A residual shadow streaked across the sky, intermittently vanishing and reappearing as it shattered the void. Finally, it crashed down between two mountain peaks and came to a halt at the foot of the mountains.

Su He pursued relentlessly, the roaring waves beneath him as he charged towards the young marquis.

At the foot of the mountain, the young marquis rolled to his feet, spewing out blood, his face flushed with shame as he watched Su He bearing down on him. As the distinguished young marquis of the imperial palace, he had never been in such a sorry state!

A ferocious look flashed across Feng Lu’s face as he suddenly raised a glass bead in his hand, within which the cold-faced Qi Qi was trapped.

“Dragon Turtle! Let me leave, or today I, Feng Lu, will perish together with her!”

So your name is Feng Lu, Su He thought, the name itself doesn’t bode well for fortune. Today is indeed the day for your departure. His speed surged instead of slowing.

A ruthless glint flashed in Feng Lu’s eyes as he clenched the glass bead, his hand forming a claw crackling with electricity.

This woman is special; her soul contains a trace of the Dao, seemingly from ancient times. Unfathomable, if one could comprehend this trace of the Dao, the Great Dao would be within reach!

Perhaps this woman is the reincarnation of an immortal who blasted open the gates of immortality, rumored in legends. That trace of the Dao might contain the secrets of the immortal gates.

He had been bewitched by Feng Yiju, and only after Feng Yiju’s death did he regain his senses, but his path might now be severed. He had hoped to take advantage of the Dragon Turtle’s absence to infiltrate Changyue Mansion and break into the Demon Subduing Palace, to see if he could salvage his path.

Unexpectedly, he encountered this woman halfway, which turned out to be a stroke of heavenly fortune.

As for Master Yuan Yi, he was sent by his father to assist him. The main focus was supposed to be the experiments on the scholar, but he got dragged into researching Qi Qi’s soul and its Dao.

Feng Lu, clutching the glass bead, shouted at Su He, but the Dragon Turtle did not stop, and the electricity in his hand surged.

He refused to believe the Dragon Turtle didn’t care about this woman!

The Dragon Turtle and the Three Phases were so willing to sacrifice their lives; they must have discovered the Dao within the woman’s soul long ago. How could they give up!

“Stand down!” Feng Lu’s thunderous power pierced into the glass bead, his face twisted with ferocity.

Threatening me? Su He roared at him, “Dragon Min!”

Inside the glass bead, a wisp of blue flame ignited, revealing a comb within the flame. The flame seemed to form a passage, immediately dragging Qi Qi’s soul away upon its appearance.

The flame extinguished, and the glass bead was left empty.

Without the suppression of the underground palace’s glass cover, the Soul Summoning Altar was no longer affected.

Outside Changyue Mansion, on the altar, a toad sat in the corner, transmitting orders in unison.

Dragon Min helped up the weakened Qi Qi, taking out a jade pendant: “Fairy, please take refuge in this jade for now. My master is of the Dragon Turtle lineage, Su He. He is a friend of the Fairy, so rest assured.”

This jade pendant was given to Su He by the True Person of Nanming when he left. Dragon Min presided over the summoning, and Su He had placed the jade pendant on her early on.

Feng Lu’s hand flickered with electricity, his shout still echoing in the mountains, but the glass bead was already empty.

Summon the soul!

How could this be! His expression gradually became hysterical. The glass bead itself had sealing and isolating laws; ordinary soul summoning techniques could not possibly snatch the woman’s soul from it!

Who is it! Who?!

He gritted his teeth, hatred swirling in his eyes, but saw the Dragon Turtle already charging towards him. The Turtle had not yet arrived, but its domain had already abruptly expanded. Previously concerned about Qi Qi’s soul, now that her soul had left, he could fight without restraint.

“Die!” Su He roared.

Above his head, a heavy weight and chaotic blades fell simultaneously, smashing towards Feng Lu, with a spirit snake swimming beneath the water.

Feng Lu’s face darkened. He and the Dragon Turtle were evenly matched in strength, but as a person from the great world of Feng Huang, he would be suppressed in the Mysterious Wasteland. He could only exert at most eighty percent of his combat power. He couldn’t beat this Turtle!

He threw out an iron chain from his palm, which spiraled into a circle in front of him, forming a giant shield, and with a thunderous crash, he charged towards the oncoming Su He.

A loud bang, the air exploded!

This collision, without the protective divine light left by the elders, was solid. Feng Lu was sent flying like a meteor towards the distance.

“Running?” Su He snorted.

This scoundrel wanted to use the impact to break out of the domain and avoid the heavy weight and chaotic blades.

As if I would let you!

Feng Lu was sent flying, but just as he was about to break out of the domain, a giant snake shot out from the edge of the domain. Its tail broke through the water like a heavy whip, fiercely striking his back.

The snake and turtle bodies couldn’t be too far apart; the domain was the limit. Any further and it would feel like reaching out into the void, but it was enough.

Feng Lu was immediately sent flying back towards Su He’s turtle body at an even faster speed.

Not a Divine Ability, but a real flesh and blood collision!

Struck by the snake’s tail, he immediately sensed the state of the Dragon Turtle and the spirit snake, which was a new Divine Ability born to the Dragon Turtle lineage.

This wasn’t a Divine Ability, it was a physical body! The Dragon Turtle lineage had turned themselves into a hybrid of turtle and snake, merging the two into one!

Iron chains whirled in his hands, Feng Lu’s face full of rage.

Despicable!

If you dare, fight me in the great world of Feng Huang! The Mysterious Wasteland weakens the cultivators of the great world of Feng Huang, just as the great world of Feng Huang weakens beings born in the Mysterious Wasteland.

This Dragon Turtle, born and raised in the Mysterious Wasteland, would see its combat power instantly weakened by thirty percent if it went to the great world of Feng Huang.

A Mountain God Seal fell, and Feng Lu was once again smashed into the depths of the vast sea, opening his eyes to see the spirit snake rolling underwater, with countless ghosts lurking.

That person said the Dragon Turtle was young, with Divine Abilities one after another, completely surpassing the experience one of his age should have.

An iron chain whipped away the approaching ghosts, and Feng Lu leaped up, breaking through the water surface to stand in the air. His palm trembled slightly, and the iron chain pressed down over the entire vast sea, preventing the ghosts from surfacing.

Su He narrowed his eyes at him. The iron chains of the Feng Huang Palace were far more effective against ghosts than other Divine Abilities or spells. It was as if they were specifically designed to target ghosts.

Feng Lu exhaled slowly, looking at Su He as if he had made up his mind, but instead, he calmed down: “I’m curious, why didn’t you go after the scholar?”

The Dragon Turtle’s killing intent towards the scholar was undeniable; it was not just a desire to eliminate a threat, but an obsession that would not hesitate to kill a thousand enemies at the cost of harming oneself tenfold.

But the fact was that the Dragon Turtle did not pursue the scholar but chose to kill him instead.

He looked at Su He, his eyes filled with even more questions: “Putting aside your grudge with the scholar, the experiments on him alone, as a Divine Beast of the Mysterious Wasteland, should have made you kill him without hesitation!”

Dongyun Mountain was special, bordered by Yunmeng Marsh to the west and Xuantian Gate to the east. Both powers used Dongyun as a boundary, but also suppressed it?

There was something beneath Dongyun Mountain that he was unaware of, but it was definitely a secret. The true descendants of Yunmeng Marsh and Xuantian Gate rarely entered Dongyun.

The Dragon Turtle lineage had placed a Dragon Turtle here—looking at this Dragon Turtle’s eyes, perhaps like him, he knew little or nothing at all. But the Dragon Turtle lineage might have left something behind here.

The scholar, with his inexplicable luck, had merged with the soul of Dongyun Mountain. To unearth the secrets of Dongyun, the scholar was indispensable.

As for whether the unearthed secrets would be a great fortune or a disaster that would shatter the heavens and the earth, what did it have to do with him?

If it was a fortune, he would snatch it; if it was a disaster—wasn’t that even better? This was the Mysterious Wasteland!

Feng Yiju might have discovered something. He approached Feng Yiju, but unfortunately, he made a wrong move and fell into Feng Yiju’s trap.

In fact, the Dragon Turtle was still his benefactor.

Su He looked at the young marquis and sneered: “How do you know I didn’t kill the scholar?”

Feng Lu’s gaze suddenly focused. The Dragon Turtle had an accomplice!

Far to the north, on a green mountain, Su Huanian stood with her sword, the sword qi swirling around her, freezing the air into ice, scattering around her like stars. Each ice crystal emitted a tremendous sword intent.

The Fairy, dressed in white, her cold gaze fell on the stumbling scholar.

The scholar swallowed dryly, his breathing slightly disordered: “Su… Senior Sister…”

For three hundred years as fellow disciples, although Su Huanian never liked him, she had never looked at him as if he was a dead man.

“Senior Sister” had barely left his mouth when Su Huanian’s Fairy Sword suddenly flicked, stabbing straight at him.

The scholar’s face changed drastically, his body shining brightly, the mountain soul manifested into the image of Dongyun, enveloping him entirely.

The original soul of Dongyun Mountain was majestic and solid, upright and proper. But now, the mountain soul seemed to have been soaked in the domain of the serpent, with rising yin energy and Buddhist light flashing beneath it, with iron chains binding the mountain soul.

Su Huanian realized why the scholar could leave Dongyun Mountain even after merging with the mountain soul.

The mountain soul was half-suppressed.

Su Huanian’s sword fell, touching the golden light, but unable to pierce through it.

The scholar’s face showed a hint of a smile: “Senior Sister, stop! You can’t hurt me. Even the Dragon Turtle couldn’t break through my protective golden light. How can you, with only the second layer of Traverse Heaven, do anything to me?”

He sighed lightly: “I will pretend today’s events never happened. If Senior Sister continues to be stubborn, Junior Brother is not a clay figure!”

Willing to be an experiment for the Feng Huang Palace, wasn’t it for the sake of powerful strength? Today he couldn’t do anything to Su Huanian, but one day he would reach Traverse Heaven and walk above the sky!

Su Huanian nodded slightly and stepped back a few paces.

The scholar chuckled lightly, with a hint of disdain. The look of triumph on his face had not fully spread when he saw Su Huanian flick her sword again, another stab coming towards him.

This time, the Fairy Sword was not surrounded by sword qi like before; it was like ordinary iron, simply thrusting forward and easily piercing through the golden light, stabbing into the scholar’s forehead amidst his pride.

Pride turned to shock, and the scholar looked at Su Huanian in disbelief.

This sword, Su Huanian didn’t use sword intent or sword qi. She only used the physical power of the Fairy Sword, and his golden light was no better than paper!

What… what kind of sword is this?

The scholar wanted to take a deep breath but couldn’t do it anymore. He only felt the coldness from the Fairy Sword, a chill spreading from his forehead throughout his body.

His entire body was frozen through, turning into an ice sculpture in the blink of an eye. The Fairy Sword swayed, and the scholar’s ice sculpture completely shattered, turning into dust.

This ice technique was the Reverse Severing of Origins.

A thought in his mind: To kill me, a being of the Demon Subduing Realm, did Senior Sister have to use the technique of Reverse Severing of Origins?

Am I… worthy?

Consciousness flashed by, and in an instant, it dissipated with the ice dust.

Su Huanian glanced at it, confirming the thoroughness of the kill, and rode her sword straight south.

The battle at Su He’s location must be difficult; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been unable to stop even a scholar and had to notify her from the Mountain Sea Mysterious Realm to intercept.

Su Huanian’s escape light was extremely fast, a pair of faint cyan and blue ethereal wings emerged behind her, lightly flapping as if to pierce through the void. If an ancient being were present, they might recognize this as the ancient Qingluan escape technique.

…

Feng Lu’s face completely changed color. Indeed, there was an accomplice, and the scholar had been killed!

The accomplice who could break through the scholar’s protective golden light must be at least at the fourth layer of Traverse Heaven. They should be heading this way now, right?

He looked at Su He, no longer holding back. The iron chains in his hands suddenly shattered, turning into pure energy that surged into his body.

A sense of crisis suddenly rose, and Su He roared as the Mountain God Seal shone brightly above him, the spirit snake retreating to coil on the mountain, hissing and flicking its tongue.

Then he saw Feng Lu, with the energy from the shattered iron chains, his aura soaring as if he were a deity, stepping forward: “The divine decree, Zang!”

This voice did not seem to come from him but rather from an unknown source in the void.

An extremely ancient halberd, glowing with a bronze light, slowly emerged, as if lifted from the water, dripping and suspended above Feng Lu’s head.

Bloodline origin!

As a Divine Beast, Su He’s sense of bloodline was too strong, and he immediately noticed something was off. This man had extracted the power immersed in his bloodline!

This feeling was like Su He forcibly stripping away a Divine Ability of the Dragon Turtle from his bloodline before he had mastered it.

The bloodline was ruined!

He was desperate!

Su He’s heart sounded the alarm, and he roared as the Mountain God Seal smashed down, dark clouds covering the sky, and a pitch-black thunderbolt struck towards Feng Lu.

But Feng Lu seemed not to see the attack coming straight at him, pointed forward with his halberd, and shouted again: “Zang!”

A flash of blood on the bronze halberd, and Su He’s vision went completely dark.

Blind!

The laws on the bronze halberd manifested, sealing his eyes. Suddenly plunged into darkness, Su He was startled but not panicked. His Divine Sense swept out, but he still couldn’t see anything. His Divine Sense felt as if it had been castrated.

The bronze halberd had deprived him of all ability to see.

Su He’s figure flickered, using the Divine Machine to leap left and right. This deprivation was not a range skill; it wasn’t something that would recover if he left Feng Lu. It was branded onto Su He.

There was no escape!

Su He closed his eyes, slightly tilted his head, and listened intently to Feng Lu’s movements with his ears at their peak. At the same time, he took a long breath, and the scents from all directions rushed into his nostrils, sketching the outside world in his mind.

But then he heard from all around: “The divine decree, Yi!”

Just like before, a bronze sword appeared above Feng Lu’s head, stepping forward, a flash of blood on the sword, and the scents in Su He’s nostrils completely dissipated.

The air was still inhaled, but no scent could be smelled. Even Divine Sense couldn’t detect the existence of any scent.

This Divine Ability had cut off his sense of smell!

Blind and unable to smell, a crisis arose.Su He roared, his claws stomping downward, as the waters around him churned into a swirling vortex that enveloped him, spinning rapidly like a dance of water blades, severing any possibility of an outsider’s attack.

Su He’s thoughts were in turmoil.

He had never seen such a technique before. By severing his own bloodline, Feng Lu had unleashed the inheritance within his bloodline that he had yet to master.

Zang, Yi…

Both were punishments for commoners, one gouging out eyes, the other cutting off noses. When Feng Lu employed them, it meant severing sight and smell.

A jailer? Or an executioner?

Such things lingering in the bloodline suggested that the founder of the Feng Imperial Palace might have been a jailer! And those iron chains, they were not the inheritance that a proper bloodline should possess.

Having sealed eyes and nose, the next step would probably be to seal hearing.

How should this Divine Ability be broken?

Su He increased the output of Qianjun and Luan Blade, his brain working at high speed. At the same time, the Netherworld Passage opened directly beneath him, and endless ghosts swarmed out, instantly submerging Su He.

However, the emerging ghosts were mostly slain by the Luan Blade, with only a fraction able to withstand it, dragging their broken bodies towards Feng Lu.

Feng Lu, looking at the sea of ghosts, narrowed his eyes slightly: “The Divine decrees: Sever the ear!”

Here it comes!

Su He roared, and the sixfold Mountain God Seal instantly struck towards the direction of the sound.

Feng Lu was clever, disguising his voice from all directions, but… this was Su He’s domain!

With one Mountain God Seal, Su He could neither hear nor see, nor could his Divine Sense perceive, but the feedback from the Mountain God Seal had already hit the target, whether it was Feng Lu or a ghost.

Outside the vortex stirred up by Su He, above Feng Lu’s head, the Ge, Rong, and Ox Ear Blades flipped back and forth, his chest dyed red with blood. A bitter smile appeared on his face.

Indeed, facing the Dragon Turtle was a one-time opportunity, and it took until the third attempt for the Dragon Turtle to confirm his location, showing a lack of experience.

Unfortunately, the “Divine Seal” had its own ritual, and he couldn’t hide it.

Unable to dodge, he could only take a hit from the Mountain God Seal, but it was all worth it!

Feng Lu looked at Su He, who had completely fallen into chaos, a smile on his face. Unable to enter the Suppressing Evil Dao Palace, and with the woman’s soul summoned away, he would borrow the Dragon Turtle bloodline for his use.

To replenish form with form, and use with use, the turtle was a great tonic, using the Dragon Turtle to supplement his own bloodline, to continue his path, and perhaps advance further! After that, he would hide in the Feng Imperial Great World and not emerge until he reached the peak!

He reached out and grabbed a long spear from the void, leaping up and thrusting directly at Su He.

Su He remained motionless, concentrating solely on sensing the outside world through the vibrations of the vast ocean.

Unable to see, hear, or smell, but the body’s own touch was still present, and the beast’s sense of crisis heightened to an unprecedented level at this moment, becoming even more acute.

The spirit snake, boneless and smooth, slid into the vast sea. Its body relaxed, its sensitivity to the water surface several times that of the turtle’s.

The water vibrated, the killing intent was chilling.

Here it comes!

Su He’s body suddenly tensed, feeling the vortex around him shattered in an instant, a sharp thrust coming straight at him. He ducked his head and felt a tremendous force on his body, the familiar spear tip, penetrating, sharp, unyielding…

Various laws began to emerge.

He felt the external form shake, and in an instant, it was pierced through, the long spear stabbing at the base of his neck, hitting the turtle scales. The scales blocked for a moment before being penetrated.

Three inches into the flesh.

A flash of joy crossed Feng Lu’s pale face, but as soon as the joy arose, he felt something was wrong. The long spear that had pierced the Dragon Turtle could not be retracted!

The external form he had pierced through had become countless times stronger in an instant, firmly clamping the spearhead.

Young Master Hou was shocked, letting go of the long spear and retreating, but a spirit snake shot out from the water below. The snake’s head merged with the Glutton’s dragon head, which was nearly solidified, its eyes tightly closed as it suddenly surged up and bit down.

The spirit snake’s perception of vibrations was never wrong!

A scream from Feng Lu followed, as both legs below the thighs were bitten off.

Only at this moment did the Dragon Turtle roar, its divine might shaking in all directions. No longer distinguishing friend from foe, it killed indiscriminately.

Feng Lu’s mind reeled.

Then he saw the Dragon Turtle rise to its feet, its claws smashing downward, its Dragon Turtle aura bursting forth majestically, with the shadow of a Dragon Turtle Dao forming behind it, roaring up to the heavens.

Above Feng Lu’s head, the three instruments of punishment trembled simultaneously, emitting sounds of unbearable strain. Young Master Hou’s face turned pale in an instant; the Dragon Turtle was about to break the punishment!

He had found a way to break through the punishment.

Su He’s roars followed one after another. He didn’t know how to break the Feng Imperial Palace’s instruments of punishment, but since Feng Lu’s instruments were condensed from the bloodline, then he would break through with the power of the bloodline!

His Dragon Turtle bloodline was second to none! Turning his bloodline into an army of True Blood, rushing through eyes, ears, and nose, as long as the bloodline’s power was strong enough, what was there to fear?

“Ang!” A long cry of the Dragon Turtle pierced the clouds, spreading in all directions.

On Dongyun Mountain, Su Huanian’s face changed, her wings flapping suddenly behind her, her face paling as her speed increased, no longer able to see the Fairy’s figure.

Listening to Su He’s long cry, Feng Lu’s face twisted, his hands slapping the water surface, leaping up: “Open!”

His black clothes shattered, and a decrepit garment formed outside his body, resembling the attire of a common jailer, tattered and stained with oil and blood.

But with the jailer’s clothes appearing, Feng Lu’s momentum immediately soared, as if suppressing the might of ten thousand realms, he roared and shot towards Su He. Midway, he raised his hand and pulled down the bronze Ge above his head, transforming his body into a spear and thrusting straight at Su He.

The bronze Ge pierced through the void, flashing with a dark red glow, its killing intent overwhelming, charging at the Dragon Turtle, closing in instantly.

But at that moment, Su He’s hazy eyes suddenly opened, the punishment no longer able to restrain his gaze.

With a roar, the dragon head turned to dodge the fatal blow, the red light from the bronze Ge not falling on the head, but slicing through the shoulder, cutting into the flesh and turtle shell.

A gush of blood spurted out, but upon hitting the ground, it transformed into warriors charging at Feng Lu.

Su He turned his head, his gaping maw biting into Feng Lu’s chest, regardless of Feng Lu’s screams and struggles, he bit down hard, a supreme divine might in his mouth.

“Roar!”

The divine might was like the sea, the waves booming into Feng Lu’s mind.

The bronze Rong and Ox Ear Blades swirling around him shattered in an instant.

The punishments of nose and ear were lifted!