"Tsk! What is this thing? Is it really a dragon egg?" Li Xiaoya looked at the dull gray object the size of a human head on the table before him and muttered in puzzlement.
The Treasure Ship Auction had finally drawn to a successful close, and Li Xiaoya had reaped a considerable harvest. Although he had spent more than half his Spirit Stones, he had collected plenty of materials. In particular, he had gathered nearly half the principal ingredients needed for the Nine-Turn Spirit-Linking Pill, including several exceedingly rare Spirit Herbs, as well as some materials Second Better needed.
The dull gray object before him was something purported to be a dragon egg, which Li Xiaoya had bought during the auction of personal possessions. None of the cultivators had taken it seriously at the time, and its asking price was high-an astonishing eight hundred million Spirit Stones. Naturally, few people were willing to bid. Even if it truly was a dragon egg, who knew whether it was alive or even genuine? And even a living dragon egg would be incredibly difficult to hatch. More importantly, given a dragon's lifespan, it would take thousands of years after hatching to reach the Transformation Stage. Until then, it could only serve as a pet, which hardly seemed worthwhile. Besides, dragons were no ordinary Demon Beasts; their intelligence made them far harder to control...
For a long while, not a single cultivator had bid. After confirming that the Fire Dragon Sword was humming because of this dragon egg, Li Xiaoya had offered eight hundred and ten million Spirit Stones and won it.
And so, the moment the auction ended, he had hurried back to study it. Yet despite his powerful Divine Sense, he could detect nothing unusual about the dragon egg. It felt like