[Favor Points -4000]
[River Affinity: 0.06%]→[River Affinity: 0.1%]
Once the Affinity increased to 0.1%, the most intuitive feeling was that my connection to this river had slightly strengthened.
Finally reaching this 0.1% threshold, Su Mu couldn't wait to enhance his Divine Techniques.
Clicked on the point allocation interface for [Water Control].
[Stripping: Level 1 (0/100)]
[Static: Level 1 (0/100)]
[Acceleration: Level 1 (0/100)]
[Retreat: Level 1 (0/100)]
Seeing the "progress bar" visible meant the limitation was lifted, and I could continue allocating points.
[Stripping +100]
[Stripping: Level 2 (Can continue to enhance after River Affinity reaches "1%")]
[Description: Range expanded to "ten pounds", can manipulate "ten pounds" of water to leave the surface at once.]
Seeing this, Su Mu was dumbfounded.
What the heck??
Ten pounds?
What kind of niche quantity term is this?
After painstakingly leveling up to Level 2, you're telling me I can only manipulate ten pounds of water?
Isn't this a bit too weak?
Su Mu raised his right hand, and about ten pounds of water left the surface, forming a water sphere. Su Mu could control this ten pounds of water to attack, transfer, transform, and perform a series of operations.
However, compared to before when I could only control ten drops of water, it's still a significant improvement, Su Mu consoled himself like this.
[Static +100]
[Static: Level 2 (Can continue to enhance after River Affinity reaches "1%")]
[Description: Range expanded to "fifty square meters", can make a fifty-square-meter water area become static, stopping its flow.]
...
[Retreat +100]
[Retreat: Level 2 (Can continue to enhance after River Affinity reaches "1%")]
[Description: Range expanded to "fifty square meters", can make a fifty-square-meter water area flow backwards.]
After completing the point allocation for three Divine Techniques, Su Mu only had 25 points left, not enough to continue.
Su Mu stood by the riverbank, extended his right hand, and used Divine Techniques to make a fifty-square-meter water area static and retreat.
...
[Today's river surface is calm and stable. For your excellent guardianship, extra Favor Points +50]
....
[Due to your recent diligent care for the riverways, Favor Points +30]
...
[Detected diligent patrolling by the host, Favor Points +10]
In just three short days, Su Mu accumulated over two hundred Favor Points, plus the remaining 25 points, totaling 275 Favor Points.
[Acceleration +100]
[Acceleration: Level 2 (Can continue to enhance after River Affinity reaches "1%")]
[Description: Range expanded to "fifty square meters", can increase the flow speed of a fifty-square-meter water area.]
....
Su Mu planned to enhance his "Swimming" Divine Technique as well.
[Swimming +100]
[Swimming: Level 2 (Can continue to enhance after River Affinity reaches "1%")]
[Description: Can swim in any water area, walk on water, with speed increased twenty-fold, endurance increased twenty-fold, and water's negative impact reduced by 30%.]
Su Mu jumped into the water and found his speed had reached 100 meters per second!
With this swimming speed, if I went back to Blue Star, all those Phelpses would have to step aside and give grandpa a trophy!
.....
"Where has Little Mahi run off to lately?"
Su Mu hadn't seen Little Mahi for almost a month. If not for the Spiritual Sense, he would've thought it was gone.
Through Spiritual Sense, Su Mu discovered Little Mahi was no longer in this section of the river, it had gone upstream and was quite a distance away.
As long as it's alive, it's fine.
That day, while taking a nap, Su Mu, in a daze, heard a commotion coming from the river surface.
He half got up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked towards the river, vaguely spotting a figure walking on the water....
Seeing this, Su Mu's pupils suddenly contracted, his drowsiness instantly cleared, and he stood up, walking on water towards the figure.
....
Li Qiye was walking upstream against the river current, looking extremely cautious, constantly aware of his surroundings.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of water from ahead, looked up, and saw a man walking on water effortlessly approaching Li Qiye, blocking his path.
He was like facing a formidable enemy, looking at Su Mu with an incredulous expression, and after a long while, asked: "You... who are you?!"
Hearing this, Su Mu also laughed, thinking, young man, you've barged into my territory and you're asking who I am??
"That question should be mine to ask you."
"You intruded on my territory without even a word and intend to leave?!"
Upon hearing this, Li Qiye seemed like he had heard something unbelievable and showed an extremely shocked expression, stammering: "Your... your territory? Are you saying this river is yours?"
"Why?"
"Got a problem with that?"
Su Mu frowned, the man in front of him had a strange aura, he didn't seem like a newcomer Transmigrator, probably a native Cultivator.
I couldn't see through his Cultivation, his Realm must be quite high.
"No problem..."
Li Qiye was quietly assessing this man's Cultivation, the more he assessed, the more shocked he became since he hadn't seen such a low Cultivation Realm in many years!
He almost forgot there was still this Golden Core stage, too long ago, too insignificant.
But!
He definitely dared not regard this man walking on the River of Time as an ordinary little Golden Core chicken, it must be just appearances.
"Where are you planning to go?" Su Mu seeing the man's urgent expression, asked.
"To find my sheep."
Li Qiye answered directly.
"Find sheep?"
"You came all the way here to find sheep? What kind of sheep can be on the river?" Su Mu thought this man seemed a bit eccentric, like an escapee from a mental hospital.
"Others' sheep can't be on this river, but my sheep might."
Li Qiye replied.
"Find whatever sheep you want to find."
"I'm the River Guardian here."
"This river was opened by me. If you want to pass, you must pay the toll."
Su Mu was uninterested in arguing further. In his eyes, this man came to cause trouble, and as long as he maintained order, he could earn Favor Points, so he couldn't let him cause chaos here.
Upon hearing this, Li Qiye's heart skipped a beat, because no matter how he looked, he couldn't discern this man's true Cultivation, so there was only one possibility: the man's Cultivation far exceeded his own.
At this moment, Li Qiye suddenly cupped his hands, showing a smile: "Has Pals ever heard of my name, Li Qiye?"
"Could you give me some face?"
Li Qiye had already cultivated to the Supreme Realm, and the River of Time was a common place for him to pass through, and in his later years, he traveled across the Great Worlds to find his sheep, his fame resonating through the All Heavens and Myriad Realms.
He had passed by the River of Time before, and there had never been any River Guardian, so how did one suddenly appear?