[If you wanted to move the turtle shell and the Kunlun Weak Water Stone, it would disrupt the temple's hard-won balance and cause the entire temple to sink into the Weak Water. Therefore, if you wanted to take the turtle shell and Kunlun Weak Water Stone away, you had to wait until just before you left to make your move. By then, you would already be gone, and whether the temple sank or not would have nothing to do with you.
Moreover, the turtle shell's mysteries had already drawn you in. Until you were sent out of the Time Ancestral Land, you planned to study it in this Cave Mansion. If you could use it to unravel more of the secrets within the murals, your comprehension of the Two Extremes Authority could advance even faster...]
[In the twenty-six million seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and ninety-seventh year, the one hundred and thirtieth year since you entered the Time Ancestral Land, you were studying the turtle shell's mysterious patterns when you suddenly sensed a disturbance from outside. You stopped what you were doing and looked toward its source...]
[The disturbance came from the direction through which you had entered the temple from outside. A Sixth-ring Dao Formation had already been set up in that passage as an early warning. It had now been triggered, which was why you reacted.
Outside the formation stood a female cultivator balanced atop a sword. Her white-gold dao robe fluttered without wind, its hem embroidered with flowing starry Sword Formation patterns. Within her frost-blade brows and eyes circulated tangible Geng Metal energy... The instant your divine sense reached toward her, the clanging of gold and iron echoed through your mind, accompanied by the sensation that your soul was being sliced apart by Geng Metal's