In cultivation, time flows unmarked. Five years passed in the blink of an eye.
In the Bamboo Sea beside the White Jade Tower, Genggeng had already fallen into a deep sleep, whimpering softly.
It hugged its limbs tightly, a circle of white light appearing on its body—the external sign of its advancement.
At almost the same moment, the thousand-year-old turtle near the Lake Heart Island sank to the bottom of the lake and didn't show itself for several days.
Zhou Suqing dove to the bottom of the lake to check and discovered that the old turtle's back had turned completely golden. Its breathing was nearly nonexistent—or rather, it had slowed to one exhale every nearly half an hour.
It, too, had entered the final stage of its promotion as a Spirit Beast. Once it crossed this threshold, it would awaken the faint Dragon Race bloodline within its body and become a Tier Three Dragon Turtle.
From then on, it would have a long lifespan and could become the overlord of a region.
