Chapter 1175: The Thing in the Egg
Lin Shen felt somewhat disappointed. Even Xiaoye couldn't distinguish the life and death of the Chaos Egg. Could it really be that they had to rely on luck to choose?
"This challenge wouldn't really rely on luck, would it?" Ouyang Yudu mused, "The test refers to these Chaos Eggs as easter eggs, probably to tell us we can only rely on luck to pass this level. This level is not actually testing our abilities but our qi fortune."
Di Esi nodded and said, "It seems that's the case. Sometimes, the impact of qi fortune on a person can be greater than effort and ability."
Lin Shen completely agreed with Di Esi's view, just like Di Esi, who was born into one of the Great Cosmic Clans and was a Nirvana Being by nature.
Lin Shen was born into an ordinary human family. If it wasn't for his own unique qualities and the fortunate opportunities he encountered, he might not have reached Di Esi's level of achievement even after practicing for three lifetimes.
Of course, Lin Shen's uniqueness and serendipity also had a component of qi fortune, making this mysterious thing indeed hard to explain.
The Ancient Realm King choosing an heir wanting to select someone with great qi fortune is also a normal thing.
Otherwise, if they selected someone with little fortune who just became invincible and, upon emerging, was killed by something random falling from the sky, it would waste their legacy.
"Even so, trying to select one from millions is just too low of a probability. How much qi fortune would one need to succeed? What if only my sister and I came in and we couldn't be chosen?" Xiaona muttered.
Xiaona's comment reminded Lin Shen, "Exactly, the Ancient Realm King definitely wants to leave his inheritance to his daughter. If Xiaona and Xiaoye came in, they would only rely on luck. What if they failed? Would they not even save their own daughter? The Ancient Realm King wouldn't do something so foolish. Since he gave the teleporter to Xiaona and Xiaoye and didn't stop them from coming in, there must be other ways to prevent them from dying due to a wrong choice.
Lin Shen looked at Xiaoye, and Xiaoye saw through Lin Shen's thoughts and said, "If we come in again as Great Emperor level, relying on our abilities and the Great Emperor's Divine Artifacts, nothing here could affect us. We wouldn't need to consider how to solve this puzzle."
Lin Shen agreed, thinking that if they ascended to the Great Emperor level and came back, no matter how powerful the Chaos Gourd was, it probably couldn't affect two Great Emperors holding the Great Emperor's Divine Artifacts.
Unfortunately, they came in early, and whether they could withstand the punishments here was uncertain.
Everyone pondered repeatedly but couldn't come up with any solution to identify which was the easter egg with the pet.
"Do we really have to try our luck and choose a pet from the Chaos Eggs?" Lin Shen was frustrated and said casually.
Since there was no time limit, he wouldn't leave his fate to luck unless absolutely necessary.
Just as Lin Shen finished speaking, he suddenly felt something coming out of him. Then he saw a ball of snow jump out from the Space Capsule and land on his shoulder, shaking its feathers. It was Fei Zai, this gluttonous and lazy guy.
Lin Shen was puzzled as to why Fei Zai had appeared, but then saw Fei Zai flap its short and chubby wings, flying towards the group of easter eggs.
"What's it trying to do?" Xiaona saw Fei Zai landing on a Chaos Egg and began pecking at it, exclaiming as she lifted the Red Gourd to try to absorb Fei Zai.
If it broke the Chaos Egg and there was no pet inside, they'd face punishment, and no one was confident they could withstand it.
Lin Shen pressed Xiaona's hand, "Don't move it, we might have a chance."
"You want to rely on it to distinguish the Chaos Eggs? Is that reliable? It might not even break the Chaos Egg's shell, you know." Xiaona realized after a moment that it wouldn't matter whether she acted or not, as ordinary creatures couldn't break through the Chaos Egg's defense.
They only managed to come out from the Chaos Eggs due to Lin Shen's Super-Base Divine Shot ability.
Xiaoye didn't move because she knew that fat bird couldn't do much and couldn't open the Chaos Egg, so they disregarded it.
Crack!
As they were thinking this, a crackling sound was heard as Fei Zai pecked once, creating several cracks on the Chaos Egg.
Fei Zai kept pecking, and with several more pecks, the Chaos Egg was cracking open.
Lin Shen watched from the side without interfering and stopped Xiaona and Xiaoye, who wanted to take action.
He wasn't actually trying his luck but felt it would be better to let Fei Zai choose than to gamble himself.
Although Fei Zai was lazy and greedy, it was reliable when it mattered and never failed at crucial moments. Moreover, it could peck open the Chaos Eggs that even the Red Gourd couldn't tear apart, which already indicated something.
The most crucial point was that Fei Zai was brought out from Gourd Mountain, and Lin Shen now deeply suspected that Gourd Mountain at the Dark Bird Base had some connection to the Chaos Gourd.
Everyone watched with wide eyes as Fei Zai pecked open the Chaos Egg's outer shell bit by bit, splitting the Chaos Egg from top to bottom.
The Chaos Egg Fei Zai selected was completely purple, looking like a giant purple jade egg.
As the outer purple jade shell shattered, their gazes were drawn inside, but nothing could be seen, which startled them all.
Lin Shen's heart rose to his throat, "Could it have been a wrong judgment? Was Fei Zai just pranking them with a random peck?"
Lin Shen quickly flew upward. Since the Chaos Egg had already cracked open, only the bottom remained intact, blocking the view of the very bottom.
As Lin Shen's body ascended, he could finally see the remaining small part of the Chaos Egg's interior, and upon seeing it clearly, he let out a long sigh of relief; there was indeed something inside. It was just that the contents were small, and the Chaos Egg so large, that they hadn't seen it.
Ouyang and the others also flew up. Seeing something inside the Chaos Egg, they breathed a sigh of relief, and then their expressions turned strange.
Lin Shen shared a similar expression, having considered various possibilities and imagined what sort of life might emerge from the egg. He even imagined a Transformer.
But he never expected that the life nurtured inside the Chaos Egg would take this form.
A shoe! What emerged from the Chaos Egg was a shoe!
Lin Shen immediately wondered if the life from the Chaos Egg was a humanoid creature, and the creature ran off, dropping a shoe here.
But then he thought something was wrong. The Chaos Egg had been intact all this time. If there was a creature inside, how could it escape without breaking the egg?
Even if it could, how could it leave behind a shoe?