Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 689 Infinite Water, Man in the Mist

Outside Dazhou City, Cao Cao's army's continuous camps were built along the mountainside.

However, today, the military camp, which should have been conducting drills and patrols, was eerily silent.

Tens of thousands of eyes, from soldiers to generals, and even Cao Cao himself in front of the central command tent, were all drawn together by invisible threads, gazing at the vast sky directly in front of the Great Porridge City.

Under the azure sky, a tiny yet clearly visible regular cube, an ordinary "block of dirt," hangs suspended high in the air, defying all logic.

At the top of that block of earth, a stream of water was pouring down continuously.

Without a source or any support, the water seemed to arise out of thin air, defying all the laws governing water flow.

It was crystal clear, like a ribbon hanging from the sky, and the sound of the rushing water, even from such a distance, was clearly carried by the wind to the ears of everyone in Cao Cao's camp.

The water flow crashes against the invisible barrier, but the moment it touches the "ground," it seems to be held up and smoothed by an invisible giant hand. Instead of scattering and flowing away, or converging into a river, it forms a "waterfall" that flows continuously yet exists eternally in the air beneath the soil clods—a visual spectacle that is still in the midst of movement and subverts common sense.

"God! A miracle?" a lieutenant muttered to himself, his sword slipping from his hand and falling to the ground with a soft clatter.

The strategists looked at each other, their feather fans forgotten to be waved, their mouths agape for a long time.

In an attempt to find the flaws in the "sorcery," they discovered that the water flow violated the fundamental principle that "every source has a root."

Cao Cao leaned against the wooden railing in front of his tent, his sharp eagle eyes fixed on the suspended clods of earth and the inexhaustible flow of water, a tidal wave of emotions surging within him.

The heroic spirit of clashing swords and strategizing was replaced at this moment by a sense of powerlessness that felt almost insignificant.

He had seen clones created from beans, and he had seen demons that could destroy the heavens and the earth, but this act of "one piece of earth giving birth to ten thousand waters," which defied the laws of nature, made his soul tremble more than any direct force.

There is porridge and water.

Comprehensive resolution of livelihood issues
Is there any chance of winning this?
At this very moment, two consciousnesses spanning different worlds are resonating across time and space.

Fang Yu from the Three Kingdoms was so excited that his voice trembled: "That water flow! My God, this 'Infinite Water' you have is simply a stroke of genius, turning stone into gold! My Great Porridge City is backed by poor mountains and steep ridges, without a great river flowing through it. Originally, water was our biggest weakness. The people's drinking water and the irrigation of the farmland were both a struggle! Now we have it!"

His spirits were filled with boundless anticipation for the future: "Where will we ever have to worry about water again? With this inexhaustible divine water, the wasteland outside the city will become fertile fields! We'll have ditches and paddy fields wherever we need them! In time, even though our Great Zhou is located in the inland Central Plains, we'll have a vast 'sea' of blue waves! There is no better foundation for people's livelihood than this! This is truly a national treasure!"

Fang Yu, with a hint of self-satisfaction and pride in the rules of his world, said, "Hehe, didn't I tell you? The rules here are anything but trash! They're the fundamental laws of the world! Want to create an ocean like this? It's incredibly easy!"

A relaxed thought emanated from his mind: "You don't need the source of the ocean at all. You just need to find four empty spaces, precisely pour four buckets of water into the four corners, and that's it! Instantly, a water source core that never dries up and expands eternally is formed. As for the rest, let it flow away on its own! That's the power of rules!"

Inside the Great Congee City, the people had already begun to worship the miraculous water curtain in the sky, their cheers resounding through the heavens.

Fang Yu from the Three Kingdoms period didn't forget to remind Fang Kuai Fang Yu, "Don't forget your animal husbandry skills!"

"Okay, once I get a few more pigs and chickens and figure out how to raise animals, then our Da Zhou will have nothing to worry about."

"Ok!"

The light of day faded away silently, as if an invisible hand had slowly drawn a curtain.

Outside the window of the seaside villa, the last pixelated rays of sunset sank into the inky black sea, and the surroundings were quickly swallowed up by an impenetrable darkness.

Fang Yu lay on the hard, unyielding stone floor (the bed hadn't been made yet), facing the huge glass window.

Outside the window, there was endless darkness, with only a faint moonlight reflecting off the distant water, barely outlining the blurry pixelated boundary where the sea and sky met.

The reason for not setting up many torches was not out of fear that the darkness would attract monsters.

I simply feel that my painstakingly built "seaside villa" is really going to be filled with flickering "candle" lights on a desolate beach.
Ugh, just imagining that scene is like watching a funeral procession at the Taj Mahal, it's creepy!
"Finally, I can get a good night's sleep."

Sleepiness was just beginning to blur the edges of my vision.
hum!
A sharp, cold, and intensely spatially distorting malice pierced his mental network's perception range without warning!

"!"

Fang Yu suddenly opened his eyes!

Beside the bed! Just inches away from him!

A humanoid silhouette, composed entirely of darkness and with its edges writhing, crouched there silently!
It ignored the warnings of the five Devil Fruit users outside, the Earth Grudge Fear, the solid stone structure of the villa walls, and even the boundaries of the space itself!

Just like that! Directly! Instantly! Appeared inside the house!

"Little Black?" The image of that purple, square-faced creature that could teleport instantly flashed through Fang Yu's mind.

But the next second, his gaze caught the outline of the dark figure where the head should have been.

There are no eyes there.

All of them were exposed teeth.
"The man in the mist?!"

A powerful sense of "I see" struck me like lightning!

Blood Moon, and now the Man in the Mist!
This world is not just a single horror mod with "Blood Moon/Mutant Zombies"!

Damn it! It's a multi-layered pack with an extremely insane level of difficulty!
Is this some kind of cult?!

In the blink of an eye, any nonsense is superfluous!

Om-!
Fang Yu’s right palm, which was resting on the floor beside him, suddenly burst out with a dazzling light!
A highly condensed, violently spinning Rasengan was formed almost the instant the thought arose!
Without the slightest hesitation, fueled by the anger of being disturbed by the night attack and the ruthlessness in the face of the unknown threat, Fang Yu swung the Rasengan and fiercely hurled it at the writhing humanoid darkness beside the bed!

"piss off!"

Bang - boom! ! !

The violent spiraling power clashed head-on with the pure darkness!
The expected scene of blood and gore did not occur.

At the moment of the energy burst, the crouching figure in the fog flickered and distorted violently, like a television screen with a poor signal!
puff!

The Rasengan's penetrating power clearly tore through part of its body, and some tiny, data-stream-like black fragments seemed to explode in the darkness, but the more surging energy was avoided at the last second by its strange teleportation ability.

It vanished from the spot a millisecond before the Rasengan exploded completely!
"Want to run?!"

Fang Yu's anger intensified. He had finally encountered a mysterious creature that could walk through walls. If he didn't expose it thoroughly, how could he justify this extremely difficult survival experience?
With a low shout, blinding lightning instantly enveloped his entire body!
Sizzle—Boom!

Within the confined space of the villa, two beings, equally disregarding the rules of space, instantly engaged in a dazzling chase!
One was pure, humanoid darkness, with an electronic buzzing sound that flickered erratically throughout the room, like a faulty light bulb.

The other is a blazing bolt of lightning, like a tracking lightning bolt, which appears precisely near the location where the person in the mist will reappear the moment they disappear, and a fist or Rasengan flashing with lightning relentlessly bombards it!

Bang! Sizzle! Bang! Buzzing—!
The sounds of earth and rocks collapsing, the muffled booms of energy explosions, and the humming of space distortion intertwined!
Lightning bolts chased the black mist from the first-floor living room all the way to the wooden-floor balcony on the second floor! The sturdy spruce planks, unable to withstand the continuous impact, cracked!

In just a few breaths, the interior of this newly completed seaside villa, which had taken a whole night of painstaking effort, had become a complete mess under the high-frequency teleportation chase of the two! It looked as if it had just been visited by a demolition team!

"Damn it! My new house!"

Fang Yu's heart ached so much that his eyes twitched, compounded by both old and new grudges! Just then, the man in the mist clearly realized that the "hunting ground" inside the house was more advantageous to the lightning behind him. It feinted for a moment, and its body disappeared into thin air in front of the second-floor balcony railing!

The next second, its figure appeared dozens of meters away on the cold beach outside the villa! The dark figure looked unusually out of place under the pixelated moonlight, and also carried a hint of being relentlessly pursued.

"You son of a bitch! Stop right there!"

Without hesitation, Fang Yu unleashed another burst of lightning around him!
He transformed into a bolt of lightning that tore through the night sky, following closely behind the massive, dark experience pack, and burst out of his house, rushing into the desolate beach bathed in moonlight!

The waves monotonously wash over the square pebbles on the shore.

Inside and outside the house, only five Earth Grudge Guardians wearing masks of various colors remained, looking at each other in the dim corner, silently repairing the broken walls and floors.

At this moment, Fang Yu's goal was extremely clear.

He wanted to see what would drop after killing the man in the mist.
(End of this chapter)