Countless tiny gray lines surged from all directions, coiling around the patterns she had already ‘rewritten’!

They were merging.

Mingxi could only watch helplessly as the patterns became chaotic again.

Mingxi subconsciously increased her mental power output, wanting to forcefully sever the out-of-control patterns.

This, however, was like adding fuel to the fire; the merged vortex patterns suddenly exploded, and a sharp, piercing pain shot straight into her mental sea along with her mental power!

“Crack!”

The patterns scattered like a broken pearl necklace.

The mysterious energy enveloping the pet beast egg quickly dissipated, and the layered base colors and beautiful egg patterns also vanished, revealing its original appearance.

But Mingxi no longer had the luxury of appreciating the true appearance of this pet beast egg.

“Pfft—!”

Mingxi couldn't help but let out a muffled groan, a trickle of blood escaping the corner of her mouth, a burning sensation like fire seemed to pierce through her consciousness, making her eyes sting.

What was even worse was that the grayish-black vortex, which should have been smoothed out, suddenly flared up, like a venomous snake come alive, biting fiercely into her left leg.

She could feel a real sense of numbness coming from her left leg.

The negative effect had taken hold!

“Yuanshi?”

“Jin?”

“Lietian?”

Golden Yuanbao and the other two were the first to notice her abnormality and immediately surrounded her.

Their breaths were close by, but their voices seemed to be muffled by a thick film of water; she couldn't hear them at all.

Mingxi gritted her teeth, knowing that her experiment this time had failed, but it wasn't without any Harvest.

She had underestimated the correlation of these patterns; they were not isolated but like an interwoven net, moving one part affected the whole.

“It is indeed very difficult,” she murmured softly, a faint smile even gracing her lips, “but it’s not without any solution.”

Next time, she would try again!

Mingxi took a deep breath and touched her immobile left leg, “This negative effect I triggered is a bit harsh; it’s going to leave me half-paralyzed for 12 hours.”

What a disaster.

The numbness from her left leg was like ice-soaked cotton, heavily encasing her bones.

For 12 hours, meaning until noon tomorrow, she wouldn't be able to walk normally.

“Is this the gift of fate?”

Since the negative effect couldn't be dispelled, Mingxi didn't let Little Silver Flower or Emerald Green waste energy ‘healing’.

Being paralyzed didn't affect Mingxi or their actions; early the next morning, Mingxi set off, lying on Lan Yue’s back.

She needed more pet beast eggs!

But she didn't know if this secret realm had some big problem; they wandered around for a whole morning, and let alone pet beast eggs, they didn't even see a piece of eggshell.

Yes, even Little Silver Flower wasn't effective.

Lan Yue carried her through the secret realm for over four hours; the tree hollows they passed were empty, the rock crevices only contained dry wood, and even the swamp mud, where eggs were most easily hidden, only yielded a few slippery little frogs.

Mingxi’s mental power was like a fine net, sweeping over a hundred meters around repeatedly, yet she couldn't sense even a trace of familiar energy fluctuations.

“Are we being targeted by this secret realm?”

After all, the will of a secret realm isn't something to take lightly; it genuinely exists.

If her experiment yesterday truly touched upon a hidden rule loophole in this secret realm, then being targeted by the secret realm’s will wasn't impossible.

However, it shouldn’t be that serious.

“...Huh?!”

Mingxi looked happily at the suddenly open mountain pass ahead, where faint purple mist swirled, and the sound of flowing water could be faintly heard.

As Lan Yue’s hooves stepped onto the gravel at the edge of the valley, Mingxi suddenly sat up straight.

Her mental power net suddenly spread out, and this time, it was no longer an empty feedback.

Dense energy fluctuations, like fireflies on a summer night, spread from the depths of the valley.

Not just a few scattered points, but in vast patches, carrying that unique mysterious feeling associated with pet beast eggs, and because they were so dense, their fluctuations even collided and superimposed, forming a buzzing energy field.

“???”

“No, why are there so many? Could it be that all the pet beast eggs in this secret realm are concentrated in the valley?”

The abnormal fluctuations she sensed were simply too numerous; Mingxi felt as if she was completely enveloped by that strange energy fluctuation.

Mingxi’s heart skipped a beat.

Golden Yuanbao and the others looked warily at the valley entrance ahead.

Lan Yue also stopped.

Its blue and red pupils contracted warily, and its mane bristled slightly.

It could feel that not only were there abnormal energy fluctuations ahead, but also... many human and Transcendent creature auras.

“We actually encountered other Beast Tamers so quickly?”

Mingxi naturally also noticed those auras, “This valley is probably not very ordinary.”

She gestured and drew, using her bond ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) power to remind Golden Yuanbao and the others to be vigilant, then lightly patted Lan Yue’s back, signaling it could enter the valley.

Passing through the last mist barrier, the sight before Mingxi made her involuntarily gasp.

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This was a bowl-shaped valley, with a thick layer of soft grass covering the valley floor, and among the grass blades, on rocks, on treetops, and even in the low bushes on the hillside, various pet beast eggs were piled up.

Big and small, plump and slender.

Some were like glass spheres wrapped in starlight, some were covered in wrinkled patterns like volcanic rock, and others had a ripple-like sheen on their shells, their colors so vibrant they looked like an overturned paint palette.

Truly, the entire valley was filled with eggs, as far as the eye could see.

And scattered among these egg clusters were a dozen or so human figures.

Some Mingxi had never seen before, and some she had met once or twice.

Some were squatting in front of egg piles, scanning the eggshells with specialized instruments; 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Some were arguing in low voices, pointing at the same pile of eggs;

Others simply sat on the ground, with seven or eight eggs in front of them, closing their eyes and sensing something.

“There really are so many...” Mingxi murmured to herself, but a strange feeling arose in her heart.

Although pet beast eggs in a secret realm were not rare, they could never be this dense.

The number of pet beast eggs in this valley was incredibly high, as if someone had deliberately collected all the eggs from the entire secret realm here.

It was ridiculous.

It was truly too ridiculous.

“Mingxi?!” a surprised voice rang out.

Mingxi looked up and saw a young man in a silver-gray uniform walking towards her; the emblem on his chest indicated he was from Yunhai Star.

He should also be a participant in this Starsea Cup, but he had already been eliminated.

His gaze swept over Mingxi, finally landing on Mingxi’s stiff, immobile leg, then quickly moved away, “I didn’t expect even you to find your way here, but...”

He smiled.

“This isn’t a good place, you know.”

Mingxi raised an eyebrow and asked with interest, “Oh? Is there something special about it?”