To be precise, what they could see at that moment was merely the tip of the iceberg of its enormous body.
Most of its body remained submerged beneath the lake.
"A small island?"
"No!" Li Xuanyuan quickly shook his head, dismissing that guess. "Look at that curve, those markings. It looks like a turtle shell..."
"A turtle shell?" Those words seemed to remind Li Xuanyuan of something.
He muttered to himself, "There were rumors that a Black Tortoise Divine Beast was hidden in this forest. It seems it really does exist!"
"To think it was hiding in this lake all along. No wonder the spiritual qi here is more abundant and concentrated than elsewhere."
Black Tortoise Divine Beast?
Chen Mu had the system look it up. The Black Tortoise Divine Beast Li Xuanyuan mentioned was indeed one of the Four Sacred Beasts, alongside the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger.
He had little interest in it.
Even if the beast possessed ten million years of cultivation, to Chen Mu, who could perform a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand consecutive Beast Taming draws...
He could have as many as he wanted.
The Black Tortoise Divine Beast lay dormant in the lake, sleeping without harming anyone. There was no need to deliberately disturb the beast.
As a divine beast guarding this region, disturbing the beast recklessly might affect the ecosystem of the Carefree Bamboo Grove.
"The beast moved!" Sensing trouble, Li Xuanyuan swiftly summoned more than a dozen Divine Talismans, keeping them hovering beside him as his vigilance soared.
He knew very well that the stronger these demon beasts were, the stranger their tempers became.
Not just toward humans-even against other demon beasts, they struck with extraordinary cruelty and decisiveness!
The words "show mercy" simply did not exist in