Chapter 25: Turtle Slaying Squad

The Great Water Turtle was lurking in the stream east of the village, occasionally poking its head out with its bean-sized eyes to scan the surroundings.

As player levels increased, more and more people set their sights on the Great Water Turtle, though ordinary, scattered players were just wasting their efforts—it was common for them to be sprayed to death by water jets in just a few bursts.

“Someone’s already attacking the Great Water Turtle.”

By the time Ye Rong and his party of six arrived at the eastern stream, a group of players was already dealing with the Great Water Turtle. There were nine of them, the maximum number allowed in a standard party formation.

“A ragtag bunch—they’ll be wiped out by the Great Water Turtle within five minutes!”

Blue Chariot spoke with absolute confidence, not taking this group of players seriously at all.

The Great Water Turtle’s attacks were very simple: just charging, biting, and water jets, but ordinary players couldn’t withstand such damage at all.

Just as Blue Chariot had predicted, one of the players probably ran out of Blood Restoration Pills. After being hit by a water jet, he weakly waved his arms twice before turning into a beam of white light and vanishing. With one player gone, the team’s performance became even worse, and soon, each member of the squad lost their lives and respawned.

“It’s our turn now!”

Assigned the fourth position, Young Master Wei had been feeling resentful for a long time after being suppressed by Blue Chariot. As soon as he stepped up, he waved his white jade folding fan, and three gentle breezes brushed past, dealing less than 100 points of damage to the Great Water Turtle.

The Willow Breeze spell was most effective against large groups of monsters, as all monsters along the path of the three soft breezes would suffer varying degrees of damage. But with only the Great Water Turtle alone, its effectiveness was extremely limited, so it wasn’t unfair to assign him the fourth position.

“Stick to the plan!”

Blue Chariot shouted loudly, then stepped forward and swung his sword at the Great Water Turtle.

Misty Waters raised her jade-like hand, and the Butterfly Shadow Sword shot out from her sleeve, transforming into a colorful, mottled sword light. With a single strike, she dealt 130 to 140 points of damage to the Great Water Turtle’s thick shell. This was just a casual ordinary attack, without the damage bonus from learning Sword Art Forms or Sword Flight—it showed just how powerful a Third-Rank Flying Sword was.

Ethereal Green Robe and Blood Colored Poppy also used their own methods, fiercely surrounding the Great Water Turtle and beating it, causing over a dozen bursts of blood to appear on its body as damage numbers frequently rose.

Ye Rong had already activated the Black Dog Nail earlier, but it just made a ding sound and returned without success, unable to penetrate the Great Water Turtle’s shell.

“Damn, that shell is tough!”

Ye Rong was startled, then activated the Black Dog Nail again, this time aiming at the soft spot on the Great Water Turtle’s head. It worked immediately, and successive bursts of blood appeared, dealing consistent damage.

All six were top-tier experts and elite players, and their coordination, positioning, and movements were flawless. The target’s life points slowly but steadily decreased. When the Great Water Turtle’s health dropped to half, a misty water vapor gushed out from its limbs, forming a dense fog that enveloped it completely.

+100, +100, +100—the health recovery rate of once every half-second caused the Great Water Turtle’s Qi and Blood to rise chunk by chunk. In the blink of an eye, it had regained a small portion of its health, making every member of the Turtle Slaying Squad feel somewhat discouraged, as if they had thrown their full strength into a cotton ball with no effect.

Fortunately, everyone was familiar with this shameless spell of the Great Water Turtle and had prepared for it, so they quickly regained their fighting spirit.

“Green Robe, summon the Green Bird!”

Ethereal Green Robe’s expression turned serious. He took a step back, formed hand seals with his hands, and murmured incantations:

“I wish to befriend the Green Bird, brushing my sleeves to dwell by the riverbank.”

A few inches of green light leaped from his green magic robe, dancing up and down, accompanied by the clear, bell-like sound of birdsong. A Green Bird, half the size of a person, materialized out of thin air. With a light cry, it spread its wings and pounced toward the Great Water Turtle.

“Use all your methods—don’t give the Great Water Turtle a chance to cool down and use its healing spell again!”

Blue Chariot reminded everyone while attacking with green light arrows from his Green Wood Token.

Their battle plan was set: use ordinary attacks to deplete the Great Water Turtle’s first water mist spell, then go all out with a fierce assault to finish it off in the shortest possible time.

Blood Colored Poppy suddenly turned around, holding a silver bell and shaking it rhythmically. A strand of purplish-red light rippled out from him in all directions, dyeing each member of the Turtle Slaying Squad with a layer of indigo-purple.

System Notification: You are bathed in the Taiqing Purple Sunlight. Health Points and True Qi recovery speed increased by 300%. Attack power increased by 20%. Duration: five minutes.

Including Ye Rong, everyone felt a warm sensation and received this system notification. Overjoyed, they quickened their actions.

Without hesitation, they used all their Magic Treasures and attached spells, smashing cracks into the Great Water Turtle’s thick shell until bright red blood dyed the entire stream crimson.

As the colorful, mottled sword light controlled by Misty Waters delivered the final strike, the Great Water Turtle shattered into pieces, its last bit of health gone. The Great Water Turtle’s massive body was left stranded on the pebbles by the stream, revealing a flickering green light.

“Great! Great! Great! I’ve completed my mission. Thank you all for your help!”

Blue Chariot was ecstatic, unable to contain his excitement. He laughed heartily.

“Let’s see what the Great Water Turtle dropped.”

Blue Chariot stepped forward and picked out the green light. It was a slender Flying Sword, entirely green, and he set its properties to be visible.

Green Water Sword, Second-Rank Immortal Weapon. Resembling a curve of green waves, vast and misty. Required Level: 15. Attack Power: 52–60. Flight Speed: 65–80. Attack Speed: 60–68. 20% chance to trap the opponent in the Green Wave Pond, slowing their movement and reducing their movement speed and attack speed by 20%.

“A Second-Rank Flying Sword, not bad!”

Blue Chariot nodded calmly. Although the Flying Sword in his hand was poor, he was about to become a Third-Generation Disciple of Emei, so he naturally didn’t have much interest in a Second-Rank Flying Sword.

Although the Drunken Taoist was close to being Cannon Fodder among the second-generation disciples of Emei, his own strength was worlds apart from the Three Immortals and Two Elders, he was still a second-generation disciple, and that seniority was set in stone.

Xuan Yuan Tianxia, the first player in all of Far Shore to become a Sect disciple and now immensely prestigious, had only been accepted under the third-generation disciple Zhu Ge Jingwo. In terms of seniority, he would have to address Blue Chariot as Martial Uncle.

However, Zhu Ge Jingwo had an extremely wide circle of friends and was considered the top figure among third-generation disciples, so his status was different and not comparable to that of an ordinary third-generation disciple’s follower.

Once accepted under the Drunken Taoist, Blue Chariot could expect to be rewarded with Fourth or Fifth Tier Flying Swords eventually, so he had no reason to covet a sword like the Green Water Sword.

As for Ye Rong and Misty Waters, they already had better Flying Swords of their own, so they naturally had no interest in the Green Water Sword either. Only Blood Colored Poppy seemed to show a flicker of interest.