124 Volcanos Core. (2/2)

The core of the volcano was a vast and hollow cavern that was practically completely empty, a pool of magma about 200 meters wide located at the center of the cavern. The pool was unleashing a strong gravitational pull, sucking in all the surrounding Qi and loose items, the gravity well was clearly located within the pool.

Floating above the pool were seven different lights, one brown, one turquoise, one crimson, one blue, one silver, one green, and one that was a darker brown. Each of the seven lights was bobbing around slightly as if they were dancing around each other, everyone acutely aware of what these seven lights were, seven different elementals.

And standing guard around this pool and the seven elementals was the Demonic beasts guarding it. There were seven Demonic beasts, each of them looking like a 10-meter long snake with eight limbs that ended in thin and vicious claws. Each of the beasts matched the color of one of the elementals, they most likely shared the same element.

The eyes of the seven snakes congreated on Li Yang's group the moment they walked around the bend, sending them an insidious glare. The seven snakes suddenly moved, crawling on top of each other and unleashing a blinding light that filled the entire cave. Once the light passed, the seven snakes had vanished, a nearly 200-meter long and seven-headed hydra with a thick dragon-like body standing in its place, a guttural voice leaking out from all seven mouths at once.

”You certainly waited quite patiently, humans, you are more vigilant than I expected.”

Each of the seven snakes only had the energy of a beast at the late stage of the Immortal Rebirth realm, but when they fused they almost reached the late stage of the Primordial Rune realm, enabling the beast to speak the human tongue. The seven pairs of eyes swept over the group, suddenly gathering on an excited Li Yang and Langshen, shock and confusion quickly appearing in the fourteen eyes.

”Why ar...!”

A thunderous boom echoed throughout the cave before the hydra got to finish its sentence, Li Yang riding on a thick bolt of golden lightning and crashing into the crimson one of the hydra's heads. His golden sword was piercing through one of its scales and digging into its body, allowing him to stand directly next to its eye, whispering in a voice so low that only the two of them could hear it.

”Now now, why don't you be nice and quiet? If you don't tattle, neither will I.”

Li Yang glanced down at the pool of magma while talking, making it abundantly clear to the hydra what he was talking about. The other people here might not be able to notice, but the moment the seven snakes had fused, Li Yang had sensed the aura of a Divine beast from it. As it too was a Divine beast, the hydra was able to sense that Li Yang could be considered a humanoid Divine beast, it was likely about to ask why Divine beasts like him and Langshen were working together with humans.

The others here knew that Langshen was a Divine Beast, but they had no idea that Li Yang could be considered one. And if he could help it, he would prefer to keep it that way, so he had to quickly shut up the hydra. The hydra's eyes narrowed after hearing Li Yang's threat, but it didn't shake him off, simply replying in a low voice.

”Blackmailing me, are you?”

It hadn't expected Li Yang to detect what was hiding beneath the gravity well, the Hydra's eighth body, as well as the eight elemental. The hydra was originally born here, much like the elementals were being born here, which was why the elementals and the hydra shared the same elements. As the gravity well dragged in more and more energy, new elementals and new bodies for the hydra would be born, it was the birth of the eighth ones that had spawned the grandiose scene that had attracted everyone here. Li Yang's lips curled up slightly, his shoulders shrugging lightly as he looked deeply into the eye of the hydra.

”No, I'm stating facts. You can spill my secret now, but that just means that you'll be properly dying here.”

Even if these seven heads were killed here, as long as the eighth body remained alive, the hydra could return to his strongest state given enough time. But if even the eighth body was killed, then the hydra would end up being truly dead, something it wanted to avoid at all cost. The hydra studied Li Yang for a quick instance, eventually judging that he didn't seem to be the type that would go against his word. The hydra blinked once and gave a fractal nod of the head that Li Yang was latching onto, Li Yang returning a faint nod.

”Good boy.”

Li Yang pulled out his sword and sent a lightning bolt toward Fang Ying, riding on it to immediately return to her. Both he and the beast could communicate incredibly quickly, so the exchange actually only took around one second, to the others it simply looked like he had exchanged moves with the hydra already. Once he landed next to Fang Ying, he transmitted a message into her ears using his Qi.

”Don't tell anyone about the tiny body hiding at the bottom of the gravity well. And if possible, even if we are unable to get our hands on any of the elementals, I want to get my hands on as much of its blood as possible, especially the blood in the crimson and the blue head.”

He could feel that the crimson head had the fire element and that the blue head had the lightning element, getting the blood from these heads would be very beneficial for Jinwu and Shenlong. Fang Ying nodded her head, merging with Langshen as her white sword appeared in her grasp. Before getting their hands on the blood of this hydra, they would have to defeat it first.