The instant Ink Dragon finished speaking, Chen Fan's body abruptly halted, stopping short before the gates of the Water Crystal Palace.
His expression darkened as he asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
Ink Dragon paused within the Storage Ring, then said gravely, "This is bad. I forgot something. Every time my grandfather returned from the Immortal Realm, he fed that Black Tortoise a kind of divine stone. No wonder that turtle ran out so excitedly to greet you when you came in—it must be hungry."
"Divine stone?" Chen Fan frowned. He possessed only two things that could be called divine stones: the Lunar Stone and Solar Stone he had picked up in the Water Crystal Palace earlier.
But if this Black Tortoise descendant truly liked eating such divine stones, it would have smashed its way in and devoured them long ago. There was no way it would have waited until now.
"Black Tortoise Stone. It contains the aura of the Black Tortoise of heaven and earth, and it is the Black Tortoise Clan's most beloved treasure," Ink Dragon said quietly, his expression grim. Such a divine stone could not possibly be found in this realm.
Chen Fan fell silent as well. Where could they possibly find a Black Tortoise Stone at a time like this? Moreover, this Black Tortoise descendant seemed to have already grown suspicious. Even without spiritual intelligence, it had been trained by the Ink Dragon King of old as a guardian over countless years. Habits were not so easily changed.
"If we don't give it a Black Tortoise Stone, it'll probably go berserk. That happened once before, and in the end, only my grandfather could subdue it. We've really gone too far this time. If it goes mad and crushes you with one foot, that's one