Wei Yunxi's words drew everyone's attention. They all turned questioning gazes toward Yunxi, waiting for her to continue.
Mu Ningzhu's eyes lit up as she asked directly,
"Yunxi, do you know why the snake eggs can't hatch?"
Yunxi rubbed her forehead and said,
"I have a few guesses."
"Would it be convenient to explain?"
Yunxi gathered her thoughts before speaking.
"These eggs weren't fertilized."
Everyone looked utterly baffled, and some had already asked,
"Fertilized?"
"What does that mean?"
Wei Yunxi felt that explaining this at her current age was a little too advanced, so she put it another way.
"Before I entered the sect, I was the Wei Family's young miss and had servant girls attending me. They were mortals, and they told me that the chicken eggs eaten daily in the manor were all laid by hens. Hens would kick the eggs that couldn't hatch out of the nest, leaving only the hatchable ones behind.
And those eggs were laid after the hens had been with roosters. Only eggs like that could hatch."
Yunxi did not know whether she had explained it clearly, but that was more or less what she meant.
Mu Ningzhu reacted quickly. Thoughtfully, she said,
"Yunxi, you mean this Three-Headed Snake conceived these eggs by itself, rather than laying them after mating with a male snake, which is why they can't hatch!"
"Yes, that's what I mean. Unless this Second-Order Three-Headed Snake is hermaphroditic, its eggs may carry demonic power fluctuations, but they still can't hatch. Mortals can only bear offspring after yin and yang join as well."
Between their question-and-answer exchange, everyone more or less understood why the snake eggs could not hatch. Yet after understanding it, they were even more at a loss. How were they supposed to tell that Second-Order Three-Headed Snake?