Not Meant for Drinking
To make it easier to bond with the little fellow, Zhou Xu had someone prepare a separate bird's nest for Xuan Yu. He even had it moved to his bedchamber together with the eggshell.
Throughout the process, the little fellow was remarkably bold for a hatchling. It showed no sign of being frightened. Instead, it remained calm from start to finish, continuing to peck at the eggshell before it as though nothing in the world mattered more than this meal. Food was king.
"Your Majesty, is it really all right for a newly hatched bird to eat eggshells?"
Holding the bird's nest in his hands, Shilke looked at Xuan Yu pecking at the eggshell and asked in puzzlement.
Clearly, none of them had any experience raising birds.
Compared with Shilke, however, Zhou Xu at least knew a tiny bit more.
"Eating eggshells can supplement calcium, so it should be fine. Creatures in nature know what they should and shouldn't eat. Besides, Xuan Yu is a transcendent creature by birth."
Zhou Xu's final sentence easily convinced Shilke.
Indeed, transcendent creatures basically could not be viewed from the perspective of ordinary animals.
Take Qiansui, for example. When the little fellow was born, it had not been a transcendent creature yet, only a mutated beast. Even so, it had already been highly intelligent from a young age and possessed very strong self-sufficiency.
For something like Xuan Yu, which was a transcendent creature by birth, surely its ability to care for itself could not be worse than Qiansui's, right?
On the new day, Zhou Xu had more or less returned to a normal schedule. The sky had only just begun to brighten when he was already up for his morning training.
After finishing his morning training, the power of his