Zhang Chen walked for fifteen minutes and suddenly stopped, because he found a big surprise on the water surface ahead: a skill!
A sphere the size of a basketball, shimmering with a pale blue light, like observing Earth from the starlit sky, stood out in this golden world.
Zhang Chen maneuvered the ice boat cautiously to the sphere of skills, stopping the boat. At this moment, the Fox Spirit was darting around the surface, astonished: "Why did you stop? Did you find the entrance to the Dragon Palace? But why didn’t I sense the Dragon Palace’s location?"
The Fox Spirit walked three meters in front of Zhang Chen, suddenly became weak-footed, and let out a cry for help: "Help me quickly!"
Then the Fox Spirit unexpectedly sank directly from the water surface, as if the water lost its buoyancy and could not support the spirit of the Fox Spirit.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Chen’s face turned abruptly, and a rune shimmered in his hand. In the next moment, the rune transformed the Fox Spirit, placing it next to Zhang Chen, who looked at the calm water ahead with lingering fears.
"What’s happening?" Zhang Chen asked the Fox Spirit, showing a hint of caution in his eyes.
Just now, nothing seemed unusual in his Dharma Eye!
"Weak Water! Ahead is the legendary Weak Water!" The Fox Spirit’s eyes were full of horror: "As expected of the legendary True Dragon, whose divine techniques are earth-shattering, it actually evolved the Law of Weak Water."
"Weak Water?" Zhang Chen looked at the Fox Spirit.
"In Weak Water, there is no support whatsoever; even a feather would sink directly into it. This water would drown even a passing soul, and if not for your rescue, I would have been eternally trapped."
The Fox Spirit gazed at the unbroken flow of water with a look of terror in her eyes.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen’s expression changed; even the Power of the Soul cannot be supported, how could one possibly pass through?
Zhang Chen turned his gaze to the blue light sphere not far away, and recalling the Fox Spirit’s words, a notion suddenly popped up in his mind: "Could this skill be related to Weak Water? If so, I may have hit the jackpot."
Meanwhile, the Fox Spirit was anxious: "What do we do now? There’s a Drowning River in the way; how do we get past it?"
Zhang Chen ignored the Fox Spirit’s words and looked at the azure light sphere. Suddenly, the Golden Finger Interface popped up:
[A skill has been found, would you like to pick it up?]
"Pick it up!"
Zhang Chen responded without hesitation.
As Zhang Chen’s words fell, the blue light sphere flickered, and Zhang Chen’s Water Control Technique underwent a change:
[4 skills (second tier): Water Control Technique + Weak Water (0/100000)]
[Note 1: The host can temporarily transform the water they control into Weak Water. Once control is lost, it will revert to ordinary water.]
"How interesting!" Zhang Chen’s eyes lit up upon reading the skill description:
"All water under my control can transform into Weak Water; I wonder if it can drown a Yang God."
Zhang Chen then turned his head towards the Fox Spirit and asked, "Do you think Weak Water can drown a Yang God?"
"What are you thinking? Weak Water indeed cannot support the weight of souls, but the weight is essentially caused by the Yin Qi within the soul; and those at the Yang God level have already refined away the Yin Qi in their souls. Their souls are Pure Yang, capable of traveling as light; how could Weak Water drown weightless light?"
The Fox Spirit explained.
"Of course, if a Yang God’s physical body falls into Weak Water, retrieving it would be troublesome." The Fox Spirit added.
At this point, Zhang Chen’s eyes gleamed, his eyes like stars in the sky, and his voice trembled slightly: "I mean, if I master Weak Water and have a ninth-level entity not at the Yang God stage sink its physical body into Weak Water, what will happen?"
"What will happen? He would curse your ancestors!" The Fox Spirit snapped.
Hearing the Fox Spirit’s words, Zhang Chen was immediately intrigued; he seemed to have realized a potential method for dealing with those masters. Despite being unable to deal with Yang Gods, he could manage those anomalies, right?
"Do you think a ninth-level anomaly can withstand the power of Weak Water?" Zhang Chen asked.
"It probably can, otherwise how would the Dragon Seed pass through Weak Water?" the Fox Spirit replied.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen’s excitement was like being drenched with a bucket of cold water, calming him down immediately. He then steered the river’s undercurrent and rowed the ice ship forward.
"Hey...! What are you doing! Stop! The Drowning River is right ahead; do you want to die?" The Fox Spirit exclaimed with urgency seeing Zhang Chen row toward Weak Water.
Yet, as the ice ship entered Weak Water and did not sink, the Fox Spirit was wide-eyed, filled with disbelief, "Impossible! How is this possible!"
"You actually can grasp the power of Weak Water? This shouldn’t be possible!" The Fox Spirit’s voice echoed disbelief: "Does this mean you’ve acquired the True Dragon Destiny, granting immunity to Weak Water? But even so, how is this possible?"
Zhang Chen didn’t answer the Fox Spirit but instead maneuvered the ice boat, attempting to communicate with the Weak Water beneath. As he expected, he could indeed control all Weak Water within fifty meters under his feet.
In his perception, Weak Water was like still dead water, lying silently without any flow, waiting for someone to fall in and drown.
The Drowning River was not wide, only thirty meters, and after crossing the Weak Water, Zhang Chen suddenly encountered a palace ahead. It was half submerged in water, half floating on the water surface.
The palace was entirely constructed from crystal, emitting a faint glow, looking magnificent and resembling a perfect artwork.
"True Dragons have the ability to transform everything into crystal!" The Fox Spirit watched the distant Crystal Palace and suddenly realized: "I’ve been wondering where Prince Pingbian found a crystal coffin; turns out he obtained it from the Dragon Palace, what a great fortune."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen understood, acknowledging Prince Pingbian’s great fortune, otherwise how would he have detected the Ancient True Dragon’s tomb?
"Dragon Qi is gathered here, and the water cloud aura is converging; Prince Pingbian must be hibernating here for Dragon Transformation." Fox Fairy Nannan added.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen also felt a bit tense, after all, he faced a ninth-level old guy, and a single oversight could be fatal.
His only method for dealing with that ninth-level Yang God was to mark its soul, and at the critical moment pull its soul out, causing it to fail in Dragon Transformation, allowing him to seize the opportunity to devour its body.
However, everything depended on the premise that he wasn’t discovered before the opponent transformed or emerged from the coffin.
Fortunately, Zhang Chen had mastered Blood Control Technique, able to halt his heartbeat, pretending to be dead was still within reach.
"Are you really sure about this? Once discovered, our hidden operation will fail, not only you will die, but the ancestor I represent will die with you!" The Fox Spirit looked at Zhang Chen with shining eyes.
"At the critical moment, regrets are pointless." Zhang Chen chuckled, steering the small boat closer to the Crystal Palace, while his body’s blood flow rate gradually slowed, even the sound of his heartbeat was beginning to cease.
"Splash~"
As Zhang Chen rowed the ice ship closer to the Crystal Palace, suddenly a strange sound came from the top of the cave, followed by a black shadow plummeting from the cave top, causing a splash several meters high.
"Watch out!" The Fox Spirit shouted.
"What is that!!"
Zhang Chen stared at the object falling into the river ahead, feeling his scalp tingling, his body trembling uncontrollably, and his eyes filled with astonishment.