This is an emerald-green turtle, the size of a house, with a pair of brown eyes on its round head. The agility of those eyes looks like that of a human being.
Ao Tian was suddenly startled.
Because he knew this turtle more than five hundred years ago.
Strictly speaking, this turtle was also one of his playmates when he was a child. It was also one of the most powerful creatures in the ruins besides him.
But at that time, this turtle did not have spiritual intelligence, so it was not considered a monster. It was just that its physical strength was far stronger than that of a normal turtle.
Father did say that the bloodline of this turtle should be related to the tribe before the destruction of the dragon tribe. There is still some bloodline of the demon tribe in the body, but whether he can awaken the power of the ancient bloodline depends on his own creation. .
It seems that after more than five hundred years, this turtle was really awakened by him and became a real monster.
"Ao Tian, I didn't expect you to come back."
The turtle looked at Ao Tian, especially the horn on Ao Tian's head, and then a few bubbles came out of his mouth.
"But you still seem to have changed a lot."
When Ao Tian left here, although this turtle did not have real spiritual intelligence, it was still much smarter than ordinary aquariums, so it can still recognize Ao Tian.
Ao Tian felt a little happy to meet his old friend again, but of course there were also many surprises.
But at this time, he was not in the mood to reminisce about the past.
"What happened? Where did the bones of my parents go!"
He asked the turtle urgently.
A big bubble emerged from the turtle's mouth, and the bubble burst in the seawater and turned into a faint sigh.
"Our sea area is a little different from before."
"Probably more than a hundred years ago, not long after I was born with spiritual intelligence, several powerful demon clans came to this sea area. They found the ruins of our Crystal Palace and stayed here. .”
The turtle raised its forelimbs, pointed at the octopus that had all its tentacles broken off, and said:
"It is the weakest one among them. It also has an older brother who is much, much stronger than it. The bones of your parents were taken away from here by its older brother."
"Where is its brother now?"
Ao Tian immediately asked.
The turtle's forelimbs pointed into the distance again:
"In the innermost palace! He also moved the bones of your parents there."
The innermost palace?
Ao Tian immediately understood what place the turtle was talking about. It was the most mysterious place in the ruins of the Crystal Palace. Ao Tian had lived here for hundreds of years in his previous life, but he had never been to that palace.
Because when his father was still alive, he sternly warned him that descendants of the dragon clan should never enter the palace in the innermost part of the ruins.
Ao Tian asked his father the reason, but his father was not very clear. He only said that this was what his father had warned him. It seemed that the leader of their Dragon Clan, the Dragon King of the East China Sea five thousand years ago, died in that palace. , before he died, the extremely stern warning of the Dragon King of the East China Sea came from the palace.
The warning was then passed down from generation to generation.
Then Ao Tian asked his father if any other dragons had entered that palace before.
My father said there was, but none of the dragons who went in came out again.
So the curiosity in Ao Tian's heart was instantly annihilated, and he never had the desire to sneak into that palace again.
In his previous life, he was not only lazy, but also not very courageous.
Unexpectedly, that palace is now occupied by other demon clans.
"There were several of them."
Then Ao Tian asked again.
Although he was very anxious now, he still asked cautiously.
"There are four in total. In addition to the one you caught, there is also a bigger octopus demon, a tiger shark demon, and a clam nymph."
"But apart from the two octopuses, one big and one small, the other tiger shark monster and the clam girl rarely come to the ruins of the Crystal Palace."
"These water monsters came to this water area more than a hundred years ago, and they seemed to be looking for something. If anyone in this water area did not listen to them, they would be killed directly, Dadai, Old Spider and the others. They were all killed.”
The big belt in the turtle's mouth is a big hairtail fish, and the big one in the old spider's mouth is a huge spider crab. They were the most powerful underwater creatures in this sea area in the past except Ao Tian. However, like the turtle, in Ao Tian Before leaving, no real spiritual intelligence is born.
"What about you? Why weren't you killed?"
"Because I have a brain! But they haven't grown yet, so they are dead and I am still alive."
The turtle sighed, and there seemed to be a long-suppressed sadness in the cracked bubbles.
"I listen to them very much. I will do whatever they ask me to do."
Ao Tian was silent for a moment, then looked at the turtle and said something.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
The turtle seemed startled for a moment, then smiled.
"Actually, I don't remember your appearance very much. I didn't have intelligence hundreds of years ago, so those memories are very vague, but I remember your breath. Although your appearance is a little different, the breath has not changed."
……Yeah? Having been a dragon for two lives, I thought I was completely different from my previous life...
"Where have you been these past few hundred years?"
"Going to land."
The turtle's brown eyes showed a look of yearning, and he asked curiously:
"How about it? Is it more exciting than our life under the sea? Are there more creatures and more lively than here? Have you seen those legendary human races?"
"...Yes, life on land is very exciting, and there are many people there. It is good to have the opportunity to go and see it, but...just have a look, and you will eventually want to come back. This is the world of our aquatic tribe. , look I’m not back now.”
Ao Tian was very moved and said in a deep voice.
The turtle seemed to understand.
Then Ao Tian asked Turtle again:
"Do you have a name now?"
"They call me Green Turtle."
"Okay, Xiaolu, goodbye, thank you for telling me the whereabouts of my parents' skeletons."
Then Ao Tiao shook his dragon tail towards the green-haired turtle, and at the same time grabbed the ball-like octopus monster and swam forward with his slender body.
"where are you going?"
The green-haired turtle asked quickly.
"Of course I'm going to get my parents' bones back."
Ao Tian turned around and said.
"Don't go. That big octopus monster is very, very powerful. Ao Tian, I can feel that you are also very powerful, but you seem to be much weaker than that big octopus monster. Every time I see that big octopus monster, I feel so scared that I can’t even swim.”
The green-haired turtle said anxiously, the blisters in his mouth rising rapidly.
"Ao Tian, you'd better leave quickly before they find you. Go to land or other sea areas and don't come back again. Otherwise, if they find you, they will arrest you too. They are slaves."
Ao Tian's pair of dragon eyes shrank slightly.
The octopus monster he caught in his hand was as strong as a practitioner at the Fetal Movement Realm, so he originally thought that the other water monsters should be at the Nascent Soul Realm.
He himself is also in the Nascent Soul realm.
But this is the sea.
In the sea, if their realms are equal, their dragon clan will not be afraid of any opponent, otherwise how could their dragon clan become the king and overlord of the water clan.
But now listening to the green-haired turtle's description, the octopus monster deep in the ruins of the Dragon Palace is not as simple as the Nascent Soul realm.
Because he could feel that the green-haired turtle should also have the strength of the Fetal Movement Realm, and the strong men in the Nascent Soul Realm were not powerful enough to crush a Fetal Movement Realm in such a way that the green-haired turtle would have such deep-rooted fear and surrender.
Is that octopus monster...
Ao Tian hesitated for a moment, then his eyes immediately turned firm and he said decisively:
"No, I have to get my parents' bones back!"
"Besides, this is my home!"
Ao Tian thought for a while, smiled at the green turtle, and said the last sentence.
"What's more, this used to be the dragon palace of the dragon clan. Even if it is now in ruins, outsiders cannot be allowed to occupy this place without the consent of the dragon clan!"
"I may be the last dragon in the world, so it's up to me to protect this place and maintain the dignity of our dragon clan!"
After finishing speaking, Ao Tian never looked back and swam straight towards the depths of the ruins.
It is true that he has never been very courageous, but he has never been a timid dragon.
When something really happened, he was still very willing to go out.
So he dared to rush across in front of the Dragon-Zhan Bridge.
Although there is help from Shu Guan, at least he must dare to do it himself first!
What's more, he was able to survive the thunderstorm three days ago by himself.
Ao Tian, who had experienced the thunder catastrophe and successfully overcome it, was at the peak of his self-confidence and courage.
So what if the other party really might be a water demon from the terrestrial fairyland?
This is the sea!
This is the Dragon Palace!
As a dragon, Ao Tian is fearless!
…
But not long after, when Ao Tian saw the big octopus deep in the ruins of Dragon Palace, his courage and self-confidence instantly dropped a lot.
The ruins of the Dragon Palace are very vast. After saying goodbye to the green turtle, Ao Tian swam dozens of miles ahead.
There are more and more collapsed palaces around, and the rare treasures scattered among the seaweed look even more precious.
It can be seen that the palace where he used to live with his parents was only the outer area of the East China Sea Dragon Palace, and the deeper it went, the more important people of the Dragon Clan lived.
Gradually, the flow of the surrounding deep sea water became weird and crazy.
Here we have reached the true deepest place in the Dragon Palace ruins.
In the deepest part of the ruins of the Dragon Palace, there are many strange, crazy, unknown, and extremely dangerous undercurrents.
When Ao Tian first came to the deepest part of the ruins of the Dragon Palace, his father brought him there. At that time, he was not able to come to this place alone.
Because those undercurrents are powerful, even aquatic creatures with the strength of fetal movement state, if they are not familiar with the environment here, once they are involved in those undercurrents, they will be swept away. And if you fall into these undercurrent whirlpools, If you are unable to escape, your life may be in danger.
Therefore, in the deepest part of the ruins of the Dragon Palace, no ordinary aquatic tribe existed before.
Ao Tian was swimming through the surging sea water at this time. It had not come back to the ruins of the Dragon Palace for five hundred years, and except for the time when his father took him deep here, he had only taken a look at the ruins. After entering a palace that did not allow descendants of the Dragon Clan to enter, he never went deep into this undercurrent area again.
Therefore, this place is also very unfamiliar to Ao Tian, and he cannot distinguish the direction of those undercurrents.
Those undercurrents seem to have no rules at all. They will appear next to you at some point, and disappear suddenly at some point. Then, in another direction next to your body, another undercurrent with powerful impact will appear out of thin air.
Ao Tian swam with difficulty in these undercurrents that appeared and disappeared out of thin air. He had gone through three thousand miles of river walking from Jingcheng to Shencheng, and swam day and night using the secret skills taught by his senior brother. The dragon body, which had been tempered for thousands of times and later experienced the baptism of thunder and lightning, was still shaken left and right by the impact of these undercurrents. From time to time, it would be pushed away from its original direction, and it would take considerable strength to break free.
No wonder the octopus monster caught in his claws wants to live in the palace outside instead of living with its brother. In this area, the octopus monster cannot enter or exit alone, or even Neither can survive.
Ao Tian, who had been here once, remembered that the palace standing in the deepest part of the ruins had always been surrounded by these weird and dangerous undercurrents.
Ao Tian swam cautiously in the undercurrent area for more than ten minutes. At a certain moment, he suddenly stopped and stared blankly ahead.
He finally came to the place where the palace in his memory was.
But he didn't see the palace that impressed him deeply, but only saw a "mountain".
The place where the palace should have stood originally was now a dark, towering "mountain".
Of course, this is just Ao Tian's feeling at first glance.
When he looked more carefully, he discovered that the "mountain" in the distance was not actually a mountain, but a huge octopus lying there quietly, with his eyes tightly closed above his head.
Under the huge body like a mountain, you can vaguely see the gorgeous crystal-carved flying beams and eaves.
That terrifyingly large octopus suddenly wrapped the entire palace under its body, surrounded by eight equally huge tentacles floating in the sea water.
Let's put it this way, compared with any tentacle, Ao Tian's body at this time is like the gap between a small earthworm and a big snake.
The most frightening thing is that the eight tentacles are floating and sinking in the sea water, swaying constantly, but in a light and leisurely way, it definitely does not seem to be shaken by the impact of the undercurrents all over the waters.
In other words, the undercurrents that made Ao Tian swim forward with difficulty just now had no impact at all on the eight tentacles.
Staring blankly at the shocking sight, looking at the really huge mountain-like octopus monster in the distance, Ao Tian swallowed his saliva, looked down at the octopus monster in his claws, and couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Are these two octopus monsters really brothers?
If they are brothers, why is the gap so big?
If I knew what kind of brother the octopus Claw had, I would never have been so rough with it not long ago.
The courage and confidence quickly dissipated in Ao Tian's heart.
He knew that he could never be a match for the octopus monster lying on the palace... He might not even be able to defeat one of its tentacles.
Ao Tian finally felt the fear in the green-haired turtle's mouth.
Just when he was hesitating whether to turn around and escape first, the big octopus monster in the distance suddenly slowly opened its eyes.
Those were really a pair of huge and terrifying eyes. When they opened them, it seemed like two scorching suns were rising from the depths of the sea.
Two extremely bright rays of light shot out from the octopus monster's eyes, shot through the dark sea water, and landed on Ao Tian.
The surrounding seawater suddenly began to vibrate violently, and it was a more powerful and violent vibration than the undercurrent.
A huge bubble came out of the big octopus monster's mouth, split open, and turned into a huge roar.
"Dragon!"
(End of chapter)
