Chapter 670 Seeking After learning the simple information as well as some more that explained the process, Alex moved on to the second book about the competitions.
After reading for a while, he understood that the 4 guilds came together to hold a competition every year for a specific production skill of cultivation.
According to the book, this was to promote the production skills to more people since they were an integral part of cultivation.
There were exactly 7 production professions that had competition take place. They were Artifacts, Painting, Talisman, Music, Formations, Spirit Foods, and finally Alchemy.
All in that order.
Each of these professions had a competition taken year after year, for a total of 7 years.
Then, there was a gap of 3 years to let something else take place that the book didn't tell him about, but Alex concluded that it must be some sort of competition as well.
So, if he were to look at it from a single profession's point of view, a competition took place every 10 years.
"I see, so today was that day for Talisman, huh? No wonder everyone was so excited there. I wonder who won," he thought and returned the book.
Then, he walked out of the library and soon left the city altogether.
He didn't go very far though and instead went to a small forest that was on the northern side of the city. There, Alex brought out Pearl to keep him safe while he worked on the egg.
He was on top of a tree when he brought the egg out. The egg with a patterned shell was making Alex quite a bit excited.
'Calm down. Don't get your hopes up,' Alex said to himself as he pressed his forehead.
A small sword Qi flashed through his fingers which cut his forehead and a drop of blood spilled out.
Alex grabbed the drop of blood and placed it on top of the egg. As soon as he did that, the egg devoured the blood like it had hungered for it all this time.
"How many times do I have to do that again? 5?" Alex remembered. Each beast required some amount of blood, but on average, it was 5.
Then, one would have to wait for months before the egg started hatc—
CRACK~!
"What?" Alex's eyes narrowed at the egg. There was a small crack on the surface. "How? I only gave a single drop."
The cracks start spreading and before Alex knew it, it was throughout the egg. Alex stopped breathing as he waited for the beast inside to come out of it.
What would it be? A bird? A reptile? Maybe even an Amphibian? Or maybe insects.
Alex had a lot of guesses, but nothing substantial as he had nothing to go by.
The shell opened on one part and a snout pushed through. Along with the snout, long and thin whiskers came out of it.
All sort of anxiety and excitement left Alex's face and only shock remained as he watched the entire beast push through.
The beast finally landed on all four and started squeaking.
"A mouse?" Alex asked him with shock and confusion. "How… did a mouse come out of the egg? What?"
Pearl jumped to the branch Alex was on and looked at the little mouse with a curious looked.
"Meow!" Pearl cried at the mouse, who turned around to see Pearl. Seeing the cat, the mouse immediately scurried along with Alex's hand and disappeared somewhere.
"What? Come back," Alex jolted out of confusion and searched for the mouse. He looked around himself, and the tree, and even the ground.
But the mouse was gone, impossible to find.
"Where did it go?" Alex thought for a second before he remembered something. A spiritual sense emerged from him and it quickly scanned his entire body.
As expected, there was a rat-shaped scar on his right shoulder plate. Alex put a little Qi into it and said, "come out."
White light emerged and the mouse appeared on his palm again.
It tried to scurry off, but Alex caught it. Finally, he brought it up to its face and said, "Don't worry, no one is going to hurt you."
As if understanding what Alex was trying to say, the mouse calmed down.
"Meow!" Pearl cried at the beast once again, saying something that Alex had completely missed.
"So weak!"
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