My wife is the stand-in.

'Ah Tang, I know I can't be in this situation without your help, but the most urgent thing is to stop Ruoshui. Please show yourself quickly.'

A few seconds later, a thought echoed in Amanosaki's mind: 'Just do it, I'll take care of the rest.'

Amanosaki perked up upon hearing this, and turned to Bichuni, saying, "Little nun, we'll use the same tactics as before. I'll knock down a portion of the water each time, and you'll be responsible for boiling it dry. Whether we live or die this time depends entirely on you."

"First, you are not allowed to call me a nun, and you are even less allowed to call me 'little'!" Red lotuses bloomed around the nun, and she forced a few more petals open. "Second, the air humidity near the temple is so high right now. If I keep burning, it will definitely rain. Wouldn't all that accumulated moisture then become her nourishment?"

"It's not that easy. If she could easily turn any water into weak water, why doesn't she just go into the main river? There's a whole river there. If she turned all the water into weak water, she could directly harm the downstream areas of the main river."

"There must be conditions!"

Amanosaki uttered these two sentences, then his hands trembled, causing his magic quartz to surge. His ferocious claws transformed into two clusters of crystalline drills, and his magic circuits lit up as he turned and left the tide!

"What are you doing? Are you trying to desert?!"

Seeing that Amanosaki was about to escape, disrupting the standoff between the two people and the demon, the nun hurriedly retreated on her red lotus to prevent herself from being submerged by the tide.

The Ruoshui Black Tide crashed into the ruins of the Sanjiang Hall, washing away the walls and building remains that had been brittled by the fire. This quasi-military camp was utterly destroyed, leaving nothing but the roadbed.

Amanosaki didn't have time to explain. Because the Weak Water was controlled by the Yin of the Gui Water, the ground, which had been soaked by the Weak Water and lost its vitality, was exposed again. Amanosaki ran wildly, leaping over the altar where the heroes were gathered in a few steps, and rushed up the mountain like the wind.

With his eyes enhanced by magic, they were comparable to those of a hawk. Amanosaki's eyes darted around, quickly locking onto his target.

"right here!"

Ahead lies the gray-green dividing line. Before, in order to block the Sanjiang Hall, Gui Shuiyin had spread the Weak Water throughout the entire valley. Apart from the knights, there were no living creatures on the ground. The shrubs were withered, the trees were decaying and the leaves had fallen, and everywhere there were swollen dead fish and beasts.

Only after walking about 100 meters up a gentle slope can you see patches of greenery.

Further up, the vegetation is lush, and birds and cicadas sing.

Amanosaki leaped up, landed in the forest, and clasped his hands together in apology:

"Friends! I need your energy to save the world! So please raise your hands and give your lives."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand, which had transformed into a crystal drill, and plunged it into the roots of the two large trees.

Chirp chirp.

An unsettling sound emanated from the heartwood of two gnarled old trees. The damp bark and roots that supported the lush canopy withered at a visible rate, revealing their soft, termite-eaten surfaces, before collapsing with a grotesque creak. The two nearly century-old trees fell.

The dark green leaves quickly turned yellow. Although they hadn't yet become withered leaves, the decaying gold and yellow hues had already dyed the old tree.

A new ability that Amanosaki learned from Weak Water, combining Water-attribute Magic with Gem Magic.

plunder!

Magic is transformed from life force. If one can bypass life force directly from nature, it is equivalent to having a continuous source of magic.

Amanosaki pulled out the crystal drill bit, turned around and plunged it into the roots of two other large trees. The magic quartz armor began to grow uncontrollably, showing a tendency to transform from armor into something else.

"coward!"

Honglian led the nun around the valley. The petite nun looked like a flying fairy from the Dunhuang murals, with a terrifying heat emanating from her as a fiery red light.

The nun gritted her teeth and cursed Amanosaki. That bastard made a dazzling appearance and then fled in an instant, showing no chivalrous spirit whatsoever!

"I'm going to file a complaint against this bastard at the Daoyu Mountain branch!"

Several tentacles emerged from the Weak Water, lashing out at the nun like whips. The nun hurriedly dodged, looking utterly disheveled.

Unlike the planned Gui Shui Yin, the nun was caught off guard and unprepared. Having evaporated most of the groundwater in the Sanjiang Hall, she had little strength left.

A roar of engines came from the distance in the valley. The nun, who had taken off again, could see a large convoy of cars speeding towards her in the distance, and she was extremely anxious.

These are all heroes who came from the Sanjiang Reservoir, and none of them are at the branch-level.

We need to find a way to get them to take the wounded and leave first!

The nun murmured to herself, making a decision in her heart. She suddenly stopped, and the petals made of flames slapped away the annoying tentacles of the Weak Water.

"Don't worry, great nun! Leave the wounded to me!"

A rough voice came from the mountaintop, and a strange bird with six huge wings and six pairs of claws flew down the mountain carrying a human head.

With twelve claws gripping the left and right sides of the altar, the monstrous swordsman lifted the altar with all his might, swaying and flying towards the direction the caravan had come from.

"This is... Li Junzi from the Yushan branch?"

The thought of mutual destruction had just crossed the mind when the nun saw Li Junzi appear, transformed into a deformed bird. She watched as Li Junzi opened his mouth to warn the caravan, warning all the heroes not to enter the valley, while at the same time he was running desperately, seemingly trying to avoid something.

"Are they hiding from the Yin of Gui Water?...No!"

The cracking sound of the ore being squeezed was like the bursting of a drum.

A quartz giant, about 10 meters tall and gleaming all over, stood up from the mountainside!

On the chest of the quartz giant, Amanosaki seemed to be struggling to control the giant with his limbs outstretched. His handsome features were distorted by the magic power that filled his body to the point of bursting. An old woman wearing a dress, gemstone earrings, a lace sun hat, and leaning on a glass cane stood on the giant's head, her eyes closed as she assisted Amanosaki.

"Little nun, don't be afraid, the hero is here!"

The sound amplified by the quartz was somewhat distorted, sounding like a machine talking.

The enormous quartz giant staggered down the mountain. Its first step was like that of a toddler learning to speak, its second step was like that of a patient recovering from a serious illness, and its third step was strong and powerful, like an athlete hurdling in the 100-meter dash!

With each step, the quartz giant shattered countless fragments, yet its body grew ever larger as it ran, reaching an astonishing 14 meters by the time it charged into the battle.

Amanosaki clenched his fists with his fingers interlaced, and the Quartz Giant also clenched his fists with both hands. The quartz in his body surged into his fists with a rustling sound, turning into a heavy hammer the size of a car.

"Where have you been hiding?!"

Upon seeing Amanosaki, the nun was both surprised and delighted, but she still couldn't hold back her words.

Amanosaki answered loudly, "I'm going to summon a Gundam to save you!"

"What is Gundam?" The nun had never watched any anime on Earth and didn't know what Amanosaki was talking about.

"Gundam! It's every man's romance!"

The earth cracked, and the giant, with a running start, squatted down to convert potential energy, leaped high into the air, and then spun around, gathering all the power in his fist and smashing it into the surging wave!

"Uppercut!"

Amanosaki shouted the name of Doomfist's move from Overwatch, but used a downward smashing move. He smashed the body that Gui Shuiyin had gathered with Weak Water with one punch, and the fist smashed through the Weak Water tide. With the blessing of magic and Yubaba's witchcraft, this punch was comparable to a meteorite, and immediately disrupted the movement trajectory of the Weak Water tide.

boom!

The weak water at the crest of the tide was smashed up by a punch, turning into uncontrollable, chaotic little clumps that broke away from the main tide and flew into the air.

"Little nun, now's the time!" Amanosaki Torato roared.

The nun immediately raised her body, held her vajra high, and retorted with a clear, ethereal voice:

"Say it again!"

"You don't need to call me little nun!"

The red lotus blooms once again.

As the saying goes, "a drop in the ocean" means that when a fire gets big enough, one or two buckets of water are no longer enough to extinguish it.

The Weak Water that was thrown into the sky was extraordinary, but it was burned to ashes with little effort under the fierce fire controlled by the nun.

Seeing this, Amanosaki immediately raised his fist and continued to pound the ground, each time creating countless small clumps of weak water.

Seeing this, Gui Shui Yin, who was mixed in with the Weak Water tide, stirred the Weak Water like a madman and attacked the legs of the Quartz Giant.

Two swirling eddies of weak water, carrying concrete and stones, chafed the quartz giant's legs like water jets.

Standing atop the giant's head, Yubaba pushed her magic to its limit, granting Amanosaki unprecedented clarity of mind, heightened concentration, and incredible physical resilience. She absorbed the life force of dozens of centuries-old trees, continuously transforming it into magical power to replenish the eroded quartz.

The four were deadlocked for a time.

Li Junzi, carrying the abbot, landed exhausted at the edge of the valley and was quickly surrounded by the convoy.

He transformed back into human form, panting heavily, kneeling on the ground, foaming at the mouth.

Fatai's suppression of superpowers was naturally effective against him, and he is now unable to use his powers.

"Holy crap! Captain Li?"

A blond-haired man, accompanied by a silent swordsman, pushed through the chaotic crowd and pointed at Li Junzi in astonishment, exclaiming, "Weren't you in the lounge with that newcomer? How come you arrived before us and were fighting with the demon?"

If Amanosaki were here, he would recognize this person as the blond swordsman who had guided him to the Sanjiang Reservoir earlier.

However, Li Junzi did not recognize this person. He did not say much to him, but called on everyone to organize and rescue the knight. At the same time, he ordered his team members to block everyone and not allow anyone to enter the canyon.

"This is a battle that only branch leaders can participate in. The entire Sanjiang Hall has been destroyed. We can't go in and cause trouble for our comrades."

Li Junzi said this.

On the battlefield, with Amanosaki, Yubaba, and the nun joining forces, the Weak Water Tide dwindled with each battle, and Gui Shuiyin began to think that she could not win.

Where there is life, there is hope.

As she fought, she intentionally moved towards the underground pit, but as her Weak Water dwindled, Tianye, with its [Plunder] attribute, became increasingly unrestrained.

After unleashing two more powerful punches, Amanosaki, already at his limit, knew he was no longer able to fight. His own strength was already insufficient for a branch-level fighter. Although Yubaba was powerful, he didn't know why she chose to assist him this time, which resulted in the three of them combined only having the fighting power of less than two branch-level fighters.

But no matter what, he couldn't continue fighting.

Besides...

"There aren't many left. Rather than continuing to hold on and revealing my weakness, I'd rather create an opportunity for the little nun."

With that thought in mind, Amanosaki unleashed all the life force he had plundered, causing the quartz crystals in the giant's body to crack and shatter, transforming into a sphere.

Amanosaki emerged from the giant's chest and hugged Yubaba tightly. Quartz enveloped the two of them completely and spat them out. The remaining part transformed into a hemispherical dome the size of half a football field, completely covering the Weak Water, leaving only an opening at the very top.

Upon seeing this, the nun immediately flew to the gap and threw out the vajra in her hand, causing the red lotus to crash down.

When the red lotus falls to the ground, it blooms in a quartz dome at a temperature of over a thousand degrees. The damp earth cracks, hardens, and becomes brittle, exhibiting a ceramic-like texture.

Gui Shuiyin crashed against the quartz dome, screaming and cursing, but the Weak Water uncontrollably diminished until she could no longer merge herself into the water. A smooth and graceful woman's body was revealed, and the next second it turned into charred bones in the fire.

Chapter Sixty: Rival and Bathhouse

“Karmic Fire Bhikkhuni, Substitute Messenger… I will remember you.”

A small clump of black water churned in the forest, sticky and cohesive like slime. Where the black water passed, the soft, microbial-rich soil emitted a putrid stench, and the shrubs, leaves, and insects that touched it died.

A barely audible curse emanated from the mouthless mass of water, like the buzzing of a mosquito.

It is precisely the Yin of Gui Water.

Before leaving, Amanosaki used a quartz dome created by enhancement magic to cover most of the weak water. However, some of the small water droplets that Amanosaki had previously smashed away escaped by being trapped by the dome's flames.