“Elder Li, look…”

Upon seeing this, Meng Qianqian was about to turn around and say something.

Only a soft "crack" was heard.

At the crack below the giant egg, a piece of eggshell the size of a human head suddenly protruded outwards and fell off, revealing a hollow.

Hearing the sound, Meng Qianqian quickly turned her head back, looking at the opening with some nervousness and anticipation. She heard a series of tender chirping sounds from inside, “Ji, ji, ji,” similar to that of a chick.

Immediately afterward, a fluffy head, almost the size of the opening, poked out from inside.

The little thing, not small in size, had its eyes half-open and half-closed, with a faint cyan glow on its surface fluff. It looked somewhat similar to a hen, with a short, straight beak that had two nostrils for breathing. Its cheeks were plump, making it look a bit dull.

It twisted its head left and right a few times before finally opening its eyes completely.

It first looked at Han Li, then at Meng Qianqian, tilted its fluffy head, and then slowly crawled out of the eggshell, waddling towards Meng Qianqian.

Its neck was thin and long, connected to a somewhat frail and slender body. Compared to its large head, it seemed extremely disproportionate, as if all the nutrients were used to grow its head, resulting in a somewhat deformed appearance.

Han Li looked at the bird's appearance and couldn't say he was disappointed, but he did think it was a bit... ugly.

He wondered where Fang Pan had gotten this egg from back then, and what his purpose was.

Meng Qianqian looked at the strange chick swaying towards her, and a glimmer of starlight lit up in her beautiful eyes. She felt a bit worried for it, fearing that its slender neck couldn't support its head and would break at any moment.

She looked directly into the chick's eyes, not finding it ugly at all, but rather somewhat cute and silly. After all, it was the only thing that had accompanied her day and night during her years of solitary cultivation.

Sometimes, when she reached a bottleneck in her cultivation and couldn't break through, or when she lamented the difficulty of the cultivation path and couldn't bear the lonely years, or when she had something on her mind that she didn't even want to tell her brother, she would treat this giant egg as her only confidante.

Unknowingly, this unknown giant egg had become a good companion on her slow path to immortality, accompanying her step by step from the Nascent Soul stage to her current realm.

It could even be said that if it weren't for the company of this giant egg, she might not have been able to advance to the Spirit Transformation stage so quickly.

Now that this egg had finally hatched, her mood was quite complicated.

She slowly squatted down and picked up the chick that had finally reached her feet, gently stroking the slender, soft feathers on its body.

The chick gently leaned its head on the feather in her hand, slowly rubbing against it and making a series of soft chirps.

"Elder Li, could you give it a name?" Meng Qianqian said to Han Li, holding the chick and turning around.

"That feather in your hand is probably from its mother. Why not call it 'Nian Yu'?" Han Li said after a moment of thought.

"Nian Yu, Nian Yu... Hmm, a very nice name. We'll call it Nian Yu from now on." Meng Qianqian muttered to herself a few times, then smiled and said happily.

Han Li was slightly moved by this scene.

Meng Qianqian held up the chick and said to it earnestly, regardless of whether it understood, "From now on, you'll be called Nian Yu!"

Han Li then noticed that there was also a small fleshy pouch growing below the chick's head, hidden beneath its feathers.

He frowned slightly, walked forward, took the chick from Meng Qianqian's hands, examined it carefully for a moment, and then flipped over the chick's wings and tail, seeing a faint glow hidden beneath each, and fell into deep thought.

"What's wrong... Elder Li, is there something wrong?" Meng Qianqian asked with some concern.

"There's nothing wrong. I've been trying to figure out the origin of this giant egg, but I've never had any clues. It wasn't until it hatched today that I finally had some insight," Han Li said with a smile.

"Oh... does that mean Nian Yu has a big background?" Meng Qianqian asked curiously.

"I can't confirm it yet, but what I can say for sure is that it's a wind-attribute spiritual bird, and it's a very high-grade wind-attribute spiritual bird with the potential to evolve. It may contain some true spirit bloodline within its body," Han Li didn't want to hide anything and told her directly.

Hearing this, Meng Qianqian's gaze towards the chick changed slightly, and she praised with a啧啧 sound:

"Nian Yu, you're really something..."

The chick was naturally unaware of this, and just opened its mouth and kept chirping, seemingly full of yearning and curiosity for this world.

Seeing this, Han Li flipped his hand, and a cyan pill appeared in his palm.

The cyan light in his palm lit up, enveloping the entire pill.

After a moment, the pill gradually dissolved in this layer of cyan light, turning into a ball of cyan Qi full of spiritual power.

Han Li guided with his palm, and the ball of cyan Qi slowly flowed into the cyan chick's beak.

A cyan light slid down Nian Yu's slender neck and disappeared.

The chick stopped chirping, but burped in a very human-like manner, which made Meng Qianqian feel very interesting and couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggle.

However, before the burp was finished, the chick's eyelids slowly drooped, and its head tilted to the side, falling asleep.

Meng Qianqian was slightly stunned by this.

"This wind-attribute spiritual pill is still too high-grade for it at the moment. Although I have used my magic power to dissolve the pill, it still can't resist it. But it doesn't matter, falling asleep is actually conducive to the absorption of spiritual power," Han Li explained with a smile.

Meng Qianqian nodded quickly, indicating that she understood.

"You should keep that feather with you for the time being. Nian Yu was hatched under your care, and you should still take care of it in the future," Han Li said, handing the sleeping chick to Meng Qianqian.

"Yes, Elder Li." Meng Qianqian quickly took it and responded with a smile.

"I remember that there are many Wind Spirit Grasses planted in the spiritual herb garden on the mountain. You can use this grass to feed it in the future. At the beginning, it's best to feed it some that are about ten years old. After it grows up, you can feed it some that are even older, but don't be too hasty. Remember, don't feed it pills of other attributes," Han Li thought for a while and instructed.

"Yes, Qianqian has remembered," Meng Qianqian said, nodding.

"Okay, take Nian Yu back," Han Li said, waving his hand.

Meng Qianqian said goodbye and walked towards the stone chamber door with the chick in her arms. She was about to step out when she was stopped by Han Li again.

"What's wrong, Elder Li? Is there anything else you want to tell me?" Meng Qianqian turned around and asked in confusion.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're already a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator, right?" Han Li said with a smile.

"I wanted to tell you earlier, but I couldn't find an opportunity. Later, I was delayed by Nian Yu, and I forgot about it myself," Meng Qianqian said with a slight smile, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Well, your aptitude is better than your brother's and the others', so your progress is indeed faster. This bottle of pills for Spirit Transformation stage cultivators is for you, as a congratulatory gift for your realm improvement," Han Li threw a white porcelain bottle over and said with a smile.

Meng Qianqian happily took it, thanked him several times, and then turned around and left happily.

Not long after she left, a cyan light flew up from the cave courtyard and headed straight for the outside of Crimson Cloud Peak.

The next day.

The sun was high in the sky, and the sky was clear and refreshing.

The snow in the western part of the Bell Mountain Range had not melted, and most of the mountains were a dazzling white. Only some areas could see some cleared halls and squares, revealing some different colors.

In addition, there were also some places where fire veins grew underground or hot springs existed on the mountains, which were not covered by snow, and some not-so-bright green could still be seen.

Above the sky, a cyan light streaked across and flew towards the crescent-shaped valley next to West Forest Peak.

This person was none other than Han Li, who had come to find White Sparrow Valley.

Last night, after he left Crimson Cloud Peak, he first went to the foot of the mountain and returned the Essence Flame Firebird to the entrance leading to the underground fire vein.

The little guy looked very happy, circled him twice, and then flew into the cave with familiarity.

After that, he traveled all the way to the western part of the Bell Mountain Range through the Proximity Transmission Pavilion.

Originally, if he had chosen to teleport to the Proximity Transmission Pavilion in Pu Ling Valley and then transfer to West Forest Peak, it would have saved a lot of time, and he should have arrived at Half-Gabled Valley before dawn.

However, if a True Immortal Realm cultivator descended on Pu Ling Valley, whether it was to choose servants or not, it would probably cause a commotion again, and Han Li didn't want to attract the attention of others.

Therefore, he chose to teleport to the more distant Hui Yang Peak, so he flew all the way to the present.

Half-Gabled Valley, like the adjacent West Forest Peak, was also an ordinary area with no special spiritual products, so it had never been valued by the sect. There were no elders or disciples building cave dwellings, nor were there any sect facilities, so it was considered a native valley.

Han Li landed at the entrance of the valley and walked inward. All he saw was thick snow, and occasionally some places had reddish-brown rocks exposed, which looked a bit desolate.

Several hundred feet from the entrance of the valley, the terrain gradually opened up, but compared to the outside of the valley, the terrain inside was obviously lower. Han Li felt that he was walking downwards along a certain slope.

After walking for about half an hour, the valley in front of him became misty, and the scenery appeared somewhat hazy.

Han Li bypassed a huge rock lying across the valley and saw a crescent-shaped lake with a large area behind it. Wisps of heat were rising from the water, obviously a geothermal hot spring.

The temperature around the hot spring was slightly higher, and a circle of exposed reddish-brown shoreline could be seen.

Han Li walked to the shore of the hot spring lake, stopped, and blue light lit up in his eyes, looking towards the lake water.

He saw that the lake surface had slight ripples, and the lake water was clear and transparent, so he could directly see the uneven lake stones at the bottom of the lake, but he did not see any fish or aquatic creatures.

After a moment, Han Li withdrew his gaze and carefully released his divine sense, shrouding the entire valley.

However, after an investigation, he found that he still had nothing to gain, as if this Half-Gabled Valley was really just an ordinary valley.

"White Sparrow Valley, Manifest True Wheel..."

Han Li muttered the sentence he had seen in the Profound Hall that day, and then his expression straightened and he sat down cross-legged.