The Great Dao Is Merciful, Pitying My Mystic Turtle

In the Primordial World, ten thousand currents surge.

Above the North Sea, waves rise ten thousand fathoms high.

A Green-Shelled Black-Armored Giant Tortoise, its body spanning hundreds of millions of miles, floats upon the sea surface like a canopy for heaven and earth.

The giant tortoise slowly opens its eyes, the light within its divine pupils swallowing the sun and moon, its aura of hegemony overshadowing the vast sea.

With a slight opening of its mouth, a hundred thousand acres of azure sea churn, and countless marine creatures flee in haste.

A tortoise! I, Beichen, have transmigrated into the Primordial World and become the North Sea Black Tortoise!

Beichen lets out a cry of shock, but it transforms into a series of strange tortoise bellows!

BOOM!

Thunder rolls, the sky turns crimson, and ten thousand streaks of dark light pour down; mountains collapse, the earth splits, and all living things wail in agony.

Within these Four Seas and Eight Wilds, countless mountains topple, myriad tidal waves disintegrate, and the cries of people are wretched as corpses litter the land. The firmament and the earth are stained a deep red, resembling a hellish apocalypse.

At the edge of the horizon, multicolored light permeates the air, and a five-colored giant stone gradually rises to fill the breach, blocking the torrential flood.

As the thunder fades, the world is filled with seven-colored radiance, vitality returning to a scene of utter devastation.

Empress Nuwa is Mending the Heavens!

Beichen lifts his eyes to gaze at the woman with a snake tail, billions of feet tall, in the endless northern sky, his heart trembling violently.

A massive influx of information begins to sweep through Beichen's mind, and his inner terror surges abruptly.

According to his knowledge of the Primordial World, at the end of the Witch-Demon Tribulation, the sky collapses and the earth sinks. Empress Nuwa will refine the Five-Colored Stone to mend the heavens, and she will sever the four limbs of the North Sea Black Tortoise to support the four poles of the world, stabilizing the void!

He, Beichen, has just transmigrated, and his deadline is already here!

Should I do as those Primordial novels suggest: sever my own limbs, take the initiative to support the heavens, seek the merit of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, and linger on in a desperate attempt to survive, then plan for the future?

Beichen's first instinct is to support the heavens voluntarily to save himself.

However, he hesitates!

If he supports the heavens voluntarily, will it truly draw out the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, bestow merit upon him, and allow him to survive?

The answer is: not necessarily!

The Black Tortoise supporting the heavens certainly draws down infinite merit, but it comes at the cost of his demise. Whether he is decapitated by Empress Nuwa or does it himself, the final result is the same: the dissipation of his Dao and the death of his body!

I must not support the heavens! I, the North Sea Black Tortoise, will absolutely not support the heavens!

Beichen lets out a series of mournful wails, which still emerge as strange tortoise cries.

"Heaven and Earth Great Dao, is there no justice at all in this Primordial world?" Beichen's tortoise voice rolls, reaching the firmament. "The Heavenly Dao is unkind, treating all things as straw dogs. But the Heaven and Earth Great Dao should be benevolent; have pity on me, a Black Tortoise, and do not let me become a soul of injustice!"

"Heaven and Earth Great Dao, if you can hear my words, could you grant me a method to support the firmament, sparing me the injustice of having my limbs severed and losing my life, so that I may prove the justice of the Great Dao!"

"I, the Black Tortoise, have lain peacefully in the North Sea, never inviting disaster, yet I am to be innocently dismembered and killed on the spot—this is a grievance of the Primordial world, an eternal injustice. If I, the Black Tortoise, am guilty, then I ask the Heaven and Earth Great Dao to grant me a method to atone for my sins through service, can you?"

Beichen's call shakes the heavens and startles the universe.

It makes the world grieve and all living things weep to hear it.

"Such sorrow, who is calling out between heaven and earth?"

The woman with the billions-of-feet-tall snake tail glances sideways, her face exquisite, her temperament vibrant, her voice like thunder, possessing the dignity of a mother to the world.

"Junior Sister, it is that Black Tortoise above the North Sea!"

Beside her, a Daoist with a halo of light behind his head, holding a red elixir and draped in the colors of the eight and nine, his aura suppressing the chaos of the void, is none other than Empress Nuwa's second senior brother, the Primordial Lord of Heaven.

The Primordial Lord of Heaven's divine eyes hold a smile: "That North Sea Black Tortoise is destined for this tribulation; you shall soon sever its four limbs to support the four poles and complete the merit of Mending the Heavens!"

Another Daoist appears, wearing a five-colored cloud robe, surrounded by ten thousand beasts, with purple energy rippling and a majestic, crushing pressure extending for ten thousand miles—this is the Grand Pure Lord of Morality.

At this moment, the Grand Pure Lord of Morality wears a look of confusion: "It is strange to say, this North Sea Black Tortoise should have been in a state of chaos, unaware of its own existence. Why does it seem to know its fate in advance and wail for the destiny of Mending the Heavens?"

"Eldest Senior Brother, what is he shouting?"

Nuwa is enveloped in five-colored divine light, as if standing amidst great bells and drums, unable to hear the tortoise's voice clearly.

"He is praying for the Heaven and Earth Great Dao to grant him a method, attempting to change his fate—it is nothing but wishful thinking!"

The Grand Pure Lord of Morality is dismissive.

"Indeed, that tortoise is destined to sacrifice itself to support the heavens and complete Junior Sister Nuwa's merit of Mending the Heavens!"

"It is merely a small creature under the Heavenly Dao, yet it speaks of changing its fate; it is truly delusional."

This Daoist, with golden light of five colors atop his head and red lotuses beneath his feet, wearing an Eight Trigrams immortal robe with purple energy and carrying a three-edged sword named Qingping, is none other than Sect Master Tongtian.

However, no sooner had the words left his lips than the distant sky suddenly changed. Ten thousand streaks of golden light permeated the air, piercing through hundreds of millions of miles and flooding toward this space.

For a moment, the golden light flickered, so dazzling that even the four destined Sages found it blinding and could not see clearly.

Thus, they were left in a daze, unaware of what had transpired.

But Beichen was incredibly excited, his pair of tortoise eyes overflowing with endless green light: "The Heaven and Earth Great Dao is benevolent; it has heard my call!"

He, the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, stood billions of feet tall, towering between heaven and earth, his aura suppressing the universe, his face filled with compassion.

He took a slow step toward Beichen, with ripples of ethereal sound, dreamlike and illusory, as if he had cast him into a dream.

Above the North Sea, a cosmic voice resonated, confined solely to this expanse of heaven and earth.

"North Sea Black Tortoise, you have suffered a grave injustice. Today, I, the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, bestow upon you a method to alter your fate. I hope you will hold fast, shoulder the heavy responsibility of justice, and not fail the expectations of This Seat."

He took a step, merging into the body of Beichen. The golden light dissipated, and the North Sea returned to a state of tranquility.

Ding, Heaven and Earth Great Dao System, bound to host Beichen!

Wonderful! The Heaven and Earth Great Dao has manifested a system through an avatar to aid me. The fate of having my limbs severed is about to change! Beichen felt ecstatic within. This Heaven and Earth Great Dao is fair after all!

Ding, Heaven and Earth Great Dao System, rewards host Beichen with a fragment of the Universe Great Dao Mystic Turtle Shell!

Ding, system rewards host Beichen with the Boundless Immortal Body of the Great Dao!

Beichen sensed these two rewards carefully. Although they were acquired Dao Treasures, they exuded an extraordinary aura that even surpassed the countless Innate Spirit Treasure he had known of in the Primordial Era. The items rewarded by the Great Dao are truly remarkable! These shall be the two foundations upon which I establish my life!

Beichen quickly composed his thoughts. Nuwa is about to Mending the Heavens and will soon sever my four limbs. What should I do in this situation? Will the system provide instructions?

No sooner had the thought vanished than the system presented two choices.

"One: Choose to actively support the heavens. Reward: Top-grade Innate Supreme Treasure, Jade Plate of Creation!"

"Two: Absolutely refuse to support the heavens. Reward: Great Dao Fragment Domain, and the Three Islands of Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou—top-tier blessed lands. You may hide within the turbulence, rendering you invisible even to the sages of heaven and earth!"

"Two, two, I choose two! I, Beichen, will absolutely not support the heavens!"

Beichen exclaimed, for this second option was exactly what he had hoped for.

"Congratulations to the host for choosing option two!"

A mysterious aura suddenly emerged over the North Sea, and three immortal islands formed from Great Dao fragments, vast and boundless, appeared before Beichen.

Without a moment's hesitation, Beichen leaped into them, and his figure vanished from the spot.

Those three immortal islands, no one knew where they had gone, but they disappeared from the North Sea without a trace.

"Hmm? That North Sea Black Tortoise is gone? Did he escape?"

The four destined sages arrived at the North Sea in unison, their faces filled with confusion. "What is going on here?"