162: Sequence 038: Weak Water Black Turtle

With her newly comprehended "Supreme Water Scripture," Mo Yu, under the gaze of thousands, used softness to overcome hardness, narrowly deflecting the Envoy of Heavens Path's lethal sword strike.

Although she was shaken, her blood churning and her face pale, the flames burning in her eyes were brighter than ever before.

She had blocked it! She had found a way to contend with this terrifying natural enemy!

However, the joy lasted only an instant before turning into a deeper sense of gravity.

She could block one sword strike, but the opponent's nonchalant demeanor clearly showed he had far from exhausted his full strength.

Yet, every time she deflected an attack, she had to exhaust all her strength, mobilizing the Water Origin power of the entire territory, and the consumption of her Divine Soul and mana was terrifying.

Prolonged defense inevitably leads to failure, especially when the opponent's attacks grow stronger each time!

There must be a more durable and stable defensive method! A barrier capable of sharing the pressure and even reflecting a portion of the damage!

As soon as this thought arose, the Immortal in a Bottle Mo Yuan, deep in the core of the Thunder Abyss and in deep Fusion with the Chaos Thunder Pool, immediately sensed her need.

Almost at the same moment Mo Yu conceived the idea, the will of the Immortal in a Bottle had already intervened.

"Analyzing the Envoy of Heavens Path's attack pattern: extreme sharpness, Law-level severing, energy concentrated at a single point."

"Deducing the optimal defense plan: do not resist head-on; requires extreme flexibility, dispersion, absorption, and reflection."

"Calling materials: Origin of the Four Seas' power (guided by coordinates provided by Mo Yu), inert Chaos Thunder Gang of the Chaos Thunder Pool (to absorb impact), Void Realm mother-of-pearl gene template (to disperse force), counter-shock rune array (derived from Ancient Civilization heritage)..."

"Cultivation direction: absolute defense, Law reflection..."

"Naming: [sequence 038: Ruoshui Black Tortoise]!"

Inside the Chaos Thunder Pool, responding to the Creator's will and the urgent needs of the frontline battlefield, the thunder magma surged violently.

This time, what was being nurtured was not an aggressive Vicious Beast, but an ultimate creation focused on defense!

Massive amounts of Void Realm mother-of-pearl shells, tempered by Chaos Thunder Gang, were broken down into the most basic biological spiritual materials. The power of the Four Seas was remotely guided and injected through the link between Mo Yu and the Four Seas Tide-Rising Token. The inert, absorption-and-buffer-proficient Thunder Gang acted as filler, and countless incredibly complex counter-shock runes were engraved by the artifact spirit with the highest precision into every minute structure!

Light was restrained, and Laws intertwined.

In the center of the Thunder Pool, the silhouette of a colossal entity rapidly condensed and took shape!

The next moment, the space not far in front of Mo Yu rippled slightly, and a massive figure appeared out of thin air!

It was a giant tortoise! Its size was not inferior to the previous Starry Sky Whale, and its entire body presented a deep, dark blue hue that seemed capable of absorbing all light.

Its shell was not hard and craggy, but smooth and rounded, flowing with soft halos like water ripples. On the shell, countless incredibly complex, slowly rotating, profound Dao patterns were naturally generated, resonating faintly with the defensive and reflective Laws of heaven and earth!

Its limbs were thick, short, and powerful, with webbed claws, as if it could draw upon the power of the Four Seas at any moment.

On its head, a pair of small eyes flickered with a gentle yet steady light.

It appeared silently, without roaring or intimidation, just floating there quietly, yet naturally emitting a heavy aura of "indestructibility" and "insurmountability"!

[sequence 038: Ruoshui Black Tortoise]! Descends!

Its energy fluctuations might not be violent, but the defensive Dao charm originating from its essence made even Mo Yu, who had just achieved a Breakthrough to True Immortal, feel a sense of peace.

Just then, as if "offended" by Mo Yu's previous defense, the Envoy of Heavens Path moved again.

He still maintained that indifferent expression, but this time, his hand gripping the scabbard tightened slightly.

Then, he thrust forward again.

This time, it was no longer careless; the invisible Sword Intent was condensed even more terrifyingly!

Where the Sword Intent passed, space no longer just rippled, but a tiny, long-lasting black crack appeared that could not mend!

The "severing" Law emanating from it made even Mo Yun, far away in the command tower, feel a stinging pain in her Divine Soul!

Before the attack even arrived, that fierce intent had already caused the light of the Thunder Sword Great Wall to dim once more!

This sword strike was far more powerful than before!

The target was still directed straight at Mo Yu! The Heavenly Dao seemed determined to first eliminate this unexpected variable!

"Black Tortoise!" Mo Yu shouted clearly, injecting all the Water-element mana she had just recovered into the Ruoshui Black Tortoise, while simultaneously activating the Four Seas Tide-Rising Token to channel even more majestic power of the Four Seas to it!

The Ruoshui Black Tortoise's gentle little eyes suddenly lit up with a deep blue light!

It did not dodge or evade, but instead instantly retracted its head and limbs behind that massive shell flowing with water-ripple Dao patterns!

Hum—!

On its smooth shell, those naturally generated profound Dao patterns suddenly shone to the extreme!

The entire tortoise shell seemed to have transformed into a colossal, deep blue mirror!

The Envoy of Heavens Path's terrifying invisible Sword Intent violently struck the center of the Ruoshui Black Tortoise's shell!

The expected violent explosion did not occur.

The Sword Intent, capable of tearing apart stars, upon touching the shell, was like a clay ox entering the sea. The vast majority of its power was instantly dispersed, guided, and absorbed by the shell flowing with water-ripple halos in an extremely flexible manner! It spread throughout the entire shell!

The shell vibrated violently, the deep blue light flickered crazily, and the surface even caved inward at an astonishing arc, as if it would be torn apart at any moment!

But in the end, it did not break!

That extremely flexible material, also containing a trace of Chaos Thunder Gang properties, combined with the natural Dao patterns that dispersed the force, forcibly withstood this terrifying strike!

However, this was not the end!

Just as the power of the Sword Intent was absorbed, those Dao patterns on the Ruoshui Black Tortoise's shell, which were shining to the extreme, suddenly rotated in reverse!

A terrifying force, originating from the same source as the previous Sword Intent but more condensed and with an added tyrannical attribute of Chaos Thunder Gang, was compressed to the extreme, and then, at a speed faster than it had arrived, was violently reflected back!

Swish—!

A deep blue energy beam, with tiny Chaos Thunder arcs winding around its edges, tore through the sky and shot straight at the Envoy of Heavens Path with lightning speed!

On the Envoy of Heavens Path's eternally cold face, a clear ripple appeared for the first time! It was a very faint... surprise?

He seemed to have completely failed to anticipate that this seemingly clumsy defensive creation could actually reflect his attack!

In his haste, he had to raise his left hand, which he had not yet used, and his fingertips bloomed with pure white Dao radiance, gently tapping at the reflected beam.

Pfft!

The deep blue beam and the white Dao radiance collided, silently annihilating each other, and the dissipated energy blew his snow-white robes.

He remained unscathed, but the raised left hand slowly lowered, and there seemed to be extremely tiny, almost invisible energy ripples at his fingertips that had not yet fully subsided.

He remained silent.

Those cold eyes, for the first time, truly carried scrutiny and a trace of imperceptible gravity as they looked at the Ruoshui Black Tortoise, which was floating silently, its shell's light gradually calming down.

Its defense was not absolutely invincible; that last strike had almost reached its limit of endurance.

But, it had truly, undeniably blocked and reflected the Envoy of Heavens Path's strike!

Although it failed to injure the opponent, this was undoubtedly a huge encouragement!

On the city wall, the originally desperate atmosphere was reinvigorated!

Mo Yu let out a long sigh of relief, fine beads of sweat already on her forehead, but her gaze became increasingly firm.

She gently stroked the Ruoshui Black Tortoise's cold yet reassuring shell.

"Good partner... next, we will hold on together!"

The Ruoshui Black Tortoise silently shook its head, its gentle eyes full of steadiness.

Using softness to overcome hardness, using defense to replace offense.

The arrival of sequence 038 finally erected a barrier on this desperate battlefield that, while seemingly fragile, was truly capable of withstanding the sharp edge of the Heavenly Dao!

The Envoy of Heavens Path's gaze shifted between the Ruoshui Black Tortoise and Mo Yu, and for the first time, he did not strike again immediately.

This unequal war seemed to have finally seen a subtle variable!