No one could give him an answer to this question.

Just like the kid said, he still hasn't reached a high enough standing, and he can't escape the chessboard. He will forever be just a piece in the game.

Therefore, he must focus entirely on cultivation from now on.

The 'great chaos approaching' mentioned by the kid also stirred a sense of fear and unease in his heart, for the kid had wielded the Reincarnation Ring for many years and must have glimpsed some truths about the distant future through it.

After all, the Reincarnation Ring is a Law Treasure, closely linked to the legendary "Reincarnation Law" and "Path of Reincarnation," so there is some truth to what the kid said.

Although he doesn't know what the "great chaos" is, knowing it's nothing good is enough. It could be a great war sweeping across All Heavens and Myriad Realms.

So, before that great war arrives, increase strength as much as possible.

Suddenly, his figure disappeared from the spot. He was preparing to go into seclusion in a forbidden place he had been hesitant about. At his level, simple meditation can't increase his power. He must take the initiative to challenge and seek opportunities to break through the bottleneck.

......

"Why does it seem like there are suddenly a lot more stranded fish recently?"

Su Mu walked along the riverbank. Every few steps, he saw a sizable fish struggling and rolling on the shore.

[Favor Points +50]

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However, for Su Mu, this was a good thing. The more stranded fish there were, the more Favor Points he gained by sending them back into the river.

Moreover, the recently stranded fish were generally quite large. Saving these larger fish also yielded more Favor Points.

He had only been out for the morning, and he'd already accumulated two thousand Favor Points, feeling quite happy.

By the end of the day, it wouldn't be surprising if he earned four or five thousand. If he could earn like this every day and perhaps deal with disturbances from the Cross River Man occasionally, earning twenty thousand Favor Points in a month would be entirely possible!

Walking on, Su Mu came to a low-lying riverbank, where he saw forty or fifty stranded big fish all at once!

To those who fish, this visual impact is simply overwhelming.

Su Mu rolled up his sleeves, transforming into a beacon of justice, grabbing two fish in each hand and tossing them back into the river.

Occasionally, he even found a Treasure Fish, but Su Mu wasn't interested in these lower-grade Treasure Fish. It was better to release them directly into the water to gain even more Favor Points.

Moreover, his water cellar at home still contained many top-grade Treasure Fish, so these small calamaris-type Treasure Fish were immediately released.

The system broadcast of increasing Favor Points constantly echoed in his mind like a broken record.

Within five minutes, he had thrown all the stranded fish back into the water, earning five thousand Favor Points in those few minutes. Adding the two thousand Favor Points from the morning, he had seven thousand points for the day!

It seemed earning over ten thousand today was quite hopeful.

Done!

Su Mu dusted off his hands and looked at the clean riverbank with satisfaction.

With a whole afternoon ahead, he decided to strike while the iron was hot, continue patrolling, and keep up the effort.

Walking along, he noticed ripples spreading in the waters by the riverbank ahead.

Su Mu walked toward the ripples and noticed something seemed entangled in the weeds, reaching out and feeling a hard object.

Once he grasped it, he pulled it out of the water and found it was a turtle, quite large, and requiring him to hold it by the tail as one hand wasn't enough.

However, Su Mu felt that this turtle seemed quite familiar.

Knowing that in the past few years, Su Mu had saved thousands of turtles, if one seemed familiar, it might have some special history?

Looking closely, he noticed a thumb-sized turtle pattern resembling a Tai Chi Diagram on the turtle's shell. Seeing this pattern, Su Mu's eyes lit up as he remembered.

He recalls that when he first crossed over to this river, he saved a stranded Little Turtle.

It wasn't the pattern on its shell that left an impression but its stubborn and goofy personality!

He remembered he had thrown it back into the water three or four times before it finally stayed down, though it crawled back up after a while.

Today, to his surprise, he saw this stubborn creature again two years later.

"Meeting me is your good fortune."

Su Mu spoke to the turtle in his hand.

Thankfully, it encountered him. Otherwise, being entangled in the weeds and causing such a commotion could easily lead to it being swallowed by a big fish in the river.

But what surprised Su Mu was that in just two years, this Little Turtle had grown so large, changing tremendously.

Moreover, Su Mu could sense that this turtle's aura was different compared to two years ago. It had undergone a complete transformation.

Amazing, in just two years, you've gone from an ordinary Little Turtle to a Treasure Turtle!

Su Mu could immediately tell it was no longer ordinary.

Furthermore, its aura was much stronger than some of the better Treasure Fish, and just then, Su Mu's talent-appreciation sense was piqued.

Though stubborn, this turtle's growth rate is impressive, with immense potential.

And it shares a significant bond with me. How about making a contract?

After all, he hadn't contracted any other Spirit Beasts in the past two years, and now he prioritized potential in contracting Spirit Beasts.

Because if the potential were too poor, feeding it Favor Points would not yield much effect and would be a waste.

Xiao Si, with unparalleled talent and invincible fortune, although temporarily weaker than the first, second, and third ranked, it wasn't too far behind. Xiao Si had only begun development later, with impressively fast progress.

After thinking for a moment, Su Mu made his decision.

"Are you willing to follow me?"

Before forming a contract, Su Mu first asked the other party's willingness, as forceful contracts and voluntary ones have different effects, and Su Mu preferred the companion truly wanting to follow him.

Upon hearing Su Mu's question, the turtle blanked for a second and then nodded without hesitation.

It had been waiting for this day and this question for a long, long time...

It had staked everything, daring to traverse temporal disturbances, almost losing its life, finally catching the man's attention.

"Would you like to spend five hundred Favor Points to contract with the 'Profound Celestial Turtle'?"

As Su Mu set his mind, a white light enveloped the turtle.

The next moment, an unseen mental tether connected the man and the turtle,

After successfully contracting, Su Mu let the turtle down.

The turtle then opened its mouth and spat something out.

This was its greeting gift, something it had prepared for this day and this moment for a long, long time...

Over the years, to protect this item, it had faced several deadly perils, hunted by countless mighty beings for a long, long time...

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