Chapter 397: You Actually Called Me a Xiao Gui?! The Battle of [Immortal]!

Regarding this, Baichuan let out another scoff.

Since he had meticulously organized the memories in his mind and discovered some abnormal clues, and later probed the true form of the little turtle spirit—the state of the Black Tortoise—plus the fact that his first attempt at regression failed due to an inexplicable darkness before his eyes when he tried to test things out.

Then how could he not be on guard at all?

Not to mention, he had used the hands of players to collect countless materials and, through the intimate connection between offspring, searched secretly, finally discovering that the Long Nv he was looking for vaguely pointed to the little turtle spirit.

With so many suspicious points, what would he do?

The first thing he did was to use the Ability Panel to extract the bloodline within his body that represented all the abilities of the Spirit of Shishan!

Perhaps it was not necessarily because of this bloodline, but for the sake of caution, he still did it, thoroughly cutting off the possibility of being tampered with by others in advance; later, in order to avoid being suspected, he evolved this ability into a Star-Eater Bug Light Point, hiding it within his body as a disguise.

With the disguise of the Star-Eater Bug, and calculating against the unprepared, how could a little turtle spirit, who dared not use even a shred of power to avoid making him suspicious, possibly detect it!!

Thus, with numerous preparations, this scene before them was created!

Even this little turtle spirit shrouded in mist, a creature suspected of having a close relationship with the Black Tortoise, began to fumble in the dark.

"Snap!"

Amidst various shocks and suspicions, the rattle used for backstabbing in its claw was rendered ineffective; this mysterious turtle spirit gently crushed the rattle, its expression somewhat solemn and even turning ugly, especially when thinking that it had already been seen through without knowing it, carefully playing the role of a weak and timid little demon in front of him.

Perhaps this posture of his had already been secretly laughed at by the other party countless times; thinking of this, even he could not help but feel a bit annoyed, and a trace of anger gradually rose in his heart.

His pupils suddenly turned vertical, transforming into majestic and terrifying divine eyes; a heavy and vast momentum, like a wave that had been gathering for a long time, began to surge, as if it could crush everything once it Burst!

Above that seemingly tiny turtle body, a wisp of misty black gaseous flames slowly rose, mixed with golden lightning that easily pierced through space as it flickered, shrouding him in the aura; then he raised his head, and within the dark purple and somewhat dim destruction sphere, although he was looking up at Baichuan standing in the sky, at this moment he gave others a feeling of looking down on all things!

"No matter who you are, no matter how cunning you are! No matter how many plans you have! Today, let me tell you, in the face of absolute power, everything is empty!"

"Boom!"

As the words fell, a dull, explosive sound suddenly rang out, and a short, black figure could not stop retreating.

"What?"

"Immortal?!"

The little turtle spirit revealed a look of horror, its face turning red and then green; under the little turtle spirit's dark green skin, it was unusually comical.

Anyone who had just finished making harsh threats, only to be fiercely smashed away head-on, would be as horrified and angry as he was.

Just when?

It was clear that when he probed not long ago, it was still a pseudo-Immortal.

"Sorry, little turtle, I was just about to say that to you."

Slowly retracting his Dragon Claw, ignoring the barely audible blood leaking from his body, Baichuan revealed a mocking smile; it didn't hinder him that he had been bickering with the other party for so long, as now his 【Spirit Absorption】 had finally absorbed and digested all the souls.

Feeling the unprecedented physical strength in his body, that Immortal-level destructive power, Baichuan ignored the life force heading toward its end and said word by word.

"Lit-tle... tur-tle?"

"You called me a little turtle?"

"You actually dare to call me a little turtle?!"

"Ahhh... lit-tle! tur-tle?!"

Continuously murmuring the name Baichuan used for him, the little turtle spirit, who felt as if he had suffered an unprecedented insult to his turtle-hood, forgot to even pay attention to the previous shock for a moment, and only this insulting term that seemed to want to crush him remained in his mind.

On that tiny turtle body, accompanying every murmur, one after another, strands of incomparably thick black air slowly permeated out, spreading in all directions, as if wanting to swallow the entire destruction sphere.

Suddenly, a shadow rose from beneath the black air, expanding crazily inch by inch.

"Whoosh!"

"Roar!"

Before long, a roar like both a turtle and a dragon sounded, and as the black air was stirred, there was another hiss like that of a snake.

Boundless black air rolled, like a black sea spreading in this peculiar space, and beneath it, a slender black shadow meandered; looking closely, four "Tianzhuzhu" actually rose at its ends!

In the scarlet gaze, a head as large as a small planet and shaped like a dragon slowly poked out.

Amidst the lightning and thunder, at this moment, that incomparably mysterious creature finally revealed its true posture!

That boundless black air was merely the aura leaking from around its turtle body; beneath the turtle body, which was larger than ordinary planets, were four legs that looked as if they could shatter the world with a light step; the scarlet light of the dragon-like and turtle-like head in front was flourishing, and the mouth of the giant black snake coiled at the end was constantly dripping with thick 【Black Water】.

That was a creature that would make people feel heavy fear just by looking at it!

An infinite suction force began to slowly pull the matter from all directions; that was the gravity spontaneously generated by its excessive mass!

"Little turtle? You actually dare to mention me, Ming Yi, the noble son of the Black Tortoise, in the same breath as that lowly turtle?"

"Mere ant, how dare you?!"

In the sky of unknown height, the turtle spirit, which no longer had its previous tiny appearance—that is, Ming Yi—slowly lowered its head, and its substantial gaze passed through the boundless black air, staring straight at Baichuan, who in his eyes was a bug as small as a speck of dust.

In front of the son of the Black Tortoise, who was larger than a planet, Baichuan's evil dragon state, which was slightly larger than an ordinary person, was no longer enough to look at; perhaps in the other party's eyes, he was currently just a tiny microorganism!

"Whoosh—!"

Violent air currents began to be pulled; it was a turtle claw that propped up the world, wreathed in boundless black air and flames, stepping down from above.

At this instant, the claw of the giant beast, which should have been incomparably slow, arrived in an instant at a speed that exceeded common sense.

Here, what appeared first was the air being stepped on and instantly turning into a solid!

Like a long, columnar air amber entangled by a large amount of flame-like black air, it wanted to lock the barely audible evil dragon like a Cage, and then it was shattered along with the "air amber" in one breath by the terrifying turtle claw that followed closely behind.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound like glass rang out; that was the sound of the solidified air shattering.

Facing this terrifying blow, Baichuan only used the terrifying giant strength now in his body, which far exceeded his past power, to easily break out of the air amber.

And not only that, he even had the spare capacity to stimulate the other party's enraged nerves.

"Is that so, little turtle?"

"Today, I, Baichuan, called you a turtle, what can you do about it?"

Although he was not clear whether that sentence had any important significance to the other party, since the other party did not like it, he should say it a few more times.

In an instant, the "little turtle" that came out one after another stimulated the Black Tortoise like demonic sounds.

Suddenly, Ming Yi ceased his movements; in the briefest instant, the transition from extreme motion to extreme stillness caused an ominous and unsettling sense of oppression to spread outward.

It was fortunate that there were no living beings left in this place, for this alone would have been enough to crush and kill a Banzhu of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Yet, Baichuan felt this ominous omen clearly and truly.

Although he kept mocking and ridiculing his opponent with his words, Baichuan was more serious and cautious in his heart than anyone else; after all, this was not some veteran powerhouse who had forcibly broken through to the 【Immortal】 realm like he had.

"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."

In an instant, a seal radiating a heavy and archaic aura began to rotate slowly within his body; that was the root of all of Baichuan's power!

With the rotation of the Wheel Rotation Seal, Baichuan's seemingly tiny dragon body suddenly underwent a strange change; within this space filled with black Qi like a sea, a dazzling, incomparable "white" appeared!

It was like a spot of white appearing in a pool of ink, yet instead of being assimilated by the "ink," it was crazily occupying the space of the "ink"!

Because that was the cloud from which Baichuan's power was born! At this moment, under the blessing of the LV6 Xian-level 【Spirit Gathering】, it was no less than the "Black Sea" emanating from Ming Yi!

Since ancient times, there has been the saying: clouds follow the dragon, and wind follows the tiger.

This was no empty talk; in an instant, dense clouds and mist billowed out from the dragon, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into a "White Sea" that stood in opposition to the "Black Sea."

Then, within the sea of clouds, mist surged, and a terrifying, purple-hued behemoth swam up from below.

"Boom!"

The waves broke, and the droplets of water, illuminated by the brilliant luster, appeared even more eerie.

A dragon head, no smaller than that of the dragon-like, turtle-like Black Tortoise, rose up; with a mane dancing in the air currents, elegant dragon whiskers, and a pair of dragon eyes formed from burning purple flames, it made all who beheld it tremble with fear.

Suddenly, the two heads, similar in size, stared at each other across the "Black Sea" and "White Sea"; the former was generally turtle-like but carried the shadow of a dragon, along with a slightly curved, sharp, eagle-like beak; the latter was a proper, upright dragon head, with a mane, dragon horns, and dragon whiskers... all manifesting the most primitive and magnificent charm, as if it were the origin of dragons.

In an instant, the difference in stature was clear!

The Black Tortoise's extraordinary head was invisibly diminished by a degree.

"Dragon! So, this is your true form..."

And the aura was extremely dense and pure, not some common, hollow-named mongrel dragon!

Ming Yi did not say the latter part aloud, for that would boost the opponent's morale and dampen his own.

At this moment, looking at the dragon head that was on par with, or even superior to his own in some aspects, Ming Yi finally understood what exactly had undermined him: a dragon!

At the same time, his heart sank a little.

Since ancient times, 【Dragon】 has been a synonym for power.

Whether it was the Azure Dragon, which shared the same source of bloodline as the Black Tortoise and was the leader of the Four Spirits of Heaven, or the Chen Dragon, the most powerful and special among the twelve zodiac signs, all of them spoke to the power of the 【Dragon】 race.

Not to mention, Black Tortoise, Black Tortoise! Also known as the Turtle-Snake, this turtle and snake also contained a portion of Dragon Blood!

Under the weight of such prestige, and having been struck repeatedly today, if it had been any other primordial divine beast, it might have been easier to handle, but it happened to be the 【Dragon】, with which he had so many entanglements; this heavy, hard-hitting legend had invisibly weakened his spirit.

Just as the more one knows, the more one realizes the terror of certain existences, and at the same time, the faster one dies!

However, this was not the reason why you could easily shatter his plans, nor why you insulted him time and time again!

A fierce look flashed in his dark blue eyes, and Ming Yi moved.

"Roar!!!"

"Hiss!!!"

In an instant, the roar of the mixed turtle and snake rang out.

Immediately, a black sphere radiating a deadly aura was spat out from his mouth; that was no ordinary attack.

It was a mass condensed entirely from the power the Black Tortoise was most proficient in—Kui Water!

It represented the extreme Yin power of the world!

It was the power of the Quanyan governed by the Black Tortoise, one of the Four Spirits of Heaven; even if he was not a true Black Tortoise with an official position, the Kui Water he condensed was not to be underestimated!

"Crack, crack, crack~~~"

In an instant, the black sphere shattered, and a sound that made one's teeth ache rang out continuously; strands of crystalline, grayish-white ice that looked almost black slowly froze and spread from the void, attacking Baichuan. The ice looked extremely strange, as if it were piled up from the purest particles, which a normal person could shatter with a light push.

However, if one truly thought that, one would be gravely mistaken.

That was a special layer of ice known by the elegant name "Death Ice," containing an extreme Yin power so dense it exceeded the imagination of ordinary beings; it was a power of death that, upon the slightest touch, would cause the Yin and Yang to lose balance and lead to one's end!

All things in the world are constructed with Yin and Yang as the main body; they form a dynamic equilibrium system within the body of a living being. 【Yang】 represents life, 【Yin】 represents death; both are indispensable.

Only when the two are balanced can one live eternally; even a True Immortal is no exception. In fact, the power of an Immortal is the power obtained from the transformation of Yin and Yang.

This dynamic balance is very stable, yet also very fragile.

Especially when it comes into contact with some kind of extreme power!

In other words, this power destroys the foundation of your strength and weakens your seemingly long and eternal lifespan!

And under the Xingkong, presumably, there is no living being who would complain that their lifespan is too long and cannot be used up.

"Whoosh, whoosh—"

Following that, a biting cold wind also rose; it was a deadly cold wind that accompanied the Death Ice. If it landed on a star outside without special divine properties, it could easily extinguish it, or even freeze it!

In a mere instant, within the entire shattered sphere, it was as if one had entered a bitter, icy hell. The purple flames that formed the shattered sphere crazily eroded the ice layer named Death Ice, while being constantly extinguished by it.

The hazy clouds and mist became even denser...

Yet this was merely the lingering power emanating from that 【Kui Water】 sphere!

For Baichuan, who was bearing the brunt of this mass of Kui Water, the pressure he was under was the real deal!

At this moment, he only felt an indescribable coldness constantly attacking... no, it was no longer attacking; it was more like it had been lurking in every inch of his own body, and was now erupting completely along with this power.

It was as if the endless, grayish-white ice layer was extinguishing the purple flames wrapped around his body bit by bit, as if it wanted to freeze him completely into a lump of ice, a lump of ice as massive as a planet!

One must know, he was once most proficient in using fire; the 【Flame Treading】 born from condensing all his own flames was enough to prove this! Even if it hadn't truly kept up with his breakthroughs, his attainments in fire were not bad; after all, the dragon's 【Dragon Breath】 was a signature ability.

Yet even so, it was still difficult to rival this terrifying ice that seemed to want to freeze everything and strip away all vitality!

"Is this the power of a complete 【Immortal】 level ability?"

"It really is strong, but..."

(End of this chapter)