Fish Dragon

Supreme One True Water!

Bai Yixin wasn't merely going to pick a fight with the Rain Clan because he disliked them. Their traps at the entrance to the passage had certainly angered him, but more importantly, he wanted to follow them and search for the treasure known as Supreme One True Water.

The grudge between Little One and the Rain Clan was, of course, for him to settle himself. Bai Yixin wouldn't interfere much, only lending a hand when it mattered.

This was a land of lakes and marshes. Great lakes spread across it, long rivers rushed onward, and rain and mist curled around the mountains, making everything look hazy.

"Boom!"

Just as Bai Yixin and the others passed a lake, a dorsal fin broke the surface. Then a colossal creature leaped out and lunged toward the shore, its jaws snapping as white waves surged skyward.

Bai Yixin was startled. He grabbed Little One beside him and burst into a sprint, putting a great distance between them and the lake in an instant.

A gigantic mouth appeared by the shore, biting through a whole stretch of forest. A vast glow erupted, Runes rained down and swept toward them, and with a crack, they shattered a low mountain.

"What kind of monster is that? It's so powerful!" Little One exclaimed in shock.

"It's a Fish Dragon!" Bai Yixin's eyes gleamed faintly.

In the lake, a terrifying dragon head emerged from the water. Its eyes alone were as large as millstones, and its teeth were one or two meters long, bone-white and chilling. Its jagged scales shimmered with purple light.

Little One's heart stirred. "This little world seems full of dangers. We'll have to be careful. We can't afford to provoke this Fish Dragon."

"This little world really does have plenty of dangers, but this Fish Dragon doesn't count," Bai Yixin said with a smile, licking his lips.

"Little One, take this. Go on ahead. I'll catch up with you later."

"..."

Little One took the Jade Tablet and looked from it to Bai Yixin, who was eager to spring into action. He knew Brother Little White had gotten excited, so he said nothing more.

"Fine, Brother Little White. Just be careful not to get carried away."

"Don't worry." Bai Yixin waved a hand and stared at the Fish Dragon. Its body was shaped like a fish, but its head was that of a flood dragon. It churned up towering waves as it watched him coldly.

"Come entertain me!"

Frenzied thunder surged over Bai Yixin's body. One of the Suanni's fangs transformed into a golden sword in his hand, while the other eight circled around him, ready for whatever might come.

The next instant, a flash of golden light—Bai Yixin became like a golden bolt of lightning. His speed reached its peak, and he shot more than a hundred yards forward, leaving an afterimage behind.

"Roar! Roar—!"

The Fish Dragon was astonished. It hadn't expected this tiny human to dare attack it instead of fleeing like his companion.

But that suited it just fine. It could sense that this human who dared to attack it was a rare powerhouse, and his flesh and blood would be a precious medicinal treasure.

Runes flickered as a wave swept toward him. Its bloody maw gaped open, snapping down on the charging Bai Yixin.

A series of sonic booms rang out. Bai Yixin wasn't foolish enough to run straight into the Fish Dragon's mouth. He darted in a lightning-fast zigzag, then slid beneath the snapping maw bristling with fangs.

The next moment, the shore was blasted into a deep crater. Water gushed through the dense, spiderweb-like cracks.

After dodging the Fish Dragon's Rune Treasure Technique once more, Bai Yixin finally closed in and reached its flank.

"Roar! Roar!!"

A Suanni's furious roar seemed to ring out. Golden Runes spread, and the golden thunder around Bai Yixin blazed brighter, forming Thunder Gold Armor over his body.

"Rise!"

Bai Yixin shouted. His whole body glowed as patterns emerged. He clenched his left fist, and the form of a Suanni wrapped around it like a gauntlet. Then he punched the Fish Dragon in the flank.

"Boom!"

Golden, broken bolts of lightning and scales burst in every direction. Bai Yixin's tiny fist wasn't even as large as one of the Fish Dragon's scales, yet it carried immense power. With that one punch, it seemed as though heaven and earth had trembled.

The Fish Dragon roared in agony. Its enormous body was knocked three yards out of the lake by that punch, as if it were about to fly into the sky.

That tiny fist was like a drill, wrapped in Runes as it punched straight into the Fish Dragon's flesh. Blood splashed everywhere, leaving it horrified.

"Break!"

The Fish Dragon roared. The scales covering its body shone with a dazzling, strange light, like countless gleaming mirrors. They burst with streak after streak of freezing light, forcing Bai Yixin back.

Brilliant Runes filled the sky, and countless rays of light streaked overhead like comets, shrouding the lake and shore. Divine energy was everywhere. The lake's rippling surface froze, then the ice shattered, making those who saw it tremble in terror.

The Fish Dragon swept its tail with immense force. Its snowy white tail crashed down toward Bai Yixin, blotting out the sky like the fall of the heavens! At the very least, its might was enough to smash a boulder weighing over a hundred thousand pounds to pieces.

The eight golden swords circling Bai Yixin unleashed astonishing Sword Qi, cutting down every beam of freezing light that shot toward him.

"Die!"

Runes blazed across Bai Yixin's body, then suddenly erupted. He raised the golden sword in his hand, unleashing a terrifying torrent of Sword Qi that cleaved through the waves and slashed toward the Fish Dragon.

Treasure light shimmered, and Runes filled the sky.

Clang!

The terrifying Sword Qi broke through the glowing Runes and struck the Fish Dragon's descending tail.

"Pfft!"

The Fish Dragon let out a shrill roar, blood gushing from its wound. Its tail had been severed.

The Fish Dragon opened its bloody maw and fired a beam of light. Then, not daring to linger, it seized its severed tail in its jaws and plunged toward the depths of the lake.

"Roar!!"

A Suanni formed from lightning appeared with a roar, mighty and powerful, its whole body blazing with golden light. It shattered every Rune, then opened its jaws and spat out a torrent of lightning, charging toward the Fish Dragon.

Boom! Layer upon layer of lightning blazed, golden bolts dancing like surging waves and blanketing the lake. In an instant, it was as though the lake had become a sea of thunder.

"Die!"

Bai Yixin shook his sword. He was like a blade of grass unfurling, like a sword drawn from its scabbard and bared in all its sharpness. Sword Qi soared into the heavens.

He swung once, striking a spot in the lake. Everything in the sword's path was cleaved apart, and the water split open into a deep trench that stretched toward the lakebed.

At the end of that trench lay a headless, tailless corpse, charred black and wrapped in golden lightning. It could no longer strut about arrogantly.

This little world contained many terrifying creatures. Born in this realm, they weren't suppressed. Only those who had entered from the outside with excessive power would suffer misfortune.

The Fish Dragon's strength was probably around the middle stage of Spirit Transformation, but its combat prowess wasn't especially great. It also had no treasure, so it wasn't difficult to deal with.

Bai Yixin didn't know whether this world restricted cultivation realms or combat prowess.

Bai Yixin guessed that it was most likely cultivation realms, with age as another condition. Without treasures bestowed by their elders, probably few of the young geniuses who had entered this time could defeat the Fish Dragon.

"That was easy enough."

Bai Yixin fished the Fish Dragon out of the lake. Once he got the Supreme One True Water, he could stew them together into fish soup.