Chapter 189: Pill Qilin
Ever since the immortal pill had absorbed the dragon egg within the Leviathan Clan’s Dragon Palace, it entered some sort of dormant state. Nothing Tianyi did would rouse it from its inactivity, not even the true qi of chaos.
Still, Tianyi hadn’t worried because he could sense the growing lifeforce within the pill, or rather, egg.
Tianyi held the hatching egg in his hand as he tried to sense the changes happening within the egg, but even with the pill egg existing within Vast Heaven Island, Tianyi still couldn’t sense anything. He wasn’t too surprised, as the egg was something from the ruins of the Immortal Court, so its rank was far too high for him. Even when it was still a pill, Tianyi had already failed in sensing the inner workings, so even though it had become an egg, Tianyi wasn’t too disappointed that he couldn’t sense what was happening.
Crack
Crack
Crack
Patiently, Tianyi waited for more cracks to appear on the shell, dropping everything he had been working on. After all, how long did an egg need to hatch?
As it turned out?
Terribly long.
A month later, after Tianyi had finished preparing over a thousand Xiyi Talismans, he noticed something strange. Looking around, Tianyi tried to discover the source of the strangeness. However, everything seemed to be normal and unchanged, but he knew something was different.
Tianyi held his chin as he tried to think of what exactly was abnormal, and he could feel it at the tip of his tongue.
That’s right! I can’t hear the cracking noise anymore!
Tianyi immediately appeared where he had placed the pill egg, on a soft blanket (an immortal rank artifact that conceals everyone under it) and an elaborate basket (another immortal rank artifact meant to seal opponents).
Was it incredibly wasteful?
Yes.
Did Tianyi have any other blankets or baskets?
No.
Could Tianyi have made some?
Also yes.
But Tianyi was too lazy, and the two artifacts were just collecting dust in his spatial ring, so Tianyi put them to good use.
Holding the egg near his face, Tianyi observed the silent egg. He had gotten so used to the cracking sound that he automatically tuned out the clamorous background noise. Now that it had stopped, Tianyi felt strangely unsettled by the absence.
Pushing down the discomfort, Tianyi continued to observe the egg. Strange, the shell is full of cracks, so why hasn’t it hatched? And there are no more sounds coming from it either.
Don’t tell me it died?!
I recall that chicks need to break out of their shells themselves, and no matter what, you should not help them. I can’t recall why you shouldn’t. Don’t tell me the beast within the egg died?!
I mean, thinking about it logically... the egg was originally a pill in the first place. Becoming an egg is obviously strange, I just didn’t question it since stranger things have happened. Could there have been some mishap?
Tianyi felt a sense of loss as he stared at the silent egg. He couldn’t sense any more lifeforce from it, so that contributed to his hypothesis. Even if it was a pill, it still accompanied him for many years.
He began to recall all the time he spent with it. Instantly, Tianyi recalled the first meeting of beating. Next, he recalled all the times the immortal pill took advantage of him and sucked his blood and true qi of chaos. Now that he thought about it, the memories with him and the pill were horrible.
Should I have thrown it away earlier?
Tianyi asked himself, but thinking of how much of his “blood” that he fed to the pill, Tianyi felt a sense of unwillingness. He already offered so much for the pill’s growth. Abandoning it now would make all his efforts go down the drain.
Karma had been served.
It was so cathartic that Tianyi even considered continuing beating it up some more had it not been for Daoyi’s arrival.
“Yeah, although not one hundred percent of its bloodline is pure, the purity is still very high. A rarity in the modern era,” Tianyi said.
While Dandan had been an immortal pill, it had actively sought out those with the dragon bloodline. The second one was the nascent soul grandmaster equivalent snake demon that had attacked Azure Leaf City, and the third had been the dragon egg within Dragon Palace.
As for the first?
It was all the blood of the Dragon Emperor Tianyi had stored in his inner cosmos when he formed his martial body. Tianyi had thought the blood had been destroyed or consumed by his true qi of chaos, but it turned out that the culprit was that damn immortal pill.
Tianyi had complex feelings knowing that the Dragon Emperor’s blood flowed through Dandan’s veins but suppressed it. It wasn’t like Dandan was actually born from the Dragon Emperor’s bloodline.
“Isn’t that quite amazing?” Daoyi asked, closely observing the pill qilin around Tianyi’s neck. Daoyi raised her hand, and the dreamsilk weaver beast Shuijing, Daoyi’s spiritual beast, crawled onto the back of her hand. “I wonder which one is rarer.”
Tianyi felt his body stiffen and had to use every ounce of self-control from not shirking away as he eyed Shuijing warily. “I-I think yours should be rarer. Mine isn’t a pure-blooded dragon, after all. And I’ve never heard of d-dreamsilk weaver beast until yours appeared.”
Seeming having remembered that Tianyi was fearful of spiders, Daoyi retracted her hand, but Shuijing seemed displeased and jumped off her hand and onto the table between them. Dandan seemed to have sensed something too, as it jumped off of Tianyi’s neck and onto the table across from Shujing.
Tianyi’s eyes lit up with hope. Maybe Dandan can act as a deterrent against the dreamsilk weaver beast? Although he said Shujing’s species was rarer, that didn’t make Tianyi think that Dandan was weaker in combat ability.
After all, Dandan had the dragon bloodline, and its origin was an immortal rank pill from the Immortal Court. Even now, Tianyi could not sense Dandan’s realm. If he had to guess, its state of existence was above Unity Realm, close to the Transcending Mortality Realm or maybe Immortal Realm, although its strength had not truly reached that stage.
From Tianyi’s experience, Dandan’s strength was that of a new unity venerable, but it would grow with time.
“Ah!” Daoyi let out a sound of surprise as Dandan and Shuijing started to duking it out.
The two weren’t using any techniques, just swipes and even a bite or two between them. Had the two truly used all their strength, the table would have been obliterated.
Too Tianyi’s immense disappointment, Dandan had suddenly collapsed onto the table and fainted for an unknown reason. Shuijing then used its razor-sharp legs to push Dandan off before turning to Daoyi, raising its front four legs, and standing on the remaining back legs as if asking for praise.
Tianyi was left speechless by the one-sided victory.
“Tianyi, should you not pick up Dandan?” Daoyi asked as she gently stroked Shuijing with her index and middle fingers.
“No, let it be a lesson for it,” Tianyi said sulkily, his hopes having been dashed by Dandan.
Tianyi suddenly turned his gaze into the distance.
“What’s wrong?” Daoyi asked with worry. “Have the demons launched their assault?”
“No,” Tianyi smiled. “Xi Ri has returned.”
About an hour later, Xi Ri came aboard the central mountain and found his fellow reincarnations.
“What’s with the hole in the mountain?” Xi Ri asked.
Tianyi’s smile stiffened.
Daoyi giggled. She had asked the same question, but seeing Tianyi’s expression, she knew that he had screwed up somehow and caused the hole.
“Forget that. What do you mean plan to do with the residents of Fan City?” Xi Ri asked, his voice full of worry.
“Fan City?” Tianyi asked, confused. Did the fortress town finally get named?
Seeing the confusion in Tianyi’s eyes, Xi Ri realized that Tianyi didn’t know. “The city made by the people of the Demon Cage Realm near the fortress city. What do you plan for them for when the demons lay siege against us?”
“Oh?” Tianyi slapped his forehead. “OH!”
I totally forgot about them!