Chapter 60: Do You Believe I'll Smash Your Snake Eggs?

"Wait a moment, Mother." Little Tong seemed to have thought of something. Seeing that his mother was about to start a fight, he hurriedly scampered over on his short legs, hid behind Ming Xi, and tugged at the hem of her garment.

"What else do you want?" Ming Xi asked, turning her head with a helpless sigh. Hadn't she just told him to step back? Why was he running over again?

"Although Little Tong is happy that Mother has recovered her cultivation, but... but..."

"Why do you keep saying 'but' endlessly? How many times has Mother told you not to say 'but'!"

"Then Little Tong won't say 'but' anymore, I'll say 'however' instead..."

Ming Xi thoroughly pressed her palm to her forehead. This adorably naive son of hers truly left her with zero desires and complete resignation...

"Fine, my son, what is your 'however'?" Ming Xi could only reply helplessly.

"However, what mystical tier is Mother actually at? That wicked aunt is at the Celestial Xuan tier, right? Is Mother going to leap across tiers to challenge her?"

What? Mystical tier?

Ming Xi was terribly startled upon hearing this! It was only then that she remembered there was such a thing as mystical tiers! The little imp was right; she had indeed recovered her cultivation, but... she herself had no idea what tier she was currently in!

What if she was merely at the Human Xuan realm and foolishly decided to leap across tiers to challenge this Serpent Emperor who was at the Celestial Xuan realm...

Good grief, the greatest realization she had gained during all these days since her transmigrations was that she was by no means like those superwoman female protagonists in twenty-first-century transmigration novels, possessing no protagonist halo whatsoever. If she were to rashly leap across tiers to challenge someone just like that, there was no guarantee her waist wouldn't be crippled again!

So right now... she could not go toe-to-toe with this Serpent Emperor, or she might not hold any advantage if a fight broke out.

However, she could win through cleverness and give full play to her fox-like specialty — which was a cunningness akin to a thief's intellect!

In this regard, she was definitely far superior to Ming Xi!

Meanwhile, seeing Ming Xi's sneaky, shifting gaze, Ji Yan grew suspicious as well. What tricks was this woman playing?

Just as she was doubting, she saw Ming Xi shift her gaze toward Little Tong and command, "My dopy son, hand the egg in your arms to Mother!"

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"What for? Mother, you're not going to eat it again, are you?" Little Tong was practically struck with phobia by Ming Xi's shocking actions. He hurriedly hugged the egg in his arms tighter, having no intention of handing it over.

"Stop wasting breath and hand it over quickly! If you like it, at worst Mother will sneak into a chicken coop another day and dig out a few identical ones for you!"

What?! Ming Xi's words almost shocked Ji Yan to death — she actually compared the Serpent Emperor's serpentine egg to a chicken egg!

Seeing Little Tong let out an "oh" and obediently hand the snake egg over to Ming Xi, Ji Yan was practically burning with rage. This fellow simply made people unable to bear shouting out a famous mortal saying: If this can be tolerated, what cannot be tolerated!

However, they had the snake egg as a hostage, which directly resulted in Ji Yan not daring to act rashly. If this mother and son were to smash the egg in their agitation, wouldn't it break her heart to death?

"You two have really gone too far! You robbed this Serpent Emperor of her inner core, and now you take this Serpent Emperor's egg... This Serpent Emperor will not leave your corpses intact today!" She could only issue such threats, but since the snake egg was ultimately in their hands, Ji Yan still dared not act rashly.

"That might not necessarily be the case, oh." Ming Xi triumphantly raised the snake egg, as if she had seen right through Ji Yan's thoughts, and played with the egg in her hands. " Unless you don't want this egg anymore! If you don't want it, I'm going to smash it right now!"

"You... You wouldn't dare?!"

"What wouldn't I dare? But it would be quite a pity to just smash it like this. This thing definitely tastes better than a chicken egg; how about we just eat it?"

"Mother, you mustn't eat random things anymore! Just now, when your stomach was upset, you were hurting so much—how come you still haven't learned your lesson? You really give Little Tong something to worry about." Little Tong shook his head speechlessly, speaking with slight dissatisfaction.

As for Ji Yan, she was already gnashing her teeth in hatred yet felt utterly helpless. This was the first time she had ever been driven to such an embarrassed and wretched state by a human mother and son!

"You are truly the most detestable human this Serpent Emperor has ever laid eyes on. You are a mother yourself; do you think taking someone else's child as a hostage is a glorious thing?!"

Hearing her put it that way, Ming Xi simply chuckled, "Of course I know. But... since you knew that being a mother is not easy, why were you planning to send my son down to the netherworld just a moment ago?" Ming Xi said dismissively. She really couldn't imagine what Ji Yan was thinking, daring to bring this up again!

"Precisely, precisely! That wicked aunt wanted to send Little Tong to the netherworld just now. Mother, then let us send her child to the netherworld as well." Little Tong put his hands on his hips and said petulantly.

"Mm!" Ming Xi nodded affirmatively, placed the snake egg by her feet, and continued to fiddle with it incessantly.

"You... What are you trying to do?" Seeing Ming Xi gripping the Chiming sword, which constantly emitted a silvery-white radiance, Ji Yan panicked instinctively.

"Nothing much, except that... I just want to play a game of golf." Ming Xi curled the corners of her lips as she spoke, swinging the Chiming sword back and forth, aiming at the location of the snake egg, intending to launch the snake egg flying away by treating it like a golf ball!

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Actually, Ming Xi felt quite helpless in her heart as well. Using the Chiming sword in this manner was truly absurd!

However, wasn't this because she was unclear about her own mystical tier? Never mind, figuring out mystical tiers and grades and such would be left entirely to the child's father after they returned!

And right now, she was going to teach this Ji Yan a good lesson!

Seeing the situation, Ji Yan was terribly alarmed. At the exact moment Ming Xi aimed at the snake egg and prepared to knock it flying, her snake tongue was practically scared stiff, and she hurriedly shouted, "Wait a moment! Spare the egg under your weapon!!"

"Spare your sister! If you don't want your kid to kick the bucket, hurry up and scram over to fetch the egg!!" Ming Xi unceremoniously struck the snake egg with the Chiming sword. The very next second, the snake egg was launched out of the cave, drawing a very long arc through the air—

"Wow! Mother, the snake egg flew out and disappeared!" Just as Little Tong was exclaiming in wonder, he turned his head and saw that Ji Yan had also vanished without a trace.

She must have been cursing Ming Xi while hurriedly running off to retrieve the egg.

However, her leaving was the absolute truth!

"Phew! This Serpent Emperor big sister has finally left!" Ming Xi let out a sharp sigh of relief and patted her chest.

"Indeed. But Mother, did we go a little too far? The little snake hasn't even been born yet, and we went and smashed its egg?"

"Oh, don't you worry, my dopy son! Your mother's golf game is extremely accurate; that egg didn't smash, it just fell right into the marshland! It'll take her a good while to fish it out!"

"Mother, what is a golf ball? Can it be eaten?"

"..." Ming Xi fell speechless for a moment before soothingly saying, "Of course not! Alright, my dopy son, let's hurry outside and see how the Soul-Devouring Beast is doing. It helped out a great deal this time!"

"Mm! Got it, Mother."