63: Chapter 63 Flooding the Dragon King Temple

"A real hydraulic engineering project?"

Lu Tao heard Jiang Xun's whisper as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world. The muscles on his face, flushed with anger, were twitching.

A guy from an Undead Wasteland civilization, a guy who only knew how to play with bones and corpses, dared to talk big about hydraulic engineering in front of him, a controller of an A-grade Water-Marsh Civilization?!

This was simply the greatest insult to him!

"Jiang Xun! Stop playing tricks! If you have the ability, break my Heavenly River Inversion!"

Lu Tao roared, and his Divine Power surged again. The water level of the flood blocked by the Bone Dam rose sharply once more. The terrifying water pressure made the entire dam emit an overwhelmed creaking sound.

However, Jiang Xun didn't even spare him a glance.

His gaze remained fixed on that magnificent Bone Dam, like a most fastidious engineer scrutinizing his masterpiece.

"Too much noise."

He commented softly.

In the next second, at the top of the dam, hundreds of Orc Engineers simultaneously raised their tool hammers and smashed them down hard on the pre-set rune nodes.

Buzz—!

The internal structure of the entire Bone Dam underwent an earth-shaking change.

On the solid walls that were originally meant only to block the water flow, sophisticated gates swung open one after another.

But the flood did not vent out because of this; instead, it was guided by these gates and diverted into countless smaller internal waterways!

"That... what is that?!"

The commentator's eyes were nearly popping out. He pointed at the broadcast screen, his voice changing pitch.

"What is he doing? Why is he proactively leading the flood inside? Is the dam about to fail?!"

A huge commotion broke out in the audience; no one could understand Jiang Xun's move.

Only Old Baitou in the VIP seats had a startling light erupt in his cloudy eyes. He stared fixedly at the screen, his lips trembling.

"It's not being led in... it's being utilized! This kid... he actually wants to use his opponent's divine art to power his own Divine Kingdom!"

Almost the moment Old Baitou's voice fell, an appalling scene appeared.

On the back of the Bone Dam, along with the connection of countless waterways, terrifying waterwheels made of giant beast bones with diameters exceeding a hundred meters began to turn slowly!

Creak... creak...

The sound of the waterwheels turning was sluggish at first, but as the impact of the guided flood grew stronger, the rotation speed became faster and faster!

In just a dozen seconds, over a hundred giant waterwheels had begun to spin frantically, creating a deafening roar!

The violent energy contained in the flood was thus forcefully converted into the purest mechanical kinetic energy, and then continuously transmitted to every corner of Jiang Xun's Divine Kingdom through the underground rune transmission network!

The originally dim Undead Altar shone brightly, the fires of the Orc Smithy burned more vigorously, and even the lowest-level Skeleton Soldiers' Soul fires in their eye sockets brightened a bit.

The entire Divine Kingdom came alive!

And this was not the end.

The wastewater that had been used by the waterwheels was not wasted.

They were collected together and flowed grandly towards Lu Tao's Divine Kingdom through newly excavated irrigation canals.

Without the overwhelming momentum of the "Heavenly River Inversion," these water flows looked much gentler.

But Lu Tao's face suddenly turned paler than a dead man's!

Because he saw that wherever the water flowed, the land of his Divine Kingdom was being rapidly eroded and softened! His proud Merman Warriors had their feet stuck in the mud, making movement difficult!

His flood was digging out the Foundation of his own Divine Kingdom!

"No... impossible... this is absolutely impossible!"

Lu Tao completely lost his composure, shaking his head frantically, unable to accept what he was seeing.

His proud natural-disaster-level divine art had not only failed to hurt the enemy in the slightest, but had instead become a "power bank" for the opponent's Divine Kingdom development, and finally turned around to flood his own "Dragon King Temple"!

Was there anything more ironic or more of a slap in the face than this?!

"Charge! Charge over there for me! Destroy that dam!"

Lu Tao hysterically gave his final command.

Tens of thousands of Merman Warriors howled, raising their crude coral forks as they launched a charge toward the Bone Dam.

However, what greeted them were rows of silent legions walking out from behind the dam.

Those were Jiang Xun's Human Race believers.

They wore fine plate armor forged by Orcs and held sharp long sabers imbued with undead Death Qi, merging the fearlessness of the undead with the combat techniques of the Human Race.

The two armies, like two torrents, slammed into each other.

There was no intense clash as imagined.

In almost a single encounter, Lu Tao's Merman Legion collapsed.

Their coral forks simply couldn't break through the plate armor of the Human Race believers, while the opponent's long sabers could easily tear through their slippery scales.

It was a complete massacre, a dimensional reduction strike.

Jiang Xun didn't even look at the battlefield again.

He just calmly walked forward and stepped onto the water-soaked, soft land of Lu Tao's Divine Kingdom.

"Possessing the form, but lacking the spirit."

He looked at the despondent Lu Tao and commented indifferently.

"Your civilization is like a paper-pasted levee; it breaks with a single poke."

As his voice fell, Lu Tao's Divine Kingdom core let out a wail and dimmed completely.

[Ding! You have defeated the A-grade 'Water-Marsh Civilization' and plundered its civilization core. Your Divine Kingdom has gained a new expansion!]

A flash of white light passed, and Lu Tao's figure disappeared from the spot.

The entire arena was deathly silent at first, then erupted into a mountain-shaking cheer!

He won again!

In a way that no one could have imagined!

"Monster! This guy is just a monster!"

"My god, he treated someone else's ultimate move as his own generator? How is his brain wired?"

"Flooding the Dragon King Temple, I've finally seen it with my own eyes today!"

The audience went completely wild.

Xu Qingran covered her mouth, her beautiful eyes filled with uncontrollable smiles and pride.

While the entire arena was boiling over Jiang Xun's victory.

In a corner of the audience, Li Ang looked at that calm figure on the screen. Far from being angry, a smile of a successful conspiracy appeared on his face.

He whispered to the scions of the great families beside him.

"See that? He's gained another method."

"But it doesn't matter. The bait has been cast; we just wait for the fish to bite. Let him be proud for a while longer."

"The semi-finals are the real grave prepared for him."