A brilliant light flashed as the Essence, gathered into a blue tide, lapped against the cauldron's walls. Liang Qu's brow furrowed. The Marsh Cauldron's messages usually projected into his sea of consciousness as a rainbow light, illuminating his mind.
The color was most often a vast azure, pleasing and relaxing to behold, but today it was a strange blackish-red, exuding a heavy pressure! Drowning Karma triggered? How did it trigger?
"It shouldn't be because of 'Flood Dragon Slay'… that's just a divine power, not one that requires a price. It has only benefits and no drawbacks. Besides, I've been in the meditation chamber without going out, I didn't even disembark for supplies along the way."
Liang Qu gazed out the window. They had set out from the Southern Metropolitan Region in the twelfth month, heading west all the way. To give Liang Qu ample time to cultivate, Tattakai had not advanced at full speed, stopping and starting along the journey.
But now, in the first month, the once broad and boundless surface of the Huai River was now dominated by towering snow mountains that seemed to rise from the waters! The river's source beyond the heavens, snow-capped ridges like the edge of a sword. The upper reaches of the Huai River…