Food System in Cultivation World

On that day, when Chen Xu tethered the dragon and calmed the waves.

The entire world was trembling and echoing.

At that moment, Cui Yunqi was already bleeding all over, his Divine Soul nearly separating from his body.

Ning Siyu was slightly better off, the Daluo Smoke Rain Umbrella in his hand releasing a mottled brilliance that enveloped him—

Yes, this Treasure Umbrella was already half broken.

The city was hit by the flood, half the houses were submerged.

In the lower areas, water reached the rooftops; in the higher areas, it was still several feet deep.

Apart from those who fled the city, most of the remaining citizens climbed onto rooftops.

People had never seen such a flood, nor such drastic changes.

Normally, even during flood season, there would be a process for the water to rise from heavy rain to flood.

During which, there would be some time to choose whether to escape or stay.

But never before like this, with calamity coming without warning, death arriving suddenly?

Especially terrifying was the dragon emerging from the river. When it roared, many frail citizens weren't bewitched into suicide, but were shocked to death, or frightened to death.

Desperation spread among the remaining survivors, countless people lay on rooftops, facing the torrential rain and gazing at the distant towering white waves on the river, crying bitterly.

"I don't want to turn into a dragon, I also don't want to die!"

"Grandpa Dragon, please grant us a way to live, I've never done anything bad in my life, how can I die here…"

Some of the survivors from the disaster ten years ago were crying out:

"Thank you, imperial envoy, thank you for sparing us! Among those who harmed you back then, I wasn't one of them! I received your kindness, I knew you weren't a bad person, I even secretly offered sacrifices to you in my old house…"

But the rain grew heavier, the flood waves surged forward, the water level rising ever higher.

The woman who claimed to have worshipped Xie Huaizheng clutched her child, her center of gravity unstable.

Suddenly, a huge wave hit, and she lost her footing, falling straight into the flood from the rooftop.

The woman hurriedly tightened her grip on her crying child, screaming in terror: "Help!"

The waves churned, submerging her in an instant. In a split second, she was nowhere to be seen, swept away by the floodwaters to who knows where.

Gulugulu—

In the east of the city, Yu Zhi and other students gathered on the school rooftop, using long bamboo poles and other tools, trying hard to rescue people who fell into the water around them.

They saw the woman fall into the water, but there was nothing they could do, as she was ten zhang away from them. In such violent wind and rain, no one could reach her from that distance.

Thud!

Yet on a rooftop far away, someone voluntarily jumped into the water.

It was the woman's husband, crying out, "Qin Niang, if you and the child perish, how do I continue living? If I can't save you today, I'll die alongside you…"

Crash, the waves surged.

Before he could finish his words, he too was swept under by the water.

Yu Zhi and Master Lü and the others watched with sorrow.

Yu Zhi couldn't help but grit his teeth and say, "There is true love in the world, I cannot bear to see such a tragedy. I, I want to try going into the water to see if I can save this family."

As he spoke, he handed his long bamboo pole to a fellow student beside him, removed his outer clothing, and prepared to enter the water.

The fellow student wanted to dissuade him but managed only to say, "Yu Zhi, don't be impulsive…"

Before he could finish, the fellow student suddenly looked up, as if stunned, and shouted, "No, no! Yu Zhi, look…"

Look at what?

Boom!

Yu Zhi didn't have time to see anything, he was too fast.

Before anyone could finish a sentence, he had already leapt into the water, swimming vigorously towards where the woman had fallen.

Such recklessness would normally make his fellow students stomp in anger.

But the changes happening in the distance were too significant, and Yu Zhi's fellow students only managed to shout, "Yu Zhi!"

No one could spare any attention to him afterward.

Everyone was stunned, in shock.

Even Master Lü, who was reaching out to pull Yu Zhi back, was only holding onto his outer clothes, his gaze turned toward the sky outside the city.

In the endless rain-clouded sky, an ominous dragon engulfed in black mist was surging upward.

It was half turned into a dragon, its antlers menacing.

Its half-transformed body seemed about to break through the entire sky.

At that moment, the dragon roared incessantly, as if the heavens were weeping.

Just at this moment of shared sorrow and despair, a young man stepped out from nowhere.

That person advanced against the fierce wind, his robes flying, as if descending from the heavens.

He stretched out a hand, lightly placing his long palm on the ferocious dragon's head amidst the endless wind and rain.

Who was stronger or weaker between this seemingly insignificant person and a dragon that looked like it could tear the sky apart?

At first glance, the answer seemed obvious.

But in truth, the moment this person placed his hand on the dragon's head, the ominous dragon surprisingly let out a cry of pain.

"Roar——"

The dragon's roar was like a knife, enough to stir up goosebumps.

Everyone stared up, trembling involuntarily.

Whether it was out of fear or excessive expectation, or perhaps neither… they were instinctively overwhelmed by the unfolding events, unable to control their emotions.

A student couldn't help but shiver and nervously asked:

"Did you see that? I'm not seeing things am I? That, that dragon, it, it's backing away! It's being forced back by a palm?"