Xiao Cheng slowly circulated the Azure Dragon Breathing Method, guiding all the water-element power within his body toward his kidneys. As the power grew increasingly concentrated, the swelling sensation from his kidneys intensified as well, as though something were wildly expanding inside them, about to break free from its restraints.
Then—
"Boom!"
Xiao Cheng felt an invisible threshold within his body being kicked open. The water-element power in the surrounding seawater, like sharks that had caught the scent of blood, surged madly into his body of its own accord. He was no longer actively absorbing it; the water-element power was pouring itself into him, impossible to stop.
The water-element power converged into a vast torrent and crashed into both his kidneys. Those fragile organs seemed to be torn apart, crushed, and ground into powder by the violent force of the water in an instant!
"Hiss—" Xiao Cheng curled up from the pain. He had never expected the Water Tribulation to be so much more vicious than the Wind Tribulation.
The Wind Tribulation had been uncomfortable as well, but he possessed a natural affinity for wind elements. The process had been more like a gentle embrace and transformation.
But the Water Tribulation was different. Without that affinity, the water-element power was like an angry mother catching her perpetually mischievous child causing trouble again, ready to bestow upon him the supreme clothes hanger.
He gritted his teeth and endured the agony as he desperately circulated the Dragon Transformation Sutra. His qi and blood surged into his kidneys like lava, wrapping around the organs that were on the verge of collapse. At the same time, he pushed the Dragon Snake Transformation to its limit, forcing his body to adapt to this sudden influx of water-element power at full speed.
It was the pain