VROOOOOOOOOOM—CRASH!!
Moving at over eight hundred miles an hour down the serpent-dug expressway. The [Rank 6 Gu Family Earth-Core Camper Van] tore through the last hundred miles of lower-mantle bedrock in ninety seconds flat. Burst straight through the sealed stone gates of the Planetary Core Chamber!
Chunks of black obsidian flew like shrapnel as Gu Changsheng drifted the forty-foot cream-and-blue camper van to a sharp, tire-squealing halt fifty yards from the central altar. Shining the vehicle’s twin golden high-beam headlights directly across the vault.
Inside the cabin, every single member of the Gu family looked out through the front star-quartz windshield at the same time.
The Planetary Core Chamber spanned ten miles across, but instead of boiling magma, the vast underground dome was deathly dark and covered in jagged black frost.
At the exact center of the chamber stood an ancient obsidian altar bound by four colossal, ten-mile-long Upper-Realm Script-Draining Nails that plunged down from the cavern ceiling like pillars of black star-iron.
And suspended in the center of those freezing chains was a ten-foot, black-and-silver dragon egg covered in deep frost fractures.
Surrounding the altar stood twelve Rank 6 Early Blood-Sea Demon Scouts clad in spiked crimson bone-armor. They had already driven eleven three-foot Soul-Draining Nails into the altar flagstones around the egg, forming a blood-red siphon circle that was violently sucking silver dragon-marrow mist out of the shell’s cracks!
