"Black egg, species unknown, attributes unknown, requires one trillion points to incubate."

Looking at the information on the black egg, Li Daoyi wondered if he was seeing things and mistaking 10,000 for 1 trillion.

After taking a closer look, I've confirmed it's one trillion points.

"System, you've labeled it wrong, haven't you?" Li Daoyi asked.

"Sorry, host, the points are not mislabeled. Incubating this item requires one trillion points."

"Ding, the black egg has begun absorbing points. The host's points have been reduced to zero. Please replenish your points as soon as possible."

Li Daoyi froze in mid-air.

"Congratulations, host. Incubating the black egg currently only requires 999.99999 billion points."

The system notification sounded next.

Li Daoyi felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

Gone? My remaining 100,000 points are gone?

"What the hell? I didn't agree to incubate it! Why are you deducting my points?" Li Daoyi said angrily.

"I'm sorry, host, this is mandatory, and there's nothing the system can do about it."

"Damn, you're the system, how can you not control it?" Li Daoyi hurriedly said.

"Sorry, the system has insufficient information and cannot answer," the system explained.

Upon hearing this, Li Daoyi felt like crying but had no tears.

"So, I'm currently burdened with a debt of one trillion?"

"Yes."

Li Dao felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and the joy of breaking through to the Golden Core stage vanished instantly.

“One trillion, brother. Even if it were one hundred million, I might still have some hope. But this is one trillion…” Li Daoyi murmured.

"What kind of broken egg is this? Where did you get it? Send it back to me, I don't want it anymore. If all else fails, I'll crush the Golden Core and go back to the Foundation Establishment stage," Li Daoyi said hurriedly.

"I'm sorry, host, this system cannot do that."

"..."

"What's wrong with you, Master? Why aren't you coming down?" Qiu Chuji asked Xuan Tianzong, who was standing in the sky for a long time.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened.

"Bang..."

Suddenly, Xuan Tianzong, who had been standing beside the crowd, turned into a wisp of smoke and vanished without a trace.

"Ding, the Xuantian Sect puppet's time has run out and it has automatically returned to the system inventory. Please replenish the time in time."

The system's voice startled Li Daoyi awake. He realized that he had been spacing out for a while, and the time for the Xuantian Sect had come.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained Guo Jing..."

Immediately afterwards, the system issued a new notification sound, and Guo Jing and the others contributed another two thousand points to him.

"Points deducted successfully. The black egg still needs 999.9999898 million points to hatch. Please continue your efforts, host."

Li Daoyi was numb.

"Go to hell."

He immediately switched to silent mode, closed the panel, and angrily flew downwards.

However, what he didn't know was that the black egg in the system's inventory mischievously spun around and then jumped around in the inventory slots.

"Look, the Taoist priest is coming down."

Everyone quickly stood up respectfully.

Soon, Li Daoyi slowly descended.

Huang Rong and Guo Jing looked up at Li Daoyi and felt that he was ethereal and otherworldly. Although he looked young, he had a very celestial charm. However, they seemed to see that his brows were somewhat furrowed.

"Congratulations on your emergence from seclusion, Master." The Quanzhen Sect members hurriedly offered their congratulations.

"Dao Yi, you've finally come out." Dongfang Bubai went up to greet him.

"Master," Yang Guo said, overjoyed.

However, it soon became clear to everyone that Li Daoyi's smile was somewhat forced.

"What happened?" Dongfang Bubai asked with concern.

At this moment, Xiaolongnu also walked over gently, a hint of concern showing in her pure, big eyes.

Li Daoyi took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and his usual smile returned to his face.

"I'm fine, I was just thinking about some things." Li Daoyi reached out and patted Yang Guo and Wanyan Ping's heads.

Seeing that he was alright, Xiaolongnu breathed a sigh of relief, but then she felt a little envious of Yang Guo and his companion being able to have their heads gently patted by Li Daoyi.

Guo Jing of Peach Blossom Island.

"Huang Rong".

"Greetings, Master."

Guo Jing and his wife stepped forward and said.

Li Daoyi sized up the two men. They were both quite young, only in their early thirties.

"Hmm, I didn't expect you guys to come." Li Daoyi said.

"Yes, I received news of Guo'er and his mother, and immediately left Peach Blossom Island for the Central Plains," Guo Jing said.

"Grandmaster? No wonder he's the protagonist of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. His talent isn't great, but he's wise beyond his years and has extraordinary luck." Li Daoyi secretly observed Guo Jing and found him to be a very trustworthy and honest person.

Then he looked at Huang Rong, who was around thirty years old. Her pretty face had a touch of girlish mischief, and she truly deserved the title of "Huang Rong." It was just a pity that she hadn't matured yet; she was too much of a timid woman and extremely jealous.

Seeing Li Daoyi's gaze fall on her, Huang Rong couldn't help but feel a little scared.

"I have just offended the divine ox and the immortal. Please punish me, immortal," Huang Rong said in a low voice. She was clever and knew that any schemes and tricks were nothing but a joke in the face of absolute power, so it was better to submit as soon as possible.

"Never mind, it's nothing," Li Daoyi waved his hand. He didn't care.

"Dao Yi, the Xuan Tian Sect suddenly disappeared just now, what happened?" Dongfang Bubai asked at this moment.

"Ah, he had something to do, so I let him leave first," Li Daoyi said. He couldn't very well say that the other person was in his bag.

"Has there been any news from the outside world recently?" Li Daoyi asked.

"The Song and Yuan dynasties are preparing to join forces. This news came after the Golden Wheel Monk returned to Mongolia, but we don't know if it's true or not," Qiu Chuji said.

"Oh? Is that so? It seems the Jin Kingdom is about to be destroyed." Li Dao nodded, calculating that the time was almost up, and the Jin Kingdom's demise was already on the countdown.

"Is the Jin Kingdom going to be destroyed? Is that true?" Wanyan Ping asked, tilting her head back.

“This is an adult matter, you don’t need to worry about it. Don’t worry, your father will be fine,” Li Daoyi reassured him.

"Oh, it's good that Father is alright." The little girl only cared about her father; she had no concept of the country at all, and whether it perished or not was none of her business.

“Brother Jing, if the Great Jin is finished, then the Great Yuan’s next target will be the Great Song.” Huang Rong said to Guo Jing.

“Yes, in order to consolidate his position as Khan, Ögedei will definitely try every means to attack the Song Dynasty after the fall of the Jin Dynasty,” Guo Jing said with a worried expression.

"If war breaks out again, it will be the common people who suffer," Ma Yu sighed.

"Alright, let's go back. Some things are unavoidable, so let's minimize the losses. There's no point in worrying now."

"Mu Nianci, I haven't eaten anything during my month-long seclusion. I must say, I'm actually craving something," Li Daoyi said to Mu Nianci with a smile.

"Hahaha..." Everyone couldn't help but laugh, and the oppressive feeling brought by the shadow of war vanished instantly. Yes, isn't there a deity here? He'll probably intervene when the time comes.

The group quickly headed towards the Quanzhen Sect, while Xiaolongnu slowly turned around.

"Moo..."

Just then, the Green Ox let out a cry, then bit Little Dragon Girl's clothes and dragged her away.

"Ah..." Little Dragon Girl exclaimed in surprise.

"Little Dragon Girl, and the rest of you." At this moment, Li Daoyi stopped and looked at the Quanzhen Sect members and Little Dragon Girl.

The group looked at Li Daoyi.

"The grudges of the previous generation are their own business. Right and wrong are not important. As the younger generation, you must understand that once they are gone, the grudges will also disappear. You should have your own sense of right and wrong, good and evil. You must know that you are yourself and not be bound by so-called doctrines and rules, otherwise the martial arts will only stagnate."

After finishing his sentence, Li Daoyi ignored the stunned group of people and turned to leave.

"Little Dragon Girl, come here." Yang Guo ran to Little Dragon Girl's side and took her hand.

“That’s right, that’s right, Aunt Mu will make honey chicken wings later.” Wanyan Ping also ran over and took the other’s hand.

As Xiaolongnu watched Li Daoyi's departing figure, she recalled the words he had spoken to her on those nights. Indeed, this wasn't the first time she had heard Li Daoyi's words.

"Mm." Little Dragon Girl nodded, letting the two of them lead her toward the Quanzhen Sect.

“Senior brother, what the master said makes sense. We were too pedantic before,” Qiu Chuji sighed.

“Yes, it’s unbelievable that we call ourselves cultivators, yet we can’t even see through this.” Ma Yu nodded.

Suddenly the courtyard became lively. Since the Quanzhen Sect members were vegetarians, Huang Rong volunteered to take on the task of making vegetarian dishes. Although Wan Yanping was a little disappointed that she couldn't eat chicken wings, she was still full of expectations when she heard Mu Nianci say that Huang Rong's cooking skills were even better than her own. Even Li Daoyi felt the same way, after all, Huang Rong was considered the number one culinary goddess in Jin Yong's martial arts world.

At this moment, the Green Ox shrank its size and was able to enter the courtyard, where Xiaolongnu and the others were feeding it grass.

"Little Dragon Girl is amazing; Niu Er is actually very close to her." Dongfang Bubai told Li Daoyi about what had happened before.

"Oh?" Li Daoyi was also somewhat surprised.

"Could it be that Little Dragon Girl has some special constitution?" Li Daoyi wondered to himself. He knew that although Niu Er usually seemed docile, that was only because of his orders; this ox was very temperamental. And that temper wasn't just a saying, but he never expected it to actually take the initiative to get close to Little Dragon Girl.

As everyone chatted, a delicious aroma soon filled the kitchen.

“Master, back then, Rong’er used delicious food to exchange for the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms from Master Qi. You should have a good taste later,” Guo Jing said.

"Haha, that's for sure." Li Daoyi smiled.

At this moment, the black egg that had been bouncing around in the system inventory suddenly stopped.

A strange light flashed across its pitch-black shell.

"ah…"

Suddenly, Mu Nianci screamed from the kitchen.

Everyone was stunned.

"Oh…"

Immediately afterwards, Huang Rong's scream rang out.

"Rong'er!" Guo Jing quickly rushed inside.

The others also rushed into the kitchen.

"What's wrong?"

"What happened?"

When everyone went inside, they saw Huang Rong and Mu Nianci standing there, each holding an empty plate.

"Brother Jing, the dishes I made are suddenly gone," Huang Rong stammered.

"..."