"Shangqing Saint, if there is nothing else, we will take our leave."
Seeing that Laozi still refused to speak, the two women could not be bothered to linger.
They had already achieved their goals. What was the point of staying?
As for befriending Laozi, neither had any such intention.
Others might not know what had happened between the Three Pure Ones, but the Sages knew every detail.
Nuwa simply thought Laozi and Yuanshi had eyes yet could not see, caring only about the immediate benefits before them.
Besides, the earlier incident involving the Human Race remained vivid in her mind.
Laozi opened his mouth at their words, but no matter how he thought it over, he could not figure out what to say.
Just as the two women were about to leave, the earth suddenly shook violently.
Birds and beasts scattered in every direction through the woods.
Hearing the noise, they turned toward its source.
They saw an enormous mountain slowly moving toward Kunlun Mountain.
"No, that is not a mountain. That is a... black tortoise?"
Nuwa was the first to make out the moving mountain's true appearance.
They might have been better off not seeing it clearly. Once they did, all of them sucked in a breath of cold air.
Good heavens! They had seen plenty in the Primordial World, but this was their first time seeing a black tortoise comparable in size to Buzhou Mountain.
"How did this black tortoise grow so large? Why has he still not assumed human form?"
Standing to one side, Houtu spoke in the same dumbfounded tone.
Judging by the Black Tortoise's size, even the Pangu True Body summoned by the twelve ancestral witches back then would probably have fallen short.
Yet Laozi's eyes lit up as he watched the Black Tortoise approach