Chapter 13: Connected by fate!
Farming?
Inaccurate.
It should have a form similar to farming in the eyes of humans.
In Zhou Qing's mind, it should be the survival instinct of this spiritual turtle that drove it to drive some large white carp to this section of the stream.
The reason why the Lingyun Turtle is named "Lingyun" is because after the Lingyun Turtle reaches the thousand-year level, the plants on its back grow and can condense the energy between heaven and earth, thereby speeding up itself and getting closer to it. The cultivation speed of the soul beast.
If a human soul master could tame a millennium-level spiritual turtle, it could theoretically speed up human cultivation.
But.
As for the soul beasts, there are only a handful of species that humans can tame at present.
Although the Spirit Turtle is relatively docile, no soul master is willing to wait for this kind of soul beast whose cultivation is equated with time to grow from a ten-year cultivation to a thousand-year cultivation.
Just the long period of a thousand years contains too many uncertain factors.
Not to mention small families, even a force like Wuhun Palace would probably not be willing to spend a thousand years cultivating a ten-year-old spiritual turtle into a thousand-year-level cultivation.
After all, a soul master’s lifespan cannot live for a thousand years before reaching level ninety-nine.
Furthermore, in the major soul beast forests of Douluo Continent, there are countless types of soul beasts to choose from. There are even many soul beasts that have not been discovered by soul masters, so why waste money on a spiritual turtle? Unnecessary energy?
However, now Zhou Qing has a doubt, that is, a two-hundred-year-old spiritual turtle, because the turtle's back was artificially broken, and a plant called "common aquatic plant" was planted in advance. Really Can you have the instinct to "gather spirits"?
According to the books he bought about soul beasts, only millennium-level aura turtles with plants growing on their backs can have the ability for the soul king to perceive obvious soul gathering effects.
It can be seen that before living for a thousand years, the Spirit Turtle has been accumulating spiritual power and energy to grow.
Although the aquatic plants in the cracks on the back of this two-hundred-year-old aura turtle are growing well, there is a lot of pus in the flesh and blood inside, and there are also some field snails attached.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to have the effect of "gathering spirits", and Zhou Qing suspects that if this continues, the aura turtle will die of infection.
This can be seen from the way it eats big white carp: it only bites off a small piece of fish each time, swallowing it very slowly, and has no appetite at all.
If it is really the protagonist in the "horror legends" circulated in Holy Soul Village and nearby villages, then this aura turtle has endured the pain in its back for at least fifty years!
According to the rule in the original book that "the more painful the death of a soul beast, the greater the chance of its soul bones being exploded", the probability of this two-hundred-year-old spirit turtle's soul bones being exploded after death reaches 100%. More than sixty or seventy!
Furthermore, regarding the Spiritual Turtle, the book also records that a ten thousand-year-old Spiritual Turtle must produce a soul bone.
Perhaps the millennium-level Nimble Turtle, while living in symbiosis with the plants on its back, also has to endure the pain of the plant's roots taking root in its flesh, and this pain will last for ten thousand years!
It will be 10,000 years before plants can completely integrate with the turtle body, and at that time, the aura turtle no longer needs to worry about food.
Endure ten thousand years of pain and suffering just to have enough food and clothing for the rest of your life.
This is the real "after all hardship comes happiness"!
“How should I kill this spirit turtle?”
Tang San touched Zhou Qing’s elbow.
In terms of understanding of soul beasts, he knew that he was not as good as Zhou Qing. He hoped that Zhou Qing would give suggestions on how to kill this spiritual turtle in the most appropriate way.
You know, in the previous life, let alone the spiritual turtle, even an ordinary turtle that lived for two hundred years would be a great supplement!
After eating the meat of this big turtle, Tang San was sure that his Xuantian Technique would be able to reach the first level of perfection within the next month. "I have other ideas now."
Zhou Qing shook his head and gave up his plan to hunt this spiritual turtle.
“What do you think?”
Tang San didn't understand why Zhou Qing gave up suddenly.
This old turtle was obviously severely injured. If it had waited until it died, the meat might not be fresh anymore!
But he still wanted to hear Zhou Qing's words. If he couldn't be satisfied, then he would find an opportunity to kill the aura turtle himself, and then give some to Zhou Qing.
So, Zhou Qing talked about the spirit turtle's ability to "gather spirits" and why this section of the stream turned the big white carp into a spirit beast.
"It stands to reason that only millennium-level spiritual turtles that have completed symbiosis with plants can have the ability to gather spirits. This turtle is only a hundred years old, and the turtle's back has been artificially destroyed, and the plants in it are also It is not a rare plant, but the most common aquatic plant. It is called cow felt by the villagers and looks like dense cow hair. ”
"It is impossible for a two-hundred-year-old spirit turtle like this to have the ability to gather spirits, nor can it turn an ordinary white carp into a spirit beast."
"So——"
Tang San also thought through it: "The underground of this section of the stream is absolutely There is something that can turn an ordinary carp into a soul beast!"
Zhou Qing nodded slightly, and he had reason to doubt that this two-hundred-year-old spirit turtle could withstand the rotting of flesh and blood on its top for nearly fifty years! It's also the kind of thing that can suppress its injuries.
It’s just that the stream is turbid. Who knows what dangers there are underneath?
Let's not talk about whether there are other soul beasts, even ordinary animals, such as poisonous snakes and poisonous insects. If they are bitten, poisoned, or parasitized by parasites, it will not be good.
This section of the stream is completely different from other sections of the stream. There are a lot of rotten aquatic plants, wood chips, and even bones and internal organs of some fish and birds floating on the edge.
Zhou Qing did not dare to take risks.
Even Tang San was not willing to jump into the turbid stream alone without any protection. My poisonous jade hands could not protect the pervasive turbid stream.
So, Zhou Qing and Tang San watched the Lingyun Turtle eat the big white carp and get into the water, then quietly climbed down the branch, walked back, and said: "San'er, what did you say? , can you cure that spiritual turtle?”
"What?"
Tang San was stunned for a while before he came to his senses and said, "Why do we need to cure it?"
"The spirit turtle is a relatively docile spirit beast. , a book about strange things about spirit beasts in my family It is recorded in the book that some nobles and soul master families like to raise some soul turtles in fish ponds. These soul beasts, which are less than fifty years old, are quite large in number. Many people are willing to take the trouble to capture and sell them. Give it to nobles and serve as ornamental objects in fish ponds· ·····"
Speaking of this, Zhou Qing added, "However, no family has any record of raising aura turtles for more than a hundred years. It is said that the oldest one lived for fifty years. , was slaughtered.”
"I don't want to imitate the elegance of those nobles, I just feel that since this aura turtle has completed the 'shell breaking' and 'planting' ahead of schedule, it has tried its best to survive, just like me... ····"
Thinking of Zhou Qing's orphan status, Tang San fell silent. Thinking of that irresponsible father, he also added in his heart: Me too.
So.
Tang San also unconsciously assumed the role of the spiritual turtle who had endured fifty years of pain in order to survive.
How similar is it to myself and Zhou Qing?
Connected to the same fate!
(End of this chapter)