Chapter 219: The Fighting Chicken Among Phoenixes

A new life was being born before his eyes. On the pure white eggshell, dense cracks suddenly appeared, and in an instant, a flash of red light burst forth.

Lin Fan stared wide-eyed at the scene before him, his heart racing with excitement. The legendary ancient ferocious beast was finally about to emerge.

A cry came from within the eggshell, a sound so crisp, so piercing.

At that moment, Lin Fan saw a red light leap up from the eggshell, then, half an inch above it, spread its wings and raised its head high.

The bald chicken wings, the three-toed claws stretched straight front and back, the head held high—all showed how extraordinary the creature emerging from the eggshell was.

The phoenix, the size of an adult rooster, cried in the air for a moment, then folded its wings, landed on the platform with both feet, and pecked at the eggshell with its sharp beak, up and down.

Its head, pecking at the shell, moved up and down as fast as a pile driver, and soon the eggshell that had nurtured it vanished without a trace.

At this moment, Lin Fan's heart pounded wildly.

Could the thing I've guarded for a month really be this?

Thinking of the phoenix that fought the mysterious powerhouse, and looking at this unbelievable little chick, the two images simply couldn't overlap. In Lin Fan's view, they probably weren't even the same species.

The chick stood on the stone platform, chest out, head high, staring at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan's heart was somewhat shattered. This wasn't what he had imagined.

The chick tilted its head, its big eyes full of question marks. Why didn't this unknown creature look much like itself?

"You..." At this moment, Lin Fan stretched out a finger, wanting to question the chick, what the hell are you?

But just then, the chick suddenly rolled its eyes, drooped its head, fell on its back with feet in the air, stuck out its pink tongue, and lay motionless as if dead.

Lin Fan's expression changed. He immediately stepped forward and shook the chick's body, "What's wrong?"

Lin Fan felt the newborn phoenix's life force rapidly fading, on the verge of death. Phoenixes were supposed to be the most vital creatures, even outliving ten-thousand-year-old turtles. How could it be dying right after birth?

"Hey hey, chick, are you kidding me? I've guarded you for a month, and you're about to kick the bucket as soon as you come out? You're so heartless." Lin Fan was panicking. What was going on? Could something have gone wrong during incubation?

Or maybe, when the phoenix was conceived, genetic hybridization resulted in a deformed mutant?

Feeling the chick's life force continuously draining, Lin Fan grew more anxious.

Was it really going to die like this?

Life force?

Suddenly, Lin Fan thought of the Nirvana Stones. Didn't they contain infinite life force?

Without further thought, Lin Fan took out all the Nirvana Stones he had collected. As the stones approached the chick, they emitted a faint red light, then turned into a river of life that flowed into the chick's body.

"It works..."

Lin Fan felt the chick's life force stop fading and slowly recover. He placed one Nirvana Stone after another beside the chick.

Watching each stone transform into a river of life and merge into the chick's body, Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief. At least it was saved.

No matter what, even if it was a genetically hybrid freak, it was still the offspring of an ancient ferocious beast.

Lin Fan reached out and touched the chick. Although it was featherless, once it matured, it would be a great help.

But the moment Lin Fan touched it, the chick, which had seemed near death, suddenly sprang up and fiercely pecked at Lin Fan's palm.

Holy crap...

Lin Fan looked at the deep dent in his palm, hardly believing it. His physical strength was at the high level of the Small Heaven rank. How could a chick's peck be so powerful?

While Lin Fan was stunned, the chick's feathers—though it had none—bristled, and its small wings spread out, fierce and imposing. Then, with its three-toed feet crossed, it ran away into the distance, its raised bottom wiggling left and right as if it were using all its strength.

Lin Fan snapped back to reality and roared.

"Stop right there!" He turned into a streak of light and chased after the fleeing chick.

The chick, seeing the monster behind it in hot pursuit, cried out in panic and ran even faster.

"Small Heaven rank, initial level."

Lin Fan was astonished. He hadn't expected a newborn cub to already have a cultivation of the Small Heaven rank's initial level. It was terrifying.

As expected of an ancient ferocious beast—no ordinary beast could compare.

Ordinary beasts, after birth, typically had a cultivation at the initial level of the Innate realm.

Thinking of that peck just now, if his physical strength hadn't been so strong, his hand would probably have been crippled.

The more Lin Fan thought about it, the angrier he got.

I worked hard to guard you for a month, even used Nirvana Stones to save your life, and you turn your back on me? How infuriating!

Won't obey, huh?

Fine, then I'll train you until you do.

Although the chick was just born, Lin Fan believed that children should be disciplined from a young age, or they'd become unruly when grown.

The chick ran all the way, occasionally turning its head to see if the monster was still chasing. Just then, it saw a long whip, like it had eyes, following closely behind, and let out a miserable cry.

The whip, like a spiritual snake, coiled around the chick's claws. Lin Fan pulled hard, and the chick fell to the ground, finally coming obediently before Lin Fan.

Lin Fan looked at the panicked chick and a slight smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

Then, from his backpack, he took out a grill and placed some secret seasonings beside it.

The chick, tied to a stone, looked at the monster with confusion, not knowing what it was up to.

At that moment, Lin Fan glanced at it, a sharp light in his eyes that scared the chick out of its wits.

Lin Fan took out a motionless domestic fowl, plucked its feathers, and cleaned it in front of the chick. With a sharp knife, he trimmed the bird up and down, then placed it on the grill.

He had prepared these things before leaving the sect. Even when training outside, he wouldn't lower his living standards.

In Lin Fan's view, the ancient ferocious beast's intelligence was certainly high; it should understand what he was doing.

The chick, tied to the stone pillar, kept screaming miserably. It now understood what the monster was doing.

Lin Fan walked toward the chick, a smile on his lips that sent chills down one's spine. He untied the whip from the chick.

Free again, the chick stood upright on its claws, motionless.

Lin Fan looked at the terrified chick and smiled slightly, "From now on, you'll be called Chick, got it?"

Without much thought, the chick nodded frantically.

Too terrifying, absolutely terrifying.

"And from now on, you'll crow like this."

"Cock-a-doodle-doo... Cock-a-doodle-doo." Lin Fan demonstrated.

The chick nodded again, then raised its throat and crowed loudly.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..."

Lin Fan nodded with satisfaction. Although the crow wasn't quite right yet, with practice, it would be perfect.

What's a phoenix?

Lin Fan was going to raise a fighting chicken among phoenixes.

But for now, heh heh, it naturally needed some training. Without it, Lin Fan wouldn't believe the chick was truly tamed.

With such high intelligence, it probably knew how to endure humiliation to bide its time.

The chick looked at the monster's sinister face, its featherless body trembling with fear.

At that moment, a miserable cry rang out.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..."