Soul Land IV - The Ultimate Combat

Chapter 4 - A child born out of an egg

Extreme North, Douluo.

Part of the accumulated snow in the valley had been cleared. After a full 24-hour investigation, Lan Xiao and his small research team could confirm that the location where the gold and silver flickering light was giving off intense life energy was safe.

Lan Xiao determined precisely that this should be a piece of a relic, and under normal circumstances, a relic that gave off a million-year-old spirit beast life energy was already considered a great discovery to them.

The next step was to dig the relic out.

The two machines had been working for half a day and finally cleared out the snow on the surface. But under the accumulated snow, there was still ice and who knew how long these ice had been frozen for; they might even be harder than steel. And in order to prevent destroying what was inside, they had to be extra careful.

The layer of ice was very thick, but after clearing the snow on the surface, they could see that gold and silver glowing through the clear, thick ice.

The glow was subtle; it wasn’t strong but extremely clear.

The life detector had been observing the situation inside— the living energy still remained the same, and it wasn’t affected by whatever they were doing outside.

This was a good sign and proved that the possibility of danger was low.

The Soul Guidance energy slowly cut the life energy and continued monitoring the position of this object.

After two whole hours and about four meters of thick ice was sliced off, they could finally roughly judge the size of this object.

“It has a diameter of about half a meter, its width is about 30 centimeters. It has an oval body and is definitely not a spirit beast. It seems like an egg,” Nan Cheng reported to Lan Xiao.

Lan Xiao’s eyes lit up. “If it is really an egg, then we might have made a great achievement. Even though I still cannot tell what type of spirit beast egg this is right now, but if the egg itself could emit million-year-old life energy, it goes without thinking that this should be the egg left behind by a spirit beast at the level of a Beast King. It’s rare that it could still be flourishing with life energy after being sealed in ice, but incubation is highly possible. We found a treasure!”

A million-year-old spirit beast existed in those two spirit beast planets, but they were extinct in Soul Land a long time ago. Also, the federation had an agreement with the two spirit beast planets that if they ever find a spirit beast of that level, the federation had to send it back to the spirit beast planet. In return, the spirit beast planet would pay taxes and provide them with whatever resources they needed in order to benefit both parties.

As the ones who made the discovery, their research team would not only receive a promotion, they would also be rewarded handsomely.

“Seems like this is a wedding gift from heaven!” Lan Xiao took the chance to hug Nan Cheng’s shoulder and laughed.

“Don’t be careless, let’s just take it back first,” Nan Cheng said softly.

Lan Xiao laughed. “I love it when you’re like that…”

“If you call me dumb again, I will get mad at you,” Nan Cheng interrupted him and gave him a threatening gesture.

“Boss, we retrieved it.”

Lan Xiao hurriedly turned to the screen, and on the screen, a machine was clasping onto a block of ice and facing the camera.

Indeed, there was an egg in that transparent ice. The oval-shaped egg had a finely weaved pattern of gold and silver decorative design on its surface.