Chapter 195

Chapter 195

The enlightenment process had also drained a lot of the eggs' mental energy. They didn’t get back to the breeding facility until the wee hours of the morning. The next day, when Bai Xiaoyu woke up and checked on the eggs, they were still fast asleep.

He checked all the other eggs and added cultivation fluid to each one, walking towards the still-sleeping eggs amidst the chaos.

He probed inside with his mental energy and, as expected, saw the bug cubs curled up.

As if sensing him, the two small black antennae on their heads twitched. After receiving the enlightenment in dragon form, the bug cubs were also affected. Their mental energy antennae had grown thicker and more substantial.

Bai Xiaoyu quickly checked their condition and then withdrew his mental energy, letting the cubs inside continue sleeping.

Looking at the soundly sleeping eggs, Bai Xiaoyu decided to put away the cultivation fluid for the time being. He couldn't let the cubs be suddenly startled from a nightmare, could he?

He decided to wait until they woke up.

As it turned out, the cubs slept until lunchtime. When they woke up, they found Bai Xiaoyu standing next to them, holding a box of potions and smiling at them.

The eggs instantly became chaotic. Soon, after eating and drinking their fill, the eggs became listless and remained sunk to the bottom, only twitching occasionally.

While waiting for the little guys to regain their energy, Bai Xiaoyu checked on the other eggs with the caretakers. When he came back, the eggs were still motionless.

He probed inside with his mental energy and found that the bug cubs had fallen back asleep.

Bai Xiaoyu was puzzled. Hadn't they just woken up?

The cubs inside slept very deeply this time, and even his mental energy probing their bodies yielded no response.

After checking several times, Bai Xiaoyu found no immediate issues.

So, the bug cubs slept through dinner and were once again put to sleep with medication.

Bai Xiaoyu was puzzled for a moment, watching the bug cubs sleep through the night once more.

The next morning, the bug cubs had transformed into little Blood Fury Tyrant Dragon cubs. As soon as he entered, he found the eggs crawling all over the place, with all the other eggs awakened as well. The eggs were in chaos, some fighting, some watching the excitement, and others running around.

Seeing Bai Xiaoyu, the eggs immediately swarmed around him. Smiling at their excitement, Bai Xiaoyu pulled out a box of potions, and the eggs quickly scattered.

After feeding them, Bai Xiaoyu noticed that the little dragon cubs only rolled around for a bit before getting right back up, clearly not sleepy at all.

Bai Xiaoyu waited until the live stream ended before giving them the gems.

Watching the eggs use the gems to polish their egg bodies and sleep with the gems pressed against them, he couldn't help but smile.

At that moment, Ren Zitao came over. "Mentor, I noticed something unusual when I was removing the dark substances from the eggs."

Bai Xiaoyu immediately followed Ren Zitao. These eggs had been in for over ten days, and it was the initial stage of removing the dark substances. As he walked, he asked, "Do you know what the issue is?"

Ren Zitao replied, "The dark substances in this egg today seem different from the others."

Bai Xiaoyu walked over, where the egg was still in the pill furnace. It looked like it had completed one cycle and was being cleaned of the residual potion on its shell.

He probed the egg and found that the dark substances inside seemed to change color under the stimulation of the marrow-washing potion. They had been grayish-black but were now more of a grayish-yellow.

In the past, the darker the color, the more aggressive the dark substances. Normally, they were gray, but this grayish-yellow color suggested a slight decrease in aggressiveness, though it seemed to have gained some unpredictable activity.

Bai Xiaoyu turned to Ren Zitao. "Are these dark substances easier to remove compared to the other eggs?"

Ren Zitao thought for a moment and nodded. "Yes, these dark substances aren't as stubborn. The difficulty and time required to remove them have decreased somewhat."

Ren Zitao became somewhat excited as he spoke, "If the dark substances are weakening, that's a good thing."

Zhou Miaomiao, who had also come over, nodded, "Indeed."

Bai Xiaoyu examined the extracted grayish-yellow dark substances and, after probing them, found no issues. They were even more unstable than other dark substances.

Logically speaking, this was indeed good news.

Later, they discovered two more eggs with this type of dark substance inside, which could only be exposed with the use of the marrow-washing elixir.

Instead, these dark substances were a bit more cunning than the previous ones.

Otherwise, once the dark substances were removed, these eggs were no different from the others.

Seeing that the eggs had recovered and there were no other discoveries, they had no choice but to temporarily set this matter aside.

Bai Xiaoyu shifted his attention back to the twenty-three eggs in their bug cub form. Several days had passed, and these bug cubs were still overly sleepy, almost always sleeping right after eating.

To prevent them from sleeping the entire day, he would let the eggs wake up and move around a bit before feeding them.

In the first few days, they would try to find other eggs and attempt to subdue them, but later on, they only struggled a bit while absorbing the elixir, and most of the time, they were asleep.

Day by day passed, and soon more than ten days had gone by.

Bai Xiaoyu watched as the bug cubs grew larger, their developed spikes and scale armor on their bug bodies no longer deepening in color but becoming slightly transparent.

Two days before their enlightenment, these bug cubs suddenly returned to normal and became increasingly spirited, a stark contrast from before.

On this day, the eggs that had transformed into bug cubs followed Bai Xiaoyu behind, marching off to the amusement park.

Bai Xiaoyu finally breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the cubs enjoy rides like the roller coaster, swimming pool, and other games. However, he also noticed that some bug cubs, much like the dragon cubs, had their own preferences.

Overall, they were spread across land, sea, and air.

At this moment, Little Prince and Little Bai came over, looking at Bai Xiaoyu accompanying these bug cubs, and they pouted.

Seeing Bai Xiaoyu's discomfort, Little Prince demanded a large insect crystal from the boss, and he and Little Bai feasted to their heart's content.

Meanwhile, in another star system on the opposite side of the central star, on an edge world that had been taken by the Bug race years ago, where the Insect Emperor had been severely injured in the last war, the main Bug forces had been unable to attend to it for two years.

The teenager, now fifteen or sixteen, angrily grabbed a handful of his hair and spun around, snapping, "I said don't follow me. If you're hungry, go find food yourself. Why are you following me?"

Behind him, seven bug cubs as thick as an adult's thigh wriggled their bodies, frightened into shrinking back by his words.

Seeing this, the teenager became even more irritated, "You want to find the Emperor? I do too! But he's busy, he can't be here every day. Just disperse."

These large, silkworm-like bug cubs, covered in spikes and scale armor, turned and scattered in different directions, vanishing into the dense forest.

Soon after, other bug cubs or various forms of large and small Bug creatures followed behind them. At a glance, they occupied a small part of the world, densely packed.

Although they hadn't gathered all of them yet, having seven was already quite good.

On the other side, Bai Qi, staring at the shattered eggshells, was so enraged that he nearly lost control and attacked Old Qi.

This couldn't go on; he needed to capture Bai Xiaoyu as soon as possible.

He began to make arrangements and even contacted Old Qi's grandson, Qi Yun.

Meanwhile, Bai Xiaoyu was still observing these eggs and noticed that after playing to exhaustion, they had set their sights on peer eggs. So far, they hadn't found any peer eggs to recruit as subordinates, except for their assistant.

The eggs seemed to doubt the purpose of their existence. They couldn’t understand why, despite being strong, the other eggs weren’t willing to follow them.

Since their attempts were unsuccessful here, they turned their attention to the next room.

Suddenly, the eggs started bouncing toward the adjacent room, rolling into the cultivation compartments where Zhou Miaomiao and Ren Zitao were nurturing their eggs.

When Bai Xiaoyu was called over, he saw the eggs gently rubbing against the immobilized eggs in the compartments. Some were still examining them, as if they hadn’t decided which egg to choose as their subordinate.

Ren Zitao and Zhou Miaomiao tried to pick the eggs up, but before they could even touch them, the eggs bounced away, avoiding them. Not only that, but they also showed aggression, as if ready to fight back.

The two were at a loss. These eggs were incredibly strong; even a single hit made their S+ physique arms go numb, which was why they called for Bai Xiaoyu.

Bai Xiaoyu couldn’t help but laugh and proceeded to carry each egg back, giving them a couple of light slaps in the process, forbidding them from going to bother other eggs from different batches. After all, the shells of those eggs weren’t as hard, and if these eggs hit them with the same force they used on their batch, it would be disastrous.

Even after getting scolded, the eggs didn’t seem to care. They calmed down for a while but soon returned to their mischievous selves.

With so many things happening recently, it was impossible to keep an eye on them all the time. In just two days, it would be the hatching phase for the eggs, as the parents had already been notified.

However, Bai Xiaoyu was worried about the eggs' hatching state. He feared that what would emerge would be bug larvae.

After much thought, he decided to discuss it with the eggs.

These eggs had become quite intelligent after being influenced by the small vortices and Bai Xiaoyu’s mental energy.

Bai Xiaoyu gathered the eggs, looking at the ones bouncing around him. He touched each egg and said, “Babies, you’re about to hatch, and I’m very happy. But I need to discuss something with you. When you hatch, you can’t stay in your current form; you need to switch to another.”

The eggs quickly bounced up, their small mental energy tentacles emerging, looking a bit wilted.

“Why not? Is it because you don’t like our form?”

Even the big dragons didn’t like it, and now even the boss didn’t want them in this form?

Bai Xiaoyu gently prodded their mental energy tentacles with his own, thinking of the wriggling, sleepy, rolling bug larvae. “It’s not that I don’t like it, but you can’t.”

Before Little Bai hatched, he was trained to hide his bug form. These eggs needed to develop in both forms, but they couldn’t control them as well as Little Prince and Little Bai.

For now, Bai Xiaoyu wasn’t asking the eggs to avoid their bug form permanently, just that they shouldn’t hatch in that form. If they couldn’t manage that, he’d have to request a private hatching. Since the eggs weren’t privately taken on, he couldn’t unilaterally decide the hatching method. Even if it wasn’t a public hatching, it still needed to be under the supervision of elders from the Cultivation Association.

Fortunately, despite their disappointment, the eggs agreed.

Not long after they agreed, the dragon clans came looking for Bai Xiaoyu again. Naturally, it was about the same issue, and they felt relieved upon hearing that they wouldn’t have to hatch in their bug form.

Just when Bai Xiaoyu thought everything was settled, the dragon clans brought up another concern. They asked if the cubs could hatch in human form, and it would be best if they all did.

Bai Xiaoyu was puzzled. The bug form couldn’t be shown, but what was the problem with the dragon form?

The dragon clans vaguely mentioned the royal family, indicating that while having one or two was fine, hatching all the cubs of the leaders of the Twelfth Legion in their dragon form would cause too much attention.

It was common knowledge that the royal family had deliberately suppressed information about the dragon clans. They were rarely allowed to appear in public in their dragon form. Even though they could easily tear through the Bug clans without mechs, they were forced to fight in human form using mechs.

Over generations, many people from the star system didn’t even recognize their true form. While some had heard of the Twelfth Legion, most people knew little about them, assuming they were just another ordinary legion.