Within the Dragon Turtle Clan's territory, around the Dragon Tomb, the mixed-blood dragon turtles that had fought and struggled to hold their ground at the cost of their lives, along with the Dragon Turtle Clan itself, seemed all to have been waiting for this moment.
When the new Dragon Turtle King's dragon roar rang out and carried across the battlefield, the surviving mixed-blood dragon turtles and Dragon Turtle Clan members all raised their heads in exhilarated cries. Dragon roars and bellows melded into one, becoming the strongest cry of a clan standing at the brink of life and death.
The next moment, the new Dragon Turtle King burst out of the Dragon Tomb. Its enormous body had clearly grown tremendously since before, stretching over two thousand zhang and already reaching the limits of the fourth rank.
The force surrounding it further drew forth the surging immortal might and watery light within the Dragon Tomb to aid it. Here, in this core territory of the dragon clan, it faintly carried the momentum of something beyond the fourth rank.
"This is... the Dragon Turtle King!"
Liang Zhaohuang stared at the new Dragon Turtle King, his heart filled with astonishment.
He had once slain the previous Dragon Turtle King in the waters of the Pearl Island Chain in the East Sea. At the time, he had been in the Nascent Soul Realm for less than ten years. Though he had joined forces with Yang Xiue to kill it, Yang Xiue had only been at the Nascent Soul Early Stage then.
That Dragon Turtle King had absolutely not possessed such formidable strength. Otherwise, they could never have killed it back then.
Was it because it stood within the Dragon Turtle Clan's territory, bolstered by that dragon turtle immortal shell?
Or was it because, at