The crown of the Jade Fire Parasol Tree swayed gently, its countless fiery leaves rubbing together with a rustling sound.
Wang Ba sat cross-legged beneath the tree, looking at the black eggs before him.
The black eggs were small, each only two fingers wide, about the size of an ordinary chicken egg.
Their shells, however, were visibly soft.
One of the several black eggs rocked slightly.
Then it fell still again.
Wang Ba was not disappointed. These eggs had been incubating for several years, and he had always thought they would be stillborn, like the countless others he had encountered before. To his surprise, however, signs of life had begun appearing in them one after another six months ago.
The parents of these eggs were very special, so even though Wang Ba had seen countless spirit beasts, he had still patiently waited here for half a year.
At this thought, Wang Ba glanced toward the top of the newly built Spirit Snake Grotto in the distance, where a large, pure-black snake lay lazily coiled around a rock.
Elsewhere, in the Dragon Lizard Burrow, a group of Footless Stone Dragon Lizards that closely resembled snakes were slowly swallowing the White Jade Cockroaches Wang Ba had put in not long ago.
This large snake and those Footless Stone Dragon Lizards were the parents of these black eggs.
The father was a fourth-tier middle-grade spirit snake Wang Ba had produced using Yin-Yang Qi to combine the sect's mutated spirit snakes, numerous other snakes, and the fourth-tier Fierce Beast Sea-Rising Demon Snake that Ice Daoist had previously hunted in the South Sea. Wang Ba had named it Ding Ershiyi.
Perhaps it was the influence of the Fierce Beast Sea-Rising Demon Snake's bloodline, or perhaps it was a congenital deficiency arising from Yin-Yang creation.
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