Guarding the River of Time-Chapter 234 - 228: Three Great Emperors Reverse the River of Time! Su Mu’s Frightening Advancement
With a thought, he opened the attribute panel:
[Host: Su Mu]
[Cultivation: Supreme Immortal King (Nine Lives Immortal King Body)]
[Mastered Divine Techniques: Water Control (Level 5), Swimming (Level 5)]
[Mastered Techniques: Cyan Heaven Dragon Transformation Technique (Seventh Layer), Divine Elephant Prison-Suppression Strength (Seventh Layer), Holy Abyss Technique (Tenth Layer), Nine Secrets (Second Layer), God-Striking Treasure Technique (Second Layer)]
[Mastered Laws: Power of Spatial Rules (Level 2), Law of Light (Level 1)]
[Water Beast Tamer: Apychelodraco, World Stingray Beast, Stone Axe Beast, Chaos Golden Spirit (Fusang), Golden Heavenly Dao, Spirit of Fortune, Profound Celestial Turtle, Space-Time Primordial Beast]
[River Affinity: 15%]
[River Favor Points: 551,000 points]
....
After saving for so long, he had accumulated over 500,000 favor points in one go.
He could instantly increase his river affinity to 20%.
[Favor Points - 500,000]
[River Affinity: 15%] → [River Affinity: 20%]
After a direct 5% increase, a magical scene occurred.
Water curtains rose on the river, surging around Su Mu, and his affinity with the river increased significantly!
Amongst it, his divine sense perception also surged, allowing him to cover a distance of 5,000 kilometers upstream and downstream using himself as the center.
This means he could sense activity over a total of 10,000 kilometers of river, and within his divine sense range, no minor detail could escape his attention. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
This was a tremendous improvement!
In this way, if any abnormal situation occurred in the river, he could detect it more quickly and thoroughly, providing great convenience for Su Mu to earn favor points.
Divine sense was the first significant enhancement.
Another aspect was that Su Mu could distinctly sense the strange mists rising from the river surface and sometimes the thick fog along the shores, which now had no effect on him!
This was fantastic news!
Because these mists were extremely bizarre—sometimes too dense that they momentarily made Su Mu lose his way, greatly affecting his work.
But now, these enigmatic mists had no effect on Su Mu.
Thus, Su Mu no longer needed to check the weather before leaving home.
Previously, if the fog was too thick when he went out, he would stay home to cultivate.
...
20% was a new threshold.
It was like having mastered one-fifth of the river!
Starting anything was the hardest part; previously, Su Mu spent three years to increase his river affinity to 10%.
But later, he only took a year to go from 10% to 20%, with the speed increasing swiftly.
This was because as Su Mu’s strength increased and his foundation grew, he could handle more abnormal situations. Initially, he could only earn one or two hundred favor points a day, but now he could earn a few thousand regularly.
At this rate, reaching 100% wouldn’t take long.
Su Mu’s most urgent wish now was to quickly refine the river, complete the first task of the River Guardian System, and leave this wretched place to make a grand debut in the wider world.
Sometimes, Su Mu felt quite frustrated.
Other people’s systems always had simple and easy first tasks.
Why was it so difficult for him to complete the first task here?
He had already cultivated to an Immortal King, yet this first task was still unfinished. It was truly maddening!
...
After raising his affinity to 20%, the limitations on the "Water Control" divine technique were lifted, allowing the technique’s level to be further improved.
[Stripping: Level 5 (0/10,000): Can separate 50,000 jin of water from the surface.]
[Acceleration: Level 5 (0/10,000): Can accelerate a water area of 50,000 square meters.]
[Static: Level 5 (0/10,000): Can keep a water area of 50,000 square meters static, halting flow.]
[Retreat: Level 5 (0/10,000): Can make a water area of 50,000 square meters flow backward.]
[Solidification: Level 2 (0/10,000): Can freeze a water area of 100 square meters.]
Currently, Su Mu’s water control level was five, allowing control over 50,000 jin of water to leave the surface and performing operations such as acceleration, static, and retreat on a 50,000 square meter water area.
He could also freeze a 100 square meter water area.
Raising each by one level required 50,000 favor points.
He just happened to have 51,000 favor points, so he decided to upgrade all at once, knowing he could earn a few thousand favor points daily now.
[Stripping: Level 6 (0/affinity must reach 30% to continue improvement): Can separate 100,000 jin of water from the surface.]
[Acceleration: Level 6 (0/affinity must reach 30% to continue improvement): Can accelerate a water area of 100,000 square meters.]
[Static: Level 6 (0/affinity must reach 30% to continue improvement): Can keep a water area of 100,000 square meters static, halting flow.]
[Retreat: Level 6 (0/affinity must reach 30% to continue improvement): Can make a water area of 100,000 square meters flow backward.]
[Solidification: Level 3 (0/affinity must reach 30% to continue improvement): Can freeze a water area of 1,000 square meters.]
He spent a total of 50,000 favor points, raising stripping, acceleration, static, and retreat to level six, and solidification to level three.
With a grand gesture, he could control 100,000 jin of water!
He could freeze a water area of 1,000 square meters!
And perform operations like acceleration, static, and retreat on a 100,000 square meter water area.
This was a direct doubling of improvement!
[Solidification] was even boosted tenfold!
....
Su Mu stood by the riverbank, gesturing toward the water, turning 100,000 jin of water into spiraling water dragons above the river.
With a slight wave of his hand, the water before him flowed backward!
He spent his favor points heartily, but now had only 1,000 favor points left, intensifying his urgency.
There was just over an hour left until dark, but he couldn’t afford to waste it. He hurriedly set out to patrol the river.
Based on Nannan’s notes from this period, in just an hour, he resolved over a hundred abnormal situations, with favor points pouring in!
In one hour, he earned 9,000 favor points!
Wow, at this rate, if he could earn 9,000 favor points every hour, he might fully refine the river within a year!
Darkness had fallen, and Su Mu was heading home.
.....
Cele brating his joy, Su Mu took to the kitchen himself, preparing a table full of delicious dishes.
He also drank a jug of his homemade fruit wine.
To be honest, his homemade fruit wine really packed a punch!
However, planning to have a good rest tonight, he didn’t dispel the effects of the wine and sat down for meditation.
The next day, at the break of dawn.
Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes, sensing something unusual, and looked towards the downstream of the river.
At this time, the newly awakened Nannan also looked at her father with a strange expression.
Su Mu said to Nannan, "Stay home today, and don’t go out under any circumstances."
Having given instructions, he walked step by step towards the river.
