Chapter 244 The Thunderstorm in the East Sea

Above the firmament, thunder rumbled and raced.

Yet, dozens of miles away, the sky was clear.

This extreme anomaly presented an intensely dangerous and terrifying sensation. Accompanied by the low rumble of thunder, the old Taoist's robe fluttered slightly, his eyes calm yet seeming to reflect the lightning. The Great Tengu gritted his teeth, his wings fanning, instantly darting across the sea. At the same time, the katana in his hand shot out.

Concurrently, he stirred the storm with all his might.

There were two lines of Tengu, one capable of warding off evil, like the Bo beast, able to control狂风 (kuang feng, wild winds).

The other raced across the earth, appearing like firelight, blazing to the sky.

In an instant, the violent wind stirred an area of ​​dozens of miles, and then was compressed to within twenty miles. The azure storm condensed into black, absorbing thunderclouds upwards and drawing water vapor downwards. This was the strength that one of the three great monsters of Sakura Island should possess.

Zhang Ruosu's eyelids drooped slightly.

He raised his phone and snapped a photo with a click.

His right hand typed rapidly.

At the same time, his left hand rose, sweeping his sleeve.

Tiangang Divine Power: Returning Wind and Reversing Fire.

All the wild winds reversed.

The storm of twenty miles was compressed to ten.

His five fingers spread slightly, and several silver streamers seemed to fly out from his sleeves.

The Great Tengu felt a chill down his back, startled.

Then he discovered that the sea surface had been directly cut.

The sea surface within a radius of ten miles seemed to have been cleaved, the seawater no longer flowing across.

Waterfall-like spectacles appeared in four directions, accompanied by a loud noise, as the seawater crashed down. The part of the sea where he was located directly sank, lower than the sea level. This was a subtle application of the overturning rivers and seas divine power, more powerful than simply stirring up wind and rain.

Afterward, boundless seawater directly crashed down, sealing the Great Tengu in a seawater cube. Zhang Ruosu slightly clenched his five fingers, and the entire water flow violently rotated, forming a cone with sharp ends. The Great Tengu was horrified, feeling that this Taoist priest was unfathomable, almost unprecedented in his life.

But he could still resist.

Just as he was about to break out of the seal, he suddenly felt that the seawater had become extremely hard.

Tiangang Divine Power: Dividing Rivers into Land.

Tiangang Divine Power: Turning Earth into Steel.

The Great Tengu was locked in a cone constructed of pure metal energy.

The old Taoist flicked his left sleeve, wild winds swirling, sending the huge cone directly into the thunderclouds in the sky. Then, he slightly spread his five fingers, considered it, and simply moved his index finger, pointing downwards.

A loud crash.

A bolt of lightning struck the metal cone.

Inside the cone, the rotating seawater made perfect contact with the Great Tengu due to his struggles.

The Great Tengu suddenly remembered.

He seemed to have seen something like a lightning rod or lightning conductor in the human world, and his expression changed drastically.

No…

The vast thunder roared continuously.

After being sent into the thunder by the狂风 (kuang feng, wild winds), the thunder from the entire sea area's thunderclouds frantically fell into the lightning-attracting object constructed of metal and seawater. The thunder roared and boomed, not stopping for a long time. Zhang Ruosu turned around and took a selfie with the shocking thunderstorm.

‘It’s been a long time since I came out to see the sea. The East Sea thunderstorm is still so magnificent.’

‘It reminds me of my youth.’

He typed quickly and posted it on WeChat Moments.

After a few minutes, when the lightning subsided slightly and the magic dissipated, the sea returned to its original state.

The Great Tengu was on the verge of death, transformed into his original form, half-dead. He took out an object, held it up with both hands, and begged for mercy while coughing up blood, "Please, please let me go…"

"This is our clan's treasure, I am willing to offer it to you."

The old Taoist saw that it was an ancient jade book.

Ancient characters were written on it. The Heavenly Master's Mansion had inheritance, so he could recognize them.

"Three hundred miles further west is Yin Mountain. The Zhuoyu River originates there and flows south into Fanze. There are many patterned shells within. There is a beast there called Tengu, which looks like a civet with a white head, and its sound is like榴榴 (liú liú), and it can ward off evil."

*Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas)?

Zhang Ruosu casually put away the jade book.

The moment he took the jade book, he seemed to faintly feel a connection between a distant mountain range within the seal of Dragon Tiger Mountain and himself, and then it quickly disappeared.

Zhang Ruosu was thoughtful, then looked at the Tengu, who had been directly beaten back to his original form, and muttered to himself:

"It looks like a civet with a white head."

明明长得是个猫样，还要叫天狗 (Míngmíng zhǎng dé shì gè māo yàng, hái yào jiào tiāngǒu, It clearly looks like a cat, but it's called a Tengu). The person who wrote the *Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas) must have had a problem.

The old Taoist slandered in his heart.

The Tengu was uneasy, wondering if he could survive.

The old Taoist looked at him, scanning him up and down. Killing him was not good. He was a remnant species from the *Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas). In various senses, he should be paired with more small female cats. But he couldn't just let him go either. He pondered for a moment, then suddenly said:

"Speaking of which."

"The old Taoist is still missing a cat..."

Tengu: "…………"

"I am the contemporary Great Ten..."

The old Taoist with the white-haired Taoist hairpin drooped his eyelids.

A bolt of blue-purple lightning struck next to him.

A large area of ​​seawater directly evaporated.

"Meow meow meow!"

……………………

Dragon Tiger Mountain. When Ah Xuan began to get a little anxious, Zhang Ruosu returned to the mountain gate.

As he stepped onto Dragon Tiger Mountain, he clearly felt a mysterious resonance between the ancient jade book in his arms and the crack suppressed by Dragon Tiger Mountain. His eyes flickered, but he didn't say much. He was still kind and carried the black-skinned, white-headed cat.

Ah Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, saw the cat, and was stunned, saying:

"Senior Brother, why did you bring another cat back?"

Zhang Ruosu said with a smile, "I met it on the road and caught it."

He personally put a circular magic ring on this fierce beast from the *Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas) that had sought refuge in Sakura Island for thousands of years.

Ah Xuan turned it over to look at the Great Tengu's abdomen, but was angrily slapped away by the latter, leaving three claw marks on his face. The little Taoist was not angry, but smiled and said, "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, has this cat been vaccinated? By the way, I heard that most of the cats down the mountain now have to go to the hospital to get 'neutered'."

"Has this cat had that surgery done too?"

Neutered?

Castrated?!

The Great Tengu was furious.

But he couldn't resist. Zhang Ruosu said, "This one doesn't need it."

Ah Xuan just asked casually. He took the sealed Tengu and asked with a smile:

"What's this cat's name?"

Zhang Ruosu pondered and said, "There are two in the back mountain, one is called Yang and the other is called Yin."

"The one at Old Zhou's place is called Liangyi, the one at the pharmacy is called Baji, so this one..."

Ah Xuan listened quietly.

The old Taoist said seriously:

"Call it Dragon Tiger Mountain Number One."

Ah Xuan was at a loss.

At this moment, a little girl tugged at the old Taoist's sleeve. Zhang Ruosu turned his head. The seven- or eight-year-old girl asked curiously, "Grandpa, they call you Heavenly Master, are you a god?"

The old Taoist leaned down slightly and couldn't help but smile:

"How can there be any gods in the world?"

The little girl was a little disappointed.

The old Taoist reached into his sleeve, rummaged around, bent down, and smiled:

"There are no gods."

"However, little layman, do you want some candy?"

The old man stretched out his hand, his clean and warm palm holding a few candies.

"Yes!"

Some of the children nearby who knew a little about the prestige of the Dragon Tiger Mountain Orthodox One were afraid of the old man's great fame. At first, they didn't dare to talk to him, but later they found that the old Taoist was not only kind and amiable but also had no airs at all. He was easier to talk to than the old man downstairs holding tea. They surrounded him one by one.

One asked if he could fly, and the other asked what it took to become a Taoist priest.

The old Taoist had no airs and answered whatever they asked.

Even when some children asked about the words in the Taoist scriptures, he seriously explained them to them. The old man simply sat on the bluestone behind Dragon Tiger Mountain and told these children from the foot of the mountain about his daily life of cultivation, easily revealing the things that those true cultivators valued.

Ah Xuan quietly watched this scene, knowing that the largest lotus flower in the lotus pond in the back mountain was slowly swaying. How did the once arrogant swordsman change into such a gentle old man? He didn't know.

But now, looking at it, the two were somewhat harmonious.

When he was young, "横剑冷对君王客 (héng jiàn lěng duì jūnwáng kè, holding his sword horizontally, he coldly faced the visiting king)" was arrogance. But when he was old, he didn't care about the prosperity of the world, and only wanted to grow old on the green mountains. He buried his once unruly past and, like an ordinary old man, told some children who clearly didn't understand these things the magical principles that were worth a fortune.

But that was also a greater arrogance.

……………………

A few days later.

Sakura Island - Ama-no-Minaka-nushi Shrine.

Xu Fu calmed his mind.

He slowly used the tea ceremony of Sakura Island to calm his heart. All the troubles in his heart were actually because he had done nothing.

If he started to solve them, he would calm down instead.

The Tengu itself was a fierce beast recorded in the *Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas). Although limited by the upper limit of its race, it had been a highly cultivated being for thousands of years.

He was also good at 御风 (yu feng, controlling the wind) and stealth, and could enter Shenzhou silently. He was most suitable to bring back the divinity from outside the tomb of the First Emperor.

When he accommodated the divinity, he would be able to restore himself to his full strength, be able to expel Xiangliu, and even bring Xiangliu under his control. At that time, holding the power of a country, he could advance or retreat without worry, and the danger shown in the dream could also be avoided calmly.

A mountain god ran in慌乱 (huang luan, in a panic).

Xu Fu's movements were disrupted, and his face was displeased.

"Why are you so慌慌张张 (huang huang zhang zhang, flustered), what kind of manner is this?"

"Ama-no-Minaka-nushi, Your Majesty, things have changed."

Seeing this, the mountain god慌乱 (huang luan, hastily) took out an object and handed it to Xu Fu. The latter glanced at it casually, and then the expression on his face slowly solidified. What was opened was the website of the Dragon Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master's Mansion, with the latest publicity introduction. The largest photo on it was a group photo of an old Taoist priest and children.

This time, the old man was holding a cat.

Black body and white head.

The Tang Dynasty tea cup in Xu Fu's hand fell and shattered.

………………

*Shan Hai* (Mountains and Seas) Realm.

Wei Yuan finally arrived at his destination.

Mount Chongwu.

He saw the place where he, King Yu, and Nü Jiao had rested.

ps: Today's second update... The word count is slightly less, 3,000 words, challenge failed... Coughing up blood

Wandashan Number One - Mating Northeast Tiger.