In a gray sky, a roaring sound echoed. The entire sky trembled, and a black and white light suddenly appeared at a certain location.
As soon as the light appeared, it instantly expanded to a size of seven or eight zhang. A strange gust of wind swept out from it, engulfing the surroundings.
The wind was extremely violent, but it came and went quickly. In a few breaths, the light disappeared, leaving only the whistling wind.
"Finally safe."
After the wind disappeared, a disheveled figure appeared in the air, it was Zhang Ling. He quickly looked around and breathed a long sigh of relief. His figure swayed, and he fell downwards.
After descending a hundred zhang, he saw a expanse of water below. The water flowed slowly and calmly. He released his divine sense, and the area within a hundred miles was all water.
He wondered where he had been teleported to.
Zhang Ling coughed lightly, stared at the bird spirit beside him, and asked in a deep voice.
"What is your true identity? You were actually able to find a weak space node and help me escape that danger. Ordinary demon cultivators could never do this."
The bird spirit, which looked like a swallow, flew around excitedly a few times and chirped a few times. Then, glancing at Zhang Ling, it flapped its wings.
"Hmph, who told you I am a demon cultivator? As for seeing through space nodes, what's so difficult about that? This area has free-floating space cracks, which make the space unstable. As long as the divine soul is strong enough to sense the spatial fluctuations, one can naturally find some weak spots. However, this is indeed a bit difficult for you lower realm cultivators."
"Lower realm cultivator, you are not a cultivator from this realm."
Hearing the words 'lower realm cultivator,' Zhang Ling was shocked. Although he realized that this bird spirit was definitely not an ordinary demon spirit, he had never guessed that it seemed to be a cultivator from outside the human realm.
"If you are not a cultivator from this realm, why have you fallen into such a state?" Zhang Ling pondered for a moment, still somewhat disbelieving.
"Whether you believe it or not, there is no point in saying more. Human cultivators are just cunning. If it weren't for those old guys, how could I have fallen into such a state, leaving only a wisp of my soul? Let me ask you, where did you get that piece of my spirit bone that you obtained before?"
The bird spirit snorted, seemingly recalling some bad memories.
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment and then answered truthfully, "That piece of spirit bone was obtained from an ancient secret realm." There was nothing to hide about this.
"It seems that at least ten thousand years have passed. I can still sense where my primordial spirit is sealed."
The bird spirit muttered to itself, then suddenly opened its mouth and shot out a blue light, which turned into a small halo, rotating above its head, seemingly sensing something.
After a moment, it let out a soft 'eh' and turned its gaze to Zhang Ling.
"Eh, the Two Instruments Gourd is also on you, and you actually have two of them."
Hearing this, Zhang Ling's face darkened. He sensed a powerful divine sense sweeping over him. Even the black tortoise on his shoulder trembled, and the second soul felt the same.
Although it was only a momentary sensation, it felt as if he had been seen through by something.
His body flashed with blood light, and he retreated more than ten zhang, his heart filled with vigilance.
If this bird spirit wasn't so strange, and if his and the black tortoise's spiritual power hadn't been exhausted, he would have used means to control this bird spirit long ago.
As he retreated, a black light flashed in Zhang Ling's sleeve, and the black Two Instruments Gourd flew out.
The bird spirit's body flashed with golden and blue light, and a ray of light struck the Two Instruments Gourd. The gourd spun around and turned into a large gourd ten zhang high, spewing out a cloud of cyan and white gas.
A stream of black water surged out, and the sound of clattering chains rang out. A hexagonal five-colored stone disk was pulled out from the water.
This is…
Zhang Ling was surprised again when he saw this scene. The bird spirit could instantly activate this treasure. What was going on? Could it be related to the Black Tortoise?
This black Two Instruments Gourd was a pseudo-spiritual treasure obtained from the Black Tortoise's former residence.
He had studied it half a day ago. There were powerful restrictions on it, and it was difficult to drive it without breaking the restrictions.
Whether the bird spirit forcibly activated it or instantly broke the restrictions made Zhang Ling even more vigilant, and he believed the words that it was not a cultivator from this realm.
The five-colored stone disk pulled out of the black water was bound by the golden chains on the gourd. The stone disk was seven or eight zhang in size and hexagonal in shape, with dense spiritual patterns engraved on it.
One could sense that there was an extremely gentle five elements spiritual energy slowly running on it.
This seems to be a top-quality five elements spiritual jade. It is also a top material. It looks like it has been refined into a formation disk or altar or something.
Upon closer inspection, one could also find that the front of the stone disk was also shrouded in a layer of blood light. A vague tortoise-snake phantom could be seen flickering in the blood light, emitting a layer of amazing bloody aura.
Just as Zhang Ling frowned and observed this strange stone disk, the black tortoise on his shoulder flew up involuntarily towards the stone disk.
Zhang Ling immediately felt something was wrong. With a thought, he quickly ordered the second soul to control the black tortoise to stop.
But to his horror, the second soul seemed to be out of control. The black tortoise flew onto the hexagonal stone disk with a whoosh.
Zhang Ling did not react to the black tortoise's sudden abnormality and did not have time to stop it.
The blood light on the hexagonal stone disk also changed at the same time, all pouring into the black tortoise's body. Several strange beast roars were heard, shaking Zhang Ling's mind a few times.
In his feeling, some subtle changes seemed to have occurred in the second soul. A powerful bloodline power filled his body.
At the same time, a piece of information entered his consciousness.
To be precise, the information entered the black tortoise's consciousness. It was just that the black tortoise's demon soul was his second soul. With this connection, Zhang Ling's own consciousness was also affected to a certain extent.
After a moment, all the blood light on the hexagonal stone disk merged into the black tortoise's body.
The black tortoise bathed in the blood light, and its body swelled up. In a few breaths, it revealed its true form, turning into a giant tortoise a hundred zhang high.
The black tortoise roared to the sky, shaking the world with a buzzing sound. The blood light on its body also condensed into another blood tortoise.
It looked like a black giant tortoise and a blood tortoise were overlapping, and the two were merging with each other.
"What did you do?" Zhang Ling stared at the bird spirit with an ugly face and questioned.
The bird spirit did not answer his question, but looked at this scene with a strange expression, with a bit of surprise and understanding in its eyes.
Zhang Ling did not get an answer and did not dare to act rashly. He could only sense the black tortoise's condition at all times and see what happened first.
At this moment, the second soul's consciousness was a bit chaotic, and some vague consciousness merged into it.
However, this was not a seizure, but just some memory fragments merging into the consciousness. He and the black tortoise felt each other in their hearts, guarded their minds, and suppressed these discomforts.
At the same time, the black tortoise's aura was constantly increasing. In just a short while, its aura had climbed up a small half.
Even the large amount of essence consumed in the previous battle had been greatly replenished.
This scene was very similar to suddenly eating a large supplement of spiritual objects or being infused with powerful spiritual power. Looking at the blood tortoise on its body, it was the tortoise-snake image transformed by the Black Tortoise.
Zhang Ling immediately thought of the fact that not long ago, the black tortoise followed Jin Yu and the others to find the Black Tortoise's true body. It was just that the Black Tortoise's true body was just an empty shell, and he also obtained the secret method to collect this Two Instruments Gourd from the statue.
That was why he was able to snatch this Two Instruments Gourd.
Now it seems that the blood tortoise that suddenly popped out of the stone disk was the Black Tortoise's blood energy. Now it has merged into the black tortoise's body. This may be the true inheritance of the Black Tortoise.
