Chapter 13: We share the same fate! Breeding? Inaccurate. It should be a form similar to farming from the perspective of humans. In Zhou Qing's opinion, it was probably the survival instinct of the Lingyun turtle that drove it to drive some big 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 up and can condense the energy between heaven and earth, thereby speeding up its own cultivation and the cultivation speed of the soul beasts close to it. If a human soul master could tame a thousand-year-old spiritual turtle, theoretically it would also be able to speed up human spiritual practice. but. As for soul beasts, the types that humans can currently tame are pitifully few and can be counted on one hand. Although the Lingyun Turtle is relatively docile, for a soul beast whose cultivation is equivalent to the passage of time, no soul master is willing to wait for it to grow from ten years of cultivation to a thousand years of cultivation.
There are too many uncertainties in the long period of a thousand years alone. Let alone a small family, even a force like the Spirit Hall would probably not be willing to spend a thousand years to train a ten-year-old Lingyun Turtle to a thousand-year-old level of cultivation. After all, a soul master’s lifespan cannot exceed a thousand years before he reaches level ninety-nine. Moreover, in the major soul beast forests of Douluo Continent, there are countless types of soul beasts to choose from, and there are even many soul beasts that have not been discovered by soul masters. Why waste unnecessary energy on a spiritual turtle? However, Zhou Qing now has a doubt. Can a mere two-hundred-year-old Lingyun Turtle, whose back was broken by humans and planted with "ordinary water plants" in advance, really have the instinct to "gather spirits"? According to the books on soul beasts that he bought, only the thousand-year-old spiritual turtles with plants growing on their backs have the ability to allow the Soul King to sense a clear spirit gathering effect. From this we can see that before living for a thousand years, the Lingyun Turtle had been accumulating spiritual power and energy to grow. This two-hundred-year-old Lingyun turtle has water plants growing well in the cracks on its back, but its flesh and blood are filled with pus and are also attached with some snails. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to have the effect of "gathering spirits", and Zhou Qing suspects that if it continues like this, this Lingyun turtle will die from the infection. This can be seen from the situation when it eats the big white carp: it only bites off a small piece of fish each time, swallows very slowly, and has no appetite at all. If it really was the protagonist of the "horror legend" circulating in Holy Soul Village and nearby villages, then this Lingyun Turtle must have 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 exploding", the probability of this two-hundred-year-old Lingyun turtle exploding its soul bones after its death is over sixty to seventy percent! Moreover, regarding the Lingyun Turtle, the book also records that a Lingyun Turtle of ten thousand year level will definitely produce soul bones. Perhaps even a thousand-year-old Lingyun Turtle, while coexisting with the plants on its back, also needs to endure the pain of the plant roots taking root in its flesh and blood, and this pain will last for ten thousand years! It will be ten thousand years later that the plants will be able to completely integrate with the turtle's body, and at that time the Lingyun turtle will no longer have to worry about food. Endure ten thousand years of pain and torture just to have enough food and clothing for the rest of your life. This is the true meaning of “hard work pays off”! "How do I kill this Lingyun turtle?" Tang San touched Zhou Qing's elbow. He knew that he was not as good as Zhou Qing in understanding soul beasts, and hoped that Zhou Qing could give him some suggestions on how to kill this Lingyun Turtle in the most appropriate way. You know, in the previous life, let alone the Lingyun Turtle, even an ordinary turtle that lived for two hundred years would be a great tonic! After eating the meat of this giant turtle, Tang San was sure that his Xuan Tian Gong would be able to be cultivated to the first level of perfection within the next month. "I have other ideas now." However, Zhou Qing shook his head and gave up the plan of hunting the Lingyun turtle.
"what idea?" Tang San didn't understand why Zhou Qing suddenly gave up. This old turtle was obviously badly injured. If it were to die on its own, its meat might not be fresh anymore! But he still wanted to hear what Zhou Qing had to say. If it didn't satisfy him, he would find a chance to kill the Lingyun Turtle himself and give some to Zhou Qing afterwards. Then, Zhou Qing talked about the Lingyun Turtle's ability to "gather spirits" and why this section of the stream allowed the big white carp to become a soul beast. "In theory, only a thousand-year-old spiritual turtle that has achieved symbiosis with plants can have the ability to gather spirits. This one is only a hundred years old, and its back has been damaged by humans. The plants on it are not rare plants, but just the most common aquatic plants. The villagers call them cow hair felt, which looks like dense cow hair." "It is impossible for a two-hundred-year-old spiritual turtle to have the ability to gather spirits, and it is impossible for an ordinary large white carp to become a soul beast." "so--" Tang San also thought it through: "Under the ground of this stream, there must be something that can turn ordinary carp into soul beasts!" Zhou Qing nodded slightly. Since this two-hundred-year-old Lingyun Turtle had been able to withstand the rotting of its flesh and blood for nearly fifty years, he had reason to suspect that something could suppress its injuries. But this section of the stream is muddy, and who knows what dangers may be underneath? Not to mention whether there are other soul beasts, even if it is an ordinary animal, such as poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, if you are bitten, poisoned, or parasitized by parasites, it will be bad. This section of the stream is completely different from other sections of the stream. There are a lot of rotten water plants, wood chips, and even some bones and internal organs of fish and birds floating on the edge. Zhou Qing didn't dare to take any risks. Even Tang San was not willing to jump into the muddy stream alone without any protection. The Black Jade Hand, which was immune to all poisons, could not protect him from the muddy stream that penetrated every pore. So Zhou Qing and Tang San watched the Lingyun Turtle finish eating the big white carp and get into the water, then quietly climbed down the branch and walked back, saying: "San'er, do you think you can cure that Lingyun Turtle?" "what?" Tang San was stunned for a moment before he reacted and asked, "Why do you want to cure it?" "The Lingyun turtle is a relatively docile soul beast. My family's book of strange stories about soul beasts records that some nobles and soul master families like to raise some Lingyun turtles in fish ponds. The number of these soul beasts that are less than fifty years old is still large. Many people are willing to spend time and effort to capture them and sell them to nobles to use as ornamental objects in fish ponds..." At this point, Zhou Qing added, "However, no family has a record of raising a Lingyun turtle for more than a hundred years. It is said that the oldest one lived for fifty years and was slaughtered." "I don't want to learn the elegance of those nobles. I just feel that since this Lingyun turtle has completed 'breaking the shell' and 'planting' ahead of time, 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 added in his heart: Me too. in this way. Tang San also unconsciously put himself in the shoes of the Lingyun Turtle, which had endured fifty years of pain in order to survive. How similar is it to myself and Zhou Qing? We share the same fate! (End of this chapter)