As his comprehension deepened, Xiao Chen's resonance with the Mysterious Armor Divine Tortoise Art grew stronger and stronger.
Vaguely, Xiao Chen saw a terrifying giant tortoise stretched across the high heavens, its body like a divine palace, brilliant as the Blue Moon, wreathed in waves, its vitality and blood like mountains. It stood upon the tides and howled at the sky.
It was battling a god. Across the universe lay mountains of corpses and seas of blood, falling stars, the wails of living beings—countless phenomena endlessly arising and perishing, like ten thousand ghosts encircling them, shaking heaven and earth.
The god stood high above, robes fluttering in the wind, golden light around its body like an ocean. Its entire form was obscured by divine radiance, its features unseen. Only those divine eyes, dazzling as starlight, burned brilliantly like dancing Spiritual Fire—bleak, cold, and desolate. One glance was enough to terrify all living beings.
The god struck again and again. Clouds of light condensed from divine radiance crashed down without end, twisting and shattering the void. All living beings trembled in fear, and all things were annihilated.
The giant tortoise roared as runes surged. Under immense pressure, it unleashed the Black Tortoise Divine Armor Art. Two black tortoise shells of unknown length, gleaming with splendid dark light, appeared above and below, covering the giant tortoise's entire body. Impregnable as a fortress of gold and iron, they firmly repelled the divine clouds filling the sky. Amid the dazzling explosion of light, the giant tortoise remained utterly unscathed!
"To withstand a god's killing blows—it has such terrifying defensive power!" Xiao Chen exclaimed.
If this miraculous art were cultivated to its pinnacle, its Divine Might would be unmatched beneath heaven. It could block nearly all attacks in the world.
The power of offense could