"I didn't waste my time staking this place out for so long; I've finally taken care of this thorn in my side..."
After killing Wang Xiaochuan, Lu Chuan looked at the bulging area inside the man's chest and raised a brow:
"This fellow, it seems he still has a treasure on him..."
He reached his hand inside Wang Xiaochuan's garments. The man was covered in fresh blood, which stained Lu Chuan's hands heavily as well.
In the end, he fished out a wooden box.
Upon opening it, a lustrous white object lay inside.
"What is this? Some kind of beast's egg...?" Lu Chuan lowered his head to look at the lustrous white, egg-like object in his hand, his brow furrowed deeply.
The item felt warm to the touch, nothing like the egg of an ordinary fowl.
Just as he wanted to examine it closely, he suddenly sensed something was amiss.
The egg suddenly underwent a certain change, and the Qi and Blood within it seemed to fluctuate violently.
Lu Chuan's gaze fell upon his hand.
His hand had just made contact with the corpse and was stained with Wang Xiaochuan's blood; at this moment, that blood was slowly seeping into the eggshell.
"This thing... is absorbing blood?"
A shock jolted through Lu Chuan's heart, and he instinctively wanted to throw the object away.
Yet the eggshell clung to his palm as if glued, drinking greedily.
A few breaths later, the absorption stopped.
The Qi and Blood fluctuations inside the eggshell also leveled off.
Lu Chuan turned it over and inspected it several times, yet he could make neither head nor tail of it.
"What on earth is this thing?... An exotic beast's egg?"
The one thing he could be certain of was that an egg capable of being solemnly hidden