Chapter 607: From the Giant Egg Comes the Taunt

"Mmm."

Concubine Yunxia felt as if she had been electrocuted, strange syllables echoing in her mind. Her face visibly flushed.

"Are you alright?" Jiang Fan asked telepathically.

Concubine Yunxia was overwhelmed with shame. "You... you shut up!"

"Don't speak!"

"Alright."

Jiang Fan stopped moving and speaking. He just leaned against her bare bosom.

*Gurgle, gurgle—*

The spiritual pond continued to bubble like boiling water for a long time. Only when the Demon Emperor was sure he had been overly suspicious did he withdraw his aura and laugh, saying:

"Yunxia, don't take it personally. I care about you too much."

Concubine Yunxia's face, turned away from him, was already deeply flushed with shame. But to prevent exposure, she feigned extreme anger and said coldly:

"Are you suspecting me of having another man behind your back? This is your Demon Imperial Palace, your harem! What are you worried about?"

The Demon Emperor did not deny it. He said lightly, "Caution keeps the ship afloat for ten thousand years. I don't want to hear one day that my woman has betrayed me."

Concubine Yunxia snorted coldly, "What if there is?"

The Demon Emperor's eyes narrowed. "I will kill her, and her entire clan. I will leave no one alive! Yunxia, don't disappoint me."

With that, the Demon Emperor stepped into the void and departed completely.

Yunxia was utterly distraught. She stared blankly at the pool full of broken petals, feeling as if a huge stone was pressing on her heart.

It wasn't until a large bubble emerged from her bosom that she came back to her senses. Only then did she realize Jiang Fan's face was still pressed against her chest. Startled, she quickly pushed him away.

"Go! Leave immediately! Don't let me see you again!" Concubine Yunxia urgently transmitted telepathically. It was unclear if she was overcome with shame or terrified by the Demon Emperor's recent words.

Jiang Fan gasped a few times. It was a good thing the Demon Emperor had left, otherwise he would have been exposed.

"Thank you for saving me just now, Concubine Yunxia. What happened today is a secret between us, known only to heaven and earth."

Even with Jiang Fan's thick skin, he felt a bit apologetic. What happened just now had truly put Concubine Yunxia in a difficult position. Such a chaste person had been forced to perform such a humiliating act.

He took out a Blood Bodhi and placed it in front of her. Then he decisively activated his lightning ability and quickly departed.

Concubine Yunxia stared blankly at the Blood Bodhi, yet she couldn't bring herself to feel happy. A deep sense of shame surged in her heart. She couldn't believe it. She had actually been embracing another man while rebuking the Demon Emperor for suspecting her. Wasn't this the type of woman she despised the most? How had she become like this herself?

"Jiang Fan! I don't want to see you again!" Concubine Yunxia covered her face, her emotions on the verge of collapse. Every time she met Jiang Fan, something unspeakable would happen. This time, it left her utterly mortified.

"I'm returning to the Silver Fox Tribe tomorrow! I refuse to believe I'll still run into you there!"

The Silver Fox Tribe was in the northernmost part of the Demon Race territory. To the south, it bordered the Ten Thousand Li Snowfield. To the north, it overlooked the vast ocean. It was a very distant place, requiring a three-day journey to reach. If she could still encounter Jiang Fan even there, she would accept her fate. It would mean Jiang Fan was her fated nemesis, someone she could never shake off.

Meanwhile, Jiang Fan.

After quietly returning to the Glazed Palace, he stared blankly at the wall of his secret room for a while. His mind involuntarily replayed the soft, pliant sensation. For Jiang Fan, who had never been in such close contact with a woman, it was akin to opening a completely new door.

After a long moment, he suddenly came to his senses. He shook his head vigorously and said, "Jiang Fan, what nonsense are you thinking? Is Concubine Yunxia someone you can touch? Moreover, the top priority is to find a way to escape from the Demon Race. How can I have time to think about such things?"

He calmed his mind and carefully analyzed the reason for his failure to execute the second layer of Cloud Shadow just now. Lightning that couldn't be controlled in direction could be fatal when used for escape. But after meticulously reviewing it for a long time, he still couldn't find the problem. There was nothing wrong with his cultivation of the technique; the second layer was perfectly mastered. His lightning power flowed smoothly as well. Why, then, was he unable to control his direction during teleportation?

Suddenly, Jiang Fan recalled how he had previously used a spatial scroll and, influenced by the Five Magnetic Origin Mountain, was teleported to the Demon Race's southwestern military camp. He couldn't help but rub his chin suspiciously. "Could my lightning teleportation just now have been affected by some interference?"

After much thought, Jiang Fan could only think of one highly probable item. He took out the Sky Thunder Stone and peered into it. Inside, he saw a massive black spherical stone, a hundred zhang across, resting peacefully within the Sky Thunder Stone. The stone's surface bore shallow and deep indentations, the marks left by the Ancient Giant having sucked the egg liquid over the past millennium.

He tried to send a bolt of lightning power into the Sky Thunder Stone, letting it strike the giant egg. A miraculous scene occurred. The lightning power was actually absorbed by the giant egg! This confirmed Jiang Fan's conjecture. The giant egg had most likely interfered with his purple lightning earlier.

"So it was you, you fellow!" Jiang Fan showed interest. "You are very likely a descendant of an ancient sage. Your True Spirit Blood is an essential ingredient for my cultivation of the Brahma Sage True Spirit Art."

Thinking of the Brahma Sage True Spirit Art, his eyes burned with fervor. According to the art, it was divided into four forms: Heaven, Earth, Human, and Divine. Each form required a type of True Spirit Blood to be completed. Achieving any one form would make one invincible in the Core Formation realm. Achieving two forms would allow one to attain a Golden Body. The giant egg before him might just help him achieve one form. After that, he would have no rival below the Nascent Soul realm.

Venerable Six Paths also emerged, marveling: "At the very least, it's a descendant born of a sage. The purity of its True Spirit Blood is second only to that of a sage themselves. However, this giant egg might not be easy to open."

Jiang Fan was somewhat mentally prepared. After all, it was a descendant of a sage; how could its protective shell be easily broken by just anyone?

Therefore, he directly took the giant egg out of the Sky Thunder Stone. Then he summoned his Purple Sword and fiercely struck the giant egg. The Purple Sword cut through anything and had never disappointed Jiang Fan. No matter how hard the giant egg before him was, it should be able to be broken open.

With a sharp sound, as expected, when the Purple Sword cut down, though it met resistance and was nowhere near as easy as cutting other objects, it still managed to cut through. However, the cut made by the sword was immediately sealed by a mysterious power within the egg liquid. If Jiang Fan hadn't retracted his Purple Sword quickly, it would have been solidified inside.

Jiang Fan refused to believe it and struck several more times. But each time it was the same. The cut mark would vanish in a flash, restoring itself, giving Jiang Fan no chance to extract the egg liquid. Unconvinced, Jiang Fan unleashed various divine abilities. Palm techniques, finger techniques, lightning techniques, and even the Five Magnetic Divine Light were deployed. Except for the Nascent Soul jade talisman, Jiang Fan unleashed every skill he could.

He was panting heavily. But the giant egg remained completely unchanged.

Jiang Fan's expression darkened. "I'm powerless against it?"

Venerable Six Paths was speechless. "A treasure mountain right in front of you, yet you can't enter – isn't this exactly that situation?"

Jiang Fan was infuriated. He punched the giant egg, saying, "Damn it! All that risk for nothing!" He had snatched food from the mouth of an Ancient Giant! And all he got back was this thing?

Just then, the giant egg began to sway, emitting flickering light. A shadowy projection of a massive creature was faintly visible inside. Immediately after, a thin crack appeared in the eggshell. A trickle of egg liquid, about a finger's length and mixed with a trace of vital blood, flowed out. Then the crack quickly closed, returning to its original state, as if nothing had happened. Only that trickle of egg liquid remained, sliding down the eggshell.

"Uh-oh—" Venerable Six Paths mumbled in astonishment, "Why do I feel like this giant egg is mocking you? Seeing you struggle for so long without being able to break it open, so it's giving you a little as charity?"