Chapter 128: The Bet


    The Water Ape remained silent for a while, then turned its head around, nced at those nsmen of the ck Water Serpent n, who were crying and struggling on the hundreds of small inds, abruptly opened its mouth and spat arge, ck g out.


    The g was shining with a ck light; ninerge, glowing stars were painted on its surface, and each of these stars were wrapped up by a thickyer of watery clouds. The Water Ape let out a great shout while tightly grabbing the hundreds of zhang tall gpole and waving the g hard in the air. Immediately,rge amounts of ck clouds started gathering in the sky, and countless ck ice crystals began falling down into the ck Dragon Pool, from the sky, along with a ttering sound, which sounded simr to gigantic ck waterfall.


    The air temperature dropped suddenly, a freezing wind was brought up by those ck ice crystals, and ck mist quickly shrouded the entire area. Wherever the wind blew across, was immediately sealed by a thickyer of ck ice.


    The boiling ck Dragon Pool instantly stopped bubbling. The dense freezing air started spreading into the pool, even causing a thinyer of ice to appear on the surface of the water. Those nsmen from the ck Water Serpent n, who earlier on were about to be cooked by the hot steam, quickly regained their energies, while waving their weapons, they began shouting provokingly on the beaches of those small inds.


    “The ck Underworld Water Manipting g?” said Zhou Rong Tonggong while standing up. He then narrowed his eyes, smilingly looked at therge g, which the Water Ape was holding in its hand, and continued, “It seems to have recovered quite well.”


    The Water Ape looked back at Zhu Rong Tonggong with a serious expression and said, “Yes, the ck Underworld Water-Manipting g. Back then, our master made an agreement with thest generation of the Fire God, Zhu Rong, regarding lending your Southern Wastnd’s ck Underworld Spring to us, the Water Ape n, for residence, because we needed to borrow the natural ck underworld power that was contained in the spring, in order to heal the ck Underworld Water-Manipting gs.”


    Pausing for a second, the Water Ape continued while pointing its finger at therge g, “This is only one of the forty-nine dependency gs, the main g hasn’t fully healed yet, and is still soaked in the deepest area of the spring. However, this single dependency g can still manipte the vast ck underworld power in the entire universe, and deliver unpredictable effects.”


    Ji Hao sat on the back of the fiery dragon and stunningly stared at the ck Underworld Water-Manipting g, which was shrouded by watery mist and seemed extremely powerful, silently feeling the unspeakable, mysterious power thatid contained in the g. He performed the [Sky-Opening], which he had learned from the mysterious man, over and over again in his head; by doing this, he could seeyers of nearly endless and boundless, naturally formed, ancient, mysterious lines and spell symbols inside the g.


    It belonged to the water element. These lines and spell symbols were formed by the most negative and natural ck underwater power, which belonged to the power of the water.


    Those lines and spell symbols looked like both beams of lights and wisps of smokes, coiling and rotating around each other in shapes of Tai Ji, supporting and devouring each other. The negative power contained in those lines and symbols was simr to the power of great rivers and tides that would never end. This power was extremely soft yet firm, cold and negative, and could hurt people without being noticed, which was just like the passionate kisses between lovers that could burn people’ souls unwittingly, andpletely break a fresh heart.


    Ji Hao’s Golden Dan started rotating rapidly in his spiritual space. The Golden Dan was gradually glowing more and more, and Ji Hao clearly perceived that the degree of integration between his own power and the water-power hadrgely been improved. If he would use the after-born water manipting magic now, his speed would be faster than before, by over three times.


    After having stared at the ck Underworld Water-Manipting g for a while, Ji Hao realized that he could never thoroughly understand its mysteriousness, therefore, he turned his eyes to the small cauldron, which had been floating around Zhu Rong Tonggong’s head. This small cauldron was also filled with one certain kind of power, which was the purest type of fire-power.


    After staring at the small cauldron for a while, Ji Hao’s understanding of the fire-power had also been improved, some of his meridians, which contained the Gold Fire Crow’s bloodline, had even be much brighter.


    Waves of natural power began gushing into Ji Hao’s body; along with a swishing sound, a bright fiery light spurted out of Ji Hao’s body. His own power had also been improving at a shockingly fast speed.


    Zhu Rong Tonggong turned around his head, looked at Ji Hao in both surprise and shock, then nodded delightfully.


    He then turned back, smiled towards the Water Ape and said, “Since you can hold this g in your hands, you must be someone important in the Water Ape n. Back then, when Gong Gong begged our Zhu Rong Country to lend the spring to your n, fifty ancient Water Apes held gs and came with him. I assume that you were one of them.”


    The water ape proudly raised its head and said, “Prince Zhu Rong, I have lived for...”


    “How long you may have lived, is totally irrelevant to me. We are iparable in status. Even if you lived as long as the old turtle at the bottom of the legendary Northern Underworld Sea, you’re still nothing but a dog of the Water Ape n, while I am the Prince Zhu Rong. You’re not qualified to even to talk to me,” Zhu Rong Tonggong interrupted the water ape’s speech.


    The Water Ape leaped up in anger, yelled harshly to Zhu Rong Tonggong, “Prince Zhu Rong, I respect you for...”


    “If you didn’t respect me, I would have given the order to chop you into pieces, long ago. Just cut the chase, we have to end this with a fight anyway. You have the ck Underworld Water-Manipting g, so what? This natural South spirit cauldron of mine can only be better than your ck underworld water-manipting g, by many times!” Zhu Rong Tonggong interrupted the Water Ape’s speech once again.


    While speaking, Zhu Rong Tonggong pointed his finger at the natural Southern Spirit Cauldron; along with his move, a bright fiery light appeared and quickly wrapped the cauldron up, and the white water contained in the cauldron, which had cooled down earlier, started boiling again. Along with that, the water in the ck Dragon Pool started boiling as well; hot streams rose into the air and fiery light shone everywhere, and the dense scent of fish soup once again spread to the surrounding areas. Not muchter,rge amounts of dead gigantic soft-shelled turtles, eels, and other aquatic animals, which had lived for thousands of years, were all floating, with their bodies stewed. The scent of fish soup grew denser and denser.


    Theva giant, who had been standing beside Ji Hao was very thoughtful, and started telling people about the natural Southern Spirit Cauldron, “the natural Southern Spirit Cauldron is a naturally formed spirit treasure, and it is the magical spirit treasure of our eldest prince. Well, this cauldron was locked in the storage room of one of our pces, but at the day when our eldest prince was born, this cauldron broke itself loose from the seal and flew out, chasing our eldest prince as its owner.”


    “The natural Southern Spirit Cauldron was condensed by the purest firepower of the entire South, it is powerful and consummate, has infinite power, and is able to boil the sea and burn the sky. With our eldest prince’s cultivation, if all of those old monkeyse out with all fifty gs, they might barely be able to hold the natural Southern Spirit Cauldron’s power off, but this old monkey is just begging for pain by attempting to fight against our eldest prince all by himself,” continued theva giant.


    Just like theva giant had said, once Zhu Rong Tonggong activated the natural Southern Spirit Cauldron’s real power, the water ape waspletely unable to withstand his attack.


    The ck Dragon Pool was now boiling like a real pot of soup, and the water level was continuously lowering inch by inch, at a visible speed. Those ck Water Serpent n’s nsmen on those small inds had all passed out due to the heat and fell on the ground, one after another.


    The ck Dragon Pool was their holynd, simr to what the Gold ck Mountain was to the Fire Crow n. The nsmen of the ck Water Serpent n who were qualified to live in the ck Dragon Pool, were all elites. The death of each of them was a loss to the ck Water Serpent n. Now, seeing these elites falling down one after another like dominos, the Water Ape and the ck Flood Dragon began to feel anxious.


    “Prince Zhu Rong, we made the agreement with your ancestor, which dered that the ck Underworld Spring and thend hundreds of miles around it, were lent to us, the Water Ape n, to live in,” yelled the Water Ape loudly, “After that, kids who had been led by us, opened their own territories, started conflicts with your Southern Wastnd ns. However, the King of Gods had never stepped into these kinds of conflicts. What you are doing now, will vite the rule, and humiliate your Zhu Rong family, the King of Gods.”


    Before Zhu Rong Tonggong could respond, the eyes of the Water Ape shone with a weird soft light, “I know that some of our stupid kids have offended you, this time, otherwise, as a noble Zhu Rong prince, you would never havee over in person. But, it’s not reasonable for you to fight against us yourself. Why don’t we...”


    Zhu Rong Tonggong smiled and asked, “What do you want?”


    The Water Ape smiled back to him, and said, “Why don’t we make a bet? Both you and I stay out of this, and we let those kids fight against each other, to determine the winner all by themselves.”