Chapter 867: A Strange Black Egg (1/2)

A frigid aura rapidly pervaded the cave, freezing all of the ghouls that had been enjoying their feast, along with everything else in the wide mountain cave.

As this happened, the sickening rotten smell became much fainter.

The eighth grade Frost Blood Python was indeed powerful, as it took care of the problem in the blink of an eye.

However, its ice armor seemed to be under great pressure from the tremendous amount of tainted energies converging on it from all directions.

The Frost Blood Python rapidly flew back to Yin Yanan and became a tattoo on her waist. Its vigorous flesh aura vanished as soon as it did.

Eyebrows furrowed, Yin Yanan hastily took out medicinal pills from within her ring of holding and stuffed them down her throat.

The Frost Blood Python, who had consumed a significant amount of power, then started recovering with the medicinal pills in her stomach.

At the same time, Mu Biqiong walked over the frozen cave ground to the place where she had seen something shining brightly, her face still hidden behind a veil.

As she separated her hands, the frozen sculpture-like ghouls moved to the side.

The ghouls had only lost all mobility, but they hadn’t died yet.

Without paying much attention to the ghouls, Mu Biqiong gazed down at the empty ground where the ghouls had been.

A black ring was lying on the ground.

That had been the thing that had been emanating bright light.

“A storage ring.” Mu Biqiong extended her hand and picked the ring up. Then, she sent a wisp of her soul awareness into it and took something out. “There’s only one item inside the ring.”

What she took out of the storage ring turned out to be a black egg that was about two meters tall, and giving off black light.

The black light seemed very special and mysterious, as if it could swallow all other light. Even the light sparkling off everything within the cave dimmed as soon as the egg appeared.

The cave instantly grew dark.

Yin Yanan’s eyes lit up as she trotted to Mu Biqiong’s side. Putting her hand on the egg, she said, “This is probably the egg of some ancient beast.”

“Even unhatched, it’s wreathed in a rich dark aura, but from the look of it, it’ll die soon,” She muttered to herself.

At this moment, Nie Tian and Xie Wanting also stepped over to the large egg.

Nie Tian copied Yin Yanan and also placed his hand on the black egg. With the help of his bloodline power, he sensed that there was a very faint life force within the large black egg, which meant that the unhatched creature in it had so little flesh power left in it that it might never hatch.

Yin Yanan was from the Beast-controlling Sect, so she had a rather thorough understanding of all kinds of spirit beasts and ancient beasts.

With a thoughtful expression, she said, “What a pity.”

“What do you mean?” Nie Tian asked.

“If this egg could actually hatch, then it’d be a perfect match for your little lover, Dong Li,” Yin Yanan said. “She practices dark power, which very few people practice, but is said to be very mysterious and wondrous. It’s beyond most Qi warriors to just gasp the basics of dark power cultivation, let alone become an expert in it.

“But some outsiders and ancient beasts are born with dark power as their bloodline power, with the profound truths of dark power branded in the depths of their bloodline.

“For example, among Ancientbeast races, some phoenixes were born with dark power as their bloodline power. These phoenixes are called black phoenixes.

“Some dragons are also born with dark power, and they’re called black dragons.

“As for outsider races, some Demons also carry dark power bloodlines, among all sorts of other powerful bloodlines.

“There are countless types of power in this world. Dark power and light power are two kinds that are very rare, but very mighty.

“To be honest, the fact that Dong Li mastered dark power came as a surprise to me. If this egg could somehow hatch and give birth to a creature blessed with a dark power bloodline, then it would be a perfect match for her.

“I doubt that even the spirit beasts my sect finds her will agree with her so perfectly,” Yin Yanan said, shaking her head.

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian took a deep look at the large black egg before him. He pondered in silence for a few seconds before saying, “I’ll take this egg. Do either of you also want it?”

“You wanna give it to your little lover, right?” Yin Yanan asked with a meaningful smile. “But like I told you, the creature inside is almost dead. There’s no way you’ll be able to hatch it.”

Mu Biqiong and Xie Wanting then expressed that they had no interest in the egg, and that they had no problem with Nie Tian taking it.