The instant Yunxi was swept away, panic seized her heart. Almost instinctively, she activated every defensive artifact on her body. Even the Floral Brow Artifact at her glabella flickered in and out of sight. Gripping her Spirit Sword, she slashed at the tail wrapped around her.
This time, Yunxi held nothing back, using every ounce of her strength. She actually cleaved through the scales on the snake's tail.
"Human cultivator, if you don't want to die, stop resisting. Otherwise, I don't mind swallowing you right now!"
A cold voice transmission entered Yunxi's sea of consciousness, making her raised sword pause. In that instant of hesitation, she had already been dragged underground.
The underground was pitch-black. After releasing her divine sense, she discovered that she was being coiled up and dragged deeper by a Three-Headed Snake, seemingly toward its lair.
After hitting her head twelve times along the way, scraping all the exposed skin on her body, and getting her robes covered in dust, she was finally flung onto the ground by the snake's tail.
Yunxi rolled away where she landed. After sweeping the area with her divine sense, she was dumbfounded. She had spotted several familiar faces among the people there: Zhen Tongshuang, Mu Ningzhu, and Zhang Yan. There were also four cultivators she did not recognize, and every one of them was holding an egg.
"Yunxi!"
"Junior Sister Wei!"
Zhen Tongshuang and Mu Ningzhu spoke at the same time, both clearly astonished.
Before Yunxi could reply, the snake's tail curled an egg into her arms. That icy voice entered her consciousness again.
"Human cultivator, since you entered my trap, incubate my eggs properly. If my offspring fail to hatch, don't dream of leaving alive. You can obediently become my rations instead."
As it spoke, it released the pressure of