Command All Waters, Annihilate the Cosmos

Military Frontline Position, Command Room.

Meng Nanxi asked anxiously, "Teacher Qu, it's been hours already. Why haven't we found Jiang Chuan yet?"

"Don't worry. The Magnolia River stretches for thousands of miles. It won't—"

"Commander Ji! Something's happened!"

Before Qu Shi could finish, a staff officer cut her off.

Ji Xuan hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

"Our drone flew near the Sparrow Demon King's lair and discovered that all the demon beasts in the valley have mysteriously fallen asleep."

As the staff officer spoke, footage had already appeared on the Command Room's main screen.

Demon beasts of all sizes lay densely packed across the vibrant valley, fast asleep.

"Jiang Chuan! Jiang Chuan is in this valley!"

Meng Nanxi's cry instantly drew everyone's attention.

"When he killed those Immortal Slaughter Divine Cult members, Jiang Chuan obtained a canister of Spirit Confusing Smoke. This was definitely Jiang Chuan's doing."

"Are students these days really this bold?!" Ji Xuan's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Qu Shi, your student truly has courage in every bone!" Leng Zhengyu, who possessed the low-grade Heaven Rank Dao Foundation Jade Heaven Cold Light, gave Qu Shi a thumbs-up.

Qu Shi stared in shock and said incredulously, "Has Jiang Chuan gone mad?! He's only at the third realm—how did he dare?!"

Sparrow Demon King's lair.

Divine Arrow Strike!

Facing the Bird Demon that had already charged before him, Jiang Chuan did not hesitate.

Thirty-seven strands of Divine Sense shot toward the Bird Demon like thirty-seven crossbow bolts.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As though struck by thirty-seven massive hammers, the Bird Demon was sent reeling backward.

Without hesitation, Jiang Chuan gripped his halberd and charged at the Bird Demon.

Wind Rises Thunder Clouds Surge!

Black spiritual power entwined with silver-white lightning flew from his body, like a Dark Cloud flashing with lightning as it circled around him.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Twelve bolts of deep-blue lightning descended from the heavens and struck the blade of Jiang Chuan's great halberd.

Even a lion fighting a rabbit had to give it everything it had.

Against the Sparrow Demon King's offspring, Jiang Chuan struck with all his strength from the very start, determined to decide victory and defeat—and life and death—as swiftly as possible!

The halberd blade shone brilliantly like a divine flame.

The Bird Demon sensed the terrifying power emanating from Jiang Chuan's great halberd and tried to evade, but it was already one step too late.

Jiang Chuan thrust his halberd. The twelve bolts of lightning merged into a massive Thunder Light Pillar and shot straight at the Bird Demon.

Unable to dodge in time, the Bird Demon was swallowed by the Thunder Light Pillar.

"My father will never let you go!"

Before dying, the Bird Demon sent out one final strand of Divine Sense.

Bang! Bang!

Looking at the pair of wings that had fallen to the ground, Jiang Chuan said disdainfully, "Let's see if your father survives first."

Jiang Chuan then arrived before the Sparrow Demon King's enormous nest.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The Sparrow Demon King's nest was built from enormous logs. Jiang Chuan chopped through several of them and successfully entered.

The bottom of the nest was padded with the Sparrow Demon King's huge black feathers, while all kinds of items lay piled haphazardly inside.

There were weapon fragments, damaged artifacts resembling ancient towers, and stones of different colors.

The most eye-catching of all was an azure gemstone.

The azure gemstone was roughly the size of a human head. It floated in midair, glittering like a luminous pearl.

"I never thought the Sparrow Demon King would have an artifact. I've struck it rich this time!"

Jiang Chuan excitedly ran over to the azure gemstone, then froze.

Because he discovered that it was not an azure gemstone at all, but a mass of Azure Liquid floating in midair!

"What kind of treasure is this?"

In Jiang Chuan's perception, the Azure Liquid before him was simply an aggregate formed from an oceanic quantity of Transcendent Factors.

As he examined the Azure Liquid, a sense of hunger gradually rose within him.

Consume it!

Consume this mass of liquid!

"With this many Transcendent Factors, it probably isn't poisonous. I'll consume it!"

Gritting his teeth, Jiang Chuan began to suck it down in huge mouthfuls.

The icy Azure Liquid flowed down Jiang Chuan's throat and into his body.

After Jiang Chuan had consumed all the Azure Liquid, he felt as if a blaze were raging fiercely within his abdomen.

Then that blaze gradually spread through his entire body.

Hot!

So hot!

His entire body felt as though it had been placed inside a furnace, while beads of sweat the size of beans streamed ceaselessly from him.

The two streams of spiritual power cultivated through Wrath of the Firmament and the Great Sun Slaughtering God Technique surged from Jiang Chuan's dantian.

Together with the formless flame transformed from the Azure Liquid, as well as the medicinal power of the Earth Dragon Flower that Jiang Chuan had consumed earlier but had not yet had time to refine, they began tempering all the blood in his body.

Through the perception of his Divine Sense, he could clearly feel every drop of his blood gradually becoming crystalline, like tiny pieces of glazed glass.

"That Tiger Demon could return at any time. I have to speed this up!"

While continuing to circulate his technique and replace his blood, Jiang Chuan began searching through the nest for treasures.

"Hm? This is..."

As Jiang Chuan's gaze swept continuously over the nest, a piece of purple beast hide entered his sight.

Even after countless years, the purple beast hide still emitted a soft, lustrous glow.

"This beast hide must at least have come from a Demon King. The cultivation technique recorded on it is probably even stronger."

Jiang Chuan hurriedly examined it and found that it was not written in Bird Script, but in traditional characters similar to modern writing.

"Once the Heavenly River Scripture reaches great mastery, with a single thought one may command all waters and annihilate the cosmos. Hiss!"

Jiang Chuan sucked in a cold breath, stunned by the power of the Heavenly River Scripture.

After all, places containing water made up the vast majority of the entire world.

Once the Heavenly River Scripture was cultivated to completion, it could not only command water as weapons and kill through water.

More importantly, whose body did not contain water?

It could be said that the Heavenly River Scripture was absolutely a World-Shaking Divine Technique!

After quickly scanning through the Heavenly River Scripture and committing its nearly ten thousand characters to memory, Jiang Chuan continued searching for treasures.

"They're all artifact fragments. Isn't there even one intact artifact?"

Jiang Chuan walked over to a pile of weapon artifacts, picked up a large seal covered in cracks, examined it, then tossed it to the ground and resumed searching at speed.

After Jiang Chuan flung aside another shattered compass, the next thing to enter his sight was a saber hilt.

Jiang Chuan instinctively drew the hilt, and the black blade slowly came into view.

"Could it be an intact artifact?!"

When Jiang Chuan fully drew the saber, his eyes filled with delight.

"It really is an intact artifact!"

The black saber resembled the hengdao of Tang sabers. It was three fingers wide, and its straight blade was covered in all manner of talismans.

The blade gave off a dim gleam, like the light of death in the darkness of night, enough to send chills down one's spine.

Clang! Clang!

As Jiang Chuan poured spiritual power into it, a resounding Saber Hum rang out.

"Once I'm out, I'll test this saber's power!"

Jiang Chuan knew that the most urgent matter now was to take the treasures and leave before the Tiger Demon returned.

After finding a saber sheath, inserting the black saber into it, and hanging it at his waist, Jiang Chuan continued his search.

Jiang Chuan soon reached the end of the nest. Aside from all kinds of artifact fragments, one chest stood out in particular.