Flood Dragon

**Flood Dragon** is the first Ancient Beast encountered in a playthrough.

## Mysterious Cavern

#### Pre-first Flood Dragon fight

After approx. 300 days (unaltered Normal Mode), a Mysterious Cavern appears. Angering said cave will spawn the Flood Dragon. (Note: the Flood Dragon starts with 7+ million Qi.)

*See: Example of cheap Very Auspicious Room in Mysterious Cavern*

It is possible to suppress the Mysterious Cavern indefinitely on regular difficulty, as long as the room is kept Very Auspicious under all types of Weather. However, on higher tribulation difficulties, it is not possible to suppress the Mysterious Cavern completely, and it may also appear earlier than normal.

#### Post-first Flood Dragon fight

After killing the Flood Dragon for the first time, Events for re-fighting the Flood Dragon will start appearing in the world. Visiting these will grant the option of leaving the Dragon alone or luring him to the player's map. The luring option requires a sufficiently high Adventure Fly Speed, where the Adventuring Flying Speed (km/Qi) \* (1+Adventure Fly Speed Bonus) must be >=24. Having too low Fly Speed leads to the cultivator being injured and terminates the event **without** summoning the Flood Dragon.

If the Flood Dragon is successfully lured, it will arrive in the map within 600 to 899 seconds (1-1.5 days). When the Flood Dragon arrives, the message box will mention that it has burst out of the Mysterious Cavern, even though it no longer exists.

## Suppression

### Very Auspicious Room

When suppressing the Mysterious Cavern, the player needs to set up a very auspicious room around it. It is of note, that the cavern itself is not a Feng Shui Building - it does not directly influence the Feng Shui of the room. Therefore, it is advised to build a Feng Shui Building e.g. a water vat or a table of the wood element and complete the room using furniture made of ice crystal bars. The room will slow down the rate at which Flood Dragon anger events occur and buy the player more preparation time.

On Classic and normal Immortal mode, it is possible to suppress the cavern indefinitely if the room is kept at Very Auspicious. However, the Very Auspicious state of the room may be interrupted by certain Weather effects or other actions that change the Element Composition, which could result in the dragon escaping the cavern. A compatible Feng Shui Relic can avoid this possibility.

### Feng Shui Relic

Compatible Feng Shui Relics give an innately high (+30, where Very Auspicious rooms need to have +14) "Feng Shui Rating". A common way to suppress the Mysterious Cavern is to use Morality Seal, obtained by bringing up the topic of the Mysterious Cavern with an Ancient Cultivator. This is because the Morality seal has practically no relic conditions apart from being the only relic in the room., making it automatically compatible.

An additional reason to talk to an ancient cultivator about Ancient Beasts though, is it also unlocks Ancient Beasts in the Secrets tab with the Flood Dragon's abilities and Tips on defeating him

### Wishes

The player is in no way, shape or form to fulfil the Mysterious Cavern's wishes - this only strengthens the Dragon, which, if the previous methods have not been set up, is going to break out regardless. Thus, this option is to be entirely disregarded, as even at 96% anger, a Morality Seal and Very Auspicious room are sufficient in delaying the anger accumulation effectively indefinitely.

## Fight Preparations

### Xiandao Cultivators

The player should have a sufficient amount of cultivators at roughly 500K Max Qi each to form a good Formation. Formations are key to defeating a Flood Dragon quickly enough not to trigger its Countercharge or Inundated Land abilities, as well as to prevent the base from being heavily damaged. The player is advised to not use metal Artifacts, as all metal damage is absorbed by the Flood Dragon's body and heals it. Instead, earth Artifacts are preferable, due to the most damage dealt to the Dragon for creating a counteractive earth Feng Shui.

### Outer Disciples

It is recommended to set up a few Bells around the map to be able to switch the Outer Disciples around, since the Dragon changes its position throughout the fight. Outer Disciples will however mostly remain unharmed, as they do not participate in the fight themselves, leaving the Inner Disciples to absorb most of the Dragon's aggression and damage.

### Body Cultivators

Physical Cultivators, if sufficiently built, can effectively body the Flood Dragon alone. This, however can make the fight last for a prolonged time, damaging the base severely and putting outers at risk.

### Shendao Cultivators

Shendao Cultivators also can kill the Flood Dragon alone, although they require a lot of time to cultivate and a good base foundation. Therefore, it is not advised to cultivate Shendao for completing the first Flood Dragon fight.

## Fighting

The Flood Dragon's abilities and hints at defeating him are all listed as Secrets for Ancient Beasts, however it is worth mentioning that being a water beast, it is best to use earth element attacks for creating a counteractive Feng Shui. The Dragon itself has Body parts, which the player can target for special drops. The Flood Dragon also possesses 7+ million Max Qi.

The Formation and all Disciples are to be kept away from important buildings, so as to not take damage from the Dragon's Eruption ability, which breaks structures and turns the ground into shallow water.

If a cultivator is not part of a formation and has the Cloud Dispelling Chant Miracle, the cultivator can be used to remove the rain event the Dragon causes. This activates its Dragon Wrath ability, which enrages the Dragon and deals damage to the cultivator upon resummoning the rainstorm. Cleansing the rainstorm thrice allows for another special drop - the Prismatic Scale i.e. the Flood Dragon Forbidden Scale.

### Elemental Resistances

The Flood Dragon takes different damage when attacked with Artifacts of different elements. Spells, most Shendao Sacred Relics, and Physical Cultivator attacks are of the None element and deal regular damage. Negative numbers indicate that it will be healed by an attack of that element.

Elemental Damage Taken
 Body Parts

### Special Attacks

#### Eruption

The Flood Dragon attacks a certain tile. If the Flood Dragon is currently being fought, it attacks one of the cultivators in combat with 60% chance. Otherwise, it attacks a random location within 10 tiles of itself (21x21 square), damaging any Characters, nearby buildings, and turning ground in a 3x3 square at the attack location into shallow water. A mod can be used to disable the Flood Dragon's attacks from causing Shallow Water.

#### Call of the Herd

The Flood Dragon randomly summons 3-6 wild non-magical animals (Wolf,Snake, Boar, or Bear) to attack the sect.

#### Dragon Wrath

When the rainstorm summoned by the Flood Dragon is dispelled, the Flood Dragon consumes 40 Water Spirit and increases its attack and defense power for 120 seconds. It will then resummon the rainstorm and attack the cultivator who dispelled the rainstorm, dealing double damage to Earth cultivators and half damage to other cultivators. When this special attack is performed 3 times, the Forbidden Scale body part will be revealed.

#### True Dragon Form

Once the Flood Dragon falls below 75% Max Qi, it transforms into True Dragon Form. It also absorbs power from Water tiles on the map and increases its Water Spirit counter.

In this state, its claws cannot be targeted, so attack the claws first before targeting the other parts of the dragon.

#### Dragon's Inhalation

The Flood Dragon drains the Water Need from all Disciples currently in combat. For every point of Water Need, (3/40) points of Water Spirit is added to the Flood Dragon's counter. For example, two Disciples with Water Need summing to 120 will add 9 points of Water Spirit. Affected Disciples receive a debuff that increases their Water Consumption Bonus by 200% for 30 seconds. Since it is extremely difficult to micromanage the current Water Need of Disciples, the number of Disciples in combat should therefore be as low as possible to reduce the effects of this attack.

#### Water Compaction

The Flood Dragon absorbs power from Water tiles on the map and increases its Water Spirit counter by a large amount. For every 5 tiles of Water on the map, the effect of this attack is increased by 1. The final effect is then added to the Flood Dragon's Water Spirit counter, with a minimum effect of 30 and maximum effect of 50.

To reduce the effect of this special attack, remove as many Water tiles on the map as possible using the Land Shaping Miracle or by filling them in with Outer Disciples with a high Construction Skill and equipped with Scrapers.

#### Sanguine Absorption

The Flood Dragon absorbs power from all corpses on the map and increases its Water Spirit counter by 2 and restores its Body's Qi by 50,000 per corpse. To avoid this, either butcher or bury any corpses with Outer Disciples before the Flood Dragon can perform this attack.

#### Countercharge

The Flood Dragon targets all of a single cultivator's Artifacts for 15 seconds. It then consumes a portion of the Artifacts' Max Qi (100% Fire, 25% Earth, 50% all other elements). After the 15 second has passed, it then causes an explosion of Water (Element) damage within radius 5 (11x11 tiles) surrounding the cultivator, with the damage dealt equal to 1.5% of the Qi consumed. This means that low Max Qi Artifacts of the Earth element, such as those made with Marble and Jade Bracelets that have been Specter Refined to Tier 12, are preferable during a fight with the Flood Dragon.

#### Cold Prison

The Flood Dragon breathes cold magic towards a cultivator who has destroyed one of its body parts. This spawns an invisible, extremely cold Building being placed on that tile. It reduces the temperature of that tile and its surroundings to -273°C, and can only be dispelled by the Float Dragon Pet which you obtain after defeating the Flood Dragon, or by waiting 56 days (2 seasons). Due to the extreme coldness of the Cold Prison, it is not recommended to keep it inside a Room, as even large rooms with many heating items will be reduced to the minimum temperature of -273°C.

#### Inundated Land

The most damaging of the Flood Dragon's attacks to the sect. When the Flood Dragon's Water Spirit counter reaches 100, it will transform a large area of the map (20x20 square area) into Shallow Water. This notably removes all Spirit Soil or Fertile Soil from the areas that it has targeted, as well as instantly killing all Characters in that area, bypassing defenses such as Qi Barrier and Secret Bodies. The Don't Ruin My Base mod only removes the shallow water effect from the Eruption attack, however the No Dragon Water mod does prevent all Shallow Water from the Flood Dragon, including Inundated Land.

Methods of dealing with this attack:

* Once the Flood Dragon begins this attack (cast time of 4 seconds), the cultivators currently in combat should immediately flee the area to avoid the attack.
* Force the Flood Dragon to cast Dragon Wrath by dispelling the Thunderstorm Weather, draining its Water Spirit and preventing this attack from being cast.
* Flood Dragon can be killed before it is able to perform this attack.

## Drops

The Flood Dragon can drop several Qi Gathering items directly, which are:

* Flood Dragon Horn (destroying horn)
* Flood Dragon Devil Claw (destroying claws)
* Flood Dragon Wrath Vein (destroying tail)
* Flood Dragon Scale (breaking all body parts aside from the horn)
* Flood Dragon Forbidden Scale (destroying Forbidden Scale, which is only revealed after Dragon Wrath is cast 3 times)

Max Qi items:

* Flood Dragon Flesh (breaking body parts aside from horn and tail)

The Flood Dragon Corpse can also be excavated for a large amount of Flood Dragon Flesh and Flood Dragon Scale, as well as a small chance of obtaining the rarer Qi Gathering loot.

The first excavation of a Flood Dragon Corpse will drop an egg, which can be hatched into a Pet:

* Nurturing Flood Dragon Egg (excavating the corpse after the first killing)
	+ The Pet can cure Heatstroke and produce Dragon Feces, a 90 Gather Qi earth item at 3 Range.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 `Settings\MapStories\MapStory_Special.xml`
2. ↑ Settings\Modifiers\Boss\Modifier\_jiaolong.xml
3. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_shuibao.lua
4. ↑ Scripts\Skill\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_shuibao.lua
5. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_yeshou.lua
6. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_longnu.lua
7. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_longnxi.lua
8. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_zhenshui.lua
9. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_tianyaohuaxue.lua
10. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_fansi.lua
11. ↑ Scripts\Modifier\class\boss\jiaolong\_fansi.lua
12. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_hanyu.lua
13. ↑ Scripts\SkillAction\class\jiaolong\jiaolong\_zeguo.lua
14. ↑ Settings\ThingDef\Building\Building\_Other.xml