“This egg is still alive. You should listen to it,” he said with an involuntary smile to Claudia.
Suffering a huge blow, Claudia had mixed feelings. She was much older than Alex and was usually very sensitive over her martial arts and cultivation levels. She had even secretly felt proud that she had reached new heights in the path of Serenity and thought she somehow found a place in the world. However, now that she was facing the junior Alex, it was a real slap in the face.
She really felt worthless in front of him.
‘Isn’t he trying to piss me off?’
‘How did this little pervert even cultivate?’
However, she couldn’t possibly have said those words. Presently, she learned closer and listened to the egg. As expected, she heard a strong heartbeat. “It’s really alive. Do you think it will hatch? What’s inside, I wonder?”
Alex directly told her the result, most likely a baby tortoise.
“You’re saying this is going to be a baby tortoise?” Claudia rolled her eyes with an enchanting expression.
Alex, an old hand accustomed to meeting beauties, seemed to have been enticed for a moment. “I bet this baby tortoise is even bigger than you.”
Right after his voice fell, the huge egg suddenly cracked. A slit was cracked open in the middle.
Claudia was shocked. “Did you break it?” she asked.
“No. I didn’t exert any force.”
“Me neither. I didn’t exert any force. Really. I just gently touched it, almost like stroking.”
The two stared at each other in dismay for a while. Presently, the cracks on the eggshell grew, and soon, the entire thing was covered with cracks.
It was the head of an old man. Having a head of gray hair and a wrinkly face, he was covered in yellowish mucus, looking extremely horrifying. Claudia almost pierced him with an embroidery needle due to conditioned reflex.
Whoosh!
After the eggshell was completely broken, the old man fell out. Fortunately, the eggshell and the mucus acted as some kind of cushion, protecting him from a hard fall. His entire body, though, was barer than the egg he had just come out of. It was truly unsightly, especially in front of Claudia.
“Who are you people?”
“This is… Has the spiritual energy resurrected? What time is it now? How long have I been here?”
The old man opened his eyes with difficulty, staring at Alex and Claudia.
Alex’s eyes gleamed as he asked, “So, you aren’t a newborn? You aren’t a tortoise demon transformed from a tortoise, but you are a real person? Why were you inside an egg then?”
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