"But this is only an egg. It hasn't hatched yet."
Xia Ping stroked his chin and pointed at the green egg atop the altar. He could sense the pulse of life within it, but it was still asleep, showing no sign of hatching.
"It's better that it hasn't hatched. If it truly had, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so easy to tame." Cat Immortal chuckled as it stroked its grizzled beard.
Xia Ping blinked. "But how exactly should it be hatched? This egg seems to have been here for a very long time. It looks like it has never shown any sign of hatching."
He instinctively sensed that the egg had been on this altar for a long while.
"This is a Golden Slime egg. Making it hatch isn't so simple," Cat Immortal said. "It requires a unique ritual to awaken it. Otherwise, it will remain asleep forever. Taking tens of thousands of years to hatch is perfectly normal.
"If it were in the original universe, this Golden Slime egg would certainly have hatched. But this tribe of slimes has lost its inheritance, so they don't know how to awaken the egg."
"Fortunately, the old master acquired this special awakening ritual while searching for Golden Slimes. Otherwise, even I would have no way to hatch this egg."
It smiled faintly.
"What method is it exactly?"
Xia Ping immediately asked.
Cat Immortal then taught Xia Ping the awakening ritual. He needed to use his own blood to inscribe a special formation upon the egg—a formation known as the Soul Contract Formation.
Once this formation was formed, Xia Ping's soul would be bound to the Golden Slime's. That way, the Golden Slime would never betray him and would become his bonded pet.
The moment it finished speaking, Xia Ping did not hesitate.