The Shocking Path of the Rotating Wheel, Zhenwu Achieves Initial Success!

"This has nothing to do with you. That fiend was simply too cunning..."

Hearing the self-reproach in Master Bai Bao's voice, Meng Chuan offered a few words of comfort. From the bottom of his heart, he had never blamed the other man.

The fact that he had remembered Meng Chuan needed this item and gone to retrieve it for him had already filled Meng Chuan with gratitude.

At the same time, he understood why this object could not be stored inside the Magic Mirror.

The reason was simple: storage spaces could not hold "living things."

A residual spirit naturally counted as a living entity. Only the Black Tortoise statue was an exception.

Whether it was dead or alive, half-dead and half-alive, or in some other state of existence—how could Meng Chuan possibly make sense of it?

But according to Sect Master Chen Tuan, Black Tortoise would need Meng Chuan to condense the aura of turtle and snake in the future before it could have a chance to "live out a second life."

By that reasoning, Black Tortoise's current state could at most be considered a "dead thing" capable only of absorbing incense offerings and fortune.

Yet Meng Chuan had never underestimated Black Tortoise.

Even Master Bai Bao had failed to notice it, yet it had spotted at a glance that something was wrong with the Dharma crown. That alone revealed the superiority of its long experience.

If it displayed even more wonders in the future, that would only be natural.

Meng Chuan stopped pondering. Seeing Master Bai Bao close his eyes, he softly asked, "Is the Heavenly King Treasure Umbrella on you?"

"The Primordial Pearl Umbrella? It is, Master."

Meng Chuan nodded, took it out, and handed it to Master Bai Bao.

After accepting it, the other man slowly rose