811: Chapter 215: Xuan Wu’s First Step, Southern Dipper!_2 811: Chapter 215: Xuan Wu’s First Step, Southern Dipper!_2 A pillar of light from the highest point of Nine Heavens struck directly down into the very center of the first layer.
This pillar of light appeared only on the first layer, not reaching as far as the second — true to its name, the pillar marked the actual center of the Fairy Ascension Platform.
The center was indeed the true sacred ground for cultivation, where the Yuan Qi was denser, and its quality was incomparable to anywhere else.
Moreover, the Yuan Qi under the light pillar contained elements that were absent from the surrounding areas.
It was the cream of the crop.
Yet, with hundreds of cultivators on the first layer, everyone acted with restraint, no one approaching the center.
This time, Ji Feixue was also in the Mystery Yellow Cave Sky!
Standing in the center alone bore all the brunt of the powerful Gang Winds, akin to a Fairy Ascension Platform within the Fairy Ascension Platform.
Entering meant facing even more intense Gang Winds.
That wasn’t even the major issue; the center could not support many people at once.
If someone was already there, once Ji Feixue returned and stepped into the central pillar of light, the central Gang Winds would intensify to unpredictable levels, and those remaining would have to contend with Ji Feixue — whoever could withstand the Gang Winds could stay there.
Even a mere thought was enough to know who would be thrown out; among those who could reach the first layer, who didn’t have their own pride?
The cultivators still striving to ascend were astounded by the focus on Su He below.
Everyone was prepared to observe how the Dragon Turtle utilized Yuan Qi and Gang Winds to temper its body, trying to grasp the essence to modify their own cultivation techniques.
But in the end — they saw nothing, understood nothing.
Many could vaguely discern that the Dragon Turtle was cultivating by coordinating its Turtle Body and Snake Body, but exactly how it cultivated remained a mystery to everyone.
They could neither see nor learn!
Yet, Su He entered the fourth layer in one swift move, a feat not even a typical Four Spirits Divine God Beast could possibly achieve!
Was this the legendary Su He?
A being that had escalated from being a Grass Turtle to an Opening Second-fold Dragon Turtle in less than half a decade?
Everyone exchanged looks, truly a case of the reputation living up to the name!
They couldn’t even muster feelings of jealousy anymore.
Especially those who had encountered Su He’s unstoppable force in the White Tiger Ruin and lost the Mystery Yellow Order to him, now didn’t even know what expression to wear.
Was it not jealousy but rather a sigh of relief?
Saying they were weak, not daring to compete with a Turtle who had only been around for half a decade, now that they had seen it firsthand, had they lost all hope?
Once the Fairy Ascension Platform ended, it’d be interesting to see who still wanted to compete with the Dragon Turtle!
On the fourth layer, the Three Phases Monk and the Zhanxiu both looked towards the center, staring at Su He lost in thought.
Thirty years ago, when Dragon Turtle first arrived in Qianjiang, it was a mere novice, constantly asking various basic questions about cultivation in Qianjiang.
Even some notions clear even to those in the Transcendence Realm were so lacking in Su He that it was surprisingly hard to imagine.
Back then, Su He was still cultivating relations with everyone through sheer perseverance.
In a blink of an eye… it’s as if Su He had barely gotten tired of a new game, and how had the game’s master changed to this extent?
It felt like tutoring the boy next door, the lesson not even finished when the boy had already won prestigious awards, stepping through Qingyun, gaining a rank not beneath them, and even on the verge of surpassing them any moment now.
A strange feeling arose — could this Turtle Kid’s combat power surpass them both after the Mystery Yellow Cave Sky ended?
The Three Phases Monk and the Zhanxiu exchanged glances, both seeing unease in each other’s eyes.
Simultaneously turning, they looked towards Canchen Taoist on the other side of the Fairy Ascension Platform.
Canchen Taoist, sensing their gaze, shifted his own from Su He towards them.
The three men looked at each other, eyes flashing an indescribable light.
Su He had blocked his awareness of being watched.
Divine Sense, inherently present in living creatures’ stares, was extremely palpable when concentrated on one’s body.
At the moment, the gazes of most people on the Fairy Ascension Platform were fixed on him — some malicious, some envious, some astonished…
Constant perception would instead affect his own cultivation.
Su He blocked his awareness, completely immersing himself in his own world.
Su He hadn’t marked his territory; he hadn’t generated a cloud platform, but drifted continuously on the fourth layer, like Xuanwu Star Lodge moving across the sky.
If the cultivators below the fourth layer observed Su He with star-gazing techniques, they would see the stars revolving in the sky.
Just like Greedy Wolf!
At this moment, Greedy Wolf was still with Zheng, the two Divine God Beasts who had just ascended to the fifth layer and could ascend no further.
Zheng eyed Su He enviously, claws gripping the clouds beneath fiercely, secretly resolving not to sleep for a century again.
This sense of powerlessness had happened twice now; they were contemporaries with White Spirit, who had once outdistanced them by far, unchanged for hundreds of years, leaving them far behind without even a trace to follow.
Now… it had happened again!
Just thirty years later, and they found themselves once more looking up at the Dragon Turtle from below.
Zheng firmly resolved itself, while Greedy Wolf was completely dumbfounded; its eyes saw neither Su He nor the Dragon Turtle.
It saw only a patch of stars spinning endlessly in the sky.
Su He like a star.
The Greedy Wolf Clan originated from fragments of the Greedy Wolf Star, the first star of the Northern Dipper, not part of the Twenty-eight Constellations but directly opposed to the Southern Dipper within Xuanwu.
The relationship was even more complex.
Just one glance at Xuanwu brought an indescribable feeling.
An impulse to leap up, land beside Su He, and also transform into a star was almost too strong to suppress.
Su He swayed above in the heavens, his mind tracing the orbits of the Xuanwu Star Lodge; his whole body moved freely, forgetting the Gang Winds on his back, the Yuan Qi from all directions; forgetting the Intention Orifice and the star force of the Boundary Pearl World.
He just climbed step by step across the sky without concern or contemplation, embodying both the crawling Dragon Turtle and the coiling Spirit Snake.