Chapter 50 Two River Gods of Cangshui, The Powerful Hornless Dragon

Su Yu chatted with this man for a while, and combined with the conversations of numerous players in the regional channel, he quickly figured out the specific details of the so-called River God War.

Simply put, the Cang River had two River Gods. One was the original Cang River God, and the other was a newly appointed River God decreed and enfeoffed from the Xuzhen Immortal Sect by the Lord of the Crimson Firmament Sword Peak.

The two Water Gods each occupied a section of the Cang River and fought fiercely for the control of the river.

Not only did they recruit troops to build massive naval forces for battle, but they also issued quests to many players. Those who accepted quests and killed the opposing naval forces received a 20% experience bonus, along with River God reputation that could be exchanged for valuable items.

Battles occurred almost daily, with large-scale wars breaking out at short intervals. Every half a year or so, once both sides had accumulated sufficient strength, they would launch a massive war, and even the River Gods themselves would occasionally make a move.

Su Yu happened to arrive right at the time of the once-every-half-year major battle.

What he was witnessing now was the new River God's naval force and player guilds allied with the new River God faction. Their main forces were divided by this basin, located in the upstream, while the old River God was located downstream.

The River God War permitted any player to participate.

After a brief moment of thought, Su Yu decided to join the new River God faction.

Since he was leveling up anyway, joining the River God War came with a 20% experience bonus.

Joining was very simple. Any small town along the river had a River God temple. Lighting a stick of incense inside the temple would draw the River God's attention, which was equivalent to joining their faction. Afterwards, all kills of the enemy River God's forces in the great battle would be clearly recorded.

Su Yu checked the map, found the nearest riverside town, and flew over. He entered the River God temple, lit a stick of incense, and a buff immediately appeared on his body.

Cang River God Mark (Enfeoffed by Xuzhen Immortal Sect): Killing enemies of the River God grants an additional 20% kill experience and Dao cultivation, and temporarily grants friendly reputation with the River God faction.

After obtaining the mark and returning to the riverside, he was amazed to find that all the naval forces floating in the water had changed from yellow names to green names, and the originally red wild monsters had also turned into neutral yellow names. This meant that as long as he did not actively attack them, he would not be attacked.

Correspondingly, the naval forces from the hostile old River God turned from neutral yellow names to hostile blood-red, while the wild monsters on that side remained red and did not turn into neutral yellow.

Su Yu followed behind the fleet and waited for a while. After waiting for some time without the battle starting, he simply dived into the water to farm some monsters and level up for a bit first.

As soon as he entered the water, a vortex appeared on the Spirit CAGE belt, and an arm-thick flood dragon flew out from it, expanding in the blink of an eye to over one hundred and fifty meters in length.

"I was suffocating!"

Ao Run opened her mouth and took a deep breath, targeted a group of monsters roaming not far away, whipped her thick dragon tail, and rushed forward to unleash a violent beating.

Su Yu shook his head, held his hands in a false grip, and the Hiding Sun Blue Sparrow flew out to hover in front of him, its sharp sword radiance flickering and uncertain.

With a thought, the sword Qi of the two flying swords rapidly shrank, and the sword light quickly condensed along with it.

Pushing his power to the absolute limit in one breath, he pointed his hand, transforming the sword into a rainbow that pierced through the air. It quickly flew over three hundred meters away, wrapped around a group of fifty-plus-level greenfish spirits, and cut them into two halves after a single round trip back and forth.

The two flying swords only needed two round trips to completely resolve twelve greenfish spirits.

"Too fierce!"

Su Yu secretly clicked his tongue in amazement. With a thought, the twin swords broke through the air and wrapped around another nearby group of monsters.

The sword light shuttled back and forth, blood splattering everywhere, with extreme efficiency.

After continuously wiping out a few waves of monsters to regain his rhythm, Su Yu withdrew his stray thoughts and began to focus his mind on swordsmanship.

Recalling Xiao Qingli's previous teachings in his mind, his spiritual consciousness attached to the twin swords, continuously condensing the sword Qi and compressing the sword radiance.

As time passed, the sword Qi grew smaller and sharper.

Su Yu could vaguely sense the changes in his own sword Qi. It seemed that as the sword Qi continued to condense and compress, a certain qualitative change was taking place.

He knew in his heart that this should be the opportunity to break through to the second stage of swordsmanship realms—Condensing Sword into Thread. As long as he kept condensing the sword Qi, he would one day break through the limit and comprehend this realm.

He did not know to what extent he needed to condense it, but he was not in a hurry, merely continuing to refine it.

Man and dragon rampaged through the water, killing every monster they saw. Unawares, two hours later, while Su Yu was frantically slaughtering at a depth of over two thousand meters underwater, a muffled bell chime suddenly rang in his ears, and a sonorous voice exploded in his mind.

Su Yu immediately understood; the River God War had begun.

He communicated with his mind to recall Ao Run, but Ao Run spoke up first instead:

"I just received a summons from the River God of this river, drafting me as a naval general."

"Did you agree?"

"No, it's too dangerous."

Su Yu said in surprise:

"You even know it's dangerous? I thought those two words didn't exist in your dictionary."

In response, a massive dragon body coiled around him, and Ao Run opened her mouth and spat a mouthful of saliva all over him.

The man and the dragon frolicked and wrestled as they swam forward, until they saw the densely packed naval forces arranged in the water, at which point they rushed out to the water's surface, just in time to see the fleet lined up in a single file ahead.

These fleets were divided into five branches, and judging from the flags hanging above and the insignia on the hull, they belonged to five different guilds.

Looking far into the distance from a high vantage point, a massive fleet was also anchored on the water's surface more than ten kilometers across from the fleet, with a total scale slightly inferior to this side.

Across this Cang River surface, which was more than ten kilometers away and a hundred kilometers wide, were countless naval forces.

They were all kinds of fish spirits, basically transformed and enlightened from various fish spirits in the Cang River. Their levels were at least above level fifty, with elites at level seventy. They were all standard templates, but coupled with the River God buff, the naval battle array, and everyone wielding a weapon, their combat power was far stronger than monsters of the same level.

The combat power of a level-fifty standard template naval force would not be inferior to a level-seventy standard template monster.

Among the naval forces stood naval generals whose levels exceeded one hundred.

The central commander at the very heart of the naval force was a blackfish spirit with a terrifying template and a level as high as 212. Its human form was over a hundred meters tall, holding a three-hundred-meter-tall giant halberd, clad in full armor, looking immensely majestic.

Beside the blackfish spirit was a heavily elite naval force, all above level eighty, with elite templates, equipped with various buff bonuses making their combat power extremely ferocious.

Accompanied by battle drums shaking the heavens, the two naval commanders raised their weapons and let out deafening roars. An invisible shockwave exploded and swept across, and Su Yu immediately discovered that a new buff had appeared on his body.

Commander Halo: Physique +100, Strength +100, Health Recovery +50, Mana/Demonic Qi Recovery +5, Speed +50 km/h.

The bonus was not huge, but acting upon the entire army, the comprehensive enhancement was quite substantial.

At the command of the two army commanders, the densely packed naval forces plunged into the water and charged toward the opposite side.

Viewed from high altitude, it was like two black lines spanning a hundred kilometers rapidly approaching each other.

"Bang!"

The two massive naval forces collided head-on like lines, and an invisible fluctuation swept across the battlefield like lightning. The intense impact caused everyone's breathing to stall, and then their blood boiled with passion.

"Kill!"

One naval general after another, over a hundred levels high, roared to boost morale and urged the naval forces to attack.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!!!"

Accompanied by the muffled beating of drums, the massive fleets anchored on the water's surface also began to slowly advance.

When they entered the attack range of the Divine Thunder Pagodas, they stopped. At the sound of various commands, numerous players gathered beside the Divine Thunder Pagodas and injected their mana. The mana extended along the formation patterns of the pagoda body to the pagoda spire, rapidly condensing a ball of boiling fierce flame divine thunder.

"Fire!"

Orb after orb of fierce flame divine thunder dragged long trails of fire, breaking through the air, crossing seven or eight kilometers to plunge into the water, and exploding violently.

A volley of over ten thousand fierce flame divine thunders bombarded down, and a water surface several kilometers wide and a hundred kilometers long instantly turned into a sea of fire. Countless naval forces were blown to smithereens.

However, the number of naval forces on both sides was simply too large, and the number of monsters in the river was inexhaustible, easily transforming into naval forces. Their numbers were probably in the millions, if not several millions. A single round of bombardment causing several thousand casualties was merely a drop in the bucket.

The fleets on both sides bombarded frantically and continuously. In just a few short minutes, the vast water surface had already turned into purgatory.

Su Yu clicked his tongue in the rear, shook his head, turned around, and dived to the bottom of the river.

The battlefield between the two sides was not limited to the river surface; the much broader space at the bottom of the river was the true main battlefield.

The vast majority of small squads or solo players fought at the bottom of the river, which allowed them to avoid being targeted and fire-focused by the Divine Thunder Pagodas.

Undercurrents surged at the bottom of the river, and millions of naval forces engaged in a chaotic melee and slaughter in this stretch of water.

Not long after the two sides clashed, all formations dissolved; they were intermingled, with friendly forces and enemy forces everywhere nearby.

Su Yu summoned the Nine-Aperture Treasure Bead to hover above his head, and deployed his two flying swords like flood dragons shuttling back and forth to slaughter frantically.

Ao Run originally wanted to charge deep into enemy lines, but was forcibly reined in near him.

There were simply too many bosses on the battlefield. If she stood out too much and was targeted and besieged by the enemy naval generals, it would be very easy to capsize.

The levels of naval generals ranged from over level one hundred to under level two hundred. However, level 199 was also above one hundred, encompassing newly breakthrough naval generals at just over level one hundred, as well as those at levels 180 or 190. A mere one or two of them coming over could cause disaster.

The water was densely packed with naval forces, all single-mindedly charging forward.

He and numerous players followed behind, letting these naval forces act as the vanguard, which was quite comfortable.

There was no need to worry about being ambushed. Although guilds and players from the opposing faction also joined, both sides maintained a tacit understanding to only farm monsters and reputation without engaging in PvP.

Aside from guilds, ordinary players had not the slightest interest in the outcome of the River God; they were all here for the experience buff and boss loot.

With no worries behind him, Su Yu farmed experience at lightning speed. Countless naval forces became ghosts under his sword.

Occasionally encountering a naval general, numerous surrounding players would swarm forward and forcibly surround and kill the boss before long.

With the second layer of Sword Driving a Thousand Miles, Su Yu could attack targets up to ten kilometers away. Seeing where a boss was being farmed, he would control his sword from afar to strike a few blows, and once the boss died, he would receive a share of the kill experience and cultivation points.

Although small, they accumulated into a large amount.

"Cold Chi Boss!"

A startled cry came from the distance, and Su Yu immediately looked over, only to see a cold wave surging like a tide, freezing the river water wherever it passed.

"Bang!"

The frozen river water burst open, and a Chi dragon—over two hundred meters long with a body like a flood dragon, a pair of blue-glowing dragon horns on its head, blue-glowing dragon whiskers hanging from its lower jaw, and wings growing on its back—rushed out.

Cold Chi (Terrifying): Boss, Level 168, Aqua Tribe, Dragon Subclass.

Attributes: Health 560,000, Demonic Qi 220,000, Attack Power 38,000, Speed 1,400 km/h, Demonic Arts: Various Water-Type Spells, Ice-Soul Divine Thunder, Zi-Wu Cold Tide Prohibition.

"Zi-Wu Cold Tide!"

The Cold Chi opened its mouth and spat again. Another even more massive wave of cold Qi exploded like a tidal wave, freezing a large area of water and trapping a dozen players and hundreds of naval forces within it.

The thick Chi dragon tail slammed into the ice cubes, and a terrifying damage figure as high as 50,000 popped up above the heads of all the naval forces and players.

Players and naval forces whose defensive magic treasures were lower than tier six were shattered into pieces along with the ice blocks.

"So strong!"

Su Yu was hesitating whether to temporarily avoid the sharp edge, but Ao Run, who had been guarding near him all along, suddenly straightened her head, her eyes shining as she shouted:

"Cover me, I'm going to eat it!"

With that, she swung her dragon tail and rushed forward, spitting a breath far away toward the Chi dragon.

"Hey!"

Su Yu was caught off guard, but it was already too late to recall her, as the Chi dragon had already locked onto Ao Run and lunged forward.

"Bang!"

Two behemoths collided with each other, an invisible shockwave exploded, and the surrounding fragmented ice shattered inch by inch.

In terms of level and template, Ao Run was no match for this blue Chi. Even with the powerful mana blessing of the 130-layer Azure Underworld Divine Breath Art, she was still no match for this Chi dragon, falling into a disadvantage the moment they crossed blows.

"You reckless girl! You're courting death."

Su Yu was completely speechless. This wasn't how one should court danger; their levels and templates were already a tier apart, what gave her the confidence to charge in?

But it was already too late to say these things now; they were already fighting.

Within just a few seconds of his speechlessness, the blue Chi had completely suppressed the blue flood dragon, flaring its wings to spew cold Qi frantically, while opening its mouth to spit out its inner core, which slammed toward the flood dragon wrapped in fierce cold Qi.

Although Ao Run was suppressed, she showed not a shred of weakness, also spitting out her blue dragon pearl to meet it.

"Rumble!"

A violent impact exploded, instantly rushing two to three kilometers away.

"Truly ferocious!"

The Chi and the flood dragon had fought themselves into a true fury, driving their inner cores and dragon pearls to clash madly. The violent impact mixed with fierce cold Qi continuously exploded, and the surrounding water kept freezing and shattering.

Many players were attracted by the boss, but none could intervene for the time being.

Su Yu had been paying attention to Ao Run's health. At this time, after months of frantic leveling, her level had risen to 131, and her health was as high as 2.98 million. Having tangled with this Chi dragon for four or five minutes, her health had dropped by 900,000, leaving her with just over two million.

However, this blue Chi's total health was as high as 5.6 million. At this moment, its lost health had just exceeded 500,000, leaving 5.1 million, holding a massive advantage.

"Who told me to be your master."

Su Yu let out a long breath and sent a voice transmission to Ao Run:

"Don't make the commotion too big, otherwise I won't be able to help you."

A dozen seconds later, the violent shockwave suddenly disappeared, and the water gradually became clear, revealing that the flood dragon and the Chi were still biting each other and spewing cold Qi, locked in a mass. The blue flood dragon was completely suppressed, covered in bite marks, with large chunks of flesh bitten off in several places, and broken dragon scales and pits everywhere—a truly miserable sight.

Meanwhile, the Chi dragon's inner core and the dragon pearl were no longer colliding; instead, they were entangled together, one spewing cold core energy, the other spewing blue wave light, hovering above the heads of the flood dragon and the Chi, fighting frantically against each other.

Su Yu immediately hoisted the Hiding Sun Blue Sparrow, which pierced through the air straight toward the battlefield. A cold flash brushed past the blue Chi's back, kicking up two clusters of blood spray.

At this moment, Ao Run was already locked in close combat with the Chi dragon, leaving no space for him to control his sword to loop around and cut.

The moment he struck, the hundreds of players gathered around all hoisted their flying swords and magic treasures, swarming forward together, and dense damages instantly erupted across the Chi dragon's body.

Although the Chi dragon's defense was exceptionally high, most players could break through its defense, and their output was quite considerable when accumulated.

With numerous players assisting, the blue Chi was forced to spare effort for defense, and the suppression was no longer as severe.

However, Ao Run did not seize the opportunity to break away; instead, she took the chance to bite down fiercely on the Chi dragon's neck.