You're just a single demon beast? I have a whole army of beast tamers!

Under the pergola, there was a wooden table, and behind the table sat a middle-aged monk with a short beard.

He was dressed in a dark gray butler's robe, and his aura was clearly that of a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator.

He was Manager Zhao, who was in charge of acquiring spirit eggs in this area.

At this moment, his eyelids were slightly lowered, and his fingertips were lightly tapping on a jade plate, recording the spirit egg handed to him by a disciple in front of him.

"Rainbow-tailed eggs, Grade 1, low quality, fifteen eggs, medium to high quality, priced at two spirit stones and seventy spirit fragments."

Manager Zhao's voice was flat and unwavering, leaving no room for discussion.

The disciple's lips moved slightly.

It seems they want to argue that the quality might qualify as top-grade.

But when he met Steward Zhao's cold gaze...

In the end, he silently accepted the small bag of spirit stones and stepped aside.

Anyone who has raised spirit chickens on Spirit Chicken Peak for a certain number of years can raise spirit chickens on their own.

These spirit eggs were laid by the spirit chickens he raised himself.

It was Qin Shou's and Luo Song's turn.

The two stepped forward and carefully took out the spirit eggs from their respective baskets.

The Qin beast has ninety strong eggs and ten colorful brocade eggs;

Luo Song's is also a similar proportion.

Manager Zhao examined each egg one by one, occasionally touching the shell with his fingers as if sensing the spiritual energy and vitality inside.

"Strong eggs, ninety in total, of medium to high quality."

Ten colorful brocade eggs, of medium quality.

He glanced at the Qin beast. "According to the rules, the price for a strong egg here is seven spirit stones."

Five-colored brocade eggs, three spirit stones, and four pieces.

Your brocade egg barely qualifies, but considering the strength of the egg... I'll give you a total of twenty spirit stones and forty spirit fragments."

As he spoke, he counted out spirit stones and spirit fragments from a small box under the table.

Qin Shou quietly accepted it and thanked him.

He knew in his heart that this price was indeed much lower than the market price.

In the market, one spirit stone can usually only buy five strong eggs.

Three spirit stones can usually only buy two or three colorful brocade eggs.

However, trading here saves the time spent traveling to and from the market and the risk of exploitation or even robbery.

While the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect has rules to protect its disciples, outer disciples and servants are ultimately not comparable to inner disciples.

Unless it involves significant losses or violates strict regulations,

Otherwise, sects would generally not devote much effort to investigating minor disputes or even occasional accidents involving private transactions between outer disciples.

These lower-ranking disciples,

To some extent, they were simply the oxen and horses that kept the sect running.

They exchange their labor and time for the resources needed to climb the ladder.

Of course, these spirit stones don't belong to him at all; they will be handed over to Steward Wang later and belong to the sect's property.

After the transaction was completed, the two handed over the spirit chicken from their storage bags.

Without lingering, he carried the empty basket and the spirit stones he had obtained, and returned to Spirit Chicken Peak.

He went straight to the storeroom inside the peak and collected the ten free welfare spirit eggs by presenting his identity token.

There are nine strong chickens and one colorful golden pheasant.

Qin Shou weighed the small basket of eggs in his hand and estimated in his mind:

"Ten eggs, at the purchase price here, a strong egg is worth about one spirit stone and more than twenty spirit fragments, and a five-colored brocade egg is worth about seventy spirit fragments, which together is worth about two spirit stones."

For an ordinary outer disciple, this is a decent starting resource.

Unfortunately, this benefit is only available once a year.

Afterwards, they used their spirit stones to each purchase a batch of feed from the supplies area next to the warehouse.

Qin Shou spent one spirit stone to buy a bag of about fifty catties of basic feed for strong chickens.

He spent another spirit stone to buy a small bag of about ten pounds of special feed for the five-colored golden pheasant.

Looking at the rapidly shrinking spirit stone bag, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Raising spirit chickens is truly a money-devouring beast, and this is only the beginning.

As outer disciples, they were slightly better off than the menial disciples who toiled all day.

Simply complete the daily quota of half-day tasks.

The remaining time can be used as one's own, whether for cultivation or handling personal matters.

This is also a trace of dignity that the outer sect still retains for cultivators.

The two returned to their respective cave areas on Lingji Peak and parted ways at the fork in the road.

"Junior Brother Qin, go back and carefully hatch your precious egg! Hopefully, by this time next year, you can enjoy a feast of spirit chickens you raised yourself!"

Luo Song joked with a smile.

"Thank you for your kind words, Senior Brother Luo!"

Qin Shou responded with a smile, but in his heart he was already impatient.

He hurried back to his cave dwelling.

After activating the restriction, immerse your mind in your sea of ​​consciousness.

To communicate with that innate treasure gourd.

Consciousness entered that strange space, the black soil beneath my feet remained, and the five-colored orbs of light hung silently in the air.

Qin Shou took out a strong egg he had just obtained and buried it in some loose soil, covering it slightly so that only half of the eggshell was exposed.

Immediately afterwards, he tried to connect his mind with this space and guide the acceleration effect on the egg.

He wasn't quite sure how to do it.

However, based on the information obtained previously,

As long as the demon beast is within this space

It will then naturally be affected by a time flow rate a hundred times faster.

After completing these steps, he exited the spatial dimension and sat quietly in his cave to regulate his breathing.

But he always seemed a little absent-minded.

Every few moments, he couldn't help but probe his consciousness into the space to check.

Time passed little by little.

About half an hour later, when he looked at the egg again,

To my surprise, I found that cracks had appeared on the eggshell!

After another incense stick's time, a tiny chick with tender yellow downy feathers appeared.

Struggling to break open the eggshell,

It stood up shakily, making a faint chirping sound.

"It really works! And the hatching speed..."

Qin Shou was thrilled.

External incubation of robust chickens takes approximately ten days.

It was completed in less than an hour.

This 100x acceleration truly lives up to its name!

He immediately exited the space.

Take a small amount of Lizhuang chicken feed.

Mix with water to make a wet mixture.

Then he brought it into the space and fed it to the newborn chick.

The chicks immediately lowered their heads to peck at the food, appearing quite hungry.

However, what happened next left Qin Shou dumbfounded.

After the chicks started eating, they grew at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Its downy feathers grew thicker, and its body expanded in circles. In the time it takes to eat a meal, it had grown from the size of a fist to nearly one-tenth the size of a strong adult chicken!

The small pile of wet material in front of it had also been completely consumed.

"This growth rate...it's astonishing!"

The Qin beast quickly exited the space and retrieved more feed.

He had originally calculated that, in the outside world, the fifty catties of basic feed for a strong chicken that could be purchased with one spirit stone would be enough to cover all the consumption of a strong chicken from chick to adulthood, with a surplus.

But given the current growth rate of this creature, those fifty pounds of feed probably won't last more than a few days!

Moreover, he realized a problem.

This space has no spiritual energy whatsoever, and the terrifying growth of the monsters here mainly depends on converting food into energy.

A hundred times the flow rate of time means a hundred times the metabolism and consumption!

If the feed is insufficient, the chickens will not only fail to grow well, but may also starve or fall ill.

"This is practically burning spirit stones to force growth..."

Qin Shou felt a sudden toothache.

But he didn't hesitate and simply brought the remaining eight strong eggs and the five-colored brocade egg into the space to incubate them in batches.

He wanted to see what would happen if multiple birds were raised at the same time, and whether the golden pheasants would be any different.

For most of the next night, the Qin beast shuttled back and forth between its cave and the Treasure Gourd space.

He watched helplessly as the nine strong chicks grew wildly, like they were being inflated, and the feed was being consumed like water.

The 50-pound bag of chicken feed was decreasing at an alarming rate.

In the latter half of the night, several of the fastest-growing and strongest chickens began to show signs of lethargy, their feathers lost their luster, and they squatted in corners, no longer actively moving around.

There was clearly no feed left.

Only the golden pheasant chick, which was fed concentrated feed alone, was in much better condition.

Its growth rate is also extremely fast.

But the special refined materials have a stronger spiritual energy.

It seems to be better able to support this kind of frenzied metabolism.

Therefore, it is still lively and active, and the quill has begun to show a faint iridescent color.