Only when he saw the "Emperor Race Tribe" did Fang Yun understand why the Four-Legged Black Snake had said they would "run into" it, resolving his earlier confusion as well. The Emperor Race's legends always mentioned the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon, but no one had ever known exactly what she was.
Ahead stood a gigantic tortoise two thousand li long, with a black shell spanning a thousand li across her back.
On either side of her shell were fifty long, silver-gray wings shaped like dragonfly wings. Like a hundred enormous wing-shaped blades arrayed along her flanks, they thrust diagonally toward the heavens in a magnificent sight.
These long, silver-gray wings were far from uniform. Some were tilted slightly out of alignment, some were half broken, some riddled with holes, and others covered in notches, as though recording battle after battle.
The giant tortoise also differed from an ordinary tortoise. Her tail extended far beyond her shell, which seemed to cover only her chest and back. Her blue-green abdomen and tail lay entirely outside it, making her look somewhat like an enormous dragon carrying a tortoise shell.
The Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon's head resembled an ordinary tortoise's, but dragon horns grew from its crown. Unlike the usual branching dragon horns, hers looked more like a gigantic crown of red flames.
The ring-shaped crown of flames had twelve points, and above each point, a great fireball slowly revolved, radiating tremendous heat.
Only after looking closely did Fang Yun realize that those were not twelve fireballs, but twelve supergiant suns compressed above her head. He did not know what magnificent power had forged them, or whether the Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon had been born with such might.
Beneath the chest and abdomen of this two-thousand-li-long Hundred-Winged Tortoise-Dragon were thirty-two massive, blue-gray legs, slowly advancing in turn and leaving deep