"Yun Hao, you died five hundred years ago and still found a way to be reborn," I clung to the wooden plank with both hands, speaking each word with heavy emphasis, "Your desire to live is stronger than anyone's. How could you possibly be content with dying? You were injured because of me, I will not give up on you."
"There is another way... cough cough cough..." Yun Hao was at the end of his strength, his voice weak and hoarse.
I was frantically anxious, feeling as if my heart was being scorched by fire, "If you have a way, then hurry up and tell me, stop dilly-dallying!!"
"I broke free and devoured the lives of everyone in Spring Wind Town, my two extinguished Life Lamps... would light up again. Could you... accept that..." he asked me while vomiting blood.
So, he could live on through slaughter at any time.
Yet, now he was asking me if I could accept it?
I always thought it was strange.
If he were a Demon Head, he would've already started killing on his own, turning this place into a purgatory.
Why ask me?
"No, if you dare to make a move, I will fight you with everything I've got," I said with absolute certainty.
Let alone the lives of an entire town.
Not even one life is permissible.
The sound of Yun Hao's faint laughter came through, "That settles it then. The fate of all things is determined by heaven; if I'm meant to die here today, it is destiny."
"Sorry to interrupt, but I've already got a way," I said, my voice growing cold at his negativity.
Yun Hao: "..."
Immediately after, a fit of coughing that sounded like it might rupture his lungs followed.
"I'm not lying to you, I really have a way," I could only soften my tone to coax him, "Do you know how to incubate eggs?"
There was no response from inside the wooden box.
I added, "I mean snake eggs! You incubated for five hundred years, you certainly know how."
"You... come closer, the process of my eggs hatching, only you can know," Yun Hao's voice suddenly turned dry.
I felt like he was shy as I pressed my ear against the box, "Alright, go ahead and tell me."
Yun Hao's voice was so soft it was really only audible with your ear against the wooden box.
Otherwise, you really couldn't hear a thing.
After he finished, he remembered to ask me why I wanted to know how to hatch eggs.
I was too busy to care, standing up and running downstairs.
Beichen followed me down.
"If I'm not mistaken, you want to help Yun Hao reincarnate?" Beichen said gravely.
I rummaged through the wardrobe in the dormitory, "Shh, keep it down, if Longting finds out, I'm screwed."
Then, I heard a rustling sound by my ear.
The sound of scales scraping against the floor, then a man's dark, serpent-like hiss filled the room, "Su Wan, repeat that, what are you planning to do?"
The egg... frightened, fell to the ground.
Thankfully it was an egg of a formidable Snake Immortal.
The shell was quite hard, otherwise...
What a mess it would have been if it had cracked...
Turning around, I saw at my feet a giant White Snake curled up.
He had a pair of pitch-black pupils, staring straight at me.
"I... I... am not... planning anything..." I said guiltily.
Talking about being doubly unlucky.
Could it get any worse!
Just why did Longting have to wake up at this moment and overhear my conversation with Beichen?
Longting's snake eyes swept over me and then turned to Beichen, "Go, bring Yun Hao down."
It looked like he was determined to muster the strength to heal Yun Hao.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot do that," Beichen trembled slightly, purposely looking away.
Although Beichen hadn't directly mentioned Longting's reluctance to show his true body, it was very obvious at this moment.
Even a confidant like Beichen dared not look directly at it.
Longting's eyes were like icy mirrors reflecting a terrifying and strange coldness, "Do you dare defy me?"
"Yes," Beichen said stoutly.
The temperature in the room dropped to freezing in an instant.
The aura around Longting became terrifyingly severe, especially the malicious ferocity and wildness in his snake eyes.
This fellow, when coiled up asleep, could seem so docile and harmless.
But now, all of that was gone.
Longting said to me, "Su Wan, you go."
Being in his snake form, it was inconvenient for him to go outside.
I crouched down, stroking Longting's snake horns, "If my Spiritual Power is drained twice in a short period, I'm definitely not going to survive, you're worried about this, aren't you?"
"You still realize the consequences of making another Reincarnation Garment?" Longting's voice was icy, but his snake head nuzzled up, rubbing against my hand.