The Liuguang River was incredibly fast, and the scenery was breathtakingly beautiful. Each stroke of the paddle could scoop up a handful of stars.
The stars trailed their light, creating a sight too beautiful to behold.
Occasionally, cultivators would ride their swords, adding a touch of ethereal charm. Some would set up planks on their flying boats, connecting two boats with a walkway, and start doing business in the middle of the Liuguang River.
Su He only left a trace of consciousness to control the direction, paddling with his limbs. Most of his consciousness sank into his body, falling towards the Tribulation Crossing bead in his abdomen.
The bead was crystal clear, with patterns of mountains, rivers, lakes, plains, and oceans on it. But these were just innate patterns formed by the bead absorbing the world’s origin after crossing the tribulation.
If Su He could successfully develop the world within the bead in the future, he could materialize these patterns and bring them into his inner world, forming real mountains and oceans.
Therefore, to judge whether a divine beast has successfully created a world, one can look at the remaining patterns of mountains and rivers on its bead. The more remnants, the more unsuccessful the creation.
Su He’s consciousness sank into the bead, where everything was a hazy yellow. It was hard to distinguish up from down, left from right; it was all chaos.
This was his second time sinking his consciousness into the bead. The first time he came in, the Dao Palace was still here. After it was moved out, this place became chaotic.
The creation of a world by a divine beast involves several steps. First, the foundation of the Dao is condensed. In this chaos, the foundation is built. It could be the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, Wind and Thunder… it varies from beast to beast.
But most are not simply one kind of Dao, but a combination and fusion of many Daos.
It’s a bit like a cultivator condensing a divine object in their Mind’s Eye when they transcend mortality, but it’s much more profound. Once the Dao foundation is condensed, one can refine a world-creating Dao tool on it using the Dao and divine abilities.
This is what Gu Luo referred to as condensing the Dao into a tool.
The tool, when refined to its limit, can be used to create a world. The Dao foundation is like a piece of land, and the Dao tool is like a big tree growing on it.
Whether the tree can grow well is directly related to the land. How powerful the world-creating Dao tool can be and how big a world it can open are directly related to the Dao foundation.
Only a Dao foundation with a strong enough foundation can condense a powerful world-creating divine tool.
Bai Ling said that the Seven Extremes Secret Realm is related to the Dragon Turtle’s world creation, which should be related to the condensation of the Dao foundation.
There are several methods of condensing the Dao foundation and Dao tools within the Dragon Turtle clan.
Some use their own True Blood as the foundation, condensing a flesh and blood Dao foundation, which is like a giant that reaches the heavens. The giant holds a world-creating axe in his hand, and with one swing, he opens the world!
Some use the earth as the Dao foundation, and the mountain as the Dao tool. The higher the mountain, the longer the sky. They connect heaven and earth with the mountain.
Su He hasn’t decided which path to take yet. The world-creation methods of the Dragon Turtle clan are not simple. Any one of them, if cultivated well, can pull all the mountain and river shadows on the bead into the inner world.
The more methods there are, the more difficult it is to choose.
Su He opened his eyes, and the toad was constantly stuffing things into his outer appearance space.
“We have to travel for seven or eight days, don’t waste this time, try to condense the Mountain God.”
The toad was worried sick.
The Mountain Bearer absorbs everything, and now has two directions. One is to continue condensing the outer appearance, and the other is to condense the Mountain God.
The Mountain God is a great seal, with inherent effects such as suppression, sealing, and collision. It is extremely suitable for the Dragon Turtle’s fighting style.
The emphasis is on one thing, brute force!
Su He was very adaptable, constantly absorbing various treasures without stopping, repairing the outer appearance that had been shattered by the heavenly tribulation, and at the same time began to condense the Mountain God.
When he broke through the Liuguang River and left the port, Su He had already condensed a golden lump the size of a walnut.
It didn’t look like a great seal, and it didn’t have the power of a Mountain God. It was just a small lump of metal that could be stored in the body or released to hit people.
But it didn’t have the effects of suppression and collision yet.
After leaving the port, he checked the jade slip for directions and continued to head northeast. After two days of rushing, the entrance to the Seven Extremes Secret Realm was in sight.
The entrance was just an ordinary spatial crack. The huge rock where Bai Ling was meditating outside the entrance was still there, but it had been weathered a bit by the wind and sun.
Bai Ling’s image was recorded at least ten thousand years ago.
A few cultivators were wandering outside the cave, wanting to go in but not daring to.
“Toad, prepare the escape talisman.” The toad took out the teleportation talisman. When they passed by the Xuantian Gate on the Liuguang River earlier, they had specifically set the teleportation point there.
If anything happened, they would immediately teleport to the Xuantian Gate. Even if it was for the sake of the Dragon Turtle clan, they would provide some protection.
Su He stepped on the waves and plunged headfirst into the secret realm.
Inside the secret realm was a landscape of mountains, rivers, and lakes. The entrance was in the forest by the lake.
As soon as he entered the secret realm, the waves under him turned into a heavy rain. Su He couldn’t condense the waves again!
The toad stood up, snapped its fingers, and tried a few spells, but there was no response.
“This place forbids spells!” The toad said seriously, “Try your divine abilities!”
Su He closed his eyes, then opened them with a serious look. “The divine abilities are still there, but they can’t be actively released.” It felt like his hands and feet were tied.
Divine abilities are like eating and drinking, they are instinctive. But at this moment, it was like his mouth was stuffed! The instinct was still there, but he couldn’t eat.
Except for passive divine abilities.
The outer appearance was attached to his body, like a thin film. The defense was still there, but Su He couldn’t actively release the Mountain Bearer to absorb treasures.
He couldn’t release the small metal lump formed by the Mountain God either.
Su He frowned, then suddenly realized. Divine abilities are instinctive and hard to be restrained by ordinary means. But if this secret realm was Bai Ling’s masterpiece, it would make sense.
“Roar!” Su He roared. He couldn’t use his divine power, so he could only let out a simple beast roar.
His divine abilities were forbidden, but his eyes lit up.
Without divine abilities or spells, he actually had an advantage here! If he encountered an enemy, he could only rely on his physical body.Compared to the physical body, Dragon Turtle fears no one!
The frog stood on the turtle shell, tiptoeing and looking around: “I can’t use my Divine Sense, is there anyone here?”
We need to find someone familiar with the environment and ask about the rules here.
Su He sniffed a few times, his dragon eyes blinked: “Su Huanian?”
The air still held the faint elegant fragrance of Su Huanian, like a high mountain snow lotus. Although the scent was faint and had been seven or eight days, no smell could escape Su He’s nose.
Su Huanian had been here, she didn’t stay and hurriedly crossed the water and left.
She said she was going to collect thunder in the Tribulation Crossing area. Is her Tribulation Crossing area here?
Is this woman so reckless? Can she forcefully cross the tribulation even without using magic? Is she even human?
The two frogs looked at each other, both seeing the astonishment in each other’s eyes.
A voice came from behind the forest: “Who was roaring here just now, shouting and screaming?”
Su He turned his head to look. Two figures were rushing from the depths of the forest.
A monk in his thirties, dragging a broadsword, looked majestic. Another one, who looked over forty, was carrying a bronze hammer and running side by side towards this side.
Their eyes were bloodshot, flashing with a mad look: “Exotic Beast?” The monk with the bronze hammer tilted his head.
“No, it’s not!” The monk with the broadsword chuckled, drooling as he looked at Su He.
This Turtle was clearly not ordinary. But there was no star or Mysterious Moon in his brow, so he was not an Exotic Beast.
“Demon!” The monk with the broadsword confirmed. Not everyone recognizes and understands Divine Beasts. Even the Qingyuan Sect, which has a history of nearly ten thousand years, doesn’t understand, let alone rogue cultivators?
“Turtle demon?”
The monk with the bronze hammer grinned, his eyes full of ill intent.
The two brothers had been chased by enemies and had been stuck in this broken place for three years. They hadn’t tasted such a big supplement as turtle meat for a long time.
He licked his lips.
“This Turtle Daoist friend, I am He Feng from Qianji Mountain, where do you come from?”
He looked at Su He, a name rising in his heart.
“He?” What kind of broken name is this? Is this turtle demon stupid? He doesn’t know what method he used, but as soon as people see him, they immediately understand his name. Doesn’t this mean he can’t do any shady business?
Brain disease!
The two licked their lips together, circled around Su He, looking him up and down. Their four bloodshot eyes exchanged glances from time to time, gesturing and planning where to start.
“These two can’t talk properly, can they?” The frog stroked his chin.
The mental state of these two was clearly not right. With its thousands of years of frog life experience, it could tell at a glance that they had been in a state of high tension for a long time, and they were abnormal but hadn’t realized it.
Commonly known as: scared silly!
“First beat them up, there’s no mistake in that!” The malice of these two was not a matter of concealment anymore, it was about to overflow.
They were full of the smell of blood, and they were probably murderous people in the outside world.
The two were still licking their lips, circling around Su He, and had already begun to mutter about how to divide the turtle demon’s flesh and blood.
Su He swung his claws and slapped them both, sending them flying.
The two bounced a few times on the ground, jumped up with a fierce look in their eyes, and rushed towards Su He at the same time. The broadsword monk flashed to Su He’s back, and the bronze hammer monk leaped up from a distance, swung his hammer and smashed it towards Su He’s head.
His eyes were even more ruthless, and he grinned at Su He.
Little turtle demon, you just got here and haven’t figured out the rules of this place, right? In this place, demons can’t show their human form. This clumsy turtle demon, I’ll play you to death!
The huge hammer came smashing down from the air, aiming straight at Su He’s forehead. The frog did a backflip and landed on the turtle shell, giving up its head.
He folded his hands and watched the show.
These two were probably at the fourth level of Subdue Demons. If Dragon Turtle used the second move to beat them, it would be considered a loss!
As the man with the bronze hammer was in the air, Su He’s half-retracted dragon head suddenly shot out, biting his ankle and dragging him down, smashing him heavily on the ground.
Boom!
It was like a bomb exploding, a wave of air spread out. There was a big pit on the ground.
The monk spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes full of astonishment. How could it be so fast? He couldn’t see the turtle demon’s movements at all.
He was a master at the fourth level of Subdue Demons! The fourth level of Subdue Demons!
Before he could scream, his body had already hit the ground and bounced up again. He saw the black turtle swatting flies, a paw came over, like a mountain smashing on him.
He just bounced up and was smashed down again, his whole body smashed into the ground.
The monk with the bronze hammer’s vision went black, and he knew nothing. He had been hiding in the Seven Extinction Secret Realm for three years, and this was the first time he had fallen into a coma. A feeling of happiness rose on his face.
The battle in front had just ended, and the knife wind had already risen behind him. Su He didn’t need to look back, he kicked back with his hind paw, kicking the monk with the broadsword out like digging a hole and kicking dirt.
It seemed like a normal wild beast, one claw and one foot. But with Su He’s current physique and strength, even a mountain could be kicked down.
This place forbids magic, they can’t even defend. The complete prohibition of magic and Divine Abilities makes the advantage of Dragon Turtle even more obvious.
Wasn’t he going to ask about the rules of the secret realm? Su He deliberately held back his strength. One paw could directly kill a person.
The monk with the broadsword smashed a large tree and crashed into the rocks. It took him a long time to crawl out covered in blood. In front of the human-shaped hole, he shook his head and staggered to Su He, then knelt down with a thud.
The redness in his eyes had faded a bit, and he was a bit more sober after being beaten.
He recognized the reality, they and this turtle were not on the same level at all. No matter how many “masters” like them came, this turtle could beat them all!”What kind of monster is this? It’s too domineering.
What kind of people are entering this broken secret realm every day? A few days ago, a beautiful fairy fell in, her skin soft and sweet.
But the two of them didn’t dare to speak out of turn. They only took one look and almost died under the woman’s sword. If they hadn’t run fast and were familiar with the environment, and the woman was in a hurry, they would have been dead.
Today, a turtle demon came. It didn’t look like it was easy to bully – haven’t they killed turtle demons before? They’ve even killed ones that were five or six zhang long!
But this one is unreasonable. Since when do turtle demons have dragon heads?
He admitted defeat.
The Knife Cultivator was panting, making a sound like a broken bellows: “Senior…spare me! My brother…has a hot temper, he wanted to eat turtle meat, but I’ve been a vegetarian since I was young…”
His voice was trembling and he wanted to make up a few more lines, but he heard a humming sound from under the ground. His brother was waking up.
Begging for mercy without his brother, should he go and kneel with his brother?
While he was still thinking, he heard his brother in the pit panting and roaring: “Turtle demon! We’ll die together!”
Enough! He had been hunted for years outside, and escaped into this secret realm, only to find this place extremely strange. A slight carelessness would result in a horrible death.
Apart from the entrance, magic couldn’t be used anywhere else, not even magical instruments! Only here could the laws of the outside world flow in. He could sneak back in and secretly use the magical instruments twice.
But he didn’t dare to use them too much. After using them, he would become the enemy of the entire secret realm, being hunted wherever he went.
This was no way to live!
He had had enough!
He jumped out, holding a honeycomb-like object in his hand, his teeth bared, his eyes red, and with a crack, he crushed the honeycomb.
In an instant, a red mist spread out, covering half a mile.
The Knife Cultivator was dumbfounded, his whole body collapsed on the ground, muttering: “Dead, definitely dead…”
His brother threw the broken honeycomb at Su He, turned around and smiled at his younger brother. Fool! What are you looking at? Take me with you! You have the antidote, escape and give me the antidote!
The Knife Cultivator’s face was full of despair, the antidote had just been crushed by the turtle…
The red mist spread, and his brother fell headlong.
“Poison?” Su He asked.
“Should be.” The toad replied.
One of them was a divine beast, immune to all poisons with its true blood. The other was a soul beast, neither real nor illusory, and avoiding physical harm was just a basic skill.
This little thing, even if it was a hundred times more poisonous, couldn’t harm them.
The brother who used the hammer was dead.
The Knife Cultivator’s face was full of despair, looking at his brother’s corpse, spitting blood from his mouth, muttering: “Why did you take me with you when you committed suicide? Is it a case of ‘if we can’t succeed, we’ll die trying’? Do we have such high moral integrity?”
He gave a bitter laugh and collapsed on the ground.
The wind blew, the red mist drifted onto the lake, and a group of water plants screamed.
This poison was quite powerful.
The toad jumped down, turned over the two corpses, found some scattered spirit stones, a few jade slips, and broken magical instruments. Fortunately, they found diaries from both of them.
It seemed that the two of them had already realized that something was wrong with their minds. They each recorded their own diaries to avoid influencing each other. They recorded the strange aspects of this secret realm, which was their biggest reliance for survival.
The toad was flipping through the diaries with both claws, and at the same time, he was repeating the precautions to Su He in his heart.
Su He looked at the items found on the brothers and couldn’t believe it: “Is there such a poor Demon Subduing Realm?”
Their entire possessions were just this little. Even when he was still in the Qingyuan Sect, the value of the spiritual fruits he picked was higher than this!
A voice sounded above his head: “How would a pampered member of the Dragon Turtle clan know the struggles of a low-level cultivator?”
Su He looked up and saw two Teng snakes sliding in.
A wave of evil aura hit him in the face.
His turtle shell was about to explode.
Su He was on guard.
The divine beasts of this world were very different from the legends of his previous life. In his previous life, Teng snakes were constellations, real divine beasts. But here, they were full of evil aura, extremely sinister.
The two Teng snakes were not big, only six or seven zhang long, their bodies pitch black, their snake eyes glowing as they glanced at Su He.
They slid into the secret realm, one on the left and one on the right, blocking the entrance to the secret realm to prevent Su He from escaping. They hissed and laughed.
“Teng Snake Mist.”
“Teng Snake Abyss.”
The two snakes spoke at the same time: “Nice to meet you, young master of the Dragon Turtle clan.”
The green mountains remain and the clear rivers flow forever, so the Dragon Turtle clan also has offspring who were blocked by them?
They hissed with laughter, but suddenly their expressions changed, as if they were in great pain. They twisted and struggled, slapping their tails.
Su He and the toad retreated instantly.
They saw a red light in the middle of the two Teng snakes’ brows, as if a branding iron was flickering. After a sound like scalding pig skin, the two Teng snakes screamed at the same time.
“Teng Snake…Moon!”
“Teng Snake…Old!”
They gritted their teeth and reported their names again.
Bai Ling!
Bai Ling!
This moment was like a nightmare from ten thousand years ago. They were caught by Bai Ling and tortured for a thousand years, forcing them to forget their original names, Mist and Abyss, and change them to Moon and Old.
During the time when Bai Ling was still alive, they didn’t even dare to leave Snake Valley. It wasn’t until a thousand years ago, when they were sure that Bai Ling was dead, that they quietly slipped out.
But they didn’t expect that even though Bai Ling was dead, just reporting their original names in front of this damn little Dragon Turtle would reactivate the restriction on their bodies.
Moon Old! Moon Old! Damn Moon Old!”That crazy mother turtle, her mind is deeply sick! Neither killing nor sparing, only forcing them to change their names, is she ill?
The Dragon Turtle clan is utterly despicable, they deserve their dwindling numbers!
Two soaring snakes, flicking their tongues, looked at Su He simultaneously, their eyes filled with unmasked murderous intent.
Yet, the Dragon Turtle on the opposite side was not scared or timid, but instead roared and charged at them.
They’re simply courting death!
The two soaring snakes swung their tails and pounced on the Dragon Turtle.
The arrogant members of the Dragon Turtle clan, thinking that because divine abilities are forbidden here, a newly Tribulation Crossing turtle can challenge them?
They’re simply seeking death!
The two soaring snakes roared simultaneously, but at that moment, they felt something strange behind them. They hurriedly turned their heads to see a toad that had somehow gotten behind them, one claw holding their tails together. Between the two tails, a jade talisman was flashing, already activated.
??
The two soaring snakes were puzzled. When did this ugly crawler get behind them? What was it doing? Why didn’t they sense any danger?
As they tried to flick their tails to send the toad flying, they saw the toad wave goodbye to them and then turn and run.
A flash of white light passed by. The two soaring snakes disappeared.
The toad immediately turned back and shouted to Su He, “Go! Chase after Su Huanian. Soaring snakes are good at flying. From the Xuantian Gate to here, it takes at most one day.”
Soaring snakes are not Dragon Turtles, they have wings and can fly through the mist at an astonishing speed.
Time was too tight. They needed to rendezvous with Su Huanian first, then figure out how to fight.
The two soaring snakes only felt the world spinning. When they opened their eyes, the world was clear. They looked around and suddenly felt powerful auras locking onto them.
This was… the Xuantian Gate!
No wonder they didn’t feel any danger. The thing the toad had placed between them was a teleportation jade talisman!
Damn it, the Soaring Snake clan and the Xuantian Gate weren’t exactly on good terms.
Four spirits in one, enemies marked by the Dragon Turtle, even if they weren’t enemies, they definitely wouldn’t be friends of the four spirits.
“Run!”
The two snakes turned and ran.
“Were we tricked by the White Spirit?” The soaring snake with the character “moon” on its head asked the other one during their escape.
“No! Not at all! Impossible!” The soaring snake with the character “old” on its head denied immediately.
Moon was silent for a moment, “Then why didn’t the White Spirit kill us directly a thousand years ago?” It would be too easy for the White Spirit to kill two soaring snakes.
Because they hunted soaring snake cubs, three adult soaring snakes once ambushed the White Spirit, and then… there was no then. The spirits of those three clan uncles had been extinguished, they had long turned to ashes.
“Maybe, we shouldn’t go to the Seven Extremes Secret Realm.” The Moon Snake whispered. Were they bewitched before? They knew that the Seven Extremes Secret Realm was a trap set by the White Spirit, yet they still wanted to snatch it, even going to hunt Dragon Turtle cubs.
They always felt that the Dragon Turtle cub was actually giving them a way out. If they killed their way in again, they would be ungrateful and would be directly refined by the secret realm into food for the Dragon Turtle cub.
The White Spirit was too terrifying…
The Seven Extremes Secret Realm had existed for ten thousand years, but they were oblivious, they didn’t even think about it. Until their divine senses were scattered by the awe-inspiring power of the Dragon Turtle cub, they both remembered this matter.
It wasn’t a trap set by the White Spirit, they must be seeing ghosts!
(End of the chapter)