"...this is Rhyming Pairs."
Lin Ke smiled and patted the Water Dragon Turtle beneath him. "Have you memorized it?"
The Water Dragon Turtle's eyes brimmed with gratitude. "I have! I have! Thank you for imparting the Dao, Master! Thank you, Master!"
He was merely an ordinary demon beast, with a trace of ancient Black Tortoise blood at most-not the Black Tortoise himself. He had thought his whole life would pass just like that.
Who would have known that, upon reaching the peak of the Second Realm, he would actually meet Lin Ke!
The Human Race's great Daos reached the heavens, and there was more than one such heaven-reaching path.
The Demon Race had only one.
No one could say they were perfectly suited to the path they were walking, and drawing insights from other fields was important too.
Now, having received a volume of Rhyming Pairs from Lin Ke, he had finally stepped onto a broad, sunlit road.
"From now on, I can recite poetry too..."
The Water Dragon Turtle felt his wish had been fulfilled, and his mouth spread into a broad laugh.
Yet as he laughed, the energy within him stirred, and he immediately closed his eyes.
"Even this can trigger a breakthrough?" Lin Ke was surprised, then remembered that his own breakthroughs had happened much the same way and smiled.
The Water Dragon Turtle had stopped moving. Fortunately, he had not sunk.
So Lin Ke leaned against the turtle's back and transcribed the Rhyming Pairs he had just recited.
As he did, fish and shrimp occasionally leaped out of the water around him.
He paid them little attention at first, but a bubbling sound caught his ear.
"Pop, pop... pop..."
A blue-black fish was beside the Water Dragon Turtle, looking up at Lin Ke and blowing bubbles