Chapter 42: The Last Stone Steps
Lotte looked at the delicate turtle shell on his palm, and couldn't help but wonder if such a small turtle shell was a bit unreliable as a container, but when he put the turtle shell into the pool water, he couldn't help but be surprised.
The water of the pond is like a giant whirlpool attracted by the shell of the turtle, and after a while, the water returns to calm.
Lotte saw the extraordinaryness of the turtle shell, and exerted his arms to hold the turtle shell. Lotte felt that the turtle shell filled with water in the pool seemed to be a boulder, and if it wasn't for the success of refining in Death Canyon some time ago, he wasn't sure if he would be able to handle this small-looking turtle shell.
Lotte climbed up the stone steps to the top of the mountain step by step and saw a quaint square ding. Fang Ding was only half a human tall, and all kinds of complex runes were cast around the Ding, exuding an ancient aura. A round seed in the ding, only the size of a soybean, exudes the colors of gold, yellow, green, blue and red.
Lotte poured the pool water into the ding, and Fang Ding filled the pool with water. Lotte pierced his index finger and dripped the essence blood into the water, a golden rune on Fang Ding emitted a faint light, and the mysterious golden rune slowly rotated around Fang Ding, and the pool of water in the Ding instantly disappeared without a trace.
Lotte traveled back and forth between the top of the mountain and the pond, and Fang Ding's golden runes became brighter and brighter, and the speed of rotation became faster and faster. As time passed, Lotte felt that the turtle shell filled with water was getting heavier and heavier, and sweat was dripping down Lotte's forehead to the ground.
"Boy, you can't stop watering the seeds, otherwise you will lose all your efforts! I am optimistic about you, and I am optimistic that you will fail!" The little turtle said to Lotte gloating while seeing Lotte sweating profusely and catching fish in the pool.
When Lotte went back and forth more than 60 times, because of sweating and slippery hands, he accidentally dropped the turtle shell, and the pool water flowed clean all at once.
The lines on the turtle shell flashed, and an illusory turtle little head stretched out from the turtle shell, shouting: "Your uncle, you hurt me!"
Lotte helplessly looked at the little turtle who was eating the five-colored fish, this pit is not only unreliable, but even his own turtle shell has a virtue with it!
When Lotte refilled the pool and went up again, he found that the golden runes on Fang Ding had stopped rotating, and even the light had dimmed and returned to the same state. Lotte poured the pool water into it, and the golden runes were the same as the first time Lotte poured into the pool, emitting a faint light and slowly rotating around the ding.
Lotte sat on the ground with his buttocks, and the little turtle's crow's beak worked!
At the edge of the pool, Lotte snatched the five-colored fish from the little turtle's hand and said, "Senior turtle, I agreed to your request, didn't you tell me all about the level?"
The little turtle rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "How did Kaitian find such a stupid heir as you! If it's so easy, is it still called a breakthrough?"
"You ......" Lotte was a little speechless.
Le Xiaowu saw that Lotte was deflated, and he couldn't bear it, and said to the little turtle: "Brother, for the sake of your affection that you are 10,000 times more handsome than him, you can tell Brother Lotte!"
The little turtle stood on one paw, touched his head with one front paw, and said with a look of a jade tree facing the wind: "For the sake of Xiao Wu's face, I will tell you!"
Saying this, he suddenly turned his head and said to Le Xiaowu: "Brother Xiaowu, what do you think my handsomeness focuses on?"
"Brother, look at your eyes, how godly! Look at Brother Lotte's, how ugly!
"What about the rest?......
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Lotte looked at these two unreliable fire and turtles, one tried his best to tout, and the other accepted it with peace of mind, Lotte really wanted to strangle them.
The little turtle and the two said that they were tired, only to find that Lotte was looking at them bitterly and hatefully, and Le Xiaowu grilled the fish in a curt.
Only then did the little turtle say in a hoarse voice: "Don't think how wronged you are! I've been thinking for so many years, if that bastard can really meet a ten-vein inheritor, he will definitely not be able to pass my level before I die! Anyway, I swear in my heart that I only told the heir the steps to break through the level, and I didn't say how long it would take to tell it! If I tell you before I die, it won't be my violation!"
Lotte listened to the heart of the shock, ordinary people who can live this long-lived guy, how could Kaitian seniors arrange a pit goods here!
"If it weren't for Xiao Wu who moved me, I wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you!" After the little turtle finished speaking, he wiped the turtle shell in Lotte's hand with his little paws, and the illusory little turtle on the turtle shell appeared.
"You have to make a round trip before the shadow of Lord Turtle Wu douses all the lines on the turtle's shell with divine water. If you can't finish it within this time, all the previous watering will be cleared!" After saying this, the little turtle spat on Lotte's hand with the smell of fish.
"Every time I come down from the top of the mountain, rub the turtle shell with my saliva hand, and the shadow of the turtle comes out!"
Lotte carefully pondered and summarized the words of the little turtle, and basically sorted out the steps and requirements for breaking through.
The Lord Turtle is the name of the little turtle for himself, and the so-called divine water of the little turtle phantom on the turtle shell is actually the little turtle peeing along the lines on the turtle shell!
If you go back and forth every time, you can't complete it before the little turtle phantom is full of turtle patterns, and all the previous watering will be cleared.
Then the reasonable distribution of physical strength is the key to the success of the level, if the front speed is too fast, it will cause follow-up weakness.
Lotte did not rush to break through, but ate a few more five-colored fish to adjust his physical condition to the best, and then began the arduous journey of challenge.
When Lotte watered the seeds for the ninety-ninth time, the white runes on Fang Ding were shining and spun even faster, and suddenly the runes rushed out from Fang Ding and drilled into the seeds.
To Lotte's surprise, the seed sprouted! The golden color of the five elements emanated from the seed disappeared, and the first branch and leaf drawn from the seed shone with golden light, and the spirit fluttered.
It seems that the birth of each branch and leaf requires Lotte to water the pool water and essence blood ninety-nine times.
As Lotte goes back and forth again and again, the five elements of gold and yellow of earth have grown on the seeds, and the two-color leaves complement each other and are gorgeous.
There was still a problem with Coratian's pass, and when he was climbing the stone steps, because of the sweat soaked into his eyes, Lotte was accidentally mixed by the stone steps, and the pool was empty. Lotte hurriedly refilled the pool as fast as he could, and climbed the stone steps again.
When Lotte was approaching the top of the mountain, he heard the hateful voice of the tortoise's phantom:
"Fool! I'm done peeing! It's comfortable! Hahaha......"
Lotte had a fluke mentality in his heart, and rushed to Fang Ding's side, but his heart was cold.
The two branches and leaves that had been drawn out disappeared, and the color of the five elements wrapped around the seeds announced that Lotte's previous efforts were all cleared!
Lotte did not continue, but regained his strength by eating fish, thinking about the causes and solutions to failures, and imagining problems and solutions that might arise.
A few days later, the little turtle looked at Lotte who was eating the five-colored fish and said distressedly: "How many times have you failed?
"Thank you for your concern, I will definitely succeed!" Although Lotte has failed again and again, the devil's high-intensity physical pressure and overdraft have made Lotte's body stronger, and the five-colored fish subtly nourishes and improves his body, making Lotte feel that every time he fails to eat fish, his strength has greatly improved.
"I don't pity you! I pity my fish! Pity my little black brother!" The little turtle expressed disdain for Lotte's "self-inflicted amorousness".
In fact, the little turtle was shocked in his heart, Lotte's unhurried and impatient attitude, and his indomitable spirit made it look at this teenager with admiration.
A few days later, the little turtle looked at Lotte who had failed again, and felt compassion in his heart.
"Little Crow, how many times has your Lotte brother failed?" asked Little Cuckle.
"It seems that there have been dozens of times!" Le Xiaowu has also felt sorry for Lotte recently, and every time Lotte fails, he has to roast fresh five-color fish for Lotte to eat. Several times, he tried to follow Lotte to the top of the mountain, but he couldn't enter the mountain.
"Do you think your brother can succeed?"
"Surely! because he's Le Xiaowu's brother!"
"He doesn't see it!" The little turtle knows how difficult it can be to a seemingly simple level.
"Brother Xiaowu, let's make a bet! If he succeeds, I will give him my 10,000-year-old tortoiseshell of Lord Guwu, and if he fails, you will stay here with me!"
"Okay...... No, if I win, I won't do any good!"
"Then I'll add some more bets......"
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The fish in the pool were decreasing day by day, and the little turtle was so distressed that he squeaked and grinned, so he simply couldn't see it out of sight and was not bothered, and his eyes were closed, and he fell asleep.
Finally, when the fish in the pool can be counted in single digits, Lotte feels that his physical strength has made a major breakthrough, and now he doesn't use cultivation, he can blow up a monk of the ninth layer of body refining with one punch, and even a monk in the early stage of foundation building can wrench his wrist!
With the improvement of physical strength and the increasingly skilled watering process, Lotte finally saw the four leaves of gold, yellow, wood, and water. Lotte knows that the appearance of the last fire red leaf is the hardest, because the further you go, the more severe the physical exhaustion.
The ninety-eighth time he watered the fifth branch of the seed, Lotte felt heavy in his thighs, and every time he climbed a step, he had to grit his teeth, and finally the time to finish watering was almost overtime.
For the ninety-ninth time, Lotte's face was pale, and a large amount of essence and blood was lost, which made him a little dizzy, and he almost fainted several steps. His knees were bloody, the tips of his fingers were dripping and bleeding, and every step he climbed required all his strength!
There are two stone steps, but Lotte feels that he can't move a step, looking at the little turtle phantom urine turtle pattern is about to light up, Lotte bites the tip of his tongue to keep himself awake, gritted his teeth, and climbed a step, but was pressed by the turtle shell and knelt on the steps.
Looking at the radiant light in Fang Ding, which was close at hand, Lotte only felt that his chest was hot, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and the red blood sprayed into the pool water in the turtle shell, and the pool water turned red.
Looking at Fang Ding, Lotte's vision was a little blurred, but he still knelt stubbornly and moved towards the last stone step!