Chapter 0210

Chapter 210: Return Flesh to Mother, Return Bones to Father!

Time Stop! Little White unleashed his might, and everything froze in place.

Nine seconds later, time began to flow again.

By then, the Eldest Senior Sister had already vanished from everyone’s sight. A heartbeat later, a boom shook the distance as a Half Saint strike landed, whipping up a terrifying storm of spirit power.

Sobbing, Ye Bu Fan clung to his father and cried: “Father, you have to stand up for me, you must kill that wretch!”

What greeted him was not comfort but a ringing slap.

Smack!

The blow was so heavy that it left him stunned.

Fury blazing, Ye Xing Chen barked: “You wretch, who did you provoke!”

He was shaken to the core. That spirit form and that woman were truly beyond terrifying. If he had not had the foresight to spend a fortune at the Strike Mall to buy a single Half Saint strike, today would have been impossible to end cleanly.

As the Holy Son of the Black Tortoise Clan, Ye Bu Fan had long been wild and arrogant. Even before his father, he usually acted defiant. On any normal day, if he got slapped, he would talk back.

But today he behaved, not daring to make a sound.

Ye Xing Chen scolded, voice like thunder: “Do not think that just because you stepped into the Life and Death Realm while young and received the Black Tortoise Pool’s legacy you can do as you please. The world is vast. You must remember there is always someone stronger.”

Head lowered, Ye Bu Fan admitted: “Father, I was wrong.”

Hearing this, Ye Xing Chen froze for a moment, then a shiver ran down his back. [I know my son best. If he is this meek, he must have poked a hole in the sky.]

He flared again and demanded: “Speak. What else are you hiding from me!”

Shaking all over, Ye Bu Fan stammered: “I… I was careless, and that woman split the holy coffin.”

The Black Tortoise Clan experts reacted like they had seen a ghost; their pupils dilated to the limit. Ye Xing Chen fared even worse. He croaked, “Gah,” and almost fainted.

“Patriarch, please do not die yet,” several experts rushed up at once, faces grim, and began fanning him with heavy slaps as they cried: “If you die, who will carry this blame!”

A moment later, Ye Xing Chen finally came around. Hand trembling as he pointed at Ye Bu Fan, he could only think of choking the fool on the spot. This time, the sky really was torn open. The Ancestor had prophesied, “When the holy coffin cracks, the Black Tortoise perishes.” Who would have thought the coffin would shatter here and now. [Is this fate?]

“Help me up,” he ordered at once. “We are going to the Intel Mall. There might be a way to undo this.”

On the other side, the Eldest Senior Sister followed Mountain Ghost’s lead to the Treasure Mall.

With a warm smile, Mountain Ghost bowed and called out as she cleared the customers: “Greetings, Princess Consort, Your Highness.”

Startled, the Eldest Senior Sister looked her over and said: “You became the Shopkeeper too?”

Mountain Ghost answered frankly: “Yes. As soon as I entered the Safe Zone, I refined the Shopkeeper.”

The Eldest Senior Sister sighed with a helpless smile: “You people truly all think alike. Junior Brother learned his bad habits from you.”

Mountain Ghost chuckled and lifted her brows: “Your Highness, please do not pin the hat on me. I cannot carry that blame.”

Her gaze flashed to the side, landing on a blue clad girl. She clicked her tongue and said: “Well now, a rare guest. A remnant soul from the Black Tortoise Clan’s Heaven’s Chosen.”

The blue clad girl saw Mountain Ghost and her eyes turned sharp. She snapped: “You annoying ghost, I thought you were already dead!”

Zhang Chu Qiao blinked and asked, surprised: “You two know each other?”

The blue clad girl huffed: “Even if she turned to ash, I would still know that face. Saintess Sister, help me beat her up!”

The Eldest Senior Sister’s expression turned odd as she corrected her: “I am a Yin Yang Dao Physique, but I am not a saintess, and I am not your sister.”

“Impossible,” the blue clad girl protested, eyes misting even as a soul. “I cannot be mistaken. You are my Saintess Sister!”

Mountain Ghost spoke up: “I can testify that Your Highness is not your sister, but she can be your mother.”

Both the girl and the Eldest Senior Sister jolted.

“Do not joke,” the Eldest Senior Sister said.

“I am not joking,” Mountain Ghost replied, eyes deep. “Your Highness truly has a profound tie to the Black Tortoise Clan.”

She then told the clan’s origin. The Black Tortoise Clan was not born from father’s seed and mother’s blood, nor was it born straight from heaven and earth. It came from human faith. In ancient times, to study the cosmos, the human race divided the whole starry sky into east, south, west, and north. When enough faith gathered in each quadrant, a named god was born. At first, three faith gods stood in the northern sky: Zhuanxu, the Chen Star, and the Black Tortoise. Later, the Black Tortoise gained more faith and became the sole Northern God. The north corresponds to water, so the Black Tortoise gained the Authority of Water, and with it, attributes. Over time, water nourished all things and fed yin and yang. The yin yang laws entered the Black Tortoise’s transformation, giving it the image of turtle and serpent together, standing for hard and soft in harmony. After endless ages, the Black Tortoise bowed to the human race. Enlightened by Emperor Xuanlang, it took human form and gained the power to reproduce. To avoid taboos on the Emperor’s name, the Black Tortoise Clan was also called the True Martial Clan, and they swore to serve the human race forever.

“So that is how it is,” the Eldest Senior Sister nodded. Human records did call the Black Tortoise the Northern God, the Water God, the Yin Yang God, and the God of Destiny, so this secret history was no lie.

Mountain Ghost looked at the blue clad girl and said: “Now you see. Your Highness, as a Yin Yang Dao Physique, is an agent of the yin yang law. In that sense, she also took part in the birth of the Black Tortoise Clan. Calling her your mother is not an exaggeration. And if you wish to live again, you cannot do it without the Princess Consort’s help.”

Light burst in the blue clad girl’s eyes as she asked: “I can live again?”

“That depends on our Highness and our King,” Mountain Ghost said.

The girl turned pleading eyes on the Eldest Senior Sister and begged: “Saintess Sister…”

The Eldest Senior Sister answered after a breath: “I can bring you back. But first you must tell me how you died, and why you were sealed in a coffin instead of being allowed to pass on.”

Scorn and killing intent rose in the girl’s eyes as she said: “When the Myriad Races besieged the human race, the Black Tortoise Clan chose to protect itself. I ignored the clan’s stop orders, went to the front, killed the Heaven Gu Clan’s crown prince, destroyed his bones, pulled his tendons, erased his body, and seized his soul.”

“This angered the Myriad Races. The Black Tortoise Clan, afraid of being dragged in, chose to kill me to calm them.”

“When that decision came out, I despised them completely. So I returned flesh to Mother and bones to Father, cutting all ties with the clan.”

Her voice was quiet, with a thread of madness: “If I am reborn, I will erase that ungrateful, bully the weak clan.”