"What... what is this?" Hua Shuanniu felt his entire body go limp, not daring to move, as if this oppressive power could crush him into dust. No one answered him, and after a long while, the pressure began to diminish.

Hua Shuanniu's body was thoroughly drenched in sweat. He took a long breath, feeling as though he had just barely escaped death.

But his thirst for revenge propelled him forward.

From a distance, the rooster sent a telepathic message to Chu Mo full of surprise, "Kid, what on earth did you do? Why does he hate you so much?"

"I killed his son," Chu Mo replied simply.

"My oh my, who would've thought you were such a little villain!" the rooster said with a creepy laugh.

"You're the villain!" Chu Mo retorted, "His son wanted to kill me and steal from me!"

"Cluck cluck, well you could've just given it to him - don't you humans pride yourselves on being kind?" the rooster teased.

"Seems like you've got some serious misunderstandings about humans — did they want to make soup out of you or something?" Chu Mo sneered.

"Humph!" the rooster snorted, ignoring Chu Mo.

And so, Chu Mo followed the cave, crawling all the way. The rooster loitered behind, releasing its powerful aura four or five times.

Although each time was immensely powerful, Hua Shuanniu's ability to withstand the pressure improved each time. By the end, he grit his teeth and continued to move forward despite the powerful aura.

Finally, Chu Mo crawled out of the cave and found himself in an incredibly large enclosed space!

This space was about seventy to eighty miles wide, and twenty to thirty miles tall. Being here made Chu Mo feel eerily insignificant.

Above the space, there were about a dozen large tunnels, their destinations unknown.

In the center of this space was a giant nest of twenty miles wide and forty miles tall!

Upon closer inspection, this nest was no different from an ordinary bird's nest — just magnified countless times.

But the wooden vines making up this nest were heating up the jade next to Chu Mo's chest — the Sky Mirror.

"Godly Wood Nest! Boy, look at those green vines, they're still alive! They possess incredibly resilient vitality! If any creature approaches, a few of them will launch a fierce attack!" the rooster explained to Chu Mo, standing next to him, "Try putting away Heaven Slaying."

Chu Mo did as told and withdrew Heaven Slaying. As soon as Heaven Slaying disappeared, an unimaginable, terrifying power flooded in like a sweeping tide!

In an instant, Chu Mo was submerged!

Boom!

Chu Mo's body was viciously thrown back by the pressure, crashing into the stone wall behind him.

Splat!

A mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out from Chu Mo's mouth.

Next, dozens of grey, lifeless wooden vines, like lances, burst from the giant Dragon nest above and aimed straight at Chu Mo.

In the split second of a spark, Chu Mo pulled out Heaven Slaying.

It seemed like this terrifying aura had angered Heaven Slaying as a blood-red glow suddenly ignited.

Buzz!

A humming sound echoed through the area.

An overwhelming, vast terror faded away in an instant!

Those seventy or eighty grey vines, thrusting out like spears, recoiled as if they had met their greatest fear.

But, cut through by the crimson light emitted from Heaven Slaying, they were hacked down in the middle!

They fell uproariously!

The vines, each several tens of meters long, fell onto the ground and squirmed frenziedly, like giant pythons, even making hissing noise.

This scene left Chu Mo dumbfounded.

While the pressure emanating from the dragon lair didn't cause much harm to Chu Mo, it caused his internal organs to feel as if they had been displaced.

"You schemed against me!" Chu Mo glared at the rooster in fury.

"Cackle cackle cackle cackle!" The rooster let out a string of eerie laughs before saying, "I was just giving you a taste of how terrifying this dragon lair is. See? Even amidst this chaos, I didn't seize the opportunity to strike at you!"

As he spoke, the rooster's eyes shone with righteousness. Yet inside, it felt somewhat regretful: this kid has reacted way too quickly! I didn't have time to make a move. Does he really possess the Skyscraper Mirror?

It turns out that the rooster still has designs on the Skyscraper Mirror.

"So, this is the original lair of Azure Dragon?" Chu Mo, not bothering to argue with the rooster, asked as he continued to bring along Heaven Slaying.

The heavy pressure here didn't seem to affect the rooster at all. As it trotted along beside Chu Mo, it answered, "Exactly. After the wicked dragon fell into this world from the fractured space, it began wreaking havoc everywhere. It set up homes and lairs everywhere. Here...is just one of its many lairs. There are many more like this on the Four Symbols Continent - no less than twenty!"

"..." Chu Mo, somewhat at a loss for words, asked, "Why does it need so many lairs?"

"Obviously to nest everywhere! Wasn't it clear in my words? Just count how many descendants it has in today's world! Among all Tier Nine Primordial Beasts, descendants with Azure Dragon bloodline are the most!" The rooster coldly ridiculed with a look of disdain, "It's nothing but a lascivious wicked dragon."

Chu Mo gave the rooster a strange look, "You don't like it?"

The rooster blurted out, "That damn beast isn't just interested in females, it doesn't spare males either. Back then I...uh...knew. Anyway, such low crawling creatures are only fit to tremble and kneel before me!"

Chu Mo looked at the rooster skeptically, thinking to himself: you can't even beat me, yet you claim to have made the Azure Dragon kneel before you?

Yet, Chu Mo was impressed by the rooster's disregard for the oppressive atmosphere. Aside from his penchant for boasting and his slightly sinister demeanor, on the whole, the rooster...seemed acceptable. But he needed to be on guard. Just like how the rooster had attempted to manipulate him earlier, who knew if it had other motives?

"What Tier is the Azure Dragon?" Chu Mo casually asked.

"Tier? That's hard to say." The rooster flapped his wings, pondered a while, then said: "In any case, it fell from the Heavenly Realm along with me. Perhaps... huh...it's pretty similar to me? After all, it too fell victim to the weapon in your hands!"

From the rooster, Chu Mo learned many astonishing secrets that were unknown to the world, such as the likelihood that the Four Sacred Beasts of the Four Symbols Continent hailed from the Heavenly Realm…! This news was shocking!

Apart from Chu Mo and his mentor, no one else on the entire Four Symbols Continent probably knew about the existence of the Heavenly Realm!

"The beasts of the Four Symbols Continent are called Primordial Beasts. The beasts of the Spirit Realm are called Spirit Beasts, yes? And the ones in the Immortal Realm are Immortal Beasts, right? So, the ones in the Heavenly Realm...are they known as Heavenly Beasts?" Chu Mo looked at the rooster: "The Azure Dragon is a Heavenly Beast, right?"

"How...how did you guess that?" The rooster seemed shocked as it stared at Chu Mo with a strange look, "Are you some kind of freak?"(To be continued. If you enjoy this book, please visit (qidian.com) to cast a recommendation or a monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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