Jealous Scale Snake Mother
He Qi said, "I have seen it, but wasn't it just a young child? I haven't seen it grow up yet."
Cha Suxun said, "Even if they are young children, their facial features will have similarities when they grow up. The person in the portrait is not young at all. We can tell if they are similar by comparing them with the portrait, but this is not accurate. After all, it cannot be used as a basis for judging whether Xiaobai is Youyou."
"But I don't have a portrait of Youyou anymore. And my memory is not accurate."
"I have a way to compare. Let's talk about it after we get out." Cha Suxun said.
Ever since entering this deep, bumpy cave, Yuanli and the others had been wandering around in circles. Heqi formed a huge fireball and threw it into the air. In an instant, the cave was as bright as day.
"What kind of egg is that? It's quite big."
Xiaobai explained to Yuanli, "Those are the eggs of a jealous unicorn snake. The jealous unicorn snake that just injured you wasn't very long, only as long as an arm. It must have been less than a month old, so its venom is relatively low."
Si Xi exclaimed, "So long! Just hatched?"
"The Jealous Scale Snake is different from other snakes. Its eggs are much larger than others. It only lays one egg at a time, and each egg contains several snakes. The snake inside the egg is already formed while it is in the mother's belly. The Jealous Scale Snake takes care of the birthing, not the incubation. The baby snake will grow inside the egg until it has eaten all the thick white material on the inner wall of the eggshell, until the eggshell cracks and it escapes."
"Won't the little snake be suffocated?"
"No, there's a watery liquid inside the eggs. Before they hatch, they seem to be living in water."
Si Xi casually looked at an egg and found that there was a thin layer of dust on the eggshell, which showed that these eggs had been here for quite some time.
"It's all covered in dust. I wonder how long it's been there. Is the Jealous Scaled Snake still alive?"
"It takes a long time for a Jealous Scale Snake to hatch, as short as three to five months, or as long as a year."
"There are so many jealous snake eggs here, all over the ground. Oh my god, there must be so many jealous snakes. Let's get going quickly."
"Master, you're worrying too much. While it's true that there are several snakes inside a Jealous Scale Snake egg, in the end, only one snake usually emerges alive. Jealous Scale Snakes are naturally ferocious, and they'll kill each other while inside their shells. Only the strongest one will grow up and break out of the shell."
Catching a glimpse of Si Xi still leaning over to observe the jealous snake eggs, Xiao Bai warned, "It's best to stay away from those eggs. These hatchlings won't be docile and mistake the first creature they see for their mother."
Hearing this, Si Xi silently stepped back and moved away from the snake eggs.
Following the trail of the cloven-winged snake, Si Xi reminded them, "Yue Niang wrote that after passing these snake eggs, we will reach the snake's nest. We need to exit through the secret passage under the large rock where the mother snake is nestling. However, remember, the secret passage will fork in the middle and split into two paths. You must take that one... I don't know what stained this word, it's blurred and I can't see it clearly."
“What happens if you take the wrong path?”
"No. Anyway, we have to take this road. We'll figure it out when we get there. Don't we have this guide?"
Everyone turned off all lights, leaving only the light of the rove wings piercing the darkness. Soon, they followed the rove wings to the Jealous Scale Snake's lair. From the moment they entered, the rove wings snakes became alert and stood, staring at them closely, occasionally spitting out their tongues.
No one dared to act rashly, and they all stood closer to Xiaobai in tacit understanding.
At the deepest part, there was a big snake about half the thickness of Xiaobai's body. Unlike other snakes, it had two heads.
Presumably, this should be the snake mother.
The Snake Mother slept peacefully until they came within ten meters of her. She slowly raised her head and looked down at them from above.
The entrance to the secret passage was right in front of him, with no obstructions. It was a good time to pass through, but the next second, the mother snake moved her thick tail to cover the entrance tightly.
The snake mother did not attack them, nor did she show any fear of Xiaobai. Instead, she lay back and dozed off with her eyes closed.
"What should we do now? Yue Niang didn't write anything about how to deal with the Snake Mother."
"Don't panic Si Xi, with so many of us, we may not be able to defeat her."
Xiaobai glanced back at Yan Ye and Sixi who were talking behind him, and then said, "The snake mother's venom can kill you in an instant. You two stand back, I'll do it."
After putting Yuanli down, Xiaobai immediately turned back to his original form, instantly making the Snake Mother look much smaller. At this moment, the Snake Mother also stood up again and opened her eyes.
Xiaobai launched an immediate attack, sweeping the dragon's tail towards the snake mother unexpectedly. The snake mother dodged swiftly and then sprayed venom at Xiaobai. Xiaobai teleported in front of them and took all the venom sprayed by the snake mother on himself.
Seeing that Xiaobai was not hurt at all, the mother snake was a little shocked. She changed her strategy and let out a low hiss to order all the jealous snakes to attack together, but the little snakes did not obey.
As Xiaobai had expected, the Jealous Scaled Snakes, a species that had been killing each other since birth, could only be subdued by absolute force. However, this submissiveness was nothing more than waiting to be killed and replaced by the Snake Mother.
After a few exchanges of moves between Xiaobai and the snake mother, Xiaobai was able to find out the snake mother's weakness, the left side of her head.
He transformed into three of himself and surrounded the snake mother. His random and messy moves made the snake mother dizzy and unable to distinguish Xiaobai's true identity.
The Snake Mother was somewhat overwhelmed, but she did not panic. She always held her noble head high during the fight, her eyes always filled with contempt and disgust.
After gradually losing the upper hand, black smoke began to seep out of the snake mother's body from the inside out, with the same foul smell.
The moment the snake mother emitted black smoke, the other jealous snakes fled out frantically, and not a single one was left behind.
Seeing this, Xiaobai retreated cautiously, observing the black smoke. The Snake Mother stopped making rash moves, and the black smoke emanating from her body became increasingly dense. A closer look revealed that the smoke was actually composed of a number of black particles.
Xiaobai tentatively touched some black particles, and the place where he touched the black particles turned black instantly.
"It's miasma, be careful!"
After giving the reminder, Xiaobai quickly changed back into human form, made hand gestures and chanted an incantation. A bright white light appeared between his fingers, and finally formed a bright ball of light floating in the air. He used the wind from his palm to hit the ball of light at the snake mother. In an instant, the black smoke emitted by the snake mother condensed, paused, and then all returned to her body. The snake mother instantly vomited black blood.
Xiaobai turned around and telepathically transmitted to Tianshu and Hengjin, "The mother snake is already infected with miasma. We can't let her live. From what everyone is saying, I know someone is raising these jealous unicorn snakes. If the mother snake is like this, the rest of the snakes are also in danger. It's best to kill them all. I can't rely on you. I need your help."
Heng Jin replied, "Not now, the traces are too obvious. Let's get out first and deal with it later. It's a miasma, no mortal can save it."
Having said that, Heng Jin immediately taught Xiao Bai a spell.
Xiaobai was a quick learner, so Heng Jin hastily dictated the spell to him, and Xiaobai then used it. With one strike, he knocked the snake mother unconscious.
Even though the snake mother had already fainted and fallen, her tail still blocked the hole tightly. Xiaobai suddenly struck out with a knife, breaking the snake mother's tail and smashing it to the ground, black blood flowing all over the ground.
"Go quickly, don't touch her blood."
Entering the secret passage, the slippery ground made it difficult to stand steadily. Yuanli stumbled and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Cha Suxun and Heng Jin grabbed her from the front and back.
"Are you okay?"
"Are you okay?"
The two asked in unison with concern.
Yuanli took back Hengjin's hand and said in a distant tone, "Thank you, it's okay, keep going."
After saying that, she took two steps back and returned to Cha Suxun's arms.
Cha Suxun naturally hugged her, very satisfied with her reaction. He leaned against her intimately, slightly bent down, and whispered in her ear: "The ground is slippery, lean on me, you won't be afraid of falling. Be careful with your steps, it will hurt if you bump into something."
Continuing forward, we saw two tunnels in front of a fork in the road, which were extremely similar and indistinguishable, but it made people afraid to move forward easily.
Yinchi circled the tunnel several times and then chose the tunnel on the left.
Yuanli stopped and asked, "Si Xi, take another look at the diagram Yue Niang gave you. Does it say whether there are other transitions?"
"No, once you exit this tunnel, you're outside the mountain. There are no other obstacles."
"So where does this tunnel lead to? Si Tiao said she would die along the route we took on our way out. But, we're almost out, so why haven't we seen Si Tiao's body yet?"
"Godmother, do you think Si Tiao's body is in the tunnel on the right? But since the right side is not the exit, it is not the only way for us to leave."
Si Xi looked at the dark tunnel to the right, feeling quite worried. "I know Godmother is keeping her promise, but Yue Niang has raised so many sinister creatures. Who knows what's underneath this earth? Godmother, I'd better not give up the idea of going down there."
"It's not just for Si Tiao. Now that we know Yue Niang is from Xie Yuan, there are too many secrets in Yue Mang Mountain, especially under this cliff. Knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. The more you know, the better. That's why we all want to see it to feel at ease."
After discussion, everyone felt that what Yuanli said made sense, and they all decided to go down and take a look.
Walking along the tunnel on the right, the road was obviously much easier to walk on. Not only was it not slippery, it was also relatively flat, as if people often walked on it.
The tunnel was short, and not long after, a faint light appeared. Slowing down, he walked close to the wall, and quietly looked inside. What came into view was a wide cave, fully furnished, and the furniture inside was as exquisite as those in Yue Niang's room.
There were many cells around the cave, along the walls, and many strange-looking iron tools whose uses were unknown.
"Look, I came to the right place."
After observing for a long time and seeing no one else in the cave, everyone felt at ease to enter the cave.
"It doesn't look like anyone lives here."
"What are these cells used for?" Si Xi touched the cage and brushed the dust off his fingers. "These cells haven't been used in a long time. But when Father and Yue Niang dealt with the monsters in the mountains, they captured them and directly used the monster cages and placed restrictions on them. They were then reduced to ashes. They were never imprisoned."
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