At the summit of Shou Mountain, clouds and mist drifted hazily.
An "immortal" with a long, coiling tail stood alone in the wind.
The giant arthropod's eyes gleamed brightly as it removed the cowhide map from its back. Its large golden eyes peered through the holes in the map, comparing them over and over.
Mountain! Turtle! Mountain! Whoosh! The cowhide map flipped over, rode the wind, and plastered itself to the water's surface, rising and falling with the waves. After several wave crests crashed down, the map, dried as hard as iron, sliced beneath the water like a blade and sank to the bottom, its edges meshing like interlocking canine teeth.
"Buzzzzzz~"
"What the hell is making that racket? It's driving this turtle mad!" General Yuan twisted his neck. A few clumps of earth peeled from his scales and rolled down, stirring up foam.
"Buzzzzzz~"
The buzzing did not cease. General Yuan waved a turtle claw in puzzlement. "Mosquitoes already, when the weather has only just turned warm?"
Clang clang! Bang bang!
Sparks flew in every direction.
"Ho, what a vicious mosquito! And it's golden, too! What a rare thing!"
His turtle claws came together in a sweeping strike, and a gale whipped up towering waves.
Upon Shou Mountain, Cannot Move used his brain to think and his body to work diligently, doing two things at once as he crawled back and forth. His emerald horns scratched trails in the ground. Unaware of the old familiar bug, he recited the cultivation method word by word.
"All living beings are like fish, and the sea of karma has no shore. Water is not a shackle..."
"Alas."
"Too hard to remember, too hard..."
Cannot Move gathered dirt from Shou Mountain's plantation with his short claws, wagged his tail to flatten and tamp