Chapter 18: Snakes - 18
When Zhou Fan could stand up, he noticed that all the trees around him were gone. Looking in the middle of the site of the explosion, he noticed a grey energy was eating the surroundings. Zhou Fan observed it for a while before he realized that it was leaving nothing behind.
He was terrified and instinctually willed it to stop. Only then did the grey Qi stop moving. Zhou Fan willed it towards him and the Qi flew into his body. Only then did Zhou Fan have time to pay attention to the surrounding devastation.
In the middle, there was a pit 60 feet deep. If someone didn't know better, they would have thought a meteor had fallen onto the area.
The entire surroundings were absolute chaos!
In fact, since Zhou Fan didn't know of a name for his innate Qi, he decided to call it chaos Qi. Naturally, he named it after what it caused.
Since he had no more reason to stay there, Zhou Fan flew into the air and tried to remember which direction he came from. Luckily, he had memorized all those books and knew the geography around here.
It didn't take long before Zhou Fan made it back to the courtyard. He went inside and sat on his bed while thinking about his breakthrough. After consideration, he decided to come up with a name for this realm after he knew what it did. For example, in the first realm, he was gathering Qi. Hence, Qi gathering. In the second realm, he was establishing a foundation. Hence, foundation establishment.
Based on that notion, Zhou Fan decided to cultivate for a while before naming this realm. Zhou Fan then got into position and started cultivating.
As he was cultivating, he came to the conclusion that it was the same as usual. The only difference was that it was his core that was growing instead of his foundation. After thinking, Zhou Fan decided to name this realm 'Core Formation'. He named it that due to the fact that his core was growing when he cultivated. He had almost considered naming it 'core establishment', but felt that it was to repetitive. Of course, 'core growing' was also considered before being immediately shot down.
While cultivating, Zhou Fan had completely forgot what Fui Rong had told him.
At around 3 am, Zhou Fan heard a slight shattering sound and his eyes shot open. When he looked down, he saw a rainbow colored snake squirming on the ground. Although he had almost instinctively crushed it, Zhou Fan managed to stop himself after remembering what happened last time he dealt with a snake.
Instead, Zhou Fan floated in the air above it horizontally. While looking down below, his incredible eyesight spotted the source of the shattering noise. Zhou Fan saw that the snakes fangs were cracked and destroyed.
The rest of its fangs were in a pile on the bed. Zhou Fan instantly came up with a hypothesis. It was very likely that the snake tried to bite him while he was cultivating. Due to the fact that his body was already harder than diamonds, the snakes fangs broke off, sending it into a spiral of pain.
Zhou Fan decided to observe it further and covered it in Qi before making it float towards him. This was also a nice trick that he learned along with flying. Even after poking and probing the snake, Zhou Fan couldn't recognize it. The fact that Zhou Fan couldn't recognize it meant that it was likely a new species. After all, he had memorized all of the known snakes in the world.
Of course, there was also a chance that it just wasn't on the first five floors. since he had no idea about it, Zhou Fan used some wood Qi and formed a cage around the snake. He also put a door on the cage. Although creating something took a lot of energy and was temporary, Zhou Fan didn't mind.
Zhou Fan had decided to take it to the 8th floor and study it. He would also get the help of some of the researchers there. They would surely be interested in a possibly unknown species.
Zhou Fan was also curious as to where the snake had come from. Zhou Fan sat outside and fully activated his senses. Normally, Zhou Fan didn't have his senses at 100%. After all, with his current eyesight, he would be able to see all the dirt on someone's skin and even their pores. Zhou Fan never wanted to experience that kind of thing.
However, he had no problem activating his senses if it was necessary. Even if it was disgusting, Zhou Fan had already partly disconnected with the human species. Luckily, his pores and skin were clean and pristine after he had gotten rid of his impurities.
With his hearing expanded, it wasn't long before Zhou Fan heard sounds of hissing underground. Zhou Fan stood up and followed the sound to the back of his house. When he arrived, he saw a hole hidden under a bunch of leaves and branches. After he cleared it off, Zhou Fan tried to look down it. The hole, however, was the size of a wheel and was pitch black.
Zhou Fan created a flame and sent it down the hole. At first, the tunnel just continued on and on. After about 100 feet, Zhou Fan the hole suddenly widden. When the flame reached into the widened part, he saw a scene that sent shivers down his spine. At the bottom of the hole, there were hundreds of snakes. And that was just what he could see from his point of view.
Zhou Fan couldn't be considered scared of snakes, but anyone would feel some fear after seeing such a sight. Even then, Zhou Fans curiosity got the best of him. He decided to jump into the hole and investigate the huge cave down there. Luckily, it looked like his body could fit. He may have to squeeze a little bit.
Chapter 19: Dragon - 19
Zhou Fan decided to fly down instead of fall. Although the was confident his body could take it, he wasn't sure the cave would. His body already weighed multiple tons. If not for the fact that he could remove part of his weight, he would destroy the ground every step he took.
It wasn't too long before Zhou Fan reached the entrance to the bottom of the cave. Lighting a fire on his finger, he descended into the heavy darkness. When he could finally, see, Zhou Fan realized that the entire cave wall was covered in snakes! There were at least 10 thousand snakes in the small cave.
Not to mention, there were other paths that also seemed to be covered in snakes. Zhou Fan was grossed out and didn't dare touch the floors. He remained hovering in the air, the only place not infested with snakes.
Luckily, it seemed that the snakes were ignoring him. Otherwise, Zhou Fan would be exhausted to death before he could kill all these snakes.
There were two paths leading from the circular cave. One to the left and one to the right. Since they looked the same, Zhou Fan randomly chose the right path. The path was circular and every bit of it was covered in snakes. Zhou Fan continued on for what seemed like an hour before he reached another circular area. Although the path was quite long, it only took Zhou Fan that long because he was flying at the speed of an average humans walk.
Throughout the tunnel, Zhou Fan had twisted and turned and even gone down at some points. He estimated he was about 1500 feet deep at this point. At the new area, the ground was filled with water. The water looked around 20 feet deep and was filled to the brim with snakes. At this point, Zhou Fan was wondering how these snakes didn't starve to death.
It wasn't long before his question was answered when he saw a group of snakes eating another group of snakes. It seemed that the snakes were in a constant state of killing each other for food.
Zhou Fan didn't stay long at the water area before leaving in another path. He continued down the tunnel filled with lefts, rights, downs, and snakes.
Zhou Fan continued on for 2 hours before he saw some light at the end of the tunnel. At this point, Zhou Fan believed that he was more than a mile underground. He sped up and reached the end of the tunnel fairly quick.
When he exited the tunnel, Zhou Fan saw an incredible sight. In front of him, a gigantic cave stretched on farther than his eyes could reach. It was multiple miles wide and almost a mile in height. In the middle, a giant, blue crystal gave off the light he had seen earlier. There were no snakes here. Almost as if they weren't allowed to enter.
Zhou Fan flew to the crystal in the middle at a casual, yet incredible speed. When he reached it, he put his hand on it to sense it. The crystal was cool to the touch and to Zhou Fans surprise, didn't contain Qi. Zhou Fan was almost certain that something like this would contain some Qi, but it contained none.
Zhou Fan flew down to the ground below the crystal before his feet finally touched the ground. The moment they did, Zhou Fan heard a loud roar!
ROOAAAARRR!!
Quickly turning around, Zhou Fan saw an incredibly weird beast running towards him. It had four legs and a skinny body full of scales. Its face was kind of shaped like a triangle and it had whiskers. In fact, the beast looked more dumb than intimidating. Finding it funny, Zhou Fan decided to humor it.
Zhou Fan gathered some Qi in his throat and let out a heavy roar.
RROOAAARRRR!!!
Zhou Fan roar was many times more ferocious than the weird animals and it stopped running, only to slide down and land in front of Zhou Fan.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!
Zhou Fan let out a heavy laughter at this thing and started to pet it. The feeling wasn't very pleasant due to the fact that it had scales, but Zhou Fan soon got used to it.
"Hahaha, what should I call you little fella."
When the dragon heard him, it snapped out of its stupefied state and tried to act intimidating. Zhou Fan once again let out a laugh and could barely stop. If one could see its face, they would also not be able to take it seriously.
With a single look, Zhou Fan could tell that this was an undiscovered species. Otherwise, he would have heard about such a creature. Although Zhou Fan was laughing, the thing was big. Huge even. It was easily the size of an elephant and only Zhou Fan could treat it like this.
"I'll call you a dragon." Zhou Fan said after looking at the dragon for a while.
Hearing Zhou Fan, the dragon let out a roar before attacking him. Zhou Fan simply waved his hand and shot out a heavy wind. The dragon flew 30 meters away and landed on its head, burying itself in the ground. Zhou Fan once again let out a small chuckle.
Zhou Fan walked over towards it and pulled it out of the ground before sitting it down and looking at it again. Although it was big, it was skinny. Its body was shaped like a tunnel and was now slightly coiled around itself.
The dragon was no longer acting fierce and was now looking fearful in front of Zhou Fan.
"I'll name you Xiaolong. Because your a small dragon."
Although small was maybe the only way not to describe it, Zhou Fan chose to do so.
"Follow me."
Although Xiaolong didn't understand his words, it still followed him out of instinct. Zhou Fan continued on in order to discover more about this place. He had a feeling that Xiaolong wasn't the only secret this place held.
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