On the Yuan Cang River, the waves temporarily calmed.

Chen Xu grabbed the pair of dragon horns of the strange fish without hesitation and, holding the Wu Hook, swiftly sliced towards the fish's belly!

Swish, the crimson blood flowed abundantly.

What was Chen Xu about to do?

He was, of course, going to kill the fish.

Then fry, stir-fry, stew, boil, deep-fry... to make a whole fish feast.

"Ah!" In the cage, Lady Xie let out a heart-wrenching scream.

She suddenly rushed towards the cage bars, screaming and cursing furiously:

"You brat! Wicked thief, how dare you bully me like this? As a dignified master, relying on your cultivation, you do not go to kill those corrupt officials, yet you want to kill my poor child!

My child, since he was born, has never tasted a single grain of rice in this world, nor enjoyed a day of human happiness.

Do you know how he struggled to survive until he had the chance to transform into a dragon today?

Ah, ah, ah! I hate, I hate so much—"

The hatred surged to the heavens.

Three thousand white hairs behind her floated hideously, with each tip seeming to embed a ghostly face.

All the ghostly faces murmured in anger, buzzing loudly—

No clear words were spoken, yet the entire sky seemed to tremble along with it.

Then, the earth began to shake.

The whole Pingyang City seemed about to collapse along with Lady Xie's cries and wails.

In the distance, how could the citizens on the rooftops have ever seen such an earth-shattering battle and magic?

People were stunned once again.

As the earth shook, houses in various places also trembled along.

Some clung to the protrusions on the roof ridge, unwilling to escape or dodge, only quickly craning their necks, widening their eyes to continue watching into the distance.

Afraid of missing the exciting parts with just a blink.

But everything changed so quickly.

As fast as a rabbit rising, a sparrow falling, as fleeting as a white steed's shadow across a crack.

Lady Xie's cursing was met with a sigh from Wen Daoyuan.

This great scholar still wielded his Fighting Brush, this time with dark golden ink falling like stars, swiftly passing through the gaps of the golden cage, suddenly pointing at Lady Xie's brow.

In the distance, most citizens actually couldn't understand the true crux of the battle before them.

They only saw Lady Xie cursing loudly, with heaven shaking and earth moving.

Then saw the elder with the stately hat holding a brush, one point, and the three thousand white-haired, ghostly Lady Xie suddenly fell silent.

In that instant, all the shaking subsided completely.

The previous shaking of heaven and earth seemed merely an illusion.

The Fighting Brush sealed everything.

Wen Daoyuan again used Vast Qi to subdue Lady Xie, the golden cage couldn't fully trap her, but that drop of ink rendered all her struggles futile.

From afar, the people only heard as Wen Daoyuan pointed with the Fighting Brush, his voice rising in a grand chant:

"Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe vast and wild.

Yin and yang in endlessness, life and death are but this.

Lady Xie, do not argue anymore. Every grievance has a source, every debt a master, searching the wrong master is all a mistake.

If you remain stubborn, I will have no choice but to fight fire with fire."

Lady Xie was frozen in the cage—

In truth, it's hard to say if she was still human now.

In the past, she seemed not to have died, and now she still seemed to retain human aura.

Yet, ghostly qi surrounded her all the same.

And just as Wen Daoyuan fixed her in place with that drop of ink, all her white hair fluttered in the air, in a blink of an eye, igniting on its own.

Sizzle, sizzle!

Black smoke rose directly.

Lady Xie's whole body stiffened, only her face twitched frantically, with black bloody tears flowing unceasingly from her eyes.

In the distance, on the roof of East City School, students like Yu Zhi could not help but voice their questions:

"Is this Lady Xie a human or a ghost? Her appearance is truly terrifying."

Some students boldly praised: "Good! This woman was so perverse, causing great disasters, killing the people of a city, a place, a prefecture... even within a thousand li of where the Yuan Cang River flows.

What great grievance does she have to want all the Celestial South Dao's citizens to be buried with her!

If our Pingyang Prefecture were completely swallowed by flood today, wouldn't the people who die in the rushing flood be more wronged than Lady Xie, be more innocent than Lady Xie?"

At this point, recalling the many people who had already died in the torrential rain and floods earlier.

Among them were familiar family and old friends, and strangers once brushed past on the streets;

There were also many children and youths who once played and quarreled around the school;

Also, countless many whose identities and positions could not be seen, but who must have been vibrant once, all perished...

The speaking student couldn't help but feel sadness arise, hate surging from within.

They saw in the distant sky's cage, Lady Xie convulsing, her long white hair burned away completely.

Then, tiny black flames began dotting her body, igniting slowly.

Lady Xie was in so much pain that she lost her voice, no longer able to stop Chen Xu from handling the strange fish in his hands.

In truth, with everyone's eye power, it was basically impossible to clearly see the details of everything changing in the distant sky.

But the miraculous thing was, after Lady Xie was locked into the golden cage by Wen Daoyuan, everything in the cage suddenly became clear in everyone's view.

Whether the observer was near or far, it was as if they were looking into a mirror.

This is naturally Wen Daoyuan deploying his methods, known as the "Mirror of the Sun".

Under the sunlight, lock the target into a cage, to judge it by the heavens and the sun.

Please, all beings, observe the punishment and question together!

For instance, at this very moment, Lady Xie is in the cage. If the citizens of Pingyang City watching the punishment feel no judgment but only pity for her, then even though she's locked in the cage, she won't be greatly harmed.

But if the suffering citizens harbor hatred and anger, criticism and resentment towards Lady Xie at this moment.

Then the power of all judgment will gather invisibly and transform into the will of heaven, rushing towards Lady Xie.

It is predictable, even though Wen Daoyuan himself has profound cultivation, how could his strength alone compare to the power of millions of people?

Gathering the will of a city's people to judge an opponent, this is the method of a great scholar!

All these words seem lengthy, but in reality, they all happen in a flash.

Chen Xu lifted his knife and slashed, slicing open the fish belly.

The gushing blood was about to completely pour into the Yuan Cang River below when Chen Xu immediately used the Wind Summoning Skill to call forth a gust of wind.

Whoosh, all the blood was enveloped by the wind, floating in the air.

At first glance, it seemed like a blood-red deep pool suspended in midair.

So transparently beautiful, yet so chilling and eerie.

This strange fish is truly massive, and although it has mostly shed its dragon shape, its body still stretches nearly twenty-six zhang long.

Such a body length means its blood volume would reach five to six thousand jun in total.

If five to six thousand jun is not intuitive enough, converting to five to six million jin is enough to astound.

And for Chen Xu to use the Wind Summoning Skill at this moment to lift such a massive quantity of fish blood demonstrates that his own cultivation is equally astounding.

Of course, his remarkable performance isn't entirely due to how strong his cultivation is.

The most important factor is that the power of the Dragon Soaring Pill has not yet faded.

After consuming the Dragon Soaring Pill, one can possess the Power of Binding Dragon and Returning Wave for a quarter of an hour, and now, a quarter of an hour hasn't passed yet.

Chen Xu, borrowing the power of the Dragon Soaring Pill, is proclaiming his martial prowess to the world!

After today, who would dare to merely regard him as a young junior?

For instance, in the past, although Chen Xu was hailed as a young prodigy, ranking twenty-fifth on the Profound List of Great Li's Splendor Record, receiving attention everywhere he went—

But in reality, all his honors were as fleeting as a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water.

Because he had no background, his personal strength wasn't strong enough. If a truly top expert decided to take action against him, he might not be able to withstand it.

After all, a dead prodigy ceases to be a prodigy; when a person dies, everything rests!

But today, Chen Xu consumed the Dragon Soaring Pill, and a new world of possibilities opened up before him.

With the power of binding a dragon with one hand, he could even astonish a great scholar.

And what Chen Xu intends to do is far from over.

He grasped the dragon horn with his left hand and lifted the strange fish's body.

When the wind arrived, the fish blood formed a pool in midair.

Then, using the wind as a boiler and the heavens and earth as the stove.

He then employed the Fire Control Skill.

Now, Chen Xu's Fire Control Skill had reached Level 3, with the flames he summoned naturally containing a trace of the Power of Karmic Fire.

He also cultivated a Golden Core, which further amplified the power of Karmic Fire several times.

Thus, a wisp of flame was ignited beneath the blood pool.

In a moment, the wind fanned the flames, and they blazed fiercely at once.

Within the roaring blaze, the blood pool seemed about to boil.

In Chen Xu's eyes, the entries became visible:

"Pseudo-Dragon Blood, six thousand jun in massive quantity.

It contains abundant water-element essence, inherently carrying the divine power to guide rivers, but because it is filled with grievances and toxins, this blood cannot be directly consumed; consumption leads to death.

By refining with the Spirit Roasting Eight Techniques and adding the Power of Karmic Fire, supplemented with a hundred jin of millennium snow and a hundred Universal Transformation Talismans, using Top Scholar's blood as a medicinal guide, it can be refined into a thousand jin of refined dragon blood.

If a cultivator consumes one or two liang, their spiritual apertures will open, water veins will flow smoothly, and cultivation will become pure.

Consuming one jin can enhance the physique, making the skin like a dragon's, with the ability to resist water and fire, though there is a risk of the body exploding.

If this refined blood is poured into rivers, it can raise clouds and rain, guiding water power over a thousand miles without fear of exhaustion."

Refined Dragon Blood!

Its divine power extends to this extent.

At the moment Chen Xu dissected the fish for blood, he resolved to refine all the refined dragon blood completely.

His emotions weren't calm, yet his actions grew more composed and orderly.

The strange fish in Chen Xu's grasp seemed not completely dead. As Chen Xu's Fire Control Skill deepened, the vast blood pool seemed about to boil, and the fish in his palm couldn't help but twitch its tail fin, as if trying to struggle again.

Chen Xu remained unfazed.

He gently exhaled a word towards the wind-made boiler in front of him: "Grow!"

The flames abruptly surged several zhang high, coloring half of the sky red.

His left hand still held the dragon horn, while his right hand rose again.

The Wu Hook in his hand fell swiftly like autumn water, this time directly severing the strange fish's massive head!

"No! Ah..." This was Lady Xie's final cry during the trial in the cage.

Her body was now completely engulfed by tiny black flames, her gaze scattered, her human form gone.

She could no longer deceive anyone, only weakly cry out.

At the same time, another voice sounded: "Chen Xu, stop this instant!"

The voice came from the distant sky, grand and authoritative, brimming with anger.

Who could it be, such a powerful expert?

But the speed of Chen Xu's falling Wu Hook was ultimately faster.

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