41: Chapter 41 The Sea Overturns Langya

Initially, every roof tile and every street in Kongsang Prefecture trembled violently under the impact of the rampaging currents.

The water instantly converged into streams, like countless white giant pythons frantically darting through the streets and alleys, devouring all the Mortals on the streets.

Rainwater poured in like waterfalls, and low-lying areas turned into lakes in the blink of an eye.

As far as the eyes of Shen Moyan's three paper figures could see, it was a vast, white world of water.

The Cen Family's grand array shattered, crushed by the heavy water pressure, as Cen Jing led the remaining clansmen to struggle across the waves.

The Construction and Maintenance Department fared better; their protective grand array shielded the officials, but the outside was already surrounded by the sea.

Distant mountains were reduced to blurred outlines, while nearby multi-storied buildings showed broken roofs or window frames above the water, only to be struck down by even higher waves and eventually sink completely into the sea.

The once-bustling marketplaces now became a seabed of surging undercurrents; shop signs, overturned carriages, scattered debris... and Mortals struggling desperately were swept away by the turbid torrents toward unknown directions.

The color of the water was an unsettling muddy yellow, reflecting the eerie grayish-white of the sky.

Billows began to emerge, wave after wave, crashing against those lofty buildings in the air that still remained resilient.

Low-Realm Cultivators turned into beams of light or fled in their flying boats, but many were smashed into the ocean currents by the water curtains falling from the sky mid-flight, the sounds of shattering Magic Treasures echoing one after another.

The roaring water mixed with the muffled thuds of collapsing aerial buildings, composing a symphony of destruction.

The air was filled with a heavy fishy smell of the water, the scent of earth churned up from the bottom, and... a faint smell of blood.

The entire Kongsang Prefecture was like a giant pot being relentlessly filled; everything of the past, whether glory or conspiracy, was washed away, submerged, and returned once more to Chaos in this monumental flood.

Flying through the air to avoid the water curtains, Shen Moyan pushed his Earth Hearing Ear to its limit, taking in sounds within a hundred-mile radius; even outside the prefecture, there was the thunderous sound of surging water.

"This is an array within an array within an array! A triple grand array!"

Shen Moyan thought he had reached the second level of understanding, unaware that Wild Goose Formation True Monarch was still one level above him.

"Where are the Purple Mansion and Guizang Realm Cultivators in the prefecture? Save us!" Shen Moyan complained in his heart.

But on second thought, he suddenly understood.

The financial expenditures of the City Defense Department in recent years were no accident; with a war against the Yao Race looming, most Cultivators chose to protect themselves and had naturally left Kongsang Prefecture... "This water isn't right!"

"The water interferes with Divine Sense detection?"

"Why is my mana dissipating!?" high-level Cultivators remaining in the prefecture cried out in alarm.

Their mana was dissipating rapidly as they resisted the All Beings Spirit Refining Grand Array.

Their faces were blurred by Divine Ability, preventing the lower Cultivators from seeing them clearly.

Under the desperate gazes of the low-level Cultivators, the auras of the high-level Cultivators vanished one by one as they used various methods to leave this place of trouble.

[True Name: Shen Moyan]

[Race: Human Race]

[Realm: Early Stage Mortal Transformation Realm (Twisted Immortal Path)]

[Current Remaining Lifespan: 496 years ↓]

Shen Moyan brought up As I Have Written; his Lifespan had actually plummeted by more than a hundred in that instant!

He quickly took out a Talisman and stuck it to the heart meridian on his chest.

This was a soul-controlling talisman he had scavenged from Ni Gaoyuan's corpse.

Shen Moyan's face darkened; judging others by his own standards, if he were a high-level Cultivator, his choice at this time would also be to look out only for himself.

Jiang Qingshui's figure appeared above the vast sea, his eyes nearly splitting as he looked at the hellish scene below. The long sword in his hand erupted with a terrifying sword light, slashing fiercely at the falling water curtain, causing water vapor to steam up.

He roared: "Zheng Quan! Gao Sheng! You disregard living beings; you will surely face heavenly retribution!"

"Apologies, Great Official Jiang, the wind and waves are too loud, and your voice is too small."

A lazy voice suddenly reached Jiang Qingshui's ears, tinged with mockery.

His roar just now had been shielded by a force; no one could hear his sound transmission.

He snapped his head around, staring at the Prefectural Governors Mansion, which was protected by a grand array.

"By the Prefectural Governor's verbal command, Cultivators in the prefecture are to immediately hide in magical boats and do not come out until the wind and waves subside!"

The Cultivators of the Guardians of Orthodoxy huddled within their department's grand array, broadcasting to the entire Kongsang Prefecture via sound transmission.

"Do not be afraid! The Prefectural Governor is with you!"

Despite those words, Jiang Qingshui was infuriated.

Clearly the culprits, yet they put on an act of benevolence. He tried to transmit messages to everyone, but no matter how he tried, the transmissions were distorted by a force, leaving only static.

In the end, he could only give up and stop the sound transmission to save people.

"Have they dropped all pretenses?" Shen Moyan said in surprise as he watched Jiang Qingshui's furious expression.

How did this Gao Sheng, a mere Prefectural Governor, dare to do this?

Unless he had something to rely on... On the turbid surface of the sea, long dark shadows quietly emerged.

Before the few Cultivators who first noticed something wrong could raise an alarm, the water surface beneath them suddenly exploded. A hideous dragon head as large as a hill broke through the water, its dark scales covered in viscous seaweed, reflecting a cold, eerie light under the dim sky.

Its giant eyes, like copper bells, indifferently swept over the panicked Cultivators, then it opened its bloody maw and took a massive breath.

"A Flood Dragon! It's the Yao Race!!"

Shen Moyan narrowed his eyes; he discovered that among the scales on the Flood Dragon's neck, there was one that carried an aura similar to a soul-controlling talisman. It was temporarily shielding it from the Lifespan harvesting of the All Beings Spirit Refining Grand Array.

Interesting, Gao Sheng's backer is actually the Yao Race.

Of course, it also couldn't be ruled out that the Yao Race was merely a stepping stone for Gao Sheng.

Jiang Qingshui's eyes turned solemn as he became locked in combat with the Flood Dragon.

"Shen Yi, give me the map of Kongsang Prefecture!" The azure cloud wings on Shen Moyan's back beat as he soared rapidly, dodging one water curtain after another falling from the sky.

Inside the Construction and Maintenance Department, Shen Yi brought up a real-time map of Kongsang Prefecture, his pupils constricting.

The sea level was surging, violently increasing at an exaggerated speed! It was approaching the sea of clouds in the sky, rushing straight toward the base of the dao transmission stele!

Starting from Kongsang Prefecture, the mountains in all directions were being submerged under the water curtains.

A thousand miles, ten thousand miles, a hundred thousand miles, ten million miles... this seawater seemed intent on submerging the entire Langya Province.

"How could this be?" Shen Moyan was dumbfounded.

Although [Azure Clouds Vastly Fall into the Blue Sea] was a law of tribulation grand array, Wild Goose Formation True Monarch was only a Guizang Realm Cultivator nearly eight thousand years old; how could he control a grand array of this magnitude?

"No, he never intended to control it!"

The sea covered the land.

And the secrets were hidden beneath the deep sea.

Within the grand array, the seawater could block Divine Sense detection, which meant no one would discover the All Beings Spirit Refining Grand Array.

After using the soul-controlling talisman to stop the loss of his Lifespan, Shen Moyan extended his Divine Sense and, amidst the vast mist, found an inconspicuous small boat tossing in the water.

He immediately folded his azure cloud wings and ducked inside.

Since Shen Yi was in the Construction and Maintenance Department, he only needed to monitor their perspective, while his original body remained hidden in the shadows.

This disaster affected the entire Langya Province; he couldn't even fly out of East Langya in a year on a sword, so escaping now was a pipe dream.

"Wild Goose Formation True Monarch never thought about controlling this law of tribulation grand array; what he truly wanted to do was only the All Beings Spirit Refining Grand Array. This [Azure Clouds Vastly Fall into the Blue Sea] is just a means he used to obscure the gaze of others."

"Besides the All Beings Spirit Refining Grand Array, what else is worth using such extreme measures to conceal?"

Just as Shen Moyan's thoughts were wavering, a familiar voice interrupted his thinking.

"What a magnificent sight, right, Junior Brother He?"

Xu Mingxuan was seen sitting upright in the cramped space of the small boat, with a small table set before him, laden with fine delicacies and excellent wine.

Only when Shen Moyan landed did he realize that while waves were raging outside, the interior of the small boat was so stable it was like a world of its own; the surface of the wine in the cup was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting Xu Mingxuan's smug smile.

With a smile, he raised his cup toward Shen Moyan from a distance.

"Senior Brother Xu truly has elegant tastes."

Shen Moyan's expression remained natural.

Was he waiting for him?

Furthermore, this was no ordinary magical boat.

A small leaf-like boat, in these turbulent waves, seemed to go with the flow but was actually perfectly composed.

"fire melting pearls?"

Shen Moyan exposed the magical boat's operational mechanism in a single word.

Only by arranging fire melting pearls into an array could the towering waves outside be suppressed.

This jade thing had embezzled so many fire melting pearls and actually used them all here!

"Junior Brother He truly has a good eye."

Xu Mingxuan took a light sip of wine and nodded in greeting, inviting him to sit.