Wu Yu was sure as could be that the black soil beneath his feet for the last few days had definitely been soil.

But even though he had made sure, and used his Eyes of Fire and Gold countless times, still there were times when he would see wrongly.

When they left that piece of land, they saw that what was underfoot was not the original soil. This meant that the layer of soil there had been shaken off. What rose up before Wu Yu's eyes was a black tortoise shell, about the same size as the Burnished Golden Ant. It was simply patterned, lines that divided the shell into about 100 equally sized pieces. Each piece started to grow into a little hill at a visible rate. This tortoise shell soon became a mountain range.

And then the head, four limbs, and tail of the black tortoise stretched out. These were the exposed parts of the body. However, even these parts were not flesh, but some sort of stone-like material. It was black as obsidian, and Wu Yu understood that...