Xuan Jue nodded slightly, saying nothing more.
The next instant, two sharp rays burst from his eyes as he abruptly raised his head to look at the heavens.
In an instant, a majestic power surged from all around him, transforming into a dazzling pillar of light that shot into the sky.
Half of this power was Righteous Energy, and half was Demonic Essence.
The eruption of such immense power immediately caused a drastic change in the heavenly phenomena.
Amid the dust filling the sky, there seemed to be the sound of surging water.
Across the entire Central Continent, spanning tens of thousands of miles, countless rivers and lakes—whether their waters had run dry or burst their banks in rampage—seemed to boil at this moment upon the violently trembling land, where Earth Qi had gone out of control and was leaking away.
Waves churned across the water's surface as dense vapor soared into the sky, sweeping in from all directions toward the center of Central Continent, toward the space passage between the two realms.
Above the formation, as Xuan Jue's Demonic Essence and Righteous Energy poured forth, the dense vapor gathered in the air amid the roar of waves.
Before long, a heaven-piercing cry rang out across the region.
Within that dense vapor, a colossal creature a thousand zhang long emerged majestically—a tortoise body with a serpent tail, a mountain-like shell upon its back, and scales all over its body gleaming with a cold, sinister light.
"That is... the Black Tortoise?!! Or merely a demon beast resembling one?"
"That majestic bearing, that appearance—there can be no mistake. It is absolutely the Black Tortoise recorded in ancient texts! Who would have thought this senior's true form was actually the Black Tortoise?"
"How is that possible? Weren't the Four Sacred Beasts of Cultivation