Chapter 193 - 71: Rewards and Merits
The morning sunlight had yet to dispel the haze.
A thunderous roar shook the desolate Yanpo Forest with a rumbling sound.
It was but a single night, and the largest forest outside Polo City, Yanpo Forest, had already changed beyond recognition.
"What in the world happened?" Clad in a yellow hunting robe, his face so somber it seemed it could drip with frost, King Fa Xiaoyun of Shang exploded in rage.
The entire Royal Family of Shang knew the significance of Yanpo Forest to the entire Shang Kingdom.
The Land Crocodile Turtle that had lived nearly as long as the Shang Kingdom itself was left by our ancestors.
Every Emperor of Shang Kingdom since childhood would be told the tale of the divine turtle empowering the nation.
In earlier years, the monarchs of Shang Kingdom would even assign the Imperial Army to guard Yanpo Forest, but that divine turtle was naturally ferocious, devouring any human or Dark Beast that dared to approach.
As time passed, the monarchs of Shang would simply follow the ancestral instructions, raising a group of Dark Beasts on the outskirts to feed the crocodile turtle, ensuring that as long as the turtle lived, the nation’s fortunes would flourish.
Little did anyone know that by dawn, after only three crows of the rooster, the Heavenly Master from the Tianji Pavilion within the palace urgently reported in the night, claiming that a blood disaster occurred within Yanpo Forest, outside Polo City.
Fa Xiaotian initially dismissed it and did not immediately dispatch troops to the outskirts; in his youth, he had ventured into Yanpo Forest and if not for bearing the bloodline essence of the Fa Family, he might have been swallowed by the turtle as well, holding a deep disdain for the ugly creature in his narrow heart.
Moreover, Fa Xiaoyun had always believed there were no beasts or masters within the kingdom that could threaten the turtle’s life.