Fat Catfish's Adventure (Part One)

The candlelight flickered, casting dappled shadows.

Liang Qu sat cross-legged, countless light patterns flashing and intertwining in the sea of consciousness.

[ By Absorb Dragon Seed Aura, one Ying Long Mark pattern.]

His back ached as if it were being branded with a hot iron, as if something was tearing at his skin, and the pain lasted for a full fifteen minutes.

As the pain subsided, Liang Qu tore open his clothes and reached out to touch himself, but he found nothing; no strange things had grown on his body.

Upon entering the Quiet Room, the room was completely empty.

The main house was completed yesterday. Apart from the bed, nothing else was furnished inside, let alone a mirror.

Liang Qu turned and ran into the courtyard, took out the water from the water vat, spread the clear water out flat, and placed it against the candle.

The candlelight was dim, and figures could be faintly seen on the flowing water.

A long, pale gold line appeared on the skin above Liang Qu's spine on his back. It was an extremely long "S" that stretched from his neck to his waist and abdomen. It was very thin, almost like the lines drawn with a Wolf Hair- hair brush, and could not be noticed unless you looked closely.

Is this the Ying Long Mark?

What's the use?

[The Yinglong on the Wandering the Six Voids; layer number: one]

[River's Favor 0.01]

Liang Qu's mind exploded.

In a blink of an eye, everything was bright before my eyes, and day and night turned back to each other.

The mountains are majestic, the pines stand tall, and the clouds and mist roll and flow above and below them.

Liang Qu discovered that he had no limbs, no body, as if he had transformed into a wisp of pure and strange energy, with only a thought remaining, slowly rising, lightly skimming across the sky, passing through mountains, rivers, and Great Marsh plains.

From day to night, from the deep sea to towering mountains.

Morning light, sunset, stars, drifting clouds, green pines, snow-capped mountains that never change for thousands of years, wind and snow go south and turn into water that flows into rivers, and the water of rivers flows into the sea, endlessly.

Magma flows beneath the water, forever shrouded in mist. "Constantly changing, Wandering the Six Voids, ever-shifting between high and low, alternating between hardness and softness."

The wind and clouds swirl, and fallen leaves flutter down.

The starlight and moonlight streamed down, and a layer of mercury slowly flowed across the roof.

Liang Qu stood on the eaves, his clothes swaying gently, and the bells under his feet jingled softly in the wind, startling the spring birds that were roosting there.

How did he get up here? Liang Qu looked around blankly. He had no idea how he got up there. It was as if he had turned into a breeze and when he opened his eyes again, he was on the roof.

Wandering the Six Voids Liang Qu's studies at the academy were not in vain.

Wandering the Six Voids, filling heaven and earth, positioning the universe, the six trigrams are "empty," the so-called six emptinesses are the upper, lower and four directions.

Among them, up and down are impermanent, rising and falling are impermanent, increasing and decreasing are impermanent, operation is impermanent, gathering and scattering are impermanent, and separation and union are impermanent.

The interplay of strength and gentleness, the transformation of yin into yang, and yang into yin, gives rise to stillness through movement, and stillness returns to movement.

Yinglong is a winged dragon, so why are the Ying Long Mark it bears related to stillness and movement? Understanding these changes might allow one to travel freely in all directions. The fantastical transformation into pure and extraordinary energy is vividly portrayed, at which point one can go anywhere in the world and reach any place with just a thought.

Everything that flows has a form.

Furthermore, his sudden arrival on the eaves suggests that this is an ability he can master.

Liang Qu pondered silently.

In addition, the appearance of the River's Favor was an unexpected surprise.

A single Ying Long Mark pattern grants Favorability of 0.01, while a previous River God Sacrifice he held only yielded 0.0001, a difference of a hundredfold.

What changes will occur if we go further into the Jiang Huai River basin? The Jianghuai Marshlands.

The Fat Catfish swam alone in the water, strictly following Liang Qu's instructions to explore its surroundings.

Carefully search for "very large ships, but underwater", "fish you've never seen before, including longhorn fish, red-skinned fish, and spotted fish", "things that glow", and "hard rocks you've never seen before".

There are too many things, and sometimes it can't remember them clearly. In short, just look for things you haven't seen before.

While swimming and patrolling, the Fat Catfish's tail suddenly veered uncontrollably to one side, as if someone had grabbed its tail and pulled it hard, causing it to lose its way and fall into the mud.

The Fat Catfish was furious. It lashed its tail around, splashing mud and stirring up a large crater in the bottom of the water, but it still couldn't find the attacker.

The situation is very tricky.

He's a formidable guy.

The Fat Catfish lay prone in the mud, cautiously looking around, moving forward little by little. Suddenly, a huge force slammed into its back. The Fat Catfish swung its body to bite back, but missed again. All around was water and mud, nothing else.

The Fat Catfish was filled with fear. The dark waters seemed to conceal a great danger, with an enemy lurking in the shadows, completely undetectable! It was terrifying.

It dared not explore any further, its long tail slapping the water as it turned and left. But the enemy in the darkness seemed no longer to be hiding, and attacked relentlessly with tremendous force.

With tremendous force pulling, the Fat Catfish lost control of its body and was swept along, swaying from side to side.

Only then did it realize that there were no enemies around at all; it was all the water's doing! The Fat Catfish had never seen such a strange water flow before.

There must be treasure inside!

We found it and offered it to the gods!

Remembering Liang Qu's instructions, the Fat Catfish eagerly flicked its whiskers, found the direction from which the turbulent current was coming, coiled its body like a snake, and swung its body with all its might before plunging into the deepest part of the turbulent current.

At first, the Fat Catfish struggled in the powerful current, but as the current grew stronger, each blow was like a lash from a long, Cannot Move tail, causing it excruciating pain. It could no longer control its body and flew away with the current to an unknown place.

It felt like it was being grabbed by the tail and swung around 3,600 times. Just as it was about to faint, it was finally thrown out by the turbulent current and plunged headfirst into the mud and sand.

The ground is so hard.

The suffocating Fat Catfish tried to get out of the mud, but found that the mud here was completely different from the mud in the river before. It was not soft at all, and it took a lot of effort to pull its head out.

Shaking its head to shake off the mud and sand, the dizzy and disoriented Fat Catfish stumbled and bumped into something soft.

It simply leaned against the soft surface and rested for a while. When it came to its senses and looked up again, it found that the place it was leaning against was some kind of dark blue-green thing, which stretched as far as the eye could see and was very smooth and elastic.

The Fat Catfish swung its tail at the wall, causing it to ripple like waves, which was quite amusing.

It flicked its tail several times, then turned to look elsewhere, momentarily overwhelmed by immense joy.

A ship! A very large ship, but it was underwater! The Fat Catfish swam happily toward the sunken ship, but before it could reach it, the water around it began to churn violently.

The giant hand, like a pillar supporting the sky, slammed down, causing the entire underwater world to churn as if an earth dragon were rolling, with mud and sand surging up to a height of tens of meters.

The Fat Catfish was thrown backward by the current and slammed hard against the soft wall.

Looking up again, two huge yellow lights appeared in the mud and sand, steadily approaching.

On the eaves.

Liang Qu stretched out his arms, the wind brushing past his fingers, sensing the omnipresent changes in fluidity. He had the ability to breathe underwater, and all 108,000 pores on his body could open and close at will, and he was aware of every change in airflow.

Following the previous feeling, the surrounding energy changed rapidly, as if Water Leap in water, and the world became quiet and silent.

Open your eyes again.

The water vat rippled slightly, clearly reflecting the jujube tree.

It came down again.

Liang Qu calmed down slightly. He had the strength of Dragon Tendons Tiger Bones, making him incredibly powerful compared to others in the same realm, but he lacked a lot in terms of agility.

I had been planning to ask for a Lower Vehicle -level martial art related to movement techniques sometime in the future, but I never expected that I would have mastered it without a teacher today, and that it would be far superior to any so-called movement technique martial art!