CHAPTER 403: CHAPTER 48: HATCHING

"This is a matter between my wife and me, there’s no need for outsiders to intervene," after a brief hesitation, Ximing decisively rejected Yue Jinghua’s suggestion.

In his view, Yue Jinghua’s words were not only foolish but also entirely unfeasible, entrusting their lives to such an unreliable new mercenary and small squad was absolutely impossible.

"Even now, are you still worried about leaking the secrets of the Divine Court? Ziyu, just divorce him. His loyalty to the Divine Court has seeped into his bones. Be careful that one day, this man lying beside you might suddenly make a hole in your throat. The Divine Court may appear righteous on the surface, but who knows what dirty deeds they engage in behind the scenes," Yue Jinghua spread her hands in an extremely relaxed gesture, her starry eyes slightly narrowed, resembling an elegant leopard.

"What nonsense are you talking about? The reputation of the Divine Court is not something people like you can tarnish," Ximing roared, Yue Jinghua’s words striking a sore spot in his heart.

The bloody smell sealed in his memory, like a large net, firmly bound him.

"Perhaps, we can ask this Chaos Egg, it seems to have a lot to say," Yue Jinghua took out the Chaos Egg and began toying with it in her hands.

She understood very well that the key to the problem lay in this Chaos Egg.

"Impossible, that batch of Chaos Eggs has already..." Ximing’s breathing became rapid, as if someone suddenly strangled his throat, unable to squeeze out another word.

"Batch?!"

The same Chaos Egg, yet there was a batch of them, Yue Jinghua and Guo Ziyu were surprised.

Real Chaos Eggs are exceedingly rare, it’s impossible for there to be a batch unless these are not naturally occurring Chaos Eggs, but rather artificially mass-produced, the so-called man-made eggs.

"Ximing, what are you talking about? Why is there a batch, what will these Chaos Eggs hatch into?" Guo Ziyu asked urgently, losing his voice.

"I can’t say, and I must not speak. All of us who participated in that operation were branded with the Prison Puppet Mark by Lord Sha Yan. Once spoken, one would lose their divine soul, suffering a fate worse than death. This matter is too heavily involved, you cannot be dragged into it," Ximing helplessly shook his head, his gaze towards Guo Ziyu softer than ever before.

Ximing lifted his clothing, revealing his arm, on the bicep of his right arm was a lifelike ghost face, but only the size of a thumb.

Guo Ziyu had asked Ximing about the origin of this mark after they met, at the time Ximing simply said it was a tattoo.

Yue Jinghua sneered inwardly, as a Divine Pattern Master, the methods were so malevolent, it seems this so-called Divine Pattern Master, Sha Yan, was no good either.

"I have my ways to extract the information," Yue Jinghua quietly initiated the Nine Revolutions Creation Technique, and as the Dark Power slowly seeped out, a massive amount of invisible Dark Energy appeared on the surface of the Chaos Egg.

Dark Energy, like strands of spider silk, enveloped the Chaos Egg in layers, those were the Nine Revolutions Creation Power.

Under the mysterious influence of the Nine Revolutions Creation Power, the egg soon began to react.

The previously malicious black aura weakened considerably.

It was like a newborn baby first arriving in the world, tentatively starting to swallow the Nine Revolutions Power released by Yue Jinghua.

Nine Revolutions Power, the most pure Dark Power in heaven and earth, is especially nourishing for Dark Beasts.

Realizing how appetizing yet familiar the strange Dark Power was, it turned into a desperately thirsty baby, vigorously absorbing Yue Jinghua’s Star Dark Power.

The egg began to change slowly.

"Beep beep--"

A crack appeared.

Hearing the sound, Ximing’s face became even paler, as if he had seen a ghost, he couldn’t help but step back several paces.

How could this be, even the Third Elder couldn’t hatch this man-made Chaos Egg, yet he managed to hatch it.

The crack grew larger and larger, as if something was about to break out at any moment.

"Awoo, my wife, I’m coming," a chubby, white Meat Worm pounced toward the eggshell that was about to break.

A "Big Saber" was swung over.

All three witnesses were dazzled as the Meat Worm was thrown out.

From the eggshell, a moon-white Dark Insect crawled out.

This Dark Insect, completely moon-white, had a triangular head, a pair of luminous compound eyes protruding on its forehead, and two antennae on top of its head.

It had three pairs of legs, with the "Big Saber" being its forelegs, and wings like gauze on its back. Unlike the common Dark Beasts crawling on all fours, this newly hatched Dark Insect stood upright like a human.

"A mantis?!" Yue Jinghua couldn’t help being caught off guard.

Indeed, what hatched from this mysterious Chaos Egg was a mantis.

For some unknown reasons, Yue Jinghua felt an illusion that this moon-white mantis, from a distance, gave her the ethereal beauty of a gauze-draped maiden.

"Thump," without looking back, Yue Jinghua knew it must be the sound of the heartbroken Golden Silkworm fainting.

She could even hear the heartbreak of the Golden Silkworm, "Wife, my wife, I don’t want a mantis."

Suppressing a smile, the moon-white mantis walked over.

It was indeed walking, the mantis’s gait resembled that of a human.

"Be careful, its forelimbs," Guo Ziyu warned hastily as the mantis approached Yue Jinghua, having managed the Xuan Beast Store for many years, she had seen plenty of formidable mantid Dark Insects.

The most fierce among them, the Cannibal Mantis, has a pair of forelimbs covered in reverse spikes, their sharp spines capable of slicing through any prey’s throat.

The power of this moon-white mantis, which was already emitting a formidable Dark Power while still in the Chaos Egg, would only be more astonishing after hatching.

The mantis abruptly turned around, its bright abdominal eyes, like sickles slicing the sky, were filled with resentment, staring intently at Ximing who stood behind Guo Ziyu.

Ximing trembled and froze on the spot.

"Little one, do you have something you want to say to me?" The sharp Spiritual Sense told Yue Jinghua that this mantis did not bear any malice.

"!"

All three present were startled at the same time.

The mantis, radiating a moonlight-like luster, made a motion that baffled everyone.

It gently bent its middle and hind legs, as if a human bending their knees, with its gauze wings trembling slightly behind it, its forelimbs, the "Big Sabers," joined and crossed over each other.

It was an extremely standard salutation posture, a human gesture of courtesy, yet there was no sense of discordance when made by this female mantis.

Yue Jinghua was certain that even she, who was well-versed in noble etiquettes, performing a salutation might not be as elegant as this female mantis before her eyes.

Almost simultaneously, Yue Jinghua heard a faint female voice.

"Are you a mercenary? I am willing to offer my remaining life as a reward, to commission you to kill the man before me."