The moment that Lin Fan heard this, he once again revealed a confused look.
After a while, he asked, "Just what do you mean by that?"
That was the crux of it.
The Black Tortoise God Fragment just looked at the two of them without saying a thing.
Finally, he said, "If you let the little one enter the egg, then you'll find out."
The moment that he said this, Lin Fan held Rocky closer to himself and moved away from the Black Tortoise God Fragment and the egg.
Seeing this, the Black Tortoise God Fragment couldn't help asking, "What are you doing? Why are you moving away?"
Lin Fan couldn't help revealing a bitter smile when he heard this.
After all, no matter how one listened to this, it seemed very shady.
The way that the Black Tortoise God Fragment had said this, it just sounded like it was a trap.
Of course, Lin Fan could guess that it wasn't what it sounded like and this was indeed something that was related to Rocky. But before he knew the full story, it wasn't as if he could let Rocky do something as dangerous as this.
So he took another step back when he heard this.
The Black Tortoise God Fragment started panicking when he saw this. He then said, "Is something wrong? Do you want something before doing this? I can give you all the herbs in this place if you want."
Lin Fan's bitter smile became wider when he heard this.
It seemed that the Black Tortoise God Fragment really was like what his figure looked like, a senile old man.
He was trying to explain what was happening, but he wasn't good at explaining it. He was just directly trying to tell them what would happen if they did what he told them to do, that he forgot the context.
In short, all he did was make himself seem more suspicious than he actually was.
Lin Fan shook his head and said, "Explain what the egg is and then we'll decide."
This time, it was the Black Tortoise God Fragment's turn to reveal a bitter smile.
He didn't know what this Void God's successor was thinking, but he could tell that he was serious about what he said. Unless he told him what this egg was, he wasn't planning on letting Rocky touch it.
Though, judging by the look on Rocky's face, he did want to touch this egg.
So the Black Tortoise God Fragment had no choice but to suppress his excitement and slowly explain what the situation was.
"The egg is the remainder of my child and it belongs to that little one over there." The Black Tortoise God Fragment said in a heavy voice.
But all this did was confuse Lin Fan even more.
If it was a child that belonged to the Black Tortoise God, then how was it related to Rocky?
After all, Rocky wasn't related to the Black Tortoise Race at all.
Rocky was hatched by Lin Fan with the system's incubation room and was a rock attributed pet that had the Divine Giant bloodline. There wasn't a single bit of this that could be related to the Black Tortoise Race.
Seeing the confused look on Lin Fan's face, the Black Tortoise God Fragment continued, "My child was an unfortunate one. He inherited the full bloodline from me, but he was cut down in his prime before he could bloom, that is why there was this egg that was left behind. Once he died, his body turned into this egg."
Once again, Lin Fan revealed the same confused look as he asked, "How is that related to Rocky still?"
The Black Tortoise God Fragment didn't mind this question and slowly continued at his own pace, "Our Black Tortoise Race has a special ability that activates when we die. We can save our soul in the fragments of our shell to give us the chance to regenerate ourselves in time."
When he heard this, Lin Fan slightly knitted his brows.
After a while, he said, "So you're saying that Rocky isn't made of rocks, but rather the scales of the Black Tortoise Race?"
Hearing this, the Black Tortoise God Fragment gave a strong nod as a relieved look appeared on his face.
It seemed that the Void God's successor was finally understanding what the situation was.
Lin Fan however looked at the Black Tortoise God Fragment with a doubtful look.
The system had clearly stated that Rocky was supposed to be an Aegean Giant that had the Divine Giant bloodline. No matter how he looked at this, it didn't seem like this was related at all to the Black Tortoise Race.
So he couldn't help asking, "As far as I know, Rocky should have the Divine Giant bloodline. How can he also have the Black Tortoise bloodline?"
When he heard this, the Black Tortoise God Fragment revealed a faint smile and said, "That's another name for our bloodline in the first place. Do you know just how big a Black Tortoise is at full size?"
Lin Fan still couldn't help revealing a skeptical look when he heard this, but he also turned to look down at Rocky. He had seen that Rocky had been looking at the egg on the ground the entire time, so he knew that Rocky must feel some kind of connection to it.
In the end, even if it seemed strange and confusing, Lin Fan would let Rocky decide what to do.
After staring at the egg for a bit, Rocky did try to get out of Lin Fan's hands.
So Lin Fan placed Rocky on the ground and watched what happened.
If it seemed like he was in danger, Lin Fan would immediately take action to bring Rocky away.
He might not have been confident if it was anywhere else, but in this place, he would have the system's help. After all, this was still considered a cultivation realm from the system, so he could pull out with just a single thought.
At the same time though, Lin Fan couldn't help thinking about how the system was related to this.
The system had not only given him the four bloodlines of the sacred beasts in the first place, it had also been the one that had allowed him to incubate Rocky…So he couldn't help thinking that this had all been set up by the system.
But as these doubts filled his mind, the system remained silent and didn't say a single thing.
Rocky made his way over to the egg and then he just stood there in front of it, looking over the egg. It was as if he was trying to figure out what he would do with the egg…
That is until he finally decided.
Without any warning at all, Rocky's body suddenly collapsed into pieces.
It turned into countless rocks that were still moving on the ground.
As they moved, they surrounded the egg completely and then…Rocky's rocks suddenly crawled up the egg. These rocks from Rocky created a layer of rocks around the egg itself before they started glowing.
It was as if there was some kind of power that was being infused, either into the egg or into the rocks.
This lasted for a while before the rocks suddenly crumbled away and they fell off to reveal the egg in the center that was still glowing.
However, the moment that Lin Fan saw this, he couldn't help knitting his brows.
That was because he couldn't feel Rocky's aura from these eggs anymore.
But the only way that was possible was if…Rocky died.
However, Lin Fan also knew that this was impossible since they were in a cultivation realm. If Rocky did die, then there would have been a system notification before he was revived.
So something had happened to Rocky, but he didn't know what had happened.
The only other thing that he could sense was that Rocky's aura was now coming from…the egg itself.
It was as if Rocky was inside the egg.
Lin Fan turned to look at the Black Tortoise God Fragment and asked, "What's happening?"
The Black Tortoise God Fragment had been staring at the egg and Rocky covering it the whole time in a daze, so he didn't hear what Lin Fan had said. But when Lin Fan said it a few more times in a louder voice, he came back to his senses and said, "My child is being reborn. The soul has returned to the body."
Lin Fan knitted his brows when he heard this, but he also had an idea of what he was saying.
The Black Tortoise God Fragment had said earlier that the special ability would contain the soul in the fragments of the shell.
So now that the souls in the fragments of the shell had been absorbed by the egg, that probably meant that…
Since Lin Fan wasn't able to get the information that he wanted from the Black Tortoise God Fragment, he decided to look at the system.
Rocky was still a pet that was registered to him under the system, so he was able to check Rocky's status there.
As he opened up Rocky's status screen in front of him, there wasn't anything that changed on it…
No, there was one thing that was currently flickering which was the race name.
The words 'Aegean Giant' were flickering, as if they were about to change.
Then all of a sudden, there was a burst of light that came from the glowing egg as a crack formed on the surface.
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