Li Yun brought his sword down, and the massive boulder shattered, instantly turning into hundreds, even thousands, of fragments scattered across the ground.
The thunderous crash kicked up a cloud of dust.
Yet Li Yun stared unblinkingly beneath the dust.
Damn!
A turtle appeared before him, snow-white from head to toe, with no flesh or blood anywhere on its body—only stone.
It was clearly a turtle made entirely of stone, even the shell on its back jagged with strange rocks.
If it had been a stone carving, then without question it would have been a perfect work of art worthy of endless admiration. But the problem was, this thing was actually alive!
After the boulder shattered and the Stone Turtle appeared,
it slowly turned its seemingly stiff neck. Its two round stone eyes also began to move, gradually brightening.
Li Yun, who was exceptionally sensitive to Life Origin, could also sense a faint vitality reviving within the Stone Turtle.
Then it turned its head, slowly twisted its body around, opened its mouth at Li Yun, and let out a series of cooing cries.
Damn!
Li Yun understood at once.
"You... you're actually a spirit beast?"
Unfortunately,
he still could not communicate with the Stone Turtle.
He had no idea what it was cooing about.
But that did not stump him.
His eyes shifted, and he released Heipi and Xiao Qing, who had been frolicking inside the Heavenly Origin Ring.
They were spirit beasts too.
He might not have been able to communicate with the Stone Turtle, but Heipi and Xiao Qing certainly could. They were of the same kind, after all, and through either Heipi or Xiao Qing, he would be able to fully understand what the Stone Turtle meant.
Sure enough,
the two little translators, Heipi and Xiao Qing,