Chapter 141: Chapter 141 Vermilion Fruit
 

“What do you want?”

The Mysterious Turtle asked with its huge eyes glaring, while scrutinizing Wang Chen closely.

Wang Chen was initially stunned but soon understood.

He almost burst out laughing!

It seemed that the Mysterious Turtle thought he had ulterior motives for offering it peaches and pears.

No good deed goes unpunished, right?

Wang Chen replied, “I don’t want anything, I just ate too much!”

He was at a loss for words.

It was said that a thousand years ago, when Cloud Sun established its sect, the Mysterious Turtle was enlightened by the Ancestor of Cloud Sun.

And then it was given the title of an auspicious beast to secure the sect’s fate.

This sounded like an interesting legend.

But the Ancestor of Cloud Sun had ascended to the Upper Realm many years ago, and the Mysterious Turtle was still here, silently enduring the elements.

Unable to leave the stele even for half a step.

Since he’s not a fish, how could Wang Chen understand the happiness of a fish, and even though he was not a turtle, he did not know its thoughts.

But no matter how he looked at it.

This was not a happy thing!

Wang Chen had offered Spirit Fruits to it several times mainly out of pity.

Thinking that the old turtle had helped him, he had to have a conscience.

But his kindness was taken for granted!

Let it be.

Wang Chen could not possibly take issue with an old turtle, shook his head, and was about to leave.

In the future, even if all the peaches and apricots in the orchard rotted on the trees, he would never again push his warm face against someone’s cold behind!

“Ying ying!”

At that moment, Yuanyuan suddenly jumped out from the Spirit Beast Pouch hanging at Wang Chen’s waist.

It landed with a high bounce, then landed on the edge of the Mysterious Turtle’s shell.

And bit down hard with its mouth.

Nearly breaking its own teeth!

The defense of the turtle beasts was the strongest.

This old turtle had been lying at the entrance of the Inner Mountain Gate for over a thousand years, with a shell thick and heavy as a mountain.

Not to mention a little Spirit Mouse.

Even if Purple Mansion Superior exerted all his strength, he could not break through its defense!

“Ying ying!”

The little guy got even angrier and once more used its strength to jump onto the Mysterious Turtle’s sturdy neck.

It quickly wriggled into the gap behind the turtle’s neck!

Wang Chen was stunned: “Yuanyuan!”

The little guy moved so fast that he simply couldn’t react in time.

Seeing Yuanyuan disappear into the crack of the shell, Wang Chen got anxious, “Elder Mysterious Turtle, I will catch it immediately, please don’t take offense!”

He feared the old turtle might retract its head and crush Yuanyuan to death!

“Aiyah!”

The Mysterious Turtle shook its head and extended its neck out long, calling out loudly, “Itchy itchy itchy, stop scratching!”

It turned out that Yuanyuan was inside, scratching furiously at the soft flesh of its neck with its tiny paws!

Wang Chen broke into a sweat watching it: “Yuanyuan, come out quickly!”

He knew that Yuanyuan sensed his own sense of injustice and anger and was thus seeking justice from the old turtle!

But in this world, justice is determined by strength.

The gap was too large.

It was seeking its own demise!

In his urgency, Wang Chen was about to use the Sword Control Technique.

He couldn’t just watch Yuanyuan get hurt, even if the other party was a thousand-year-old auspicious beast of the sect, he had to fight!

But before his Fire Crow Sword could be unsheathed, the little guy had already shot out from inside the shell.

With a leap, it jumped onto him.

The little paws clung tightly to Wang Chen’s collar, making a pitiful sound, “Ying ying ying~”

Translated, that meant, “It stinks, it stinks.”

Wang Chen quickly flew backward, increasing the distance between him and the Mysterious Turtle.

At the same time, he gently covered Yuanyuan with his left hand.

To prevent the little one from doing something as futile as “an ant trying to trip an elephant” again!

“Ahem!”

The Mysterious Turtle retracted its head and grumbled in a deep and resonant voice, “How does such a little mouse have such a big temperament, akin to its ancestors… ahem, my old bones can’t withstand your tossing about!”

“Enough already.”

It raised its head and said to Wang Chen, “You send it over here, I want to have a few words with it.”

Wang Chen hesitated for a moment, then looked down at Yuanyuan and asked, “Mysterious Turtle Superior would like to speak with you, is that alright?”

Clearly, the Old Turtle harbored no ill intentions.

Otherwise, given the earlier situation, if it had struck back even slightly, there would have been no chance for little Yuanyuan to survive!

The little fellow hummed and grumbled, still appearing somewhat angry.

The golden fur on its head bristled.

But it nodded its head anyway.

Wang Chen took a deep breath, then brought Yuanyuan over and set it down in front of the Mysterious Turtle.

Yuanyuan, unafraid, raised its head and gazed straight into the eyes of the mountainous Old Turtle.

The Mysterious Turtle looked at Wang Chen: “Go away.”

Wang Chen stepped back ten paces.

The Mysterious Turtle was not satisfied: “Further away!”

Wang Chen simply retreated a hundred steps.

That should be far enough, right?

Then he saw from a distance the Old Turtle lowering its head, talking to little Yuanyuan close to the ground.

After the time it took to brew half a pot of tea, Yuanyuan turned around and bounced happily towards Wang Chen.

Wang Chen hurried over to meet it and took the little fellow back into his arms.

Whatever the Mysterious Turtle had said, Yuanyuan’s golden fur had been smoothed down.

All is well!

Wang Chen quickly folded up the flying boat and bowed deeply to the Mysterious Turtle: “Thank you, Superior, until we meet again!”

The Mysterious Turtle snorted heavily from its nostrils: “Hmph!”

Opening its mouth, it drew the two baskets of Spirit Pears in front of it into its mouth, then withdrew its head and closed its eyes, sinking into a deep sleep.

Leaving the mountain gate, Wang Chen drove his flying boat toward Cloud Mountain City.

Midway through the flight, Yuanyuan crawled out of the Spirit Beast Pouch again, clawing its way up his clothes to his chest.

Wang Chen held up his palm: “What’s the matter?”

In the next moment, a bright red Vermilion Fruit appeared in the palm of his hand.

A Qi of Clarity surged straight into his nostrils, and Wang Chen, just having inhaled it, suddenly felt as though he was floating in ecstasy.

It was as if he was three parts drunk.

Drunk from Spiritual Energy!

Shocked, Wang Chen quickly descended with the flying boat to the ground, fearing an accidental loss of control might capsize the vessel.

He looked at the Vermilion Fruit in his hand in disbelief.

The first time Wang Chen had gone to Cloud Mountain City to rent a Cave Mansion to break through in his cultivation, he had experienced the Drunkenness of Spiritual Energy upon entering the cave, but as his Cultivation Level and strength increased, it never happened again.

He never imagined that such a tiny fruit could make him, an advanced Qi Cultivation practitioner, experience the Drunkenness of Spiritual Energy again!

Regaining his composure, Wang Chen realized what had happened.

This Vermilion Fruit must have been a gift from the Mysterious Turtle to Yuanyuan.

It was likely an apology to Wang Chen for the saying “judging a cultivator’s heart with the belly of an old turtle”!

However, Wang Chen faintly felt that things were not as simple as he thought.

But regardless, Yuanyuan had clearly struck it rich!

He said with a smile, “Since it’s from Turtle Superior, you should eat it yourself.”

Presumably, it would be greatly beneficial for the little fellow!

“Ying ying.”

Yuanyuan shook its head.

Then, in Wang Chen’s palm appeared a second, a third, a fourth…

Ten Vermilion Fruits in total!

The Qi of Clarity emanating from these fruits made Wang Chen’s recently cleared head start to feel woozy again.

He couldn’t help but laugh and cry at the same time.

Little Yuanyuan had really fleeced the Old Turtle!

Even so, Wang Chen had not the slightest intent to claim them for himself and stroked the little one that offered him treasures: “These are all yours; I don’t want any.”

Yuanyuan: “Ying ying!”

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The second update is here.