Chapter 252: The Growing Giant Egg (Second update, requesting everything)

"Treasure-Hunting Mouse, thank you for your hard work!"

Under Li Zhangsheng's direction, the Treasure-Hunting Mouse pressed its four limbs against the stone vat; its limbs shimmered with an earthy yellow luster, quickly covering the completely sealed stone vat.

Crack—

A crack appeared on the stone vat, and the originally sealed lid slowly opened, revealing the super large fairy egg soaking in Life Water and Healing Spring.

The next moment, at a signal from Li Zhangsheng, Kailan unleashed Burrowing Vine; over a dozen vines as thick as an arm instantly burst through the soil, binding the giant egg in an instant and placing it slowly on the flat ground.

Compared to when he first obtained the giant egg, this giant egg had undergone significant changes; the petrification on its surface had visibly decreased by a lot. Based on the original progress, it was feared that in another month, the petrification on the surface of the giant egg would disappear completely.

However, this was only the surface petrification, which was also the easiest part to eliminate.

Besides the surface, petrification must also exist on the inner wall of the giant egg; this was a certainty. And that was not all; the egg liquid and egg yolk inside had also very likely been affected by the petrification.

If one wanted to fully restore the giant egg relying solely on Life Water, it would take at least half a year, and recovery did not mean it could be hatched immediately; this also required time.

Most importantly, due to the long duration of petrification, the life activity within the giant egg must have been affected. It was possible it might fail to hatch, and even if it successfully hatched in the end, it would surely be congenitally deficient; this was a foreseeable outcome.

Judging from its physique, a congenitally deficient Spirit Beast would be thinner and smaller. In terms of ability performance, a congenitally deficient Spirit Beast would also surely be inferior to its peers, such as in physical capabilities like strength, speed, and constitution.

Li Zhangsheng looked at the giant egg. Besides the petrification, one could see earthy yellow patterns covering the giant egg, and if one observed carefully, one could also see a large number of golden light spots.

Judging purely from its appearance, this giant egg was very likely to hatch an Earth Element or Gold Element Spirit Beast; of course, it could also be a dual-attribute Spirit Beast.

Li Zhangsheng hesitated for a moment. Since the Life Jade contained a massive amount of Life Force, it would surely take some time for the giant egg to fully absorb it.

Under these circumstances, Li Zhangsheng decided to use the Bloodline Jade first; regardless of whether it could activate the Ancestral Bloodline, it would surely be helpful for the giant egg's recovery.

However, before that, he took out all the Monster Cores he had on him.

In an instant, colorful Monster Cores were scattered on the ground.

These days of hard work had allowed Li Zhangsheng to accumulate a large number of Monster Cores; there were dozens of Upper-Rank Demon Cores alone, and the Intermediate Grade Monster Cores and Lower-rank Monster Cores numbered nearly four digits, among which there were even five Elite-Rank Demon Cores.

This was undoubtedly a significant resource!

According to the description of the Bloodline Jade, regardless of whether a Spirit Beast egg had activated its bloodline, it had to absorb a large amount of energy of the same attribute.

Since he was unclear about the attribute of the Spirit Beast egg, Li Zhangsheng could only use the Monster Cores to test them one by one.

The next moment, Li Zhangsheng placed the Bloodline Jade on the giant egg. The moment the two made contact, the Bloodline Jade began to emit a pure blood-colored luster, which slowly surged into the giant egg.

During this process, Li Zhangsheng was quick-eyed and fast-handed, sticking ten Lower-rank Monster Cores of different attributes onto the giant egg.

In the blink of an eye, the Earth Element Monster Cores and Gold Element Monster Cores began to glow.

"Earth and Gold dual-attribute Spirit Beast!" Li Zhangsheng reached his conclusion.

Crack—crack—

In the span of one or two breaths, these two Lower-rank Monster Cores instantly exhausted their energy; the Monster Cores shattered instantly, turning into tiny, crystalline fragments.

Seeing this situation, Li Zhangsheng became nervous instantly. This absorption was too fast, clearly exceeding his expectations.

"This guy's Ancestral Bloodline is likely quite extraordinary!"

Li Zhangsheng felt a secret chill in his heart. His movements were swift; he immediately exerted his Mental Power to the fullest, and the Earth Element and Gold Element Monster Cores scattered on the ground floated up one after another, all making contact with the giant egg.

Crack—crack—crack—

In just a short moment, a sound like roasting beans rang out in the room; several more Monster Cores shattered. This giant egg was like a bottomless pit, devouring a massive amount of energy at an extremely fast speed.

Soon, with the giant egg as the core, a powerful suction force began to emerge. The hundreds of Monster Cores stuck to the giant egg all emitted light, and the energy of the Monster Cores was rapidly drawn out, forming a misty two-colored energy fog. Because there was so much energy, it actually shrouded a radius of several meters.

Even so, the energy fog was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, under Li Zhangsheng's gaze, the giant egg was also slowly growing larger.

Li Zhangsheng looked at the scene before him in shock and uncertainty. This individual Monster Tamer who liked to put on airs, deceive, perform, and play the black-hearted strategist felt very panicked inside.

The energy of these Monster Cores seemed far from enough!

This was the intuitive feeling the giant egg gave Li Zhangsheng. What kind of bloodline could be so brutal, truly a gold-devouring giant!

"This is definitely activating a Top-tier Divine Beast bloodline; the source of the bloodline is likely a big guy! No, this cannot go on; I must collect a batch of Monster Cores as soon as possible, otherwise, if the energy supply is insufficient, the Ancestral Bloodline will surely fail to activate!"

Thinking this, Li Zhangsheng immediately shouted to Kailan at the side: "Kailan, I'll leave this to you for now!"

Without waiting for Kailan to respond, Li Zhangsheng immediately rushed out of the Number One Courtyard. A purple hexagram flickered, and Aixi appeared before him.

Li Zhangsheng's thoughts were in turmoil. He had no intention of asking friends or family for Monster Cores because the amount he needed was huge, and they might not be able to scrape it together.

To obtain a large amount of Earth Element and Gold Element Monster Cores, he thought of two places for the time being: one was the Market District, and the other was the Credit Exchange; both were the places that best met the conditions.

"Aixi, combat stance, target: Credit Exchange!" Li Zhangsheng chose the Credit Exchange and had Aixi enter combat stance, thereby activating the Wind Speed characteristic.

The reason for going to the Credit Exchange was simply that it would take a lot of time to gather Monster Cores in the Market District; the Credit Exchange was different, as it stored a batch of higher-grade Monster Cores, which could at least save the situation.

Additionally, there was the factor of being closer to home.

What was most urgent now was time. With the giant egg's whale-like speed of swallowing energy, he had at most five minutes to gather more.

If he failed to gather them within five minutes and the giant egg's energy supply was cut off, the Ancestral Bloodline would likely fail to activate.

Aixi started instantly, rushing rapidly toward the Credit Exchange.

"Rise Wind!" Li Zhangsheng felt it still wasn't fast enough. Yuanling Academy was too large; the Number One Courtyard was at least three or four li away from the Credit Exchange.

Under Li Zhangsheng's command, Aixi let out a roar, and its body was instantly covered in cyan Wind Element energy, which caused its speed to surge, rushing toward the Credit Exchange at an even faster pace.

(End of chapter)