At dusk, a group of giant turtles returned victorious from battle, bringing fresh spoils-a bizarre-looking sea beast resembling a walrus, with tusks over ten meters long and a body a hundred times larger than a walrus's.
Zhang Ming had eaten this kind of sea beast before. Its meat tasted a little like pork, with plenty of fat that could be rendered into delicious cooking oil.
Frying its lean meat made it exceptionally tender and flavorful, a rare delicacy.
He had also picked up the ability "hard tusks" along the way-which, of course, was utterly useless and had been shelved.
"You used to need my help because you couldn't beat these sea beasts," Zhang Ming said with a smile. "Now you can hunt them easily. You've grown. Just don't hunt them to extinction, or we won't have such fine meat to eat anymore..."
"Awoo!" Old White gave a cheerful cry.
The Turtle Group's fighting ability was clearly different from before.
Under the careful management of their patriarch, Old White, and Zhang Ming's patient guidance, the race had steadily grown stronger, reaching a new level every year.
They truly were a species with innate attributes far above those of humans. Apart from the Black Tortoise Breathing Technique, practically all of them possessed several additional innate abilities. Their powerful vitality and long lifespans far surpassed those of humans.
Of course, they weren't particularly bright, which was a major disadvantage.
Their reproductive ability wasn't great either. The females often laid unfertilized eggs, putting them at an enormous disadvantage compared with humans' ability to reproduce. Their population couldn't grow, and that could be quite troublesome at times.
Through prolonged combat, those few Giant Turtles had grown even larger. Scales resembling dragon patterns had sprouted along the edges of their shells, while battle scars appeared on