Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 1057 The End of the Huai River Situation

"Lord Huai, it's over." Princess Longji's voice rose leisurely.

Meanwhile, in the Huai River, the countless dragon gods had fallen into an uncontrollable frenzy.

Yinglong!

Yinglong!
For the dragon race, the existence of Yinglong is a taboo—this war god of the dragon race personally brought the dragon race down to the dust.

Even though it was taboo, the younger generation of the dragon clan still secretly worshipped Yinglong's existence and followed in his footsteps—after all, he was the Great Luo who belonged to the dragon clan itself.

Similarly, countless dragons, especially the newborn descendants after the dragon race rectified its chaos, have had this dream more than once.

In my dream, Yinglong, who had abandoned the Dragon Clan, returned to the Dragon Clan and, together with Ao Bing, the supreme ruler of the Dragon Clan, led the Dragon Clan to dominate the world.

And now, the dream that dared not be spoken has become more real than ever before before these countless dragon gods!
One can only imagine how fanatical these dragon gods must be at this moment!

Meanwhile, the Buddhist disciples in the human world were plunged into unprecedented panic.

In the Buddhist system, the Buddha is the supreme being. Subhuti is revered in Buddhism only as the 'Buddha's Mother,' not as a saint.

In the Buddhist system, the existence of the Buddha is almost preordained. For ordinary Buddhist disciples, being revered as a Bodhisattva is already the highest achievement they can imagine...

Therefore, it is conceivable what kind of shock this Arhat who subdued the dragon had brought to the Buddhist disciples in the human world, who first became a Buddha and then, as a Buddha, was crushed to death by Yinglong with a single claw.

If the Arhat who subdued the dragon were to transform into the Buddha, this would be a dream that countless Buddhist disciples dared not imagine, yet it has become reality.

The fall of the Buddha who subdues dragons caused this newly manifested dream to completely collapse!

Buddha!
That Supreme Awakened One.

That being can cleanse people of their sins, eliminate their karma, and even deliver them from the sea of ​​suffering.

Such an existence was crushed to death with a single claw right before everyone's eyes!

Before this, a Buddha named Cien Guangwang had already passed away in the human realm—but the passing of Cien Guangwang Buddha did not occur before the eyes of sentient beings.

These countless sentient beings, these countless Buddhist disciples, only know that the Buddha of Compassionate Light has passed away, but they do not know why he passed away.

Therefore, although the passing of the Buddha Ci'en Guangwang caused a considerable impact in the Great Thunder Temple, it did not cause any incredible waves in the human world.

But at this moment, the fall of the Buddha who subdues dragons happened right before the eyes of all the Buddhist disciples in this world!
Before all Buddhist disciples, he attained the highest position in Buddhism and became a Buddha.

Then, in front of all these Buddhist disciples, he was crushed to death by Yinglong with a single claw.

During this process, Yinglong did not even reveal his true form.

The process of suppressing and killing the Dragon-Subduing Buddha was characterized by ease and grace, and by composure and ease.

It fully demonstrates the power of the dragon race while making Buddhism appear incredibly weak in comparison.

Buddha!
The most supreme being in Buddhism was swatted to death like a mosquito.

How weak! How fragile!
If a Buddha cannot even protect himself, how can he save all sentient beings?

What qualifications does he have to save all living beings?
At this moment, all the Buddhist disciples who pursued supernatural powers, all the practitioners of Buddhism, were bewildered.

Even the Buddha could not protect himself... So what about these ordinary Buddhist disciples who practice Buddhism and cultivate supernatural powers?

In that instant, the very foundation of that 'supernatural power and Buddhist teachings' almost completely collapsed.

The waves of the Huai River, under the control of the dragon gods, spread in all directions.

The dragon gods who were converted by Buddhism broke free from the control of the Buddhist light and regained their freedom under the shackles of Buddhist teachings.

At the same time, as the waves of the Huai River swept across the land, the water veins that originally belonged to the dragon race, were controlled by the dragon gods, and were later seized by the Buddhist sect, returned to the hands of the dragon race at this moment.

In that instant, the entire water system of the human world was completely overturned.

Meanwhile, in the upper reaches of the Huai River, the immortals and gods of the Huai Alliance were in a state of even greater fear than the Buddhist disciples.

In their minds, their only enemy from beginning to end was Ao Bing.

This single enemy alone has exhausted their mental and physical strength, pushing them to the limit of their endurance.

Now, in addition to Ao Bing, Ying Long has made a move—what does this mean?
This means that the immortals and gods of the Huai Alliance lineage, the water gods of the upper reaches of the Huai River, have an additional enemy besides the ordinary dragon gods and Ao Bing: Yinglong!
One, Yinglong, could easily crush a Great Buddha!
If Ao Bing's strength is a mystery—countless people in the world know of Ao Bing's 'power,' but they don't have a concrete concept of how powerful he is.

But Yinglong's power is an extremely direct and undeniable power that exists both in mythology and in reality!
When facing Ao Bing, the immortals and gods of the Huai Alliance could use many excuses to convince themselves, such as Ao Bing's strength not being as formidable as imagined... or that as the Great Dragon God who upholds Heaven and righteousness, it wasn't so convenient for Ao Bing to take action, and so on...

Ke Yinglong...

As a supreme expert who has been in seclusion for 500,000 years, Yinglong's actions do not face the same level of controversy and restrictions as Ao Bing's!

More importantly, the Huai River itself is one of the legends created by Yinglong!

Yinglong is going to pacify the Huai River and bring it under control. In the world, apart from the Huai River Lord who has also disappeared to some unknown place, who else can stop him?

Who else would dare to stop him?
The dissipating Buddhist light not only shattered the minds of many Buddhist disciples, but also terrified the water gods of the Huai Alliance.

This caused Lord Huai to completely lose his spirit.

For this Lord Huai, cooperating with Buddhism, using its power to drive away the Dragon Pearl Dragon Huai River, then occupying the Huai River, and using its authority to directly ascend to the Great Luo realm and become an existence comparable to a great supernatural being—this was the final outburst of his ambition.

But at this moment, the Buddha's light that dissipated in the wind and rain had already shattered his last bit of spirit.

"We lost." Huai Jun glanced at the Huai River.

Upstream, amidst the waves of the Huai River, the aura of one water god after another dissipated, and water veins and other features appeared in the perception of the Lord of Huai.

Many years ago, when the Lord of Huai unified the Huai Alliance, he seized the 'name' of the upper reaches of the Huai River—but the 'real' of the upper reaches of the Huai River has always been controlled by those water gods and those sects.

Lord Huai, by leveraging the power of various sects and water gods, could unite the forces of the upper reaches of the Huai River to influence its waterways and weather—but he struggled to directly control the various water veins and outlets, to truly grasp control of the upper reaches of the Huai River and make it his own. For countless millennia, Lord Huai and the other immortals and gods of the Huai Alliance had engaged in countless open and covert struggles for the name and reality of the Huai River.

—To this day, the 'real' waters of the Huai River are the water gods and the 'deadline' of those sects; they will not yield an inch if touched.

Even before, when the monk Xuanzang arrived at the Huai River and the conflict between the Dragon Court and the Huai Alliance erupted, the water gods of the Huai Alliance showed no intention of relinquishing the 'real' Huai River in order to increase the strength of the Huai Lord and thus increase their chances of winning the battle.

And now... after Yinglong made his move, those water gods in the Huai Alliance who were previously willing to die rather than give up the Huai River and were unwilling to relinquish the various water eyes and water veins, suddenly severed their connections with the water eyes and water veins one by one, allowing the water eyes, water veins, tributaries, and so on in the upper reaches of the Huai River to gather on Huai Jun.

At this moment, what Lord Huai had longed for finally fell into his hands.

The upper reaches of the Huai River, half of the Huai River, were completely under his control—with just a thought, he could tear this half of the Huai River apart, splitting it in two.

At this moment, his strength also reached a new level, almost reaching the threshold of the Great Luo realm in a true sense.

Even when he looked up, he could clearly see the existence of the 'ceiling'—that is, the golden book of faith that lay between heaven and earth.

However, although his own strength has improved to a new level... at this moment, the strength that Huai Jun can exert is no longer as great as before!
Previously, he joined forces with the Buddhist sect to try to break through the storm of the Dragon Clan—at that time, the strength he displayed could be said to have completely surpassed the upper limit of the Taiyi realm.

But at this moment, his own strength had surpassed the upper limit of Taiyi, reaching a level between Taiyi and Daluo...

However, the strength he could unleash could no longer surpass the limits of Taiyi, and was instead confined to the realm of Taiyi...

He was well aware of the reasons behind this.

There are two reasons.

First, there was the terrifying strength that Yinglong displayed.

Secondly, there was the Great Dragon God who sat high on the Execution Platform, upholding the principles of Heaven and Righteousness.

He sat upright in the sky, seemingly doing nothing and unable to do anything... But when Yinglong took action before the Heavenly Court, sweeping everything away with an air of 'waiting for a long time', it gave the seemingly incompetent Great Dragon God a sense of 'unfathomable strategy' pressure.

In terms of strength, we can't compete.

You can't outsmart someone with cunning.

The involvement of Buddhism—even events like the subduing of dragons and their ascension to the Great Luo realm—seemed to be entirely within the expectations of the Great Dragon God who upholds Heaven and Righteousness, and had no impact on him whatsoever.

Only Huai Jun, who faced all of this, truly understood the magnitude and despair of such a shadow.

He looked around—the wind and rain had subsided, and so had the Buddha's light.

The world was crystal clear.

But the shadow cast by the righteous dragon god in the heavens seemed to fill every gap between the clear, flowing light, leaving no hope in sight...

In such despair, even though he was only half a step away from the Great Luo, Huai Jun did not have the will to take that half step.

Even if it makes Ronaldo great, what difference does it make?
Can they escape the snare of the great dragon god who upholds justice and righteousness in the heavens?
Can't escape!
If that's the case, then what's the point of making Luo Yonghao (the Great Luo)?
"We lost!" Huai Jun said again, his words filled with regret.

He looked at Princess Longji, who was standing not far away on the lower reaches of the Huai River.

It was only then that he realized a fact.

Since taking control of the upper reaches of the Huai River, he has always regarded Ao Bing, the Great Dragon God of Heaven and Righteousness, as his rival.

—But in reality, the one who truly stayed in the Huai River to fight against him was never Ao Bing.

It was Princess Longji.

The Dragon Queen of the Huai River Dragon Court.

As for Ao Bing—the former governor of the four rivers and the ruler of the Huai River… his gaze never seemed to fall upon the Huai River, much less upon him, the ruler of the Huai River!

"So, it turns out I didn't even see who my opponent was," Huai Jun said with a bitter smile.

In the Huai River, he never looked directly at the dragon gods of the Huai River, nor did he ever look directly at Princess Longji, the dragon queen.

But now he realizes that these beings he had never faced before are his true adversaries.

He had always regarded Ao Bing as an enemy... but in reality, he had never had the right to appear before Ao Bing.

"Lord Hongluan, please."

Lord Huai raised his eyes and looked at Princess Longji downstream. With a wave of his hand, the power over half of the Huai River transformed into a heavy halberd. Then, he stepped on the waves and charged towards Princess Longji.

This is his true opponent.

When the halberd came crashing down, the endless waves of the upper reaches of the Huai River surged down, as if to completely submerge and swallow the lower reaches of the Huai River.

In this struggle between waterways, the upstream has a natural advantage over the downstream.

"If you have no fighting spirit, why bother taking action?" Amidst this seemingly overwhelming and imposing battle, Princess Longji simply shook her head and sighed.

In his hand, the flag gate unfolded.

Her figure then disappeared into the gate.

In the next instant, Huai Jun stepped into the lower reaches of the Huai River for the first time.

Princess Longji's hidden figure also reappeared at this moment.

Along with Princess Longji's figure, a sword light also appeared.

At this moment, both outside and inside the Huai River, the many immortals and gods suddenly remembered that Princess Longji, who had been involved on the banks of the Huai River for many years, was also a master of swordsmanship.

(End of this chapter)