Giant Turtle's True Form, Daluo Hard to Kill?

The phantom of the Northern Abyss Sea roared behind him.

In Xuanming's abruptly constricted pupils and Styx's disbelieving gaze, Guiyuan's form began a terrifying expansion and elongation!

The turtle shell was vast and desolate, its patterns like dragons, as if bearing the ancient continent of the Primordial World.

Its four limbs stood like pillars propping up the heavens, rooted in the void; its head rose high, eyes indifferent, looking down upon the Taowu and Xuanming, who were like hills below.

A colossal true form of a giant turtle, vast enough to blot out half the sky, descended fiercely above Changbai Mountain!

Its size was so immense, its momentum so heavy, that even the raging roar of the Taowu King faltered for a moment!

Both Styx and Xuanming's hearts trembled.

They had never imagined that Guiyuan's true form could reach such a terrifying magnitude!

Yet, what caught them—and Styx—even more off guard was still to come!

"Eight Gods Return to the Ultimate!"

Guiyuan's voice, like a great bell or giant drum, resounded through heaven and earth.

Hum! Hum! Hum!...

In an instant, the void quaked, and divine light exploded in flashes!

One, two, three... a full eight giant turtle true forms, identical to Guiyuan's original body and equally vast and boundless, materialized out of thin air!

Nine heaven-supporting giant turtles, like nine divine mountains descending from the ancient era, surrounded the Taowu King at the center!

The sight was enough to shatter the mind of any onlooker!

"Die!"

The nine Guiyuans shouted in unison, their voices layered and blasted forth with the Mantra Art, like nine heavenly thunderclaps detonating at once!

The next moment.

Nine giant claws, as if they could cover the firmament.

Tearing through the chaotic Hundun currents, carrying the purest and most savage power, they slammed down from all directions toward the Taowu King at the core!

Before the claws even struck, the wind pressure, condensed to its extreme, had already crushed the ground below, sinking it several zhang!

The Taowu sensed a fatal crisis and let out an unwilling roar.

Forcibly squeezing the last of its inner essence, the chaotic ripples of the Chaos Great Dao around it surged violently once more!

"Roar—!!!"

It strained with everything, once again stirring that trace of Daluo characteristic!

The obscure power of time rippled, attempting to scatter and stagger the nine world-destroying attacks!

"Boom—!!!"

The nine claws struck, colliding fiercely with that forcibly condensed Daluo characteristic!

Space shattered like a mirror, inch by inch, revealing the pitch-black void beyond.

A chaotic storm swept outward like a tsunami, leveling the distant mountain ranges!

The Taowu's body shuddered violently, its shell, harder than divine iron, emitting a piercing cracking sound.

It barely managed to block this strike, but the price was the freshly healed blood hole on its chest exploding open again, black blood gushing like a waterfall!

"Now! Move!"

Guiyuan's urgent shout, like a thunderclap, jolted Styx and Xuanming, who had been momentarily stunned by the shocking scene, back to their senses.

Both were seasoned warriors from countless battles; they instantly suppressed their awe and unleashed their killing moves once more!

"Yuantu! Abi! Godslayer!"

Styx's eyes were sharp as swords; the twin swords behind him transformed into two blood-red rainbows, interweaving with pure slaughter principles.

No longer attacking elsewhere, they focused solely on the expanding blood hole on the Taowu's chest, stabbing and shredding wildly!

"Xuanming Sha Fist!"

Xuanming forced a breath, his True Form of the Ancestral Wu expanding again. The ice-sha energy on his fists condensed to its peak, like two warhammers forged from eternal frost.

In tandem with Styx's killing swords, fist after fist slammed deep into the blood hole!

"Thud! Crack! Crunch!"

The sounds of blades piercing flesh, fist force exploding, and bones snapping rang out without end.

The Taowu let out a pained and furious roar.

It wanted to counterattack, to once again invoke the Daluo characteristic and trap and kill these two annoying "bugs" through time.

But the nine true forms of Guiyuan's giant turtles stood like the most solid fortress.

Nine pairs of indifferent giant eyes locked onto it, and nine surges of vast aura, like a cage, tightly restricted all its movements!

When it swung a claw, a giant turtle's claw met it, slapping it back.

It bit down, but the turtle shell was like a mountain, utterly unmoved.

It lashed its tail, but it was like striking Mount Buzhou, which bore heaven and earth, and the recoil nearly shattered its own bones.

Guiyuan, with his own strength, bore the brunt of Taowu's ferocious might and counterattacks head-on!

Xuanming and Styx were able to pour out their attacks without any lingering worries.

Taowu's massive physical body, under their flawlessly coordinated siege, was collapsing at a visible rate.

The bloody hole in its chest was torn wider and wider, almost revealing the pulsating organs and origin core entwined with Chaos Sha within.

Its limbs were severed by Styx's killing swords, then blasted into ice shards by Xuanming's Sha fists.

On its head, the scales were shattered and its face mangled by the giant claws Guiyuan occasionally slammed down.

Its roars shifted from initial fury to shrill cries, and then to weakness and unwillingness...

Finally.

As Styx's blood-colored sword light, condensed from his entire path of slaughter, completely pierced through its broken origin core.

And after Xuanming's Sha fist, which nearly froze space itself, blasted that core into ice dust.

Taowu's mountain-like colossal body suddenly stiffened.

Then, losing all power, like a mountain toppling and a jade pillar falling, it crashed heavily onto the shattered earth, kicking up a sky full of dust and Sha Qi.

"Is it over?" Xuanming panted slightly, staring at the corpse that no longer moved.

Styx also relaxed a little. Yuantu and Abhi circled around him, humming incessantly, having clearly absorbed a vast amount of ferocious Sha and killing intent, their spirituality now fuller.

Yet, their joy had barely surfaced.

Another change occurred!

At the spot of Taowu's "extinguished" corpse.

A mass of Chaos Sha, so dense it couldn't be dispersed and exuding an aura surpassing Taiyi, writhed and coiled violently, as if alive!

At the core of that Sha Qi, a trace of Daluo's "immortal" characteristic flickered stubbornly, beginning to forcibly absorb the residual Sha Qi and law fragments from the surrounding world!

Under the influence of this power, its ruined physical body began to regrow and mend at a slow but steady pace!

"Not good!" Styx's pupils contracted, his expression turning extremely grave. "It still has a remnant Daluo characteristic protecting its origin core!

In the Daluo realm, as long as a single thread of true nature remains, one can reconverge within time!

Although this Taowu is not a true Daluo, with this trace of characteristic, if we cannot completely annihilate it, it will truly take endless ages to kill it completely!"

Daluo are hard to kill!

This was an iron law of the Primordial World.

Even though Taowu was a Ferocious Beast and not fully aligned with the Primordial World's Great Dao, having touched that trace of characteristic meant its life essence had already undergone a transformation, far beyond the scope of Taiyi's understanding.

Hearing this, a hint of trouble flashed across Xuanming's face.

The Wu Clan also had no means to annihilate such a Daluo characteristic.

"Daluo are hard to kill?"

Just as Styx and Xuanming both felt this matter had become extremely troublesome, a cold voice rang out.

Guiyuan had already withdrawn his eight avatars, leaving only his massive True Form of the Black Turtle hovering in the air, his enormous eyes looking down upon the mass of ferocious origin core attempting to revive.

"Hmph! That's for others!"

Before his words faded, a mysterious aura, completely different from any previous divine ability or law, suddenly radiated from within Guiyuan!