Primordial Era: Reborn Kong Xuan, Steady Cultivation

Kong Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of dark, watery light and five-colored brilliance seemed to intertwine in his eyes.

With a slight thought, his powerful divine sense instantly pierced through the cave's restrictions, rapidly spreading towards the source of the spiritual energy surge and the direction from which the earth-shattering sound came.

At the edge of his vision, where the gray sky of the Northern Sea met the dark blue sea, a scene that shocked him deeply came into his senses!

But a colossal shadow, so enormous it was unimaginable, stood amidst the raging waves!

Its towering form almost touched the low-hanging leaden clouds in the sky. With each slow breath of that colossal shadow, the sea surface within a radius of tens of thousands of miles undulated violently, forming a devastating circular tsunami.

As the giant maw opened and closed, it was as if it were connected to a bottomless abyss. The boundless seawater, along with the countless fish, shrimp, and sea beasts living in it, and even the ferocious beasts of the Northern Sea that Kong Xuan usually had to be careful to avoid and that exuded a fierce aura, were all sucked into it without any resistance, just like streams flowing into the sea!

Its feeding behavior resembles a natural disaster, a despairing crushing force brought about by pure power and size!

"Such a creature exists?!" Kong Xuan gasped, his face filled with undisguised horror.

He was already aware of the formidable power of the Northern Darkness Beasts. Among them were ancient beings whose strength was comparable to True Immortals, Mystic Immortals, or even higher levels. Due to the harsh environment and ferocious bloodlines, they were unable to awaken their intelligence, but their combat power was definitely not to be underestimated.

But this giant shadow in front of them regarded these ferocious beasts as ordinary fish and shrimp, and ate them!

What terrifying background and strength this is! It has probably already surpassed the realm of ordinary Golden Immortals!

"This is no good place, we cannot stay here for long!" In an instant, Kong Xuan had made his decision.

The matter of refining the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag had to be put aside for the time being. The most urgent task was to immediately evacuate and get away from this terrifying being that had suddenly manifested for some unknown reason and whose feeding behavior was so frightening.

Without hesitation, he rolled up his sleeves, and Zhitong, who was trembling at the entrance of the cave and almost fainting from the terrifying noise outside, was drawn into the universe within his sleeve by a gentle force.

At the same time, Kong Xuan's five-colored divine light reached its peak, and he carefully put away the Northern Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, ready to use the fastest escape technique at any time to flee in the opposite direction of the giant shadow.

However, the giant shadow did not seem to be targeting anything in particular; it was simply following some ancient instinct or cycle in its "feeding."

Although the resulting upheaval in the heavens and earth was terrifying, there was no specific killing intent or searching divine sense sweeping over it.

After several days of living in such fear and trembling, the terrifying suction force that seemed to devour the heavens and the earth finally began to subside.

The giant shadow slowly began to move. Its movements seemed sluggish, but with each step it took, the seawater below exploded, creating new towering waves.

As it moved, the resulting surge of spiritual energy and tsunami finally began to weaken and subside.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kong Xuan was finally able to glimpse part of the true appearance of this terrifying creature.

That was... a turtle!

A giant tortoise with a body tens of thousands of feet tall, as tall as a mountain!

Its carapace is wide and boundless, and is a deep black color. From a distance, it really looks like a small piece of land floating on the sea!

With limbs as thick as pillars supporting the sky, each stroke of the water could easily stir up a raging torrent that could submerge islands.

The head was hidden behind the hazy water vapor and the lingering turbulent spiritual energy, making it difficult to see clearly. Only a pair of huge, ancient eyes, as large as the sun and moon, occasionally appeared and disappeared in the churning waves.

"The Northern Sea... the Black Tortoise?!"

A name originating from ancient memories, existing almost exclusively in the most secret legends of the primordial era, suddenly leaped into Kong Xuan's mind!

Legend has it that in the far north, where chaos remains, there dwells a creature called a tortoise, whose lifespan is immeasurable and whose body supports the heavens!

Could this be the legendary Northern Dark Tortoise, which has existed since the beginning of time?!

In my memory, at the end of the Lich War, Gonggong, the ancestral witch of water, angrily struck Buzhou Mountain, causing the pillar of heaven to collapse, the sky to shatter, and the Milky Way to overflow and flood the wilderness, resulting in widespread suffering.

To mend the heavens and stop the Weak Water, the goddess Nuwa refined five-colored stones to repair the celestial gap, cut off the four legs of the giant tortoise to establish the four poles, and re-established the earth, water, fire, and wind.

And that "giant tortoise" whose four limbs were cut off and used as a pillar to support the sky... is none other than the Northern Dark Tortoise before our eyes!

No wonder it can feed on those powerful Northern Darkness beasts, no wonder its every move attracts the might of the vast heaven and earth!

This is not a matter of cultivation level in the ordinary sense, but rather that its very existence is closely connected with a part of the origin of the primordial world, and it is an innate deity born with a certain mission of heaven and earth!

Its enormous size, strong vitality, and profound origin have probably reached an inconceivable level, almost a manifestation of the "Tao".

"This is a level of existence that is far beyond my current understanding, and certainly not one I can afford to offend!"

Kong Xuan knew in his heart that this Xuan Turtle was a future "sky-supporting" material, and the cause and effect it carried was related to the survival of heaven and earth, and even the actions of sages had to be treated with caution!

As the Xuan Turtle, bearing the destiny of the "Future Pillar of Heaven," slowly sank into the deeper part of the Northern Sea, into the eternally dark sea where even light seemed to be swallowed up, and the earth-shattering turmoil caused by its activity was gradually subsiding, Kong Xuan dared not hesitate even for a moment.

"Go! Leave immediately! The farther the better!"

Alarm bells rang in his mind, and he no longer had any desire to investigate or observe.

Faced with such an existence that involves the future of the world and whose cause and effect are as heavy as the primordial chaos, any thought of approaching, spying on, or even intersecting with it is a path to death!

He had no desire to be inexplicably drawn into such a complex web of cause and effect that even saints would have to carefully plan for.

Then, the five-colored escape light that had been prepared around him was instantly activated to its maximum. His figure was like lightning, and he sped off in the opposite direction from the direction the black tortoise had left!

They didn't even dare to turn their heads, afraid that looking at them again would lead to some unpredictable changes.

He could even imagine that even the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and other future saints who were currently listening to the Dao at Zixiao Palace would probably not easily take action if they encountered this Xuan Turtle in the Northern Underworld. Instead, they would maintain a respectful distance.

There is no other reason than that the causal threads wrapped around the Xuan Turtle lead directly to the great merit and karmic power of repairing the world in the future!

If its fundamental structure is damaged at this time, causing its limbs to be insufficient to support the heavens and earth when the sky collapses in the future...

The resulting karmic backlash and entanglement will be a catastrophe that could bring down a saintly position and cause all living beings in the prehistoric world to suffer!

Such cause and effect, in the vast universe, who can bear it? And who is willing to bear it?

Kong Xuan only wanted to cultivate peacefully and seek to escape his original fate. He would avoid such heavy responsibilities and karmic consequences as he could, so how could he dare to have any thoughts or dare to step forward?

At the same time, they also planned to leave Beiming as soon as possible.

I have only stayed in the Northern Underworld for a few hundred years and I have already encountered such a terrifying thing. If I stay any longer, I don’t know what other beings I might provoke.