The planet connected to the sealed earth is called Vladsu, it's a mid grade mortal world.
It used to be a outpost of the Asai empire.
But it ended up as the last refuge for the Minoan civilization, that tried to recreate the glory of their fallen Asai empire.
At this moment two Gorgons were flying on a giant flying reptile it looked quite comical.
The flying reptile looked like a giant gecko and had two flesh wings with what he can float trough the air.
But because he can't really flap them, he had to decent every few hundred meters.
Pressing his webbed feet on the water he quickly soared into the air again.
He could not be on the water for too long or one of the plentyful sea monsters would drag him into the depts.
The two Gorgons on the reptiles back, were discussing their mission.
They had a cultivation of the golden core realm.
And this mission would be a dangerous one.
But their oracle spoke of a newly awakened Imperial Gorgon and it was a female to boot.
Their society was a matriarchy where female Gorgons were bigger and had stronger cultivation talent than the males.
So when they got news that a new queen was born, they rushed to the occasion.
The current queen of the Gorgons was already 900 years old and would soon go into decline.
So they had to find a new one, since the offspring of the queen was only of royal decent, still more noble than almost all naga's but far from an Imperial bloodline.
It would take too long for them to become a nascent soul realm cultivator.
And they would not be able to command other royal, and noble naga's only Imperial naga's were able to suppress royal ones.
So the two grand elders of the Naga race went to search for their new queen in one of the seven forbidden lands known to the continent of Aldra.
A island of the southern coast of the continent.
When they got close to a open piece of water, they took out a old weathered token.
Some archaic unrecognisable runes were flickering on the wooden token.
And a invisible curtain was revealed trough the command of the token, they were able to enter the hidden formation.
As they moved trough a island came into view.
"Are you sure it is here?"
"Yes the Oracle was very clear about this."
"Alright let's first decent and hide our traces."
"This isn't a forbidden land for no reason."
The two grand elders moved to the coast close to the island, when they saw some ships docked in a cove.
"What are those?"
"I don't know."
"I have never seen such ships."
They orderd their flying beast to decent near the ships.
When they got off they slithered to the ships.
Once close they tried reading what was written on the shields on the side.
The sails were folded leaving them unrecognisable.
"Do you recognize the language?."
"No fist time seeing this one"
"Let's see if we can find the owners of the ship."
"They may know where our new queen might be."
The older of the two said, his scales had already turned a bit duller than those of young Naga.
While Naga are a pretty strong race they weren't long lived.
So their lifespan was completely linked to their cultivation realm.
Cultivating was know to them in two ways.
Either trough a spiritual root or bloodline.
Both ways they were able to cultivate but for this world bloodline cultivation reigned supreme.
That was why it is so important that they find the next queen.
Because without a queen, they were only a low class species only the imperial Naga didn't have bloodline blocks in the early stages.
It's the same concept as bloodline limit for demonic beasts.
But for the humanoid species, their energy use was different.
Demonic beasts used demonic energy that came from the hell demensions.
While humanoid species mostly used spiritual energy.
It was created naturally on almost every planet .
The older Naga led the way for the other golden core elder.
"First elder are you sure you can find her?"
"Can you shut up for once you already asked this kind of question before."
"Yes Naret I can find the girl"
"But it's strange I can feel that we are close but I can't pinpoint her location."
But right then a high pitch sreech came from the high trees.
A feathered reptile was looking down at them with bloodlust in his eyes.
"Oh no"
"Run"
The two elders slithered fast to a tree, as the bird reptile swooped down to consume them.
While they were core formation cultivators they couldn't fly.
Flight was only achieved at the void integration realm.
So they could only flee trough the forest floor, while the naturally flying species had a advantage over them.
They quickly darted around the forest until they saw a cave opening.
"Quickly in there."
The elder shouted.
The younger Naga didn't hesitate before jumping inside.
But the older Naga was a step to late.
Boom! The bird reptile known as a ferex had pounced down its sharp teeth ripping into the soft flesh of the Naga.
The elder screamed out in pain and misery.
This was one of the dangers and risks of going into a forbidden land.
Here they weren't on the top of the food chain.
Every moment could be their last.
Just like now.
But before the ferex could rip of the elders head, the ferex was ambushed too!
A Shoban showed up it was a giant monkey with the mane and teeth of a lion.
They were mostly in the nascent soul realm.
With some even reaching soul formation realm.
Because the ferex was knocked off by the Shoban the injured elder got the change to make to the cave.
But before he could breath out a sigh of relieve, the floor caved in and they fell down.