A slap in the face!
An utterly brazen slap in the face!
Just moments earlier, the Four Saints and the others had taken it for granted that Gu Changqing was spouting wild claims and talking through his hat.
They had never expected the slap in their faces to come so quickly.
The Black Tortoise had answered so forcefully?!
This was completely beyond the Four Saints' expectations.
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
"The Black Tortoise has long been a creature spurned by the Heavenly Dao. How could he appear in the world again?"
Inside the Jade Void Palace, Yuanshi cried out in disbelief.
Spurned by the Heavenly Dao!
That was no exaggeration.
One could even say that the karma the Black Tortoise had once borne was more staggering than that of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans.
Even those three clans had been suppressed by the Heavenly Dao and forbidden from emerging, let alone the Black Tortoise.
Yet, upon hearing Yuanshi's words, Laozi's expression darkened beside him, and he murmured to himself:
"Karma..."
"Heh, does so-called karma still count as an unbreakable shackle in Gu Changqing's eyes?"
Laozi suddenly recalled how Gu Changqing had once summoned the Merit Golden Wheel and turned the karmic backlash from the deaths of a million beings upon the Western Teachings.
With such means of controlling karma, it seemed... allowing the Black Tortoise to emerge again was hardly beyond his capabilities.
Sure enough!
No sooner had Laozi finished speaking than it happened.
A sudden change swept through Heaven and Earth.
The Black Tortoise strode across the land, each step making Heaven and Earth tremble and the Universe shake.
Not only that, his already enormous body was still swelling without cease.
In mere moments, he had grown to almost the same size as all of Heaven and