Today's second update: Chapter 3070! 2/4!
Just as the four avatars remained deadlocked and the battle seemed about to descend into a stalemate, Xuan Bai and Xuan Liao exchanged a glance. A flash of resolve and blazing fervor passed through both their eyes!
It was a madness that cast aside life, death, and the future, all for a single moment of brilliance!
"An old steed may be stabled, yet its ambition lies a thousand miles away!" Xuan Bai suddenly chanted, his voice shaking the surroundings. Within his enormous Ice Soul Avatar, an invisible heartbeat seemed to thunder. An aura far older, more weathered, and yet more violent than before began to awaken and surge forth!
"A hero in his twilight years still has an unyielding heart!" Xuan Liao continued. Countless intricate, ancient dark-gold patterns suddenly lit up across his massive Earth Avatar, like inscriptions upon a tortoise shell that had borne the passage of ten thousand years, now activated in an instant!
Those patterns frantically drew upon their masters' Life Force, converting it into an unimaginably vast power!
The divine tortoise may live long, but its end will come!
At this moment, they resolutely unleashed the Forbidden Secret Art Xu Kun had taught them—not merely burning their bloodline and origin, but directly sacrificing the incomparably long lifespan that belonged to the Black Tortoise Race!
Ten thousand years of lifespan in exchange for temporary invincibility!
Ode to the Tortoise—the name of this technique came from that poem.
Its true meaning was not to lament that all life must eventually end, but to declare that before life reached its final moment, one could still erupt with a dazzling radiance capable of illuminating the river of stars!
For the long-lived Black Tortoise Race, this technique was the cruelest and most resolute method