Chapter 595 - The Neglected Egg
About two months had passed since Lin Mu had appeared in the Sleepscape. His practice was going quite well and he had finally finished the entire Thousand Armament Blade scripture.
While he wouldn’t say he was fully proficient in all of the weapons from the scripture, he could very well say that he was able to use them all. And was also proficient in about ten percent of them.
It could not be helped, as the total number of weapons in the Thousand Armament Blade scripture was over three hundred. Lin Mu being able to become proficient in even ten percent of them was quite a lot.
Lin Mu had also furthered his understanding of the Dao Script during his lessons with Senior Xukong and could read far more characters than before. He also read more from the memoirs of the Lost immortal and gained some wisdom from them.
Overall, it was a rather productive two months and Lin Mu’s strength had become more refined than before.
"My cultivation base has also increased but quite a lot..." Lin Mu muttered.
"How far along are you?" Xukong who was calmly floating on the side, asked.
"I should be close to breaking through to the Child Stage of the Nascent Soul realm soon." Lin Mu replied.
"That’s good, hopefully the spirit Qi in the Minor plane has also started to reduce by now." Xukong stated.
"I can’t really tell that accurately right now. But if I correlate it with the increase in my cultivation base, I would say it is at the same rate as it was about a month ago." Lin Mu spoke.
The only beasts that Jing Luo knew well enough about were those that he used as ingredients for Weapon refinement and formations. As for the others, he did not really care for them as much.
Lin Mu could only sigh to himself at that time and let time reveal the identity of the spirit beast that was in this egg. The strange thing was that even if Lin Mu tried to scan it with his spirit sense, he could not tell much.
Observing the egg using spirit sense was like looking at something through a white sheet. The image was hardly visible and the details could not be made out. All that could be told was that there was something in the egg.
"I still can’t see anything in the egg though." Lin Mu stated.
"Hmm... It is probably too early for you to see anything in it. The embryo should still be forming and thus the beast would only look like a mass of fluid right now." Xukong explained.
"Ah, I see. Though how long would this beast take to hatch?" Lin Mu questioned.
From what Lin Mu had read in the beast records, the eggs of the Black Water Snake took about two months to hatch, while the eggs of the Fire Fang Snake took a little over three months to hatch.
If he compared the time since he got the egg, it had been nearly four months. Even taking the hatching time of Fire Fang snake, which was the longest, the egg should have already hatched. But since he could not see an embryo in it, he didn’t know what could be the problem.
"Seeing as the beast is a mix of two snakes and has also absorbed Beast Qi from the mother, it is hard to tell. The most likely thing is that it is also mutating and its bloodline has yet to adapt. Once the bloodline is stabilized, the embryo should start developing." Xukong explained.
"I see..." Lin Mu muttered.
He looked at the egg for a while more when he suddenly got an idea.
"Since the egg is still adapting the bloodline which is probably mutating... what will happen if I give it Beast Qi?" Lin Mu wondered.