How big was the Black Tortoise?
No one could answer that question, but everyone could see just how enormous the Black Tortoise before them was.
An Xi fell silent for a moment. Gazing at the towering Black Tortoise ahead and feeling the chill that reached them even from two thousand li away, she said hoarsely, "A Black Tortoise this big... it isn't an Anomaly."
"Could a creature from myth really have descended into the world?"
As she spoke, she looked at Captain Hui, who was taking an enhanced dose of Cold Medicine from Xingzi. His hand paused at her words. "Not necessarily."
"There seem to be people living on that Black Tortoise."
"I started divining the moment I saw it, but for some reason, all the results have been very vague."
"All I can confirm is that people live up there."
A Xin, Zhuo Wu, and the others visibly relaxed at Captain Hui's words.
The others might not know, but those who had grown up in China knew perfectly well that the Black Tortoise was no ordinary being, whether in mythology or any work of fiction.
It was the very embodiment of defense and divinity.
"An Xi, now that the Black Tortoise has shown up, do you think you might actually run into a White Tiger someday, being in the White Tiger Sequence and all?" Zhu Qing asked, his mind taking an unusual turn.
An Xi glanced at him without answering. She wasn't sure whether a being like the White Tiger really existed, either.
After all, the Black Tortoise had already appeared.
Chu Sheng ignored their conversation. Instead, he stared at the Black Tortoise approaching them and said, "Whatever the case, since we've confirmed there are people up there, we have to go take a look, even if we don't