Dragon - 19

Zhou Fan decided to fly down instead of fall. Although the was confident his body could take it, he wasn't sure the cave would. His body already weighed multiple tons. If not for the fact that he could remove part of his weight, he would destroy the ground every step he took.

It wasn't too long before Zhou Fan reached the entrance to the bottom of the cave. Lighting a fire on his finger, he descended into the heavy darkness. When he could finally, see, Zhou Fan realized that the entire cave wall was covered in snakes! There were at least 10 thousand snakes in the small cave.

Not to mention, there were other paths that also seemed to be covered in snakes. Zhou Fan was grossed out and didn't dare touch the floors. He remained hovering in the air, the only place not infested with snakes.

Luckily, it seemed that the snakes were ignoring him. Otherwise, Zhou Fan would be exhausted to death before he could kill all these snakes.

There were two paths leading from the circular cave. One to the left and one to the right. Since they looked the same, Zhou Fan randomly chose the right path. The path was circular and every bit of it was covered in snakes. Zhou Fan continued on for what seemed like an hour before he reached another circular area. Although the path was quite long, it only took Zhou Fan that long because he was flying at the speed of an average humans walk.

Throughout the tunnel, Zhou Fan had twisted and turned and even gone down at some points. He estimated he was about 1500 feet deep at this point. At the new area, the ground was filled with water. The water looked around 20 feet deep and was filled to the brim with snakes. At this point, Zhou Fan was wondering how these snakes didn't starve to death.

It wasn't long before his question was answered when he saw a group of snakes eating another group of snakes. It seemed that the snakes were in a constant state of killing each other for food.

Zhou Fan didn't stay long at the water area before leaving in another path. He continued down the tunnel filled with lefts, rights, downs, and snakes.

Zhou Fan continued on for 2 hours before he saw some light at the end of the tunnel. At this point, Zhou Fan believed that he was more than a mile underground. He sped up and reached the end of the tunnel fairly quick.

When he exited the tunnel, Zhou Fan saw an incredible sight. In front of him, a gigantic cave stretched on farther than his eyes could reach. It was multiple miles wide and almost a mile in height. In the middle, a giant, blue crystal gave off the light he had seen earlier. There were no snakes here. Almost as if they weren't allowed to enter.

Zhou Fan flew to the crystal in the middle at a casual, yet incredible speed. When he reached it, he put his hand on it to sense it. The crystal was cool to the touch and to Zhou Fans surprise, didn't contain Qi. Zhou Fan was almost certain that something like this would contain some Qi, but it contained none.

Zhou Fan flew down to the ground below the crystal before his feet finally touched the ground. The moment they did, Zhou Fan heard a loud roar!

ROOAAAARRR!!

Quickly turning around, Zhou Fan saw an incredibly weird beast running towards him. It had four legs and a skinny body full of scales. Its face was kind of shaped like a triangle and it had whiskers. In fact, the beast looked more dumb than intimidating. Finding it funny, Zhou Fan decided to humor it.

Zhou Fan gathered some Qi in his throat and let out a heavy roar.

RROOAAARRRR!!!

Zhou Fan roar was many times more ferocious than the weird animals and it stopped running, only to slide down and land in front of Zhou Fan.

HAHAHAHAHAH!!

Zhou Fan let out a heavy laughter at this thing and started to pet it. The feeling wasn't very pleasant due to the fact that it had scales, but Zhou Fan soon got used to it.

"Hahaha, what should I call you little fella."

When the dragon heard him, it snapped out of its stupefied state and tried to act intimidating. Zhou Fan once again let out a laugh and could barely stop. If one could see its face, they would also not be able to take it seriously.

With a single look, Zhou Fan could tell that this was an undiscovered species. Otherwise, he would have heard about such a creature. Although Zhou Fan was laughing, the thing was big. Huge even. It was easily the size of an elephant and only Zhou Fan could treat it like this.

"I'll call you a dragon." Zhou Fan said after looking at the dragon for a while.

Hearing Zhou Fan, the dragon let out a roar before attacking him. Zhou Fan simply waved his hand and shot out a heavy wind. The dragon flew 30 meters away and landed on its head, burying itself in the ground. Zhou Fan once again let out a small chuckle.

Zhou Fan walked over towards it and pulled it out of the ground before sitting it down and looking at it again. Although it was big, it was skinny. Its body was shaped like a tunnel and was now slightly coiled around itself.

The dragon was no longer acting fierce and was now looking fearful in front of Zhou Fan.

"I'll name you Xiaolong. Because your a small dragon."

Although small was maybe the only way not to describe it, Zhou Fan chose to do so.

"Follow me."

Although Xiaolong didn't understand his words, it still followed him out of instinct. Zhou Fan continued on in order to discover more about this place. He had a feeling that Xiaolong wasn't the only secret this place held.