Ghost Python Mountain.
It was called a mountain, but in truth, it was a circular volcanic crater shrouded year-round in thick green clouds.
Unlike other volcanoes, which either contained boiling molten lava or desolate pale-gray volcanic ash within them.
At the bottom of Ghost Python Mountain was a dark cave about a zhang across, directly connected to the earth's crust.
Earth Lung Phosphorus Fire that had accumulated over countless years poured out from that underground cave, rising into green mist thousands of zhang high above the crater. It left the surrounding thousand-li area utterly barren.
Moreover, from afar, the dark green mist resembled enormous ghostly faces endlessly twisting and struggling.
That was how Ghost Python Mountain got its name.
...Inside a cave beside the dark hole at the foot of the mountain.
"Roar~~"
A black serpent several thousand meters long, coiled and sprawled across the ground, suddenly let out an enraged roar and spread the two enormous scaled bone wings on its back.
Boom!
A violent hurricane swept through Ghost Python Mountain.
Even the Earth Lung Phosphorus Fire that had spewed from the dark hole for hundreds of millions of years temporarily ceased erupting beneath the pressure of the gale, revealing a pearl hovering above the hole and constantly scorched by the flames.
The pearl was roughly three chi in diameter and entirely jade green.
Though it was constantly being burned by the most insidious Earth Lung Phosphorus Fire, the pearl carried not a trace of foul, cold deathly aura. Instead, it brimmed with vigorous life, like all things reviving in spring.
"Absorb."
The black serpent opened its enormous maw and swallowed the jade-green pearl.
Then, with a flap of its bone wings, it rode the Earth Lung Phosphorus Fire erupting from the dark hole once again and shot into