Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 721 - 702: Heavenly Water Mirror (Part 2)
[Underwater Mountains: Ten thousand years ago, this area was a series of towering mountains and valleys, lush with vegetation. Over the millennia, those towering mountains sank beneath the lake, becoming unknown underwater valleys.]
[Underwater Cliffs: Sheer cliffs from ten thousand years ago, depths unknown.]
[Ruins and Remnants: Houses built by people who once lived on the mountains, now only some broken walls remain.]
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The underwater scenery presents a unique view; dim light and water currents interwoven with drifting water plants, occasionally accompanied by schools of fish, adding to the mystical atmosphere.
"The underwater valley is so vast, who knows where Zeyang actually threw it away?" Jiang Yuan looked at the map showing the undulating mountains and couldn't help but worry.
Alas, the Soul-Searching Notes only had that one sentence, without more precise information.
He felt a bit regretful, maybe he should have asked Zeyang to come along to find the Water Mirror first. But on second thought, he had never seen what the Water Mirror looked like, after all, it's a Divine Artifact, and Zeyang could activate it. If the situation reversed after finding it, it would be more troublesome.
Let's search, hope that accumulating so much luck from "Do Good Deeds Every Day" will improve my fortune, find it soon, and end this water crisis.
A moment later, Jiang Yuan still found a luck-enhancing item.
[Disposable Lucky Talisman (Fifteen minutes): Click to use and increase a certain amount of luck buff over time, auspicious for all things during usage.]
"Heavenly spirits and earthly spirits, let me find the Water Mirror quickly!" He prayed solemnly and clicked to use it.
Aside from a radiant status icon appearing above his line of sight, he felt nothing and had to randomly choose a direction, plunging into the vast valleys.
Time ticked by, and Jiang Yuan always felt like the system's lucky talisman didn't work well. Shouldn't it be like the magic potion Harry Potter drank, bursting with luck and getting everything one wants?
How come I'm searching for a mirror in the endless valleys...
"Bang!"
Just as he was grumbling, a sudden impact, though not painful, made him imagine hearing a game sound effect, his health bar lit up but slowly floated a -130, not a big deal.
"Using this lucky talisman not only failed to find the Water Mirror but also got sneak attacked for no reason." He turned around, his eyes resting on the creature that attacked him, stunned.
A giant black shadow resembling a crab?!
[Shadow of the Human-Faced Crab: Resentful remnants of an aquatic creature that perished within the Celestial River, entering this world through the Water Mirror. It must be eliminated quickly; if it spreads through the water domain, the residual resentment will affect all living creatures in this realm.]
[Celestial River: A major tributary river in the Celestial Realm's Milky Way, connected to the Lower Realm by the Boundless Sea.]
The resentful spirit from the Celestial Realm?
Jiang Yuan felt baffled upon seeing the detailed analysis, when suddenly a stream of water rushed from the left front, noticeably much colder than the lake water.
Got it, this is water sprayed from the Water Mirror, carrying along some small creatures, must be cleaned up quickly!
"Devouring Mountains and Rivers!"
-11000!
The vast two-dimensional shadow's health bar instantly cleared, the blackness slowly dissipating.
[Celestial River Stone +1]
[Celestial River Stone: Stones widely distributed in the Milky Way, containing immense power favored by aquatic life, can be refined into Immortal Jade Fragments at the Melting Workshop.]
The shimmering loot automatically collected into the Storage Bag, he clicked to check, his eyes lit up instantly—killing monsters and getting Immortal Jade!
In the distance, another shadow slowly swam by, Jiang Yuan dashed over with a Five Elements Cloud-Piercing Thunder.
[Celestial River Stone +2]
[Celestial River Stone +1]
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The further upstream he went, the more shadow creatures he saw, but luckily these small creatures seemed to have just arrived and were not quite adapted, so their movements were slow.
Jiang Yuan defeated one creature with one move, moving upstream against the increasingly powerful water current.
[Broken Water Mirror: The magical treasure wielded by the River God of the Celestial River, which fell to the Lower Realm for some reason. Its divinity dissipated, leaving only a trace of Spiritual Power. It was picked up by a cultivator in the wilderness by chance and eventually passed on to the Purple Sky Catfish Demon, Zeyang.]
In his battle with Zhao Yan using the Water Mirror, Zeyang injected too much Spiritual Power, causing the old and damaged Treasure Mirror to lose control. Torrents of water came from above, also bringing with them the resentful spirits from the Celestial River.]
[Would you like to consume two million Spirit Stones to temporarily repair the Water Mirror?]
Repair, repair, repair! Quickly repair it!
Finally managed to find the giant Water Mirror placed in the deep valley one second before the luck buff vanished, Jiang Yuan was stunned, then hurriedly reacted and clicked to select the repair option.
The City Lord of Cloud City's "Demon Mirror" was only about three meters in diameter, which led him to imagine the Water Mirror shouldn't be too large—after all, it is a Divine Artifact that can expand or shrink.
Little did he expect, situated like a volcanic crater in the valley, the Water Mirror was at least fifty to sixty meters in diameter.
The edges of the mirror surface emitted a cool light, the water inside the mirror gushed out like a volcanic eruption, mingled with shadows large and small, an overwhelmingly spectacular scene.
[The Water Mirror is temporarily repaired, click to use]
The gray progress bar took unusually long to complete, finally finishing. Jiang Yuan couldn't wait to click, and his vision interface instantly transformed with a technological vibe.
The entire background displayed the damaged Water Mirror slowly rotating, with options to enlarge, reduce, spray water, absorb water, pause, or retract, totaling six options.
"Pause first, stop spraying water!" He glanced over and clicked pause, indeed, the Water Mirror immediately turned into a reflective mirror surface, reflecting the underwater scenery, with no more water or creatures emerging.
"Small! Smaller! Smallest!" Holding down the reduce button for over ten seconds, the enormous Water Mirror finally shrank to the size of a palm, floating underwater. Jiang Yuan clicked to retract it, and it calmly entered the Storage Bag.
With a swift group attack skill, Devouring Mountains and Rivers, the shadows of varying sizes sneaked "over" were wiped out in one hit.
[Celestial River Stone +6]
[Celestial River Stone +2]
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Seizing the moment to kill all shadow creatures within sight, he then followed the small light dots shown on the system map to pursue and eliminate them. After working tirelessly throughout the night, he finally saw no more ghostly black shadows.
Only then did Jiang Yuan take the Water Mirror out of the Storage Bag and try to click the "absorb water" option.
"Whoosh!"
An abrupt whirlpool arose under the lake. The floodwaters, as if receiving some good news, surged over, frantically pouring into the Water Mirror.
"Enlarge! Enlarge further!" His eyes sparkled, realizing no wonder Zeyang made it so large; the larger the mirror, the more powerful the water flow naturally becomes. Now that the aim is to recover the water, to absorb two days and nights worth of water in a short time, the Water Mirror has to grow larger and larger!
The lake bottom whipped up mighty waves, causing countless fish to panic and flee.
With a thought, Jiang Yuan supported the Water Mirror while swimming upward, emerging from the water to find the mirror surface possessing an infinite suction, drawing the water up as if a dragon siphoning water.
This was manageable!
Summoning the Dragon Roar Sword for Sword Flight, Jiang Yuan upheld the silver, nearly two-hundred-meter-wide yet weightless Water Mirror, soaring into the sky, ascending higher and higher.
The higher he flew, the larger the Water Mirror became, simultaneously increasing the volume of water absorption.
Rising into the sky like a full moon, the rampant waves rolled, appearing like a water dragon being drawn into the "moon" in a magical and magnificent display.
The water level at East Lake rapidly receded, soon exposing distant mountains as the submerged houses and docks of East Lake Port re-emerged into the daylight.
This phenomenon had some distance limitations. To quickly resolve the water crisis, Jiang Yuan had to uphold the Water Mirror eastward, collecting water along the way.
Thus, demon beasts and little demons above the wilderness, along with mortals in villages and towns of the Human World, collectively witnessed a spectacular phenomenon — an extra full moon appeared in the sky!
And the water on the ground being absorbed by the moon, from afar resembling a water dragon ascending to the moon, was both miraculous and magnificent.
"Look quickly! The moon is absorbing water!"
"Could it be that the water disaster was so dire that even the True Lord of the Moon couldn't bear it, came personally to save us?"
"There's a person beneath the moon!"
"Indeed, it's someone with fluttering garments flying through the sky, it should be a fairy, right?"
"An Immortal embracing the moon! It's an Immortal coming to save us!"
"The Water Virtue Star Monarch has revealed divine intervention?"
"You're blind! Clearly, it's a fairy with flowing skirts..."
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Along the way, demons and humans deeply afflicted by the disaster looked up in awe, yet no demon cultivator dared to approach, for it was the moon! Who were they to challenge the moon in the sky?
The County Magistrate of East Lake Port, upon witnessing this scene, was both excited and profoundly inspired. He, too, gazed up at the solution-bearing moon and recited aloud: "In the fourteenth winter of the Qinghe era, Yue Yongkang was exiled to guard East Lake Port. By the following year, at the end of summer, the flood took countless lives. It was then that an Immortal descended from the sky, mending boats and aiding people..."
