Hatching Imminent

Black clouds pressed low, and wind and rain were on their way!

The poison pool was like a gigantic stone bowl embedded in the earth, surrounded by Great Witches radiating formidable martial auras.

Yet at this grand ceremony, they were not the protagonists, merely part of the backdrop.

The true protagonist was the Gu Emperor nurtured through the combined power of the Three Witches across the Northern Territory.

The enormous stone bowl beneath their feet was covered inside and out with scale-like patterns. Looking closely, each scale was as large as a millstone, a terrifying sight. This was a fragment of the ancient Dragon Nest Mountain.

Ever since the ancestors of the Witch Clan had refined it into a poison pool, even ordinary Gu Kings had not been qualified to enter it.

This time, they had mobilized on a massive scale, gathering dozens of top-tier Gu King bloodlines. With the support of the Poison Witch, Curse Witch, Script Witch, and the other powers of the Three Witches, they had finally brewed this Gu Emperor egg.

The Gu Emperor egg lying in the "stone bowl" seemed to enclose a sun, so blazing and scorching that no one could look directly at it.

The surrounding Great Witches all tried to avert their eyes, lest their pupils be scorched and the surface of their skin damaged.

Not one of them had brought a Gu King or poisonous insect with them, because the Gu Emperor egg was incomparably domineering. Though it had yet to hatch, it had already claimed a thousand-mile radius around the poison pool.

Within that range, any Gu Worm that appeared would be shattered by the Gu Emperor egg and absorbed as nourishment.

"Has the time come?"

Suddenly, a Script Witch noticed something strange. The totem patterns he and dozens of