"This Soul Beast seems to be... hiding underground."
Zhang Lexuan pressed a hand against the ground and quietly sensed it for a moment, a thoughtful look appearing on her face.
Just then, the ground suddenly shook violently. The soil beneath Ye An and Zhang Lexuan began to churn, and an enormous dark-gold head abruptly burst out from below, meeting Ye An's gaze in astonishment.
It was unmistakably a tortoiseshell turtle's head, with three ridges running along it. Rather than the oval shape of an ordinary turtle's head, it was triangular. Several whisker-like spikes protruded from its lower jaw. Ye An could also tell at a glance that it was clearly in poor spirits, its eyes dull and lifeless, its whole bearing listless.
Ye An's breathing instantly quickened.
A Golden Tortoiseshell... he had actually encountered a Golden Tortoiseshell!
Although a Golden Tortoiseshell could not influence the fortune of the entire Star Dou Great Forest like the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, it still counted as a kind of Auspicious Beast. Wherever a Golden Tortoiseshell resided, Soul Beasts within a certain radius enjoyed an increase in their cultivation speed. Among turtle-type Soul Beasts, a Golden Tortoiseshell was an emperor-like existence!
Of course, what truly stirred Ye An was not its identity or status, but the likelihood that this Golden Tortoiseshell was the unlucky creature from the original story that had swallowed life gold, causing its vitality to steadily drain away.
He had possessed the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife for a long time, but had never managed to remove the curse it contained, leaving him unable to obtain its life gold. Who would have thought-who would have thought that this Golden Tortoiseshell would deliver itself right to his door!
The Golden Tortoiseshell and Ye An stared at each other, their big and