Don’t Mess with that Turtle
Chapter 212 - 212 053 Dao Foundation_1

212: Chapter 053: Dao Foundation_1 212: Chapter 053: Dao Foundation_1 East Cloud Mountain, Qingyuan Gate.

Having fully occupied East Cloud, Qingyuan Gate showed no change, still guarding its own 3,000 miles of mountain ranges.

Standing outside the Palace of Longevity, Feng Yi Ju’s gaze was directed towards the area beyond the Seven Absolute Secret Realm.

With the augmentation of Qingyuan’s laws, he could barely make out the distant battlefield through his sight—the specifics inside the battle place were not visible, but the residual might that emanated outward was perceivable.

Just the residual might alone was enough to annihilate East Cloud a thousand and eight hundred times over.

Whether it was the Mountain Soul, Formation flags, Mountain Protection Array, or any other means, upon coming into contact with such residual might, they would collapse upon touch, without any exceptions.

He had also truly witnessed the methods of the Xuan Tian Sect Leader.

In an instant, it was as if he space teleported directly outside the battle space, and with a flick of his brush, ten thousand Talisman Runes appeared, each one powerful enough to suppress the entire Qingyuan Gate.

He looked back at the Mountain Soul hovering above East Cloud, at the Door of Three Lives that had only two gates left, at the East Cloud Sects who had evacuated, fearing Qingyuan, and at the Eight Great Maitreya Demon Statues standing towering against the sky…

His gaze deepened, and only his heaving chest betrayed the unrest within him.

After a long while, Feng Yi Ju turned and walked back into the Palace of Longevity, no longer observing the situation beyond the Seven Absolute Secret Realm.

The palace doors closed slowly.

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Inside the fire chamber of the Seven Absolute Secret Realm, the eggshell fell to the ground and dissolved, vanishing into thin air.

Su He broke out of his shell, feeling as though he had undergone hibernation.

The burden on his body from crossing the Heavenly Catastrophe and cultivating the New Divine God Skill had been swept away.

Above his head, the flames of the Seven Soaring Snake skeletons still burned, casting a warm glow throughout the fire chamber and making the entire turtle feel extremely comfortable inside and out.

With every step he took, his body swelled a bit, and after circling around a Soaring Snake skeleton, he had returned to a size of two zhang.

However, the White Jade Turtle Shell was missing—Su He had emerged from his shell back into his Ink Jade Dragon Turtle form, and the White Spirit’s White Jade Turtle Shell had vanished.

The red tadpole hopped around on the ground a few times and then changed back into the look of an emerald toad, jumping onto the turtle shell and stamping its foot to show off, alternating between tadpole and toad forms.

Su He: “???”

Turning into a tadpole is impressive?

The palm-sized tadpole was clearly visible, and its ferocious and terrifying appearance was truly hideous.

Even more so with the blood red color, which made it look eerily bizarre.

“Jealous?” The toad tadpole glanced at him: “I’ve gained the ability of a Seventh Grade Soul Beast ahead of time!”

The frog was always one step ahead, so unique.

Being able to pass objects between the real world and the Profound Realm is an Eighth Grade ability, which it had from birth.

To revert to a larval state is a Seventh Grade ability, which it also acquired early.

At Seventh Grade, a Soul Beast’s body can revert to a larval state, conserving all its energy to prepare for opening the Profound Realm at Ninth Grade.

Just like Gu Luo’s Brocade Chicken.

In its chick form, only the most basic abilities of a Soul Beast are retained, mustering all its strength waiting to open the Profound Realm at Ninth Grade.

But reverting to a larval state isn’t just about opening up the Profound Realm.

Similar to how a cultivator nurtures a sword, the longer one maintains the larval state, the stronger the burst of power will be when the true form is revealed.

Neither the Soaring Snake Clan nor the Jubilant Death Tree could contain the eruption of the Brocade Chicken.

Thinking about it this way, it was indeed a cause for celebration.

But shouldn’t one feel weird that this happened to the toad?

Su He didn’t know which grade the toad was, and the toad itself was unclear.

Its memory was intermittent, strung together like candied haws, and its abilities were a complete mess.

It had the ability to pass objects between the Eighth Grade Profound Realm and reality but lacked the Third Grade Spirit Beast’s ability to teleport through space…

And it was still obstinate, boasting like Kong Yiji: Different Soul Beasts, different abilities!

Ignoring the still excited toad, Su He paced around the fire chamber, searching for something.

“What are you looking for?” The enormous tadpole-form toad asked him, jumping in front of Su He.

“Mechanism!”

After being slapped by a White Spirit paw in his conscious state, something new appeared in his mind, and he understood where the Pill room was.

Previously, while in his conscious state at the Pill Furnace Knob Place, the Pill room was right beneath his feet, but when he looked down, he couldn’t see the specifics of the Pill room; instead, he would see the scene inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

“Found it!” Su He looked at a certain inconspicuous flame drawing on the wall of the fire chamber.

It was no different from the others, but at this moment, to Su He, this bundle of flames seemed to come alive, leaping and dancing!

The toad couldn’t make out anything.

“Let’s go!” called Su He.

“Without the White Jade Turtle Shell, can you still make it up?” The tadpole jumped up and landed on Su He’s Shell.

Su He chuckled lightly: “The Divine Skill is still here.”

It was recognized—the White Jade Turtle Shell might have disappeared elsewhere, but the Divine Skill was not suppressed.

Beneath him, the water churned, lifting Su He up into the air, ramming headfirst into the leaping flame drawing.

Like diving into a lake, ripples spread on the wall where Su He passed through the wall.

The toad, still in its red tadpole form, waved its tail eagerly to follow.

Then—thump!

It hit the wall hard, bouncing back and tumbling to the floor, reverting to a toad, crouching there, baffled, watching the Dragon Turtle pass through the wall.

Once again, it was treated as an outsider, just like when the lightning struck in the valley!

The toad’s eyes were filled with shock, as if it had married an alien creature and nobody in its in-law family regarded it as one of their own.

Attempting to utilize its bond with its master to teleport to Su He’s side, it waved its little paws in mid-air for a long time, but realized it couldn’t grasp the presence of the dumb Dragon Turtle at all.

This place blocked the Profound Realm; it couldn’t even return to the Profound Realm.

The toad immediately went crazy, knocking a tobacco pipe against a column in the fire chamber, “I’m gonna… Bah!

Frog Lord’s gonna smash your Shell!”

Outside the fire chamber, at the end of the valley, in the center of the large lake, the sounds of explosions had subtly lessened, and a Soaring Snake lay at the bottom of the lake, its body ragged and constantly releasing bubbles like effervescent tablets.