Mystic Stone Stele Beneath the Heaven-Reaching Tower

A streak of azure light shot straight into the sky.

Dazzling, brilliant radiance flickered within the massive Black Tortoise sealing array.

"ROAR!!!"

Brilliant stars appeared one after another in the daytime sky—seven in total.

The stars flashed and connected, abruptly forming the outline of a constellation: a Mystic Turtle and Mystic Serpent.

The stellar pattern imprinted itself from the heavens onto the earth, accompanied by a shrill cry that resounded throughout the sky.

The sealing array suddenly split open down the middle.

An enormous head emerged from beneath the ground, as huge as a mountain peak.

Then, the ground split apart, the cracks spreading thousands of meters away.

A massive rift thousands of meters long appeared out of nowhere in the land that had been destroyed into a desert.

The rift continued to widen. The entire world shook violently, as though an apocalyptic earthquake had arrived.

Beneath the fissure, a turtle-shell body thousands of meters long rose from the ground like an island. At the end of the rift, a creature resembling the Evil Serpent God coiled around the colossal being's body.

"Th-This is the legendary divine beast, the Black Tortoise?" Li Ran asked in shock.

He felt as though a mountain range were rising from beneath the land before him, leaving him utterly stunned.

Its appearance somewhat resembled the Ancient Mystic Turtle, but it was even larger and more majestic. Its weathered face held eyes as bright as torches, and even the Mystic Serpent on its body had sharp, spirited eyes.

The Ancient Mystic Turtle was already enormous, but compared to the Black Tortoise, it was like comparing a ladybug to a turtle. They were not even on the same level.

Uncle Mystic Turtle was exceptionally excited. "This isn't even the Black Tortoise's largest form. It can transform into