142: Chapter 141 The Celestial River of the Northern Region, the Power of the Stars of the Heavens

Chapter 141: Northern Territory Tianhe, Power of the Myriad Stars (End of the month, begging for monthly votes, begging for subscription updates)

The stories of the Green and White Serpents, Fahai, and Xu Xian are household names, so Sun Po was not surprised to see the green serpent appear in this secret realm.

Or rather, it would be strange if the Green and White Serpents did not appear, especially since Fahai had already shown up.

However, just as the green serpent finished speaking, an angry shout suddenly came from Jinshan Temple:

"Bold snake demon! Take this!"

Soon after, the familiar subduing-demon [artifact] rapidly grew larger and fiercely smashed onto the green serpent's head.

The green serpent let out a painful hiss and cursed aloud:

"Old bald donkey! Your temple is almost destroyed! Where will your Buddha be worshipped by then? This old lady is here to help you!"

The green serpent had originally been blocking the front of Jinshan Temple, roaring with its head raised toward Wuzhiqi, but it was caught off guard by a sneak attack from behind.

Fahai, transformed into golden light, flew out from Jinshan Temple, caught the shrinking subduing-demon [artifact] that flew back inverted, and replied:

"It doesn't matter if the temple is destroyed. As long as this poor monk's conviction to eliminate demons is never lost, the Buddha will naturally be worshipped in my heart! You two snake demons who defy the natural laws and moral principles must die!" After saying that, Fahai threw the golden alms bowl in his hand.

The golden body rapidly grew larger in the air, emitting a dazzling golden light, but compared to the green serpent's mountain-like colossal size, this golden alms bowl was still too small.

Although the green serpent's movements had visibly slowed down a lot, just by twisting its serpent body, the golden light shattered as if it were tangible.

Clearly, the strengths of the green serpent and Fahai in this Jinshan Temple secret realm were completely different from Sun Po's impression. The previously infinitely resurrecting Fahai had strength of only a top-tier purple-level monster, but the green serpent before his eyes was at least an orange-level monster, and not even an ordinary orange-level monster. With this mountain-like size, in Sun Po's impression, only the peak chaotic-pupil evil dragon Yang Guang could surpass it.

As everyone knows, among monsters, small sizes are not necessarily weak, but large sizes have a high probability of being strong, and this green serpent was obviously no exception.

But the current situation left Sun Po somewhat puzzled. The plot was also different from what he had imagined. Sun Po had originally thought that since there were Fahai and a green serpent in this Jinshan Temple secret realm, and Fahai appeared to be irreconcilable with demons, why would this green serpent instead protect Jinshan Temple? Moreover, listening to Liu Jianren's description when he last entered this secret realm, the trace of this green serpent had never been seen in the secret realm; it turned out it was hidden inside the mountain body. But for a top-tier orange-quality monster to hide like this just to avoid a purple-quality monster? This was truly baffling.

Especially right now, Fahai was still continuously throwing the subduing-demon [artifact] in his hand to attack the green serpent, but the green serpent only blindly dodged or stubbornly resisted, with no intention of fighting back at all.

The green serpent could no longer bear the annoyance, and immediately rose into the air, charging toward the location where Wuzhiqi was, while Fahai also followed them into the air to attack.

Thus, the entire scene turned into Wuzhiqi gathering the Heavenly Flood, about to sweep through the Jinshan Temple secret realm. At the critical moment, the green serpent came out to help, but in the face of life and death, Fahai insisted on prioritizing the elimination of demons, insisting on getting rid of the snake demon that was far stronger than himself first.

Sun Po really found it hard to evaluate. Fahai wasn't just pedantic anymore; his brain was completely messed up.

However, perhaps it was precisely this kind of paranoia that allowed this wisp of obsession to exist until today.

But what act was this green serpent putting on? It was desperately protecting Jinshan Temple—could it be? Was the white serpent actually inside the temple?

But how could Fahai turn a blind eye to the white serpent inside the temple for so many years?

This secret realm was full of doubts.

Wuzhiqi's voice sounded in Sun Po's mind:

"Master, the beast tide is about to rush over, I am going to make a move!"

After such a long period of guidance and accumulation, he could finally make a move. Sun Po had never truly seen the Heavenly Flood before, and he said with full anticipation: "Good!"

Inside the pitch-black Jinshan Temple secret realm, the huge Wuzhiqi on the clouds let out an angry roar, and then it suddenly took a deep breath.

The dark clouds all over the sky swirled like a vortex with Wuzhiqi as the center, surging toward it.

Wuzhiqi was like a world-destroying demon god, and between its breaths, the world suddenly became clear.

The dark clouds all over the sky were scooped a few times by Wuzhiqi's large hand, then crumbled and squeezed a few times, actually transforming into a pitch-black flag.

This flag was entirely like pitch-black brocade, with glistening water light flashing on it, and a large character "Huai" drawn on its surface.

Between the waving of the flag, clusters of dark clouds were scattered about, looking incomparably miraculous.

Sun Po was shocked by Wuzhiqi's performance at this moment, and asked in his heart: "Wuzhiqi? What kind of spell is this? Why have I never heard you mention it?"

Wuzhiqi said: "Master, this is the method by which the Water Lord of the Heavenly River used to control the Tianhe back then. I made some modifications combined with the Water Control inheritance in the memory of the Water God of Huai River. I once read in the document department of the Tianhe Water Mansion that when the Water Lord of the Heavenly River controlled the Heavenly Flood back then, it needed to use a set of command flags to direct it like an arm and be invincible."

"However, the Tianhe Water Mansion is incomplete, and this set of command flags was also lost, but it is no big deal. The Water God of Huai River is also a deity in charge of water, and many things can be comprehended by analogy. I combined it with the Water Control inheritance of the Water God of Huai River in my mind and made some modifications, thinking of the compromise method of using clouds as flags." Sun Po was greatly astonished. Goodness, this combination of ancient deities, exotic heaven and earth species, and the authority of a water lord was truly terrifying to this extent.

Through this, Sun Po could also vaguely sense that the might of ancient deities seemed to be above that of traditional heavenly court deities.

Just imagine, the Water Lord of the Heavenly River still needed a magic tool like a set of command flags to control the Heavenly Flood like an arm, but Wuzhiqi could directly rub clouds into flags to control the Heavenly Flood. Moreover, Wuzhiqi created this based on the Water Control method of the Water God of Huai River, which also indirectly indicated that the authority of the divine post of the Water God of Huai River was probably even above that of the Water Lord of the Heavenly River.

Yet, logically speaking, the Water God of Huai River was just a river god of a local river in the mortal world; how could it compare to a water god with "Tianhe" as a prefix?

Sun Po did not understand, but what he did not know was that deities were also divided into various ranks.

The gold content of those four words "Orthodox Deities of Heaven and Earth" far exceeded his imagination. Furthermore, the Huai River was one of the four major waterways of the world in ancient times; its status might not be comparable to the Tianhe of the heavenly court, but the Water God of Huai River back then was definitely far stronger than the Water Lord of the Heavenly River.

Sun Po also didn't know what the title of Orthodox Deities of Heaven and Earth represented. The domain of deities was simply too early for high school students.

Right now, Wuzhiqi's means truly gave everyone a fright. Liu Jianren felt even more that his brain was about to lose the ability to think, and he muttered in his mouth: "I must be crazy, wanting to catch up with the footsteps of this kind of monster?"

But what was astonishment for Sun Po and Liu Jianren was sheer terror for the opposite green serpent.

It had originally soared into the air, charging toward Wuzhiqi and the Tianhe Naval Forces. At this moment, seeing these dark clouds in the sky sucked away in an instant, a trace of despair arose in its eyes. Facing such an opponent, it knew that the white serpent's destined tribulation today could probably not be escaped.

Only Fahai still recklessly and frantically attacked the green serpent. The green serpent let out a hiss, and its scales condensed a layer of jade-like crystals. Fahai's attacks completely lost effect, and the green serpent was even too lazy to dodge his attacks.

Wuzhiqi coldly gazed at the green serpent that burst out of the ground from the mountain and fiercely rushed into the sky, calmly waving the huge flag of dark clouds.

But the direction in which the flag was waved was not the direction of the green serpent, but the beast tide approaching Sun Po's side.

Wuzhiqi had never regarded such an orange-quality monster as a true opponent. A green serpent like this, which only had strong demonic power and had lived a little longer, could not possibly be the opponent of an ancient deity.

What it cared about was always that wisp of mysterious starlight aura inside the temple, but if the owner of this aura did not show up again, its chessboard would be smashed.

Along with the waving of Wuzhiqi's dark cloud flag, Sun Po saw an even more terrifying scene.

After the dark clouds completely dissipated, Sun Po had originally seen faint dots of stars within the black water canopy. He previously thought these were stars in the secret realm's sky, just blocked by the dark clouds. At this moment, with the dark clouds completely scattered, those stars could also be faintly seen through the black water.

But at this moment, those tiny stars all over the sky moved! They moved together with this black water canopy!!

Sun Po himself was also seeing the Heavenly Flood for the first time. Much of the information on the card wasn't that detailed, and it had to be used multiple times to fully understand its characteristics.

For example, back then Zhong Kui knew that the more ghosts his [Yinshen Power] devoured, the more obvious its suppressive effect on ghost entities would be, whereas Huang Chao didn't know this.

Both Sun Po and Wuzhiqi were using the Heavenly Flood for the first time, but at this moment, Wuzhiqi was the one who actually grasped the authority of the Water Lord of the Heavenly River, so Sun Po naturally had to ask it:

"Wuzhiqi, shouldn't the black water in the sky only be a layer of black water in the sky? Why can it trigger the stars above the secret realm's sky?"

Wuzhiqi's voice sounded from his mind:

"Master, the black water in the sky is just the original water volume of the Calamity Heavenly River and that river in the secret realm, and these stars are not stars in the secret realm, but the projection of that Tianhe from the near-ancient era."

Sun Po listened more and more perplexedly: "Near-ancient era? Tianhe?"

Sun Po thought about it. According to the timeline, the near-ancient era corresponded to the timeline of the Heavenly Court in Chinese mythology, which was the time after the Investiture of the Gods.

The Tianhe of that era had always been a relatively vague concept in Sun Po's memory. It seemed to have both the characteristics of a physical body of water and some special symbolic meanings. The *Dao Fa Hui Yuan* records that the Tianhe connects to the netherworld, but there is also a saying that the Tianhe is the galaxy.

Judging by the current characteristics, the answer seemed to lean more toward the latter.

After all, what the projection of that Tianhe cast out were phantoms of stars all over the sky.

Wuzhiqi's voice continued to sound in Sun Po's heart:

"I only learned more information after transforming into this Water Lord of the Heavenly River, which includes some secrets of the Heavenly Court in this near-ancient era.

There are four heavenly gates—east, west, south, and north—in the Heavenly Court, correspondingly with four regional Tianhe of the east, west, south, and north. These four Tianhe guard the near-ancient Heavenly Court, somewhat resembling ancient moats.

And these four Tianhe are actually the embodiment of the four types of rule power mastered by the near-ancient Heavenly Court, and the Northern Territory Tianhe is the rule embodiment of the Power of the Myriad Heavens' Stars.

The [Broken Tianhe Water Mansion] in our [Tianhe Budu] was once the [Tianhe Water Mansion] of the Northern Territory Tianhe. The [Northern Territory Tianhe] is also called the Milky Way by ancient folklore, and is the most well-known Tianhe. Therefore, this flood of the Tianhe is the flood of the Milky Way, and the [Water Lord of the Heavenly River] I incarnate into at this moment should accurately be called the [Water Lord of the Northern Territory Heavenly River]. The characteristic of the Heavenly Flood I grasp is that I can borrow the Power of the Myriad Heavens' Stars.

Theoretically, as long as this [Water Lord of the Northern Territory Heavenly River] itself is strong enough, it can even borrow the power of all stars. It's just that right now my strength and the level of this disaster qi can only borrow the phantoms of just a few stars."

Sun Po was speechless for a long time. The degree of shock of this news was unprecedented to Sun Po.

Because this was the first time Sun Po discovered that the truth of this world deviated from the Chinese mythology he was familiar with.

In his memory, the Tianhe was just the Tianhe; there was never any talk of four regional Tianhe of the east, west, south, and north, nor was there any saying that it could borrow the Power of the Myriad Heavens' Stars.

The Milky Way was more of a term appearing in astronomy, and it was really hard to imagine that the Heavenly Court's Tianhe was actually called the Milky Way, or rather, one of the Tianhe was called the Milky Way.

But no matter what Sun Po thought, the black water flow and star phantoms all over the sky had already been driven by the huge dark cloud flag in Wuzhiqi's hand to roll and churn.

The dim starlight phantoms all over the sky mixed in the black water flow, adding an extra layer of gorgeous and mysterious danger to the oppressive secret realm.

The beast tide on the opposite bank was about to rush over. Their target was not Sun Po, but the fissure gate not far behind Sun Po.

But they would never reach there. The already incomparably huge dark cloud flag, while waving, wrapped around the black water flow and star phantoms all over the sky, appearing even more colossal.

Wuzhiqi, who stood hundreds of meters tall, appeared incomparably tiny under this flag woven from dark clouds, black water flow, and star phantoms.

At this moment, it bared its teeth and its muscles erupted, as if waving this flag was extremely strenuous, but the faster it waved, the greater the momentum became. The sky of the entire secret realm seemed to have become Wuzhiqi's flag. The sky was no longer relatively static, but turned into a wild scroll like an abstract oil painting, overturning into a shape that Sun Po could not even imagine in his dreams.

The entire Jinshan Temple secret realm was continuously and violently vibrating along with this ancient deity's flag, emitting a terrifying rumbling sound.

Whether it was the beast tide or the mountain-sized green serpent, they were no different from ants in front of this terrifying and unprecedented world-destroying divine might.

Under this terrifying upheaval of heaven and earth, the monster tide that previously looked so grand no longer had the cruel and fierce appearance of demonic beasts. At this moment, they were all like ants running for their lives, terrified of running too slowly. Wuzhiqi's voice sounded in Sun Po's heart once again:

"Master, I am trying my best to trigger this world-destroying disaster and am nearing my limit, but this side of the world is still very solid with no signs of cracking. May I ask Huang Chao to add his Seven Killings Star Power into this world-destroying surge?"