In the Western Sea Dragon Palace’s main hall, Li Changshou was eloquently explaining the ‘slightly’ extraordinary nature of his seven gourd spirits.

Just dozens of zhang away from Li Changshou’s true form, outside the water-filled space, the Grand Sorcerer watched with narrowed eyes and a smile, occasionally observing Fairy Yunxiao in the distance.

The Grand Sorcerer had invested unprecedented enthusiasm in this battle…

However, the Grand Sorcerer’s focus was somewhat unique, primarily observing Fairy Yunxiao’s reactions.

If by chance Yunxiao found any aspect of Li Changshou’s actions unsightly, misunderstanding his personality as too flippant… the Grand Sorcerer would immediately transmit a reminder to Li Changshou, urging him to show the same side he had displayed when detonating Golden Cicada.

Although Li Changshou had looked somewhat disheveled while being chased by Golden Cicada for tens of thousands of li;

His silhouette when he didn’t look back or even glance at the spiritual explosion behind him after trapping Golden Cicada had indeed been rather dashing.

This was the primary matter!

However, the Grand Sorcerer soon discovered his concerns were unnecessary.

Yunxiao’s eyes grew increasingly bright, seemingly appreciating Li Changshou’s approach…

Especially when the almost-genuine gourd incarnations made their entrance, Yunxiao showed a faint smile, her eyes carrying traces of anticipation.

Thus, the Grand Sorcerer transmitted to Li Changshou:

“Your performance isn’t bad, Junior Sister Yunxiao increasingly admires you, but don’t overdo the deception, lest you appear frivolous and impetuous.”

Li Changshou: …

Wasn’t this all just a normal strategy?

[Divert the enemy’s attention, and disrupt their attack rhythm, thereby achieving the goal of delaying without fighting.]

Well, since the Grand Sorcerer found it improper, he should respect the opinion of this senior disciple of the Human Dao.

Li Changshou paused his speech, mentally calculating the timing of the three Dragon Palace experts’ arrival, as his form slowly descended from mid-air.

His long hair and sleeves danced in the water, his body wrapped in a faint primordial yellow energy, as he stood before Seventh Sister.

“Everyone,” Li Changshou swept his gaze across the enemies and smiled, “Would you like to test the wonders of my gourd vine?”

Just as Ao Shi, the protagonist of today’s palace coup drama, was about to speak, several dark shadows darted out from beside him, cloaks flying away to reveal figures either handsome or beautiful.

The transformed Primordial Beasts all possessed such deceptive appearances.

Li Changshou maintained his calm smile. Though outnumbered, he had some confidence…

Well, to give a face to Lord Tower, he had about 95% confidence!

Though the Primordial Beasts were fierce, Li Changshou had experience fighting Golden Cicada and was familiar with Cultivator Wenjing, knowing the true extent of these beasts’ power.

The Primordial Beasts were abandoned by Heaven’s Way, their cultivation realms long since locked by Heaven’s Way. Even in ancient times, they had lost the possibility of advancing on the Great Dao.

What was truly thorny were these beasts’ ‘innate divine abilities’ and ‘racial talents.’

Like Cultivator Wenjing’s blood mosquito puppet technique and blood-drinking ash-destruction art;

And Golden Cicada’s innate space-traversing technique, along with the memorable ‘Golden Cicada Molting’…

These were the main reasons these Primordial Beasts were difficult to handle.

At this moment, several beast-turned-humans made the first move…

It was obvious these beasts merely wanted to ignite the battle, giving Li Changshou no more chances to speak;

Their attacks now were also quite reserved. Though only separated by a hundred zhang, they only charged halfway before halting their movements.

Several black lights and a puddle of black water rained down on Li Changshou’s head.

Li Changshou remained composed and motionless. These attacks fell upon him but couldn’t harm even half a strand of his hair;

The black water turned to wisps of cloud, instantly evaporating.

What level of cultivation was this?

The few beasts who attacked and the experts observing from behind couldn’t help but be startled. Yet while Li Changshou was withstanding their attacks, he had already begun his counterattack.

Combat was not turn-based, after all.

Among the seven gourd spirits, First through Fifth Brother each took a step in different directions!

Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth—the remnant rhythms of the Five Elements surged forth. The five big-headed, big-eyed, crew-cut spirits seemed to execute five completely different escape techniques in an instant!

Those few beasts coldly smiled. Though these escape techniques were swift, they weren’t untraceable…

How could this be?!

Before the dao patterns of the Five Elements escape techniques had dissipated, faint ripples appeared in the space within ten zhang, and the auras of the five gourd spirits completely vanished!

Once again, for who knows how many times, the hall fell so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

But this silence lasted less than a breath!

Without warning, five chubby hands appeared simultaneously behind these beasts, each holding silver needles, striking at the beasts’ necks with lightning speed!

The five chubby hands struck and retreated, vanishing in a flash.

Several low roars sounded as the five transformed beasts who had stepped forward first either erupted in brilliant light or turned to strike with fists and palms!

But all they could catch were faint spatial ripples, like waves in water!

Space-traversing technique!

No…

Just now, those five children, gripping handfuls of silver needles, had forcefully stabbed them…

An inexplicable burning sensation emerged from where the beasts had been pricked, instantly sweeping through their entire bodies, giving them no chance to resist!

These five beasts’ eyes suddenly turned blood-red, but their expressions became… meaningful and indescribable.

“Mmm…”

A beast transformed into a woman bit her lip and moaned softly, her forehead covered in fragrant sweat, her eyes gradually becoming unfocused.

She suddenly turned and flew toward the palace exit, her aura chaotically fluctuating.

Then, the other four beasts immediately followed, leaving without a word, disappearing at the great hall’s entrance in the blink of an eye, each faster than the last.

Left behind, the traitorous dragons and beasts looked at each other in confusion, completely baffled.

Li Changshou calmly smiled as First through Fifth Brother returned to their positions before him, resuming their original poses, still appearing as harmless as ever.

This scene was truly bizarre and inexplicable.

For a moment, the group of Primordial Beasts who had been so fierce now showed signs of retreat when faced with this Heaven’s Water God’s ‘divine abilities.’

Ao Shi took a deep breath and stepped forward with his sword, his golden robes gleaming with brilliant light.

As the protagonist, he had to step forward now.

“Water God truly has impressive abilities, but today, I cannot let you cut off our Dragon Tribe’s great fortune!”

Just as Ao Shi’s words fell, a low roar suddenly transmitted from far outside the hall. As various divine senses probed out, many Dragon Tribe experts and Primordial Beasts changed expression.

What they saw in the distant seawater was chaos and indescribability—their ‘companions’ who had been here moments ago now displayed a hundred kinds of unsightly states, as if they had lost their minds.

Li Changshou stood there calmly and said indifferently:

“Everyone should know, that this poor Daoist belongs to the Human Dao School and is also skilled in the way of pill refinement.

Last time, to eliminate that Six-Winged Golden Cicada, this poor Daoist prepared some backup plans, unexpectedly finding use for them today.

Please rest assured, I only have a few dozen of these silver needles infused with passion flower poison. If you trust me, feel free to come forth.

Don’t be afraid, this poor Daoist is merely a civil official of Heaven, not a military officer.”

He spoke the truth—those silver needles were originally prepared as a backup for Golden Cicada, just never used.

The drug effects on those needles had been instantly triggered earlier, leaving no traces now.

The so-called passion flower poison was extracted from the ‘passion water,’ a raw material for refining Male Vigor Pills. He only had those few dozen needles, and once used, they were gone…

But now, the more calmly Li Changshou spoke, the more chaotic the scene in the distance became, making these enemies…

Unable to believe.

The observing Grand Sorcerer’s mouth twitched, while Fairy Yunxiao couldn’t help but cover her face with her hand;

Lord Tower in Li Changshou’s consciousness was laughing so hard he could barely breathe, throwing various playful insults at Li Changshou…

Ao Shi came to his senses and gritted his teeth:

“Where are the Elders!”

“Crown Prince Ao Shi,” Li Changshou said calmly, “Besides calling others to step forward, do you have any other abilities?”

With that, Li Changshou stepped forward, his eyelids slightly lowered.

Behind him, First through Fifth Brother leaped up, positioning themselves in five corners around the Western Sea Dragon King and the dragons and celestial dragon soldiers loyal to him, each removing the gourd from their head.

These small gourds turned out to be five formation bases. As the five spirit children activated them, they transformed into a Five Elements Protection Formation, converting water essence into Five Elements power, creating a translucent light membrane.

Though the gourd vine was somewhat of a parody, it was indeed one of Li Changshou’s trump cards, just that its appearance was somewhat…

Paying tribute, yes, paying tribute.

Meanwhile, the Sixth and Seventh Brothers sat cross-legged within the Five Elements Formation. The transparent Sixth Brother was doing something unknown, while the Seventh Brother conjured a Water-Fire Taiji Diagram, reinforcing the formation.

Without looking back, Li Changshou took several more steps forward, his gaze level with Ao Shi’s, his body emanating an indescribable authority.

Five steps, six steps…

Li Changshou faced thousands of experts alone, his eyes fixed only on the golden-light-wrapped Ao Shi.

“Crown Prince Ao Shi, do you still remember what your own Dao is?”

Ao Shi frowned deeply, instinctively wanting to retreat;

But knowing that retreating now would make him the Western faction’s disposable piece, he could only grit his teeth and stand firm.

Dozens of Dragon Tribe experts closest to Ao Shi stepped forward together, each releasing their pressure toward Heaven’s Water God.

Li Changshou remained completely unaffected, continuing his unhurried advance.

Ten steps, twelve steps…

“How dare Water God show such disrespect!”

A dragon-headed elder roared, raising his hand in a claw gesture, making a grabbing motion toward Li Changshou from afar. A dragon claw shadow dozens of zhang in diameter pressed down toward Li Changshou’s head!

Li Changshou’s figure remained unmoved, the dragon claw directly shattering.

One stone stirred a thousand waves—dozens of dragon-headed elders attacked simultaneously. The Western Sea Dragon Palace shook violently everywhere, divine abilities came continuously, spiritual power erupted everywhere, space itself became unstable, and many precious decorations in this crystal palace shattered.

But…

After the tremors, Li Changshou still stood there, faint primordial yellow energy floating around him, not a single hair harmed.

However, Li Changshou also noticed that when withstanding these attacks head-on, he could only stand still in place.

Perhaps, all things had balance, and this was Heaven’s Way’s limitation on the Heaven Earth Linglong Primordial Yellow Tower… probably.

“Everyone, have you had enough?”

Li Changshou’s eyelids half-lowered as he softly exhaled.

A dragon-headed elder suddenly awakened: “He must have a supreme treasure protecting him!”

In an instant, the dozens of old dragons who had just attacked felt largely relieved, but then immediately frowned again.

Ao Shi, who had already hidden in the crowd, immediately shouted: “Then trap him and kill Ao Run first!”

Ao Run, his father’s name.

In the Five Elements Formation, the Western Sea Dragon King closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

Li Changshou, standing alone before thousands of experts, showed slight helplessness in his eyes and said calmly: “This soul-destroying curse is truly powerful, to have erased one’s spirit nature to this extent.”

“Attack!”

Ao Shi’s handsome face was filled with ferocity. After his shout, those dozens of Dragon Tribe elders pounced toward Li Changshou;

The thousands of figures behind them split into two streams, about to bypass Li Changshou and charge toward the Western Sea Dragon King…

This was exactly what Li Changshou had been waiting for!

Divine abilities and techniques were bombarded from the front again, but Li Changshou’s form silently exploded, letting all these attacks miss.

A Dragon Tribe elder immediately shouted: “Water Escape Technique!”

At that moment, dozens of fist-sized water streams directly crashed into this batch of Dragon Tribe experts!

Though these old dragons reacted with divine speed, continuously unleashing dragon power to destroy them, half of the water streams still grazed past these old dragons’ forms and converged toward Ao Shi.

The water streams’ speed suddenly increased severalfold!

Ao Shi’s spirit shook violently, his instincts screaming!

“Your Highness, retreat quickly!”

The Western Sea’s rebel dragons swarmed toward Ao Shi, heavenly divine abilities intercepting those water streams.

These twenty-one water streams suddenly transformed again, some changing from water to metal, some from water to wind, some triggering spatial ripples, some becoming ice crystals darting forward…

Escape techniques!

All escape techniques!

It was dazzling to the eye, yet impossible to tell where the Water God’s true form was among these escape techniques!

The rebel faction wasn’t slow either, figures quickly surrounding Ao Shi, using their bodies to block all directions—front, back, left, right, up, down—dozens of experts forming a sphere…

But…

“Tsk tsk.”

These dozens of outward-facing Dragon Tribe experts suddenly heard a light chuckle from behind them, making their hair stand on end.

Right in front of these experts, within this ‘sphere’ formed by Dragon Tribe experts, in just an instant!

A treasure map appeared out of thin air, surging with the images of dozens of rivers, directly suppressing Ao Shi and swallowing him into the map.

Li Changshou’s figure walked out from an ice-blue flame, standing amid the multiple layers of encirclement, casually putting away the treasure map and calmly tucking it into his sleeve.

Almost no one noticed the slight spatial ripples that immediately appeared in his sleeve…

“Quick, save His Highness!”

“Seal the space, don’t let him escape again!”

In just a moment, these dozens of dragon-headed elders used their respective dragon powers to suppress space, sealing off the space within a hundred zhang!

Then they heard…

“Everyone.”

Li Changshou’s voice suddenly transmitted from the direction of the throne, startling all the experts in the hall!

They looked at the spot surrounded by dozens of dragon-headed elders, where there was a white-haired, white-robed Heaven’s Water God;

Then looked at the front of the Five Elements Formation, where another white-haired, white-robed… Heaven’s Water God stood calmly!

The Water God’s expertise in creating avatars was no secret.

But when had the switch been made, when had the positions been changed, when had the forms been exchanged?

And that space-traversing technique, how could it be so silent and traceless?

Li Changshou chuckled, took out that treasure map from his sleeve, and casually tossed it, throwing Western Sea Dragon Palace Crown Prince Ao Shi—currently unconscious with his dragon soul suppressed by Yu the Great’s Flood Control Map—onto the ground.

Ao Shi’s abilities were originally not strong; his cultivation had been forcefully raised, and his actual combat power was barely comparable to an ordinary Golden Immortal Void Sect Master.

Gripping Ao Shi’s neck with his left hand, Li Changshou said calmly:

“Even without supreme treasures, what can you do to me?

Oh right, that avatar of mine isn’t just an avatar.”

As Li Changshou’s words fell, a shocking spiritual power fluctuation appeared where Ao Shi had originally stood!

At this moment, the spatial seal had not yet dissipated. The dozens of dragon-headed elders turned their heads to look at the avatar Li Changshou had left there…

They saw seventy-two light spots appear beneath this avatar’s robes!

Not only that but in this avatar’s abdomen, that golden core had received the injection of dozens of spiritual power streams and had begun to vibrate violently!

The power of Heaven’s Way suddenly manifested as the golden core instantly shattered!

Seventy-two light spots simultaneously expanded and surged!

Earth Fiend Spirit Explosion Formation – Golden Immortal Core Enhanced Version!

As the dazzling ‘sun’ rose, Li Changshou had already lifted Ao Shi in front of him, and incidentally used spiritual power to pull the stunned Ox Head and Horse Face into the Five Elements Formation.

As Ao Ryi’s words echoed in Li Changshou’s mind, his fingers left several afterimages as they instantly struck three points on Ao Shi’s back—spine, tailbone, and brainstem.

The horns on Ao Shi’s forehead flickered with light as his form suddenly expanded, transforming in the golden light into a hundreds-of-zhang-long black dragon, whom Li Changshou bundled into a ball to use as a shield in front of the Five Elements Formation…

That day, it seemed as if the Sun Star had fallen into the sea bottom.

Above the Western Sea Dragon Palace, a hundred-li-diameter water sphere slowly bulged up, streams of spiritual power light beams penetrating the horizon…

“I already said, this poor Daoist is not skilled in combat, merely a civil official of Heaven.”