Fierce Battle!

There were no meteors in this stretch of starry sky. Sunlight streamed through the gaps in a distant asteroid belt, cutting across the void like tangible ribbons beneath the dark heavens.

Under those rays, an enormous head over a hundred zhang wide was especially eye-catching. It looked like a turtle's head. The crisscrossing wrinkles on its skin resembled mountain ranges, while beneath its heavy lids, its eyes had already turned white. There were rending marks around its neck, as though it had been forcibly torn from its body by tremendous strength.

Farther away lay a turtle's body over a thousand zhang long. Its four limbs ended in claws, like pillars holding up Heaven and Earth, and continuous mountain ranges rose from its back. Every mountain peak radiated a heavy Earth Vein aura. Yet those auras were rapidly collapsing at this moment, turning into pale yellow powder beneath the sunlight as they dispersed, like golden dust.

At the sight of the great tortoise, Wang Ping first thought of the Earth Tortoise among the Five Elements spiritual bodies. Legend said that he was the original form of the Five Elements life created by a Saint, while to cultivators, he was the Earth Spirit cultivated within the bodies of Fourth Realm Earth Vein cultivators. Wang Ping guessed that this was most likely the Earth Spirit within Lord Liuyun.

As Wang Ping rapidly approached, he clearly sensed that the giant tortoise indeed carried Lord Liuyun's aura. It was simply exceedingly faint now, like the last guttering candle flame in a violent wind.

It floated quietly beneath the starry sky, looking desolate and lonely. The impact on Wang Ping's consciousness was immense, making him feel as though he were in a dream.

The touch, both illusory and real, made him instinctively look toward that unfamiliar