Panting!
Panting!
After several camel grunts, a long howl of a thunder ape echoed like muffled thunder, and a flying boat burst out of Su He’s small world, heading eastward.
Atop the flying boat, the camel stood at the bow, head held high and chest puffed out, with two Mysterious Moon emblems shining brightly between its brows.
It, the mighty one! Nearly a year since it was tossed into the small world, today it was finally remembered!
A camel face full of joy. It snorted loudly, but then saw the thunder apes on the boat beating their chests and roaring, and its joyful face immediately drooped.
A bunch of monkeys that can’t be tamed!
Over the past year, these thunder apes had been obedient to it, heading east at its command, never west. The camel felt like it had reclaimed the sensation of being a camel king.
It thought it had toughened up, but as soon as the little one arrived, the thunder apes rebelled—not only them, but it had become a mount itself.
At this moment, the little one sat majestically between its two humps, her little face showing a hint of authority. Her time as the head of the household was not in vain.
In front of her on the camel’s hump, a wooden sculpture of the Barbarian King sat imposingly, and beside it, a palm-sized panda roared to the sky, shedding its usual docile demeanor and taking on the air of an iron-eating beast.
With a swipe of its paw through the air, it seemed to shatter countless enemies, its face fierce. But just as a gust of wind blew by, it lost its balance and tumbled down from the hump, landing on the deck, utterly bewildered.
Looking up, it couldn’t see where its master was, only the towering, pillar-like legs of the apes. Sparks of electricity flickered on the leg hair. The once domineering iron-eating beast instantly shrank into a ball, trembling with fear.
The little Barbarian King leaped up, ready to jump down from the camel to rescue its mount. But glancing downward, it only saw clouds and mist, and for him, jumping off the hump was no different from leaping off a cliff!
After thinking it over, it sat back down, with an expression that one shouldn’t spoil their pets. The panda was mature enough; it was time it learned to climb back up on its own.
…
Inside the Longyue Mansion, Ji Feixue clicked her tongue twice as she looked at Su Huanian: “Is your motherhood a part-time job?”
Her daughter returned without even calling out ‘Mother.’ She just shouted, ‘Daddy, Daddy, lend me the flying boat!’ and after snatching the flying boat, she was gone.
Even the turtle is a failed father.
Having a daughter who can’t be cherished, what’s the point of having her?
A gleam flashed in her eyes, and suddenly she revealed her dragon form, coiling around Su He, her dragon head coming close to Su He’s, blinking, “Little husband, why don’t we… have one of our own? Sister can’t do it in human form, but I’m a dragon, no problem~”
She coiled around Su He, her dragon tail gently swaying, brushing against his shell and tail, causing a tingling, itchy sensation that stirred the heart.
The Flood Dragon’s size was fixed, but Ji Feixue obviously couldn’t be regarded as a mere Flood Dragon. When her dragon form was large, it could obscure the sky; when small, it could hide in gullies.
There was a possibility of doing something with Su He.
Su Huanian looked over with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, and Su He felt as if a sword was poking at his shell, a slight misstep could lead to a tragedy.
He shivered and quickly shook his head: “You might be able to, but I can’t.”
Even with the Dragon Turtle’s exceptional talents, it would take at least reaching the third level of Heaven’s Opening to possibly conceive offspring—and that’s just in theory. In practice, the difficulty of the Dragon Turtle clan producing offspring—well, just look at the members of the Dragon Turtle clan.
Among the Four Spirits, only the Dragon Turtle clan consisted of ordinary turtles that had transcended heavenly tribulations to achieve their status, none were born from lineage. The birth rate was so low it was infuriating.
Of course, it could also be because… there were no female turtles?
“Coward!” Ji Feixue poked him with a dragon horn, her dragon eyes rolling slightly, her body swayed and released Su He, slipping into the autumn lake.
With a flick of her tail, she erased a wall of the water mansion, and without seeing her move, the broken stones from the bottom of the lake floated up, and in a moment, the water mansion was extended by half, connecting with the original structure.
This new part of the mansion shimmered with treasure light, clearly not something the Jiao people could compare with. However… it was crooked and uneven, as if built with blocks, quite unique.
Unique in that way!
Forcing her way up? Su He was surprised, just as Ji Feixue circled the water mansion a few times. Before he could marvel at her artistic talent, the sound of silver bells came ringing.
The White Dragon transformed into a human form, and Ji Feixue sighed in a red dress, turning back to look at Su He: “Little husband, why don’t we just wipe out Yunmeng Marsh?”
Su He: “???”
The bell rang more urgently.
“Is this a call for help?” Su He asked. Annoyed by her own people asking for help, she wanted to eliminate them? Too lazy to deal with trouble, so she decided to eliminate the troublesome people?
These days, he thought Ji Feixue had become nicer, but she was still a demoness!
“Yes!” Ji Feixue giggled: “The Imperial Palace is too stingy. It’s just killing one of their lords, why think of revenge?” She looked at Su He seriously: “Do you think we killed too few? If we wipe out all their lords and princes, won’t there be no one left to seek revenge?”
After saying this, she laughed first, but her eyes twinkled as if she really wanted to try.
Laughing, her body flashed and she tore through space and left.
The person was gone, and her voice fell over the autumn lake: “Don’t damage my mansion! Next time I come back, I want to live there!”
The dignified Ji Feixue, her voice carried a bit of a young girl’s demeanor.
“…” Su He fell silent for a moment and then said to Su Huanian: “Why didn’t she use the main gate?”
Is it so great to be able to tear through the space of Longyue Mansion?
Su Huanian looked at the water mansion at the bottom of the lake and did not answer. She saw the space fluctuate, and Ji Feixue, who had just left, came back again, poking Su He in the forehead with a finger: “Stingy!”
She giggled and stuffed something into Su Huanian’s hand, turned around, walked out of the Longyue Mansion’s gatehouse, stepped up high, and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.
Su He was dumbfounded.
Su Huanian looked down, puzzled by the brocade book Ji Feixue had stuffed into her hand, which turned out to be the marriage certificate.
…
“Just a bunch of mountain bandits, clueless about life and death!” shouted from atop Changfeng City.
The city lord’s face turned dark; these bandits really didn’t know what was good for them. He had been more than fair, willing to overlook past offenses if only they handed over the soul beast and the snake spirit, even willing to spare those troublemakers.
But the bandits were ungrateful!
If so, then there was no need for courtesy. The city lord slowly drew his Fairy Sword and slashed towards the sky: “Wei family disciples, to battle!”
The city’s Formation was activated, no one could break through, and the Wei family could kill with impunity, aiming to slay That Turtle, the demon king!
At his command, several Fairy Swords soared into the sky.
A hint of proud smile spread across the face of the Wei family’s patriarch. Thirteen disciples at the Sense Realm, this was the accumulation of the Wei family over eight hundred years, the foundation that guarded a city!
Even among the various sects, how many could boast such power…
He was still smiling when a thunderous boom sounded overhead. Looking up, he saw a giant flying boat that had appeared among the clouds at some unknown time. A six-meter-tall thunder ape leaped down from the flying boat, already beating its chest mid-air, and with a punch, it struck a Wei family disciple who had just taken off on his sword, the giant ape pressing down the disciple and crashing into the ground.
The blue stone pavement was smashed into a deep pit by the impact. But the thunder ape, not yet satisfied, grabbed the Wei family disciple by the ankle and swung him left and right.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The violent collision sounds struck the Wei family patriarch’s heart, and after his initial shock, fear set in. Which power had the Wei family disciples collided with?
What kind of Exotic Beast was this? He was sure that within a million miles of Changfeng City, such a beast had never appeared!
Ape-shaped, mastering thunder… it resembled the legendary thunder ape, but such a creature simply couldn’t exist in the Xuantian Celestial Domain.
A Beast Pet brought from another celestial domain? He swallowed hard, immediately convinced of one thing: there was someone on the flying boat that he couldn’t afford to offend!
He shouted towards the flying boat: “Fellow Daoist, please stop, I am the lord of Changfeng City. Today, my family’s disciples are here to eradicate bandits, to bring peace to the people, any offense we have caused, we hope the fellow Daoist…”
Before he could finish, he saw one thunder ape after another leaping down from the flying boat, each with five or even six stars shining on their foreheads.
A group of five-star and six-star Exotic Beasts. The city lord’s breathing became rapid, and when he saw a camel descending from the flying boat, his face turned even more purple.
Especially when he saw the two Mysterious Moon emblems on the camel’s forehead, his rapid breathing turned into panting.
A Mysterious Moon realm camel, unheard of, but he had heard of it, only the Qingyuan Sect in the Dongyun Mountains had one, which was a pet of an elder who had reached the limit of morphing into a demon, a dominant presence in both the Qingyuan Sect and the Dongyun Mountains.
The Qingyuan Sect was a colossal presence, even if the hundred sects of Dongyun joined forces, they couldn’t withstand it.
Was someone from the Qingyuan Sect’s elders on the flying boat?
His breath hitched, and then he saw the little one sitting imposingly on the camel’s back, his face suddenly full of color.
The wooden sculpture of the Barbarian King stood up, parting the long camel hair that reached his waist, swinging his giant axe forward, looking at the city lord: “Are you the one hindering my army’s march?”
His voice was calm, but this calmness made him seem even more disdainful of the world.
As he spoke, more than thirty thunder apes simultaneously beat their chests and roared.
“Roar!”
The roar echoed throughout Changfeng City.
The city lord swallowed hard, his eyes full of shock, his mind buzzing with terror. He stared blankly at the little one on the camel’s back, his face full of disbelief.
This, was this the power a turtle demon should have?
The clouds surrounding the flying boat dispersed, revealing the flying boat clearly, with indecipherable Formations and unrecognizable materials, but just from the carvings and craftsmanship, one could tell.
This flying boat… even if you sold Changfeng City, you couldn’t afford it!
He looked at the little one, panting heavily, resentment and hatred hidden in his eyes. With such a background, why play games with me!
Can I afford to play?
The air was momentarily still, only the roaring of the thunder apes.
Inside Changfeng City, on a cart with an ox, a young man carving a wooden sculpture looked up at the sky at the camel, his gaze landing on the Barbarian King sculpture.
Surprise filled his eyes. The curtain of the ox cart opened, and an old man who seemed mad also looked at the sculpture, clapping his hands and laughing: “Alive! Alive! This wooden sculpture is alive!”
…
“Hisss!” Su He gasped in pain, the agony piercing to the core.
On his shell, Su Huanian’s Fairy Sword slowly probed into his wound, slicing out a red aura similar to sword intent.
The aura gathered to the side, pinned down by Su Huanian, unable to escape, accumulating more and more until it took the shape of a halberd.
The injury was instantaneous, but recovery was not something that could be achieved in a moment.
The aura of the bronze halberd penetrated the body, and after being expelled, it would gather again after a while, and to truly eradicate it, Su He estimated it would take two to three months.
“Actually… I could do it myself,” Su He said, his teeth chattering.
Su Huanian, as if she hadn’t heard, stabbed another sword before she slowly sheathed it, glancing at Su He: “Too slow.”
Su He gasped again, not daring to retort. He felt that Su Huanian’s two swords were somewhat emotional.
He exhaled slowly, feeling a bit of relief in his wound, and closed his eyes to look inward.
At this moment, his True Blood army was drumming and gathering, marching towards the wound. The True Blood army had bronze halberds glowing red above their heads, and although there were no halberd wielders, the formation of halberds was like an army, fighting fiercely against the True Blood army.
It should have been a protracted war, but with Su Huanian’s sword energy entering, a backstab annihilated countless bronze halberds.
The pressure on the True Blood army was immediately reduced by half.
Su He’s consciousness entered the Sense Realm, looking at the Bright Mirror.
Now, the Bright Mirror had completely changed its appearance, becoming more luxurious, a finely crafted treasure mirror, with each carving carefully representing various Talismans and Formations.
At this moment, the mirror flashed, indicating to Su He that there was a problem with his body.
This feature, developed by some fellow Daoist who practiced the Bright Mirror, used to only show specific items when Su He actively operated it.
Now, when there was a problem with his body, it started to remind him with flashes.
The text appeared on it.
Status: Injured, Penalized, In Heat.
Recovery degree: Shoulder, 79%, Back, 17%
His consciousness swept over and understood what this percentage meant. No matter the severity of the injury, the recovery degree was 0 at the moment of injury, and the better the injury healed, the higher the percentage. Until 100% fully recovered. If the injury worsened, perhaps negative numbers would appear.
It was his first time being truly injured.
Su He slowly opened his eyes, knowing that it was not suitable to cultivate in a seriously injured state, a hint of a smile flashed in his eyes, and he leaped out of the autumn lake, flying in the air, his form shifting, the Dragon Turtle disappearing, and in mid-air, a peacock with half-grown feathers spread its wings and cried out.
“Ah ao!”
He shook his body, stretched his wings, and with a flap, he shot towards the bamboo forest on the shore, landing on a bamboo branch, stretching his wings to let the wind blow, his feathers trembling in the wind.
Su Huanian walked out of the autumn lake, the lake water flowing smoothly down her clothes, returning to the lake. She stepped on the lake water and walked up to Su He.
Curiosity in her eyes. She had never really seen Su He’s second form, only catching a glimpse twice.
Even Su He himself had rarely seen his second form.
The newly condensed peacock form was like a newly hatched chick, needing to be stabilized and consolidated, especially since the peacock form didn’t have its own realm bead. The first and second forms shared one bead.
In theory, the peacock form was already a Divine Beast at the first level of Heaven’s Opening the moment it condensed.
But the peacock’s physical body was too fragile, unable to be exposed for long. It couldn’t withstand the power of the realm bead.
Su He had devoured many treasures with the Gluttonous Feasting method, always leaving the peacock form in the background to slowly enhance its physical strength.
Now, the half-grown peacock, although still fragile, could move normally. It was just the right time to let the Dragon Turtle form rest in the background and temper the second form.
To condense the Phoenix Essence.
And, the peacock inheritance!
Su He cried out, spreading his wings and descending from the bamboo, tilting his bird head to look at Su Huanian, with a hint of something different in his eyes: “From a Dragon Turtle to a peacock, can you… adapt?”
Su Huanian knew what he was asking, and she reached out to gently touch the peacock’s cheek, a faint smile in her eyes: “Dragon Turtle or peacock, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s you.”
Su He’s breathing quickened.
The usually cold Su Huanian could actually be flirtatious?
Su He cried out a few more times, seriously looking at Su Huanian: “Should I accept the peacock inheritance?”
The peacock and the phoenix were one, their inheritances interlinked. Speaking of peacock inheritance, it was actually the phoenix inheritance.
Su Huanian laughed softly: “If you don’t like it, then don’t accept it.”
With Su He’s status, he had the privilege to choose not to do things he didn’t like.
Su He smiled: “What’s there to like or not like? Having one more Divine Ability is always good.”
Divine Abilities were different from ordinary cultivation. They could be inherited without cultivation, just letting the Divine Ability grow stronger with the physical body was enough.
His cultivation time was too short, and he had too few methods. He only knew the Divine Abilities of the Dragon Turtle clan, which made it too easy to be targeted.
Having one more inheritance, why not?