# 1200
Chapter 1201: Divine Turtle
Above the Indian Ocean, a figure riding clouds howled through the air.
Lin Qiye recalled the deal with Number 27 while speeding forward with [Somersault Cloud].
Two hours earlier, when Lin Qiye had spoken the name of the trickster god Loki, Number 27 hadn't asked a single question—just nodded silently and vanished without a trace.
His decisiveness had even made Lin Qiye start to wonder if he'd encountered a scammer.
After all, Lin Qiye had clashed with Loki several times already, and he knew exactly how troublesome Loki could be.
In terms of pure combat power, Loki might not be among the top Chief Gods, but when it came to escaping and scheming, almost no one could match him.
Even if Number 27 truly possessed the power to slay a Chief God-level being, killing Loki wouldn't be so simple... However, as long as Number 27 could cause some trouble for Loki, that would be good enough.
At this moment, Lin Qiye was approaching the sea area marked on Number 22's map. He gathered his scattered thoughts and focused his attention on finding the King's Treasury.
He extended his spiritual power to its maximum range and searched the sea area from above, inch by inch.
According to Number 22, the King's Treasury lay on the back of the divine turtle. If that were true, then this turtle's size would be absolutely massive—something that could be easily identified with the naked eye.
More than ten minutes later, Lin Qiye seemed to sense something and stopped above a giant island.
Although this strait had many islands, most were barren due to the corrosive mist, with only this particular island having some areas covered in deep cyan grass.
Lin Qiye dismissed [Somersault Cloud] and descended to the top of a towering gray-brown mountain peak, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings.
Among the giant rocks at the summit, there was almost no sign of life—only the decayed remnants of seedlings. Yet in the basin at the base of the distant mountains, lush grass grew abundantly.
From high above, this island appeared to be covered in deep cyan spots, and the closer to the ground, the more vibrant the life.
Lin Qiye's figure flickered and arrived at a patch of deep cyan green land. He reached out and snapped off a few blades of grass, examining them closely before his eyes.
"So this is the place." Lin Qiye murmured to himself. "This turtle... is indeed terrifyingly large."
Under the erosion of the mist, ordinary plants couldn't possibly grow, yet this island's surface had a small amount of vegetation, and the closer to the ground, the more vigorously they grew.
This indicated that beneath this island, some existence was emitting extremely robust vitality, nourishing these plants to grow.
Based on the coverage area of the vegetation, this entire island was likely part of the divine turtle's body.
"Where's the entrance..."
Standing on the peak, Lin Qiye looked around in confusion. After a moment's hesitation, his figure leapt toward one of the deep, sunken patches of verdant green land.
Buzz buzz buzz—!!
The moment his feet touched the green land, the earth beneath him began to shake violently!
Vine after vine of green tendrils burst from the ground like swimming serpents, extending hundreds of meters into the sky in an instant, then turning back toward Lin Qiye with astonishing speed.
These whipping vines carried terrifying kinetic energy. One tendril grazed a gray-brown mountain peak and instantly cleaved it in two, sending massive rock fragments flying through the air as countless vine afterimages crashed down.
Lin Qiye's pupils constricted slightly.
His form dissolved into a streak of night, darting rapidly between the vines, but soon, his expression turned grim.
They were too fast—fast to the point where the naked eye couldn't perceive their existence at all. All he could hear was the continuous, piercing sonic booms echoing through the air. Even though his spiritual power could vaguely sense their trajectories, his physical speed simply couldn't keep up with the rhythm of their strikes.
His eyes narrowed, and amid the gaps between several vines, he swiftly drew the [White Slash] at his waist!
His figure instantly vanished into nothingness.
In the black-and-white world, a dozen vines passed through Lin Qiye's body as if he weren't there, crashing into the earth and lacerating the thick soil layer until it was riddled with scars.
As the soil layer disappeared, a patch of jet-brown turtle shell was faintly visible, exposed to the air.
This shell was impossibly thick, its surface emanating a faint dark glow. The vines extended from the gaps between the shell plates. They violently crushed peak after peak, crashing down onto the shell's surface yet leaving no marks whatsoever.
Lin Qiye concealed himself in the void, gazing down at this scene. Just as he was about to fly through the vine blockade and descend again, a low humming sound echoed up from beneath the sea.
Moo—!!
The moment this sound appeared, the surging waves centered on the island rippled outward with terrifying speed!
Directly in front of the island, the seawater churned violently. A gymnasium-sized black head slowly emerged from the surface.
A幽绿色的眼球滚过苍白的眼白，瞬间锁定了半空中藏身虚无的Lin Qiye。
A eerie green eyeball rolled across the pale white of its eye, instantly locking onto Lin Qiye, who was concealed in the void in mid-air.
At the same time, the vines that had lost their target seemed to catch a scent of something and began rapidly closing in on Lin Qiye's location in the void.
Lin Qiye gripped the [White Slash], and his heart sank.
This divine turtle's eyes could actually see through his position?
Lin Qiye didn't have time to think further. His form emerged from the void, took a deep breath, and repeatedly activated [Night's Twinkle] to slash through the dense vine swarm, forcing his way out!
In just three seconds, Lin Qiye had left nine afterimages of night across the sky and flashed out of the vine-covered area, standing in the high altitude beneath the clouds.
Lin Qiye looked down at the terrifying vine giant turtle, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
Although his current spiritual power was enough to sustain this many uses of [Night's Twinkle], this wasn't a true spatial ability—using it with such short intervals would still impose tremendous strain on his spirit.
But he had no other choice.
If he had been even a moment slower, he would have been struck from the sky to the ground by the vines. While that single blow might not have killed him, the hundreds of other vines wouldn't give him a chance to catch his breath. Eventually, they would have pummeled him into meat paste.
Fortunately, after Lin Qiye escaped the vine range, the divine turtle gave up the pursuit and quietly sank beneath the sea surface, as if the world-shattering events from before had never happened.
"No wonder Number 22 said that no one below the god level could defeat this divine turtle..." Lin Qiye let out a long sigh.
Brute force was definitely not an option, and infiltrating while incorporeal would also be detected... If that was the case, he'd have to find another way.
After a moment of contemplation, Lin Qiye dove his consciousness into the Asylum of the Gods within his mind.