Black Tortoise True Form, Xiangxing Meridians!

Chen Tuan's voice came slowly and gently:

[Once your cultivation of the Xuanwu True Body Refinement reaches a certain depth and breaks through to mastery, an additional aura of tortoise and serpent will emerge within your body.

When your progress reaches perfection, the tortoise and serpent will protect and empower your body. But in the end, they are merely symbolic creatures—tortoise and serpent, not Xuanwu.

Still, there are exceptions to everything. If you can cultivate this technique to the point that... much like your Qingming Dragon-Locking Technique, it undergoes some sort of mutation that even this old Daoist cannot comprehend.

Great God Black Tortoise's remnant soul might be able to take up residence within that aura. Though it would not be rebirth through "Proving the Dao through Divine Connection," it could continue to exist by relying on the technique, which could be considered living a second life...]

Chen Tuan was merely making a reasonable conjecture based on Meng Chuan's circumstances.

That was why his words were somewhat hesitant; he could not be certain.

If he had to name a reason why Great God Black Tortoise had chosen Meng Chuan, this was probably the only one...

On the other end of the video call, Meng Chuan was initially left in a fog.

But when he considered his own situation and recalled the extraordinary symbolic creatures within his body, he immediately understood what Sect Master Chen Tuan meant.

Meng Chuan pondered inwardly, a faint look of surprise appearing on his face. "Sect Master Chen Tuan can see the Dragon Demon's abnormality too, so he thinks... that if Great God Black Tortoise follows me, it might be able to use the aura to undergo some kind of mutation... and be reborn?"

If that were truly the case, there would be no need to