56: Giant Turtle Island? No, it's a mobile medicine garden!

"Water... so salty."

Gu Yang slowly opened his eyes. What met his gaze was the roof of a crude wooden hut, and the air was filled with a faint scent of salted fish and medicinal herbs.

He tried to move his finger.

"Hiss—"

Intense pain instantly swept through his entire body.

He inspected his internal state and discovered that the situation was even worse than he had imagined. His Meridians were shattered, his internal organs were displaced, and his proud black-gold skeleton was covered in fine cracks.

The strike from a Nascent Soul Old Monster, combined with the forced detonation of the earth veins and his Transmigration through the spatial storm, had almost exhausted all of his foundations.

Right now, he was so weak that he was not even as strong as a small Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator, and his Physical Body Realm had temporarily fallen to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage level.

"Big guy, you're awake?"

A little girl wearing her hair in a topknot walked in carrying a bowl of steaming fish soup. Her skin was dark, but her eyes were as bright as stars.

"Grandpa said you were drifting on the sea for several days, covered in blood, and he thought you wouldn't make it."

Gu Yang struggled to sit up, took the fish soup, and drank it in one gulp.

A warm current slid down his throat; although the Spiritual Qi was weak, it was better than nothing.

"Where is this?"

"This is Giant Turtle Island," the little girl said, blinking her eyes. "We live on the back of Grandpa Divine Turtle."

Gu Yang forced himself to walk out of the wooden hut.

The scene outside made his pupils shrink slightly.

This was an island spanning dozens of miles, but the edges of the island were not reefs; they were... the edges of a massive, moss-covered turtle shell!

The ground beneath his feet was slowly rising and falling; that was the giant turtle breathing.

The air was filled with a thick, gentle earth-attribute Spiritual Qi, which was completely different from the violent Spiritual Qi of the Chaotic Star Sea.

"This is a... Soul Transformation Stage Great Demon?!"

Gu Yang was shocked in his heart.

This giant turtle was sleeping, its aura fused with the ocean, which was why it could avoid the storm.

Moreover, Gu Yang keenly discovered that the soil on the turtle's back actually presented a strange pale gold color.

He crouched down, grabbed a handful of soil, and smelled it.

"The aura of Breathing Soil? Although it is very thin, it is indeed the scent of the Earth Origin!"

"No wonder the weeds growing here are all infused with Spiritual Qi!"

Gu Yang's eyes lit up.

Healing?

In other places it might take years, but here...

He looked at a vegetable patch not far away, where several plump white radishes were planted.

Gu Yang walked over, pulled one out, wiped off the mud, and took a bite.

Crunch!

Juice overflowed, and a pure earth-attribute Spiritual Qi exploded in his mouth.

【Ingesting mutated spirit radish... Energy converting... +50... +50...】

【Earth attribute nourishes Physical Body, bone repair speed increased!】

"Good stuff!"

Gu Yang finished the radish in a few bites and felt that his waist was no longer sore, and his legs had strength again.

"Big guy, why are you stealing my family's radishes!" the little girl ran over, pouting angrily.

Gu Yang smiled awkwardly and pulled out a handful of Low-Grade Spirit Stone from his Storage Pouch (fortunately, the Storage Pouch wasn't lost) and stuffed them into her hand.

"I'll buy them, I'll buy them."

"Little sister, do you still need someone to farm here? I have great strength and can loosen the soil."

In the following days, a strange farmer appeared on Giant Turtle Island.

His daily work was helping the villagers plow the land and catch fish.

Others used oxen to plow the land, but he pulled the plow himself, running faster than a horse.

Others used nets to catch fish, but he jumped directly into the sea, stunning the fish with a single punch before scooping them up.

And in return, he had to eat hundreds of pounds of spirit radishes, spirit potatoes, and spirit fish every day.

Under this regimen of binge-eating therapy, Gu Yang's injuries were recovering at an astonishing speed.

In just one month, his Physical Body Realm had recovered to the Golden Core Early Stage, and those cracked bones, nourished by the earth-attribute Spiritual Qi, became even tougher and denser.

However, good times do not last long.

On this day, Giant Turtle Island, following its once-a-century cycle, slowly floated to the surface to breathe.

The massive commotion attracted the attention of the surrounding sea area.

"Rumble—"

Several warships flying skull flags broke through the waves, and a group of Cultivators reeking of blood stood on the bows.

Turtle Hunters!

This was a notorious organization in the Chaotic Star Sea, specializing in hunting various sea beasts, and they didn't even spare these gentle Mountain-Carrying Turtles.

"Hahaha! We've struck it rich! It's actually a Soul Transformation Stage Mountain-Carrying Turtle!"

The leader was a one-eyed man at the Golden Core Perfection, wielding a serrated broadsword, his eyes full of greed.

"This turtle is currently breathing; it's at its weakest! As long as we drill a hole in its back, drain its essence blood, and take its demon core, we can ascend to the heavens in one step!"

"Do it! Kill all the Mortals on top! Don't let them get in the way!"

Following the one-eyed man's order, hundreds of Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators grinned and charged onto the turtle's back, with Spells and Flying Swords falling like raindrops.

"Ah—!"

The peaceful fishing village instantly turned into purgatory.

The little girl who had saved Gu Yang was terrified and crying loudly; her grandfather, in order to protect her, was struck down by a wind blade and fell into a pool of blood.

"Seeking death."

Gu Yang, who was gnawing on a radish in the vegetable patch, stopped his movements.

He slowly stood up, watching the burning houses and screaming villagers in the distance. The 'benevolence' in his eyes vanished, replaced by monstrous murderous intent.

Although he was not a good person, he was someone who repaid kindness.

He had eaten their radishes and drunk their soup; this life of his had been saved by them.

Now someone wanted to smash his rice bowl and kill his benefactors?

"I'm just injured, not dead!"

Gu Yang spat out the radish leaves in his mouth.

He did not take the heavenly demon meteor hammer (it was too heavy, and he was struggling to wield it in his current state), but instead casually picked up a refined iron hoe used for tilling the soil from beside his feet.

"Hey, one-eyed dragon over there."

Gu Yang carried the hoe on his shoulder and blocked the path in front of the little girl, his voice as cold as a blade.

"You want to touch this turtle? You want to kill these people?"

"Did you ask if the hoe in my hand agrees?"

The one-eyed man paused, looking at this 'farmer' wearing coarse linen clothes and holding a hoe, and sneered:

"Where did this fool come from? A piece of trash who isn't even at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and you dare to block my path?"

"Die!"

He casually swung a streak of Saber Qi, wanting to split Gu Yang in two.

Gu Yang did not dodge or avoid it.

Que Xie Golden Body—passively activated!

Clang!

The Saber Qi struck Gu Yang's bare chest as if it had hit ten-thousand-year black iron, shattering directly into points of light.

Gu Yang patted his chest, and not even a white mark was left behind.

"Is that it?"

He took a step forward, and his figure instantly vanished.

The next second, he appeared in front of the one-eyed man, raising the hoe in his hand high.

"Farming Style—Great Strength Hoeing the Earth!"

Splat!

A simple, unadorned hoe strike.

It directly smashed through the one-eyed man's protective Spiritual Light, smashed through his top-grade magic armor, and finally smashed into his skull.

"Ah—!"

The screaming stopped abruptly.

Gu Yang pulled out the hoe, bringing up red and white matter.

He looked around at the terrified Turtle Hunters, revealing a smile more ferocious than a demon:

"The fertilizer is not quite enough right now."

"Since you all came, then stay behind... to fertilize the fields!"