"How would you handle it if it were entrusted to you?"
To be honest, Patriarch Zhang Lin's feelings were undoubtedly conflicted.
The immortal egg had been brought out of Ancient Emperor Mountain at enormous cost. Sending it straight back would be far too wasteful; keeping it might invite disaster; giving it to a disciple was equally worrying.
No matter what he chose, none of the options seemed suitable.
"Seal it inside an ultimate rough embryo."
"With a supreme sacred relic like the Root of All Things Mother Qi, something even ancient Great Emperors rarely encountered, suppressing it day and night, no one will detect anything unusual unless an Ancient Emperor comes in person."
As he spoke, a profound yellow Dao cauldron rumbled into existence from the void.
"Good. Without absolute certainty, do not touch the immortal egg."
Since the fifth-generation Source Heaven Master knew that Ye Fan wielded the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, he naturally also knew the tradition of successive inheritors of the Ruthless Empress: proving the Dao through slaughter, killing all kings, and devouring their origins.
He had also guessed the immortal egg's fate, but did not expose it.
The Human Sacred Body was overjoyed. "Thank you, Patriarch!"
Boom!
The immortal egg, which had been standing quietly by the immortal pool, seemed to sense danger. Boundless auspicious radiance burst from beneath its stone shell, and it urgently tried to flee through the air.
"Little egg, get in the cauldron now~"
Ye Fan laughed loudly and pointed. The Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi hummed as it inverted itself, its pitch-black mouth erupting with incomparably terrifying suction. Hundreds of millions of wisps of profound yellow qi coiled toward it.
Though the immortal egg had already shattered its stone shell and shot into the sky, no matter how it struggled, its