As the Kun fed, turmoil suddenly rose.
With the opening of the Heavenly Gate, boundless water vapor cascaded down like the celestial river from the ninth heaven, while countless rays of light fell alongside it.
Meteors plummeted amid bizarre, dazzling lights.
Just as Su Changsheng reaped some gains, he saw an unimaginably immense surge of energy suddenly erupt from the pitch-black island due north.
That surge swept across its surroundings, covering a hundred-li radius, brimming with strange auras of darkness, eeriness, and distortion. Even the Bloody Wind and Rain in the void gave it a wide berth.
"A Great Yao?"
"No, what is this? Such an enormous beast carcass!"
Su Changsheng was secretly alarmed.
He finally saw what that black island was. It was clearly the carcass of a gigantic beast, far beyond anything a Great Yao could compare with in either aura or size.
As for what level it had reached, he had no way of knowing.
But one thing was certain: it really was a beast carcass. Dense deathly energy radiated from the entire corpse, and countless white bones lay exposed across its surface. He could vaguely see its heart, which had already stopped beating, as well as its rotting internal organs.
The beast's skeleton consisted of two parts. Below was a tortoise-shaped skeleton that formed its base plate. Yet atop that base plate grew a towering, snake-like upper body several thousand meters tall.
Snake Coiled Around Tortoise seemed a more vivid way to describe its actual appearance.
Its body spanned dozens of kilometers, who knew how many times larger than an ordinary giant beast. Most importantly, although it was dead, its vigorous posture and spirit of striving upward remained unchanged.
Even as a powerful suction came from below, it actually pushed against the current, slowly advancing toward