Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant

Chapter 1343: Chapter 26 Section 22 Chapter 1343: Chapter 26 Section 22 The crown of the Azure Fire Paulownia Tree swayed gently, and countless fire leaves rustled, making a ‘su su’ sound.

Wang Ba sat cross-legged under the tree, looking at the black egg before him.

The black egg was not large, only as wide as a pair of fingers, almost the same size as a chicken egg in the Mortal Realm.

Except, the shell of the egg was visibly soft to the naked eye.

One of the several black eggs trembled slightly.

Then it returned to stillness.

Wang Ba was not disappointed, these eggs had been incubating for several years, and he had always thought this would be another stillbirth, like countless times before, but to his surprise, just half a year ago, this batch of eggs began to show signs of life.

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Due to the special lineage of these eggs’ parents, even though Wang Ba had seen countless Spirit Beasts, he still had the patience to wait here for half a year.

Thinking of this, Wang Ba’s gaze swept over the newly built ‘Spirit Snake Den’ in the distance, where a pure black exotic snake was lazily coiled on a rock.

And at another location in the ‘Dragon Lizard Cave’, there was a group of legless Stony Geckos, resembling snakes, slowly swallowing the White Jade Wasps that Wang Ba had just placed inside not long ago.

This large snake and the group of legless Stony Geckos were the parents of this batch of black eggs.

The paternal side was Ding Twenty-One, a Class IV middle-grade Spirit Snake that Wang Ba named after combining the mutated Spirit Snake from within his sect with many other snake species, and the Class IV Demonic Beast Sea Surfacing Demon Snake previously hunted by the Ice Daoist in the South Sea.

Perhaps influenced by the Sea Surfacing Demon Snake’s bloodline or a congenital defect due to Yin Yang Creation,

Even though Ding Twenty-One was already a Class IV middle-grade Spirit Beast, it shared the same defects as many previous hybrid breeds—its intellect was dull, like ordinary snakes, and it exhibited stronger aggressiveness.

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Apart from that, its bloodline was rich and abundant, and its body was strong, which made it the ideal snake-like Spirit Beast in Wang Ba’s heart.

To facilitate research and breeding, Wang Ba conveniently arranged for a keen Cultivator from Huangji Continent to take possession of the Soul.

The maternal line was the legless Stony Gecko, a Class IV lower-grade Spirit Beast bred from the lineage of Ghost-pattern Stone Lizards.

From its appearance, it was almost indistinguishable from snake species, also without limbs, relying solely on body movement to get around.

Of course, having bred Spirit Beasts for many years, Wang Ba could easily tell the difference.

For example, the jawbone of the legless Stony Gecko could not open as wide as that of snake-like Spirit Beasts, preventing it from swallowing anything larger than itself, and the legless Stony Gecko had eyelids that could close, unlike snakes.

Although these two types of Spirit Beasts were closely related by blood, Wang Ba had not initially considered combining the two.

Only after he had tried all the snake-like Spirit Beasts in his possession and had no other research materials did Wang Ba accidentally see the legless Stony Gecko and got the idea to combine the two.

As expected, reproductive isolation existed between the two.

After attempting and failing, Wang Ba’s solution was simple.

With Yin-Yang energy nurtured over the years, he introduced it at the point of mating, allowing for a chance of Bloodline Glory to emerge, potentially facilitating the fusion of their bloodlines and resulting in offspring.

The probability of success depended on how closely related the bloodlines of both parents were.

For example, the Spirit Chicken mating with the Spirit Snake, even with Yin Yang Creation, the probability of bloodline fusion was extremely slim.

This was because according to The Way of Beast Tamer’s classification of all things in the world, there were five categories: Ba (pronounced the same as ‘naked’), scales, feathers, fur, and insects.

The Spirit Chicken belonged to the feather category, and the Spirit Snake to the scale category—they were in different categories, hence their bloodlines were very distant from each other.

At least Wang Ba had tried several times, and aside from breeding a monster with the head of a chicken and the body of a snake, which was completely useless, he achieved no further results.

Instead, targeted breeding between Spirit Beasts of the same category, which originally had some distance, was much more successful.

This made Wang Ba realize that the creation via Yin Yang energy was not omnipotent and perhaps his accumulated understanding and insights of Yin-Yang energy were still insufficient.

But since Yin-Yang energy was hard to come by, after realizing this, he could only try to pick those with a higher probability for now.

He patiently waited a few more days.

The other black eggs also began to wobble one after another, indicating that the little ones inside were finally about to hatch.

Sure enough, that very night, the first egg that had wobbled cracked open vertically.

Through the crack, one could vaguely see a spotted head drilling back and forth at a leisurely pace.

Soon, a half-snake, half-lizard creature with limbs on one side of its body and an empty other half struggled out of the black egg.

Its forked tongue was more similar to the Spirit Snake, but it could close its upper and lower eyelids, just like the Stone Lizard.

Seeing this odd creature and the feeble Bloodline Glory revealed on its crown, Wang Ba felt a slight disappointment.

This was a common problem with Spirit Beasts bred through Yin Yang Creation.

Either a stillborn,

Or indeed the bloodlines had merged, but instead of developing positively, they had weakened or even completely canceled each other out.

True stable bloodlines that surpassed their predecessors were rare.

“But this was expected, I suppose.”

The next day.

Wang Ba continued to watch the remaining black eggs.

He pondered on the cultivation of other Spirit Beasts, as well as how to solve the source issue of Yin-Yang energy.