Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 561 - 559 Turtle Egg (Additional updates request for subscription!)_1

Chapter 561: Chapter 559 Turtle Egg (Additional updates request for subscription!)_1

The night was deep.

"Alas... what a pity."

Fang Xi, holding a wine gourd, gazed at the Ice God Palace atop the snowy mountain and suddenly sighed, "Even if the Ice God Palace had Transcendent God resources before... the Ice God Palace Master’s transcendence must have exhausted them completely... Time really does not wait for anyone."

He believed there probably wouldn’t be any resources left inside the Ice God Palace that could stir his heart now.

But since he was already here...

Fang Xi put away the wine gourd, and his face began to show green patterns, as he astonishingly transformed into a high-grade, fourth-order member of the Monster Clan!

The next instant, his aura became as inconspicuous as a stone by the roadside, almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

"This ’Turtle Breath Secret Skill’ is indeed quite extraordinary."

A smile flickered across his face.

Modifying secret skills was troublesome, but simply starting to cultivate them was not difficult. After a brief comprehension, Fang Xi executed the skill with Monster Clan magic power, and it was seamlessly perfect, without the slightest obstruction.

Having finished the secret skill, Fang Xi went to the edge of a Great Array and waited in silence.

According to the old turtle’s suggestion, he should have headed towards the Sect entrance, taking the opportunity when disciples were coming and going to slip in.

But of course, Fang Xi was not going to trouble himself so much.

After all, he was an Array Master, and with the assistance of the "Taiyi Sutra," infiltrating this already broken fifth-order Great Array shouldn’t pose much of a problem.

’However, I must wait for the right moment!’

Fang Xi concealed his aura, buried himself under the snow, and waited in silence.

Time passed, he didn’t know how long...

Suddenly!

A terrifying aura soared into the sky, a beam of brilliance shot out from the peak of the snowy mountain, speeding towards a certain location – it was Ice Xuanzi!

"As expected, the Ascension Platform was attacked, even a transcended being like him couldn’t sit still... Compared to preserving the Taoist system, his own ascension matters more..."

Fang Xi smiled slightly, then frowned again, "Only one Transcendent God has gone, the newly ascended Ice God Palace Master has not shown up, which is a bit of a problem."

However, for Fang Xi, having one more early-stage Transcendent God simply meant a slight increase in difficulty.

"Go!"

He conjured several Array Flags in his hand, swiftly embedding them into a light screen in front of him.

This was a weak point in the Array identified after calculations with ’Tai Yi.’

What Fang Xi was doing was infiltrating without alerting the Array Spirit and leaving himself an exit.

"Hurry!"

He rapidly formed hand seals, eyes flashing as he continually searched for weak points in the Array.

At the level of a fifth-order array, there were no obvious weak points left.

Or one might say, like flowing water, the Array’s weak points were also moving, hidden by the Void.

"Hold!"

Fang Xi’s eyes suddenly brightened, and he continuously recited spells.

The next moment, the Void in front of him opened up a light screen, revealing a narrow passage just big enough for one person to pass through.

Without another word, Fang Xi formed a hand seal and his figure vanished, stepping into it.

Once inside the Great Array, he saw endless magnificent ice palaces stretched out before him.

Occasionally, streaks of Escape Light would shoot out from the different palaces.

’The Ice God Palace truly is worthy of being the North Plains’ number one Sect... This foundation really is solid.’

A jade slip, which recorded the map, appeared in Fang Xi’s hand as he slowly approached the treasure location.

Behind the snowy mountain, there was a valley.

Upon entering the valley, the temperature rose significantly, flowers were in full bloom, and among them were many exotic herbs.

Two streaks of Escape Light, one after the other, descended, revealing two Core Formation cultivators.

"Rong..."

The Core Formation male cultivator was handsome with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, while the female cultivator had an exceptional beauty accompanied by a cold disposition that kept people at a thousand miles distance.

The man looked at the woman with eyes full of obsession, "This Hundred Flower Valley is eternally springlike, does the scenery please you, Rong?"

"This place has already been listed as a forbidden area by our Sect, and yet senior brother dares to come here, quite bold..." Rong’s voice was as clear and cool as an ice spring.

"Isn’t this all for the sake of showing Rong the extent of your brother’s sincerity?" the Core Formation man laughed, "Moreover... ever since our Bai family’s ancestor transcended, the entire Ice God Palace is ours... what does it matter if people find out? Rong, you know as well that because of my body’s condition, I cannot cultivate our Sect’s techniques and had to choose a top-tier technique from the outside. I am now at a critical stage and must rely on dual cultivation to break through..."

"Why doesn’t senior brother find another woman?" Rong was indifferently unsparing: "Junior sister has been wholeheartedly cultivating and has long reached a state of cutting off worldly desires..."

"Why? Why can’t you see me?"

The male Core Formation cultivator became somewhat exasperated, "Now that our ancestor has transcended and exhausted the Sect’s resources, almost none of this generation’s Nascent Souls hold hope of transcending, but once I form my Nascent Soul, the next generation’s hopeful transcendent seed will definitely be me!"

"Impudent!"

A clear, cold rebuke from the junior sister rang out, followed by the sounds of a magic treasure striking with a thunderous boom.

A moment later, the junior sister cast a spell, the bloodstains on her white garments vanished, and she turned into a beam of Escape Light, gracefully departing the scene...

"Did I go too far?"

Fang Xi beckoned with his hand, and the Fortune Worm appeared, mired in contemplation.

He had just sensed that the man’s fortune seemed quite good and had casually released the Fortune Worm.

Little did he expect that in just a short while, the man would encounter a Deadly Tribulation!

’Who would have thought, the man pushing for love turned violent, and the woman’s hand was so ruthless...’

Fang Xi muttered a complaint and pressed on.

He didn’t need to worry about the corpses at the outermost area; that ruthless woman had already dealt with them quite sufficiently.

As he approached the Hundred Flower Valley and stood before a pitch-black pebble beach, he instantly sensed something different ahead.

A layer of mist completely obscured a certain area.

"Ancient God Prohibition?!"

Fang Xi had also reviewed the solution given by that old turtle, which involved using powerful Divine Consciousness to attack a weak point in the array.

"It’s a good idea, but it’s only the standard of an ordinary fourth-order Array Master. Such a commotion is too big, not my style..."

He touched his glabella and a thread of crystalline Divine Thought surged forth, swiftly piercing into the mist.

"Tai Yi... assist with the calculations."

A beast-hide ancient book materialized in Fang Xi’s hand, with array patterns emerging on it as it quickly scanned and analyzed.

A moment later, Tai Yi’s cheerful voice sounded: "Master, the back door has been found..."

Fang Xi nodded slightly, and another thread of Divine Thought transformed into a crystalline filament, entering the mist.

Pop!

In the next instant, the mist automatically revealed a gap, allowing Fang Xi to pass through with composure.

Behind the mist lay a pitch-dark passage leading downwards.

Fang Xi followed the path down and entered an underground cavern, where the temperature suddenly soared, accompanied by the sound of flowing water.

"An underground hot spring?"

Observing the numerous spring eyes, Fang Xi nodded slightly.

These were not ordinary springs, but instead constantly bubbled with pure spiritual energy, with vague outlines of several objects floating within.

In the center of the largest hot spring, a gigantic turtle egg was soaking!

This egg was the size of an ostrich egg, greyish-white all over, seeming to have petrified, with a life essence that was weak to the extreme!

"No wonder it wasn’t placed in the treasury and was set up here instead. It turns out to use the incredible vitality of the Earth Core Spirit Milk to nurture this Profound Turtle egg?"

Fang Xi stroked his chin.

The Profound Turtle was among the rulers of the Monster Clan. If its bloodline was pure enough, it would become a fourth-order Transformed Great Demon upon reaching adulthood!

Moreover, turtles have incomparably long lifespans; contract a Spirit Turtle to guard the Sect and family, and it would be a mighty foundation.

’However, for the Ice God Palace, which nearly every generation produces a Transcendent God to suppress the North Plains, a few more fourth-order monster beasts don’t seem like much?’

With some curiosity, Fang Xi carefully examined the Profound Turtle egg.

Suddenly, he felt something was off.

"How can the vitality of this monster beast egg be so weak? It feels as though it can’t hatch at all..."

"That’s not right, it’s not weak..."

A strand of crystallized Divine Consciousness appeared from Fang Xi, circling around the egg, and he suddenly gasped.

Beneath the seemingly grey-white stone shell, there seemed to be countless dense natural runes, forming some kind of strange pattern!

"Xuanwu... Could this be a True Spirit Xuanwu’s egg?"

"It doesn’t seem so... Hmm, or to say it’s a Profound Turtle egg with half Xuanwu bloodline. Maybe because the mother was too fragile and the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy of the Lower Realm was too weak to draw sufficient nutrients, it ended up like this today..."

"A True Spirit’s egg!"

Fang Xi’s eyes lit up; this was far more valuable than any True Spirit bloodline.

Even if the Heavenly Phoenix and the Five Elements Qilin Tribe boasted of having any True Spirit bloodline, it was actually very diluted, and anyone with one-thousandth or even ten-thousandth would be considered a genius.

But this True Spirit egg, with the bloodline from the Xuanwu line, accounted for at least half!

"If it can be born, it’s guaranteed to be a fifth-order Great Demon, and advancing to sixth or seventh order in the future is not too much to hope for..."

"No wonder that old turtle was willing to leave its home behind..."

"Even if its vitality is weak and it might not be born, using it to sacrificially refine a magical artifact would surely produce a sensational fifth-order Spirit Communicating Treasure!"

Without further hesitation, Fang Xi’s hand emitted waves of dark green Demon Qi that enshrouded the Profound Turtle egg, then gently grabbed it.

Many hot springs roared as if invisible chains shattered.

In an instant, the Profound Turtle egg vanished, safely stored within the Mountain Sea Pearl.

’Indeed... The disappearance of the egg will surely trigger a reaction from the Prohibition, impossible to hide!’

Fang Xi wasted no time, transforming into an azure Escape Light, shooting back!

Pfft!

The Ancient God Prohibition automatically split open, allowing him to blast his way through and fly towards the outer array.

Dang, dang!

Only at this moment did the shrill sound of a bell echo throughout the Ice God Palace.

...

In a secret chamber.

The Ice God Palace Master, who had just advanced to Transcendent God, was consolidating his realm in meditation when he heard the bell. Enraged, ice and frost spread throughout the room as he disappeared from view.

At the apex of the Ice God Palace, a gigantic phantom emerged, its silvery-white eyes scanning through the entire Ice God Palace.

Finally, they fixed on Fang Xi!

"Thief?!"

The intangible giant suddenly solidified, with countless streams of Ice Divine Light coalescing into a massive ice hammer, crashing down with the weight of five mountains!