Don't Mess with that Turtle-Chapter 50 - 049 Dragon Turtle_1
50: Chapter 049 Dragon Turtle_1
50 -049 Dragon Turtle_1
The surging waves roared, thundering and piercing the ear like peals of thunder.
Su He’s consciousness gradually awoke within his Mind Orifice, and beneath his feet was a churning lake of blood-red waves, where the Dragon Turtle Dao Body walked upon the surges.
True Blood!
He did not know how long he had been in winter sleep, the Turtle Breath Longevity Secret was ceaselessly circulating, and at that moment, the first drop of True Blood finally condensed within his Mind Orifice.
The lake beneath the Dragon Turtle was merely a drop of blood!
In the cultivation of cultivators, the attributes of True Blood are related to the Heart Orifice Divine God Object.
The True Blood of Divine God Beasts is related to the Heart Orifice Dao Body.
This was a drop of Dragon Turtle True Blood.
The blood flowed out along the great river next to the Mind Orifice—the heart’s artery.
As if a drop of water had fallen into boiling oil, Su He’s entire body made a popping noise like frying beans.
A burning sensation surged from the heart to the limbs and bones.
“Roar!”
A long, distant chant of the Dragon Turtle came from Tinghai Lake.
The beginning is the hardest, but once the first drop of True Blood had formed, the rest became much easier.
Feng Yaya lay on the ice, her face pressed against the icy layer watching the turtle shadow below, patting the ice and yelling loudly.
“Big Turtle, Big Turtle, are you about to wake up?”
Su He had not awoken; it was merely the True Blood condensing during his winter sleep that instinctively led to the long chant.
In the Palace of Longevity, Feng Yi Ju sat cross-legged, but as soon as he opened his eyes, his figure flashed and appeared above Tinghai Lake.
Feng Yaya’s noisy clapping and yelling slowly quieted down.
She propped herself up on the ice and slowly lifted her head, only to see her father standing beside her with his hands behind his back.
He glanced at her with eyes devoid of ripples before turning to look down at Su He underwater.
Feng Yaya swallowed, her breathing becoming hurried.
She did not like facing her father alone, especially outside of the realm of the Water Mirror Technique.
Distant and silent.
It invoked fear.
Feng Yaya got up, timidly stealing glances at him; seeing him observing the Big Turtle, she hesitated for a few moments, then mustered the courage to sweep the accumulated snow onto the ice surface, blocking Feng Yi Ju’s view.
“Do you, do you want to eat the Big Turtle?”
Feng Yi Ju looked at her but did not answer.
Her voice trembling, she asked again, “Do you, do you want to…”
She could not finish her sentence, her voice already choked with tears.
Feng Yi Ju reached out as if to touch her head but ultimately stopped midair.
His outstretched hand slowly retracted, and his figure vanished.
Feng Yaya’s petite body suddenly collapsed onto the ice surface.
…
This drop of True Blood seemed like a spark igniting an entire mountain peak.
Even in his winter sleep, Su He felt his entire body was ablaze.
His body burned hot.
But, this searing heat did not interrupt his winter sleep; it seemed merely an illusion.
If one looked at him lying on the ice now, they could even see a faint crust of ice crystals forming over Su He’s entire turtle body.
The scales and the turtle shell made a creaking noise under the frozen ice, just like trees in the winter contracting from the cold.
The second day, Feng Yaya did not come.
Nor did she come on the third day.
Not until the fourth day, before dawn, were Feng Yaya’s bell-like cries already heard at Tinghai Lake, accompanied by the grumbling complaints of a camel.
“Wow!
Big Zhuang, look, the Turtle Mountain on the Big Turtle’s back is melting!”
Feng Yaya had recovered from her shock, and everything was back to normal.
Feng Yaya would visit at irregular intervals each day, sometimes carrying a bookcase, sometimes holding a small sword.
She awoke, and her classes at South Garden resumed as well.
But every day, after school and before classes would begin, she would run to Tinghai Lake.
After a heavy snowfall, Elder Ge also came, in person, and without any wine.
Having dealt with matters in the Three Rivers Wasteland, he had brought back his disciples entirely unscathed.
The newly returned disciples learned as soon as they joined the Sect that there was a Divine God Beast in the Sect.
A Dragon Turtle, hibernating.
Suddenly, the whole Qingyuan Gate bustled with activity once more.
Even Dragon Turtle stone carvings and snow sculptures began to appear around the Sect.
With a Divine God Beast in the Sect, regardless of whether the beast was youthful or not fearsome at the moment, the Sect’s prestige soared.
Time passed slowly with Feng Yaya’s repetitive exclamations: “Mom, the Big Turtle is glowing.” “Mom, the Big Turtle got smaller again.” “Mom, the Big Turtle ate your sword…”
Winter had passed unknowingly, and all living things were awakening as the ice and snow melted away.
Elephant Water thawed first, followed by Tinghai Lake.
Fish leaped joyfully, and waterbirds returned.
Su He still had not awakened.
The Green Snake slithered out of the cave; it had yet to transform into a human form, but its movements were more enticing than ever, foreshadowing a future of a disasterous seductress. freewēbnoveℓ.com
It lingered by the banks of Tinghai Lake for a long time, not seeing Su He, and never entered.
The Green Snake moved towards Qingyuan Gate.
It needed to rush back, having missed a winter’s worth of lessons.
The crocodiles also crawled out of their caves but didn’t start hunting; after filling up on water, they simply basked in the sun on the shore, waiting for their bodies to recover slowly.
Over one winter, three crocodiles had grown to a full thirty feet in length, their colors deepening even more.
Feng Yaya could no longer come without the ice, she couldn’t get into the water.
She didn’t know Dao techniques, only fist fighting.
The Awakening of Insects had passed, the Vernal Equinox had passed, and even Tomb-Sweeping Day had gone by; Grain Rain was about to pass too.
Could something have happened to Big Turtle?
Feng Yaya became increasingly worried.
Outside the window was pitch-black darkness, and without her mother, Feng Yaya couldn’t sleep; the camel lazed by the pond, sleeping soundly.
Feng Yaya curled her legs, staring out the window.
Crack!
A thunderclap roared, and the rain started to leak through.
The torrential rain poured down from midnight until daylight, with no sign of stopping.
It was time for the classes at Li Nan Yuan to start, this term’s disciples were about to depart, and these past few days the tutor had been introducing the differences among the Seven Veins for the new disciples to choose from.
Feng Yaya didn’t understand why, having grown up in Qingyuan Gate, she was all too familiar with the Seven Veins.
Why was her mother insisting, forbidding her from missing even one lesson?
Feng Yaya got dressed, rushed headlong into the curtain of rain, letting the rain soak through her clothes, washing away the gloom in her heart and finally crying out happily.
The camel ran over, jumping around and splashing in the water with her.
After having their fill of play, Feng Yaya suddenly looked up, “Big Zhuang, let’s go find Big Turtle!”
She hadn’t seen a trace of Big Turtle since the ice melted, and she missed him.
Clearly, Big Zhuang could avoid water, yet he wouldn’t take her down.
Grunt, grunt— the camel protested.
Feng Yaya understood but didn’t care; she was the only one in Qingyuan Gate who could understand the Beast Language without requiring a beast body.
She jumped onto the camel’s back, sitting between the two humps, laughing and shouting, “Let’s go!
Let’s go!”
“Take me, and I’ll take you to steal some wine!”
The camel’s eyes lit up, and it broke into a gallop, running down the mountain, crossing rivers!
Their target was Tinghai Lake!
The rain intensified, occasionally illuminated by flashes of lightning.
Ten-odd miles from Tinghai Lake, they heard a long and distant chant of the Dragon Turtle:
“Ao~~”
Feng Yaya’s eyes lit up, “Big Zhuang, run!
Run!
Big Turtle has awakened!”
The camel too was excited, diving straight into Elephant Water, treading water all the way to Tinghai Lake.
As they plunged into Tinghai Lake, from afar they could see a jet-black, crystal-clear Dragon Turtle, roaring up at the sky amidst the waves.
Feng Yaya laughed aloud, “Big Turtle has changed, he has a dragon head now!”
In that moment, high in the rolling thunderclouds above, a bolt of lightning struck down.
Crack!
It struck right upon Su He’s shell.
Mountains appeared on the shell, blocking the lightning.
Su He chanted towards the sky, “Ao!!”
Crack!
Another bolt of lightning struck down.
