God of Pets

Chapter 652 Chopping the Old Turtle King

The people of the Southern Heaven Kingdom rushed to dig up the collapsed hill and worked for half a day before finally digging out the barely alive Huang Tianming.

Huang Tianming's all-out attack was too much for even himself to withstand; he was left with only half a life.

Among the entourage of the Southern Heaven Kingdom were cultivators skilled in healing techniques, but such severe injuries could only be temporarily kept alive.

Huang Tianming's skin and flesh were charred black by lightning, his chest cavity was sunken, and his internal organs were severely damaged. He could die at any moment.

After exchanging a few words with Chen Guan, Ji Nanhong asked the Red Blood Corps' military doctor to come and treat Huang Tianming.

After settling Huang Tianming and the people from the Southern Heaven Kingdom, Ji Nanhong led the Crimson Blood Legion in a meeting to discuss how to handle the matter.

Although everyone was discussing how to deal with Huang Tianming, their eyes kept glancing at Chen Guan, who was standing behind Ji Nanhong.

“Huang Tianming has suffered such a heavy blow. We can take this opportunity to show him kindness and perhaps we can get him to work for us, or even bring the Southern Heaven Kingdom into our army,” Zhang Yujian said.

“A man like Huang Tianming is ruthless and doesn’t care about feelings. It’s probably impossible to get him to be grateful or repay his kindness. In my opinion, we should take this opportunity to conquer the Southern Heavenly Kingdom.” An Yiqi expressed his opinion.

“I think it’s a good idea. Without Huang Tianming, the Southern Heaven Kingdom is at its weakest point. It’s the perfect time to take it over,” said Simon Ding.

“We invited Huang Tianming over, but he occupied the Southern Heaven Kingdom at this time. I’m afraid it will be difficult to cooperate with other kingdoms in the future.” Bai Yueguang also had a different opinion.

The generals are now divided into two factions: one wants to win over Huang Tianming, and the other wants to take the opportunity to seize the Southern Heaven Kingdom.

Ji Nanhong had her own thoughts, but she still looked at Chen Guan and said, "Huang Tianming was defeated by you, what do you think?"

"Taking over the Southern Heaven Kingdom will certainly expand the territory of our Crimson Blood Legion, but it will inevitably lead to misunderstandings among the other kingdoms within the Heavenly Pillar Cave. They won't know that Huang Tianming provoked us first, and will think that we tricked Huang Tianming into coming here and seized his territory. Outsiders will think that our Crimson Blood Legion is dishonest and excludes dissidents," Chen Guan said.

Everyone knew perfectly well that Chen Guan's words, while ostensibly referring to the kingdoms within Tianzhu Cave Heaven, were actually for Ji Nanhong's reputation within the Heavenly Court Army.

If Ji Nanhong were to gain a reputation within the Heavenly Court Army for being dishonest and excluding dissidents, some would worry that if Ji Nanhong were to rise to power, those who disagreed with her might also be eliminated.

“That makes sense. The Southern Kingdom is of limited help to our Crimson Blood Legion, and without Nan Batian, the Southern Kingdom is not worth worrying about.” Jiang Tianqing said, “Why don’t we take this opportunity to subdue Nan Batian and make him work for us?”

"But Huang Tianming is unruly and selfish, and I'm afraid he won't be so easy to subdue. I'm afraid he might repay kindness with enmity," Zhu Hongzhi pondered.

“It is indeed a bit difficult, but if we kill Nan Batian, what will happen to the Old Turtle King of Jiuyan?” As soon as these words were spoken, everyone’s eyes turned to Chen Guan, who was standing next to Ji Nan Hong.

He managed to render Huang Tianming into this state without shedding a drop of blood; I wonder if he can also deal with the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King.

Being skilled in protective techniques does not necessarily mean having strong offensive capabilities.

Some people have various specialties, so they don't know whether a person has the ability to break through defenses.

Ji Nanhong also looked at Chen Guan, but she didn't know exactly how capable Chen Guan was now.

"Leave the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King to me." Chen Guan was still confident in this regard. After all, with the Mountain-Splitting Axe, killing this kind of powerful spirit would be relatively easy.

Finally, the group discussed and decided not to kill Huang Tianming for now, but to let him recuperate here. It would be best if he could be recruited to their side, but if not, they would let him go back first and then go and conquer the Southern Heaven Kingdom later.

This was to let others know that letting Huang Tianming go back was a matter of morality, and that conquering the Southern Heaven Kingdom was a matter of strength. Ji Nanhong reorganized the troops and took Chen Guan with her to Thousand Turtle Valley. Only by breaking through Thousand Turtle Valley could the Crimson Blood Legion expand to the wider Muhe Plain.

The Muhe Plain is home to a large number of Mystic Spirits, a vast resource pool. However, due to the obstruction of Thousand Turtle Valley, the Crimson Blood Legion has to take a long detour when heading to the Muhe Plain, which is very detrimental to their development.

Chen Guan followed Ji Nan Hong, curiously observing Thousand Turtle Valley.

The reason this place is called Thousand Turtle Valley is not because there are a thousand turtles here, but because there are many different kinds of turtle spirits here.

This Thousand Turtle Valley is nestled between mountains, stretching for thousands of miles. It contains a large number of various turtle spirits. Because the turtle spirits have very high defenses and are inefficient to kill, ordinary cultivators are unwilling to choose to hunt them.

Only a few cultivators who practice secret techniques come here to hunt turtle-like spirits.

Thousand Turtle Valley is rich in secret techniques such as Turtle Breathing Technique, Turtle Shell Skill, and Turtle Back Skill, which are mainly defensive techniques.

In addition, Thousand Turtle Valley also has a chance to produce a very famous peerless secret technique called "Xuanwu True Skill". This Xuanwu True Skill is a rare body-refining secret technique among peerless secret techniques.

The stronger one's vital energy, the stronger one's physical body. However, the Xuanwu True Technique is extremely rare, and only a very rare and peerless secret spirit, the Xuanwu Divine Turtle, can produce it.

Unfortunately, we didn't encounter the Xuanwu Divine Turtle along the way.

The team acquired quite a few secret techniques, such as the Turtle Breathing Technique and the Turtle Shell Skill.

When Chen Guan saw the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King, he was also somewhat surprised.

The old tortoise king was hundreds of meters tall, and the plates on its back stood like mountain peaks, resembling nine interconnected peaks.

Its entire body resembled granite, and it simply lay there motionless, yet its imposing presence was truly awe-inspiring.

“When we used the Thunder Hammer before, we only cracked some of the rocks on the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King’s body. But not long after, the rocks on its body were restored to their original state.” Ji Nanhong said, looking at the Old Turtle King from afar, and then summoned the Thunder Hammer and handed it to Chen Guan.

Chen Guan took it and saw that it was a level 60 Mystic Treasure, but unfortunately it had a level restriction on use.

Without the sixth sense, its true power cannot be unleashed.

“Killing an old tortoise doesn’t require this. You wait here, I’ll be right back.” Chen Guan returned the Thunder Hammer to Ji Nanhong, then rode his Crimson Blood Horse toward the Nine Rocks Old Tortoise.

Chen Guan was plotting how to kill the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King.

Although others have never seen this mountain-splitting axe before, if he uses it, people will inevitably see it and associate it with Zi Donglai, who split a mountain in two with a single axe.

However, without the mountain-splitting axe, the Nine Rock Old Turtle King is so huge that even if his own spiritual power could break through it, it might not be able to kill it.

"We still have to use it, just cover it up a bit." Chen Guan rode his horse to the front of the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King, leaped up, and seemingly chopped directly at the back of the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King with a hand chop.

Just as the axe was about to strike the back of the Nine Rock Old Turtle King, it slipped into his hand and cleaved the Nine Rock Old Turtle King in two.

From then on, a legend circulated within the Crimson Blood Legion that someone had cleaved the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King in two with a single palm strike.

(End of this chapter)