The Regressor of Mount Hua-Chapter 311. A Fierce Reunion (1)

Everyone went insane with panic.

Those of the Hainan Sword Sect and the South Sea Dragon Gate were speechless.

People from both the Central Plains and the South Sea were awestruck by the majesty of the snake.

"I-it's the Sea God!"

"The Dragon God has emerged!"

"How could this be?"

Most of the Hainan Islanders engaged in fishing. Even if they didn’t fish themselves, nearly everyone had a family member or relative who did. Over time, most of them eventually came to believe in the superstitions sailors had picked up through their encounters.

There were many beliefs and superstitions of the sea. However, the most prominent beliefs among them were the religions of the God of the Seas, the Sea God, and the Dragon King.[1]

It was no surprise that the Hainan Sword Sect and the Returning Deer Gate had lost the support of the people after they became enemies with the South Sea Dragon Gate. To them, the South Sea Dragon Gate was not just a sect, but a religion.

Moreover, the true form of the Dragon King was a dragon. Thus, it would have been even stranger if they hadn't panicked when they saw a dragon appear before their eyes.

"W-were we truly doing something wrong?"

"If it truly was our greed that made the sea angry..."

Starting from the small and medium-sized sects that cooperated with the Hainan Sword Sect, they began to lose their fighting spirit one by one.

They weren't able to fight any longer after seeing something like that.

Zhuge Xiuluan sensed the shift in the air and quickly shouted.

"Take a good look at its head! It's not a dragon!"

While dragons and snakes looked similar, there were slight differences. Moreover, if it was a dragon, it should have legs attached to its body. However, the snake before them had none.

Just from its huge body, it was easy to mistake it for a dragon. Unfortunately, its head was covered by its massive stomach, making it hard to see.

While the martial artists could see it once they focused a little, the ordinary people didn't have that sort of luxury.

Fortunately, those of the South Sea Dragon Gate were in a similar situation. It wasn't just similar, it was even more severe. Some of them were even bowing their heads and posturing themselves.

Just what the hell... is going on?

Zhuge Xiuluan looked at the sea worriedly.

Young Master Zhou, be careful.

A person and a snake looked at each other.

Zhou Xuchuan could see himself clearly in the bright yellow eyes that were as tall as a person.

The materials used to make the Nine Children of the Dragon Pillars must be the Divine Tree of the Water Spiritual Fruit.

He had felt a familiar feeling as soon as he had seen the great cavern of the South Sea Dragon Gate.

It was a strange feeling that was both unfamiliar, yet familiar at the same time. Only now did he realize what that the indescribable sensation, mixed with déjà vu and a sense of alienation, had been.

Although we may be in a different place, it's the same as where I had gone when I was young.

It was the same sort of environment, except that this time, the divine tree had become a pillar.

Before rising to the surface, Zhou Xuchuan had asked the South Sea Dragon King when the sea’s fury had first begun.

It's been about ten years.

The timing was right. This was the snake he had seen before.

No, the timing itself wasn't really that important.

The sensation and the memories held within his body were shouting that it was a spiritual beast he had seen before. It was clear from the overwhelming majesty of the snake and its eyes.

The question was: why had a brat who should’ve been near Shaanxi ended up in an underwater cave deep in the South Sea?

It wasn't a big deal for a snake that lives in rivers to come out to the sea. However, the distance was so far that it was strange for it to have come all the way here.

Geographically, to come from Shaanxi to the South Sea, one had to cross the Yangtze River, exit to the East Sea, and then head south.

Things would have been different if it had been wandering around the waters near the South Sea. However, it was strange that it had been hitting the outer wall of the Dragon Palace, or the Crystal Palace, for more than ten years.

Screech!

Now isn't the time for idle thoughts.

While the snake had been impressive in the past, seeing it now was truly overwhelming. Its size and its roar, that was so loud that it made his body tremble, was amazing.

It seemed to be a higher level spiritual beast than the Seven-legged Serpent or the Human-faced Spider.

"Do you see it, Dragon King and his Tail?!"

Zhou Xuchuan shouted, not caring about the great spirit in front of him.

"The one who has been destroying the pillars of the Dragon Palace for over ten years isn't the fury of the sea or a dragon! It's just a mere creature!"

When Zhou Xuchuan heard about the existence of the snake from Gan Yezi, he immediately ran out of the Dragon Palace, saying that he would deal with it.

Of course, the South Sea Dragon King and Dragon's Tail, who considered dragons sacred, followed him, wondering what he was going to do.

The old man and the woman looked at the snake's face with only their heads above the water.

"Since it was hidden in the deep sea, you could only see its body, not its head. In actuality, it's just an imoogi that hasn't yet become a dragon!"[2]

It was said that if a snake that had become a spiritual beast accumulates five hundred years of virtue, then it could become an imoogi, and once it accumulates a thousand years of virtue, it ascends to the heavens as a dragon.

If one only looked at its body, the imoogi may have looked like a dragon, but since it had no legs and its features were still reminiscent of a snake, it wasn't a dragon just yet.

Moreover, it didn't have the yeouiju, the symbol of a dragon.[3]

"That's..."

Chi Shuishui looked up at the serpent with a puzzled look.

The South Sea Dragon King had a similar reaction.

What the South Sea Dragon Gate held sacred were dragons, not snakes or imoogi. Of course, imoogis, also known as the children of dragons, were held sacred in their own ways, but they weren't something to be worshipped.

The history of the South Sea Dragon Gate was only about Dragons.

It wasn't that they hadn't wanted to verify this all this time. However, it was difficult due to various problems.

The Dragon Palace was located underground. One would have to go even further underground to find the large cavern where the Nine Children of the Dragon Pillars were located.

To verify the identity of the imoogi that was attacking them from the outside, they would have to go down to the bottom of the deep sea. However, they couldn't do so because of the water pressure.

The air wasn't the problem. They could hold their breaths for a long time. The problem was the water pressure and the darkness that didn't allow even a single ray of light to penetrate.

Moreover, if one wasn't careful, they could get caught in the sea's currents and end up not being able to come back alive, no matter how practiced one was in water immersion arts.

While an Absolute Master like Zhou Xuchuan might have been able to hold out for a little longer, since water immersion arts weren't his speciality, he, too, had to be careful.

Thus, keeping a little distance, he had borrowed a trident from the South Sea Dragon Gate and used it to guide his way to the serpent under the deep sea.[4]

"Turn the boat around right now! Run away!"

Zhou Xuchuan shouted so that the captains of each ship could hear.

According to legend, the imoogi was the king of spiritual beasts and the ruler of water. It wasn't a creature that precedes dragons for nothing.

To begin with, it would be suicidal for the boats to collide with its body, which was as thick as a house, or rather, a mountain, head-on. Even though they were modified massive ships, they would flip over with one swing of its tail.

"R-run away?" Zhuge Shengji asked hopelessly, as if wondering if that was even possible.

Zhou Xuchuan threw himself over the railing.

"Hyungnim!"

Thrum!

First to move, first to victory!

Sword light flowing from the sword's blade began to rotate. Not only the water currents, but even the air currents moved violently and created waves around him.

Violet Haze Dawnbreaker!

Zhou Xuchuan stretched out his sword. The sword light turned purple and then disappeared. The Formless Aura spinning before shooting out.

In the case of the Dragon's Claw, he had been worried about Zhuge Xiuluan and couldn't use his full strength. In the Dragon Palace as well, he had been careful because he was afraid it would collapse.

However, there was no need for him to do so here.

While the six ships were left around them, it wasn't like they were immobile. So, he didn't have to worry too much about them and could just fight freely.

Whir!!

The spinning bolt of light struck the imoogi's head.

SCREEEEEECH!

The imoogi thrashed in pain, its massive body tossing and turning.

"We have no choice but to run," Zhuge Shengji shouted from the side of the ship.

"At this big wave!"

"Turn the rudder!"

"Withdraw! Withdraw!"

"Take out the oars!"

They lowered the sails and used oars instead of spears. They used all their strength to move the ship so they wouldn't get caught up in the dragon’s, no, the imoogi's chaos.

Fortunately, they managed to retreat quickly with the help of the waves. But the current was so violent that the escape was anything but smooth.

The ship rose sharply and then fell down. As if to show the quality of the ship, it didn't break or get damaged from the impact.

Instead, those on board rolled around and screamed.

"Huh!"

Zhou Xuchuan was equally surprised.

You're fine even after being hit by a Formless Sword Aura?

He had swung his sword strong enough to pierce through the imoogi's head. However, there was only a scratch on its face, without even the slightest wound. Zhou Xuchuan, who confirmed that the snake had no external injuries, landed on the surface of the sea in shock.

When he landed, while he did cause a splash, he didn't sink into the waves.

He used the circulation method of the Ten-Thousand Jin Sword in reverse to lighten his body, then leisurely stepped forward with his back straight.

"Maybe this'll be more annoying than I thought..."

BOOM!

"...!"

He absentmindedly looked down and flinched. A dark shadow was rising upward at a terrifying speed.

"Hmph!"

He tried to retreat quickly, but it was too late. Before he could escape, the imoogi’s massive body surged upward, slamming into him from below.

BANG!

A loud noise and a massive impact erupted as its heavy body rose through the air. It was hard to tell if Zhou Xuchuan had been hit or had been flung into the air.

His body floated high into the sky. Even a skilled expert would have fainted or broken his bones and been unable to move. Zhou Xuchuan struggled in the air, flipped his body over several times to gain balance, and drastically increased his weight.

WOOSH!

His body fell vertically like a sword and landed on the imoogi's body.

BOOM!!!!

He stomped on its body, producing a massive noise. However, the snake remained unscathed despite the impact.

I've fallen from that height while combining both the Thousand Catty Ballast and the Ten-Thousand Jin Sword, but that thing is completely fine. It's not just that its scales are hard.

That imoogi wasn't just big. Its scales were thicker than he could have imagined.

While there was the feeling of hitting something, his actions didn't cause any internal injuries.

It's no different from Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron.

It was said that internal penetration techniques didn’t work well against the defensive properties of Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron. It wasn’t considered a legendary metal for nothing.

Yet, the legendary spiritual beast, equal in strength, was this very same imoogi.

Don't give up. I still have a lot of moves left.

He kicked off the scales and ran across the imoogi's torso. Rather than being rough, the texture was smooth, and he moved as if he was gliding on the ice.

Green Eyes Ten Thousand Poisons Art!

Heavy raindrops poured down from above his head. His left eye flashed a pale green.

The poison of the Human-faced Spider flowing from his dantian spread to every corner of his body. The color of the haze on his sword changed.

As soon as the poison qi fully circulated around his Eight Divine Meridians and reached his left eye, he lowered his sword and slashed down on the imoogi’s torso.

CLANG!!!

However, even his sword, imbued of poison, was meaningless if it couldn't cut through the scales.

"Damn it!" He cursed.

The imoogi was truly indestructible. It was a miracle he had survived an encounter with it when he was young.

SCREEEEEEEEEECH!

It let out a roar so loud it was deafening. The sound of its roar alone was enough to create a tsunami. People and animals alike trembled in fear.

"...!"

Zhou Xuchuan couldn't get across the imoogi's entire body in time and was thrown to the side. The imoogi had twisted its body in the middle.

The moment he tried to check what was happening, his body froze.

Crack.

The former guardian of the Water Spiritual Fruit opened its mouth. The inside of its mouth was still that of a snake—its fangs dangerously threatening.

"Ah sh—"

The imoogi's jaws snapped shut.

Crunch.

"Ahh..."

It happened in an instant. The first thought in Zhou Xuchuan's head when it happened was, that thing can move quite fast even with that massive body.

"No!" Zhuge Xiuluan screamed.

She forgot about the battlefield in the midst of a war and just watched absentmindedly. Using her qi, she heightened her eyesight to the max so that she could see far away.

While she was more skilled in formations than cultivation, she still knew the basics as one of the Five Dragons and Three Phoenixes.

Since she had consumed the elixirs provided by the Family, her qi reserves were also quite high, meaning that she was able to see more in great detail.

Duan Lihua's expression wasn't that good, either.

"C-captain..."

Hua Bisheng muttered with a worried expression.

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"AAGGH!"

A sound was heard from inside the imoogi's mouth. It wasn't the majestic roar that had just come out, but the voice of a human.

The tightly closed mouth slowly opened. The imoogi's eyes were also confused.

Judging from the trembling mouth, it seemed to be resisting. However, despite the effort, its mouth opened wide.

Soon after, Zhou Xuchuan appeared, his sword stabbed into the roof of the imoogi's mouth, trying to force it open.

"ROAR!!!!"

While the strength of the bite was great, the strength of the one pushing against it was also incredible.

Zhou Xuchuan had turned all of his ocean-like power into pure physical strength to push open the jaws, then pulled out the sword fixed into the roof of the imoogi's mouth and stepped back.

Crunch!

In the end, the imoogi only chewed the empty air.

Was that really not a rumor? Is he really the Sword God?

I heard that the Seven Empyrean Overlords aren't humans, but...

Is that brat really a human?

Those who saw the sight were astonished.

1. The title of the God of the Seas is the Sea God, the two words are different in Korean. ☜

2. An imoogi is a lesser dragon. When a snake lives 500 years, it grows little nubby horns and becomes really long, turning into an imoogi. Once an imoogi lives for another 500 years, it finally evolves into a dragon. The other legend is that an imoogi needs an elixir to become a dragon. ☜

3. A Yeouiju, otherwise known as a Cintamani, is a wish-fulfilling pearl in Hindu and Mahayana Buddhist tradition. In Korean folklore, it takes the place of a dragon's pearl for imoogi to ascend to become a dragon. We kept this in Korean instead of Chinese because the imoogi and its relationship to a Cintamani is solely a Korean folktale. ☜

4. No, it doesn't explain how the trident was helpful. ☜