Don’t Mess with that Turtle
Chapter 323 - 323 48 One Word Decides the Sect Leader_1

323: Chapter 48: One Word Decides the Sect Leader_1 323: Chapter 48: One Word Decides the Sect Leader_1 The wind was not strong, and the lake gently lapped against the shore.

As the breeze blew, the bamboo forest rustled softly.

Su He gazed up at the starry sky, her eyes reflecting the twinkling stars, as she silently recited the Tao Te Ching over and over in her heart.

A light breeze passed by, and Ya Ya, unbeknownst to when, reverted to human form in her sleep and nestled comfortably in Su Huanian’s embrace.

Su Huanian, sitting sideways on a green stone and leaning against Su He’s turtle shell, also deeply fell asleep.

In the distance, within the only green-tiled brick house of the Long Moon Mansion, Green Snake, carrying some pill medicine, walked into the room and immediately saw that Elder Qiao had awakened.

His face was still deathly pale, his eyes lifeless, yet he was looking through the window at the Dragon Turtle and Su Huanian by the lake thirty li away.

Seeing Green Snake enter, his eyes slightly focused, and he nodded in a salute, “Thank you…

Fairy, for your care these past few days – this old man has awakened.”

A human body with a snake’s tail and wings – what kind of demon was this?

Qiao Changlun felt his ignorance and narrow experience once again.

Green Snake chuckled softly, “Does Elder Uncle not recognize me?

I am Green Snake!”

Qiao Changlun exclaimed in surprise, “Snake Valley Green Snake?” That was the Snake Demon who entered the sect at the same time as the Dragon Turtle?

It was understandable that a Snake Demon would transform into a half-human, half-snake, but why did she have wings?

“Which Elder did you take as your master?” Calling him Elder Uncle meant she must have taken an Elder of the same generation as her master, which suggested that Green Snake was not lacking in talent.

Green Snake shook her head, “Teacher Su accepted a disciple on behalf of our master and took me into the Sword Washing Pool.”

Su He went to participate in the Dragon Divine God Sacrifice, and Green Snake accompanied her in guarding Ya Ya’s transformation.

With just a little guidance from Su Huanian, he had discovered Green Snake’s talent in swordsmanship.

Beasts possess pure thoughts and hardly any distractions, making them more suitable for the path of the Sword Washing Pool.

Because of her relationship with Su He, it wasn’t appropriate to take Green Snake as a disciple, so she accepted her as a disciple on behalf of their master.

Qiao Changlun shook his head with a wry smile, “Even Teacher Su has learned to take disciples on behalf of her master now.

If your master knows from the underworld, he would certainly be smiling.”

Green Snake smiled; she didn’t have many thoughts about a master she had never met.

All her swordsmanship skills and Tao cultivation were taught by Su Huanian.

Her current bloodline was left behind by the late Dragon Turtle Sister.

She placed the pill box on the table, “This is new pill medicine Teacher Su specifically refined for Elder Uncle’s injuries.

After taking it, Elder Uncle may meditate and refine it.”

“Thank you!” Qiao Changlun expressed his gratitude once again, “May I know how did you save me?

And where is my traitorous disciple now?”

As he spoke, disappointment, pain, and resolve all flashed across his eyes.

Green Snake shook her head, “It was Su He who saved you.

We haven’t seen the scholar – he must have fled somewhere else.”

Qiao Changlun’s expression changed dramatically, and without even caring for the medicine, he abruptly stood up, “This is bad!

That traitor convinced the Sect Leader to incite internal strife within Qingyuan.

I must return!

You all should come back with me too.

Su…

Teacher Su should also return.

Her prestige is high, and she can forcefully suppress the situation.

The Sect Leader will have to take her into account!”

Thinking of the great battle at Qingyuan that day, Su Huanian cut her hair and broke ties with the Sect Leader.

It was no longer appropriate to call her ‘madam’.

Green Snake looked at the anxious elder and respected his worried state.

The first thing he cared about upon waking was not his own arms but the sect.

Indeed, the older generation of Qingyuan truly regarded the sect as their home.

“Please rest assured, Elder Uncle!” Green Snake said softly, “Feng Yi Ju has died.

As for the scholar…

offending the Dragon Turtle and still thinking of escape?

Right now, he should have no courage to stir up trouble in Qingyuan.

Who knows which corner he’s hiding in now?”

Elder Qiao abruptly froze, as if he couldn’t believe it, “Feng Yi Ju…

died?”

The Sect Leader, who had been wise for two hundred years, then declined for a cycle of sixty years, and suddenly manipulated the Xuan Tian Gate within his grasp, died?!

Elder Qiao felt it was unbelievable.

The Dragon Turtle?

He looked toward Su He’s direction.

The Dragon Turtle was significantly larger than the last time he saw it, but more importantly, the aura it unconsciously radiated made Elder Qiao’s breath hitch.

The Little Dragon Turtle, which needed his protection two years ago, was now filled with a wild and primitive aura, almost like a Primordial Fierce Beast that could take his life with a single roar.

Su Huanian, deeply asleep by his side, seemed unaware of everything he had gone through.

A towering existence of the Stepping Sky level was indeed sound asleep, not even awakened by their conversation.

The Dragon Turtle…

Elder Qiao looked up at Green Snake, “But the Dragon Turtle is not infallible.

When I saw that traitor, he was worshipping a Zhu Yan.

According to the traitor’s words, it is also a Divine God Beast, indeed the most exceptional talent of the Zhu Yan Clan in twenty thousand years, unparalleled in combat power, a top-tier existence among the Divine God Beasts, just having participated in a major sacrifice in Yunmeng Ze and treated as a distinguished guest!

The Dragon Turtle…”

Elder Qiao slightly shook his head.

Between a Turtle and a Monkey, the Turtle always seems to lose.

Green Snake couldn’t help but laugh out loud, leaving Elder Qiao at a loss for words.

It was then she spoke, “Elder Uncle need not worry.

Our Dragon Turtle also went to the Dragon Divine God Sacrifice in Yunmeng Ze.

That Zhu Yan you spoke of was beaten half to death by the Dragon Turtle in front of everyone, with the elder of its own clan not even showing up.

Another Bifang, of the same status and realm as that Zhu Yan, was even slain by the Dragon Turtle.

The elders have been detained in Yunmeng Ze.”

She looked at Elder Qiao and suddenly realized, chuckling softly, “Do you not understand what kind of existence the Dragon Turtle is?”

Hmm?

Elder Qiao had not yet grasped the implication, still shocked by the news Green Snake had revealed.

The invincible Zhu Yan, whom he had no chance to resist and had his arms completely severed, had been beaten half to death by the Dragon Turtle?

Still in shock, he looked at Green Snake, curious about what kind of existence the Dragon Turtle was.

Green Snake said with a smile, “In this world, with three thousand great worlds and a hundred thousand small worlds, there are tens of thousands of Divine God Beasts.

If ordinary Divine God Beasts are likened to high officials and generals, then the four clans of the Dragon Turtle, the Divine God Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Kylin, are the sovereign emperors – the kind of absolute Sovereigns that brook no contradiction!”

She looked at Elder Qiao, a flash of pride in her eyes, “Before the Dragon Divine God Sacrifice in Yunmeng Ze, the Soaring Snake Clan attacked our Dragon Turtle.

The Dragon Turtle elder directly annihilated the Soaring Snake Clan!

The Soaring Snake’s ranking is not below that of the Zhu Yan, and in some aspects, it even surpasses it!”

This matter was relayed by Golden Dragon Meng Xuan in the White Spirit Small World before the Dragon Divine God Sacrifice; staying by Su He’s side, not to mention other things, one’s knowledge soared rapidly.

If one told others that a golden dragon wanted to hire her as a strategist for their stronghold, who would believe it?

Qiao Changlun stood stock-still.

The huge news refreshed his worldview once again; it wasn’t that he had never seen a divine beast in his thousand years of cultivation!

In the old days, the elders of Qingyuan followed Prince Jing in attacking the World of Heavenly Lifespan, broadening their horizons.

At that time, there appeared a Brocade Chicken with eyes under its wings, which came to take away a group of natives from the World of Heavenly Lifespan who had been captured.

Prince Jing did not even think twice, agreeing immediately.

He treated it with great respect, personally escorting the Brocade Chicken out of the World of Heavenly Lifespan.

Later, it was said that the Brocade Chicken was just an ordinary kind among divine beasts.

Even an ordinary divine beast was not slighted by Prince Jing.

And what kind of being was Prince Jing?

The foremost of the Ten Major Immortal Doors, a direct descendant from the Guiwang Mountain of the Taoist Ancestral Court!

His status was on par with that of a prince from the Sealed Emperor’s Palace.

Only Guiwang Mountain could command all Taoist sects to launch a surprise attack on a great world!

The mermaids from the Tian Shui Clan brought back by Elder Ge during that war were an example.

When Qiao Changlun had digested this information and come back to his senses, Green Snake was no longer in the room, leaving only Pill Medicine quietly placed on the table.

Qiao Changlun sat down with a wry smile, realizing, was the Dragon Turtle such a being?

Its status might not be lower than that noble Prince Jing’s, right?

His rebellious disciple once persuaded the Sect Leader to confine such a being?

The sky gradually brightened, the stars receded, but Su He, with eyes closed, still felt the presence of star power.

Recession did not equal disappearance.

After a night of contemplation, he had not grasped anything.

His understanding of the path of the stars was too shallow.

Su Huanian’s mother came from Tian Xing Palace, and Su Huanian himself had a not inconsiderable understanding of the path of the stars.

They could discuss it later.

If it concerned the secret teachings of Tian Xing Palace, why not trade treasures for them?

Su He would not disclose the secrets here, but merely use them as a means for his contemplation.

Su Huanian woke up early, currently swallowing the colors of dawn.

Morning radiance and night moons were some of the cheapest Heavenly Material Earthly Treasures, cheap because they were visible every day, within everyone’s reach.

Yet, their effects were tangible and real.

Su He faced east, a dragon head protruded, and he stretched his neck, inhaling through his nostrils.

Two streams of purple air were drawn into him.

This breath was light and long, almost imperceptible, like a whale sucking water, lasting for nearly the time it takes to brew half a pot of tea.

As the sun rose, no more purple air was available to inhale, Su He then slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

On Su He’s shell, the Little Turtle imitated him, exhaling a milky, long croon of turbid air.

Elder Qiao stepped forward.

Waiting for the three to complete their morning practice before approaching, he looked at the turtle shell on Su He’s back, his eyes full of shock; he had just witnessed the transformation of the Little Girl, who had donned a red outfit, into a Little Dragon Turtle.

The transformation of Ya Ya’s form was not like that in the Transforming Beast Guide.

Elder Ge, his friend being well-versed with the guide, observed the transformation.

The dual forms of Ya Ya’s beast and human shapes bore a resemblance to the true and human forms of demon species.

Even when showing her human form, it was that of a humanoid Dragon Turtle, unlike the unconnected human and beast forms described in the Transforming Beast Guide.

“Elder Uncle Qiao,” Su Huanian greeted the approaching elder with a slight bow.

Su He, smiling, asked, “Elder Uncle Qiao, you’re awake?”

Qiao Changlun nodded.

The excessive information he received that night had his mind spinning, but it also allowed him to process any shocking news without crashing his system.

“What is…

Ya Ya?” he asked, puzzled.

Su He replied with a smile, “It’s just a fortunate coincidence!”

Elder Qiao had secretly protected the law for a few months, and the Bright Mirror was first assembled by the Qingyuan elders through his efforts.

Su He had a very good impression of him.

Qiao Changlun shook his head in disbelief – a fortunate coincidence resulted in a Dragon Turtle?

Could you also “coincide” me?

After striving for a thousand years, I no longer wish to try; I, too, want to be a Dragon Turtle — effortlessly living long and without even the need to wait for death!

“It’s not my intent to disturb the cultivation of the two esteemed disciples, but circumstances force my hand.

I must leave immediately,” Qiao Changlun bowed as best as he could without arms, “firstly, thank you for saving my life.”

Su He shook his head, “It was only right.

Elder, you’ve protected us for months, and I’ve yet to thank you.”

With such matters, offering thanks back and forth would never end, so Qiao Changlun did not dwell on it, gratitude remembered was enough: “The delay was long, I only awoke today.

I should duly thank the two esteemed disciples, but Qingyuan is beset with many issues; I must depart immediately, and I’m here specifically to bid farewell.”

Qingyuan Gate indeed faced a time of troubles; at this moment it was split into two sects, No-Phase Sword Sect and Qingyuan Gate, without a Sect Leader and occupying East Cloud alone, no doubt incessantly troubled!

Su Huanian fell silent for a moment, “This place lies northwest of Qingyuan.

If elder wishes to return, flying with a sword won’t take long.

However, can elder handle sword flight with his body condition?”

Qiao Changlun laughed heartily, “I’ve only lost both arms, not all my Tao cultivation.

How could I not manage to fly on a sword?”

After laughing, he turned serious as he looked at Su Huanian, “Upon returning, Qingyuan must choose a new Sect Leader.

Who do the esteemed disciples think is suitable?”

With Feng Yi Ju perished, regardless of the circumstances, the Dragon Turtle before him and Su Huanian were now Qingyuan’s highest combat power.

If the two wished, they could indeed determine the Sect Leader with a single word!