Su Huanian was racing up and down, feeling as if a mountain was pressing on her. Her eyebrows slightly furrowed. She had promised Su He to return in ten days, but she had underestimated this forbidden land.

After the Tribulation Crossing that day, she was directly teleported out and did not experience the laws of the forbidden land again. She didn’t expect that the pressure experienced in the Traverse Heaven Realm and the Demon Subduing Realm here was incomparable.

Groups of water plants on the surface of the water were waiting for an opportunity to attack, closely following her and leaving a long white line behind.

Her Divine Sense could not be released here, so Su Huanian had to rely on her eyes and ears to avoid all underwater creatures every time she touched the water.

In this forbidden land, even a fruit could not be trusted. You might think you could pick a fruit to satisfy your hunger, but the fruit might be more excited than you, eagerly sticking out its tongue and probing into your mouth.

The first time she came here, Su Huanian saw an apple suck a person into a skeleton with her own eyes.

Here, caution was the first element of survival.

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…

Inside the Mountain and Sea Profound Realm, Su He was lying on his own island, constantly refining the stone pillar with his thoughts. The stone pillar gradually transformed from a stone state to a jade state.

The toad stood in front of the crystal jade screen with its hands behind its back, its voice echoing in Su He’s heart: “The clan has prepared all kinds of materials for you, but there is not a single weapon to fight against the enemy. Is the Dragon Turtle so biased?”

There’s not a single Refining Artifact expert?

Su He curled his lips. This was not bias, this was incompetence in raising children. What else could they not do after living for hundreds of thousands of years besides giving birth?

Even if they were biased, it would not be a problem to train two artifacts suitable for the young ones. They just didn’t think of it!

The Dragon Turtle clan probably thought: Artifacts? What do we need artifacts for? If there are enemies, just fight them head-on. If you can’t beat them, find the parents!

The toad was selecting one by one. Every time it pointed at something, a material would break through the air and land on Su He’s island.

It put each item into its pocket: “Heavenly Gang Stone, Red Flame Stone, Jade Crystal Stone… These can absorb and enhance the external appearance, and the Earth God Crystal can condense the Mountain God.”

As it collected and muttered, it was wholeheartedly fulfilling its duty as a soul beast.

Soul beasts don’t need to cultivate. After a soul beast recognizes its master, it does its best to help the master advance. When the master advances, it advances with them.

“This positioning teleportation talisman is good, it can even teleport the fifth level of Traverse Heaven, but it’s a pity it’s one-time use.” The toad put it away in its pocket.

With a hum.

Su He’s pillar had completely turned into a jade color. For a moment, he felt a faint connection with the Mountain and Sea Profound Realm, as if there was a rope leading to his sea of consciousness.

With a stroke of his limbs, he leaped up like he was diving into water. Without the help of the toad, he directly left the Profound Realm and opened his eyes in the Dongyun Mountain. That faint connection was still there. He sent a thought along the connection.

Su He… felt like he had become round!

His consciousness was attached to the stone pillar. At this moment, he was seeing from the pillar’s perspective. The scenery from all directions flooded into his “eyes”, a very strange feeling.

“Continue to increase your consciousness until you condense a consciousness incarnation.” The toad’s voice echoed in Su He’s heart.

Su He did as instructed, and after a moment, a bubble appeared on the stone pillar. With a pop, a small black jade Dragon Turtle rolled down.

It was a very strange feeling. Su He could simultaneously see the scenery of Dongyun Mountain and the Mountain and Sea Profound Realm with his real body and the small consciousness body.

“Is this considered a clone?”

The consciousness body and the real body spoke at the same time, one was the roar of the Dragon Turtle, and the other was normal language.

He couldn’t adapt to controlling two bodies at once.

“No! A cultivator’s clone can have independent thinking and actions. Your consciousness incarnation is just multitasking. Don’t overthink it, one peck, one drink. You divine beasts are powerful, but your divine soul and physical body are one. It’s not that simple to want to split. Basically, there can’t be a clone. Unless you’re willing to cut off a part of your body to sacrifice and refine.”

Su He shook his head. Self-mutilation was out of the question. That kind of self-mutilation to sacrifice and refine a clone, the main body would have a hard time recovering. Being a crippled turtle was not his goal.

The consciousness clone stayed behind, and he could leave now.

“Go!” His real body gave a low shout, and with a stroke of his limbs, he rose into the sky, straight into the nine heavens, heading northeast.

Flying was not a Divine Ability.

After crossing the Heavenly Tribulation, flying was a natural instinct of divine beasts, just like crawling and swimming.

The toad had just come out of the Profound Realm and felt a strong wind blowing, unable to open its eyes. When it tried hard to see, all it saw was a white expanse. It had already crashed into the blue sky and white clouds.

At this time, wind was generated under their feet, and all around was a white mist. Despite this, neither the turtle nor the frog closed their eyes. Galloping through the blue sky and white clouds, which cultivator didn’t have this dream?

Strictly speaking, this was their first time flying. The toad, a amphibious soul beast, couldn’t fly by nature.

After Su He crossed the tribulation, he flew straight into the nine heavens for the first time, mastering the instinct of flight. At that time, his consciousness was chaotic and he didn’t have a deep understanding.

In the Sea of Inheritance, flying didn’t have much of a feeling. Only at this moment, with the clouds hitting his body, did the feeling of riding the wind truly rise.

Su He let out a long howl, raised his dragon head, and with a stroke of his four claws, he flew up again. In the howling wind, he suddenly broke out of the sea of clouds, bringing out a cloud of mist and settling above the sea of clouds.

At this time, it was getting late, and the sunset glow was flying in the sky. The sun was setting, the sky was dark, but it was still bright above the sea of clouds. At the end of the western sky, the setting sun was half sunk and the red clouds were rolling. Underneath, the white clouds were like waves, a spectacular sight.Su He parted the clouds and moved forward, the mist beneath him coalescing into waves, each wave pushing the next, carrying him northeast.

Su Huanian had given him a map of the Xuanhuang, which marked the location of the Seven Absolute Secret Realms.

The distance was considerable, but he could catch a ride on the River of Light halfway through.

“Have we left Dongyun Mountain? The mountains and rivers have disappeared, and the terrain is flat,” Su He looked at the mountains and rivers beneath the clouds and asked.

“Who knows?” The toad shrugged, sitting on the turtle shell, sewing a short shirt made of some unknown beast skin. Its solemn voice echoed in Su He’s heart, “Are we really heading straight for the Seven Absolute Secret Realms?”

“Is there a problem?” Su He asked.

“Bai Ling is acting strange!” The toad said solemnly. It had not dared to speak out in the Xuan Realm, and even now, it only dared to communicate with Su He through their minds. “You are a traveler, fundamentally impossible to predict. Not to mention now, even when there was no lock on the heavens, it was impossible to calculate you!”

Su He was confused, this was beyond his knowledge.

He had browsed the toad’s memories, but memories were memories, knowledge was knowledge, it was impossible to move everything from the toad’s brain to his own in an instant.

The experiences in the Dao Palace’s inheritance were essentially memories, and Su He still had to learn them bit by bit. The toad continued to sew the short shirt in its hand, whispering in Su He’s heart, “Your biggest advantage is not the Dragon Turtle bloodline, not the golden finger of the dice, but the identity of a traveler! You are not of this world, your fate is unpredictable, this is your biggest reliance.”

Su He was even more confused, “Other people’s fate is also unpredictable.” Except for monsters like Bai Ling, no one could accurately predict the fate of others.

“It’s not the same!” The toad said solemnly, “Other people’s fate is chaotic and unpredictable, not that it doesn’t exist! For example—”

It gestured to the village beneath the white clouds, where a mountain village was hidden among the green mountains and white clouds. As the day grew late, the village was quiet, with cattle and sheep returning to their pens, and chickens and ducks returning to their nests.

“You see the villagers, they rise at dawn and rest at dusk, carrying water, chopping wood, feeding pigs, and herding sheep. Everyone knows what they have to do every day, even if it’s foggy, there are rules to what needs to be done.”

As the toad spoke, it clapped its hands and blew a breath, and in a moment, a thick fog enveloped the village.

“Lighting fires, calling people, returning home, eating, resting…” The toad whispered in Su He’s heart, these were things that would inevitably happen in a mountain village on a foggy day.

Inside the village, torches were lit, village women called the children home, neighbors who had been visiting returned to their homes, the sound of bowls and chopsticks clashing could be heard, and even the thickness of their porridge could be discerned. Su He hid in the clouds and stopped in mid-air.

A turtle and a frog waited quietly, and soon there were snoring sounds, and some houses even emitted indecent noises…

“Even if the fog is thick and you can’t see, things that should happen will still happen. People will get sick, accidents will happen, people will get rich, even if unexpected things happen, they must be within reason. But if there are outsiders invading—”

It pointed to the outskirts of the village, where four ragged but fierce-eyed mountain bandits were sneaking into the village.

With a wave of the toad’s claw, four gusts of wind killed the bandits, “If there are invaders, who knows what they want to do? Maybe they want to slaughter the village, maybe they want to kidnap a bride, or maybe they just want to change their identity and live in seclusion.”

It pointed at Su He’s turtle shell, “You are that outsider, you are different from us. We can’t predict our fate, you don’t have a fate! You are the one with infinite possibilities!”

It looked serious, “How did Bai Ling predict your fate?”

Su He blinked, so… this was the “Travelers are Awesome” theory?

How could he, a cultivation newbie, understand such a profound question?

Besides, that was Bai Ling… Bai Ling always acted a bit unreasonable. Over the past few days, Su He had gradually come to accept that if it was Bai Ling, it was only natural for her to go overboard.

From Bai Ling’s grave, corpse, turtle shell, to the Dragon Turtle tribe, Su He could sense that the Dragon Turtles were really different.

They were a family.

Bai Ling was mysterious, and since she didn’t want the adult Dragon Turtles to know, there must be a reason—maybe if the adult Dragon Turtles went, she wouldn’t be able to keep her secret?

Like… the cause of death!

Thinking about it was useless, everything would be clear after a trip to the Seven Absolute Secret Realms.

Su He glanced at the small mountain village immersed in the thick fog, which had completely quieted down, and quickly flew away with his limbs.

Once he left Dongyun Mountain, there was the River of Light.

The River of Light was not naturally formed, but was the unique ability of the Wuding Tribe in the Starfall Great World. This was also the safest and most convenient transportation in all the heavens and worlds—except for those powerful beings who could break through space and travel directly, this was the most common mode of transportation in all the heavens and worlds.

Entrusting the most important transportation to outsiders, this kind of handing over power, the Three Thousand Great Worlds had no objections, there must be a countermeasure.

There were nodes on the River of Light, like stations, where you could get on and off. Outside the nodes, ports were built in the air, with flying boats docking and setting sail.

The flying boats on the River of Light were different from ordinary ones, they were gray-black, with a layer of Netherstone painted on the hull. Ordinary materials could not withstand the scouring of the River of Light, only Netherstone could.

Netherstone was precious, so the Netherstone mine on the second floor of the Qingyuan Sect’s Suppression Prison could become the financial pillar of the Qingyuan Sect.

Before Su He arrived, he could already hear the roaring shouts from the Dongyun Port.

“Dragon Turtle! The Dragon Turtle is really here!” The man’s voice was filled with excitement.

There were turtles that had crossed the Tribulation to become Dragon Turtles. Over the past few days, countless cultivators had flocked to Dongyun Mountain from all directions, just to catch a glimpse of the Dragon Turtle.

Whether they could bask in its good fortune was another matter. Perhaps they could be taken in by the Dragon Turtle as lifelong followers, wouldn’t that settle their lives?

Even if they couldn’t, it was still a great opportunity to broaden their horizons! After all, it was just a trip to the River of Flowing Light, and it wouldn’t cost much.

“Truly majestic and domineering.” Someone gazed at Su He from afar and sighed.

A skinny fellow stood up from a Flying Boat, patting his chest proudly, “You don’t know, I was on Dongyun Mountain that day. The heavy rain brought by the Dragon Turtle’s Tribulation Crossing soaked me through, even my spells couldn’t block the rain!”

He seemed quite proud of this.

Someone nearby immediately sneered, “Stop it! As if you were the only one who got wet!” The entire Mysterious Wasteland had experienced a heavy rain, who could have avoided it?

“I got soaked on Dongyun Mountain!” The man stubbornly emphasized, his neck turning red.

This immediately drew a round of mocking laughter.

A row of Fairy Swords flew out from the port, led by a middle-aged cultivator, “The master of Dongyun Port in the River of Flowing Light greets Senior Dragon Turtle!”

To become a Dragon Turtle, one must have cultivated for at least thousands of years, right? Calling it a senior was definitely correct!

In the past, they might not have been very clear about what a Divine Beast was, only knowing that the supreme power of the Qingyuan Sect was the Divine Beast, Orient Loong God.

But these days, even the most ignorant had made every effort to find out. Moreover, the people of the Wandering Tribe had traveled through countless worlds in the River of Flowing Light, their knowledge was extraordinary, and their clan records contained countless records of Divine Beasts! They had urgently summoned these records, and they would be in their hands in a few months at most.

The Dragon Turtle, who could scold the Orient Loong God of the Qingyuan Sect with a cultivation level that could transmit voices across all major worlds, was this Dragon Turtle’s senior, right?

Such an existence, even him, the master of Dongyun Port, was not qualified to greet.

Su He was taken aback, was this the Xianxia version of a welcome party? Fortunately, he had gotten used to being watched in the Qingyuan Sect over the past six months. He took a deep breath and let out a long chant.

His intention was clear in the chant, and everyone could understand its meaning.

“Thank you all for your kindness, but I have urgent matters today and cannot stay. I hope to borrow the River of Flowing Light for a while.” He looked at the port master.

The port master bowed, “Senior, you’re too polite. The River of Flowing Light is always open, you can use it anytime.”

He waved his hand, and the sword formation behind him dispersed. The Flying Boats that were entering and exiting the port also moved aside.

The cultivators who had wanted to greet him also retreated, bowing and greeting him.

Cultivators were realistic.

This was a world where might made right, no one would disregard the likes and dislikes of the strong and directly surround them – if they encountered the wrong person, they would really be beaten.

“Senior, do you need a Flying Boat? My Cold Boat is currently idle.” Someone shouted.

“Thank you, but I don’t need it for now.” Divine Beasts crossing the River of Flowing Light would not be harmed, it was more convenient to fly directly.

Su He stroked the water with his four limbs, leaped through the port, and went straight into the River of Flowing Light.

As he passed by the crowd, the toad pulled out spirit stones and elemental crystals from his pocket and scattered them in all directions. Even more money was thrown towards the port office. These things were as common as pebbles in the Dragon Turtle clan.

The newly ascended Dragon Turtle couldn’t meet the public without showing some generosity.

The surrounding cheers became even more enthusiastic, and those who caught the spirit stones and elemental crystals were overjoyed. These were high-quality spirit stones and elemental crystals, enough for them to work hard for a long time!

Su He listened to the shouts behind him, smiled slightly, and plunged headfirst into the River of Flowing Light, heading downstream.

The River of Flowing Light was like a large river, but instead of water, it flowed with starlight. Stars the size of soybeans, trailing long tails, shuttled through the river.

The stars hit the turtle shell, making a clanging sound, pushing him to speed along like a wave.

The speed was so fast that the mountains below passed by in an instant. Not only were there Flying Boats in the River of Flowing Light, but occasionally there were cultivators riding swords.

Cultivators at the Traverse Heaven stage could briefly fly directly in the River of Flowing Light without needing a Flying Boat. Their speed was several times faster than Su He’s.

The Dragon Turtle clan was never known for their speed.

If Su Huanian were here, her speed would be at least ten times his.

(End of Chapter)