Old Du sighed and explained, “Ask yourself why Zhang Bao had the guts to come? He was merely an outer sect disciple. There must be someone behind him! Before we figure this out, staying here in this shelter is for your own good!”

 Yun Shu realized what Old He said was true, so he hurriedly bowed to Old He to thank him for his considerations. Afterward, he turned around and bowed to Old Du, “Thank you very much, Master.”

Old Du laughed and patted his shoulder. “Boy, I knew you were different from others! Work hard, and one day, you’ll have some big achievements!”

 Yun Shu nodded. “I’ll bear it in mind, Master!”

 Before departing, Old Du cast a spell over the shelter, whose power would automatically disappear after thirty days. Within that timespan, Yun Shu wouldn’t be able to leave this place, and at the same time, no one could come in.

 After the two elderly men left, Yun Shu’s stomach started growling. At this point, he finally realized something: the two seniors never mentioned his meals!

 As a cultivator, Yun Shu was far from being able to practice Inedia. On top of that, he would be trapped in this place for thirty days!

 “Senior! Wait! There’s something we need to talk about…” Yun Shu tried to stop Old Du from behind the stone door. Yet, his voice was too low since he was starving.

Yun Shu helplessly searched around for something edible; however, it was fruitless. He had no option but to sit down and try to keep off hunger by practicing the cultivation technique. Regardless, his cultivation was not deep enough, so it didn’t work at all.

 Yun Shu couldn’t imagine how he would survive the upcoming days. While he was feeling extremely frustrated, he suddenly recalled something. Hurriedly, he looked at the mark in the shape of that stone gate on his palm and decided to go back to that place to try his luck.

 With a flash, he had come back to that world behind the stone gate.

 Obviously, there was nothing for him to eat here either. However, at this time, the corner of his eye captured the stone that he had left on the ground the day before.

 1But the stone looked slightly different today: the dirt and granules had partially fallen off from the surface, and the revealed texture within was very smooth.

 This was… an egg?

 He had made a mistake earlier!

 While savoring its taste in his mouth, Yun Shu’s stomach started growling again. The hunger made his mouth water even though he had no idea what kind of egg it was.

 Yun Shu put his hand over the egg and started using the fiend technique. He summoned a cluster of dark red fire, which was flickering below his palm. At this moment, if someone had seen the fire conjured by him, the person would have been totally stunned out of his wits.

 Being able to transform Spirit Qi into a real flame without using any martial art skill pointed to a single fact: the awakening of the Life Flame of the person!

 Even in a place like Fire Mystic Sect, where the fire was worshipped, only a few people had awakened their Life Flame. And all of them were already incredibly old.

 However, Yun Shu was still very young, unlike those guys who had a foot in their graves. Without a doubt, he was a genius that was born every thousand years!

 Nonetheless, Yun Shu himself was totally unaware of it. He rubbed the egg back and forth, hoping that it would be fully cooked as soon as possible.

 At this time, the egg suddenly moved!

 At first, Yun Shu thought that it was just his illusion. Yet, the egg really jumped a few more times.

 Yun Shu’s eyes opened big, and his pupils dilated.

 “Something’s coming out?” Yun Shu murmured to himself while feeling apprehension.

 2He then took a glance at the cosmic bag attached to his belt. Since each item he found in there was extremely precious, it should be reasonable for him to assume that the egg was also special.

 He even wondered if a phoenix would pop out of the egg. As his thoughts wandered, he asked himself whether he still wanted to eat a phoenix, which didn’t sound very proper to him.

 Then the top of the egg cracked amidst his musings. The fissure soon went all the way down. Finally, the thing inside broke the eggshell.

 A little fuzzy head popped out.

 Yun Shu stared at the little head and was speechless for a moment. That thing looked just like a little chick in terms of shape and color. By no means did it resemble a phoenix as he had imagined.

 “So, you are just a chicken from ancient times?” Yun Shu asked.

 How was that possible? After all, that egg looked quite unusual to Yun Shu.

 The little chick also stared back at Yun Shu.

 After a short while of hesitation, it came closer to Yun Shu, flapping its tiny wings, and gently rubbed its head against his hand with its eyes squinting.

 Yun Shu was about to eat the little thing, but it was just too adorable. No matter how he tried, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

 “Come on… I thought you were my food…” Yun Shu gave the little chick’s head a gentle stroke.

 As if the little thing could understand his words, it instantly looked terrified.

 At this time, Yun Shu’s stomach started growling again, worsening his impression on it.

 The little chick hurriedly jumped backward in fear and gave Yun Shu a heartbroken look. Then it turned around and ran into the blood-red mist.

 Yun Shu knew how horrible the mist was. He had been extremely careful not to touch it. So, he tried to stop the little chick, but it was too late.

 “Damn! Damn! Why do you have to run away so quickly? I don’t want to eat you anymore! I changed my mind!”

Yun Shu was concerned about the little chick. Staring at the blood-red mist, he finally released a sigh.

 He was well aware that the mist was extremely corrosive. If he followed the chick inside, without any shred of doubt, he would die instantly. However, he felt awful sorry about the little baby chick.

 Although Yun Shu knew that it probably wasn’t anything ordinary, the red mist was just too horrifying.

 Yun Shu sighed again and again as he thought about the adorable creature. At this time, he heard some noise coming from the middle of the red mist.

 Yun Shu instantly became nervous and anxious.

 Maybe something horrible was going to jump out of the creepy mist. Yun Shu became even tenser when he saw the ghost faces above the red mist, which kept appearing and disappearing from time to time.

 After a while, from the rolling sea of the red mist, the little chick popped out and bounced back toward Yun Shu.

 Its tiny little beak was pulling something on the ground. He took a closer look at it and found that it was a turnip.

 1“This is…” Yun Shu was confused.