Chapter 568
The exact appearance of the Heavenly Beast, whether it truly resembles a tortoise, is now impossible to verify.
However, with a specific name, it becomes much easier to search for related information.
Though most of the records are fragmented, it can generally be confirmed that the Heavenly Beast was a "totemic" existence in the distant ancient era, seemingly tied closely to a certain form of faith.
Li Fan mused, "The Heavenly Beast likely belonged to the Xuantian Sect."
"During the war in which the Ten Great Sects of the Immortal Dao annihilated the Xuantian Sect, the Heavenly Beast fell and transformed into Nine Mountains."
"Senior Sister Zhao once mentioned that the Xuantian Sect usurped heavenly authority and could grant mortals [marks], enabling them to wield supernatural powers that only cultivators possess."
"And if they could grant such powers, naturally, they could also revoke them."
"Perhaps on the battlefield of Tianling Prefecture, the reason those cultivators locked onto by green light lost their ability to fly and plummeted from the skies was due to this very mechanism."
"In my past life, the 'Mysterious' Net' I remember hardly exhibited such [revocation] abilities. To suppress rebellious cultivators, they often had to dispatch the black-robed [Heavenly Sorcerers] instead."