Heart!
Through Ye Zhen's Spiritual Sense, he sensed that the volcano before him was hollow at its center. Within its empty belly, something resembling a heart was beating powerfully.
However, this heart-like object was not blood-colored, but a vivid scarlet red.
Beneath the heart, it seemed to be connected to dozens of pipes. With every beat, massive amounts of pure scarlet energy were pumped into it. Yet despite such a vast quantity of scarlet energy being pumped inside, the aura of the constantly beating heart did not increase in the slightest.
Ye Zhen sensed carefully. Twenty!
Twenty pipe-like energy channels were continuously delivering energy to that scarlet heart-like object. More precisely, they seemed to be extracting it!
"Twenty energy channels?"
Suddenly, Ye Zhen recalled the strange features of Tiger Mouth Gorge.
Within the tiny area of Tiger Mouth Gorge, twenty underground spirit veins had been gathered in an exceedingly bizarre manner. Yet every one of those underground spirit veins was extremely small, not even a third the size of a low-grade spirit vein.
This had always been an unsolved mystery within the intelligence division of the Sun Moon Divine Cult.
Now, Ye Zhen understood what was happening.
It was because the energy within those twenty underground spirit veins had been continuously extracted by the heart-like thing at the center of the volcano's belly. There was no way they could grow stronger.
As for the origins of those twenty underground spirit veins, Ye Zhen guessed they had something to do with the Earth Core Fire Marshal. Most likely, the Earth Core Fire Marshal had casually brought them here.
Ye Zhen was curious, even somewhat astonished. This heart-like object had continuously extracted energy from twenty underground spirit veins for nearly ten thousand years. Just how terrifying must the energy contained within this