Kite
The sun sank westward, and the temperature plummeted.
The dry, scorching Canyon grew bitterly cold. Moonlight spread across the frigid rock, casting deep, eerie shadows.
Li Qing and Ye Zheng stood guard not far ahead, while Cat Spider and Third Child stayed by Feng Ling's side.
Time slowly passed.
The night gradually deepened.
The emptiness within Feng Ling was finally filled completely as flesh and blood nourished her, while the curled Serpent Monster corpse on the ground shriveled away.
There was another Serpent Monster corpse. While its flesh was still fresh, Feng Ling planned to use it to hatch a new life-form as soon as possible.
She currently had four life-forms she could hatch: the Giant Devouring Earthworm, two Stone Armadillos, and Azdaha the White Dragon.
The first three had been obtained in Grulu long ago and were nearly 80% mature. The latter had only recently been acquired and was around 20% mature.
Normally, she should have hatched the more mature life-forms first. However, the chance to obtain Serpent Monster flesh was rare, so she intended to use it to accelerate the eggs in her nest.
—It could be understood as four embryos competing for energy inside her body. If she deliberately supplied most of the energy to one embryo, that embryo's development would speed up dramatically, while the others' development would temporarily slow.
The accelerated hatching process consumed an incalculable amount of energy from the mother, and being interrupted midway carried a certain degree of danger.
Fortunately, the Maze crisis had already been resolved, and the Rescue Team led by Huang Yi was highly cooperative. The timing was perfect.
Standing beneath the moonlight, Feng Ling mobilized the energy throughout her body and concentrated it into the White Dragon's "nest" within her.
The silver ring trembled slightly and grew