That idiot from the Sword Sect turned out to be a lucky charm.

Chapter 100 The Divine Bird Phoenix?

No matter how much Lin Zhifeng broke down, the egg was still the same black egg, unchanged.

Left with no other choice, Lin Zhifeng went into seclusion to begin his attempt to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage.

Time flies when you're cultivating immortality; five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Once Lin Zhifeng had crossed a minor realm and become a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, he decided to emerge from seclusion.

The phoenix egg is still the same solid egg, unchanged.

However, Lin Zhifeng was already used to it. He put the egg into his special storage bracelet and planned to go out for a stroll.

After acquiring mounts, Lin Jun and the others neglected their cultivation, and their current best level is only the mid-Nascent Soul stage. People like Feng Ping and Jin Zi are even stuck at the early Nascent Soul stage, showing no progress whatsoever.

Lin Zhifeng is now undoubtedly the strongest fighter in the small group.

So he launched into a blasphemous critique of his fellow disciples: "You lot need to pay attention! You've all become a bit too engrossed in your hobbies and neglecting your duties! Look at these past five years, others have easily broken through to a minor realm. And look at you? You haven't made a single step forward! How can this continue?"

Lin Jun was the first to jump up and protest: "Little Lin, don't be so sarcastic just because you can't hatch a phoenix egg. You're not qualified to teach our senior brothers a lesson. Wait until you break through to the Nascent Soul stage and become our senior uncle before you talk about these things."

Lin Zhifeng pointed at Lin Jun and said, "You're hopeless! Just wait and see. Give me a few more years, and I'll definitely fulfill your wish to become my junior apprentice."

Upon hearing this, the brothers swarmed forward and delivered a righteous punishment to Lin Zhifeng.

After a joyful gathering with his brothers, Lin Zhifeng went to pay his respects to several elders.

The nine elders were all very pleased to see Lin Zhifeng's progress.

The Grand Elder said, "Your cultivation speed is impressive! In our Sword Sect, you're only slightly behind my good disciple Ding Mo. Keep it up, I have high hopes for you, your future is bright."

The Sixth Elder, unusually sentimental, said, "If our Sect Leader were here, seeing how promising Xiao Linzi is, he would be overjoyed!"

Lin Zhifeng had no choice but to put on a sad expression as well: "I don't know where my father is now. I am too weak to search for him because of my shallow cultivation. I am truly unfilial."

The elder advised, "Your father is missing. This isn't just a matter of your cultivation level being insufficient. If it were easy to find him, we would have found him long ago. Why would we be anxiously waiting here? Our cultivation levels aren't too low, are they?"

The nine elders were all experts at the Void Refinement Realm, only slightly weaker than Lin Zhifeng's father, the sect leader. If they couldn't find him, Lin Zhifeng would be even less likely to find him. However, Lin Zhifeng had the system's lucky bonus, so this statement couldn't be too absolute.

However, it's not the right time yet, since the system hasn't given any hints—in the past, no matter what big or small the situation, the system would always give Lin Zhifeng a task.

So, just follow the system prompts when you can set off to find your dad.

Who made us have this system? This is practically a cheat code for life!

The system is currently stuck on hatching the baby phoenix.

This card has been stuck for several years.

During this time, the egg failed to hatch, and no other tasks were completed. Lin Zhifeng hadn't gained any luck points in a long time.

Lin Zhifeng thought to himself: This can't go on forever. Should I really wait until ten years have passed before going back to Hundred Beast Valley to get a refund?

But even after trying every possible method, it just wouldn't come out. What could Lin Zhifeng do?

That day, Lin Zhifeng suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Could it be that the eggshell was too hard, and the little phoenix's cultivation level was not high enough, so it couldn't hatch? Otherwise, so much nutrient solution had been absorbed, so why was there still no movement?

Or perhaps we could increase the concentration of the nutrient solution? If that doesn't work, we could dissolve the Spirit Pet Pill and add it to the nutrient solution. Wasn't Ding Mo's White Tiger Beast also strengthened and grown stronger after its body was conditioned by the Spirit Pet Pill?

Having come up with the idea, Lin Zhifeng put it into practice as soon as he got back.

Lin Zhifeng's good brothers, over the years, whenever they went out to make their way in the world and obtained any good medicinal herbs, they would always send a few to Lin Zhifeng.

Occasionally, when Lin Zhifeng went into seclusion, they would leave the spiritual medicine with Qingfeng for temporary safekeeping.

Therefore, although Lin Zhifeng had been in seclusion for many years and had not left his home, he still had no shortage of basic medicinal materials such as spirit pet pills.

Lin Zhifeng dissolved one of the Spirit Pet Pills and added it to the nutrient solution.

He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but the egg soaking in the nutrient solution seemed to move a few times.

"Of course, it might just be the effect of buoyancy," Lin Zhifeng muttered to himself.

So I soaked it for more than a month, taking one Spirit Pet Pill every day.

That day, he changed the "bathwater" for his precious egg again.

Generally, the procedure is as follows: First, dry the eggs and place them on a small velvet mat; then pour out the water from the bowl and replace it with fresh nutrient solution...

But just as he got to the drying step, Lin Zhifeng felt the eggshell suddenly get hot, even a little too hot to touch.

If Lin Zhifeng were still the same mortal from the original world, he wouldn't be able to hold onto the egg, and it would slip from his grasp.

Lin Zhifeng carefully placed the egg on the mat. However, because the egg was too hot, it immediately scorched a patch of the mat.

To prevent a fire, Lin Zhifeng quickly removed the mat.

The egg stood upright on the stone table, with only one point of contact with the surface, yet it remained motionless and did not roll down.

Lin Zhifeng watched as the egg stretched and shortened in place, its color changing from black to red.

After being pulled and shifted for quite some time, a crack finally appeared in the eggshell.

Lin Zhifeng, the "old father" who had been waiting for this moment for too long, immediately brought his big face close.

The eggshell developed its first crack, followed by a second, until the surface of the eggshell eventually looked like a spider web.

It's like a large piece of glass that's suddenly hit by a pebble, and then the impact spreads outwards from the point of impact.

Finally, the eggshell could no longer bear the weight and scattered onto the stone table.

On top of these scattered fragments stood a chubby little bird with a big head, furry fur, and round, bright eyes like tiny black beans.

The little chubby bird has black feathers all over its body, except for its beak (its scientific name is beak, the little chubby bird added) and two small claws, which are golden yellow.

Lin Zhifeng and Little Fatty stared at each other, "That's it?"

Where's the phoenix we were promised?

Those unscrupulous merchants at Beast Valley, give me my money back!

Little Fatty Bird really likes Lin Zhifeng, since he was the first person she saw.

That's right, our little phoenix is ​​no exception to the imprinting effect.

Lin Zhifeng suspected he'd been tricked. The phoenix was a divine beast, the king of birds; if not multicolored, it should at least be golden, right? At the very least, it should be red or white. What's with your pitch-black appearance? Were you burned during your rebirth?

Lin Zhifeng opened the system and found that the task of hatching the phoenix egg had indeed been marked as completed.

With tears in his eyes, he clicked "Done".

His feelings were complicated, a mixture of joy and worry. He was happy that he had finally completed the task and would be able to refresh new tasks, which would soon bring him more luck points. He was worried that if he took the little chubby bird out, his brothers would laugh at him to death.

It's been incubating for six or seven years, and what's hatched is a chubby little black chick. Judging by the rate of incubation, it might take a very long time for it to grow into a mature bird.

So, the idea of ​​riding a phoenix to travel the world can only exist in dreams, right?

Little Chubby Bird, unaware that its father had already rejected it, stood on tiptoe and rubbed its big head against Lin Zhifeng's face.

The fluffy texture against Lin Zhifeng's cheek was quite cute.

Oh well, no matter how ugly the child is, they're still our own treasure!

Lin Zhifeng picked up the little chubby bird and rescued it from the pile of eggshells.

The little chubby bird chirped, but Lin Zhifeng had no idea what it was saying.

The treasure-hunting mouse was then released and asked to translate what the little chubby bird had said.

The treasure-hunting mouse said it didn't understand.

Seeing Lin Zhifeng's surprised expression after being rejected, the Treasure-Hunting Rat said angrily, "You humans in the cultivation world only speak one language, but it's not like that in other worlds. The languages ​​of different races, countries, and regions are all very different. The same goes for animal languages. It's okay between different kinds of animals, but it's a bird, which is completely different from us. It's not even in the same system, okay?"

Isn't he describing the world Lin Zhifeng originally lived in? Then he's absolutely right.