Don’t Mess with that Turtle
Chapter 180 - 180 041 New Boundary_1

180: Chapter 041: New Boundary_1 180: Chapter 041: New Boundary_1 Uncle Gu Luo’s entire dragon face was beaming with happiness.

The dragon horns shimmered brightly, and he cocked his head to look at the entrance to the Sealed Emperor Great World, his two dragon whiskers provokingly twitching.

An envious, cold snort came from outside.

This little turtle had been cared for by Luo all along, and naturally, Luo took on most of the guidance and care.

The dozen or so little turtles he had looked after none had reached the stage where they needed to cross the Heavenly Catastrophe—in fact, for tens of thousands of years, aside from the ancestors, the three-headed dragon turtles who were no longer managing affairs, the remaining four dragon turtles had been doing this work continuously.

Silently watching the little turtles embark on the path of the dragon turtle, progressing, perishing, time and again filled with hope, only to be met with disappointment and retracting his gaze.

As for this fellow Luo, he’s been incredibly lucky!

Twenty thousand years ago, he watched over White Spirit as it crossed the Heavenly Tribulation; twenty thousand years later, Su He again crossed the Heavenly Tribulation and became a dragon turtle.

Does this guy really have such good luck?

Or is he just better at taking care of kids, better at looking after little turtles …

even taking care of a turtle egg!

After becoming a dragon turtle, White Spirit only sought Luo for help.

This little turtle took just one year to become a dragon turtle, and that included four months of hibernation and two months in the White Spirit Tomb.

Aside from concealing the little turtle’s talent for Double Replication, what else had he done?

I’ll go find Uncle Red later, capture this fellow and dissect him once—that guy’s good fortune is a bit too excessive; it’s not normal!

Gu Luo’s mouth opened as he chanted a long song, filled with a cheerful breath.

Lei hummed a response, his muffled voice coming in: “The Transforming Beast Guide is indeed a unique tome.

Placed in ancient times, it would at least be a divine grade cultivation technique.

Be careful not to shoot yourself in the foot and lose face!”

“No fear, no fear!” Uncle Gu Luo was full of confidence, looking down at the little one at his feet, he said, “If it really comes down to it, we can just use other methods.”

The little girl’s paternal origin was damaged, so he simply decided to replace her paternal origin—get a new father!

It was just somewhat complicated to carry out.

If that doesn’t work, in the worst-case scenario, I’ll just find a Divine God Beast Clan that we don’t get along with and piggyback on their Heavenly Tribulation.

Not all Divine God Beasts are friends; afterwards, a fight is just a fight.

Consider it a celebration for the little dragon turtle.

His eyes gleamed as he looked at Su He: “Little guy, the matter of the origin is easy to solve, let’s put that aside for now.

Are you—ready to become a dragon turtle?”

Being damaged at the origin is not a big problem; the truly great event is having another young one in the clan, a cause for universal celebration!

Genuine universal celebration—the heavy rain in both major worlds and the Two-Realms Battlefield is proof.

Su He raised his head.

Uncle Gu Luo bowed his head and looked at this little one.

The heavy rain collected and flowed off his turtle shell.

A small movement of his mountainous body would unleash a deluge.

Uncle Gu Luo spoke solemnly, “The dragon turtle exists without knowing its age.

Not to mention the great ancestors, even I myself can’t remember how old I am …

In such times, the dragon turtle has mermaid-like kin, kylin-like friends, and also many enemies who hate us to the bone, wishing to bite our flesh and suck our marrow.”

He looked at Su He, his fur blowing backward, majestic: “Bearing the identity of a dragon turtle, you receive the blessings, but also bear the causality of a dragon turtle.

Young one, should you meet these adversaries, do you know what to do?”

Su He composed himself.

He was very content with the dragon turtle tribe—not blind to the numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures arranged into formations all around him.

Although Su He didn’t understand formations, his Divine God Beast instinct told him that this arrangement was extremely beneficial to him!

Highly enriching!

These heavenly materials and earthly treasures piled up could probably fill up Tinghai Lake.

Su He had no idea how rich the dragon turtle tribe was, but no one’s wealth comes with the wind.

Although it might be banal, money can sometimes illustrate a lot.

Su He nodded, “Uncle Luo, rest assured, if they are enemies, then it’s a fight to the death!

A fight to the death it is.

Su He stood righteously.

Thud!

Uncle Gu Luo formed a stone hammer in his hand and struck Su He on the head with it, dazzling him with stars, before he finally scolded, exasperated but affectionate: “Are you stupid?

Can you really oppose the enemies brought upon by your elders?

If you ever meet them, run if you can; if you can’t escape, then immediately kowtow!

Beg for mercy, compensate with money, call for your ancestors—whatever it takes to survive!

Remember who they are and come back to find your family!”

Is this turtle dumb?

You’re just a little turtle, why put on airs of righteousness?

You’ve only been a dragon turtle for a few days?

Have you already forgotten the days of hiding in the mud of a small pond and fighting rats for food?

Turtles must be cowardly!

It proves, indeed, the decision of the ancient ancestors was extremely wise—every ten thousand years, the consciousness of the dragon turtle is sealed into the bodies of ordinary turtles in the mortal realm, allowing the descendants to experience once the helplessness, struggle and the will to survive of a normal turtle.

The toad rubbed the swelling on Su He’s forehead as he stared blankly.

It’s not like he said he would rush in recklessly!

Has he gone mad?

He wasn’t blind to the next day—once a dragon turtle comes of age, it’s Stepping Sky; if he needs to beg for mercy, he could just find a place to sleep for tens of thousands of years, then come back for revenge.

Uncle Gu Luo looked at him earnestly, “Our tribe reaches the pinnacle of cultivators upon coming of age, do not act rashly.

To live is to have everything!”

Su He nodded.

A smile returned to Uncle Gu Luo’s eyes: “Since you are ready, find a place to hibernate and allow your body to adapt to the advancement of your bloodline.

It’s the perfect opportunity to enter the Tao Palace and receive the inheritance.”

The inheritance is the key!

He spoke seriously to Su He: “Dragon turtle inheritances are as numerous as hairs on an ox.

Do not rush to establish your foundational path.

The inheritances contain all the choices of the dragon turtles.

Consider starting in a small world, observing the growth and advancement of that world before making your choice.”

?

Raindrops over Su He’s head formed a question mark.

He was somewhat confused.

Inheritance …

what does that have to do with the world?

Gu Luo laughed heartily, “Mortals say that when a Divine God Beast reaches adulthood, it has reached the Stepping Sky Realm.

Although not entirely accurate, there’s some truth to it.”

It prodded Su He’s shell, “Do you know why the Boundary Pearl is called the Boundary Pearl?”

Su He shook his head.

Gu Luo chuckled, “It’s a seed of the world.

Cultivators in the Stepping Sky Realm, opening their Cave World, are trying to emulate the Boundary Pearl, If you could find a corner to sleep for eighty thousand years, by the time you reach maturity, the Boundary Pearl would have grown into a complete world.

However, a world grown like this is too fragile; you’d be comparable to a mere ordinary Stepping Sky’s Sixth Step.”

Just as a healthy adult possesses the strength of a hundred pounds – that’s the baseline, not the peak.

Some can only rely on that hundred pounds of strength to live, while others can learn strategies and conquer thousands of miles of territory!

This is the significance of a legacy!

“Right now, there’s only Chaos in your Boundary Pearl.

Only by solidifying the Tao and opening up the Seven Heavens, fully unleashing your inner world, can you be considered to have made progress in your cultivation.”

Dragon Turtles are scarce, and each has its own way of Opening Heaven.

Some solidify the Tao into towering mountains, erecting a world.

Some slash through Chaos with a Tao-formed weapon, and there are even those who refine the Boundary Pearl directly, not cultivating a world but only their own bodies.

The path one chooses leads to different outcomes!

He advised Su He not to rush his decision; once he embarked on the path of the Great Tao, there was no turning back.

Su He fell silent for a moment, then asked, “If Dragon Turtles only Open Seven Heavens in their cultivation, what about realms like Demonic and Stepping Sky?”

As if he had heard a joke, Gu Luo burst into laughter, “Little fellow, what are you cultivating for?

Let’s not even talk about the Great Tao – who can really cultivate that?

Cultivators only seek a long, undying life and the boundless mana to shrink mountains and stretch the moon, turn clouds over with the palm of their hand.”

It looked at Su He with a bit of playfulness in its eyes, “We, the Dragon Turtle, have already achieved it!”

The moment Su He crossed the Heavenly Tribulation and became a Dragon Turtle, he had already attained immortality!

What he lacked was unrivaled combat power.

“Having already achieved it, what do boundaries matter to you?” The realm that ordinary cultivators pursued had no meaning for Divine God Beasts—at least not for the Four Spirits.

Smiling, Gu Luo continued, “However, if we’re talking about combat power, it can be roughly compared.

A newly-transformed Dragon Turtle youngling that has crossed the Heavenly Tribulation would have the combat power of a cultivator at the Demon Fetus Realm at the Third Step of Transformation.

With a decent interval of wakefulness, upon Reaching Five-fold Open Heaven, one would have the combat power equivalent to a Cultivator Stepping into Heaven’s Sixth Step.

Roughly speaking, each level of Opening Heaven is comparable to two Boundary Statuses of a cultivator.”

Of course, this comparison was rough because the path of cultivation never follows rules.

For instance, this little turtle right here, with an abundance of Origin World energy, let’s not even talk about the Three-fold of Transformation – even the Four-fold of Transformation wouldn’t be able to withstand a beat – and this was just a cub that had barely hatched!

Isn’t crossing the Heavenly Tribulation just like hatching from a shell?

Su He furrowed his brows tightly.

One level of Dragon Turtle equals two levels of a cultivator…

It sounded impressive, but for some reason, Su He felt… weak.

It was an inexplicable feeling.

The Divine God Beast that got praised to the skies, was this it?

Gu Luo hit him on the head with a hammer, grunted, and said, “Don’t look down on humans.

Throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, if any clan is the strongest, it belongs to none other than humans.

If the Human Race could be as harmonious as the Dragon Turtle, all Divine God Beasts would be fit only to be mounts!”

Members of the Divine God Beast Clan tend to have roughly equal combat power; none are excessively better nor worse than others.

As long as one diligently cultivates, it is impossible for even the strongest to face multiple clan members of the same realm simultaneously.

But humans are different.

The gap between humans is even more significant than between humans and Divine God Beasts!

The very top freaks of nature could make even Divine God Beasts look up to them.

Humans have the unique gift of turning the impossible into the possible!

Just like Feng Yaya, would that little one grow up to be inferior to Divine God Beasts?

Gu Luo shook his head with a gentle chuckle, “Moreover, I’m not referring to ordinary cultivators but the monstrous geniuses of the Human Race, like the lady outside who has caught your interest.

Besides, Opening Heaven Five-fold is still juvenile!

Fully Opening Heaven is just reaching adulthood.

A just-matured Dragon Turtle…

Let me put it this way, I could slap a group around with one paw!

Ordinary cultivators at Stepping Sky’s Sixth Step, bring as many as you like; I’ll defeat them all.”

As for Stepping Sky Seven-fold…

the Sixth Step is called Stepping Heaven Ladder, the Seventh is called Knocking on the Immortal’s Door.

They are no longer mortals and beyond comparison.

Reaching that step, any cultivator is already defying the heavens.”

As Gu Luo talked, it laughed heartily and flicked Su He, flipping him over, “Don’t worry too much about this now.

You still haven’t figured out how to Open Heaven.

The first three levels of Opening Heaven are easy, but if you can open one level every ten thousand years from there, you’re a genius.”

It’s not possible for every Dragon Turtle to be like Little White Spirit, ascending a level in a thousand years.

After less than five thousand years, she could hold me down and win an altercation.

Su He flipped through the water, righting himself, and roared up at Gu Luo.

How dare this old turtle play around!

Is their offspring spawned only to be toys?

Gu Luo laughed even more unbridled, its voice thundering, “Don’t think too much and go to sleep.

It’s your first time receiving the legacy, with a blessing from the Turtle Ancestor, you can directly condense it into Divine Skills, choose carefully.”

After achieving Dragon Turtle, Su He gained a new ability: Divine Skills!

Let’s call it Divine Skills!

The flow of Magic skills learned could be condensed into Divine Skill Seeds, becoming one’s own Divine Skills.

Of course, this wasn’t something that could be done overnight, but it was still quite defying.

Divine Skills and Magic skills are entirely different capabilities.

One is learned, the other is as instinctive as eating and drinking.

No need for slow mastery for the first legacy; it’s directly a Divine Skill.

Su He’s eyes brightened, and he settled down right there.

Having passed the Heavenly Tribulation and advanced, he had never really woken up but wasn’t asleep either; his consciousness had been active.

He was somewhat struggling to hold on and needed a good sleep.

After politely excusing himself to Gu Luo, Su He’s eyes slowly closed.