Reversing the Milky Way

Bai Cheng listened to these gossips. Apart from having lunch in his room at noon, he spent the entire afternoon on the deck. After listening to the information discussed by the locals of Baifeng City, he learned that...

This year is the most important year for the Fire Cloud Kingdom. Every 300 years, the throne of the Fire Cloud Kingdom will change hands, and after 300 years there will be a 20-year gap. During this period, all the princes and princesses must do their best to win over their respective forces. After 20 years, all the princes and princesses will lead 10 people from their respective forces into the Imperial Mausoleum Secret Realm. They will have one month to enter the Imperial Mausoleum Secret Realm. Whoever gains the approval of the divine beast in the secret realm will become the next emperor. The only way to gain approval is to control the Imperial Seal of the Nation.

According to the information obtained, the old city lord of Baifeng City has already sided with the Fourth Princess. Once the Fourth Princess ascends the throne, she will become the empress. As far as Bai Cheng knows, this world does not seem to have any particular discrimination or views on gender. After all, it is a world where strength is respected. As long as you are strong enough, you can hold great power regardless of whether you are male or female or even not human.

Bai Cheng sighed slightly as he thought of this.

"Sigh, I wonder how Yueling is doing now. But judging from her mother's appearance, she must be someone important. She was able to kill a Dharma Aspect Spirit Body in the Tonghai Realm with one blow, so she should be fine."

He then looked at the shimmering river surface, the rippling water seemingly gilded with a dazzling golden glow under the setting sun. Unbeknownst to him, however, a huge dark shadow was rapidly approaching the ferry on the river.

Bored, Bai Cheng returned to his room in the cabin and began to cultivate in peace. Although he was on the river, he could still feel the powerful spiritual energy flowing upwards from below.

"Thump...thump thump..."

With a few muffled thuds, Bai Cheng felt a slight tremor in the deck beneath his feet. At first, he didn't pay attention and continued his cultivation, but as the thuds became more frequent, he also noticed something amiss.

He walked out of the room with trepidation, only to find that many other people in the cabin corridor had also noticed the situation and were discussing it animatedly.

"Hey, what's going on? Did you guys feel it?"

"Did you run into a larger fish? The Mo Chuan River is a branch of a spiritual vein, so it's normal for there to be some larger aquatic creatures."

Listening to the discussions around him, Bai Cheng was actually a little worried. After all, he was a terrible swimmer, and if something happened to him on the Mochuan River, he would probably have a hard time getting to the riverbank in his current condition.

Soon, the thumping sounds from the bottom of the boat disappeared, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, Bai Cheng walked out of the cabin and onto the deck, only to find that the edge of the deck was already surrounded by a crowd. The expressions on their faces were different; some showed fear, while others showed curiosity. They were all trying to find the creatures that might be in the water.

Just then, a tall, middle-aged man spoke up: "Please don't panic, everyone. I am Xu Zemin, the owner of this ferry. Although our boat is not large, the hull is made of driftwood that is over a hundred years old. Even if we hit aquatic creatures, it won't have a significant impact on us. Besides, we are not the only ferry around. Once we pass the fork in the road not far ahead, we will enter Rock Heart Lake. We will reach the dock in the City Lord's Mansion area in less than an hour. So please rest assured."

Xu Zemin's words were like a stabilizing injection for everyone present, instantly calming the tense crowd.

Bai Cheng's gaze was also fixed on a ferry in the distance behind them. He saw a smaller ferry sailing about a mile away, and its appearance was somewhat different from the ferry Bai Cheng was on.

According to others, those boats are called "flower boats," and they only have two decks. They are boats that are outsourced to private individuals for leisure.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Cheng saw a huge splash of water suddenly erupt from one side of the ferry in the distance, a scene that immediately attracted the attention of everyone on board.

"Look, isn't that ship sinking?!"

Upon hearing this, everyone on the deck turned their gaze to the flower boat in the distance, which began to slowly sink in their eyes.

Seeing this, murmurs arose from the crowd.

"Could it be something from the water that did this?"

"Should we go and rescue them?"

"Captain Xu, say something!"

Upon seeing this scene, Xu Zemin frowned slightly. He couldn't be sure what was in the water. Although there had been a thumping sound from the bottom of the boat, he couldn't guarantee that the boat wouldn't be affected.

Thinking of this, he immediately asked, "May I ask which of you here is a cultivator?"

Upon hearing this, everyone present began to criticize it.

"Where are we cultivators? If we were cultivators, would we need to sit on a boat here? We would have flown there long ago."

Bai Cheng looked around and found that none of the people around him had any traces of spiritual energy fluctuations. Only the boat owner named Xu Zemin had a faint trace of spiritual energy fluctuations, but it was not at the level of Qi Condensation Realm.

Seeing that no one responded, Lin Zemin continued, "This is also the patrol area of ​​the White Maple City Guard. They should be discovered by the patrolling guards soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, three city guards flew overhead on their swords, their target the sinking pleasure boat in the distance. Just as the three guards landed on the pleasure boat, a thud sounded from below Bai Cheng's boat, and the boat shook slightly. Everyone was startled, and some even ran into the cabin in a panic.

Bai Cheng was also filled with unease.

'What's going on? The two ships are at least a kilometer apart, and in less than a minute, that thing has arrived at their location!'

Seeing this, Lin Zeming began to comfort him again.

"Don't panic, everyone! This ship is very sturdy!"

Just then, a middle-aged, burly man stepped forward. He was tall and strong and was holding a harpoon.

“I am a fisherman who makes a living by fishing on the banks of the Mochuan River. I am a very good swimmer. Let me deal with this beast.”

After saying that, he suddenly jumped into the river below.

At this moment, Bai Cheng also came to the deck where the man had jumped down to observe. According to his observation, the fisherman was physically strong and moved quickly and powerfully. He could tell at a glance that he was a martial artist at the Great Perfection of Body Refinement Realm.

About thirty seconds later, the fisherman quickly emerged from the water, and Lin Zemin on the deck asked him a question.

"How's it going? Did you find anything?"

The fisherman shook his head.

"I didn't find anything suspicious underwater, so they must have left."

Bai Cheng, meanwhile, gazed at the azure river and began to ponder.

"The river water here is crystal clear; you can see almost everything up to twenty meters underwater. If there were any aquatic creatures, they should be easy to spot, but no one has seen anything like it since then."

Just as he was thinking this, Bai Cheng noticed a dark shadow enveloping the fisherman in the water. Upon seeing this, Bai Cheng immediately shouted loudly.

"Watch out what's beneath you!"

However, just as he shouted those words, the dark shadow in the water had already grown to a diameter of five meters. The fisherman instinctively looked down, but the next moment, a huge splash shot into the sky, and streaks of blood-red water were mixed in with the clear river water. Immediately afterwards, a huge figure leaped high from the river, and at this moment, the fisherman's lower body was completely bitten by the creature. His terrified face made him keep stabbing the creature in the hand with his harpoon.

However, when the harpoon touched the creature's skin, it was deflected without causing any harm. At this moment, everyone could see the creature's true appearance. It was a strangely shaped large fish with a turtle-like head and a body covered with hard scales. Where fins should have been, there were a pair of strong forelimbs. The sharp teeth in its mouth had pierced through the fisherman's waist, and its body length exceeded twenty meters.

Bai Cheng was startled when he saw the strange shape. However, the next moment, the strange fish shook its head, and blood splattered on the deck like raindrops. Immediately afterward, the fisherman's upper body fell from the sky.

The scene startled everyone on the deck, who quickly retreated. Blood was gushing from the fisherman's abdomen, his internal organs scattered on the ground, his harpoon was broken, and his face showed no signs of life. The strange fish, however, had already returned to the surface of the river.

Upon seeing this, everyone cried out in alarm. Immediately afterward, another loud noise came from under the deck, causing the entire ferry to sway slightly.

"What was that monster just now? Was it a fish?"

"No, that's a sea monster called the Demon Tooth Tiger Fish."

Lin Zemin's words sent a chill down the spines of everyone present.

"What? Isn't that a mid-level demonic beast? Boss Xu, you should tell the helmsman to speed up."

As soon as these words were spoken, the rest of the people on the deck echoed them.

Bai Cheng suddenly spoke up from the side: "It's no use. I think that sea monster is much faster than this ferry. Right now, we can only ask the city guards from before to help us."

After saying that, Bai Cheng looked at the flower boat in the distance. He saw that half of the flower boat was already submerged under the river. The three city guards were using their swords to send the people on the flower boat to the shore. They had no time to pay attention to the ferry on Bai Cheng's side.

Just then, another loud crash came from beneath the ferry, making everyone on deck even more anxious.

"Don't worry, everyone. I've already said before that the hull and bottom of this ship are very sturdy; the planks are over three meters thick. Even if..."

Before he could finish speaking, the ship rocked slightly again, followed by shouts from the cabins below deck.

"Oh no! The cabin is flooding!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng immediately returned to his cabin, as his room was located below deck and his backpack was still inside. When he reached the door, Bai Cheng discovered that the surging water had already submerged his ankles. Without thinking twice, he grabbed his backpack and ran towards the deck.

At this moment, several crew members also rushed in the direction Bai Cheng had escaped.

"Quick! Quickly plug the part that's getting water in!"

After the crew plugged the water inlet, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

However, at that moment, the water in front of the ferry suddenly surged high again, and a huge figure rushed onto the deck. It was the sea monster, the Demon-Toothed Tiger Fish. Its massive forelimbs slammed onto the deck, causing the entire deck to shake.

Upon seeing this, Xu Zemin immediately shouted loudly.

"Everyone, back up!"

However, just as he uttered those words, the demon-toothed tiger fish in front of him suddenly opened its mouth wide, gathering spiritual energy within. Upon seeing this, Bai Cheng immediately sensed something was wrong, because he was very familiar with the prelude to such an attack.

"Everyone get out of the way! This beast is about to attack!"

Bai Cheng's words were like a thunderclap in the crowd, and the anxious crowd immediately rushed into the cabin.

However, in the next instant, the Demon-Toothed Tigerfish spat out a huge ball of spiritual energy, which flew towards the running crowd. Immediately afterward, a huge explosion rang out, and pieces of wrecked limbs and human remains flew wildly through the air.

If Bai Cheng hadn't dodged in time, he would have been caught in the blast as well.

When he came to his senses, he found that a large hole had been blasted through the junction of the cabin and the deck. Some of the survivors were lying on the deck, groaning in pain, and each of them was covered in blood.

This attack also served as a reminder to Bai Cheng that even the lowest-level, low-ranking demonic beasts can use their spiritual power to unleash attacks.

Not far away, several city guards who were rescuing the flower boat were also drawn to Bai Cheng's ferry by the loud noise they had just heard.

"Captain! Look!"

The person called captain is named Shi Tiezhong, a cultivator in the mid-stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.

"You continue transporting people to the riverbank, I'll go take a look."

After saying that, he took off on his sword and flew towards the ferry of Bai Cheng and the others.

At this moment, Xu Zemin, the ferry owner, was leading several of his crew members, armed with weapons, standing in front of the Demon Tooth Tiger Fish. At his command, the crew members immediately launched an attack on the Demon Tooth Tiger Fish.

Bai Cheng could also tell that most of the crew members' weapons had reached the level of mid-grade magic weapons, and their cultivation levels had all surpassed the late stage of Body Refinement.

However, the scales on the Demon Tooth Tigerfish were incredibly hard, and these weapons caused no damage when they struck the hard scales. As the huge forelimb slammed into the ship's deck, several crew members were immediately thrown out by the enormous impact. Several fell into the water, and another crew member was smashed into a pulp by the claw because he couldn't dodge in time.

Upon seeing this, Xu Zemin immediately shouted loudly.

"You beast, prepare to die!"

After saying that, he raised his weapon and charged at the Demon Tooth Tiger Fish.

Only then did Bai Cheng realize that the weapon in Xu Zemin's hand looked exactly like the Mo Dao he knew.

Although Xu Zemin was at the Great Perfection of the Body Refinement Realm, he had the talent to cultivate spiritual energy. Under his control, the blade of his weapon was quickly covered with red spiritual energy, and as the longsword was swung down, scorching flames suddenly ignited from the blade.