"Sister Blue left instructions. This Golden Sea Dragon hatchling is the most important, most precious treasure meant to repay you, Master. You must treat it with care. If Mysterious Emperor Island or any other Sea Clan faction learns of it, they'll spare no expense to scheme for it!"
"What do you mean?"
Xiao Ying asked in puzzlement, then quickly added, "Was there some deeper meaning behind your Sister Blue's instructions?"
Generally speaking, spirit pets were best raised from infancy. For egg-laying creatures, the egg was naturally the rarest and most precious stage, followed by the ignorant infancy of a hatchling. A demonic beast or spirit beast's young was worth countless times more than its mature form. How valuable was a Sea King Beast? Its young was countless times more precious still, let alone a Golden Sea Dragon, a Sea Emperor Beast as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. In theory, it could grow into a Sea Venerable Beast, with potential equal to Xiao Ying, the Barbarian Tribe's false "Supreme Genius"!
Judging by the changes to the miniature world within the Heaven-Earth Bell, the Heart of Heaven and Earth that the Blue Sky Empress had merged into it was a top-tier specimen with exceptionally complete and balanced laws of heaven and earth. Its price was at least ten times that of an ordinary Heart of Heaven and Earth. Those nearly four hundred pieces of Immortal Grade equipment were worth at least forty to fifty billion immortal crystals, roughly equal to that Heart of Heaven and Earth. Yet this Golden Sea Dragon hatchling was worth far more than either the Heart of Heaven and Earth or the Immortal Grade equipment.
Although Xiao Ying's cultivation realm was not high, even he understood something so obvious. Did the Blue Sky Empress really need