That was right. What Fairy Yunqing had delivered with such care was an Egg that looked utterly ordinary, no bigger than a ping-pong ball.
Wang Yufu smiled. "You don't understand. I still have matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave!"
With that, he departed at ease. To avoid any appearance of impropriety, he did not linger.
Respect was a two-way street!
Only after Wang Yufu had left did Tang Changsheng turn a solemn gaze on the strange Egg.
Ever since Tang Changsheng had sent the Great Plan of the Five Elements back to the Immortal Sects through Fairy Yunqing, he had known their ways well enough to expect that they would not take advantage of him for nothing.
The extra shipment of supplies was nothing much. The real reward was this Egg of unknown origin, delivered privately.
Though it looked unremarkable, it was scarcely larger than a ping-pong ball.
Yet the power contained within it was astonishing.
It was a surging power, one that seemed on the verge of being born at any moment.
"Why would the Immortal Sects send me this? They're too proud to take what's mine and do nothing in return. They must have sent something of equal or comparable value. Surely they wouldn't give me a pet?"
As Tang Changsheng considered it, a suspicion began to take shape.
In truth, when he had chosen the Path of Calamity Annihilation, he had already thought of the saying: solitary yang could not give birth, and lone yin could not grow.
The Path of Calamity Annihilation was powerful, but it leaned toward death and Destruction.
That troubled him. He had wondered whether he could someday find a corresponding Path of Life to balance it.
Now the egg the Immortal Sects had sent confirmed his guess.
For although