Chapter 133: The World Eater Vine and the Black Turtle

Chapter 133: The World Eater Vine and the Black Turtle

I am Pang Jian's Tree!

Li Yuqing's expression shifted into one of astonishment.

Her slightly plump but beautiful face was filled with disbelief.

She recalled the time in Eight Trigrams City when she had hastily carved a line of words into the stone pavement, telling Pang Jian not to come looking for her.

She also vividly remembered hiding and watching as Pang Jian rushed out from the City Lord's Mansion and anxiously called her name in the square, telling her to leave Eight Trigrams City.

"Pang Jian's tree..." Li Yuqing knitted her delicate brows.

Every green, glowing leaf of the young World Eater Vine trembled.

The line of characters had been scratched out based on Pang Jian's instructions. The World Eater Vine could not read and did not understand the meaning of the characters. It was too scared to move an inch.

Its young mind could not comprehend much. It did not understand why the girl in the sky wanted to destroy it and was utterly terrified.

The plea for help was instinctively sent to Pang Jian out of fear and helplessness. It sensed that a mysterious bond tied it and Pang Jian together, and while it did not know how Pang Jian could help, it had no choice but to seek his aid.

The World Eater Vine sensed the girl floating before it was vastly more powerful than Pang Jian and possessed the terrifying power to destroy the entire Divine Fortune.

Secretly doubting its scrawlings could change the girl's murderous intent, it could only tremble in quiet apprehension.

As it waited in despair, it eventually noticed the terrifying girl had been in a daze the whole time.

The earth-shattering sword intent of the massive silver-white sword had vanished.

Although deeply confused, it resolved to engrave the line of characters into its memory.

These unknown characters held a mysterious power that had dispelled the girl's deadly intent toward it.

The young World Eater vine was determined to learn this strange script well in the future.

After some time, Li Yuqing snapped out of her daze. She stared at the strange and potentially dangerous World Eater Vine and asked, "Where's Pang Jian?"

The branch of the World Eater Vine that had carved out the characters pointed upward.

Li Yuqing looked up and exclaimed in surprise, "The Third World?"

The World Eater Vine shook its leaves as if responding to her.

"So, it really is a World Eater Vine. It already has remarkable sentience despite being so young." Li Yuqing hesitated, then added, "As you grow, your vines will extend infinitely, eventually linking Divine Fortune and the fragmented lands in the surrounding Shangguan Clan's territory together. You used to be one of the sources of the murky energy in the Fifth World...

"But you're also Pang Jian's tree." The girl sighed.

Whoosh!

The massive silver-white sword behind her shrank and flew into her spatial ring.

"I'll spare you for now! I'll decide whether or not to eliminate you after I meet Pang Jian!"

The girl then turned into a streak of light and vanished from Divine Fortune.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

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"The blood and meat of Rank Four and Rank Five Vicious Beasts and Spirit Beasts," Pang Jian repeated with a stunned expression.

The Third World was indeed on a different level. The beast blood and meat they had painstakingly obtained in Misty Swamp were at best from Rank Three Vicious Beasts.

In contrast, in the Third World, Luo Hongyan had acquired a considerable amount of blood and meat from high-ranked beasts in a short time.

I don't need the excess blood essence from the blood and meat but the black turtle does.

Pang Jian stored the spirit jades and spirit stones in his spatial bracelet and then started absorbing the blood essence of the high-ranked beasts' blood and meat.

"The blood essence from higher-ranked Vicious Beasts and Spirit Beasts is so abundant!" he exclaimed excitedly.

The small black turtle within his bronze pendant soon sensed the rich blood essence flowing through his stomach.

The pendant started to absorb the blood essence!

In the following days, Pang Jian remained on the nameless fragmented land, practicing the Primordial Sun Technique and Starflow Technique while consuming large quantities of the beast blood and meat.

Half a month later, the black turtle emerged sluggishly from a crack in the bronze door of the pendant.

Whoosh!

Pang Jian was jolted out of his cultivation.

This black turtle was larger than his palm and looked exactly like the ethereal form of the black turtle he had seen on Central Lake Island.

As he studied the black turtle, the black turtle also curiously stared back at him. Both of them were sizing each other up.

After a while, the small black turtle crawled into a crack in the volcanic rock wall and headed toward the center of the nameless fragmented land.

The black turtle took a long time to reach the center of the fragmented land.

Once there, it fell into a deep sleep.

The black turtle's presence caused the nameless fragmented land to actively absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth. The concentration of spiritual qi on the fragmented land started to gradually increase.

Pang Jian was speechless.

Two days later, a veiled Luo Hongyan flew into the cave.

"I saw a Cloud Sail approaching us. If I'm not mistaken, it's heading to the Three Immortal Islands. We should take this opportunity to board that Cloud Sail and go," she urged with a smile.

Pang Jian nodded and stood to leave.

When he left the cave, he noticed Luo Hongyan had changed into a rose-red dress and was wearing embroidered shoes. Surprisingly, she was walking on the rocky ground.

Noticing his curious gaze, Luo Hongyan explained, "If I keep flying around, those on the Cloud Sail will be too scared to accept our spirit stones."

"What would happen if a black turtle entered a fragmented land?" Pang Jian abruptly asked.

"The fragmented land would become a spiritual land, just like the small island on Black Orchid Lake. The stronger the black turtle, the denser the spiritual qi," Luo Hongyan casually explained, unperturbed by his sudden questioning. "Black turtles are very lazy and rarely move. They're also known as Earth Spirits as they possess immense power and can bless the land they inhabit.

"If a black turtle in a fragmented land reaches a high enough rank, it could create a blessed land. Strange mineral veins, priceless herbs, and rare spirit materials can all be nurtured in such a blessed land."

"Why didn't the black turtle in Black Orchid Lake create such a blessed land?" Pang Jian asked curiously.

Luo Hongyan shot him a fond look of exasperation then patiently explained, "Firstly, that black turtle wasn't strong enough. Secondly, the Solitary Mountain Range is in the Fourth World, where the spiritual qi is sparse and mixed with impurities. That ultimately stunted its growth.

"If that black turtle were in a different environment, such as the First World, the Second World, or even the Third World, the fragmented land it inhabited might've become a blessed land."