Breaking the Array, Destroying the Islands, Fishing in Troubled Waters

"So this is a Ringed Turtle?"

In an obscure underground cave dwelling, Luo Chen gazed curiously at the creature sprawled before him.

It had a turtle's body and a snake's head, with a long, slender neck.

When he stimulated it with Mana, the beast was forced to extend its neck. It was so long it could coil all the way around its body.

"Is it a turtle or a giant snake?"

Luo Chen was surprised. To his eyes, the Ringed Turtle even bore a faint resemblance to Xuanwu, the divine beast of myth.

The difference was that the legendary Xuanwu was a black serpent coiled around a tortoise, the two existing together.

This Ringed Turtle had a turtle's body and a snake's head, making it a rather strange mishmash.

Black King, who had shrunk himself down, spoke from beside him. "Master, low-order Ringed Turtles all look like this. They only change once they reach Tier 3."

"Oh? They change after reaching Tier 3?" Luo Chen's interest was piqued.

The Ringed Turtle he had was a Tier 1 beast he had secretly caught recently. Its rank was low, and it had little intelligence.

He had expected differences in cultivation level within a Demon Beast clan, but not a further transformation.

Black King flicked out his forked tongue and answered, "Unlike ordinary Demon Beasts with mixed bloodlines, Ringed Turtles are Great Demons whose ancestry can be traced. According to the elders of my Black Scale Python Clan, they carry the bloodlines of both the Black Tortoise and the Cliff Serpent. Though those bloodlines are thin, they're still far stronger than those of ordinary Demon Race like us."

"As their cultivation rises, their Demon Power tempers their bloodlines. Gradually, they refine one bloodline to its purest state and draw closer to the form