The Giant Turtle heaved up like a mountain and plunged back into the black waters, searching for the divine mansion.
Elsewhere, after much deep thought, Xu Yang had also found a clue.
In a head-on clash, fighting alone, he was currently completely incapable of doing anything to this Giant Turtle.
A sneak attack from the shadows, leading a group to besiege and kill it, would also be difficult to make effective. The other party's defenses were simply too strong.
But being ineffective now did not mean it would remain ineffective in the future.
He decided... to outlast this old turtle!
Of course, this "outlasting" was not a conventional contest of lifespan.
A thousand-year-old softshell turtle, a ten-thousand-year-old tortoise—who the hell knew how long this old fellow could live? Time in this world flowed only ten times faster than in the real world. Xu Yang simply did not have the means to compete with it in lifespan and wait for it to die.
So, he would... compete in development!
Not wait for it to die, but wait for it to slow down—wait for its progress to slow, its improvements to slow!
As long as he raised his own strength beyond its level before this Giant Turtle found the Blackwater Divine Mansion and became the Blackwater River God, he could resolve this problem with ease.
That was Xu Yang's strategy.
A completely viable strategy.
Because Xu Yang had discovered something.
There were three keys to the growth of exotic beasts.
First, vital energy, constrained by the environment.
Second, food, constrained by resources.
Third, bloodline, constrained by talent.
There was no need to say much about vital energy. The Giant Turtle could enter the forbidden zone and absorb Blackwater Spiritual Energy; he too could enter the forbidden zone and absorb Blackwater Spiritual Energy.