As for the result, you both have seen it. For over ten thousand years, I'm still a lonely snake. Whether it's people from the Imperial Court or the Guu Family, aside from those first thousand years when they visited a few times, they have never come to see me again."

Speaking human words, the earth core profound serpent slightly regained some of its size upon entering the Lotus Pool, allowing the two sitting on it to reach and pick the lotus seeds from the lotus platforms.

As for the precious Fire Spirit Lotus Seeds it guards...

The great black serpent really doesn't care about those things. It's so tired of eating them!

Eating them every day.

Eating them every month.

Eating them every year.

And has been eating them for eighteen thousand years!

When it was young, they at least helped improve its cultivation, so it ate them as meals for their effects.

But once it reached the Peak of Peak realm, stuck without moving, these lotus flowers and seeds became as useless as the omnipresent metals around magma flows.

In such circumstances, no matter how precious these things are, others can take them without the serpent caring.

In fact, apart from the two at the very center, all the lotus flowers in this fire pool have been replanted and grown over the years.

Why?

Because those once contemporary with the deepest two Fire Spirit Lotus Flowers in the magma pool were all bitten and spoiled by this earth core profound serpent.

For no reason.

Nothing else.

Just for fun!

These lotus flowers are useless to it, useless like weeds in its yard, pulling them out only for them to grow back soon.

Thus, the great black serpent carried the two and wandered around the magma lake, listening to Chen Zhixing talk about things outside, watching Chen Zhaosheng jumping like a monkey on the lotus platforms, constantly putting those little snacks into a palm-sized pouch.

The picking lasted for four hours!

When Chen Zhaosheng nearly filled his own storage bag with gathered Fire Spirit Lotus Flowers, not knowing how many thousands of lotus seeds he'd packed, the great black serpent let out a strange laugh:

"Over there, sir, take your time, don't rush. There are plenty of lotus seeds. If you don't mind them being stored for long, I have many more big ones in my belly, saved for trading with esteemed individuals like yourselves."

Saying this, the serpent extended its tongue, revealing a room-sized jade box filled to the brim with lotus seeds, containing maybe thousands of them.

Chen Zhaosheng: "..."

He suddenly thought, what if he killed this snake?

So incredibly wealthy!

And with so many small lotus seeds, it surely stored the meter-sized ones produced by the larger lotus flowers in its belly!

He really wanted to kill it!!!

Chen Zhaosheng wanted to kill the great black serpent.

Chen Zhixing didn't have that thought.

Actually, if not for Chen Zhaosheng accompanying him, he wouldn't have picked those small lotus seeds, maybe just picked the lotus pods from the central two Fire Spirit King Lotus, said to be over fifty thousand years old.

Hmm.

You can imagine, with so many Fire Spirit Lotus Seeds appearing outside, their market price will surely plummet.

That being so, it's better to leave these seeds in the serpent's custody, taking them only when needed.

Receiving the gifts from the black serpent, Chen Zhixing initially wanted to chat further, but ended up hurriedly pulled away by Chen Zhaosheng, saying that the commotion made earlier was too big. They should return to Chen Family to stabilize the situation and come chat next time, bringing some gifts for 'Brother Snake' as well.

After bidding farewell to the great black serpent, on the way back, Chen Zhaosheng explained the positioning of this earth core world to Chen Zhixing, also mentioning other similarly ranked 'forbidden lands' throughout the world.

Back when the Imperial Court dominated the Five Great States, it also brought these massive entities underground into its rule, knowing enough about their temperament, these large beasts that might not seem intelligent but were very powerful.

These wild beasts aren't normal life forms!

Born from nature, with no parents.

Born at the Peak realm, their advancement possibilities not segmented like human cultivations and completely unable to reproduce.

Imperial Court scholars even speculated that these beasts might be original species of the Celestial Desolate Realm, with those underground having the potential to transform into Divine Spirits after long lives.

Divine Spirit.

Back when the Imperial Court ruled, it fought with a Divine Spirit transformed from a wild beast, a giant flaming bird stretching a thousand zhang across, spiraled in the earth core's deeper layers at a depth of fifty thousand zhang.

Its habitat was a massive underground volcano lake, comparable to a state's domain, purely magma-induced, living off the fire Spiritual Power emitted from the earth core.

Incredibly powerful!

Completely immune to any fire elemental attacks, even the law fire of the Longevity Realm couldn't damage it, its physical strength terrifying enough to move mountains and seas, especially in its abode by the volcano lake's throat, where the Emperor Venerable went with the Four Great Venerables to fight it.

Ultimately, they were all driven out of that fiery realm.

As a result, the flaming bird's realm was defined as beyond Longevity Realm, ranking it among the top ten known extreme territories of Celestial Profound Realm!

There are seventeen such territories!

In the depths of the Extreme North Ocean, within its Land of Ruins, lies a three-thousand-zhang giant whale.

Near the East Sea coast, an even larger entity known as the land turtle, a terrifying creature.

The ghost coffin within the Frozen Plateau, chilling even the Longevity Realm True Monarch.

The original Imperial Court site, where every thousand years a peaceful presence like white clouds awakens to consume boundless Spiritual Qi, known as the Cloud Demon.

On the Western Continent, two as one, one god, and one Buddha formed by Westerners' belief consumption.

Wandering No Return Island every time appearing cloaked in district-wide fog, the 'Celestial Ghost.'

In the Thunder Pool resides the Thunder Dragon.

On Shocking God Mountain, the Shocking God Palace.

Longevity Forest of Ten Thousand Trees, rumored to house Immortal Fruit capable of confirming Longevity Tao Fruit.

In the East, the abandoned-for-countless-ages Dragon Palace in the East Sea depths.

Secret Traces Forest on Star Continent.

The Demon Race Ancestral Court in the Western Continent.

The ancient Ten Thousand Skull Mountain Longevity site, now the Longevity Tomb of the Daluo Taoist Sect.

Unknown in beginning or end, but bringing the Netherworld Inn, housing the Soul-Collector during Longevity Taoist passings.

The Celestial Plain located in Central State, the ascent path Longivity Masters must tread to leave the Celestial Profound Realm.

No Return Island of Southern Wilderness; appearing as a ten-thousand-zhang floating island, but once inside, anyone passing five thousand zhang cannot come out.

And lastly, which should not be called an extreme territory, but is a greatly perilous site to the Human Race, Julu Continent! It remains entirely untapped and the native dwelling of Celestial Profound Realm's wild beasts.

Inside this region, not only Peak realm beasts reside, but deeper exists terrifying entities above Longevity Realm, which the imperial pinnacle needed full force to contend with!

Among so many mysterious or terrifying places, if the fixed bird living in the earth core's five-thousand-zhang magma lake is ranked among the top ten deadly territories, it's uncertain what more dreadful creatures might lurk deeper within.

It's important to know that five-thousand-zhang sounds far, but for Celestial Profound Realm's enormous body, forget five-thousand zhang, even a straight-five-thousand-li distance still only circles around the bottom shell!

The deeper domain underground holds unknowns that even Longevity True Monarchs dislike exploring.

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