Chapter 104: Perilous Situation

Roar!

The Wind Mystic Turtle opened its mouth, unleashing a roar like that of a colossal beast.

It spotted Yitian on the island, along with the millennium-old Wind Spirit Trees being felled in its territory. Fury surged within it, and a savage aura swiftly engulfed the entire island.

With effortless might, it stepped ashore. The fierce gale around it made its movements as light and swift as a swallow, hastening its pace across the ground.

When it charged to a thousand yards before Yitian, a terrifying column of water erupted, shooting forth like a dreadful arrow. Along its path, it shattered ancient Wind Spirit Trees, each hundreds of years old.

In an instant, Yitian vanished.

Boom!

That water column slammed into the island, carving a fathomless chasm.

The Wind Mystic Turtle’s mastery over water had reached a level both gentle and fierce, unleashing astonishing power.

Yitian reappeared suddenly above the Wind Mystic Turtle.

He unleashed the full force of the Great Sun Heavenly Technique. The golden-scaled sword radiated brilliant light, descending upon the turtle like a cannonball. A scorching sword aura dozens of yards long struck the turtle shell with a thunderous slash.

The fierce impact shook the entire island violently.

The turtle’s massive, mountain-like body was forced downward by the terrible force of Yitian’s strike; its limbs sank three feet into the ground.

Yet, the slash left only a scorched, blackened trace dozens of yards long on its shell, causing little real damage.

At that moment, the Wind Mystic Turtle suddenly unleashed the combined power of wind and water. Sensing danger, Yitian swiftly employed his Secret Spirit Shift technique, teleporting over a thousand yards away.

No sooner had Yitian retreated than columns of wind and water sprang up around the turtle, colliding violently and shattering everything in their path. Even the void seemed to warp, yet the turtle remained unharmed amidst the chaos.

“Roar!”

The Wind Mystic Turtle fixed its gaze on Yitian, the ferocity in its eyes intensifying greatly.

In an instant, hundreds of yards tall columns of water and wind tore through the air, sweeping across the land and sky, bearing down on Yitian.

Terrifying!

Yitian felt the overwhelming power in each column of water and wind. Even a direct hit could tear him apart.

Slash! Slash! Slash!

Without hesitation, Yitian repeatedly used the Spirit Shift technique to dodge the oncoming columns.

Where those torrents struck the earth, vast expanses of land were devastated in moments. Each ancient Wind Spirit Tree shattered into fragments.

Even Yi Feng and Yi Shan, who were cutting down the millennium-old Wind Spirit Trees at the island’s center, were affected by the shockwaves. They had to release their Yuan Gauntlets to resist. Only the ten millennium-old Wind Spirit Trees stood steadfast, enduring the relentless assaults.

Fortunately, the Wind Mystic Turtle refrained from attacking the island’s center. Otherwise, the Reincarnation Squad would have faced grave peril.

Boom!

In an instant, Yitian appeared beside the Wind Mystic Turtle with Spirit Shift, slashing through the combined wind-water force with a single sword stroke.

But when he aimed to strike the turtle’s limbs, they retracted like lightning. Simultaneously, the turtle’s head shot forward, jaws wide, revealing sharp fangs as it lunged to bite Yitian. Its neck stretched long, moving with astonishing speed.

Too fast.

The Wind Mystic Turtle’s bite was unparalleled.

Even Yitian couldn’t activate Spirit Shift in time. His technique was nearly perfected but still required a moment’s thought to trigger, not instantaneous teleportation.

Hurriedly, he swung his sword at the turtle’s head.

Bang!

An unmatched force struck him. The golden-scaled sword shattered into dozens of fragments. The residual power hurled Yitian hundreds of yards back, his Yuan Gauntlet riddled with cracks, nearly collapsing.

Seeing that it had not slain the human, the Wind Mystic Turtle’s fury deepened.

It opened its mouth again, spewing a torrent of water, while a terrifying gale formed around it. The wind and water merged instantly, conjuring a dreadful water tornado that swept toward Yitian under the turtle’s command.

The rushing currents, whipped by the gale, became the most fearsome attack, capable of tearing through anything.

Yitian performed several rapid Spirit Shifts midair.

But the water tornado, under the turtle’s control, morphed into a dragon, as if summoning clouds and rain, relentlessly charging at Yitian like a living beast aiming to swallow him whole.

At that moment, Yitian drew out the Void-Breaker Bow.

The Sun-Slaying Heavenly Technique surged wildly. A devastating arrow formed in an instant, transforming into a brilliant divine light.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The arrow pierced through the colossal dragon formed by the tornado.

The terrifying dragon collapsed and exploded instantly, its destructive water and wind forces now unchecked, raging in all directions, stirring monstrous waves across the lake.

Quickly, Yitian fired a second arrow, which appeared before the turtle’s head in a flash.

Just as the arrow was about to pierce the turtle’s skull, the deadly threat forced the Wind Mystic Turtle to instinctively retract its head like lightning. Yet it could not fully evade.

Pierce!

The arrow, initially destined to penetrate the skull, instead sliced across it as the turtle pulled back, tearing a long bloody gash nearly splitting the bone.

At that instant, the turtle bellowed and suddenly turned to flee.

Water and wind forces swirled fiercely around it, fiercely guarding its retreat as it plunged beneath the lake.

Yitian stared in surprise.

The Wind Mystic Turtle was fleeing the battle! Its previous ferocity and savagery had vanished. This shattered Yitian’s impression of the beast’s bloodthirstiness and madness.

Though Yitian’s arrow had nearly destroyed it, none of the fierce beasts Yitian had encountered over the years had ever fled when gravely wounded; they only grew more violent, attacking frenziedly.

The turtle’s crawling speed was not swift, yet the lightning-fast retraction of head and limbs—almost evading Yitian’s arrow—amazed him greatly.

Still, the turtle hid beneath the lake’s depths, which eased Yitian’s mind.

He hurriedly produced a high-grade Yuan Stone to restore his true energy.

Seeing Yitian repel the Wind Mystic Turtle, the Reincarnation Squad sprang into vigorous action.

When Yitian had fully recovered, he noticed the Wind Mystic Turtle had not reappeared. He rejoined the team, accelerating the felling of the millennium-old Wind Spirit Trees.

Seven days later, they finally cut down all ten of the ancient Wind Spirit Trees, their storage rings nearly full.

The expedition was a complete success!

Yitian and his comrades gained ten millennium-old Wind Spirit Trees—a tremendous haul.

Moreover, without the ten trees, the fierce gale over the lake dissipated significantly, gradually weakening until vanishing altogether.

As they prepared to leave the lake, a tremendous roar echoed.

Suddenly, hundreds of water columns erupted from the lake, over a hundred in number. Most of the lake’s surface was swept up in water and wind, creating an apocalyptic storm, surging toward Yitian and his group.

Each water column spun violently amidst the tempest.

Every column seemed like a weapon wielded by a master of human rank, launching deadly assaults.

“What!”

Such a sudden calamity caught Yitian and his team off guard.

Yitian had not anticipated that the Wind Mystic Turtle would refrain from attacking for seven days solely to unleash a final, devastating onslaught.

Only within the lake’s waters could the turtle manifest its greatest strength. Even mid-to-late stage fierce beasts would struggle to survive. Hidden beneath the lake, it need not fear Yitian’s threat.

“Break through with full force!” Yitian commanded the Reincarnation Squad instantly.

In a flash, all six members employed Spirit Shift, rushing hundreds of yards in an instant toward the lake’s edge.

Once beyond the lake, the Wind Mystic Turtle could no longer harm them.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Water columns burst forth violently.

The Wind Mystic Turtle controlled these torrents with reckless fury, aided by fierce gales, hammering toward Yitian and his comrades.

Yet each member of the Reincarnation Squad had mastered Spirit Shift, enabling them to evade attacks at the last moment, narrowly avoiding the turtle’s strikes time and again.

Even so, danger was relentless.

The devastating collisions of water columns and gale forces battered them repeatedly. Their Yuan Gauntlets were torn asunder over and over, hindering their rapid escape.

They could not fly out of the lake from above; the terrifying gale above the forest of Wind Spirit Trees soared thousands of yards high, more violent than ever before.