Library of Heaven's Path

Of course, the Ethereal Hall likely had the resources to pull off something like that as well, but it was hard to say for sure given how elusive it was. It had branches in all second-tier cities and above, but the location of its headquarters and its actual military might remained a mystery.

Hong long long!

While they were chatting with one another, the full moon rose into the sky. A jolt abruptly shook the surface of the sea, as if an earthquake had happened.

The water began to billow, causing the mirror-like surface to distort continuously and create bizarre light patterns all around.

In this moment, it felt as if all the stars had dived into the sea to frolic around.

“It’s beginning,” Zhang Xuan muttered softly.

Pavilion Master Kui Xiao and Elder Feng nodded in agreement.

Just as Zhang Xuan had said, something was happening in the Sea of Little Mirror as a result of the rise of the full moon. The Silverback Mayflies were moving around in a panic, causing the choppy waters to turn turbulent. If they had continued using the Double Ripples Water Formation, it would have been rendered ineffective by now.

“It’s coming…” Elder Feng’s voice sounded.

Raising their heads, the crowd saw a massive sea tortoise slowly swimming over from afar.

This sea tortoise was humongous in terms of physique. Just its width was already more than a hundred meters long. It looked like a massive submarine diving through the water, pushing aside the Silverback Mayfly horde that stood in its way with its sheer weight.

“It has indeed reached the Semi-Divinity realm,” Zhang Xuan murmured.

The movements of this sea tortoise were heavy and slow, but in terms of strength, it was on par with Pavilion Master Kui Xiao. If they clashed head-on with one another, even the three of them combined were unlikely to be a match for it.

Zhang Xuan’s cultivation had already reached the High Immortal realm, and he was confident that he was invincible within this realm. However, the gap between a High Immortal and a Semi-Divinity was simply too great.

On any other occasion, he would have already fled as far as possible in the face of an expert of such caliber. He would not have dared to confront it directly!

“Prepare to activate the formation,” Pavilion Master Kui Xiao said grimly as he drove his energy to its limits. He was ready to make a move alongside the formation to deal this massive fellow a lethal blow.

It was impossible to tame a beast in such a cultivation realm. Instead of wasting his effort, he would rather strike it down directly.

“Something’s not right…” Zhang Xuan’s eyebrows shot up.

“What’s not right?”

The other two turned their heads.

The Blackback Tortoise was already extremely close to them. If they did not activate the formation right now, it was highly likely that the Blackback Tortoise would simply rush over and devour the diamond crystal. Once it fled the area of effect of the formation, all their preparations would be rendered useless!

“The Blackback Tortoise is after the diamond crystal, and the situation it was intending for has come to be. Shouldn’t it rush right over to snatch the diamond crystal? Why is it still loitering around the area, as if it’s waiting for something? Don’t you think that it’s bizarre?” Zhang Xuan asked.

“Well…”

Pavilion Master Kui Xiao and Elder Feng thought about it once more, and indeed, something was a little weird.

The massive Blackback Tortoise was in a good position to devour the diamond crystal whole right away, but instead of doing so, it was circling around the area as if it had not noticed it at all.

Its plan was to snatch the diamond crystal and kill Elder Feng and Pavilion Master Kui Xiao by capitalizing on the stampede of the Silverback Mayflies, and the opportunity to do so was right in front of it. Yet, it was refusing to make a move.

“Hehe, no wonder it has been heading in this direction all this while. It turns out that it has noticed this thing. As the saying goes, ‘a man will die for his greed, and a bird will die for food’. Beasts are ultimately no more than beasts. To lose its life over a mere diamond… Tsk tsk. It would be rude for me not to make a move when such a massive prey is right before me…”

While the three were trying to figure out the reason behind this anomaly, a voice suddenly sounded from above. Following which, a brilliant ray of light shone down from the surface.

A figure had dived into the water, parting the silvery mirror on the surface to allow some light in momentarily.