The Myriad Waters Art

At seven, Jiang Li nearly drowned, but Uncle Jiang pulled him to safety. From then on, his left eye could see traces of "spirit water." When Jiang Li was sixteen, the Zhou family of Qingshi Town bullied Uncle Jiang to death. That night, Jiang Li slaughtered the entire Zhou family and began his path of bloodshed. He plundered spirit water wherever he went: Jade Marrow Spring tempered his body, Profound Ice Marrow froze all things, and Azurefall Heavenly Water let him control the wind and clouds. Every life he took brought another step in cultivation; every water he claimed made his heart a little colder. Outside Donghai City, he wiped out the Blood Saber Sect. Atop a snowy mountain, he slew a Golden Core elder. At the Eye of the Guixu Sea, he killed a flood dragon and seized Azurefall Heavenly Water, then defeated Nascent Soul pursuers while only at the Core Condensation Realm. Deep in Guixu, Jiang Li discovered the ruins of the ancient Water God's Palace. Its guardian revealed the truth: thirty thousand years ago, the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea destroyed the Water God's Palace to seize the Source of All Waters. Now its inheritance awaited a new master. Jiang Li braved the Frozen Abyss, the Sea of Flames, and the Thunder Marsh, gathering three kinds of true water and merging them with the Source of All Waters. His cultivation surged to the peak of the Great Ascension Realm.

After leaving Guixu, he first slew the Dragon Whale King as a sacrifice to his banner, then stormed the Dragon Palace of the Eastern Sea. Using the Source of All Waters, he summoned a colossal water dragon and beheaded the Tribulation Transcendence Dragon King before a million sea-dwellers. The sea clans submitted, but Jiang Li simply turned and left. He returned to Uncle Jiang's grave, kowtowed, and burned incense. Ninety-nine bolts of heavenly lightning descended. He endured eighty-one and successfully survived the tribulation. The Heavenly Gate opened, offering him ascension to the Upper Realm. Jiang Li took one look, then turned west. There was still spirit water waiting for him to claim. This novel has no romance, no filler, and no redemption arcs. The protagonist believes in only three things: take revenge on the spot, make sure your enemies are dead, and never let spirit water go.