"Does Xiaosan live here?"
Wanting to appear close to the boss, Meng Haize had specifically moved his palace onto the giant tree before setting up his stall, making himself neighbors with Yan Xiaosan.
After getting Yan Xiaosan's permission, he set up all sorts of defensive Formations around the giant tree.
If something like the previous incident happened again, these Formations would at least buy him some reaction time.
Once Meng Haize registered Mu Jian's aura, Mu Jian looked at the palace beside the wooden house with extreme displeasure. He forcibly suppressed the urge to tear it down, and after getting an affirmative reply from Yan Xiaosan, he found some similarly colored timber nearby and built a wooden house of the exact same size on the other side of the wooden house.
Still unsatisfied in the end, he even plucked some flowers and plants from around the area that hadn't yet climbed onto Yan Xiaosan's wooden house and planted them on his own wooden house.
Mu Jian nodded in satisfaction. *Ah, much more like a pair, and a thousand times better than that tacky palace next door.* Habitually, he also set up all sorts of defensive Formations.
While Mu Jian was fussing over his own wooden house, Yan Xiaosan prepared today's meals.
First of all, since the other party was his creditor, he naturally couldn't afford to neglect him. Secondly, for some reason, his state of mind was exceptionally bright and cheerful today, so he decided to show off his most proficient culinary skills—
Egg fried rice.
Meng Haize looked curiously at the golden spirit rice in the bowl and the finely chopped scallions, asking with interest: "So the boss asked me for spirit fowl eggs just now specifically to make this Spirit Food."
Mu Jian dropped down from the tree and took the large bowl dished up by Yan Xiaosan. "I have them too. You should've just asked me."
Meng Haize: "......"
He's already started openly freezing me out, hasn't he?
"So delicious!"
"The boss's culinary skills are simply amazing!"
The two praises landed simultaneously. Mu Jian and Meng Haize exchanged a glance.
*Hmph, as if you're the only one who knows how to talk.*
......
After the meal, each returned to their respective rooms to cultivate.
Yan Xiaosan took out the purchased egg and, with the system's assistance, channeled spiritual Qi into it.
It felt like a blind box placed right in front of him; if he didn't open it, his heart would keep itching with suspense.
The Formation on the exterior clearly materialized the moment it absorbed the spiritual Qi.
[Host, judging by this aura, it should be a spirit beast egg.]
"Can you detect what kind of spirit beast it belongs to?" Yan Xiaosan asked, his eyes wide open as he stared fixedly at the egg radiating a mysterious glow, his heart filled with anticipation and curiosity.
As the glow grew increasingly dazzling and eye-catching, his heartbeat accelerated even faster.
[The specific species cannot be determined at present.]
Time ticked away second by second, and Yan Xiaosan gradually began to feel a sense of fatigue. Despite the system's assistance, his own cultivation was still shallow, and he had yet to reach Foundation Establishment.
"Little System, just how much more spiritual Qi does it need?"
[If it were a seal set up recently, we would only need a tiny bit of spiritual Qi to resonate with the living creature inside. But this seal was set up nearly a thousand years ago, and the vitality of the creature inside has nearly withered away. Wanting to provoke a resonance now requires multiplying the amount of spiritual Qi several times over.]
After a moment, beads of sweat had seeped onto his forehead and his hands trembled slightly. He stopped inputting spiritual Qi, then immediately circulated the Source Law of All Things to recover his own spiritual Qi.
The originally depleted spiritual Qi within his body felt like soil nourished by a spring rain, rapidly recovering and filling to the brim.
Yan Xiaosan repeated the process of inputting and recovering, over and over again.
Deep into the night.
Finally, the creature inside the egg showed a trace of resonance.
At first, Yan Xiaosan thought it was his imagination, but when he stopped to recover his spiritual Qi, his divine sense felt an emotion of dissatisfaction transmitted from inside the egg.
Seeing that no spiritual Qi was forthcoming for a long time, the creature even rolled over with all its might.
Just like a young child whose favorite snack has been snatched away, it was about to throw a tantrum and make a scene.
Yan Xiaosan cautiously inputted spiritual Qi toward the seal once more, and the creature inside promptly quieted down, radiating a happy and satisfied emotion.
The creature inside the egg awoke from its deep sleep and began consciously breaking out of its shell.
Finally, after four more rounds of recovery and input, the egg began to vibrate rhythmically, followed closely by a fine crack appearing on the shell.
As time passed, the crack gradually widened, and with a crisp *crack*, the egg shell shattered completely.
Yan Xiaosan and the system watched nervously.
The eggshell fell away, revealing the appearance of the creature inside.
Strikingly, it was—
A ginseng baby!
A ginseng baby????
"Little System, I'm lacking in worldly experience, but can plants reproduce through eggs in this world?"
[Ahhhhh! Under normal circumstances, of course not!]
Sitting in the center of the eggshells was the ginseng baby, looking like a toddler of about a year old with red lips and white teeth, its round eyes blinking, and a tender sprout resting atop its head.
Seeing Yan Xiaosan staring blankly at it without the slightest intention of coming over to hug it, the baby pouted with tears hanging in its eyes, scrambling with huffing and puffing breaths to Yan Xiaosan's feet, its baby voice trembling.
"Daddy... hug."
"!!!!"
[!!!!]
Yan Xiaosan got goosebumps all over, screaming internally, *System, stuff him back inside right now!*
The system's volume was even louder than his. [Right now, immediately, pick him up, hurry up!!!! He's about to cry!!!!]
Amidst a flurry of chaos and panic, Yan Xiaosan finally scooped the baby trembling into his arms.
Once held in his arms, the baby stretched out its lotus-root-like arms to grab Yan Xiaosan's collar. As if it finally felt a sense of security, it parted its small mouth to reveal its protruding milk teeth and smiled.
At this smile, both Yan Xiaosan and the system's hearts melted.
Should they just raise him?
As if suddenly remembering something, the baby used both small hands to grab Yan Xiaosan's big face and planted a loud kiss on it.
"!"
[!]
They were definitely going to raise him!
The eggshells scattered on the ground, as if receiving affirmation from the baby's affection, transformed into dots of starlight that poured into Yan Xiaosan's body.
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As the starlight poured in, Yan Xiaosan felt an ancient, vast, and mysterious power appear within his body. Vast and mighty as it was, it didn't harm him in the slightest despite his low realm, scouring his meridians meticulously over and over again.
The steady spiritual Qi in his body began to churn restlessly, and his Peak Qi Condensation realm started to climb...
Early Foundation Establishment.
Mid Foundation Establishment.
Late Foundation Establishment.
It kept rising all the way to Foundation Establishment Peak before slowly coming to a halt.
The remaining three-quarters of the power within his body transformed into a cyan dragon shape and went dormant in his Dantian.
The system said excitedly, [It's the Azure Dragon's blessing! Host, you've struck it rich!]
Yan Xiaosan pinched the baby's cheeks in his arms to make sure he hadn't frightened him just now, and pulled out the finger the baby had been sucking on. "What is that?"
[I just meticulously inspected the aura within the baby's body and discovered that he possesses a remarkably pure Azure Dragon bloodline and a wisp of dragon soul, along with pure medicinal potency no less than that of a holy medicinal plant.]
"So in other words, he's indeed a ginseng, but he has a dragon soul and Azure Dragon bloodline?"
[That's right. The most reasonable explanation is that a thousand years ago, a newborn Azure Dragon cub was fated to die prematurely for some reason. Its elders used a method unknown to us to cast aside the dragon body, transferring its soul into a high-grade ginseng nurtured by dragon blood, allowing it to survive in a different form.]
[If even a fraction of the baby's identity is exposed, it will attract endless desires and contention. Host, we...]
"Daddy, I'm hungry." After several attempts to suck on his finger yielded nothing, the baby buried its head straight into the crook of Yan Xiaosan's neck.
Yan Xiaosan patted the baby's back, soothing him softly while a flash of dimness crossed the depths of his eyes.
"Kid, you're a bit like me. System, looks like I'm about to grow a Virgin Mary heart."