Suspended in midair, Xie Fang looked down at the object shifting beneath the island and bellowed, "What are you? Get out here!"
The pressure of a late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal surged forth with his booming shout!
"Spare me, senior..."
Just then, a plea for mercy came from beneath the island. A gigantic head emerged from the seawater.
Apparently sensing that Xie Fang wasn't going to attack again, the Giant Beast gradually surfaced completely.
Only then did Xie Fang see clearly: this wasn't an island at all. It was a huge turtle!
Perhaps because the turtle had stayed motionless for ages, vegetation had grown all over its back, making it look just like an island.
Yet Xie Fang detected an unusual trace of Chaos aura on the Giant Beast. Clearly, this turtle had an extraordinary origin!
"Could it be the Chaos Black Tortoise?"
Looking down at the tortoise from midair, Xie Fang was rather surprised.
The Chaos Black Tortoise was no ordinary creature. It had emerged from Chaos, and after the world was created, its Primordial Spirit was struck by the pressure, leaving gaps in its inherited memories. That was why it had lived out a mundane life, dormant in the North Sea like an ordinary sea turtle.
Of course, that was also how it had survived the Ferocious Beast Tribulation!
Unfortunately, though it had escaped the Ferocious Beast Tribulation, it was targeted for its enormous size during the Sorcerer-Devil Tribulation. In the end, when Buzhou Mountain collapsed, its limbs were cut off and used as the four pillars that held up the sky.
This creature had an extraordinary origin. If not for its lost memories, its achievements would have been remarkable.
Looking at the simple-minded Chaos Black Tortoise, Xie Fang felt a desire to guide it.
"Don't be afraid. I saw that you have an extraordinary origin and a keen mind. We are fated to meet, so I'll grant you a fortuitous opportunity."
Xie Fang gently waved his right hand, and a strand of divine thought immediately entered the tortoise's sea of consciousness.
"This... This is a cultivation method!"
Feeling the divine thought in its sea of consciousness, the Chaos Black Tortoise's eyes widened with excitement.
It had lain dormant in the North Sea for tens of millions of years, cultivating only by swallowing Spiritual Qi over time. Without a proper cultivation method, its cultivation had been unable to advance!
Now that Xie Fang had bestowed a cultivation method upon it, this was an immense blessing!
"Thank you, senior! Thank you for granting me such a tremendous opportunity! I'm endlessly grateful!"
In its excitement, the Chaos Black Tortoise had already forgotten that it was much older than Xie Fang.
But in the Primordial World, strength reigned supreme, so there was nothing wrong with addressing Xie Fang as senior.
"Stay here and cultivate in peace. I am Xie Fang, master of the Three Immortal Islands of the East Sea. Once you've made progress, you can come to the East Sea and find me!"
Having formed this bond of kindness, Xie Fang had no reason to linger. He turned to leave.
But the tortoise suddenly called out to him.
"Senior, please wait—"
Seeing Xie Fang turn around in confusion, the Chaos Black Tortoise continued, "Your great kindness is beyond repayment. I had hoped to repay you once I achieved Form Manifestation, but I don't know how long that will take..."
The tortoise felt a little ashamed as it spoke.
Still, since it wanted to repay Xie Fang, it knew of another way. "But to repay even a fraction of your kindness, I know of a place where a rare treasure is hidden!"
"Oh?"
Seeing how eager the Chaos Black Tortoise was to repay him, Xie Fang became interested.
"The treasure is hidden beneath the waters where I live. But my cultivation isn't strong enough to retrieve it, so you'll have to do it yourself, senior."
Xie Fang considered this for a moment, then said, "Very well. Since you're offering, I'll go take a look!"
The Chaos Black Tortoise had lived for countless tens of thousands of years. The treasure it guarded had to be extraordinary!
And no ordinary person would ever imagine that a treasure lay beneath such an enormous tortoise!
Xie Fang casually cast a water-avoiding spell, went around the tortoise's enormous body, and swam down to the ocean floor like a fish!
The tortoise watched him with envy and couldn't help sighing. "That senior truly has heaven-defying cultivation. I wonder when I'll be able to reach the level of Senior Xie Fang..."
Though it said that, the tortoise had already made up its mind: it would cultivate hard, achieve Form Manifestation as soon as possible, and follow this senior!
By then, Xie Fang had begun following the direction the tortoise had indicated, gradually diving deeper.
As he descended through the ocean, the pressure grew stronger. But for Xie Fang, a late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal, it was nothing much.
After diving for a full hundred years, Xie Fang finally spotted flashes of treasure light on the ocean floor!
Beyond the light, boundless baleful energy filled the depths!
"If the tortoise hadn't shown me the way, who would've guessed that a treasure lay at the bottom of this baleful sea, a hundred years' dive away?"
Xie Fang's thoughts stirred. The Pure World White Lotus appeared at once, shielding him as he headed toward the light.
The closer he drew to the treasure, the pressure multiplied. Even with his late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal body, he might not have been able to withstand it without the Pure World White Lotus protecting him.
When he reached the light, he discovered that it came from a spring.
"What could this be, to create such immense pressure?"
Standing on the Pure World White Lotus, Xie Fang carefully examined the spring.
Silvery water flowed quietly within it, radiating a brilliance that was hard to ignore.
Xie Fang flicked a finger, sending a strand of magical power into the water. His heart sank at once!
"Holy crap, this water is heavy!"
With the cultivation of a late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal, he could pluck stars, seize the moon, move mountains, and churn the seas with a flick of his finger. Yet when he sent his magical power into the spring, he found it extraordinarily difficult even to scoop up a handful!
"Could this be the legendary Profound Nether Heavy Water?"
The three most famous kinds of water in the Primordial World were the Three Lights Divine Water, Profound Nether Heavy Water, and Nine Heavens Divine Water!
The Three Lights Divine Water was on Penglai Immortal Island, collected in a small lake.
The Nine Heavens Divine Water nourished the Breath Soil and nurtured the Innate Gourd Vine.
The most mysterious of all was the Profound Nether Heavy Water!
A single drop of Profound Nether Heavy Water weighed a thousand jun!
One drop might not seem like much, but how heavy would it become once all that water gathered together?
For one thing, if Xie Fang refined the Profound Nether Heavy Water in this spring and poured it into the thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls to form the Profound Nether Sea-Covering Formation, then if he ever encountered the likes of Luohu again, he could probably kill him with the Sea-Calming Pearls alone!
"A spring full of Profound Nether Heavy Water! I've struck it rich! Good people really do get rewarded!"
Xie Fang sighed with emotion. If he hadn't kindly granted the tortoise a fortuitous opportunity, he might never have obtained this Profound Nether Heavy Water!
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