Rumble!
Through the Golden-Eyed Thunder Eagle's senses, Fang Qianyuan finally heard the thunderous roar that the formation had filtered out.
It was the sound of the giant turtle crawling over land, crossing mountains and ridges.
The giant turtle measured a full thousand feet across, and there was no telling how much it weighed. Every step shook heaven and earth.
Fortunately, the giant turtle was so enormous that birds and beasts had fled long before it passed, and its huge webbed feet dispersed the crushing weight from above. Apart from trees snapping along its path and the occasional boulder rolling down a steep slope, the destruction it caused was far less than its tremendous noise suggested.
"Such an enormous turtle..."
"Could it be a descendant of Baxia?"
Fang Qianyuan suddenly recalled a rumor and exclaimed in astonishment.
"This Dragon Turtle is indeed a descendant of Baxia." A cool, ethereal voice sounded from the courtyard beside him.
Fang Qianyuan looked over and only then noticed that Empress Ji, the mistress of this place, had already risen.
She held a watering pot and was personally watering the flowers and plants competing in beauty throughout the courtyard. Hearing Fang Qianyuan, she offered an explanation.
The descendant of Baxia they spoke of belonged to the bloodline propagated by Baxia, the sixth of the Nine Sons of the True Dragon.
Baxia had another name, a dragon's head, and a turtle's body, and could bear immense loads. As its bloodline had survived into the present age, it could be understood as a variant Desolate Beast possessing a powerful bloodline.
The largest creature Fang Qianyuan had previously seen with his own eyes was a Thousand-League Soaring Cloud Roc the size of a tower ship. Its body had already seemed enormous, but compared with this giant turtle descended from