The tremors came mostly from beneath their feet.
More precisely, from deep underground.
Chen Mu's divine sense no longer lingered above the ground. Instead, like an eggshell, it extended infinitely into both the sky and the earth!
It was as though he had opened the eye of God. Everything within the entire Falling Star Great Forest lay exposed to his perception, within his grasp.
He easily pinpointed the source of the noise as well.
It was a...
Boom!
The ground heaved upward, and the ruptured earth shot up in a pillar of dust, straight toward the vault of heaven.
Yet a closer look revealed an epic-sized creature hidden within it!
Its scales gleamed with a dark luster.
As the dust, shattered stones, and dirt fell away, its true form emerged.
"Ah!" A powerful cultivator at the Grandmaster realm screamed in fright, then fell flat on his backside.
"An Earthcore Flame Serpent! Didn't these Demon Beasts go extinct long ago? Why has one appeared in the Falling Star Great Forest!"
"If I remember correctly, each ring of red scales on an Earthcore Flame Serpent represents a hundred thousand years of cultivation, right?"
"That's right! One, two, three, four, five... ten! Twelve! Thirteen! Fourteen! There are fourteen red rings in total!"
"So this is an Earthcore Flame Serpent with 1.4 million years of cultivation?!"
Once they realized this, everyone's expressions became impossibly complicated, their faces twisting.
"1.4 million years? Four hundred thousand more than my Moon-Devouring Wolf King?" Chen Mu chuckled.
He found that rather interesting.
Then he learned the Earthcore Flame Serpent's origins from the system.
It had remained hidden in the Earthcore Magma, feeding on the lava to increase its cultivation and strength...
The surface of its scales was so scorching hot that it could easily melt black iron!
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