Under Bai Sheng's spell suppression, the Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint knew he could hardly break free. Immortal light surged across his body.
In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a colossal black tortoise, savage and majestic in appearance, strikingly similar to the legendary ancient immortal beast, the Black Tortoise.
Then he drew his head, limbs, tail, and everything else into his body, leaving only a sturdy, heavy tortoise shell outside, covered in mystical Dao patterns.
Whether in human form or black tortoise form, both were the Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint's true body, merely different shapes. Yet transforming into the black tortoise body greatly enhanced his defensive abilities and prevented Bai Sheng from killing him.
Just as the Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint had anticipated, Bai Sheng cast spell after spell, yet found it difficult to breach the shell. He merely intensified the Gui Realm's corrosion, making its aura of death and decay ever denser.
The tortoise shell's toughness surpassed all ordinary imagination.
Shen Mo tried wielding the Primordial Chaos Dao-Slaying Sword at full force. Even with a single slash, he failed to break through its defenses.
It had to be said that in this form, the Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint's defensive power was first-rate. Even the Gui Realm's corrosion upon him had become incomparably slow!
"Leave him here and let the Gui Realm's power wear him down bit by bit. Given one or two million years, it will eventually turn him into a Gui ghost."
Bai Sheng stopped casting spells, then brought over the entire "Nether Soil" and pressed it directly atop the black tortoise's back.
The Heaven-Bearing Demon Saint could carry tens of thousands of small worlds and immortal mountains, but he could not bear this expanse of "Nether Soil." Vast numbers of Dao patterns on his shell decayed and vanished, gradually