Don’t Mess with that Turtle
Chapter 194 - 194 048 Robber_1

194: Chapter 048 Robber_1 194: Chapter 048 Robber_1 Su Huanian soared through the air, feeling as though a great mountain was pressing down upon her.

Her eyebrows knit together slightly.

She had promised Su He that she would return within ten days, yet she had underestimated this treacherous land.

The day her tribulation ended, she was teleported out and had not since felt the laws of this forbidden area.

She had not expected the pressure here to be so incomparably greater for those who had attained the Stepping Sky Realm and the Demonic Realm.

Groups of water grasses in the water lay in wait to attack, trailing long white lines as they chased closely behind her.

In this place, Divine Sense could not extend outward, so Su Huanian had to rely on her eyes and ears in all directions, making sure to avoid all underwater creatures with each touch of the water’s surface.

In this deadly place, one could not even trust a mere fruit.

You might think you could pluck a fruit to sate your hunger, only to find the fruit more eager than you, stretching out a tongue eager to probe into your mouth.

The first time she came here, Su Huanian had witnessed with her own eyes an apple suck a person dry into a skeleton.

Here, caution was the primary element of survival.

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Inside the Mountain and Sea Mystery Realm, Su He lay on his small island, his intention continually soaking into and refining the stone column, which gradually transformed from the texture of sandy stone to that of white jade.

The Toad stood with hands clasped behind its back in front of the Crystal Jade Bi, its voice resonating in Su He’s heart: “The tribe has prepared all sorts of materials for you, but not a single Magical Treasure for dealing with enemies.

Are the Dragon Turtle Tribe so specialized?”

Is there not a single Artifact Refining expert among them?

Su He curled his lips.

It wasn’t specialization; it was a lack of child-rearing skills.

After living for hundreds of thousands of years, apart from reproduction, was there anything else they didn’t know?

Even with their overly specialized focus, crafting a couple of Magical Treasures suitable for the young wouldn’t be a problem—it’s just that they hadn’t thought of it at all!

The way the Dragon Turtle Tribe probably saw it was: Magical Treasure?

What do we need Treasures for?

If there’s an enemy, just charge at them.

If you can’t beat them, find your parents!

The Toad selected item by item, and with each selection, a material broke through the air and landed on Su He’s small island.

It packed each item into its pocket: “Heavenly stone, Red Flame Stone, Jade Crystal Stone…

These can absorb and enhance the External Appearance, while divine substances like the Divine God Crystal of Earthly Branches can help to consolidate the Mountain Divine God.”

It muttered to itself as it gathered the items, wholeheartedly fulfilling the duties of a Soul Beast.

A Soul Beast has no need for cultivation.

Once it recognizes a master, it devotes its energies to helping the master advance.

When the master advances, it advances too.

“This Position Transmission Talisman is good—it can even transmit someone of the Stepping Sky Five-fold.

Pity it’s single-use,” the Toad murmured as it stashed it into its pocket.

A buzz sounded.

Su He’s column had completely turned to the color of white jade, and in a moment, he felt a subtle, almost imperceptible connection rise with the Mountain and Sea Mystery Realm, as if a string was tethering him to the sea of consciousness.

With a strike of his limbs, he leaped as if diving into the water, leaving the Profound Realm without needing the Toad’s assistance, and opened his eyes in East Cloud Mountain.

The delicate connection was still there.

He followed it with a surge of intention.

Su He…

felt himself become round!

His consciousness now resided in the stone column.

At this moment, his vision was that of the column.

The scenery from all directions flowed into his “eyes,” a truly peculiar sensation.

“Keep intensifying your consciousness until you form an intention avatar,” the Toad’s voice echoed in Su He’s heart.

Su He did as instructed, and moments later, a bubble formed on the column, bobbing up and down until it burst open, and a miniaturized version of the Ink Jade Dragon Turtle rolled out with a plop.

The feeling was extraordinary—Su He could see the scenes of East Cloud Mountain and the Mountain and Sea Mystery Realm simultaneously with his real body and the miniature consciousness body.

“Does this count as an avatar?”

Both the consciousness body and the actual body spoke at the same time, one with the grandmotherly roar of a Dragon Turtle, and the other in normal speech.

He struggled to adapt to controlling two bodies at once.

“No, it does not!

A true Cultivator’s avatar can think and act independently.

Your intention avatar is just multitasking.

Don’t overthink it, what’s meant to be will be.

You Divine Beasts possess mighty combat powers, but with your Divine God Souls and flesh bodies united, creating an avatar isn’t that simple.

In fact, it’s nearly impossible unless you are willing to sever a part of your body to refine it.”

Su He shook his head; self-mutilation was not an option for him—that sort of self-maiming refinement for an avatar would hardly allow the main body to recover.

He had no desire to be a handicapped creature.

The consciousness avatar lingered, and he could leave now.

“Let’s go!” he commanded in a low voice, propelling himself upward with a stroke of his limbs, piercing through the clouds to reach the Nine Heavens, heading northeast.

Flying was not a technique of Divine Skills.

Crossing the Heavenly Tribulation endowed the ability to fly as a natural instinct of a Divine Beast, no different from crawling or swimming.

The moment the Toad emerged from the Profound Realm, it felt a gust of wind and could barely open its eyes.

Struggling for a glimpse, its vision was consumed by a vast expanse of white—already it had crashed into the blue sky and white clouds.

Now, with the wind blowing beneath his feet and white mist all around, albeit obscured, neither the turtle nor the toad closed their eyes.

To gallop through the blue sky and white clouds—who amongst the Cultivators didn’t dream of this?

Strictly speaking, this was their first time truly flying.

The Toad, an amphibious Soul Beast, wasn’t naturally capable of flight.

For Su He, ascending to the Nine Heavens immediately after his tribulation was an instinctual response to mastering flight for the first time; his consciousness then was too chaotic for him to deeply experience it.

In the Heritage Sea, flying hadn’t felt like much either.

Only now, as clouds caressed his body and he rode the winds with mastery, did the sensation of flight truly emerge.

Su He let out a long cry, his Dragon head raised as he clawed forward and soared higher.

Amidst the whistling wind, he suddenly burst forth from the sea of clouds, carrying with him a swath of mist, which nestled above the clouds.

It was getting late, and the horizon was rife with streaks of colorful cloud.

The sun was setting; the sky was darkening, but above the sea of clouds, it was still bright.

At the far western edge, the semi-sunken sun tossed fiery clouds.

Beneath him, the clouds rolled like waves—a splendid sight indeed.

Su He sliced through the clouds, his feet condensing the mist into waves, pushing one after another, carrying him directly to the northeast.

Su Huanian had given him a Mystery Huang Map Log with the locations of the Seven Absolute Secret Realm.