Chapter 432 — The Starry Egg Hatches
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Otherwise, it should have concluded, like the Legend of Shenyuan and Lin Shuo, that he could become champion.
It was more underwhelming than he had imagined.
Or was it that the World Tree clone knew his strength, yet believed stronger contestants still existed?
"Still, your choice was not wrong."
"I said before that a human Beastmaster's beast space is created in imitation of a planet's formation. The growth of a Star Child is the growth of the beast space, and the growth of the beast space is the growth of the Star Child. The two reinforce each other."
"After you hatch it with World Tree branch sap, even before the contract is completed, its power can still help you raise your cultivation speed."
"Once you contract it in the future, when the Mythic Revival comes, you may find it easier than other Beastmasters to break through to the Mythic domain, provided you both grow up smoothly."
When the World Tree finished, Shi Zhuo was briefly stunned, then said joyfully, "Really?"
"Then I will hatch it right now."
"Think it over yourself." The World Tree worm said no more. Behind it appeared a void vortex, as if it meant to leave.
It still had a mission. Having clarified the reason for the Star Child's appearance, it had no intention of staying by Shi Tan's side any longer.
But when the World Tree worm made to leave, someone grew anxious.
Shi Jin, for one.
"Wait, Lord World Tree, won't you stay and watch it hatch?"
This is, after all, a child that grew on your sap. How can you just leave?
"I hope you don't raise it to death."
"In the Mythic Era, divine-level lifeforms also raised Star Children, but all ended in failure."
"But humans raising a Star Child, that I have not yet seen..."
Before the World Tree clone left, it glanced at the Starry Pet Egg. The Star Child could well be called the hardest race of all to raise.
It did not know either whether Shi Jin could succeed.
The World Tree clone departed.
Leaving only Shi Jin and the others standing silent in place.
They looked at the Star Child egg, still crying out, waiting to be fed.
"Want... want..."
Once again, through telepathy, Shi Jin heard the Star Child's voice.
Want, want, want, want milk?
"Fine, here." Shi Jin took out the World Tree branch sap. Without hesitation, he brought it into contact with the Starry Pet Egg.
The next moment, a drop of white-green liquid from the branch sap was directly absorbed by the Starry Pet Egg, white with purple veins!
"Ying?" "Ji?" "Yi!"
The eleven widened their eyes at the Starry Pet Egg.
Lin's expression also froze.
No wonder no matter how it studied, it could work nothing out.
With its current intelligence level, it would have been absurd if it had worked out what a planet's cub needed.
The Void Emperor had probably learned the hatching conditions from other Star Children that had already hatched?
At this moment, not only Lin but Shi Jin too grew ever more curious about where the Void Emperor had gone after vanishing into the starry sky.
Also, who knows whether that secret realm the Void Emperor stumbled into still exists. Could he have gone missing after entering it a second time?
The Starry Sky Egg did not shatter.
Instead, its light grew even more dazzling.
It was like evolution: first the blinding radiance, then the light faded, and a completely new species, replacing the Starry Sky Pet Egg, appeared before Shi Jin and the others.
"This is..."
Shi Jin and the others looked at the Child of the Stars, which was struggling to open its eyes.
It had a white, spherical body, and atop its head was a pair of purple "cat ears"—though at a glance, only its upper half was visible; the lower portion and the area around its back were wrapped in a roiling pale purple gas, within which white starlight flickered from time to time. It was very beautiful.
On its white body were large, limpid eyes like an infant's, and a tiny round mouth. The moment its blue-purple eyes opened, they were filled with boundless curiosity about this world.
It had really hatched.
Only, Shi Jin had originally thought it would be a sphere—yet unexpectedly, it was like a sphere wrapped in a nebula, and moreover, it had eyes and a mouth.
"Mew." The Child of the Stars' mouth quivered slightly. Its gaze fell on Cen Yu and the others, and then a timid expression appeared on its face.
Its body, trailed by the purple nebula, retreated a little.
Without question, there was no information at all about the Child of the Stars in the compendium.
To learn about it, one would have to find out for oneself.
Shi Jin took a deep breath, reached out a hand, and tried to communicate with the Child of the Stars through telepathy.
Smiling, he said:
"Little Jiaqi, come here, let Daddy take a look at you~"
Eleven, Chongchong, Baby Ginseng, Red Eye, and the other pets:
???
We suspect you're trying to take advantage of the World Tree!!
"Mew~" The Child of the Stars hesitated slightly, but did not dodge Shi Ying's hand. Then a delighted expression appeared, and its whole body wound around Shi Ying's hand and flew about. Not only was the purple nebula gaseous—its white body seemed able to turn gaseous as well!
Shi Xiao immediately discovered the Child of the Stars' peculiarity.
At this moment, the Child of the Stars had no defenses whatsoever in mind or spirit, just like a newborn infant. Shi Jin easily established a mental and spiritual connection with it and sensed its specific condition.
"Mm..."
Through Shi Ying's perception, the Child of the Stars' constitution seemed exceptionally special!
Within its body, just like Chongchong's spatial pocket, Susu's infinite devouring space, and Lin's mechanical space, there was an independent space.
Only, unlike Chongchong and the others, the evolution process of this space seemed to determine the abilities and form the Child of the Stars would awaken next.
"I understand," said Shi Li.
The World Tree said that the growth of the Child of the Stars is the process of shaping the rules of the world—they need to construct a complete world within their bodies.
In other words, the process of nurturing the Child of the Stars is the process of "creating a world within its body"?