"What the hell is this thing?" Jiang Wen couldn't help but ask himself.
"I just checked, and these snakes have human remnants mixed within them," Zi Yun said casually. "In other words, the snakes here are妖物 (monster/demon) combined with human souls."
"Are you saying that so many eggs are a mixture of snakes and human souls?" Hearing this, Jiang Wen couldn't help but feel astonished as he looked at the seemingly endless cave. This huge cave was full of snake eggs, with no end in sight.
How large could such a huge number be? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Or hundreds of thousands?
"Yes, I can feel the fluctuations of the souls within these snakes. Those fragmented remnants of souls still have some consciousness and can unintentionally perform various actions. However, they have already merged with the snakes' fetal souls, and these snakes' fetal souls will eventually devour them as they grow," Zi Yun's calm voice echoed.
"What benefits could this possibly bring to the person who planned this?" Jiang Wen was quite puzzled.
"If I'm not mistaken, these snakes can all develop spiritual intelligence six months after they are born," Zi Yun said. "A snake's growth rate is very fast. Ordinary humans need more than ten years to become adults, but half a year is enough for a snake. By mixing them with human remnants, the snakes can successfully devour them when they grow up, and then develop spiritual intelligence."
"You should know how difficult it is for a demon to develop spiritual intelligence, just like long-lived creatures, some of them find it difficult to develop spiritual intelligence even after thousands of years. But these snakes are different. Mixed with human remnants, they only need to wait for their fetal souls to grow up to inherit human intelligence."
"Great!" Li Yunshang hurriedly agreed. She had never encountered such an exciting thing before.
"I, I'm fine." Jiang Wen covered his mouth and swallowed the blood that was stuck in his throat.
At the end, they saw a huge cave.
Dragon, a mythical creature in legends.
"Sound? No? What did you hear?" Li Yunshang shook her head and asked.
Just as Jiang Wen was about to fly down on his sword, a loud voice came from his head.
Li Yunshang exclaimed and quickly took out a medicinal pill for Jiang Wen to take. Then, she used her magic power to calm the injury in his abdomen.
Immediately, blood flowed from Jiang Wen's seven orifices. His abdomen churned, and a mouthful of hot blood spurted out.
"What a terrible plan." Jiang Wen took a deep breath to calm his emotions.
Jiang Wen knew Zi Yun's abilities. Yan Gongli said that ordinary Dao Palace cultivators might not be able to subdue her. If it weren't for Jiang Wen's unknown methods, they would have lost their lives in the Yin Realm at that time.
In the center of the cave, countless golden chains were binding a turquoise dragon!
Its head was like a bull, its horns like a deer, its eyes like a shrimp, its ears like an elephant, its neck like a snake, its belly like a snake, its scales like a fish, its claws like a phoenix, and its palms like a tiger. It had eighty-one scales on its back, conforming to the number nine-nine. Its eyes were tightly closed, and its weak breathing sounded like a bronze bell. It had green whiskers beside its mouth, which rose and fell with its movements.
"What's going on? Why is a... dragon buried under Happy Abode?" Li Yunshang's eyes widened, and she couldn't close her mouth as she looked at the dragon.
"This dragon... seems to be still alive." Zi Yun's voice was a little fearful, and she was obviously afraid of this dragon.
Jiang Wen looked at the four huge statues and then at the bound dragon. He kept thinking about the relationship between the two. Could it be that the cultivators of the Zheng Shen Dao (Righteous God Path) bound this dragon here?
Thinking of this situation, Jiang Wen asked Zi Yun in his heart whether Dao Palace cultivators or saints could bind this dragon.
This is also why demons are oppressed by humans and driven out of the twenty-four states. If this kind of thing comes true, and every hatched snake can become a demon, then what mortals will face is a disaster of extinction.
"Did you hear any sounds just now?"
The Dagan royal family is proud that their ancestors were related to dragons, but now they can see an existing dragon at the Xianmen (Immortal Sect) gathering in Sucheng. Anyone would be shocked.
It wasn't until today that Jiang Wen truly saw a dragon from mythology so closely.
After hearing Zi Yun's confirmation, Jiang Wen realized how big the conspiracy was. Once this kind of thing really succeeds, what people will face will not be rare demons who are difficult to cultivate. Instead, they will face demons that reproduce faster than humans, grow faster, and are stronger.
The reason why demons are more powerful than ordinary cultivators is that it is difficult for demons to develop spiritual intelligence. They can only be selected through natural wind and rain, and then one or two demons are born from thousands of species.
He looked at the dragon's claws, which were like a chicken but only had four claws. He thought that this dragon should not be a real dragon, but perhaps belonged to the category of python dragons.
This dragon was several times larger than Chi Yao, and its whole body was pierced by chains, locking the scales on its body.
Its bright red blood continuously seeped from the chains and slowly dripped into the huge pool below.
Looking at the cave, its size was more than a thousand feet, like a large lake, and it was empty enough to drop a city. The four walls of the cave were carved with four divine statues, the same as the Supreme Celestial Venerable of the Zheng Shen Dao.
"What a good plan." Li Yunshang sighed. "Although I am a cultivator, I have to take a different look at this group of demons. If this matter can really come true, I am afraid that the immortal sects will do everything possible to destroy the demons."
"Let's go down and take a look." After Jiang Wen calmed down, he continued to walk towards the interior of the cave with Li Yunshang.
Since meeting Jiang Wen, she had encountered far more thrilling things than before. Just like this giant dragon, I am afraid that no one would have thought that it would be in the Xianmen gathering.
"Immortal, I am wronged."
Li Yunshang, who was listening on the side, was dumbfounded. She didn't expect that the purpose of this group of demons was this. Feeding demons with human remnants, so that they can develop spiritual intelligence in advance.
Such a powerful Zi Yun was now afraid in front of this dying dragon. It was really hard to imagine who had trapped it here.
If this kind of thing is said, I am afraid that it is not just a shock to Dagan. Even the entire human world will feel fear.
"Go down and take a look?" Jiang Wen looked at the river of blood gathered under the dragon and said to Li Yunshang.
Those chains entangled on the dragon's body were dozens of meters wide each. Even if someone lay on them, they would feel flat.
Jiang Wen felt his head buzzing. He never thought that Chi Yao had laid such a big game. If she was given a few more years, I am afraid that the entire Sucheng would be replaced by monsters.
"What's wrong?" She asked anxiously.
"No." Zi Yun shook her head. "Even if it looks like it's dying now, even if a Sendai (Saint Platform) saint comes, they can't do anything about it. Just now, I just felt the breath of this dragon, and I was suppressed so much that I couldn't bear it. It's hard to imagine what kind of supernatural power it will have when it recovers."
Jiang Wen raised his head in horror and stared straight at the bound dragon.
The voice he heard just now was exactly the same as the one he heard in the river before, all of which were these words of grievance.
"What exactly are you?" Jiang Wen asked in his heart.
