Immortal Arrival Tower was a famous inn on Mysterious Swallow Island. Most visiting cultivators stayed there.
Inside one guest room, an enormous white Spirit Beast Egg sat atop a table. Han Changming stood before it, holding a thick book whose cover bore the five words: "Record of Strange Beasts of Heaven and Earth."
After a while, Han Changming put down the jade slip, his gaze growing fervent.
"I hope it truly is a direct descendant of the Nine-Eyed Ice Toad."
The Record of Strange Beasts of Heaven and Earth documented over ten thousand kinds of exotic beasts with special divine abilities. Some exotic beasts were difficult to find in the cultivation world; at most, one could only find their descendants.
This Spirit Beast Egg was very likely the direct descendant of a Nine-Eyed Ice Toad. Strictly speaking, when a Spirit Beast Egg hatched, it only produced a young beast. The young beast had to undergo metamorphosis before it could become a true exotic beast—an exotic beast that had undergone a second evolution.
If it failed to metamorphose, it would indeed possess no great divine abilities and be utterly unremarkable. There were not many spirit beasts in the cultivation world capable of a second evolution. Common examples included pythons transforming into flood dragons and silkworms transforming into butterflies. This Spirit Beast Egg belonged to neither category.
If it could be hatched so easily, its previous owner would have hatched it long ago and sold it at a high price. The prices of Spirit Beast Eggs and spirit beasts differed enormously. Han Changming did not particularly care; it would be best if it hatched, but if it could not, then so be it.
A Longevity Treasure Pill was nothing to him. He simply had not expected to stumble upon a bargain on