“What is this?” Su He asked.

“I don’t know, I haven’t looked yet.” The toad’s claw gently tapped, blood splattered, and a series of illusions flashed inside.

“Flying snakes, celestial dogs, calamity fighters… they’re all Divine Beasts!” These Divine Beasts were once known as ferocious beasts. The toad casually pointed at the illusion of the flying snake.

……

……

Yunmeng Ze, a vast ocean raged. Although it was called a marsh, it was many times larger than all the oceans in Su He’s previous life combined.

On an island, the ancient Luo shook his head to shake off the water stains. He had been rained on for several days in Su He’s small world, and now he was all wet from the large marsh.

Not all Dragon Turtles like water. It prefers the earth!

Its true body has not yet left the Mysterious Wasteland.

Opposite it, a flawless white dragon swayed its body, transforming into a beautiful woman who descended.

“So, Ancient Luo, you sought me out because you want your little one to join my Thousand Rivers?” She asked with a smile, her lips slightly parted.

Thousand Rivers was her mysterious realm.

Ancient Luo chuckled, “What do you think, Princess?”

It always felt strange. The Dragon Palace of Yunmeng Ze was of the Flood Dragon clan, a demon clan. But it had a deep connection with the Divine Beast Dragon clan. Many in the clan had the bloodline of Divine Beasts.

This princess was the cream of the crop among them. After revealing her Flood Dragon form, Ancient Luo couldn’t tell whether she was a Flood Dragon or a Dragon.

It felt as if a Divine Dragon had inexplicably gained a human form.

But this was absolutely impossible.

Divine Beasts couldn’t cultivate human forms, no matter how high their Cultivation Level. It could only be said that this princess was too unconventional. She could have achieved the true form of a Divine Dragon, but she chose to cultivate a human form as a demon.

Should it be said that it’s no wonder she could get along with Bai Ling?

Bai Ling had the best relationship with her when she was alive.

Perhaps it was because of Bai Ling that she helped Su He on the day he became a disciple and even promised a princess?

Ancient Luo looked at her.

The Princess of Yunmeng Ze, Ji Feixue.

She was a true antique, having lived for countless years. When it was born, she was already the princess. The Dragon King of Yunmeng Ze had changed many times, but she remained the princess.

The princess was as constant as iron, while the Dragon Kings were as fleeting as flowing water.

Ji Feixue smiled charmingly, “If Ancient Luo asks, of course it can be done. However… I want the little one to participate in the next Spring Dragon God Festival, is that too much?”

Ancient Luo was stunned for a moment.

The Dragon God Festival had nothing to do with the Flood Dragon clan of Yunmeng Ze. It was a tribute to the ancestor of the Dragon clan. Many underage Divine Beasts would participate – after all, who would miss the opportunity to build a good relationship with the Dragon clan?

Divine Beasts also had different ranks.

The old dragon of the Dragon clan had some strange ideas. The Dragon God Festival was not hosted by the Dragon clan, but by this Flood Dragon for tens of thousands of years.

The green eel of Xuantian Gate had tried to interfere, but it seemed… it never won against her.

The Dragon God Festival was the business of the Dragon clan, and the other Four Spirits never participated.

She wanted this prestige.

Ancient Luo thought for a moment, “In principle, it’s possible, but the little one has to make his own decision.”

It was an elder, but it would not make any decisions for Su He, even if the decision was correct.

Divine Beasts, freedom!

Ji Feixue covered her mouth and giggled, “Then I agree in principle that he can enter Thousand Rivers, but it depends on his performance at the Dragon God Festival.”

Ancient Luo: “……”

A golden little dragon swam out of the water and said to Ancient Luo, “Uncle Luo, when you let He choose the place to suppress the earth, he chose next to me. I’ll help you persuade Auntie.”

The voice was clear and crisp, it was a little female dragon.

This was a Divine Beast of the Dragon clan, born six thousand years ago.

Just as Ancient Luo was about to speak, he felt a surge of evil energy rising from the direction of Dongyun Mountain.

“Flying snake?”

It spread its claws, and its mountain-like body disappeared in an instant. It didn’t tear through space to travel, the distance was so short that it wasn’t worth tearing through space.

As such a body broke through the air and left, Yunmeng Ze remained calm as usual, without any changes.

“Huh?” The little golden dragon rose into the air and looked towards Dongyun Mountain, “Auntie, what’s that?”

Ji Feixue, barefoot, sat in the air, kicking the water surface with her beautiful feet, and smiled lightly, “I don’t know which old turtle caused trouble and was poked by the little Dragon Turtle. He’s also a troublemaker, Little Seven, stay away from him, and don’t mention the matter of choosing the place to suppress the earth next to you.”

The little golden dragon wagged its tail, its eyes spinning around.

……

“Roar!” Su He roared, using his full strength for the first time since the Tribulation Crossing, a wave of divine power spread out, impacting the illusion in front of him.

It was a huge python as black as ink, hissing and lowering its head, staring at him maliciously. A strange smile was in its snake eyes.

“A little one from the Dragon Turtle clan? You’re not very capable but you have a big temper. Didn’t your elders teach you what manners are?”

Manners, my foot!

He didn’t know what the illusion was after the blood drop on the crystal, the toad casually pointed, and a flying snake was condensed, looking down at Su He from a high position, with malice coming straight at him.

As soon as it appeared, it was throwing its weight around, even trying to invade his sea of consciousness, and it still wanted manners?”Roar!” Su He roared again, his divine power condensed into a mass and directly bombarded the phantom in front of him. No matter what it was, he would fight first and if worst comes to worst, he would turn around and return to his small world to call for help.

His divine power directly bombarded the phantom of the soaring snake. The phantom was instantly enraged, hissing and attempting to pounce on Su He, but was stunned and paralyzed by the roar of his divine power.

After a moment of recovery, it lowered its head to look at Su He, its eyes becoming as calm as water.

Alarms rang in Su He’s heart. This soaring snake seemed to have suddenly changed, as if it had transformed from a frivolous dandy to a mature adult.

The toad had not returned yet. The moment the soaring snake appeared, it had already burrowed into the mysterious realm to call for help.

Su He looked up, locking eyes with the soaring snake. The turtle element within his body was surging, and he was brewing divine power in his mouth. To deal with such illusory things, divine power was the most effective.

Just then…

“Old mudfish, if you dare to look again, I’ll gouge out your real eyes!” A voice suddenly appeared. Su He turned his head to see Gu Luo, who had somehow crawled behind him, squinting at the phantom of the soaring snake.

He looked disappointed that the real body of the soaring snake had not come.

“Luo…” The soaring snake spoke, its voice completely different from the sharp one before. It sounded somewhat old, but the moment it saw Gu Luo, it became somewhat gritted.

Gu Luo didn’t bother to respond to him, instead looking down at Su He and the toad that had just returned from the mountain and sea mysterious realm. He laughed, “You two do have some skills, able to take out items from the mysterious realm.”

He looked at the jade disc on top of the toad’s head and laughed, “This thing is not allowed to be taken out of the mountain and sea – that drop of blood is the effect of the divine ability ‘Blood Curse’. Anyone marked by the Dragon Turtle’s blood curse will be the enemy of the Dragon Turtle for all eternity, even if they reincarnate, the blood curse mark cannot be removed.

Being able to mark the jade disc with the blood curse means marking its entire race, making them the enemies of the Dragon Turtle.”

He gestured to the soaring snake in front of Su He, “The soaring snake clan was marked thirty thousand years ago. At that time, they hid somewhere unknown, leaving only a few immature children sneaking around. When Bai Ling was alive, he almost wiped out their children, but two slipped through the net. One of them just appeared and was stunned by your divine power.”

“This one now is an old fellow, who has lived for five to six hundred thousand years, but is still as weak as a dog. The last time I ran into him, I almost killed him, but unfortunately, he slipped away.”

To mark a race with the blood curse, a drop of true blood from that race must be condensed. After the mark is made, if someone touches it, the entire race will feel it. Even their consciousness may be projected over.

Originally, the jade disc was in the mysterious realm, which is the Dragon Turtle’s territory. For countless tens of thousands of years, the consciousness of the Dragon Turtle filled the entire mysterious realm, and these guys couldn’t project their consciousness into the mountain and sea mysterious realm even if they blood sacrificed themselves.

Even the Dragon Turtle would love for their consciousness to be projected over, maybe he could follow the vine to find out where their real bodies are.

The first one to project its consciousness just now was a young snake from the soaring snake clan that was active outside. Its consciousness was shattered by Su He’s divine power. The next one to come was the old fellow.

“Luo… stop boasting, your family has a Dragon Turtle, and my family also has two little ones wandering outside. They are all young and should interact more…” The phantom of the soaring snake spread its wings, looking at Gu Luo.

The Dragon Turtle clan really has a brain disease, afraid of what reputation for bullying the weak? Letting its little snakes sneak around. If it were him, he would do everything possible to kill the enemy’s children as soon as possible.

He glanced at Su He.

Gu Luo spat at him.

Your children? Have the nerve? Afraid of death and stuck at the limit without advancing, from the time of Bai Ling, it has been a child, and it has been a child all the way to now. In a while, he will find them and crush them with one paw. To avoid any complications.

Not killing for thirty thousand years is enough. Compared to not bullying the weak, the Dragon Turtle would rather have a reputation for protecting its children.

Su He and the soaring snake looked at each other, both with ill intentions.

Su He shook his head, “Why bring the children? Why don’t you come and fight me?” At this moment, in this place, in front of Uncle Luo, as long as you come, I will immediately admit defeat.

Gu Luo laughed loudly, even if it had ten times the courage, would it dare to come? He spat and shattered the projection of the soaring snake. He turned his head to look at a void, “Old Hakutaku, is that you?”

A figure appeared in the void.

This was a divine beast with a pure white body, giving people a feeling of being well-read. It clearly had a tiger’s head, but it had a thin face, without any cheekbones, giving people a feeling of being more like a deer than a tiger. Its horns were beautiful and curved.

A scroll floated next to Hakutaku, with a brush painting in the air. The painting was of Su He roaring with divine power.

Gu Luo’s two dragon whiskers fluttered, “I knew you would come!”

Hakutaku was knowledgeable and understood everything. He even established the Hakutaku Tower and set up a battle list, which was circulated in all the heavens and realms.

The main list of the battle list disregarded race, age, realm, life and death… it only considered combat power, and there were one hundred thousand people on the list.

There was also a “Young Dragon List” that ranked the combat power of all underage divine beasts and cultivators who had not reached the third level of the Traverse Heaven Realm in all the heavens and realms, and also evaluated their talents, prospects, and so on.Of course, there were also the Pill Rankings, Tool Rankings, Formation Rankings, Talisman Rankings, and even the Rankings of Heavenly Powers and Wealth Rankings.

Countless beings in the three thousand great worlds were calling for the defeat of Hakutaku.

This ranking was the root of all troubles, causing countless people to suffer from tribulations. Unfortunately, Hakutaku was a top-tier Divine Beast with unparalleled combat power. It was a pity that it was the only one of its kind and had not formed a race, otherwise, there would be one more powerful race in the heavens.

This ranking was banned from circulation in countless great worlds, just like in the Qingyuan Sect, where there had never been any circulation of Hakutaku’s Battle Rankings.

This ranking, viewed by many as a dangerous beast, was ironically favored by the Divine Beasts.

What they wanted was face!

As a newly born Little Turtle of the Dragon Turtle clan, Su He was worthy of Hakutaku personally collecting information. These top-tier Divine Beasts all had quirks. If it didn’t collect the information personally, it would feel disrespected and might even tear down its Hakutaku Tower.

While others couldn’t find it, the Dragon Turtle, being a Divine Beast, had no difficulty in finding it.

Hakutaku lowered its head to look at Su He: “Congratulations on successfully crossing the tribulation, young friend. I present you with a Battle Ranking as a congratulatory gift.” It flicked a white light that landed in front of Su He, transforming into a jade mirror.

Words appeared on the mirror’s surface.

The cover only had thirty names that kept changing. These were the top thirty in the Battle Rankings. Hakutaku didn’t know how to rank them, so they appeared randomly.

Each name was marked with a race and status.

Su He saw two Dragon Turtles on it.

Tai, Dragon Turtle, Alive.

Ming, Dragon Turtle, Unknown.

(End of Chapter)