The Thousand Waters Art

After the boy Jiang Li nearly drowned at age seven, he was saved by Jiang Bo, and from then on his left eye could see traces of “spiritual water.” At sixteen, Jiang Bo was bullied to death by the Zhou family of Qingshi Town, and Jiang Li slaughtered the entire Zhou family in a single night, setting him on a path of killing and battle. He plunders spiritual waters all along the way: Yuisui Spring tempers his body, Xuanying Essence freezes all things, Biluotian Water controls wind and clouds. With every person he kills, his cultivation advances a step; with every water he takes, his heart grows colder. Outside Donghai City, he wipes out the Blood Blade Sect; atop a snowy mountain, he beheads a Golden Core elder; at the Guixu sea eye, he kills a flood dragon and seizes Biluotian Water, using his Condensing Core cultivation to counterkill Yuanying pursuers. Deep in Guixu, Jiang Li discovers the ruins of an ancient Water God Palace. The guardian tells him the truth: thirty thousand years ago, the Dragon King of the East Sea destroyed the Water God Palace to seize the source of all waters, and now its inheritance awaits a master. Jiang Li breaks through the Frozen Abyss, Flaming Sea, and Leize in succession, gathers the three true waters, fuses the source of all waters, and his cultivation surges to the peak of the Great Ascension stage.

After leaving Guixu, he first kills the Dragon Whale King as a sacrifice, then storms the East Sea Dragon Palace, transforms the source of all waters into a ten-thousand-foot water dragon, and beheads the crossing-tribulation Dragon King before a million sea races. The sea race submits, but Jiang Li turns and leaves. Back at Jiang Bo’s grave, he bows and burns incense. The ninety-nine heavenly thunders descend; he forcibly withstands all eighty-one bolts and succeeds in tribulation. The heavenly gate opens, and he can ascend to the upper realm. Jiang Li glances at it, then turns west—there are still spiritual waters waiting for him there.

No romance, no nonsense, no whitewashing. The protagonist trusts only three things in life: repay grudges on the spot, finish the kill, and steal the spiritual water.