The Great Wilderness Python could petrify any part of Chen Zhou's body at will. Now, it had petrified Chen Zhou's legs, and Chen Zhou suddenly lost the feeling of floating in mid-air and fell straight down.

It struck the ground heavily.

With a heavy thud, the stone on Chen Zhou's leg remained unchanged.

Not only can it easily control which part of Chen Zhou's body is petrified, but the intensity of the petrification has also increased. With Chen Zhou's current strength, there is no way he can break it and escape.

"True Qi? What true qi? My true qi? Such a simple request? You're not kidding me, are you?" Seeing that he had no way to escape, Chen Zhou had no choice but to answer the Great Wilderness Python.

Chen Zhou is now at the mercy of the Great Wilderness Python. If he doesn't behave, he'll just die even faster.

Chen Zhou was puzzled as to why the Great Wilderness Python, which had lost its immortal core, still possessed such abundant true energy.

And it seems to have no impact whatsoever.

Is this immortal core really that useless?

"It's not that the Immortal Core is useless, but rather that it already has a Golden Core. The True Qi stored in the Golden Core is twice that in the Immortal Core. In other words, the Great Wilderness Python at its peak had three times the True Qi, but now it only has twice that in the Golden Core. Losing this one-time True Qi is nothing to it," Elder Ren replied.

Just as Elder Ren finished answering, the Great Wilderness Python spoke again.

At this moment, the Great Wilderness Python had changed its clothes, now wearing a dark purple silk robe.

"Your true energy is of great benefit to me. If your true energy can satisfy me as it did just now, it might be a way to save you," the Great Wilderness Python said, looking at the human it could crush with a flick of its wrist.

Chen Zhou could understand what the great yellow python meant by "benefit." Just now, he had watched as the true energy carrying a trace of primordial truth rushed into the soul of the great wilderness python, which helped the great wilderness python successfully defeat the soul of the green-eyed black snake.

If Chen Zhou hadn't carried the true energy of primordial truth, the Great Wilderness Python probably wouldn't have been able to chase him this far.

“Great Wilderness Python, don’t lie through your teeth. If it weren’t for my true energy, would you dare say you’re still alive?” Chen Zhou bluntly pointed out without saying a word.

Upon hearing the human's words, the Great Wilderness Python felt there was no need for further words. Since the human knew the truth, it would speak frankly and openly.

"Do you know who I am?" the Great Wilderness Python asked.

"Who doesn't know the Great Wilderness Python, the overlord of the desert?" Chen Zhou said, pretending to be nonchalant.

"Aren't you afraid at all? Just a few hundred kilometers ahead lies the largest desert in the central part of the Tianyun Continent. That's all my territory. Aren't you afraid?" The Great Wilderness Python asked Chen Zhou with great interest.

So far, the Great Wilderness Python has seen countless humans, and every single one of them has fled immediately upon seeing it.

To be precise, it should be seeing one's own prototype.

"What is there to fear? Even if you are the overlord of the desert, don't you still need my true energy to defeat that green-eyed black snake?" Chen Zhou raised his head and puffed out his chest. Right now, Chen Zhou was just putting on a brave front. It felt like there was a fire burning in Chen Zhou's lower abdomen dantian. He had already absorbed a quarter of the immortal core, and the most difficult time to absorb it had arrived.

"Your true energy is indeed strange. Without your true energy, I'm afraid I would have been in dire straits," the Great Wilderness Python said with lingering fear.

"So instead of thanking me, you want to control me?" Chen Zhou glanced at the Great Wilderness Python and said.

The Great Wilderness Python suddenly burst into laughter, as if it had heard the funniest joke in the world.

"Human, I have already forgiven you for stealing my scales and my immortal core. What do you think I should do with you?" the Great Wilderness Python said.

At this crucial moment, Chen Zhou felt a surge of heat in his lower abdomen, and the petrification on his legs was instantly broken by his true energy.

"Clang..."

Without saying a word, Chen Zhou sat down on the ground and began to absorb the true energy from the immortal core. Now Chen Zhou had no time to pay attention to the Great Wilderness Python in front of him.

Now, no matter what the Great Wilderness Python does to Chen Zhou, Chen Zhou has no strength to resist.

However, the humanoid Great Wilderness Python became excited as soon as it saw Chen Zhou's golden-white true energy, instantly transforming into its original form and surrounding Chen Zhou with its massive body.

The Great Wilderness Python slowly opened its enormous maw, greedily absorbing the golden-white true energy emanating from Chen Zhou, which seemed to be the best tonic in the world to it.

In this way, the two maintained a delicate balance.

Chen Zhou absorbed the immortal core of the Great Wilderness Python, while the Great Wilderness Python absorbed the golden-white true energy dissipated by Chen Zhou. After a certain period of absorption, the scales on the Great Wilderness Python's body actually emitted an unusual light.

The Great Wilderness Python sighed comfortably and said to Chen Zhou, "It actually helped me refine all the cultivation of the Green-Eyed Black Serpent, as well as the Green-Eyed Dragon Serpent bloodline. This human's true energy is truly the best tonic for me."

Chen Zhou could no longer hear anything from the outside world. The true energy contained in this immortal core was simply too much. Chen Zhou's Poison Tree Root was constantly refining it, and now Chen Zhou was already feeling a sense of fullness.

It's time to expand my dantian again.

As Chen Zhou pondered this, he began to use his true energy to expand outwards from his dantian.

This process was undoubtedly painful, but Chen Zhou had no other place to store true energy. If he could not expand his dantian as soon as possible, most of the true energy in the immortal core would probably dissipate.

This is a huge disadvantage for Chen Zhou.

Chen Zhou is still in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. He does not have a Golden Core, and the only place where he can store true qi is his dantian.

As Chen Zhou's true energy surged in waves, his dantian in his lower abdomen expanded inch by inch, and his true energy increased more and more.

Chen Zhou's dantian expanded very slowly, and much of his true energy dissipated during this process, which was the best thing for the Great Wilderness Python.

The more true energy Chen Zhou dissipates, the greater the benefit to it.

"This stupid snake has fallen in love with your true energy, hasn't it?" Old Ren said indignantly.

Now, the Great Wilderness Python not only doesn't attack Chen Zhou, but instead comfortably circles around him, its head directly in front of him, constantly absorbing the true energy emanating from him. The Great Wilderness Python is unwilling to let him go at all.

However, the Great Wilderness Python noticed that the amount of true energy dissipating was decreasing, which shouldn't be the case. Its own immortal core contained so much true energy, how could this young man have absorbed so much? Moreover, it had been absorbing for so long now, how could this human's dantian still hold so much true energy?