Forming Dao Companions?!

Lu Ren circled the giant egg, examining it closely. Even he was surprised by the hardness of its shell. Its texture was tough—far tougher than the bedrock he had touched beneath the Sunken Sea Zone.

Even he could sense that the strange runes upon it contained certain principles, slowly intertwining and taking shape.

Seeing that Ao Li did not respond, Lu Ren reached out and lightly pressed a hand against the dragon egg. Under Hyperdimensional Perception, he could clearly feel an extraordinarily vigorous life essence slowly gathering within the egg.

"Raising it here will probably take quite some time."

Nüwa said, "There's no helping it. This is simply how the world's environment is. Unless you nourish it with Spirit Crystals, relying solely on the dragon egg to absorb and cultivate itself will likely take many years."

"That won't do!" Lu Ren blurted out, a trace of worry appearing between his brows. Cheng Guo was in seclusion, preparing to embark upon the Path to Ascension. If Ao Li needed too much time...

He sighed deeply and placed the dragon egg into his Inner World Universe, setting it at the central node where the Spirit Crystals converged. Then he saw the egg's suction suddenly intensify. Drawn by that force, the surrounding Spirit Crystals began to be frantically drained like a whale swallowing the sea.

Lu Ren grimaced. This was a Spirit Crystal star he had accumulated through ten years of effort. He had no idea how many Spirit Crystals it would take to hatch a True Dragon.

If even this entire Spirit Crystal star was not enough, that would be utterly absurd.

If this star formed from Spirit Crystals could become integrated into the cycle of the Inner World Universe, perhaps it could reproduce itself. Even if it could not, this entire