Chapter 1416

What kind of thing made the knowledgeable God of Knowledge shout that they had struck it rich? Of course, it wasn't gold or magic crystals, nor was it the shiny things that dragons love to collect most, but rather the ground covered in White Crystals and Star Flame Crystals.

Everyone's gaze was completely drawn to the White Crystals and Star Flame Crystals filling the cave: "So many? How many Star Descendants could this cultivate?"

The cave was a huge space where the old vines and Puppet Snakes could crawl directly inside. At the entrance was a small mountain of White Crystals, and behind the White Crystal mountain was a slightly smaller mountain of Star Flame Crystals. Just these two piles of things were enough to dazzle everyone's eyes.

"How many White Crystals are here? There must be hundreds of millions, right? Why did the Guman Snake store so many White Crystals here? Why didn't it use them to hatch Star Descendants?" Nage asked, puzzled.

Anthony said, "Because hatching Star Descendants has no meaning for it. The life force of the Star Descendants is used to nourish the World Tree. If the World Tree grows too fast, it might be hard to control, so it consciously controls the number of Star Descendants and limits the amount of life force."

"That makes sense. So it didn't care at all about detonating all the Star Descendants, because for it, hundreds of thousands of Star Descendants can be cultivated easily. If they are wiped out, just cultivate another batch," Ursman agreed with Anthony's deduction.

"Then why did it have to collect all the White Crystals here? Wouldn't it be better to leave them where they were?" Nage asked.

"Perhaps it was afraid they would hatch in place. Aren't there a bunch of White Crystals left behind that have hatched now? Besides, if they weren't collected, they would be stolen and dug up by Aolite," Anthony said.

After some discussion, everyone unanimously concluded that the Guman Snake piled the White Crystals here precisely to control the number of Star Descendants.

"Then what about these Star Flame Crystals? It's impossible that they were all plucked from the Forbidden Little Fire Spirits, right? The quantity is too large; even a hundred Forbidden Little Fire Spirits couldn't have yielded this many," Nage said, looking at the pile of Star Flame Crystals.

Anthony and Ursman exchanged a glance, and Ursman said, "Maybe they were plucked from two hundred Forbidden Little Fire Spirits."

Nage was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?"

Anthony said, "It might not be just one Forbidden Little Fire Spirit; there might have been hundreds. The Guman Snake has been plundering Star Flame power from the Little Fire Spirits, which may have been going on for millions of years, and hundreds of Forbidden Little Fire Spirits have died."

Nage's eyes widened suddenly: "Hundreds? Hundreds of Star Souls like the Forbidden Little Fire Spirit might have already died?"

The Forbidden Little Fire Spirit is more mature than the Little Fire Spirits. Whether in terms of language ability or life experience, it is far richer than the Little Fire Spirits. It is clearly an individual that has lived for a very long time, but as for exactly how long, it doesn't know very clearly itself.

For long-lived species like them, their perception of time is very faint. Humans can perceive hours, but can they perceive milliseconds?

Three to five hundred years is just like a millisecond to a Star, meaningless.

However, even so, the time that the Forbidden Little Fire Spirit can perceive is still too short relative to the Guman Snake and the World Tree. Before it had memories, were there other Star Souls here?

Now it seems that not only were there, but the number was not small, only they had all been plucked clean, leaving only the mountain of Star Flame Crystals before their eyes.

"That is to say, if we don't save the Forbidden Little Fire Spirit, it will end up like the previous Star Souls, having all its power drained and dissipating, and then the Star will re-nurture a new Star Soul, which is a Little Fire Spirit?" Nage asked.

Anthony nodded.

Looking at those Star Flame Crystals, Nage suddenly sighed: "I feel like this Star is so cruel."

"Ah? Why do you say that?" Anthony was stunned for a moment. Why would he have such a sentiment out of the blue? The Star has no consciousness; what is there to be cruel or not cruel about?

"The Forbidden Little Fire Spirit is actually quite a cute little guy, right? Although it's fierce, that's just a front. But the Star has nurtured hundreds of them like this, one after another, just to hatch the Star. The Guman Snake kills one, and it nurtures a new one, continuing until today. Isn't that very cruel?" Nage asked.

"Uh, if you count it that way, then the Wind of Rest is even more cruel. It constantly nurtures undead souls, they turn into skeletons, zombies, and spirits, devouring each other to grow stronger, and the bodies whose souls have been devoured are left in place, waiting for new souls. Isn't that even more cruel?" Anthony said irritably. Why did this little fat dragon suddenly become so sentimental?

"Uh, I guess so." Nage reacted and said somewhat awkwardly: "I lost my composure, I lost my composure. Whenever we dragons see shiny things, we tend to lose our composure."

Ursman asked suspiciously: "I've also heard similar rumors. Is it really like that? Do dragons really get bewitched by shiny things and become evil and cruel?"

"Of course not. It's just that our dragon bodies are too big. From our heads to the ground, it's a full fifty meters. If it's not a shiny thing, we can't see it clearly at all," Nage said.

"So that's how it is. So dragons have poor eyesight," Ursman realized suddenly.

"What poor eyesight? It's that your human things are too small, okay!" Nage said angrily.

"Birds can see things on the ground clearly from hundreds of meters in the sky, and you can't see clearly from fifty meters. If that's not poor eyesight, what is it?" Ursman said.

Just as they were arguing about whether dragons really have poor eyesight, the King's voice came from the depths of the cave: "Come over and take a look."

Clearly, the King had discovered something. Following the King's voice, everyone flew toward the depths of the cave and soon arrived at a large pool filled with bright red lava.

"What is this? Magma? What's there to look at with magma? It's everywhere outside." Nage looked at it for a few moments and couldn't see any clues.

Hisslo and Du Luo Ken, however, quickly discovered the problem. Du Luo Ken even reached out and scooped up a bit of the magma, saying in surprise: "It's not hot, it's cool. It's not magma."

Everyone scooped up a bit, and they found that it was indeed not hot, perhaps only one or two hundred degrees, but the ambient temperature here was already over a thousand degrees. Magma that was only one or two hundred degrees was practically an ice cube.

"What is this thing?" Everyone studied it for a while, but none of them could tell what it was, so they had to look at Ang.

Ang said, "Corpse."

Thinking of the Star Flame Crystals outside, Nage was the first to realize: "The corpse of the Forbidden Little Fire Spirit?"

Ang nodded, then arched his body and opened his mouth wide, shouting silently.

Not long after, the Little Angel came rushing in, carrying the Forbidden Little Fire Spirit and flapping her large wings like a giant moth.