Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er finally arrived at their first destination, the northern part of Nuoding City in Fasnuo Province.
South of Nuoding City was the Holy Spirit Village, the former residence of the Sea God Tang San, a generation of God King ten thousand years ago.
Reaching this area, bean-sized raindrops poured down visibly, filling several nearby river channels to the point of overflowing.
The terrain in this area was relatively high, and the precipitation would flow east and west with the terrain. The Holy Spirit Village located in the south just happened to escape this calamity.
Huo Yuhao looked up. In the thick cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, there seemed to be some energy irresistible to human power condensing.
Activating Spiritual Insight, one could see the looming trident pattern flashing rhythmically in the clouds.
Sure enough, that beast was making trouble.
Huo Yuhao understood instantly in his heart. With his current strength, he could naturally blast open the clouds easily. But the Sea God's mind power hidden within would definitely perceive his action.
On the current Douluo Continent, only an Ultimate Douluo could barely break this trident divine thought. However, all known Ultimate Douluos had been slaughtered by Huo Yuhao and his group. The only ones who could do this, besides the Star Dou fierce beasts, were Huo Yuhao himself.
This was a trap set by Sea God Tang San. If Huo Yuhao was still alive, he would likely take action to solve the cumulonimbus clouds for the sake of the Heaven Soul People's Republic.
After all, the previous Huo Yuhao couldn't see the trident pattern hidden in the clouds clearly.
"These rain clouds are extremely tricky. I once tried to break open the clouds to return a clear sky, but the effect was not ideal."
Xian Lin'er frowned slightly and said to Huo Yuhao.
"It would be weird if you could break open these clouds. This is not something formed naturally." Huo Yuhao explained to her, "When a soul master reaches the Titled Douluo realm, they can basically slightly correct the celestial phenomena. For you, a Super Douluo, dealing with normal rain clouds should be a piece of cake."
"You mean, this is man-made?" Xian Lin'er couldn't help but exclaim. Was there such a figure on the continent?
"Wrong, it was deliberately done by a deity." Huo Yuhao smiled mysteriously at her, then opened an invisible spiritual barrier and explained Sea God Tang San's actions to her in detail.
Xian Lin'er fell silent. It was the first time she had learned these secrets from Huo Yuhao. One had to know how highly Shrek Academy esteemed Sea God Tang San back then. The statues of the original Seven Devils standing everywhere in the academy, the so-called Sea God Pavilion, the Sea God's Fate Blind Date Convention...
When a person's strength transcended worldly cognition, people would unconsciously beautify or even deify him, treating him as their faith, even if he hadn't made much contribution to the world and possessed many shortcomings.
Sea God Tang San was the best example.
Wasn't his prevention of the Spirit Hall from unifying the continent actually due to personal hatred? Did he make any huge contribution to the evolution and development of the continent?
After he and the original Shrek Seven Devils ascended, wasn't the continent still under the autocratic rule of aristocratic royal power protected by divine power? Didn't the poor students who went to school with Tang San back then still live extremely impoverished lives?
He couldn't even compare to the original Huo Yuhao. At least the original Huo Yuhao created Soul Spirits and established the Spirit Pagoda with the original intention of reducing the killing of soul beasts by soul masters and optimizing the way to obtain soul rings, even if this organization later deteriorated from the root.
As for the later ten-thousand-year plan and so on, it could be seen even more as a joke.
When the abyssal plane was first guided to the Douluo plane, how many casualties did it cause to the continent's population? Did those people deserve to die?
Fundamentally, it could be completely seen as Sea God Tang San's personal selfishness, creating an evolved plane to let the son of the God King who was exiled to the mortal world possess a longer lifespan, waiting for the return of the Divine Realm he controlled.
Of course, these were all things ten thousand years later in the original timeline. Now that Sea God was still living well up there.
"Then what should we do?" Xian Lin'er couldn't help asking.
"There is a saying that humans cannot change the environment, but they can change themselves." Huo Yuhao smiled.
The water conservancy project blueprints he gave to Evil Dragon were advanced technologies from his original world. Those things could accelerate the civilization process of the Douluo Continent quite a bit.
Of course, since he was here, Huo Yuhao still had to do something at the source of the flood.
"Let's start with the soil erosion caused by excessive rainfall." Huo Yuhao thought to himself, then clapped his palms together.
"Sea of Trees Advent—"
With the urging of Huo Yuhao's will, countless giant trees suddenly broke through the soil on both sides of the bursting banks. They rooted tens of meters deep underground, effectively preventing soil erosion.
Immediately after, Huo Yuhao stepped forward with his right leg, activating the Earth Dragon King soul bone skill.
The earth shook, and dams lay across the rushing river one after another. The flood volume flowing east and west was immediately greatly weakened.
Although Huo Yuhao only showed two moves, any Ultimate Douluo couldn't have achieved this extent instantly.
The so-called rainfall was originally a natural phenomenon. Water on the continent turned into water vapor and evaporated into the air after being irradiated by sunlight.
Water vapor condensed into small water droplets when encountering cold air at high altitude. They were small and light, held in the high altitude by the updraft in the air, forming clouds. Then these small water droplets turned into raindrops and fell to the ground, their volume increasing countless times in this process.
Subsequently, Huo Yuhao sent a Wrath of the Ice Empress towards the cumulonimbus cloud layer, freezing a large amount of water vapor in the high altitude.
After completing this step, the precipitation would decrease briefly in the following period, and the sea of trees and dams would maximize their functions.
When the precipitation returned to its original volume, the natural defense line laid by Huo Yuhao could operate on its own. By then, a series of flood control projects in the middle reaches would also be almost completed.
Watching the miracle of transforming nature completed in an instant, Xian Lin'er opened her small cherry-red mouth involuntarily. Was this the difference between people?
"Let's go, to the next place. The sooner we solve it, the sooner we finish." Huo Yuhao patted Xian Lin'er's shoulder and smiled.
"Oh... okay!" Xian Lin'er came back to her senses. Looking at the confident young man, her heart was instantly extremely excited.
It could be said that Huo Yuhao's achievement was standing shoulder to shoulder with gods in a mortal body!
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By nightfall, Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er had completed the treatment of more than a dozen flood sources.
In this process, the newly fused Dragon King soul bones of Huo Yuhao played a great role, especially the Mountain Dragon King, Earth Dragon King, and Wind Dragon King ones. That was power capable of changing nature.
Before dark, Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin'er found a nearby city to stay. Ten thousand years ago, there was a kingdom named Balak here. There were two most important cities in its territory. One was Balak City, the capital where the King of Balak lived, and the other was Suotuo City, located in the center of the Lima Plain, the richest area in the Kingdom of Balak, known as the Granary of Balak.
When the two entered this big city, the impact of the flood on the residents for more than half a year could be seen from the depressed urban environment.
In this legendary city, too many stories about Sea God Tang San were left. It was no exaggeration to say that Tang San started to rise here back then.
Huo Yuhao didn't have much interest in this. With his current eyesight, if he encountered any arrangements left by Sea God Tang San, he could discover them immediately.
Ten thousand years had passed, and the city had long changed its appearance, but some ancient buildings passed down from ten thousand years ago were still preserved.
Suotuo City was much larger than Nuoding City, and naturally much livelier. On the streets, patrolling soldiers could be seen everywhere. The bustling flow of people shuttled back and forth, but generally, it was dominated by wandering disaster victims.
The two ate something simple first, and then looked for a place to live. Not long after, Xian Lin'er found a very chic hotel.
The hotel was three stories high. Although the scale didn't look too big, the exterior decoration was completely rose red. The architectural style of the entire hotel was also like a huge rose, which easily gave people a bright feeling.
"Rose Hotel. Huo Yuhao, let's stay here." Xian Lin'er pointed.
"Stay here?" Huo Yuhao combined the appearance of the hotel and couldn't help thinking of some stories of that legend ten thousand years ago. His eyes immediately became somewhat strange.
The straightforward Xian Lin'er didn't pay attention to too many details. She ran with Huo Yuhao for a day and was really tired. Now she just wanted to find a place to stay.