"This is a distress signal sent by the Lotus Fairy Valley. There is no need to worry about Xue Sha. You've beaten him once, you'll just beat him again"
Sheng Tian nodded, "Alright"
With a wave of his sleeve, Long Chen killed the few remaining Sea Beasts with flying swords. If Sheng Tian recalled correctly, this technique was the Phantom Sword Control, one of the Spirit ranked techniques of the Sky Sword Sect.
"Lets go"
"Wait!"
Long Chen paused as Sheng Tian took out a large number of healing pills and distributed them amongst the disciples. A single one of the pills were able to heal any of their injuries and replenish their energy centers.
"Remember, only take them if you are in life threatening danger," Sheng Tian said.
The disciples were ever more grateful to Sheng Tian and naturally nodded.
Long Chen nodded at Sheng Tian's thinking. He took another glance at the jade slip to confirm the direction.
"We'll head around 5 miles east"
Whoosh!
With that, they tarried no longer. Since Yue Ling'er had sent out a distress signal, it was likely that she and her disciples were not having an easy time.
After several minutes of flying, they heard fighting in the distance and flew faster.
Over at the battlefield, Yue Ling'er was fighting off 2 people with red turtle shells on their backs. Her disciples were doing their best to fend off 2 dozen people with turtle shells, but it was obvious that they were toying with their prey.
"Hehehehe!"
One of the sea beasts that was fighting Yue Ling'er was constantly laughing in an obnoxious manner.
"What's the matter, beauty? Are your allies not coming as you had hoped? Hehe, no need to worry, me and my brother can take good care of you!"
Yue Ling'er snorted, "A pig like you? In your dreams!"
That enraged both sea beasts as their faces contorted.
The other turtle spoke, "Humph! You ungrateful bitch! Seems like we need to educate you the hard way!"
"Really?"
Bang! Crack!
"Argh!!"
The sea beast watched as his brother was kicked away by a young man. Shell fragments flew down into the ocean and the man shot out like a cannonball.
"Brother!"
He turned to the young man with killing intent in his eyes, "I'll kill you!"
The young man snorted, "We'll see if you have the capabilities"
"Sheng Tian!"
Yue Ling'er flew to the young man's side. The sea beast could see that a large group of people were helping the Lotus Fairy Valley Disciples and his people were slowly being killed.
"Hmm"
He saw an older man fly over while stroking his beard, "I didn't know that the Yang Turtle Race also decided to join the war"
At this moment, the sea beast that Sheng Tian had kicked away flew back. It was obvious that he was heavily injured as parts of his shell were missing.
"You fucker! I'll- Mph!"
His brother shut his mouth with his hand. Then he began whispering something in his ear. After a minute, the injured Yang Turtle calmed down significantly.
They turned to Sheng Tian and the others, "I think we'll only suffer if we fight, so how about we strike a deal?"
Just as Long Chen was about to say something, Sheng Tian dashed forward like a phantom and struck the already injured sea beast.
Swish!
"Brother!"
Without being able to scream, his body and head fell down into the ocean, but not before Sheng Tian claimed his spatial ring.
"You!! Hand over the spatial ring!"
"Heavenly Asura Sword Slash!"
Without warning, a huge red and blue sword appeared and struck down the man. However, he wasn't about to go down so easily and roared.
A scorching aura burst out of his body as the man started to grow larger. Within moments, a giant horned turtle with a red shell looked at Sheng Tian.
Sheng Tian sneered, "A bigger body means a bigger target"
Suddenly, red symbols appeared in the air around the giant turtle's horn.
Long Chen shrunk back, "Watch out! He's trying to activate his bloodline technique!"
Sheng Tian frowned and dragonified himself. Then he pointed his sword at the sky.
"Sky Sword River!"
Hundreds of swords appeared in the sky and rained down like meteors. Long Chen and Yue Ling'er were gathering their qi when Sheng Tian put up his hand. This was his fight.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Smoke billowed and covered the giant turtle's head. Sheng Tian floated in the sky for a moment before twisting his body. A red pillar of energy had shot out of the smoke and nearly struck Sheng Tian.
Sheng Tian sighed as the turtle tried to fight back and looked down with anger, "Suppress!"
A huge amount of draconic aura flowed out of Sheng Tian's body like a never ending river. Everyone there shivered as they felt the urge to kneel under such pressure.
The giant turtle was no exception, trembling in fear and sending waves in all directions.
Then, with one simple command, the turtle exploded.
"Die"
BOOM!
Yue Ling'er, Long Chen, and all their disciples were sent flying back as the turtle self detonated. Chunks of flesh flew out and painted the waters red.
Seeing this, Sheng Tian finally retracted his aura. The various beasts in the water finally had the guts to come out and started to fight over the nutritious flesh of the turtle.
He then regrouped with the others.
Long Chen and Yue Ling'er stabilized themselves and their disciples
"You could have done that in a much cleaner way," complained Yue Ling'er. She was now trying to get the seawater off her hair and dress.
"Or much earlier. That would have helped," commented Long Chen.
"Well... I just wanted to test my strength"
"Why did you decide to kill them instantly though?" Long Chen asked.
"Sheng Tian!"
Xiao Hua flew over and interrupted Long Chen, followed by Bing Xue.
She was as enthusiastic as ever and was even bold enough to hold Sheng Tian's hand. Bing Xue on the other hand, was respectful and cold, perhaps colder than before.
Sheng Tian frowned, sensing the slightly chaotic aura in Bing Xue's Dantian, "Did something go wrong when you tried to refine the Ice Core Molting Pill?"
Bing Xue sighed, "Yes, unfortunately"