Luo Zhou cast his spell: Overturning Rivers and Seas!
Huge waves churned around the old Crocodile Dragon, and the river roiled.
Originally, Luo Zhou's divine ability covered a radius of four zhang when used beside water.
After he obtained Overturning Rivers Force User and Sea-Treading Force User, the area quietly expanded to a radius of five zhang.
A radius of five zhang meant a great circle five zhang across. It covered quite a lot of ground.
In an instant, he stirred the water qi all around the old Crocodile Dragon.
Luo Zhou sensed that the protective force around it had vanished.
The Heaven and Earth Divine Seal bestowed by True Person of Green Ridge had lost its connection to the river and lake in that moment.
But it lasted only a short while, less than three breaths.
That was enough.
Luo Zhou immediately broke into a rapid sprint, charging toward the old Crocodile Dragon.
Once his opponent entered his attack range, he made a throwing motion as he ran, activated Nine Bulls' Strength, locked onto its right eye with his Dharma Eye, and hurled the Dragon-Slaying Thrust!
The Dragon-Slaying Thrust flew from his hand. The moment he made the throwing motion, it had already struck; there was no flight to speak of.
Within two zhang and five chi, it arrived in an instant. It could not be dodged or blocked. Time and space meant nothing.
One end of the Dragon-Slaying Thrust struck the old Crocodile Dragon's right eye.
In an instant, it pierced the condensed-qi shield that had formed automatically around the old Crocodile Dragon, then pierced its eye and plunged into its brain!
Luo Zhou couldn't help letting out a roar!
"Kill!"
A strike to the brain meant certain death. The old Crocodile Dragon was finished.
Luo Zhou was ecstatic, but then the old Crocodile Dragon suddenly let out a great roar.
With a thunderous rumble, it transformed. It went from the size of a small dog to a gigantic Crocodile Dragon ten zhang long.
The Dragon-Slaying Thrust had struck its right eye, shattering it completely. After the transformation, the eye was a full three chi across—a huge, empty socket. The transformation had done nothing to change that.
At that very moment, Luo Zhou activated a Random Flight Talisman and flew a hundred zhang away at random. He activated another Random Flight Talisman, flew another hundred zhang, and put as much distance between himself and the beast as he could.
Luo Zhou realized that although the Random Flight Talisman was said to send him flying at random, every time he used it, it seemed to take him exactly where he wanted to go. It never sent him off course.
The old Crocodile Dragon roared furiously, shrieking in agony and struggling in pain.
Amid its anguished howls, a layer of spiritual light appeared on its body.
The Heaven and Earth Divine Seal bestowed by True Person of Green Ridge reconnected, and healing began.
The old Crocodile Dragon continued to roar and shriek.
Suddenly, it cried, "It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"
Luo Zhou was taken aback. At the end of the day, the old Crocodile Dragon was still a beast—a Crocodile Dragon. How could it speak like a person while screaming in agony?
It made no sense at all!
"Mom, it hurts so much! Help me!"
It was actually calling for its mother?
Who was its mother? Surely it wasn't True Person of Green Ridge?
Like some dog owner in his previous life who treated his pet like a child!
Only the dog in his previous life couldn't talk, while the old Crocodile Dragon was intelligent enough to speak.
As it cried out, the spiritual light on its body brightened, strengthening the healing.
Luo Zhou's attack had driven the Dragon-Slaying Thrust into its brain.
Once it entered the brain, the Dragon-Slaying Thrust was bound to explode. Everyone it had killed before had been left with their skulls blown apart at the back, brains and blood splattered across an area more than a zhang wide.
The brain was the head of all living things. Luo Zhou refused to believe even this could be healed.
"Mom, help me! Help me!"
The old Crocodile Dragon kept crying, and somehow, it worked.
The spiritual light grew brighter, and the healing became more effective. At the very least, the pain had eased.
As the old Crocodile Dragon transformed into its true form, City Lord Fang Daoqi flew out!
"Yue Canglong, you're at it again. Don't use your master's reputation to bully—"
The old Crocodile Dragon roared, "Shut up! Are you trying to kill me?"
"Fang Daoqi, are you trying to kill me? You don't care about my mother's wrath anymore?"
It roared wildly, now the one consumed by fury!
The old Crocodile Dragon's roar silenced Fang Daoqi. He no longer had the courage to approach, instead keeping his distance.
The old Crocodile Dragon bellowed, "Who was it? Who hit me?"
Luo Zhou had run far away and was watching from a distance.
"I hate you! It hurts so much! I'm going to slaughter the city and eat every last one of you!"
"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"
Though it kept crying out in pain, anyone could see that it was healing.
The Heaven and Earth Divine Seal was working brilliantly, healing it.
It couldn't die. Even with the Dragon-Slaying Thrust in its brain, it still wouldn't die!
Luo Zhou was utterly despairing. Should he try one more strike?
But if he used Overturning Rivers and Seas again, he wouldn't be able to break through the Heaven and Earth Divine Seal.
His opponent was already on guard. The trick wouldn't work again!
Even if he broke through the Heaven and Earth Divine Seal and drove the Dragon-Slaying Thrust into its brain, it still wouldn't die. If he exposed himself in front of the beast, he would surely die!
Luo Zhou was at a loss. His Flash of Inspiration had come true: he had broken through the old Crocodile Dragon's Heaven and Earth Divine Seal and driven the Dragon-Slaying Thrust into its brain.
But it still hadn't worked. The old Crocodile Dragon hadn't died, and it was slowly recovering...
"Fang Daoqi, you hurt me. You almost killed me.
"I can't slaughter the whole city, so hand over five hundred people. I'm going to eat five hundred people!
"No, I want a thousand. And no old people. I want children and strong young adults!"
"Yue Canglong, you've gone too far! That's impossible!"
The old Crocodile Dragon let out a ferocious roar, charged onto the riverbank, and headed straight for a residential ward.
Boom! It smashed through the ward's gate. It tore down houses wherever it saw them and devoured anyone in its path.
It rampaged through the city!
"Yue Canglong, that's impossible! A thousand people is absolutely out of the question..."
Fang Daoqi actually didn't dare stop it, nor could he dispatch the Fire Crow Army.
He was haggling...
The Fire Crow Army had been created by True Person of Green Ridge. From the moment they were born, they had been engraved with a command never to harm the old Crocodile Dragon. They simply couldn't attack.
There were cultivators in the ward, too.
One of them was even at the Qi Refining stage. He circulated his true qi and attacked with all his might.
Some rescued the old, the weak, women, and children; others fought the old Crocodile Dragon.
The old Crocodile Dragon clamped its jaws around a burly cultivator who had resisted with a blade, then chewed him to pieces.
"If a thousand won't do, then eight hundred!"
"Yue Canglong, stop eating people! How about five hundred? Would five hundred do?"
The old Crocodile Dragon lunged again. It was as if the dozen or so zhang between them didn't exist at all.
The Qi Refining cultivator was sucked into its mouth in an instant. It clamped down and chewed.
Anyone caught in its jaws was as good as dead. Everyone lost the will to fight and could only flee for their lives.
Screams rang out all around. Luo Zhou watched through clenched teeth.
He was consumed with rage, but there was nothing he could do!
It was just like last time. He couldn't kill the old Crocodile Dragon. Instead, he had provoked it into another rampage, slaughtering the people.
He had the will to kill his enemy, but no way to finish off the old Crocodile Dragon.
It wasn't fair. It was so unfair!
It had eaten tens of thousands of people, yet it faced no punishment because someone powerful was protecting it.
It wasn't fair. It simply wasn't fair. Heaven's way was unjust!
Endless hatred and boundless fury surged in his heart!
Luo Zhou couldn't help gritting his teeth and shouting at the old Crocodile Dragon, "Die!"
His roar mingled with the screams of the crowd and was barely audible.
But the old Crocodile Dragon froze, as if something had struck it.
While it stood motionless, the Qi Refining cultivator struggled free from its mouth, crawled out, and rolled away across the ground.
Luo Zhou realized that his furious shout had just stirred the immortal office of the Curse Master!
A Curse Master's sincerity gave a curse power. There was no need for any incantation. A curse from the heart, poured out with one's whole being, was the strongest spell of all.
Luo Zhou roared again, "Die!"
He unleashed the full power of the Curse Master, pouring every last bit of his strength into the roar, releasing all his vital essence, energy, and spirit.
His throat went hoarse at once from the roar.
Under the curse, a spurt of blood sprayed from the old Crocodile Dragon's ruined right eye.
It was utterly dumbfounded. What in the world was happening?
Luo Zhou roared a third time, but no sound came out at all.
With that roar, all the spiritual energy in his dantian...
Corrosive Heaven Qi, Earth-Boring Qi, Heavy Water Qi, Heavenly Water Qi, Tidal Qi, Weak Water Qi...
It all exploded, transforming into an invisible force that surged out through his mouth.
But this time, the curse did nothing to the old Crocodile Dragon. It wasn't injured.
After that roar, Luo Zhou had no strength left and collapsed to the ground.
He couldn't curse it anymore. The Curse Master's power still fell short...
But then Luo Zhou heard someone behind him rasp, "Die!"
That voice brimmed with boundless horror and death.
Luo Zhou turned around. It wasn't a person.
It was a Dead Spirit: the spirit of a mortal who had been killed by the old Crocodile Dragon at some unknown time, now roaring in rage.
Luo Zhou's third curse had unleashed all his true qi, and the Curse Master's power had produced an inexplicable effect.
"Die!"
Another Dead Spirit roared in the distance.
Only Luo Zhou could see Dead Spirits. No one else could see them, no matter their cultivation realm.
"Die!"
Another Dead Spirit appeared, roaring at the old Crocodile Dragon!
"Die!" "Die!" "Die!"
One Dead Spirit after another appeared, roaring!
Normally, only mortals killed recently by the old Crocodile Dragon turned into Dead Spirits. Those killed long ago eventually became mere soul-shadows.
But at this moment, those soul-shadows appeared one by one, transforming into Dead Spirits.
Now, tens of thousands of Dead Spirits filled the city. They all stared at the old Crocodile Dragon and unleashed earth-shaking roars!
"Die!" "Die!" "Die!" "Die!"
The old Crocodile Dragon could see the Dead Spirits, too. For the first time, it was afraid!
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