Time Travel: I'm a Flower Thief

Xie Xiaoyi closed his eyes, ready to be swallowed whole.

But after waiting for a long time, the expected excruciating pain did not come, and there was not even the slightest sound.

He opened his eyes and was immediately stunned.

The Xuanjia Jiao, which was about to devour him with its gaping maw, was having its tail bitten by the spirit turtle and was writhing wildly in pain.

The tortoise stared wide-eyed, biting without budging, making it clear—I've got my eye on this prey, and you can forget about taking it!

Xie Xiaoyi cursed inwardly, "So these two both want to eat me for nourishment, and they've started fighting amongst themselves!"

It was truly a miracle that I wasn't meant to die!

He quickly circulated his qi and adjusted his breathing, gradually gathering his scattered true energy to recover some of his strength from the excruciating pain, before taking the opportunity to escape.

The Xuanjia Jiao stared at him, watching its prey slip through its fingers. Frustrated and angry, it suddenly turned its head and bit down hard on the spirit turtle's neck.

The turtle, in pain, kicked its limbs violently in the seawater, its head thrashing wildly, and the two giant beasts immediately began to wrestle together.

One wanted to blow its head off, the other wanted to sever its tail, and they remained locked in a stalemate in the sea, neither willing to give way.

Xie Xiaoyi sat on the mountain watching the tigers fight, enjoying a moment of peace and quiet. After regulating his breathing for a while, his true qi circulated smoothly, and his blood and qi finally became more balanced, easing the severe pain in his body.

He observed the battle with a cold eye and instantly understood—

The Xuanjia Jiao looked fierce, but it was no match for the spirit turtle and was completely suppressed from beginning to end.

The thought of how that spirit turtle had looked down at him from its high perch and slapped him back down to the seabed, almost killing him on the spot, made him furious.

You old bastard, you attacked so fiercely just now, do you really think I'm easy to bully?

When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits. Today, we must vent our anger!

Xie Xiaoyi drew his Guan Canghai sword from behind his back and immediately used the sword control technique taught to him by Li Qinglian, while simultaneously activating the dragon essence, phoenix blood, and ancestral dragon true energy within his body.

With the help of three forces in the water, the longsword immediately stabilized on the seabed, hovering in front of him.

Taking advantage of the moment when the two giant beasts were entangled and had no time to spare, he poured all his abundant power into the sword.

Xie Xiaoyi brought two fingers together, pointed them into the air, and silently shouted, "Go!"

Guan Canghai instantly shot out like an arrow, transforming into a sharp, cold light in the water, piercing straight into the head of the spirit turtle!

The sword tip pierced the spirit turtle's cheek with a sharp clang, and Guan Canghai was forcefully thrown back.

The turtle's shell was completely unharmed.

Xie Xiaoyi thought to himself, "No wonder they say that a thousand-year-old tortoise, a ten-thousand-year-old turtle, and a hundred-year-old rabbit are not chased by anyone."

As expected, the longer a spirit beast lives, the more terrifying its abilities become. Its leather armor is truly formidable in terms of defense!

but!

No matter how tough a spirit beast's hide is, its eyes can never be as hard as its outer shell!

With that thought, he locked his eyes on the exposed eyeballs of the spirit turtle, and once again channeled his true energy, unleashing the full power of his sword control technique.

Guan Canghai swung in the water, dodging the thick tortoise shell, and with a fierce killing intent, stabbed straight at the spirit tortoise's left eye!

"puff--"

As expected, the sword tip pierced the spirit turtle's eyeball without any hindrance.

The milky white liquid mixed with dark red blood immediately exploded in the water.

Xie Xiaoyi continued to urge his true energy to guide the movement, making the movement of the Canghai even more powerful, directly piercing through the spirit turtle's eyeball and deeply penetrating its brain.

In its excruciating pain, the tortoise let out a piercing, mournful howl that shook the seawater.

It went berserk on the spot, its head thrashing wildly, its limbs kicking frantically on the seabed, and suddenly released its grip on the dragon's tail.

The Xuanjia Jiao was still biting its neck when its tail was suddenly freed, and it immediately let go and tried to escape.

But the tortoise was already in so much pain that it lost its mind. It suddenly turned its head and bit its neck hard again.

This bite was several times heavier than the previous one, its sharp teeth embedding directly into the dragon's flesh, tearing at it frantically as if possessed.

With a crisp "crack," the Xuanjia Jiao's neck bone was crushed in one bite, and its body stiffened, becoming completely still.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Xie Xiaoyi exerted his strength in the water, bypassing the front of the spirit turtle, and flipped over to steadily ride on its shell.

Without the Xuanjia Jiao attacking from the side, even if the spirit turtle struggled wildly, it couldn't touch him at all.

He grabbed the tortoise shell with one hand to steady himself, and with the other hand he formed a sword incantation, urging his entire body's true energy to guide Guan Canghai to churn wildly within its brain.

The turtle convulsed in pain, thrashing and twisting wildly on the seabed. Before long, its body stiffened, its limbs loosened, and it sank to the bottom of the sea.

Only when it breathed its last did it release its grip on the Xuanjia Jiao.

As Xie Xiaoyi gazed at the two giant beast corpses, a thought suddenly struck him: "Ancient books record that dragon essence, phoenix blood, qilin marrow, and tortoise spirit are all auspicious beast treasures."

I now possess the True Qi of the Ancestral Dragon, Dragon Essence, Phoenix Blood, and the Qilin Marrow that Murong Shishi gave me earlier, which I have never consumed.

If I were to obtain the Turtle Spirit as well, wouldn't I have gathered all the treasures of the Four Auspicious Beasts?

He made up his mind that he couldn't let such a good thing go to waste.

However, the spirit turtle's shell is hard, and when Guan Canghai stabbed it on the head, not a hair was hurt. Ordinary methods are simply useless against it.

After a moment of thought, it suddenly dawned on me—no matter how hard the old turtle's shell is, its inside is ultimately soft.

Okay, let's do it that way!

Xie Xiaoyi first used his qi to guide the Guan Canghai Sword, which was still stuck in the spirit turtle's brain, and slowly pulled it out and put it back behind his back.

Then he swam to the turtle's mouth, held up the upper jaw with one hand and the lower jaw with the other, and forced the giant mouth open with a gap big enough for him to fit through.

He hesitated for a moment. What if he had claustrophobia? Wouldn't he suffocate inside a turtle's belly?

On second thought, fortune favors the bold, and good things are worth taking risks for.

So he crouched down and leaped directly into the turtle's mouth, carefully climbing up the inner wall of its throat.

The inside of his abdomen was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The surroundings were sticky and viscous, and even his breath smelled of decay. He could only grope his way forward with his hands.

Before long, a scorching, sour, and putrid odor assaulted Xie Xiaoyi's senses, and his heart tightened—

This is the stomach of the spirit turtle. Its stomach juices can corrode bones and injure people when they drip down, so you must never get close to it.

He drew his Guan Canghai sword with a backhand slash, the sword energy silently cutting through the soft flesh beside him. He then forcefully pried open a path, barely managing to avoid the stomach sac.

Wandering through the dark, visceral passages like navigating a maze, just when you're completely lost, a warm, gentle white light suddenly shines from the depths ahead.

Xie Xiaoyi's heart skipped a beat: Yes, this must be the Turtle Spirit!

He suppressed his excitement and groped his way toward the light source. Soon he saw a cluster of beads the size of an egg, shaped like warm jade.

The tortoise spirit was tightly wrapped in a semi-transparent soft membrane, suspended between its internal organs, with a faint light shining through the membrane.

With a slight flick of his wrist, Xie Xiaoyi watched as Guan Canghai sliced ​​open the soft membrane, reached out, and steadily plucked the Turtle Spirit from his grasp.

It feels slightly cool to the touch but not icy, carrying a rich and lingering warmth, clearly a treasure from within the spirit turtle.

He immediately grasped the tortoise spirit tightly and, using the faint light, returned the way he came.

When he finally managed to reach back into the turtle's mouth, he discovered that the giant mouth had already slowly closed, leaving no gap.

"Holy crap, is this some kind of joke?"