"Mm! That’s not all!" Fu Young said with an eye-opening expression. "That spirit beast egg even spoke to me with divine sense!"

"It said it is the only divine beast of this world, the Water Qilin. After breaking out of its egg, it became curious about the outside world and stepped out of the protective barrier. Then it was attacked by demonic beasts who coveted its flesh and blood. It was heavily injured and had no choice but to use a secret technique to turn back into an egg to heal."

"Cough, cough..."

Xiao Shou erupted into a violent fit of coughing that shook the room.

It really was the Water Qilin.

Shouldn’t the Water Qilin have been bought by Xiao Ran at the auction house and soon after have its first encounter with her?

Why was it here and why did Fu Young run into it?

Fu Young blinked his eyes in confusion.

Can a Qi Refinement cultivator even catch a cold and cough like this?

Though he was puzzled, he still worriedly asked, "Master, why are you coughing so badly? Should we go to Azure Origin City to see a doctor?"

"No need. I’m fine. I was just too shocked by what you said." Xiao Shou waved his hand and asked curiously, "And then? What happened next?"

"Oh! After that, the Water Qilin in egg form was picked up by an independent cultivator and sold to the Nine Treasures Pavilion. It was auctioned there and fought over by two female cultivators. With the help of a respected expert, the fire spiritual root female cultivator lost the bid. However, on the way back to her sect, the ice spiritual root female cultivator who bought it was ambushed by the fire spiritual root female cultivator in disguise. During their battle, they suddenly encountered a geomagnetic storm. The egg had been inside the ice spiritual root female cultivator’s immortal treasure space, but for some reason it was thrown out by the geomagnetic storm. Then it was frozen by her secret ice technique, and after that it was blown here by the geomagnetic storm, where I found it." Fu Young finished in one breath.

His excitement was completely gone now.

Hmph.

It was just some uncertain Water Qilin anyway.

How could his master care more about it than him?

Only he should be the most important one in his master’s heart.

Water Qilin or divine beast, none of them mattered.

His master only needed to like him.

Thinking of this, he tightened his grip on Xiao Shou’s hand, his face slightly warm.

Xiao Shou, however, was stunned.

So many twists and turns, so much hidden scheming and intrigue, and it was all summarized in just a few sentences.

Where was the process? Where was the deeper plot? Had it all been eaten by dogs?

He suddenly realized his disciple had no talent for writing stories.

He raised an eyebrow, and his tense nerves from the Water Qilin’s appearance also relaxed slightly.

At the same time, a fleeting thought crossed his mind about where he had heard the term "geomagnetic storm" before. But the thought disappeared just as quickly, and he completely forgot that in the book Against the World, geomagnetic storms were a convenient tool used by the Heavenly Dao to deliver cheat opportunities to its favorite child.

Instead of that, Xiao Shou began thinking about how the Water Qilin had appeared here.

In the original book Longevity Love, Yu Lin only confirmed that Xiao Ran had changed after she stepped into the Nascent Soul stage.

She suspected either rebirth or transmigration.

Before that point, she did not strongly compete for Xiao Ran’s opportunity, the Water Qilin, because she had no way to heal its injuries.

She also liked the gentle Water Qilin and did not want to harm it.

As for Xiao Ran’s reincarnated timeline...

Xiao Shou thought for a moment and directly organized the current changes into a mental diagram.

Yu Lin in the original story: Xiao Ran used low-grade spirit stones to auction off a spirit beast egg, which turned out to be a divine beast.

Xiao Ran’s previous life before rebirth: No resonance from the Heavenly Orb. She saw the Water Qilin in Nine Treasures Pavilion but had no reaction. The Water Qilin was successfully bought by Yu Lin.

However, Yu Lin did not have the bloodline of the Heavenly Orb’ss creator, so she could not fully claim it as her own or activate the deeper immortal spring within the orb.

The Water Qilin had to rely on itself to recover, and by the time Xiao Ran was killed by Yu Lin, it had not yet healed and only then broke out of its egg.

After all, a divine beast’s lifespan was extremely long, and recovery could take millions of years.

Xiao Ran’s current reborn timeline: Xiao Ran have resonated with the Heavenly Orb, successfully sensed the Water Qilin and obtained it with the help of Jian Li.

Yu Lin who liked the gentle and kind Water Qilin did not have confidence in saving it without the Heavenly Orb, so she did not insist on buying it after failing to obtain it.

This current transmigrated timeline: It was likely that because he had reminded Yu Lin of Xiao Ran’s changes, she detected her anomaly earlier and became more determined.

As a result, she refused to yield and did not want Xiao Ran to obtain this opportunity.

Even without confidence in healing the Water Qilin, she still tried to take it, only to run into a geomagnetic storm during the battle.

Xiao Shou felt like the threads were finally coming together.

Then he thought about how the Water Qilin had been sealed in ice for several years here.

During those years, who cured the female lead’s aphrodisiac poison? Those mortal farmers testing spirit roots? Or did she encounter another opportunity?

Without the Water Qilin’s gentle balancing effect, how did the chaotic jealousy battle between Jian Li and Zhong Kui even resolve?