Hatching the Spiritual Fowl, the Five-Colored Golden Pheasant!

"Steward Wu, thank you so much for thinking so highly of me. There's nothing bad about being a water-carrying servant disciple. The workload is heavy, but the daily exercise is solid and real. I want to use it to temper my body." Chen Huai'an could only desperately search for excuses.

Carrying water truly could temper the body, just as he had said.

Since Chen Huai'an had said so, Steward Wu could only let it go. The reason he had shown Chen Huai'an favor was entirely because Chen Huai'an had broken through to the Body Tempering Realm, Middle Stage, in such a short time. As long as this fellow survived, he would definitely become a talent.

It was simply that he had never expected that after not once feeling the urge to cherish talent for years, the one time he did, he would actually be rejected. It left him somewhat displeased.

Steward Wu sighed. Since Chen Huai'an would not accept, he would not force him.

After leaving the room, Chen Huai'an felt somewhat speechless as well. Zhao Junhao had come looking for trouble, and now that he had rejected Steward Wu's goodwill, he was also worried that Steward Wu might make things difficult for him.

However, Chen Huai'an could not worry about so much right now. Compared to Steward Wu, he was more concerned about retaliation from the Zhao Family and the Zhang Family—especially the Zhang Family.

The Zhang Family was simply like lingering ghosts that refused to disperse. He had handled things flawlessly several times already, yet the Zhang Family still came looking for trouble.

He only wanted to cultivate in peace and quiet. Why did so many troublesome matters keep coming to find him?

"Forget it. These aren't things I need to worry about right now. What I need to do is prepare for the next few battles." Chen Huai'an knew that the Challenge Tournament was exceedingly brutal. As long as you wanted to climb higher, those ranked below you would think of every possible way to trample over you and take your place.

And that was only under the basic challenge rules. It did not even account for the variables posed by the Zhang Family and the Zhao Family. Those two major forces would definitely tamper with the Challenge Tournament. When the time came, his difficulty would only multiply.

"If I could leave the Qingyun Sect now and get some good things from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to raise my strength... Without pills to aid cultivation, my progress is simply too slow." Chen Huai'an felt tremendous pressure. As the saying went, pressure brought motivation. He would only grow stronger and stronger.

If Chen Huai'an wanted to leave the Qingyun Sect, he could have an outer sect disciple take him out. But going out frequently would also bring considerable trouble.

If he ran into trouble this time he went out, it would be real trouble. It would be best to digest the resources in his hands within the Qingyun Sect.

Even if he were to leave the Qingyun Sect, without the strength of the Qi Refining Realm, he would be nothing more than cannon fodder outside.

At the Qi Refining Realm, there was still a certain degree of safety in the Qingyun Sect's marketplace, since it was Qingyun Sect territory after all.

Over the next two days, Chen Huai'an spent much of his time cultivating and tending to the Spirit Grain and medicinal herbs in the space.

His schedule was very regular. Every day, he cultivated, went down the mountain to carry water once, then entered the Gourd Space to tend to it. It was a three-point line, busy but truly fulfilling.

After reaching the Body Tempering Realm, Late Stage, Seventh Layer, Chen Huai'an made progress every day, but his cultivation speed was no longer as fast as before.

This was already the speed he achieved with premium Spirit Grain assisting his cultivation. Ordinary disciples did not have so many cultivation resources, so their speed was certainly inferior to Chen Huai'an's.

That was why so many servant disciples remained stuck at the late stage of the Body Tempering Realm, their cultivation showing no progress.

At this realm, aptitude could no longer change much. Without resources, even disciples with top-grade single spiritual roots would not make much progress through meditation alone. In the end, they could only accumulate bit by bit over the years.

Purple-Skinned Gourd Space.

Chen Huai'an went into the wooden hut and touched the rabbit fur to check its warmth. He sensed movement coming from beneath the nest where the chicks were being incubated. "Huh? These eggs are actually moving?"

Chen Huai'an carefully lifted a corner of the rabbit fur used for warmth and discovered that one of the eggs had cracked open at a corner, revealing a fluffy little head.

"What's going on? Counting the time, these eggs couldn't have hatched so quickly. Could this space really accelerate time?" Looking at the cracked egg, Chen Huai'an truly suspected that time flowed differently within the space than it did outside.

Yet when he stayed inside the space, he could not feel time passing quickly at all.

The eggs had been in the space for only three or four days. Based on his experience raising chickens in the countryside, a broody hen needed more than twenty days to hatch chicks. Yet these eggs had been incubating in the space for barely over three days, not even four, and the chicks were already pecking through their shells.

If calculated that way, one day inside the Purple-Skinned Gourd Space should have been equivalent to seven days outside.

But that was not right either. Spirit Grain needed a full year to mature outside.

Yet in the space, it matured in only three or four days. By that ratio, did one day inside the space equal four months outside?

With time as a reference point, Chen Huai'an was thoroughly confused.

Regardless of whether the flow of time inside was connected to the outside world, as long as Chen Huai'an made good use of it, his future achievements would be limitless.

And how was the age of medicinal herbs measured? He did not know. He felt that the medicinal herbs grown in the space should be another reference point.

"The chicks have hatched. The breeding business should get moving too." Chen Huai'an shook his head and cast those unsolved mysteries he could not understand to the back of his mind. The Purple-Skinned Gourd was in his hands. If he could not figure it out now, it was probably related to his cultivation realm. Given some more time, once his cultivation improved, he would definitely be able to understand it.

A vegetable patch, a medicinal garden, then a few chickens, ducks, and fish to raise—self-produced and self-supplied. Life would become even more comfortable in the future.

Anything that came out of the space was good stuff.

The chicks were about to hatch, so he had to make a small enclosure for them and keep them penned up. These Spirit Grain husks, Spirit Grain, and stalks were all excellent chicken feed.

If he fed them these things from now on, the chicken would definitely taste delicious and be nutritious as well.

Very soon, all six eggs hatched: one rooster and five hens.

These Five-Colored Golden Pheasant eggs were spiritual fowl eggs, and there was a high chance that the chicks hatched from them would be spiritual fowl from birth.

The eggs had been inside the Purple-Skinned Gourd Space. Chen Huai'an did not know why, but all six chicks had reached the level of spiritual fowl the moment they were born. It was not as Liu Qiaogui had said, with only a certain chance of hatching one or two Five-Colored Golden Pheasants.

This time, he had obtained six Five-Colored Golden Pheasants. The success rate was one hundred percent, far higher than what Liu Qiaogui had claimed.

This was a good thing.

And at this rate, the hens would lay eggs in a month at most. Could those eggs hatch into chicks as well? By then, he would have endless spiritual fowl meat to eat.

Everything was developing in a beautiful direction.

To expand the scale of breeding, relying on these six chicks alone would not produce much of a scale within a year or even half a year. Since chick incubation was faster in the space, he could completely go to the Servant Peak's breeding farm and find a few servant disciples who raised chickens to get some fertilized eggs. At this breeding speed, he would be able to eat self-produced spiritual fowl meat in a month at most.