Chapter 80 The Alligator Dragon Protector!

Cui Zhaoren liked the folk song that was popular in the empire, “Hatred is like a gust of wind and leaves after destroying everything”. No one could deal with such an attitude.

 

He could just kill Li Muyang and when he died, there was nothing he could do. If he was accused of colluding with the enemy, no one would be able to find out the truth.

 

He was still concerned about Li Muyang challenging his power. Now that he knew that Li Muyang was going to the Starry-Sky Academy, he naturally could not show him any mercy.

 

Cui Zhaoren knew what a special existence the Starry-Sky Academy was. Li Muyang had been accepted there when he came in first in the Liberal-arts Exam. In the future, he would probably become a powerful man like Li Qiubai.

 

Even if it was a slim possibility, he could not allow him to grow stronger.

 

Weeding should be done as early as possible.

 

When Li Muyang entered the Starry-Sky Academy and he learned something or got to know some great men who had made great achievements, it would be very troublesome if he wanted to do such a thing again.

 

Therefore, this was also the reason for his sudden attack.

 

Cui Zhaoren had long stepped into the Upper Level of the Floating Cloud. He was diligent in his practice. In the future, he could enter the Vicissitude Realm which could kill people in an instant, at the slightest chance or provocation.

 

At such a young age, there were not many people in the Xifeng Empire who could have made such an achievement, right?

 

The result was obvious that a man in Upper Level of Floating Cloud could kill a weak student who ranked first in the Liberal-arts Exam.

 

Others might not be on their guard, but Li Muyang was always on his guard.

 

Li Muyang sensed danger ever since he saw Cui Zhaoren.

 

This man’s face was not annoying. He always had a poker face and even when he smiled, it was still cold. But at that time, he was also a handsome and cold looking guy, wasn’t he?

 

This was a world where appearance mattered. It was easier for good-looking people to be accepted even if they had done something bad. If some ugly people had done something bad, there was no reason to forgive them at all.

 

However, Li Muyang felt a sombre emotion from him.

 

He was like a decaying corpse in an ancient tomb, or a viper hiding in the grass. When he saw him, he would always think of matters of despair, like death.

 

Li Muyang could clearly feel his hostility toward him, although he did not know where it came from.

 

He did not show his killing intent, but Li Muyang could feel his killing intent from his smile.

 

Therefore, Li Muyang had been secretly on the alert all the time.

 

He accumulated energy in his dantian and condensed it for a bit.

 

This was the basic knowledge of the “Qi-breaking Technique”.

 

He waited quietly.

 

When Cui Zhaoren’s sword came for him without any warning, Li Muyang also hit out.

 

This was the punch he had prepared for a long time.

 

This was the punch he was ready to launch.

 

The punch was so powerful that everything around them could be destroyed.

 

Shattering Fist!

 

The sword was sharp, fast and cold.

 

The fist was majestic and gave off hot waves.

 

The long sword was fighting against the heavy fist. One used sneak attacks, while the other was on his guard.

 

The sword light flashed in the sky and was even more dazzling than the light of the scorching sun that shone on the earth.

 

The heavy fist was like a heavy thunderclap which hurt the people’s eardrums and it was hard for them to recover so soon.

 

There were more than a hundred people on the deck, but no one had a clear view of what was happening in front of them.

 

In addition to the two people involved in this matter.

 

There was only a mass of white light in front of them. It was a vast expanse of white.

 

It was as if a fireball had suddenly exploded in front of their eyes.

 

“Bang!”

 

The fist and the sword collided.

 

It was like a landslide, but also like a tsunami, which swept over everything with a terrifying force.

 

Cui Zhaoren could not withstand it and kept retreating. His heels were tightly rooted to the deck, trying to stop the retreating momentum. It was a pity that the force was so great that all the planks flew up one by one. Cui Zhaoren retreated all the way to the edge of the boat.

 

“Crack!”

 

The railings were broken and the whole side of the ship that he hit against dropped into the Cock-Crow Lake.

 

Li Muyang’s situation was even worse.

 

Although he had cultivated the “Qi-breaking Technique” for a few months, for the cultivators in the vast Starry Sky, his cultivation years were not even qualified to enter the basics. He could not even be said to be a ‘beginner’ in the real sense.

 

“Where are you standing? Where are you going? What is your path? Which way do you want to choose to get there?”

 

Since Li Muyang did not know the answers to these questions, how could he get to the entry-level?

 

He just relied on the ancient book and the little basic knowledge that Li Sinian remembered in her heart. He did not know when he began to understand the instructions and ideas of cultivation in the depths of his mind, so he came up with a suitable way for his own cultivation.

 

No one even told him whether his path of cultivation was right or not.

 

Of course, Li Sinian praised him for his cleverness several times.

 

He was mentally prepared, but his body was not ready yet.

 

It was a ‘waste’, that one who had cultivated for less than a year, met a genius who had been famous for a long time and had already stepped into the Upper Level of Floating Cloud.

 

As a matter of fact, there was no doubt about the result.

 

Li Muyang’s body was hit and sent flying. When his Shattering Fist collided with Cui Zhaoren’s Dujie Sword, he had already passed out when the two extreme violent forces exploded.

 

His body was blown away and after flying in the air for quite some time, he fell into Cock-Crow Lake.

 

He fell into the water and sank directly to the bottom of the river.

 

He was like a heavenly stone falling from the sky that shocked all the nearby fish, shrimps and insects.

 

The river was muddy and the water was turbulent, so Li Muyang was stuck in the silt.

 

Then he was washed up by the river and surrounded by water grass. He was entangled and would not be swept away by the river, but he could not float out of the water either.

 

There was no sunlight in the water, nor did he know the time.

 

Fresh bodies that were entangled in the water plants would stink soon after and then turn into a lump of mud-like rotting flesh. Fish and shrimp liked these the most.

 

After they had eaten a huge feast, there was usually only a pile of white bones left behind.

 

His fate would be exactly the same as countless people who had fallen into the water.

 

To many people, this sort of ending signified the end of one’s life.

 

When Li Muyang fell into the water, the noise was so loud that all the fish and shrimps around were scared away.

 

After a while, those fishes and prawns gathered again to see what it was that scared them.

 

They wanted to know the truth, but they dared not be the first to get close to it.

 

Fear was in the nature of every species.

 

What’s more, there was a kind of threatening aura on that ‘thing’ that made them feel scared.

 

Finally, a little black fish which was a little impatient, was the first one to swim toward Li Muyang.

 

She bit Li Muyang’s arms and nibbled at Li Muyang’s face, but Li Muyang still did not move.

 

“Mom, it’s a monster,” the little black fish spat out bubbles with a puff and shouted to her mom.

 

“Run, kid. Monsters love to eat fish.” Her mother shook her tail and gave her kid an all-out signal to leave the object. She was a little older and had a sharper sense of smell. She felt that this ‘monster’ was very dangerous. Even if he did not make any movement, he should not be provoked.

 

“He does not look scary at all. Mom, can I have a bite? He looks delicious.”

 

“Silly child, he will not taste good now. We will eat him after his body starts to rot.”

 

“Mom, let’s take the monster back to our house.”

 

…

 

She opened her mouth to tear away the weeds, trying to save Li Muyang.

 

However, there were too many weeds and the straws were too hard. It was simply impossible for her to do it alone.

 

When this little black fish was in a dilemma, another little black fish came over.

 

Then more fish and shrimps gathered around. They either bit with their mouths or used their claws to help Li Muyang get rid of the water grass that entangled him.

 

The river rumbled suddenly.

 

The waves at the bottom of the river began to churn violently.

 

Every time there was such a movement, it meant that the giant monster of this realm had come for hunting.

 

The fish and shrimps fled in panic and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

 

The river rumbled even more violently.

 

An Alligator Dragon about hundreds of meters in length, with a flat head, protruding mouth and short and thick limbs slowly swam over.

 

It was not in a hurry, it was even a little cautious.

 

When it arrived about ten meters in front of Li Muyang, it looked around alertly and circled around a few more times.

 

When it was sure about its safety, it swam slowly toward Li Muyang.

 

Its protruding mouth slowly came close to Li Muyang, greedily sniffing his smell.

 

The grainy and banded lines on the scales made it look so ugly and ferocious. It could swallow Li Muyang and the weeds wrapped around his body with his big mouth.

 

In the past, it loved to do such things.

 

However, this time, it did not do that. To be more specific, it did not dare do that.

 

It dived under Li Muyang and then slowly rose with him on its broad back.

 

At first glance, the Alligator Dragon, which was hundreds of meters long and more than a thousand years old, had become Li Muyang’s mount.

 

Seeing that the water overlord Alligator Dragon was not here to eat Li Muyang, but to save Li Muyang, all the fish and shrimps in the distance gathered again and they happily followed behind the Alligator Dragon. They looked like guards escorting their king.

 

“Puff—” a mouthful of blood gushed out, which made Cui Zhaoren feel more comfortable.

 

This punch had shocked him to his core. Until now, he still could not calm down.

 

The guy whom he could not sense any danger from turned out to be a hidden master?

 

Fortunately, he did not slack off before the hit earlier. If he had just regarded him as an ordinary person, he would have been killed by him now.

 

Cui Zhaoren was furious at the feeling of almost losing in a very easy task. He turned around and looked at the river, coldly saying, “Send more people. Either I see him alive, or give me his dead body.”

 

“Yes,” the officials of the Supervisory Department shouted loudly.

 

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed at the lake and shouted, “Look, what is that?”

 

Everyone was alerted by the voice and then they saw a shocking scene.

 

The river was surging violently and all the waterbirds had been frightened away. A huge Alligator Dragon, which was hundreds of meters long, raised its head high and hovered over the river.

 

Above its head sat Li Muyang, who looked like a king.