Chapter 88: Hatching Dark Eggs (1)
Translator: Kelaude Editor: Milkbiscuit
Once Zheng Jinlong’s matter was settled, it also meant that the School of Blue Jade was also dealt with. Thus for the moment, there were no more worries about future consequences. Miao Yi could finally focus his energy into cultivating.
But before this, he still had one more affair to attend to. Having just taken over East Arrival Cave before, he had intended to reorganize the place but didn’t have the time to do so. Now that he had, he decided to try performing Lao Bai’s procedures on the Hell Mantis eggs that they had obtained from the Boundless Secular World before.
On the next day break, Miao Yi told Qian’Er and Xue’Er to keep watch outside with the intent of not letting anyone enter to disturb him. He stayed in the silent quarters alone to make preparations. He had no choice but to do so, because Lao Bai had said that this secret art must not be leaked!
When he took the large cluster of eggs out, the temperature inside the room seemed to drop by a little. The eggs, when held in his hand, resembled a chunk of ice.
Miao Yi clicked his tongue, “That is really freaky!”
He carefully removed the eggs one by one from the mucous membrane. A hundred black eggs, each about the size of a quail’s egg, were placed onto a jade plate.
Again, he felt about and drew out a small knife in his hand, holding the handle in his right hand while grasping the cutting edge of the knife with his left palm. Immediately, the palm of his left hand was drenched in blood.
The blood-drenched palm swiftly flipped over and caressed each of the eggs. Previously, Lao Bai had told him that he had to use his blood to cover and wrap around each egg. There must not be any place left untainted. The blood essence was used to partition the Yin and Yang of the eggs, and at the same time, it was also to allow the dark embryo in the eggs to completely sense his breathing from the beginning of the breeding stage.
Invoking his art, the long hairs immediately hardened, resembling ox hair needles and diverged apart, akin to a hedgehog.
The hand gripping onto the hundred strands of long hair was suspended over the jade plate. He invoked his art to individually target each of the eggs on the jade plate before immediately pricking them.
The outer shell of the eggs was not hard but was instead, abnormally tough and smooth. After expending some effort, he finally pierced the blood-drenched hundred strands of hair through the outer shell of the eggs, and into the eggs itself.
In Lao Bai’s own words, this kind of technique was known as leading a thread through the two realms of Yin and Yang.
Yin referred to the dark eggs while Yang referred to Miao Yi. Miao Yi’s hairs were the threads of fate for the two to connect. This would allow the Hell Mantis to breed and connect with him in heart and mind, accepting his control.
Calming his state of mind, he carefully recalled and mulled over the core techniques that Lao Bai had taught him. He grabbed the hundred strands of long hair with his hand and began to silently channel his transcendence energy along the hundred strands of long hair into the hundred dark eggs, using the secret art to carry it out within.
In less than an hour, Miao Yi opened his eyes and retracted his transcendence energy, loosening the grip he had on the hundred strands of long hair.
Under his cultivation method, the ice on the hundred strands of long hair that had already melted, the frost rapidly pervaded from the root, binding them up again.
He didn’t know whether doing it this way was of any use, but in any case, he would perform it according to Lao Bai’s instructions.
He flipped his hand to retrieve the Glorious Star immortal herb from within the storage ring, before blowing a small wisp of starry clouds from the immortal herb with pursed lips, to the opened knife wound on his left palm. The open, badly mutilated wound visibly made a quick recovery.
After his palm was restored to its former state, Miao Yi stared at the immortal herb in his hand, unable to refrain the urge to shake his head as he reflected. He was incredibly fortunate that the Hell Mantis had unexpectedly come barging out of Boundless Secular World with a Glorious Star immortal herb hanging from it at that time. If it wasn’t for this immortal herb, he feared that he would have run into quite a bit of trouble when trying to hatch the dark eggs.
There was no other reason except that according to the secret art Lao Bai had taught him, the dark eggs would require him to use his own blood to be spread throughout their surfaces every day. It would require a total of eighty-one days. For this entire eighty-one days, there must not be even be a single day gap. Otherwise, all his previous efforts would go down the drain.
In other words, he had to bleed eighty-one times, and had to continuously cut his body for everyday of that eighty-one day period. If not for his good luck in obtaining this immortal herb, forget mortals, even cultivators cutting themselves to bleed everyday would be irksome!
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