Chapter 789 - 414: Egg_2
Indeed, if the grand Immortal Emperor wanted to create people, why go through so much trouble with eggs and marinating meat; simply flipping a plaque would suffice.
Furthermore, according to previous observations by Jiuxiao, the so-called ’resurrection’ is pure nonsense, what is born in that way is merely a soulless puppet, a mere substitute.
In fact, that person before, once dead, was truly dead, once decayed, was truly decayed, it certainly is not resurrection.
Moreover, using something so miraculous just to torment people is too much of a waste.
Yes, the true purpose of the eggs is to breed demons, or more specifically, primarily to breed dragons.
Yes, dragons, back then the most comprehensively powerful of the Demon Clan, once one of the Four Ministers, belonging to the Left General.
Since the rebellion of the Left General was suppressed, the surviving Dragon Clan became the celestial livestock raised by the Immortal Palace.
The Immortal Palace back then held the world in awe, invincible in all four seas; there was even a special agency in the Ziwei Constellation, the Dragon Taming Bureau, responsible for taming, herding, and slaughtering dragons.
After all, dragons are not only useful for riding the clouds, pulling chariots as mounts, bearing mountains and carrying islands, but also for fighting on battlefields.
Moreover, their entire body is treasure; every piece of skin, scale, flesh, blood, sinew, bone, elixir, and organ can be used for artifacts and medicine.
Besides, they grow large and fat, with an exceedingly high meat yield; Guardian Immortal Soldiers require dragon meat to break through in Body Refinement.
Therefore, dragons not only have massive economic benefits, but are also the key to maintaining military power, being the most valued and precious livestock resource of the Immortal Palace.
But the problem is that dragons are very difficult to breed; even though they can hybridize with various demon beasts, hybrids are ultimately inferior to purebreds.
Furthermore, the eggs of Dragon Seeds have exceedingly long hatching and growth cycles, often counted in hundreds or thousands of years; grooming one truly makes the flowers wither.
Not to mention that mature dragons are wild and difficult to tame, constantly stirring wind and wave, overturning rivers and seas, consuming humans in droves.
Moreover, dragons require enormous consumption; according to the lavish usage of the Immortal Palace, every meal requires dragon liver, and the hundred thousand Heavenly Army soldiers must don Dragon Scale armor; such profligate use would have driven dragons to extinction long ago.
So the eggs procured from the heavens by the Immortal Palace are generally used for dragon breeding.
The remnants of completely utilized dragons, not a drop of grease or dregs left, are mixed with a bit of flesh and blood and sealed with eggs in the Dragon Taming Bureau.
Old eunuchs with gouged eyes, deafened ears, and plucked tongues, are tasked with licking the meat and blood into the jars to carefully nurture them.
Thus, with only sixty years needed, a large batch of hatchling dragons can be bred from the eggs.
Indeed, what is thus bred are no longer True Dragons, but merely a herd of spiritless beasts; yet what does it matter?
The palace folks just drink their blood and eat their flesh.
Finally, salted eggs taste quite like human flesh.
"Later, after the Immortal Palace was overthrown, it was no longer possible to fetch eggs from the heavens, but Jiuxiao interrogated everyone in the palace, eventually deducing the method of breeding eggs with eggs."
Xuan Du pointed to the surrounding world,
"First, you must minimize interference from Refining, arrange an array and set tribulation, simulating the sealed jar’s environment.
Then, use those produced from ’eggs’ to hybridize with Dragon Seed humans.
The hybrid offspring are crushed, mixed with eggs, resurrect and hybridize again.
In such cycles, tracing back to the source, you cultivate something nearly identical in purity and taste, usable as eggs.
Of course, although Jiuxiao also bred some ’egg people’ for amusement, he quickly tired of it.
However, since then, the Dragon Herding Skill was taught to Jiuxiao’s disciples, becoming a unique specialty of his sect.
His descendants often called themselves Dragon Temple Disciples."
Tie Dan understood, looking down at the ’Lang Xuan’ in his hand
"So there was such a source... And by the way, salamanders, Yuyu, are also Dragon Seeds..."
Xuan Du nodded,
"I used the method of Jiuxiao for reference, producing these eggs to cultivate Outer Heaven Demon Fetus.
Things repeatedly resurrected and reborn this way are empty inside, without god or demon.
But with a whole body of demon seed bone and blood, they are perfect for experimental cultivation."
Alright, and you know sometimes even bastards can contribute to mystical research.
"So what have you figured out?"
"Didn’t I just say, there’s still a long way to go."
Xuan Du looked at these meat lumps around him, shaking his head and sighing
"With the millennia of iterations of the Leisure Sect, the batch of eggs with the highest purity was already destroyed by my senior brothers.
They were truly startled back then, terrified, fearing a few more Heavenly Demons would hatch from the eggs.
Hence, neither magic was permitted to be passed on, nor counseling allowed, all were completely eradicated, suppressed beneath the Nine Nether, and sealed in the Fire Prison.
I can only infer bit by bit from these remnant Daoist Skills uncovered from the ruins, gradually recreating them.
Though the first batch has been bred today, the purity still falls short.
Now that this batch is also ruined like this, it seems I have to wait another sixty years..."
Tie Dan frowned,
"No, I can’t wait, sixty years is too long."
Xuan Du looked speechless, with a look of ’Are you kidding me? Whose fault do you think it is this is messed up!’
Tie Dan thought for a moment,
"These things essentially originated from the Immortal Palace, why not go directly to get them from the Immortal Palace?"
"Haven’t I thought of that?"
Xuan Du gave him a blank look,
"But given all I’ve just said, you should also understand.
The Immortal Palace we see before us is not the true Immortal Palace, merely a puppet manipulated by strings, a toy puppet.
The true Immortal Palace is hidden deep and far, far beyond what us Mystic Sect People can detect.
So no matter how many times the Three Constellations Court is destroyed, it won’t change the course of the world.