Holding the space chat group, the cannon fodder female supporting role ascended

Chapter 78: Crypt Reunion
The moment Yun Xi was rolled up, she panicked terribly. She almost subconsciously activated all the defensive magic weapons on her body. Even the flower ornament artifact between her eyebrows was faintly visible. She held the magic sword in her hand and slashed at the tail that was rolling around her.

Yun Xi did not hold back this time, using all his strength, and actually cut the scales on the snake's tail.

"Human cultivator, if you don't want to die, don't resist, otherwise I don't mind swallowing you right now!"

A cold voice entered Yun Xi's sea of ​​consciousness, causing her to pause as she swung her sword again. In that moment of hesitation, she was dragged underground.

It was pitch black underground. After she released her spiritual sense, she found herself being rolled up by a three-headed snake and carried deep underground, as if returning to its lair.

After hitting her head twelve times along the way, with all the exposed skin scratched and her robe covered in dust, she was finally thrown to the ground by the snake's tail.

Yun Xi rolled on the ground, and after her consciousness scanned around, she was a little dumbfounded, because she found several familiar faces, including Zhen Tongshuang, Mu Ningzhu, and Zhang Yan, as well as four unfamiliar cultivators, and each of them was holding an egg in their arms.

"Yunxi!"

"Junior Sister Wei!"

Qin Tongshuang and Mu Ningzhu spoke at the same time, obviously surprised.

Before Yun Xi could reply, the snake's tail rolled up an egg and placed it in her arms. The cold voice entered her consciousness and said:
"Human cultivator, since you have fallen into my trap, you must incubate my eggs. If my offspring cannot be hatched, you will not be able to leave alive. Just be my food."

After saying that, he released his second-level peak pressure, forcing Yun Xi to kneel on the ground.

In fact, when the pressure fell, the Huadian artifact blocked the pressure, but Yun Xi did not want to be exposed in front of his fellow disciples, so he knelt on the ground.

Each pair of eyes of the three-headed snake stared at Yun Xi coldly. After making sure that Yun Xi could not resist, it withdrew its pressure and left the dark cave with its tail swinging.

After the exit was blocked, Yun Xi stood up from the ground, holding the snake egg in his arms, and sat next to Zhen Tongshuang and asked:
"Junior Sister Zhen, how did you get caught in the three-headed snake's lair? And what's going on with the hatching eggs?"

Qin Tong Shuang looked at Yun Xi, who was in the same state of disgrace as herself, and was about to speak when Mu Ning Zhu spoke first:
"Wei, nephew, why are you also captured? Are you here to find us?"

"Well, I guess so. After I learned that Qin Tongshuang had disappeared in Baohua Mountain Range, I accepted the mission to find you. However, after I rushed to Baohua City day and night, I learned that the mission had become more difficult because the Qi-refining cultivators who had accepted the mission had disappeared one after another. So, it had been taken over by Senior Brother Sheng Yuhong from the Inner Sect.

I teamed up with another senior brother, Long Daoyu, to enter Baohua Mountain for training. In fact, the two of us followed Uncle Sheng and the others to see if we could find any clues.

Then we found the place where you sent out the distress talisman. After Senior Brother Sheng Yuhong and the others left, we went to check the fire dragon grass. As a result, I was dragged underground after picking only two pieces of fire dragon grass.

But Senior Brother Long must have sent out a distress signal by now, and Senior Uncle Sheng is not far from us, so he must have seen it."

Yun Xi finished telling the whole story in one breath, and then looked at Qin Tongshuang.

Qintong Shuang rubbed his forehead and said:
"That patch of Fire Dragon Grass was planted by the three-headed snake to lure the monks to pick it so it could take the opportunity to kidnap them."

"What are you doing with the monks? To help it hatch its eggs?"

Yun Xi asked while looking at the egg in her arms.

"Yes!"

This time it was Mu Ningzhu who gave an affirmative answer.

Yun Xi opened her mouth twice before she found her voice again:
"They only lay eggs without hatching them? Please forgive my ignorance, Junior Sister, but in the monster books I've read, snake monsters all hatch their offspring on their own. When does it become the monks' turn to help?"

Mu Ningzhu had an indescribable expression on her face, and Qin Tongshuang beside her had already spoken:

"Who says it isn't? We just happened to encounter such a bizarre snake monster, a peak-level second-order three-headed snake, equivalent to a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. We couldn't escape. Its eggs wouldn't hatch, and I don't know which monster instigated it, saying that cultivators' spiritual power could help snake eggs hatch. So it used Fire Dragon Grass as bait and started capturing cultivators to help it hatch its eggs."

After hearing this, Yun Xi figured out the whole story. Mu Ningzhu led the team to the Baohua Mountains for training, and then the fire dragon grass planted by the three-headed snake came into their sight because of its age.

As the team leader, Mu Ningzhu was quite cautious. When the three-headed snake left to find food, he took Zhen Tongshuang and the others to quickly start picking. Unfortunately, they were ambushed and killed in one fell swoop.

They thought they were finished this time, but the three-headed snake threw a snake egg at each of them and asked them to hatch it within a time limit. If they failed to hatch, they would become food for the three-headed snake.

The aloof Qin Tongshuang on the side had long lost her queenly demeanor. She spoke incessantly, and her story basically matched Yun Xi's speculation. Now, the only way for them to survive was to hatch the eggs, at least until Sheng Yuhong found them.

"Are these people also fellow disciples of Haoran Sect?"

Yun Xi glanced at the unfamiliar people. Since none of them were wearing sect robes, she couldn't judge and could only ask directly.

"These four are also fellow disciples of Haoran Sect. Two of them accepted the search mission and came to the Fire Dragon Grass to investigate. Then they were abducted by the three-headed snake."

Yun Xi touched his chin, feeling that this three-headed snake was quite smart and knew how to use the tactic of surrounding a point and attacking reinforcements. As long as the disciples of Haoran Sect were not found, there would be a steady stream of disciples coming.

Those with low cultivation like her were captured, while the team of foundation-building cultivators led by Sheng Yuhong, the Three-Headed Snake, was simply ignored. It was not because they could not defeat them, but because there was no need to. After all, human cultivators had more means than the demons.

Sheng Yuhong's team has six foundation-building cultivators. If they really fight to the death, the three-headed snake will not be able to gain the upper hand. That's why the three-headed snake did not show up when Sheng Yuhong was investigating the location of the accident.

But after she and Long Daoyu appeared, they were locked onto by the three-headed snake.

After understanding the current situation, Yun Xi asked the most crucial question:
"Uncle Mu, you've been here for over half a month. Is there any movement with the snake egg?"

Everyone was silent and shook their heads in unison. If the snake eggs had moved, they wouldn't be in such a mess.

A senior brother said angrily:

"We've wasted so much spiritual energy, and these bastards haven't even made a move!"

Yun Xi made a bold guess:

“It’s death.”

Before he could utter the word "egg", Qintong Shuang covered his mouth.

"Shh! Don't tell anyone, or the three-headed snake will go crazy."

Yun Xi blinked to show that she understood, and Zhen Tongshuang let go.

Mu Ningzhu on the side sighed:

"We speculated this before, but we used spiritual power to investigate and found that there was indeed demonic energy flowing inside the snake eggs, but they just wouldn't hatch. I don't know what's going on."

Everyone was a little crazy. Yun Xi also started to study the snake egg. She tried to input her spiritual power, but it felt like a stone falling into the ocean, with no response.

She put her ear to the egg and listened again, but there was no movement. Finally, she carefully inserted her late foundation building consciousness into the egg. After a moment, she said with a dark face:

"We will never be able to hatch these snake eggs in our lifetime."

(End of this chapter)