Don’t Mess with that Turtle
Chapter 160 - 160 026 Heavenly Tribulation_2

160: Chapter 026 Heavenly Tribulation_2 160: Chapter 026 Heavenly Tribulation_2 The sense of crisis looming overhead had not diminished in the slightest.

He chuckled softly to the High Priest Granny, “But I’m afraid I can’t leave this space anymore.” He looked up towards the sky, indicating, “It’s likely this space won’t allow me to obtain the Turtle Shell.

There’s an immense crisis looming in the dark that seems about to descend.”

“Eh?” Feng Yaya looked up at the sky, her head still as she turned her body around a few times, “I don’t feel anything!”

The crisis for Big Turtle was assuredly her crisis as well.

As long as High Priest Granny did not forcefully summon her, she was determined to stick through thick and thin with Big Turtle.

The Mermaid Ritual Priestess looked at Su He and blinking in realization, asked, “Does the Sovereign Divine God still feel the same even after taking the Turtle Shell?”

Su He shook his head.

A look of surprise and joy appeared on the priestess’s face as she prostrated before Su He, her demeanor becoming even more respectful, “Congratulations to the Sovereign Divine God for the imminent completion of the Divine God Beast Dragon Turtle form.

Sovereign Divine God, this is sensing the approach of the Heavenly Tribulation!”

???

Su He’s mouth gaped open with a creak.

Heavenly Tribulation?

Me?

Isn’t the Heavenly Tribulation something that one experiences only at the sixth step of Demonic transformation, within the Thunder Robbery Boundary Status?

I, a little turtle barely over three years old, have to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation?

This isn’t right!

Su He shook his head, “I am far from transforming into a Dragon Turtle.

My flesh and bones are only seventy percent congealed, the Offering Bones are not yet complete, let alone reaching Spirit Awakening and Gathering Origin.

How can there be any talk of a Heavenly Tribulation?”

The Mermaid Ritual Priestess, clueless, asked, “What…

Spirit Awakening?

Gathering what Origin?”

What is the Sovereign Divine God talking about?

She was a bit lost.

The transformation from an ordinary beast to a Divine God Beast is a miraculous change – from living day by day to achieving immortality.

How could such a defiance of the natural order be without a Heavenly Tribulation?

Su He explained earnestly, “The seven steps of Transcendence: Heart Orifice, Divine God Objects, True Blood, Intention Orifice, Offering Bones, Spirit Awakening, and Gathering Origin.”

The Mermaid Ritual Priestess was even more confused, “Aren’t these the Boundary Statuses of a cultivator’s training?

What does this have to do with the Dragon Turtle…

Is the Sovereign Divine God following the path of cultivators?”

She looked incredulously at Su He, “Why would a Dragon Turtle follow the path of a cultivator?”

What need does a Dragon Turtle have for cultivation?

For a Dragon Turtle, simply growing up is enough!

Devour Heavenly Material Earthly Treasures to accumulate strength, then find a place to sleep and slowly awaken and evolve until it fully transforms into a Divine God Beast Dragon Turtle.

Isn’t that enough?

Why cultivate?

Even if it chooses to cultivate, it should be learning techniques like her deity to strengthen digestion or combat power, not piling up Boundary Statuses like a cultivator would.

Isn’t that just making things unnecessarily difficult?

Wouldn’t it mean that every beast that consumes a Demonic Fruit, must also search arduously for a cultivation method?

What about joining Sects?

What to do with such vulnerability, when someone imposes restrictions on you?

Moreover, if one cultivates like a cultivator, the shadows in the Heart Orifice will only congeal True Blood, and it is only after completing True Blood that bones and flesh follow — what kind of shadow could withstand such consumption?

Even the most brilliant Red Demon Transformation Fruit would not congeal such a shadow.

A Divine God Beast only needs to eat and sleep, promoting growth in blood, flesh, and bone simultaneously.

One effort reaps three benefits.

Perhaps like a cultivator, congealing True Blood before using shadows to congeal bones and flesh might offer higher potential and a more formidable future.

But what use is it if one cannot transform into a Divine God Beast?

Su He gasped for breath, and the expression on the Mermaid Ritual Priestess’s face seemed to speak for itself, with her various expressions and the changes in her eyes, there was no need for her to say a word for Su He to understand what she wanted to convey.

It seemed like he might have taken the wrong path.

After taking several deep breaths and speaking in a deep voice, he asked, “If the shadow congealed by the Demonic Fruit is not enough for cultivation, then…

what if I eat another one?”

A batch of Demonic Fruits becomes available every sixty years, surely any beast on the path to Divine God Beast can wait, right?

The Mermaid Ritual Priestess shook her head with a smile, “The Sovereign Divine God jests.

Only the first Demonic Fruit is effective.

If one fails to transform into a Divine God Beast upon consuming the first, eating another will only turn them into a demon with the blood of a Divine God Beast.”

Su He was stunned.

This was something he honestly did not know, his knowledge of cultivation was all from Qingyuan Gate, and it had only become a prominent force in East Cloud for three hundred years, having been just a small and common Sect before.

The foundation was too shallow!

Su He gave a wry smile, “So to speak, the cultivation path of a beast is decided from the moment it swallows a Demonic Fruit, determining its whole life.

Is everything decided by a single fruit?

Isn’t that a bit of a joke?”

He had consumed a Red Demon Transformation Fruit, granting him the freedom to act recklessly, but what about the other beasts?

For example, was Green Snake’s fate fixed for life now?

The Mermaid Ritual Priestess chuckled lightly, “Luck is a part of cultivation.

Moreover, the Demonic Fruit is just a catalyst.

If one has a resilient nature, why worry about a rocky path to The Great Tao?

Take the Sovereign Divine God, for example, the pain of bloodline advancement during each slumber, a feeling akin to being bitten by a myriad of ants, how many ordinary beasts could endure that?

If one can bear the excruciating pain, naturally, they will incite the aid of heaven and earth Yuan Qi, even the weakest Demon Fruit would not be unable to help in achieving the Divine God Beast status.”

A decree left by the ancestors, all recorded the words of the deity.

The deity once said, even she would struggle to endure the feeling of acute pain when the bloodline advances during sleep.

This Dragon Turtle Sister before her was still so young, yet she was able to persevere, and she even proactively studied human Daoist practices.

Her spiritual determination and tenacity were beyond what most could imagine.

The look on her face as she regarded Su He was no longer just reverent towards a Dragon Turtle, but also contained admiration for a fellow Daoist.

Su He’s mouth fell open again.

He learned yet another startling piece of news.

Will bloodline advancement truly feel like being consumed by countless ants?

Why had he never experienced this?

Every time he simply went to sleep and awoke to find himself having evolved a bit more.

The most painful occasion was being force-fed by the White Jade Dragon Turtle Sister, an ordeal from which he had not yet fully recovered.

I, Su He, am I really that special?

Su He, instead, felt a sense of uneasy apprehension, as if he were a fraud.

The Mermaid Ritual Priestess smiled, “Sovereign Divine God, try to suppress it as much as possible, do not stir up that sense of crisis lest the Heavenly Tribulation be drawn prematurely.

If it’s really unavoidable—”