade, but he could only cut a few inches deep.
Su Bai refused to accept this. He put force into his right arm and activated his Immortal Golden Body, his entire form glowing with brilliant golden light.
This time, it worked!
With a single slash, he lopped off one of the Golem’s heads.
Su Bai focused his attention on the cut, discovering that the statue’s internal material was even stranger.
It was like iron but not iron, like wood but not wood, and was a mix of gold and red.
He could also observe some faint muscle-like textures.
"This... Could it be that this isn’t a statue, but a corpse?"
Su Bai guessed internally.
If his guess was correct, then this corpse must have been incredibly powerful when it was alive.
’To withstand the Celestial Net Sword with its physical body, this Demon must have reached an extremely profound Realm in Body Cultivation.’
’Perhaps its Body Cultivation Technique had taken it far down the path of Entering the Saint Realm.’
Su Bai’s current Nine-grade Technique, the [Third Immortal Golden Body Transformation], had already surpassed the Returning to the True Realm and was worth a total of 1.2 million Experience Points.
With his current Physique, withstanding the Celestial Net Sword was naturally no problem.
But this Demon’s Physique was truly extraordinary; even compared to his, it wasn’t far off.
’It doesn’t look like it belongs to the Human Race.’
Su Bai wasn’t entirely sure.
This world was vast, filled with many strange and bizarre things.
And since this pitch-black statue had been spat out from the replica of the Venerable Emperor Tower, it was likely related to the Dayu Immortal Dynasty.
Perhaps it was a special race from within the Dayu Immortal Dynasty?
After all, anything was possible.
Su Bai prodded the fallen head with his Celestial Net Sword, then picked it up and fiddled with it for a moment. Deciding it wasn’t very interesting, he pressed the severed head back onto the corpse.
He tossed it next to the tower and decided to ignore it for now.
"Time to do the lottery draw!"
Snapping back to his senses, Su Bai decided to claim his rewards for killing Ao Gu.
Having just come into contact with the mysterious and unfathomable Dayu Immortal Dynasty, Su Bai felt keenly that his own strength was insufficient. This was the perfect time to draw from the prize wheel, obtain some techniques, and get a wave of rewards.
From stomping on the East Sea Dragon Palace and pulverizing Ao Gu, Su Bai had gained quite a few chances to draw.
But what he looked forward to the most were the rewards from killing Ao Gu.
As the thought crossed his mind, a series of brightly colored prize wheels appeared before him.
After a while, Su Bai had drawn a total of over fifty million Experience Points, including one point six million Tier Two Experience Points!
He poured the Experience Points into his Realm, instantly raising it to the Fifth Layer of the Divine Platform Realm!
Next, he added the one point six million Tier Two Experience Points to his Third Immortal Golden Body Transformation.
The Third Immortal Golden Body Transformation immediately underwent an astonishing metamorphosis.
Golden ripples emanated from Su Bai’s body, each wisp of his aura as heavy as a mountain!
After some time, the transformation ended.
[Cultivation Technique: Third Immortal Golden Body Transformation! (Ninth Grade!) Realm: Returning to the Essence (3.8 Million)]
Su Bai’s Physique had doubled in power once again.
"Next, it’s time to draw Ao Gu’s Cultivation Techniques and Divine Techniques!"
Su Bai had high expectations for Ao Gu, a Great Power of the Dragon Mansion Realm.
At his command, the small speck of starlight on the Purification Tripod that represented Ao Gu overflowed with numerous balls of light.
The largest of them, a silver-white ball of light, shot into Su Bai’s body.
A massive amount of memories flooded into Su Bai’s mind like a tidal wave.
In a daze, Su Bai saw a small, azure Little Dragon being born within an impossibly vast Dragon Mansion.
This little azure dragon was Ao Gu.
It was immensely talented with an impressive bloodline. The moment it was born, it awakened a special Divine Technique—[Rainfall]!
An Eighth Grade technique!
Afterward, this little azure dragon struggled to survive the brutal conflicts within the Dragon Mansion, hunting down many of its own kind and rising through the ranks.
Then Su Bai saw Ao Gu, who had cultivated to the Divine Platform Realm, carrying a bead and a scroll in his mouth one day.
He took one last deep look at the brightly lit palace complex, built from coral and jade.
With a sense of grim determination and unwillingness, he swam into the distance, disappearing into the vast, dark sea...
"A True Dragon Blood Bead?"
Su Bai’s expression changed when he saw the bead Ao Gu was holding in his mouth.
After that was the story of Ao Gu arriving in the East Sea Basin, joining the East Sea Dragon Palace, gradually rising in power, and finally being slain by Su Bai.
Ao Gu’s memories weren’t long. After viewing them, Su Bai was lost in thought.
’The scroll had strange, ancient-looking text inscribed on it. Could it be a scroll of Divine Techniques?’
The next moment, Su Bai suddenly recalled the Divine Technique Ao Gu had used before—North Sea of Netherworld!
Perhaps that scroll was what recorded this Eighth-Grade Divine Technique.
Then, Su Bai checked his gains from this draw.
[Divine Technique: Rainfall! (Eighth Grade!) Realm: 7th Layer! (7,000,000)]
Su Bai looked at this Divine Technique, his eyes bright with anticipation and curiosity.
’Ao Yuan once said that the Dayu Immortal Dynasty commands the Four Seas Dragon Race to perform Cloud Formation and Rainfall.’
’Now that I have the [Rainfall] Divine Technique, is there also a [Xingyun] Divine Technique in this world?’
’If I gathered both of these Divine Techniques, what would happen? Could they combine into a higher-level Great Divine Technique, [Cloud Formation and Rainfall]?’
According to Ao Yuan, all the Dragon Races of the Four Seas were under the command of the Dayu Immortal Dynasty. Their duty was to perform Cloud Formation and Rainfall to enrich the land and benefit the people.
This [Rainfall] Divine Technique was likely the signature skill of the Four Seas Dragon Race.
Returning from his thoughts, Su Bai felt an urge to test this Divine Technique and see its effects.
With a flicker of his body, he left the prison.
He stood among the clouds and headed north of Xia Imperial City.
The lands north of Great Xia were arid and rarely saw rain. They were plagued by constant disasters, suffered from perennially poor harvests, and the people lived in misery.
Even though Emperor Xia had repeatedly opened the granaries to provide relief, aided the refugees, and diverted water to irrigate the north, it was of little use.
The terrain in the north was peculiar; it seemed that no matter how much water flowed in, it would vanish without a trace in an instant.
At this moment, a group of displaced, hollow-eyed refugees was trudging across this desolate land.
They had no sense of the future, only marching forward with bewildered expressions and vacant gazes. They brought their families along, their bodies as gaunt as withered twigs, emanating an aura of decay.
Numbness was their shield; despair was what filled their hearts.
Su Bai stood high in the clouds, looked up at the vast sky, and pointed a finger.
"Rainfall."
Waves churned within his Dantian Qi Sea.
True Qi surged out like a torrent, coiling around Su Bai’s finger bones before transforming into a streak of white light that fell from his fingertip.
Su Bai’s finger seemed to pluck an invisible string between heaven and earth.
Peculiar ripples spread out in circles from the white light at his fingertip.
In an instant, dark clouds gathered in the sky, and moisture condensed.
In the blink of an eye, a great rain covering hundreds of miles began to fall as if summoned.
SPLASH—
The rain poured down, falling on the travelers, on the ground, and seeping into the soil.
Su Bai swept the area with his Divine Thoughts and could clearly perceive the places the rain had permeated.
Countless living things reawakened from within the earth, and scattered, dried-up water veins began to converge once more.
Within a radius of hundreds of miles, wherever the rain fell, a scene of vibrant life and burgeoning growth began to unfold.
"This rain is extraordinary!"
Su Bai’s eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help but praise it aloud. "It actually has the effect of renewing life and gathering water veins. The rainwater is also filled with a large amount of Spiritual Qi, which can enrich the soil and purify water sources."
In short, this rain was "alive"!
Worthy of being an Eighth-Grade Divine Technique!
Down on the ground, the group of gaunt refugees, nourished by the rain, found their faces flushing with color and their spirits significantly bolstered.
Along with that, the chronic ailments and diseases in their bodies were all purged by this miraculous rain!
"The Immortal Gods have shown themselves! The Immortal Gods have shown themselves!"
"Our thanks to the Immortal Gods!"
One by one, the refugees, with looks of wild excitement, faced the mysterious white figure in the sky, kowtowing repeatedly and crying out without pause.
At this moment, the despair in their hearts was swept away, and the numbness on their faces was replaced by ecstatic joy.
"Huh?"
Up in the clouds, Su Bai was a bit stunned.
He had suddenly discovered something about his own information on the Purification Tripod.
The Merit column had suddenly skyrocketed by a full one hundred thousand points!