Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant

Chapter 618: Chapter 32: Gold Imitation_1

Wang Ba gently pushed aside the remaining fragments of broken eggshells.

Of the eight beast eggs, seven had hatched, but one had already lost its life aura.

“Looks like it was a weakling…

Not every egg can hatch in time. Some inherently weak creatures can be smothered to death inside the shell in their early life stage if they are too weak to break the eggshell.

In the wild, some parents would typically aid in breaking the shell, but creatures like the Stone Lizards leave it to natural selection.

However, Wang Ba occasionally lent a helping hand.

But these days, he had been too busy and missed the opportunity.

Wang Ba shook his head slightly, not feeling anything in particular.

There was nothing to it; he had simply seen it too many times.

After all, if the egg couldn’t break open on its own, it would likely struggle to survive even after hatching. In a way, this could be seen as a relief.

He soon shifted his attention to the seven Stone Lizard hatchlings.

The most eye-catching was naturally the creature that hatched from the voluminous beast egg. It looked almost identical to the Ghost-pattern Stone Lizard.

Yet, its size was nearly two times that of its siblings from the same nest.

Its body length, not counting the tail, was as long as Wang Ba’s arm.

If it weren’t for its obviously immature movements, Wang Ba would have thought it was a few months old.

When Wang Ba saw it, it was gnawing on its own eggshell, showing that it had not hatched long ago.

Wang Ba didn’t disturb it, instead shifting his attention to another little guy who he was somewhat concerned about.

He grabbed it casually, and the little critter struggled in his hand, thrashing its limbs vigorously.

It even opened its immature jaws and bit Wang Ba’s finger.

“Hiss – it actually hurts a bit.”

However, Wang Ba had no intention of letting go and began to observe it carefully.

The little creature’s body also had skin textures of various colors, like the Hundred Colored Stone Lizard.

However, the difference was that its head was a distinctive earthy-yellow, with a hint of bright yellow and light blue around the edges.

Other than this, it was indistinguishable from the Hundred Colored Stone Lizard.

After examining it a bit more, Wang Ba finally put it back.

“I don’t know if it’s a male or female.”

This Stone Lizard was still too small, and some of its features were not yet apparent. When it grew a little bigger, it would be easier to determine its sex by looking at the thickness of its tail and the condition of its cloaca.

He took another look at the other five hatchlings and found more Twin-winged Stone Lizards and Tumor-headed Stone Lizards, as well as two others. One had eyes larger than its head, a tail covered in corners, and bare skin with no markings or scale armor.

The first two were stored in his Lifespan, while the latter three, the giant Stone Lizard, and the uniquely colored Hundred Colored Stone Lizard were not.

Storing them in his Lifespan was like giving them a chance to live. Whether they could truly survive, however, would depend on them.

On the other hand, the last five, Wang Ba did not dare to casually store into his Lifespan, fearing that it might backfire.

Wang Ba then took out a jar of Emerald Wasps as usual, but didn’t release them all. Instead, he took a small portion and fed the seven Stone Lizard hatchlings.

The Stone Lizards immediately followed their instincts and rushed up.

After feeding these little guys, Wang Ba kept the exceptionally large one in a separate burrow.

If the size difference between Stone Lizards is too large, the larger ones might eat the smaller ones.

This was due to their low intelligence and the primal instinct to ensure they wouldn’t starve in the wild.

Having taken care of the Stone Lizards, Wang Ba made a trip to the chicken farm.

As usual, he undertook a new round of exploration and research on the Snow Sun Chickens.

With the restraint of the Spirit Beast Collar, the Snow Sun Chicken, a Class III lower-grade Spirit Chicken equivalent to a Golden Core cultivator, could only lie on the ground and allow Wang Ba to inspect it.

However, the flames that periodically burst out from various parts of its body were enough to express its dissatisfaction.

“Bing-Ding Fire…”

While carefully avoiding the tiny flames, Wang Ba contemplated how to handle it.

This flame was a Class III spirit fire, extremely powerful.

Even Jia 15 couldn’t get close, due to the intimidation of this flame.

“It’s a pity I haven’t mastered the ‘Taiyi True Fire’. Otherwise, with the dominance of this cultivation method, I might have been able to make use of the Bing-Ding Fire…”

The ‘Taiyi True Fire’ was a cultivation method that could lead directly to Immortal Ascension. At a profound level, it could condense the Taiyi True Fire, capable of burning the sky and boiling the sea. It was certainly possible.

If one wanted to seize a mere Class III spirit fire, it would definitely be a piece of cake.

Although his cultivation base might not be sufficient for such a grand feat, simply isolating the spirit fire should not be a difficult task.

But after much thinking, he reached a dead end.

“Wait! Since the Snow Sun Chicken is resisting Jia 15, then…what if I make the Snow Sun Chicken take the initiative, wouldn’t that solve the problem?”

“So, how can I make the Snow Sun Chicken take the initiative?”

Just as he was about to leave, a thought suddenly struck Wang Ba.

“Phoenix-feathered Chicken!”

“If I let a female Phoenix-feathered Chicken entice… eh, be with the Snow Sun Chicken, wouldn’t that solve the problem?”

“Such a simple solution, how didn’t I think of it before?”

It was indeed simple, just replacing Jia 15 and Jia 17 with Phoenix-feathered Chickens, which possessed no combat power whatsoever.

This was a kind of cognitive bias. Because of the Snow Sun Chicken’s high combat power, Wang Ba’s first idea was to suppress it with the martial force of Jia 15 and Jia 17.