213: Chapter 213 Little Eight

"Fellow Daoist, may I ask..."

After the five approached, their attitude remained relatively polite. They were still unsure of Old Turtle's strength, and unless absolutely necessary, they did not want to truly fight.

After all, having cultivated to the Divine Sovereign Realm, who would want to risk their life easily? It was one thing to bully the weak, but to truly fight a Cultivator of the same rank? That was a different story.

Before the Divine Venerable from the Lingxiao Sword Sect could finish speaking, Old Turtle interrupted him.

"Lin Qing has already left."

"Ah!"

The gasp did not come from the five Divine Venerables, but from the Disciples of the Three Sects on Old Turtle's back. Just moments ago, when Lin Qing and Old Turtle's Primordial Spirit had left to talk alone, they had assumed they were still discussing matters. They hadn't expected that Lin Qing had already quietly slipped away.

Everyone immediately realized Lin Qing's intention. He was drawing aggro, shifting the gaze of the superpower factions away from them.

Upon hearing that Lin Qing had left, Yun Nian could no longer control her emotions. She burst into tears, continuously blaming Lin Qing.

"He left alone again. He's always like this!"

Hearing that Lin Qing had left, the Divine Thoughts of the five Divine Venerables immediately swept across the scene. Since Old Turtle made no effort to conceal anything, the five of them saw through everyone's details clearly and knew that Lin Qing was truly gone.

"Fellow Daoist, these people..."

The five Divine Venerables were unwilling to give up and set their sights on these Disciples. This was exactly what Lin Qing had worried about, which was why he had specifically asked Old Turtle to intervene, owing it a massive favor.

"I hope you will not set your sights on these people."

Although Old Turtle's phrasing was polite, everyone could hear the indisputable tone in its voice, and the atmosphere in the area instantly became heavy.

The five Divine Venerables from the superpower factions began to communicate via voice transmission. The Divine Venerable from the Lingxiao Sword Sect asked:

"What should we do? Should we forcefully abduct these people?"

"I think we should let it go. This boy named Lin Qing has some guts; it might be better to just go along with his wishes."

The speaker was the charming woman in the red dress. She advocated for finding Lin Qing directly rather than causing trouble for the people around him.

"I agree with Manzhu's view. Besides, it's hard to say exactly what the strength of the one before us is."

Apparently, Manzhu was the name of the woman in the red dress.

"What are you afraid of? We are five people, after all; could we possibly lose to it?"

The Divine Venerable from the Lingxiao Sword Sect suddenly interrupted their intense discussion via voice transmission.

"Stop making decisions for a moment; that guy is here."

A rumbling sound suddenly echoed between heaven and earth. Everyone quickly turned their gaze toward the direction of the sound, only to see a massive wave hundreds of miles wide rising up where the sea met the sky in the distance.

The massive wave rolled forward, quickly reaching them. The sea surface behind the crest continued to bulge, and a smooth, spherical object slowly emerged from the ocean.

"Everyone, didn't we agree that the well water would not interfere with the river water? If I'm not mistaken, this place is the ocean! And it looks like you intend to cause trouble for my friend?"

After the voice fell, the spherical object fully emerged from the water. Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a giant octopus head.

This head did not seem to have the same oppressive feeling as Old Turtle's, but its diameter was over a thousand miles. If one were to calculate based on the standard form of an octopus, its body, when fully extended, would cover an even wider area than Old Turtle.

The Divine Venerable from the Lingxiao Sword Sect spoke:

"In that case, let this matter end here."

With that, the five of them flew toward the Central Continent land without looking back. They had never been able to see through Old Turtle's background, and now they had drawn out this octopus, whose strength was no less than theirs.

Furthermore, judging by the octopus's tone, it was clearly on Old Turtle's side. Under such circumstances, the risk of forcefully attacking was too great.

After the five flew far away, the octopus's voice immediately became respectful. It asked Old Turtle:

"Senior, when did you wake up?"

Old Turtle recognized the octopus at this moment.

"It's Little Eight. Time flies so fast; I didn't expect you to have reached Level 12 as well."

Although the octopus addressed Old Turtle as Senior, it did not mean Old Turtle was stronger than the octopus; after all, they had never fought each other.

The reason the octopus was so respectful to Old Turtle was entirely because Old Turtle was much older. The last time Old Turtle and the octopus met was fifty thousand years ago, and at that time, the octopus had just broken through to the God Realm.

Old Turtle and the octopus were like a veteran Senior with deep foundations and a gifted young junior, except now, the young junior had grown up.

Little Eight glanced at Ling Shu and the others on Old Turtle's back.

"Senior, who are these?"

"I accepted a commission from someone to send them to Dongxuan, and I will protect them there for a period of time afterwards."

"Senior, why didn't you just attack those five people earlier?"

The octopus first nodded, then asked with some confusion. In its view, Old Turtle's strength should have far exceeded those people, because fifty thousand years ago, when it saw Old Turtle, it was already ten thousand miles in size.

Old Turtle shook its head and said gently:

"I rarely fight with others, and I am not very skilled at killing."

"Alright then. Since you are going to Dongxuan, Senior, I will also go to the sea there for a while. If you have any instructions, Senior, just call me."

After the two beasts chatted briefly, the octopus sank back to the bottom of the water, while Old Turtle carried the people of the Three Sects and continued to head toward Dongxuan.

From the Central Continent to Dongxuan, a Ninth Rank Cultivator would need to fly continuously for ten months, a Tenth Rank Cultivator for three or four months, and a Level 11 Cultivator for over twenty days. However, as a Divine Sovereign, Old Turtle only took three days to cross the endless sea between the Central Continent and Dongxuan.

Upon nearing the East, Old Turtle did not follow Ling Shu and the others onto the continent. Instead, it found a suitable sea area nearby, lay down once again, and transformed into a giant island.

The Chuyun Immortal Sect was located on the side closest to the Central Continent. Now, the entire Chuyun Immortal Sect was within the range of Old Turtle's Divine Thought. If the Chuyun Immortal Sect encountered danger, it would be able to intervene in time.

As the Disciples of the Three Sects returned to their respective Sects, information about Lin Qing began to spread across Dongxuan.

Regarding this, the higher-ups of the three major Sects did not stop it, because the matter of Lin Qing was already known to everyone in the Central Continent, so there was naturally no need to keep it hidden in Dongxuan.

At this moment, Lin Qing had once again changed his appearance, disguising himself as a swordsman, and stepped into a small city in the Central Continent.