The purple wooden box looked utterly ordinary, but light flickered faintly through its grain, and it gave off a subtle woody fragrance.
Fang Yun swiftly opened the box and pressed a mechanism. The bottom flipped over, and a White Jade Dragon Tally flew out, hovering before his chest.
"A Dragon Tally from the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace! It's worth more than a Half-Sage Literary Treasure!" Meng Jingye blurted out.
An Azure Dragon was engraved on the surface of the White Jade Dragon Tally. It was plain to the extreme and emitted no powerful aura, yet reverence rose in everyone's hearts. The four water demons even bowed their heads in salute.
The White Jade Dragon Tally seemed to possess no great might, yet the seawater throughout the Crime-Suppressing Hall suddenly underwent an unmistakable change. All of it grew heavier, and every drop seemed to have come alive, with a faint pulse of life stirring within.
Clearly, the White Jade Dragon Tally possessed world-shaking might. Even Fang Yun could not unleash its true power.
The Sin Turtle Prison Chariot would ordinarily have released its chains at once to capture Fang Yun and the others. But after the White Jade Dragon Tally appeared, a trace of hesitation surfaced in the Sin Turtle's blood-red eyes. Even so, thick chains continued to emerge from beneath his shell as before, reaching out to seize them.
Only now, the chains moved very slowly, as though giving the Sin Turtle ample time to think.
A book with a purple cover appeared before Fang Yun.
The book radiated an aura of order and cruelty. Everything nearby seemed compelled to obey its power, sending a faint chill through everyone's hearts. Even the demons in the distance felt an instinctive aversion to it.
Yet the Sin Turtle's eyes lit up at