Chapter 1670 - 227: Young Turtle (Part 2)

Chapter 1670: Chapter 227: Young Turtle (Part 2)

"Not good."

Lu Yuzhen’s voice was hoarse as he said quietly, "The Time Scroll has been shattered by the White Dragon."

"Time Scroll... what is it?"

Xie Xuanyi frowned.

This was the second time he had heard about the Time Scroll from someone named Lu.

"..."

Lu Yuzhen was silent, seemingly deep in thought.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no response.

"Alright, this question isn’t really important."

Xie Xuanyi spoke concisely, "After jumping into the River of Destiny, what on earth happened?"

He didn’t care about the Time Scroll.

He just wanted to know what had happened after jumping into the River of Destiny and reversing the break point to lead to this situation.

"You... don’t remember?"

Lu Yuzhen looked at Xie Xuanyi with a complex expression.

"Should I remember?"

Xie Xuanyi was stunned for a moment.

He furrowed his brows slightly, gazing seriously into the Paper Taoist’s eyes, sensing a faint sorrow within them.

"The Time Scroll is a treasure that carries memories."

The Paper Taoist said hoarsely, "Your and my Divine Sea have issues... so each meeting requires the ’Time Scroll’ to retrospect and correct."

"Retrospect?"

Xie Xuanyi was stunned again.

After jumping into the River of Destiny, has it been a long time? Have many things happened?

What kind of upheaval had occurred in his own Divine Sea...

He didn’t know what the Time Scroll was, nor could he easily accept the need to "retrospect" memories.

"Alright. Just as you said earlier, none of this actually matters."

Lu Yuzhen sighed softly, then forced a smile.

"I’ve done almost all of the troublesome things."

Xie Xuanyi looked blankly at the Paper Taoist.

"These are all the ’Dao Destiny’ you wanted... I’ve visited every Holy Land in both the Northern World and Southern World..."

Lu Yuzhen coughed heavily twice, taking out a cluster of glowing light from his sleeve and smiling with difficulty, "The Dragon Vein has been severed, and the Root of Primordial Qi is here..."

"..."

The Golden Coffin drifted lonely on the sea as Paper Snow accompanied it, not knowing how long it had been floating.

Xie Xuanyi looked at Lu Yuzhen.

Lu Yuzhen looked at Xie Xuanyi.

"Is this what I wanted?"

Xie Xuanyi looked at the glowing light.

If the catastrophe that swept across the world originated from Dao One’s plundering...

Then...

The source of this plundering actually came from himself?

Something must have happened amid all this.

"Where is your Pure White Mountain?"

Xie Xuanyi suddenly asked.

"Pure White... Mountain?"

Lu Yuzhen seemed perplexed, with the youthfulness in his eyes still lingering, something that couldn’t be faked.

He didn’t know what Pure White Mountain was.

"Then, the Daoist Brush—"

Xie Xuanyi continued, "Daoist Brush... where is it now?"

Lu Yuzhen was even more confused.

Paper Snow rustled.

Their gaze didn’t last long before the tides suddenly surged, and the Golden Coffin and Paper Snow were swept apart by a large wave.

The wave fell back down.

Before Lu Yuzhen stood emptiness.

The Golden Coffin... was nowhere to be found.

...

...

Darkness.

The third time of darkness.

Only this time, Xie Xuanyi reacted faster than ever before.

He overturned the coffin with one slap.

The Golden Coffin wasn’t on the sea surface, but at... the seabed.

"Gurgle."

A dense mass of bubbles rose from the coffin. No one knew how long this Golden Coffin had been sealed, but now it broke open, seeing the "light of day" again as Xie Xuanyi stepped out of the coffin with a stern expression, waving his sleeve to unfold his Dao Domain, instantly clearing a ten-zhang radius of seawater.

Swish!

A sphere of sword fire ignited, illuminating all around.

He seemed to have arrived at an ancient relic buried beneath the sea, no one knew how for how long, with the Golden Coffin sitting at the end of a pitch-black stone wall...

Xie Xuanyi knew.

He was amidst a fragment of chaotic "space-time."

Perhaps due to reversing the River of Destiny, all the things he did could be disrupted.

Like just now.

One moment he was talking to Lu Yuzhen, and the next, he was sealed back into the coffin.

This Golden Coffin was both his "starting point" and "endpoint."

"Fortunately, my realm is still intact."

Xie Xuanyi checked himself first.

He was still at the Heavenly Human Realm, with little change in his realm, flesh body, Primordial Lake, and physique, all seemingly maintaining the "state" from the previous moment.

Even though space-time was fragmented and chaotic.

He... hadn’t been too affected.

"Where is this time?"

After confirming he was unharmed, Xie Xuanyi looked up. This relic felt familiar, as if he had seen it before.

He stared at the stone wall for a moment.

This relic was indeed peculiar.

His Heavenly Human Divine Thought couldn’t penetrate the relic’s stone wall nor cover the whole relic to see it clearly.

Xie Xuanyi waved his sleeve to raise the sword fire, illuminating ahead.

He hesitated for a moment, chose not to turn back, and moved toward the stone wall in front.

This time.

Xie Xuanyi decided to abandon the "Golden Coffin."

Since everything would end, why not abandon the Golden Coffin and see if he would ultimately be pulled back here.

"I should still be in the ’Dao One’ state."

"If there is a Great Divine Ability User in this relic, they should attack me without hesitation."

Xie Xuanyi took a deep breath, reminding himself to be cautious.

During the years of closed cultivation in the Lotus Forbidden Land, his Life Avatar had undergone several reincarnations.

Actually.

These two experiences had some similarities.

Open eyes for life, closed eyes for death.

He had many questions and many things he wanted to understand... But he couldn’t achieve his desire in both cases; life’s often like this.

Until the end, being unable to achieve one’s desire is the norm for most people.

A thousand years ago, in the era of flourishing prosperity, there existed too many Great Divine Ability Users!

In ancient relics, there are Secret Realms, caves, tombs... though he is now of Heavenly Human Cultivation, he must be cautious. If surrounded by Heavenly Human Great Cultivators in such a place, he would be in trouble. Last time, he managed to escape due to the terrain of Nanzhan Country’s Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

This underwater relic almost makes it impossible to escape.

"Hmm, is there really someone?"

Suddenly.

Xie Xuanyi heard the booming of sea water from afar, a deep roar that was indescribable, issued by some unknown being.

The seawater within a radius of several dozen miles trembled.

"Good boy."

A gentle voice sounded not far away.

Xie Xuanyi concealed his aura, extinguished the sword fire, and quietly stopped.

He happened to reach the end of the stone wall, and just one more step forward was no longer narrow. The cramped relic expanded wide, and in the distance was a broad platform seemingly chiselled and cast by a deity... Incomprehensibly, amidst the unknown depths of the sea, it was a man-made platform.

More astonishingly.

A snow-white figure sat solemnly on the platform.

Though sitting on the platform.

Not fishing.

The snow-white figure extended a hand, gently caressing the massive rock beneath.

The platform seemed to come alive, trembling slightly, as if responding to this touch.

"...?"

This scene was quite unexpected.

Xie Xuanyi gazed at the scene with a complicated expression, and upon closer look, he realized this wasn’t just a rock but a giant Profound Turtle spanning several miles. The sound that had earlier stirred the seawater came from this being.

In the deep sea, naturally, there wouldn’t be a platform.

This boulder wasn’t just any Profound Turtle, it was the legendary "Great Turtle."

This creature, as long as there’s enough nature’s spiritual energy, can keep growing and growing... It’s said to grow tall enough to support a continent. If the legends are true, then this vast even "platform" is likely just the juvenile state of this Great Turtle.

"Hoo..."

The sea boiled, and the Great Turtle’s voice held a tinge of pity.

It was lucky to be born in this relic, yet also unfortunate.

This relic had no other demon spirits, allowing it to grow freely.

However.

This relic was too small, with stone walls reinforced by formations hard and impenetrable, leaving it wedged in rock crevices, unable to escape, thus becoming a flat platform for any to sit upon and fish.

Initially.

This juvenile turtle didn’t really mind.

But... each passing year increased the pain of being crushed by rock crevices.