Sleeping Tortoise, known for sleeping for centuries. In this case, they go into hibernation to preserve their energy while constantly absorbing energy from the surroundings, eventually becoming a part of the environment itself.
As they keep on slowly accumulating more and more energy, their strength keeps on growing. Because of sleeping for centuries, they lose their ability to see, resulting in their blindness despite having sixteen eyes on top of that. The same is the case for their hearing. Their bodies would also become tough and less sensitive to touch. But they can still feel pain.
However, once it is disturbed from its sleep, it would go after anyone in its territory. It would hunt down everyone as long as they were in its territory. Sometimes, it would even go out of its habits and chase its enemy as far as it could to get rid of them.
However, in the process of energy absorption and becoming one with nature, it would achieve the ability to sense the aura and presence of all beings to make up for the loss of sight and hearing. Or it could even be said that it loses its hearing and sight because of achieving the sensing ability. It would sleep inside the ground while its shell would stick out of the ground, which would seem like a hill.
"That's how it came to be known as the Sleeping Tortoise." Yang Zhai muttered.
"Let's end this farce." After saying this, Yang Zhai activated the Last One ring, and Zuh Will manifested.
"You, go and hunt down any rank 6 cultivator you see," he said to Zuh Qil.
After hearing this, Zuh Qil jumped down from the sleeping tortoise and disappeared into the darkness.
As he had been summoned when Yang Zhai's body was holding a lot of strength, as well as no presence and clear vision, Zuh Qil also obtained those characteristics. As such, he had enough strength to fight rank 6 cultivators.
Yang Zhai noticed the sleeping tortoise move. He looked down at the sleeping tortoise.
"Oh, it's about time." Yang Zhai gave a slight smile and muttered, "These guys don't know what they are up against."
The Sleeping Tortoise inserted its tail into the ground.
Suddenly, a slight, inconspicuous wave spread throughout the ground as far as three hundred miles.
"Are you sure about that?" The rank 7 cultivator asked his companion.
"Yes, Brother Boum, that's what he said before dying. According to him, that beast must be sensing our presence and aura." The rank 6 cultivator replied.
"Hmm, if that's true, then we are in big trouble. None of us has any methods that can help us hide our aura, not to mention the whole presence. No wonder Tzu Yu is riding that beast so confidently. That was because he had a method that could hide his aura as well as his presence. He knows we cannot do anything to him as long as he is riding that beast. If we approach it, we will only get killed. Only if one of us had a method to hide our presence as well, we could have approached him then." Boum said with anger.
His eyes were bloody red with anger.
"I thought we had him surrounded, but it was we who fell into his trap. That bastard Tzu Yu knew what he was doing from the very start, he played with us and had us wrapped around his fingers. I, a rank 7 cultivator, got played by him. Never in my life have I ever felt this humiliated!" Boum looked in the direction of Yang Zhai, as if he wanted to eat Yang Zhai alive.
He was running along with his companion when he felt something and jumped to his left. Right when he did that, a vine came out of the ground and pierced the rank 6 cultivator from behind. This vine was as thick as half a foot. The rank 6 cultivator's abdomen was completely pieced and the vine came out of the other side.
The rank 7 cultivator looked at this with tears in his eyes.
"Why? I am just seeing my companions die in front of my own eyes without being unable to do anything." This thought came to his mind.
AAAAAAAA!!!!!
He had just thought of this when he heard a scream and a voice from behind.
"Brothers! There is someone else besides Tzu Yu here, run away! Run...."
The voice faded away. Zuh Qil stood with a head in his hand, blood dripping to the ground.
"No, Liu Dang's presence disappeared, don't tell me…" Boum couldn't sense another one of his companions' presence.
In this world, presence and aura hiding methods are rare. Only a few have these. Even though we can keep our aura at bay as long as we don't use any cultivation methods, we can't hide our presence. Even though I don't have any aura sensing methods, they can't sense mine as well even if they may have the methods to sense.
As long as Zuh Qil stays quiet and focused enough, he is sure to find the rank 6 cultivators eventually. After all, these cultivators need to move in order to ambush me. Not to mention that they can't sense Zuh Qil, so they don't know where he is. Of course, everything else depends on chance here.
After all, even Zuh Qil has no method for sensing.
Yang Zhai contemplated.
Boum was constantly dodging the vines, which kept coming out of the ground to attack him.
"Why are vines attacking me now as well? Just how many more attacks does this tortoise have in his arsenal?" He was confused.
"No, I need to do something before we lose more lives. I cannot allow this to continue. I am barely dodging these vines myself, and that too because I am dodging randomly, not because of my abilities. If this beast decides to attack my group, they would not even be able to dodge, after all, they are just rank 6. I cannot allow any more losses…"
"We need to retrieve first and call for reinforcements. After the reinforcements arrive, we can attack this beast again and achieve a decisive victory." After thinking of this, the rank 7 cultivator shouted,
"Everyone! Leave this area, run as far as you can! Try to get out of this beast's range! We cannot do anything here!"
"Hmm, want to run? Maybe they don't know what being one with the environment means." Yang Zhai muttered as he heard the rank 7 cultivator.
The remaining four rank 6 cultivators moved at once when they heard the rank 7 cultivator.
However, this gave Zuh Qil a chance. He saw a cultivator run right in front of him.
When this happened, it gave Zuh Qil an opportunity. Zuh Qil didn't waste even a second and jumped up on the cultivator, punching him in the head.
However, as the cultivator had his defensive methods activated, he didn't die and was thrown away. But, Zuh Qil didn't just wait around and ran after the cultivator.
His scream was heard by others as well.
Even Yang Zhai heard it.
"Oh, did Zuh Qil find another one? He needs to be careful. I told him to try to eliminate his enemies in one shot as much as possible. Now that his opponent managed to alert their companions, he is going to have some company."
Even though Yang Zhai knew that Zuh Qil was going to have to face more enemies now, he didn't go to help Zuh Qil. He stayed right where he was.
"The one I need to care about is the remaining rank 7 cultivator. If I am not careful, I can die."
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