Right, the oval-shaped object with a smooth surface currently being held in both of Bai Qiuyin’s hands before Ling Xiaoyou was an egg.
This egg was not the size of those ordinary eggs; a rough estimate put it at least as big as a head, about the size of an ostrich egg.
Moreover, this egg bore various intricate and mysterious patterns, and at a glance, it was clearly no ordinary egg.
But no matter how extraordinary and unusual this egg appeared, it could not change the fact that it was just an egg.
“Yes indeed.”
Bai Qiuyin placed the egg on Ling Xiaoyou’s hands, and as if her hands were itching, she could not resist rubbing Ling Xiaoyou’s little head, saying, “This is the highest prize of this Xuantian Martial Tournament, and now it belongs to you all.”
“Mhm.”
Ling Xiaoyou did not mind Bai Qiuyin’s head-patting; she was long used to it anyway. Compared to that, she cared more about this egg.
She held the egg that was bigger than her own head, her small hands barely able to hold it steady, and she even needed to use Spirit Power to help keep it stable.
She grabbed the egg and examined it from top to bottom, left to right, without any blind spots, not letting a single detail escape, wanting to see what was so special about this egg that it could serve as the highest prize of the Xuantian Martial Tournament.
After all, the highest prize of the Xuantian Martial Tournament was something that all the group champions had to fight over, with only the final sole victor earning the right to obtain it. Its value went without saying; it was definitely no ordinary object.
But then…
Ling Xiaoyou held the egg and looked at it from left and right, completely unable to sense anything extraordinary about it. At most, it was just a bit bigger and a bit prettier; other than that, there was nothing special.
“Grandma Qiuyin, is the Xuantian Martial Tournament going to be terminated now?”
Although Bai Shuanglian was curious in her heart, seeing that Ling Xiaoyou seemed very interested, she took a few extra looks. But compared to that, she was more curious about the future of the Xuantian Martial Tournament.
Her battle with Su Taosheng had not yet ended, and the final victory had not been decided. Naturally, she still wanted to have another match with her.
It was just that now it seemed impossible.
“Yes, with such a huge incident, it naturally cannot continue.”
The president of the Imperial Exorcist Association, the host, had become a traitor, opening the door wide for the Demon Grand Duke and doing many things for him, leading to the current situation.
And most of the Exorcists Association members had been tricked by him into the Sealing Space, and rescue efforts were still underway. Currently, all affairs of the Imperial Capital’s transcendent world had been handed over to the Regulatory Division, but the impact of this incident was too broad and too deep for the Division to handle, and they had already requested aid from other cities.
With everyone this busy and overwhelmed, it was naturally impossible to continue holding something as time-consuming and labor-intensive as the Xuantian Martial Tournament.
Moreover, if not for the Xuantian Martial Tournament being held on such a grand scale, drawing in so much manpower and resources, even if the traitor was the president, he could not have backstabbed so many people.
The Exorcists Association had survived across the river of time for a thousand years without decline; it naturally had capability. The main issue was that the traitor this time was the president; after all, who could have thought the boss was a mole!
If the mole had not been the president, and if manpower and resources had not been tied up by the Xuantian Martial Tournament, this incident could never have developed to such an extent; it would have been settled by the Exorcists Association from the very beginning.
After hearing Bai Qiuyin’s explanation, Bai Shuanglian nodded in understanding and did not mention continuing the competition again.
Although she did feel a small regret about not being able to finish the battle, it was only a little. Even if it could not be completed, so what? At worst, they just would not fight. Fighting or whatever, could it be more fragrant than her little Xiaoyou?
Thinking this, Bai Shuanglian looked toward Ling Xiaoyou and immediately saw that Ling Xiaoyou was trying to bite the egg that looked so extraordinary with her own teeth.
Bai Shuanglian: “…”
She helplessly straightened Ling Xiaoyou’s little head and said, “Don’t bite this, it’s dirty.”
“Hehe, I was just curious about how hard this thing is.”
Ling Xiaoyou stuck out her little tongue, smoothly using Meng Hun Guo Guan, then before Bai Shuanglian could continue lecturing, she preemptively said, “But this egg is unexpectedly quite hard; even when I bit it with my teeth, I couldn’t bite through it.”
As a Cultivator, even if not specializing in Body Refining, Ling Xiaoyou’s physical qualities still exceeded ordinary people. If placed in those low-martial worlds, she would directly be at the level of a world-destroying Big Demon King.
So even she said this egg could not be bitten through and was very hard; that meant this egg was truly hard!
“So what kind of egg is this exactly?”
Ling Xiaoyou looked toward Hong Lingyan and Li Xuemà n, who were walking over, then looked at Bai Qiuyin and asked curiously.
“How about guessing what kind of egg it is?”
Hong Lingyan said with a mysterious look.
“No.”
Ling Xiaoyou refused decisively.
She would not guess! This routine had no novelty anymore; she was not a child.
“Fine then.”
Hong Lingyan reached out and slapped away Bai Qiuyin’s hand that was trying to rub Ling Xiaoyou’s little head again, while she herself comfortably rubbed Ling Xiaoyou’s head and said, “This is a Dragon Egg.”
“Dragon Egg?”
Ling Xiaoyou was stunned, and instinctively associated it with a certain dragon mom from the End who would drop a bunch of experience when killed and also give a dragon egg.
Then she shook her head. How could it be that dragon egg? That thing was black, completely different from this white one.
“If it’s a dragon, haven’t they long since left the Real World? How could there still be a Dragon Egg left behind?”
Bai Shuanglian glanced at the egg and asked.
There were dragons in this world. They were powerful, beautiful, majestic, practically synonymous with perfect beings, and then…
They were nearly eaten to extinction by Cultivators.
Yes, truly nearly eaten to extinction.
The environment in Ancient Times was not as harmonious as modern times. Back then, it was either Demons eating people, or people catching Demons, with Spirits causing trouble in between; it was chaotic!
But Cultivators ultimately held the upper hand in strength, so later they suppressed those Demons and Ghosts, beating them so badly they could not show their heads.
Ghosts had the Underworld as a world to hide in, so they were not too afraid of Cultivators.
But Demons had it rough. The powerful ones were fine, but the weak ones were directly captured and eaten as Spirit Food! Anything with Spirit Power, no matter what it was, was highly nourishing!
Thus, a mighty wave of Demon-eating arose in the Human Realm, eating Demon-kind to the point of near extinction.
But Demons were, after all, animals that had gained spiritual intelligence and begun Cultivation. Extinction would naturally bring a new batch. However, under such a trend, the noblest dragons certainly could not escape either. Though they were strong, they could not withstand thieves coveting them every day.
Steal one today, steal a pair tomorrow!
And dragons were very proud, basically living separately with no such thing as gathering places, so many dragons were captured and eaten without anyone noticing.
As a result, later, when the Dragon Clan chief summoned the clansmen, he was shocked to discover—
No dragons left!
What kind of nonsense was this!
So, the Dragon Clan chief took the remaining dragons overnight, first raiding several cultivation Sects and Clans that had caught the most dragons to settle scores, then hurriedly left the Real World before other Cultivators could react, found a Small World to hide in, and never returned.
So now in the Human World, aside from creatures with dragon blood, there was nothing related to dragons.
Oh right, Western Dragons did not count as dragons in the eyes of Eastern Radiance. Though internationally they were considered dragons, Eastern Radiance had always thought they were just big lizards.
But Ling Xiaoyou did not much care about these background dragons. Compared to that, she cared more about another matter, which was…