The Confucian Way to Sagehood
Chapter 1788

The Yangtze Dragon

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Under everyone's horrified gaze, the Yangtze Dragon, hundreds of thousands of li long, slowly began to coil. Its enormous body of river water moved gently, like a great serpent or python.

Before long, the immense Yangtze Dragon lay coiled overhead, even blocking the light of the Literary Star and the moon, shrouding the earth like dark clouds across the sky.

The Yangtze Dragon's eyes were two black whirlpools.

The Yangtze Dragon surveyed the earth. As its gaze swept past Yueyang Tower, everyone trembled with shock and fear.

Everyone felt that the Yangtze Dragon was looking directly at them, and terror gripped their hearts. Many children and elderly people in Baling City were frightened into tears.

"Aaang..."

The Yangtze Dragon suddenly turned toward the mouth of the Yangtze River, where seawater had already surged upstream, keeping the Flood Dragon Sage Palace submerged.

Suddenly, beautiful sprays of water slowly rose from the river. Clam maidens, eel maidens, carp maidens, and other attendants of the Flood Dragon Sage Palace surfaced, beautiful even by the standards of the Human Race.

Before long, tens of thousands of female demons stood upon the water, their feet resting on white waves.

Some knowledgeable scholars had already realized that once these female demons appeared, the Flood Dragon Sage would soon surface.

This time, he might not merely patrol the river-he might ride the dragon on a patrol of the heavens!

Fang Yun looked at the female demons at the river's mouth, then at the boundlessly vast Yangtze Dragon overhead. With a soft sigh, he raised his brush and began to write.

"I have observed that Baling's finest scenery lies in Dongting Lake alone. It holds distant mountains in its embrace and swallows the Yangtze River, its mighty waters surging without bound; bright at dawn and shadowed at dusk,

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