Beside a black stone stele.
Lin Tian gathered all his emotions into his Sea of Consciousness.
Within his Sea of Consciousness, he drew upon the fate origin to examine the true nature of this black stele.
In the legends and history of the Primordial World, records of stone steles were few and far between. The notion of a black tortoise bearing a stele would only spread among the Human Race after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, when the Demon Race was no longer prominent.
In this wild, untamed era of the Primordial World, the most illustrious of the Primordial Clans were not the Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermilion Bird.
Instead, they were the Azure Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, whose bloodlines and innate origins were the most glorious and distinguished.
Only after the Primordial Three Clans withdrew from the stage of the Primordial World following the Dragon-Phoenix First Calamity would the various demon clans have the chance to rise together.
Only then would the four great divine generals of the later Primordial Clans have the chance to become their leaders.
Clearly, however, their power in later ages could not compare with that of the primordial clans.
In this era.
The Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Blue Dragon, and White Tiger each belonged to their own camp.
The Vermilion Bird was a divine general under the Phoenix Clan.
The Black Tortoise and White Tiger were divine generals under the Qilin Clan.
The Blue Dragon was a divine general under the Azure Dragon Clan.
Over the preceding million years or so, Lin Tian had unleashed three peerless heavenly tribulations in the Eastern Sea region.
His actions had echoed Shen Ni's tide of fierce beasts, which swept across the entire Primordial World.
Together, they had stirred up the