Chapter 18 In the Deep Sea

Boom!

Realizing that the essence of that spiritual sound was actually a dragon's roar from a very distant true dragon, Su Zhou subconsciously exploded with all of his spiritual pressure and aura.

In an instant, the invisible wave spread. All the sea descendants within a radius of dozens of miles, regardless of whether they possessed dragon blood, were all deterred in place, unable to move. Only after a few seconds, when they regained their ability to move, did they rapidly wag their tails and retreat into the distance!

And in Su Zhou's hand, the Xuan black sea snake was immediately stunned, drooping limply in Su Zhou's hand.

At this moment, Su Zhou didn't have time to pay attention to the situation of this small sea snake, because his spiritual power and spirituality were now in a very mysterious way, crossing thousands of miles, and clashing with an existence at the distant end!

For a time, incredibly detailed illusions even appeared before Su Zhou's eyes.

He saw that it was a deep sea as black as ink, without the slightest light, and white particles like snow fell in the silent sea water.

At the bottom of the sea, there were stone pillars that looked like towering chimneys, spewing out large amounts of high-temperature water and underground substances, forming high-temperature hydrothermal activity circles!

These black chimneys were as large as nearly a hundred meters high, with huge vents ranging from one meter to several meters in radius, and the smaller ones were also several meters to a dozen meters high, with vent diameters of several tens of centimeters. They violently spewed out large amounts of black smoke, and within the smoke, dazzling spiritual light flickered!

In the era of spiritual energy recovery, even the earth itself had been changed. Magma was originally just a high-heat molten substance, and apart from the high temperature, there was nothing special about it, but in the era of 'Earth Awakening', the magma itself became the blood of the earth's veins, possessing extremely rich earth fire spiritual energy.

And the same was true of the undersea black chimneys. They were originally just eruption points of the ocean's underground thermal cycle, spewing out large amounts of underground substances, but now, they had become a hotbed for the eruption of ocean spiritual energy, creating a large 'spirit-rich zone' at the bottom of the sea.

This was an undersea Blessed Land, a spiritual mountain secret realm!

But, the most important thing was not these... As the various spiritual lights were spewed out from the black chimneys, large swathes of the sea area were illuminated, leaving only a huge shadow.

Su Zhou concentrated his mind and looked, and then, let out a long breath.

Because that shadow was not an area without spiritual light... but rather, the spiritual light spewed out by the black chimneys was being absorbed and obscured by something huge.

One could vaguely make out that it was an incomparably huge, unimaginably long... dragon skeleton!

This dragon skeleton, just the head alone, was as huge as a small mountain. Its bones were scattered on the seabed, and even mixed with the undulating mountains of the seabed, becoming the nests of countless undersea creatures!

At this moment, as spiritual sense reached its peak, Su Zhou could see that above the huge dragon skull, in the eye socket of the corpse, a jiao dragon with horns on its head that had not yet fully grown was swimming. That was its nest, and also its residence. The bottom of the abyss, thousands of meters deep, seemed to have no impact on it, and its movements were still agile and natural!

And in the depths of that eye socket nest, there was a rounded spiritual light like a pearl, twinkling like a star.

The spiritual sense ended, and the faint dragon roar also gradually dissipated.

It didn't seem to appear often, but only occasionally released a segment. The Xuan black sea snake seemed to know this, so it brought Su Zhou here.

"There are already transcendent-level creatures in the sea?"

Leaving the illusion sensed by his spiritual sense, Su Zhou's face was as heavy as water, and his expression was serious.

Able to interact with him across thousands of miles, causing bloodline resonance, that jiao dragon, which didn't seem to be fully grown, could it already have become a true dragon, and reached the transcendent stage?

One had to know, that there were still some human forces with inheritances whose leaders had not yet reached the transcendent stage! Even if they obtained the bloodline inheritance of a demon beast, it shouldn't be so fast.

"No, it's not it. Its power isn't on the same level as me, and just now I only saw it unilaterally, it doesn't seem to be able to sense me."

But soon, Su Zhou shook his head, denying his previous guess. In his mind, the huge dragon skeleton emerged, and Su Zhou said in a deep voice: "What was mutually sensing me just now... was actually that huge dragon skeleton!"

"It's the spiritual nature and dragon pearl left behind by that true dragon corpse, mutually sensing my blood!"

This was the correct answer.

"A spirit-rich zone actually appeared on the seabed, and a jiao dragon is already growing and being nurtured... hiss, this situation is much more complicated. This is equivalent to the seabed also having a Blessed Land, and next to the dragon corpse, many dragon-blooded sea monsters similar to jiao dragons will definitely be spawned."

"And looking at this size, it's not impossible for giant sea beasts like those in Japanese monster films to appear in the future!"

For a time, even Su Zhou felt a headache: "Yala, your bloodline is really powerful, it can actually remotely sense the power of other true dragons... Doesn't this mean that as long as I wander around the ocean, I can easily obtain the benefits left behind in these corpses?"

"Of course." Yala flicked its tail, poked Su Zhou's face, and said rather proudly: "That's why I've always said, 'Let the swimming dragon enter the sea, let the tiger return to the mountains'... Of course, these benefits are just so-so for you, after all, you already have my inheritance, and you also have the powerful inheritance of other humans, so you don't need to obtain the dragon pearl inheritance of those Dragon Kings to become stronger quickly."

"But if your luck isn't as good as I think, for example, if you were to flee back from the Divine Wood World in a panic without obtaining any benefits, and you also didn't obtain the Leize inheritance given by the Zheng Nation official, then I would guide you to the sea, and snatch the inheritance from those little jiaos."

"How many times are you going to play the 'swimming dragon enters the sea' gag?" Su Zhou couldn't help but complain, and as if thinking of something, he touched his chin: "Speaking of which, Leize Leishen also has a dragon body and a human head, could it be..."

Yala didn't reply, and Su Zhou didn't continue to ask.

After a while, the Xuan black sea snake in Su Zhou's hand woke up, and Su Zhou released it, patting its head: "Little guy, thank you for telling me such a big secret."

As he said that, he casually bit his finger and dripped out a drop of blood: "Here's yours, consider it a reward."

This blood, containing a bluish-purple spiritual light, didn't dissipate in the seawater. It neither sank nor floated, like a gem suspended within.

After seeing it, the black snake trembled excitedly all over, but it didn't immediately open its mouth to swallow it, but circled around the drop of blood a few times, and then looked at Su Zhou, as if asking, 'Can I really take it?'.

And Su Zhou naturally agreed: "Leave after eating it, be careful, and remember, don't attack humans either."

He said with a smile, not expecting a snake to fully understand his meaning: "Otherwise, I won't hold back."

After receiving permission, the black snake simply swallowed the drop of blood. It wagged its body at Su Zhou, and then swam towards the depths of the ocean.

"Speaking of which, Su Zhou, after obtaining the information about the Dragon King's remains, what do you plan to do?"

Watching the black snake swim away, Yala, who rarely cared about other creatures besides Su Zhou, took the initiative to ask with a curious tone: "Are you going to prepare for a while and then go rob it, or are you going to wait for that jiao dragon to grow up before killing it, and then take both the big and small dragon pearls together?"

"What else can I do?"

Su Zhou rolled his eyes in the seawater, and he shook his head: "Prepare for a while and then go rob it... A human fighting a jiao dragon in the deep sea? Of course, I'm going to report it to the officials!"

It wasn't that Su Zhou didn't want to take it all for himself—if it was really suitable and his strength met the standard, Su Zhou would have taken action today and gone straight into the seabed a few thousand meters deep, killing the jiao dragon's entire family. He would eat all the delicious things all by himself. Of course, he wouldn't necessarily kill them, he would hand them over to the country to see if they could be raised, so that he could eat dragon meat every day.

Just like that wood centipede, it was said that artificial breeding had been successful, and if there was a chance in the future, he could really eat wood centipede eggs every day.

But the human body was really not suitable for fighting in the water. Just now, Su Zhou also saw through spiritual sense that the jiao dragon moved freely and easily in the deep sea, and its body structure was very suitable for water combat. Even if he used his full strength, it was impossible to leave the other party behind, and it was very likely that the other party would escape far away—being able to defeat it was useless if he couldn't kill it, right?

What's more, the deep sea was too dangerous. Su Zhou felt that if he couldn't spiritualize all of his body structure into spiritual power organs, it would probably be difficult to adapt to that extreme environment.

In this way, it meant that if he didn't reach the high level of transcendence, going to the seabed was a very dangerous thing, but if Su Zhou was already high level of transcendence, then the inheritance and the power contained in the dragon pearl wouldn't be so attractive to Su Zhou—it was a rather useless thing.

Since this was the case, he might as well report it to the officials. If they wanted to encircle and suppress it, a group of people would encircle and suppress it anyway. He had dragon blood, and if there were really any benefits, it was impossible to avoid him, and it would save a lot of trouble.

"Actually, compared to the benefits and power contained in this dragon corpse, what I care more about is its true identity, and why it died here."

It wasn't just answering Yala's question, Su Zhou was also talking to himself.

He stared at the distant deep sea, as if he could see the huge corpse across thousands of miles. Su Zhou's tone was solemn: "A giant jiao dragon that is thousands of meters long, just the food is a problem. Eating an entire sea ecosystem would probably be a small matter."

"Even if it doesn't need food, its every move would cause the rivers and seas to overturn... Could such a creature really exist before the Heaven-Earth separation a thousand years ago? When exactly did it die, was it a thousand years ago, two thousand years ago, or even thousands of years ago, beyond our history books?"

The mysteries and unknowns brought about by the recovery of spiritual energy were really increasing.

No one could answer this question. If he wanted to find any clues and answers, he was afraid that he could only tell the officials directly and find a trace of clues from the official's vast collection of books.

Swimming all the way back to Haian, this dive took a total of fifty-seven minutes. If he hadn't been attracted by the black snake at the end, he should have been back in just over forty minutes. Su Zhou's estimation of time was still very accurate.

Quickly returning to the hotel, Su Zhou didn't contact Shao Qiming and his sister immediately, but directly pressed several symbols and keys that were more like a password than a number, and then prepared to answer the phone.

This was the direct port left to him by the Central Committee of the Thirty-Six Sages of Zheng Nation. As long as he entered the corresponding number, there would be personnel providing services specifically for him.

In other words, the current Su Zhou actually had a channel to communicate directly with the Central Committee of the Thirty-Six Sages, the highest institution of this Zheng Nation.

【This is Intelligent Interaction Platform No. 5. Hello, Professor Su Zhou.】

The voice that came out was a calm middle-aged man's voice. Su Zhou didn't know who was behind this voice, but from beginning to end, this voice was the one who had been communicating with him.

"I don't know who it is, who's so free. But it might be artificial intelligence?" Su Zhou thought so, but directly said: "When I was diving in the South China Sea, I had a spiritual sense with a huge dragon corpse in the deep sea, and found that there was already a jiao dragon born there, and there was also a dragon pearl that was estimated to be the Dragon King's inheritance."

Su Zhou frankly told everything like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube, and the other end of the communication listened quietly.

Only after Su Zhou had finished speaking did the voice slowly say: 【Thank you very much for providing this information, Professor Su Zhou.】

【What you sensed may be the remains of an ancient demon clan Dragon King, forming a relic.】