923: Chapter 257: The Thai Zu Hidden Behind_3 923: Chapter 257: The Thai Zu Hidden Behind_3 The Yunmeng Ze marriage certificate was a scheme of the Dragon Turtle Tribe!
Realizing this, Ji Feixue struck even more mercilessly.
With a slash of her sword, Su He narrowly dodged!
Damn it!
Why didn’t his wife from before the time travel tell him that their first meeting would be like this?
Having lived together for a long time, Su He understood Ji Feixue too well.
With just a glance, he could guess what she was thinking.
In this era, this girl was prickly all over, her defenses against the outside world heightened to the extreme.
He couldn’t fathom what sort of trauma she had endured.
While dodging, Su He hopped about, trying to explain: “Wait a moment!
This is a misunderstanding!”
Ji Feixue turned a deaf ear, her sword strikes relentless.
Su He, feeling overwhelmed, yelled, “No matter what, after fighting side by side, you ought to give me a chance to explain!”
After another sword swing, Ji Feixue stood with her sword collected, her phoenix eyes fixed on Su He.
The Immortal Sword was wrapped with swirling Sword Qi, awaiting his explanation.
Just one wrong word, and she would be ready to strike him down.
With a flick of his dragon whiskers, Su He called out: “Wait a moment!”
His Divine Sense spread out, sweeping the area to make certain there was no one around, then, with a stomp, he raised a curtain of mist to isolate the surroundings before a thought summoned the Star Ring to envelop himself.
With a smile in his eyes, he looked at Ji Feixue: “If I were to say I am from the future, would you believe me?”
No sooner had Su He finished speaking than he saw not astonishment in Ji Feixue’s eyes, but instead a flash of murderous intent, as her Immortal Sword thrust swiftly toward him.
A cold voice came from Ji Feixue, “You cultivate the Xuan Wu, mastering the Power of Time is only natural, right?
Conjuring a power of time and then making empty promises, you deserve to die!”
Su He: “???”
With a flash of his Divine God Machine, he dodged Ji Feixue’s murderous sword, retracted the Star Ring, and took off running.
What a way to be betrayed!
This is called a power of time?!
Ji Feixue at this time had only reached Opening Heaven Five-fold, her face still retaining traces of youth, prickly all over.
Although she had limited experience, her thoughts were stubbornly set.
But having recognized the Xuanwu True Body, her knowledge had to be superior to others at Stepping Sky Seven-fold—this was called a power of time?
Your family’s power of time can condense to this extent, huh!
As Ji Feixue chased him with one sword thrust after another, Su He darted and dodged with all his might.
At this moment, Ji Feixue’s combat power was comparable to his, and surprisingly, the battle reached a stalemate.
As she pursued and slashed, they quickly left Yunmeng Ze behind.
On East Cloud Mountain, the toad, just back from a trip with the Fire Turtle, was utterly confused.
Turtle Kid was being chased by Ji Feixue?
Was this some kind of melodramatic plot twist?
So love is forged through combat?
If it’s just a casual chase, turning hate into love due to misunderstanding—forgive me for refusing to accept such a clichéd storyline!
“You stay here and don’t run off.
I’m going to watch the show!” The toad patted the Fire Turtle and leaped into the air towards Su He’s Intention Orifice.
“Show?” marveled the Fire Turtle.
The toad burst into laughter: “Your clansman is being chased by his wife—for real!”
This wasn’t playful bickering!
Startled, the Fire Turtle reacted, is it because of her?
Did sister-in-law misunderstand because my clansman saved me?
“Tell sister-in-law that I did not know our clansman before!” shouted the Fire Turtle, her voice echoing through East Cloud Mountain, but the toad’s figure was nowhere to be seen.
The toad, as mysterious as their clansman, had disappeared without a trace.
Feeling slightly down, the Fire Turtle heard a chuckle beside her: “Little one, don’t worry, this has nothing to do with you.
It’s their own issue.”
With a tinge of elation in the elderly voice, it oddly gave her the feeling of encountering an old friend in a foreign land, the thrill of reuniting after a long separation.
The Fire Turtle was greatly alarmed.
When did this person get so close to her?
Suddenly turning around, she saw, standing behind her, an immense Giant Turtle that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
She found herself at a loss to even describe the turtle’s appearance.
Apart from feeling ancient, she couldn’t think of any other word—not that its body showed signs of age, the Dragon Turtle’s form was robust, majestic, and commanding.
Yet, the aura it exuded was that of antiquity.
However, this antiquity wasn’t laced with the stagnancy of death; it gave the impression of an old Dragon Turtle that, despite having weathered many hardships, still held a mischievous streak.
The Old Turtle’s eyes were dim with age, yet they offered an immense sense of security, as if with him by one’s side, there was no need to fear even if the sky fell and the earth cracked.
Upon seeing this Dragon Turtle, she surprisingly didn’t think of the Dragon Turtle’s name right off the bat!
“Who are you?” the Fire Turtle asked, bowing slightly out of respect.
The mountainous Old Turtle lowered its head to look at her and chuckled: “Ah!
I shall keep my name a secret for now, if I told you, you wouldn’t have a choice anymore.
But rest assured, the few turtle whelps around now have all grown up under my watch; they all call me Ancestor.”
The Fire Turtle was puzzled.
The Old Dragon Turtle looked at her, eyes flashing with a mix of pity and anger.
Such a promising young turtle, on the very brink of invoking the Heavenly Tribulation, was so close—just a few years away from being able to do it!
She could even speak the human tongue, yet she was ruined by those hyenas!
The Old Turtle shook his head: “I’m sorry, little one; this Old Turtle is late and you’ve suffered.
Do you still wish to become a Dragon Turtle?”
The Fire Turtle suddenly looked up.
The Old Turtle smiled and nodded at her: “If you still desire to be a Dragon Turtle, I may find a way to bring your Heavenly Tribulation.”
A shine burst forth from the Fire Turtle’s eyes.
But the Old Turtle shook its head, the reluctance in his heart growing strong: “Don’t be too eager, would not rather you choose the path of a common Turtle Demon!
Truly, if you still wish to pursue the path of the Dragon Turtle, you can no longer stay here.
You must venture far away, never to return; starting from crossing the catastrophe, you will find yourself in lands of constant life-and-death struggle.
There will be no peace.”
The Old Turtle explained with a heavy heart, but the Fire Turtle’s eyes shone even brighter, “I want to cross the Heavenly Tribulation, to prove my worth as a Dragon Turtle!”
There was not a hint of hesitation in her voice.
Previously trapped by the Tengu, she repeatedly heard Houdou, the Tengu, say that the Dragon Turtle Tribe were all confined to the East Sea, but clearly, her kin weren’t among them.
They didn’t even recognize her kin; he wasn’t listed among the current Dragon Turtles.
Could it be that he came from the Four War Land mentioned by this Ancestor?
It must be, without such a place, her kin couldn’t possibly possess such combat power!
Her eyes shone brightly as she gazed at the Old Turtle before her.
In the Old Turtle’s dim eyes emerged a look of ‘as expected,’ his heart ached when he looked at the Fire Turtle: “Little fellow!
Do not rush your decision; do you know how many tiny turtles like you I have sent away in the last thirty million years?”
The Fire Turtle tilted her head and remained silent.
“Thirty-two!
Yet of those thirty-two, only about thirty percent successfully crossed the tribulation after I brought it upon them,” the Old Turtle’s voice carried the weight of age.
The brightness in the Fire Turtle’s eyes intensified, as if to say, is success rate so high?
The Old Turtle shook his head: “Yet of that thirty percent, seventy percent perished in battle; the ones still alive are likely less than three percent of the original three percent.
Little fellow, do you still wish to go?”
Without a second thought, the Fire Turtle nodded.
Of course!
Why would she not go?
The Old Turtle fell silent, but there was no surprise in his eyes—as if he had already anticipated her answer.
For thirty million years, he had asked every little turtle in similar straits, and never once was surprised!
After a long while, just when the Fire Turtle was getting anxious, she heard the Old Turtle speak in a somewhat somber tone: “If you wish to go, the old Ancestor will send you there, but…”
He was silent again for a long time, then finally added softly: “Stay alive!
Survive until your kin comes to fetch you…”
The Fire Turtle’s eyes lit up further—was her kin also from there?
As she was about to speak, she saw the Ancestor’s claw sweeping over, and in a swiping motion, the terrain where Su He had battled the hyenas was left empty.
The Fire Turtle had vanished without a trace.
“If you are going there, it’s best not to have too many ties with this place…” The Old Turtle seemed to murmur to himself.
Murmuring, he stomped down with a claw, and East Cloud Mountain, ravaged by the battle between Su He and the hyenas, began to repair as if time was reversing rapidly.
The magma receded, the abyss closed up, and the collapsed mountains stood tall once more, but the dead vegetation and animals could not be revived.
However, with a wave of the Old Turtle’s claw, specks of green light scattered down, transforming into pockets of life energy.
Perhaps in less than three hundred years, this place would become a primal mountain forest once again.
After finishing all this, the Old Turtle took out a Turtle Shell and tossed it forward, throwing it into a gorge deep within the mountain.
That Turtle Kid carried the essence of the Turtle Shell with him, which must be a hint from his future self, right?
Does he need the Turtle Shell’s protection in this era?
The Turtle Shell is here, and sooner or later that fellow will find it.
But who knows what he is up to this time, traveling through time?
Unfortunately, I’ve already anchored him once, so it’s not good to follow him all the time.