I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 136 - 103: Shattering the Mountain and Reshaping the Land

Chapter 136: Chapter 103: Shattering the Mountain and Reshaping the Land

BOOM!

BOOM!

Suddenly, a series of loud bangs echoed from the far end of the basin, from the area of the towering cliffs.

The ground trembled slightly, and a great cloud of dust billowed up from the foot of the cliffs.

The rumbling tremor traveled all the way to their feet, as if the very earth were about to split open.

"What’s going on?"

Liang Tianpeng stopped in his tracks, his gaze fixed on the far end of the basin.

Tang Jingtiao, Chen Donghe, and the other two also stopped what they were doing, looking up at the cliffs in bewildered suspicion.

SWOOSH!

But Gu Zheng, with a wave of his hand, snatched a hard, fist-sized fruit from the sharp claws of a pot-bellied Cyan Scale Demon. The fruit was entirely purple and held a hidden aura of lightning.

The fruit was already more than halfway cracked, looking as if it could detonate at any second, but its lightning aura was rapidly dissipating.

It was the pot-bellied Cyan Scale Demon that had just squeezed the fruit, cracking it open.

"What kind of Source Fruit is this?"

"This is no Source Fruit," the pot-bellied Cyan Scale Demon said, its voice harsh and sharp. "It is a Thunder God Seed. It has ten derivative Thunder Sound Seeds, each capable of exploding with enough force to destroy mountains. The noise you just heard was all ten Thunder Sound Seeds detonating. Hahaha!"

"You blew up a cliff?"

Liang Tianpeng sneered. "So that’s your great threat? Blowing up a cliff? From all the way over there..."

"Stop!"

Gu Zheng waved his hand sharply, signaling Liang Tianpeng to be quiet.

Liang Tianpeng froze, confused.

Gu Zheng, however, suddenly leaped high into the air, listening intently in the direction of the northern cliffs.

CRACK~

’A cracking sound?’

CRACK!

CRUNCH~!

CRUNCH!!

’There really is a cracking sound. The cliff is being blown apart by those Thunder Sound Seeds...’

"RUMBLE!"

Another sudden, tremendous roar.

A section of the northern cliffs, a cliff face over 150 meters high, gave way with the cracking sounds and exploded outward, sending countless rock fragments flying.

But along with the flying rubble, water also burst forth!

Like a collapsing dam or a reservoir with its floodgates thrown open, a massive torrent of water surged from the breach in the cliffs. It flooded the basin below, forming a raging current that swept rapidly toward Tang Jingtiao, Chen Donghe, and the others.

While Liang Tianpeng was still stunned and Gu Zheng looked on in disbelief, Xu Heng suddenly screamed, "It’s Mica Mountain! I remember now, this is Mica Mountain! Over there is the Yunmushan Reservoir!!"

"Those damned Cyan Scale Demons! They blew up the Yunmushan Reservoir!"

"Lord Gu, the Yunmushan Reservoir is a massive reservoir that has been accumulating water for a thousand years! It’s the most important water source for the people of three counties: Divine Water, Xuanhe, and Cold Yin."

"If the Yunmushan Reservoir collapses, the floodwaters will submerge most of the three counties!"

Xu Heng’s eyes were bloodshot as he screamed in terror.

"What?"

"Damn it!"

"Kill them!"

Tang Jingtiao, Liang Tianpeng, and the other two were stunned into silence.

Coming to their senses, they roared with fury and charged at the ecstatically screeching Cyan Scale Demons.

SHING SHING SHING~!

An even faster flash of golden light tore through the air, cutting down the remaining Cyan Scale Demons. It dismembered them all, and severed limbs rained down upon the ground.

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +5]

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"All of you, get out of here! Flee to higher ground!"

Gu Zheng shouted, his figure flickering as he executed the White Crane Soaring Technique and charged toward the northern cliffs.

WHOOSH!

"SPLASH~"

"BOOM!"

The water churned violently, destroying everything in the basin and submerging every inch of land.

Surging waves shot high into the air, casting off countless sprays of water.

Gu Zheng shot forward, flying above the torrent with his sharp brows tightly furrowed.

FWOOSH!

He unleashed his Water Demon Techniques, his Divine Power surging wildly as he tried to control the current.

But he had barely gathered a mass of water before the raging torrent swept it away.

The torrent was too ferocious!

WHOOSH!

In a single burst, he shot high into the sky, ascending past the top of the cliffs. Hovering in mid-air, he looked down at the other side.

Sure enough, he saw a vast lake, its waters pouring into the basin.

’This lake... no, according to Xu Heng, it’s a natural reservoir.’

Gu Zheng’s gaze swept into the distance. He saw that the banks on both sides of the reservoir were indeed formed by a series of mountain peaks.

These mountains linked together, forming an enclosure.

He couldn’t see where they ended.

But the cliffs on the basin side were perfectly positioned to hold back the accumulated rainwater.

Combined with the local geology, which prevented rainwater from easily seeping into the earth, millennia of accumulation had formed a natural reservoir!

Divine Water County, Divine Water County.

’The two words in its name, "Divine Water," must have come from the water in the Yunmushan Reservoir, meaning water from the heavens.’

For centuries, thanks to this natural reservoir, the three counties of Divine Water, Xuanhe, and Cold Yin had never once suffered from a water shortage.

But today, the Cyan Scale Demons had used a powerful Exotic Fruit to blast open a wide breach in the cliffs at the reservoir’s edge. The water poured out, instantly forming a raging flood.

Gu Zheng’s heart began to pound as he recalled the lay of the land between Xuanhe County and Divine Water County.

The Yunmushan Reservoir was situated on high ground.

The three counties of Divine Water, Xuanhe, and Cold Yin were laid out in a triangle below it, in the lowlands.

’Now the reservoir is flooding...’

"Damn it!"

Gritting his teeth, Gu Zheng turned and shot out of the basin, chasing after the head of the torrent.

The crest of the flood had already surged out of the basin, pouring into the open plains to the south.

BOOM!

RUMBLE~!

A small hill was submerged in the blink of an eye.

Forests, wastelands, fields, and villages were swallowed by the waters in its wake.

"It’s over. It’s all over."

On a mountaintop to the right of the basin, the five of them—Tang Jingtiao, Chen Donghe, and the others—stood dumbfounded. They stared blankly at the surging flood, their faces as pale as death.

Xu Heng’s mouth hung open as he muttered incessantly, "It’s all over... The people of Divine Water, Xuanhe, and Cold Yin are all going to die because of us..."