At a flash of inspiration, Luo Zhou sensed a scene from the future: himself killing the old Crocodile Dragon.
He was overcome with excitement. Paying no mind to the time of day, he sprang into action.
He searched for the scenery from the vision.
He soon found it: Shallow Bay, one of the three rivers in the city.
He found the exact spot for the assassination, without the slightest discrepancy.
The next time it rained, he would wait here, activate the Invisibility Talisman, and wait for the old Crocodile Dragon to arrive. Then he would use Overturning Rivers and Seas to sever its connection to the river.
Then he would strike with the Dragon-Slaying Thrust and kill the old Crocodile Dragon!
Luo Zhou burst into laughter. There was only one problem left: Overturning Rivers and Seas!
Overturning Rivers and Seas was made up of nine different abilities.
Waves, Vortex, Vortex Guard, Ferocity, Water Ripple, Floating Evasion, Flow Control, Surge Explosion, and Tide Fury!
He already had five of them: Waves, Vortex Guard, Floating Evasion, Flow Control, and Surge Explosion.
But to be honest, out of those five abilities, only Vortex Guard, a defensive ability, was of any use.
The other four were basically useless, with little value.
He still needed Vortex, Ferocity, Water Ripple, and Tide Fury. Time waited for no one, so he had to act at once.
Luo Zhou had no intention of waiting until tomorrow. He had to finish this today.
He began calling people over, starting with Zuo Sanguang.
Zuo Sanguang was bubbling over with enthusiasm and had wanted to play games during the day, but Luo Zhou had been in a bad mood and turned him down.
Now that Luo Zhou had come looking for him, he happily followed along.
Then they went to call the Wang brothers, Wang Qiang and Wang Gang.
By then, it was already evening. The Wang brothers had long since gone home.
In fact, they only came over to earn their wages during the day and went home to rest at noon.
With the wages Luo Zhou gave them, they had four dishes every evening and drank a few ounces of liquor. It was a life fit for immortals.
When Luo Zhou showed up at their door, they were so startled they thought their employer had caught them skipping work.
But they realized Luo Zhou hadn't noticed at all. He had only come to ask them for help, and they relaxed. The good life could go on.
Luo Zhou thought for a moment, then said:
"Call over all your Wang Family clansmen."
Wang Qiang and Wang Gang froze. He wanted them to call more people besides themselves?
Luo Zhou was worried the two of them wouldn't be enough to get the remaining four abilities.
Last time, he had gotten two at once. This time, he would call over more of the Wang Family clansmen and try to get all four in one go.
These four abilities were actually parts of a single divine ability, which was why he had obtained two of them last time.
This time, Luo Zhou was going to get all four of the remaining abilities.
Seeing the Wang brothers' faces, Luo Zhou said:
"Bring me one Wang Family clansman, and I'll give him two taels of silver.
"And I'll give you brothers an extra tael each!"
The promise of silver worked better than anything else.
They immediately started calling people over!
There were several hundred Wang Family clansmen in the city.
They didn't need that many. Twenty would do, all direct members of the Wang Family and of the same bloodline as Bald Old Wang.
Zuo Sanguang looked at the crowd surrounding him and was a little dumbfounded!
Luo Zhou began giving orders!
"Surround him and start cursing him. Then give him a light smack, one person at a time.
"Don't hit too hard. Just enough to make it count!"
The twenty men formed a big circle and all began cursing Zuo Sanguang.
"You idiot! You big fool!"
"You little brat, I'll beat you to death!"
"I'll knock your head right off!"
Then they each shoved him once, one after another.
With more than twenty people pushing him around, Zuo Sanguang nearly fell over.
After being shoved back and forth for a while, Zuo Sanguang couldn't help crying out in his heart:
What kind of nonsense is this? So many people are cursing me and hitting me! Won't someone come save me? Please, someone save me...
Luo Zhou heard him through their mind link. Zuo Sanguang really was the perfect tool for grinding out abilities.
He immediately stepped in and roared:
"Stop bullying him! I'm here to uphold justice, and every one of you is going to be punished!"
He went over and kicked each of them, then punched them.
Though he had the immortal office of Hinoki Force User, his strength hadn't increased by much. But he had gained far more control over it.
Otherwise, with eleven thousand catties of strength, one punch or kick could easily kill someone.
Even so, despite taking care, he knocked all twenty Wang Family clansmen to the ground.
Luo Zhou worried that if he didn't punish them hard enough, he wouldn't get any benefits.
Some lay on the ground, groaning. It was impossible to tell whether they were really hurt.
Luo Zhou burst into laughter and said, "This is fun! This is fun!"
Then he paid them, giving each man two taels of silver.
Once they'd received the money, nobody kept groaning. They all left happily.
He gave Wang Qiang and Wang Gang quite a bit more silver.
Luo Zhou thought for a moment, then said:
"Wang Dong's house was taken over by Liu Jinpeng, the remnant of the Sanjiang Gang.
"The Sanjiang Gang has been wiped out, and Liu Jinpeng is dead. That house belongs to you now!"
Wang Qiang and Wang Gang had never expected such good fortune. Grinning from ear to ear, they ran off to see the house.
Luo Zhou thanked Zuo Sanguang and gave him fifty Broken Spirits on the spot.
Zuo Sanguang was delighted too. He couldn't help shouting, "We're the best of friends!"
As long as he could earn Broken Spirits, he'd do anything.
"Brother Luo, I'll go home and rest for a few days. Once I'm better, we can keep going!"
"Good, good, good!"
All that remained was to wait!
With nothing to do that night and only one Dragon-Slaying Thrust left, Luo Zhou took out some fine Spirit Wood and began crafting.
He made two more Dragon-Slaying Thrusts, using up eighteen strands of Icy Qi.
Three Dragon-Slaying Thrusts would be more than enough!
Suddenly, late that night, the sound of angry curses and fighting rang out from the neighborhood.
Luo Zhou went to investigate, only to find that the Wang brothers had gotten into a fight.
They had fallen out over how to divide Wang Dong's house and were now beating each other up.
They cursed each other's ancestors, fathers, and mothers, completely forgetting in that moment that they were brothers...
Luo Zhou was speechless. He left them to it. Whatever happened, happened.
The neighborhood head stepped in and drove them both away. In the end, neither of them got the house...
But the brothers' relationship recovered all the same...
Around midnight, in a daze, Luo Zhou felt countless ocean tides surging, huge waves towering to the heavens and destroying everything in their path!
"Water..."
"Waves, Vortex, Vortex Guard, Ferocity, Water Ripple, Floating Evasion, Flow Control, Surge Explosion, Tide Fury..."
"Overturning Rivers and Seas, huge waves towering to the heavens!"
"Reward for good deeds!"
"Reward: Vortex, Ferocity, Water Ripple, and Tide Fury. All nine abilities are complete. They merge into one, granting the divine ability Overturning Rivers and Seas!"
Luo Zhou could barely contain his joy. At last, he had completed the set and obtained the divine ability Overturning Rivers and Seas.
He silently tested it. All he had to do was strike out with his palm, and the divine ability would activate!
He didn't bother going to sleep. He immediately left, striding swiftly and using Flying Pounce to get out of the city and into the wilderness, where he could test the power of Overturning Rivers and Seas.
Once he reached the wilderness and found himself alone, Luo Zhou faced the open ground and struck out fiercely with his palm.
He activated the divine ability, but to his surprise, he couldn't help roaring:
"Overturning Rivers and Seas, huge waves towering to the heavens!"
Why did activating this divine ability require him to shout its name?
Shouting the name of his move? Wasn't that one of the ten dumbest things you could do? Everyone would laugh at him and split their sides!
But whether he wanted to or not, whenever Luo Zhou used the divine ability, he couldn't control himself from shouting its name!
The divine ability unleashed: Overturning Rivers and Seas, huge waves towering to the heavens!
With a thunderous boom, it was as if endless floodwaters had appeared, forming a colossal wave that swept forward with savage, chilling force, destroying everything in its path.
Boom! A wave-like shock burst out, true qi erupting and sweeping in every direction.
The huge wave was half real and half illusory. It didn't seem to exist, just the might of a spell. Yet wherever the floodwaters passed, trees shattered, grass was uprooted, and rocks split apart. It was countless times more ferocious than a real wave.
Luo Zhou carefully sensed its effects and tested it again and again.
He found that when he used it on land, the wave struck an area just two zhang across.
An area two zhang across meant two zhang long and two zhang wide.
But if he was beside a lake or river, with a source of water nearby, the divine ability's wave could strike an area a full four zhang across.
The area covered by the divine ability was four times larger with water nearby than without it.
However, the wave's power didn't seem to change.
One strike like this would certainly kill a Body Tempering cultivator. But an Qi Refining cultivator, who could form a true qi shield, would be able to withstand the divine ability and survive with injuries.
Invincible among his peers!
But using this divine ability also came at a cost for Luo Zhou.
Every time he used it, he lost one strand of true qi from his dantian.
Each strike consumed the equivalent of a year's worth of Qi Refining true qi.
He tested it three times, consuming three strands of true qi.
One strand of Icy Qi, twenty-two strands of Water Ripple Qi, twenty-two strands of Ethereal Qi, six strands of Geomagnetic Qi, two strands of Water Tide Energy, three strands of Heavy Dust Qi, and one strand of Three Eyes Qi.
Luo Zhou already knew how to refine all these types of special true qi. Once the qi in his dantian ran out, he could condense more after reaching the Qi Refining stage.
At last, the divine ability Overturning Rivers and Seas was ready, the Dragon-Slaying Thrusts were ready, the Invisibility Talisman was ready. All preparations were complete.
Luo Zhou headed to Shallow Bay to wait...
He would wait for the rain, for the old Crocodile Dragon to appear, then slay the dragon and rid the world of the scourge!
He would kill that old bastard and avenge the tens of thousands who had died. He didn't care how powerful its backers were, how mighty it was, what past or future it had, or how much the greater good and progress of the times supposedly mattered. When innocent people died, someone had to speak up for them—tooth for tooth, blood for blood!
Kill, kill, kill! It had to die! Even if he was killed, his clan was wiped out, and he was cut into a thousand pieces, he would still kill it!
Then Luo Zhou realized it hadn't rained that day, and the old Crocodile Dragon hadn't come.
It didn't rain on the nineteenth of June, or the twentieth, or the twenty-first. In fact, it didn't rain once the entire month of June...
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