Back in the magical world of the Enchanted Magik Forest, Li Ming and Aislinn eventually finished their dinner.

A nymph took the dirty dishes away and left the two women alone to talk.

"I'm seriously amazed to see the level of creativity of your people. Everything that I can see is so unique and beautiful. The fact that you have learned it all on your own and created everything from scratch without any kind of technology seriously deserves praise," Li Ming said after a few minutes of silence.

"When you have not even the basic necessities of life and limitless time, I think it's not hard for anyone to come up with their ideas to fill those necessities. When we first came here, we had nothing. We just used our knowledge and experiences to build and create whatever we can." Aislinn replied as her eyes looked like they were thinking about their past.

Who knew how much struggle the sups had gone through in their starting days in this world.

"Do you miss your life back on Earth?" Li Ming asked in a soft tone.

"Not exactly. Back on Earth, we were afraid of the humans, feared that one day they would find out about our existence and a war would breakthrough. Here we are afraid that someday the Immortals would find out about our existence and swiped us out. On Earth, we mostly stayed away from human societies and lived in our closed protected worlds. The same is happening here too. We are staying away from everyone in this closed protected world. Back on Earth, we used technology to pass our times. Here we have found our own ways to do the same. The only difference that I can see is that back there the supernatural community was huge and vast but here we have a very small number."

"So in short, no I don't think I miss my life back on Earth too much. For me, there are not too many differences in either of these worlds. We aren't accepted in either of them."

Aislinn's words were pure truth but at the same time, they held so much weigh in them.

Li Ming cleared her throat to distract herself from the sudden sad feelings that had taken over them.

She was also a supernatural and she knew too well exactly how painful it was to live your lives on eggshells.

And being the Head of an entire supernatural clan increased that fear because then you were not responsible only for your own life but for all those lives that looked up to you for guidance and protection.

"Well, then tell me about this egg which suddenly appeared in my hands at the time of the blast." Li Ming said as she looked at the nymph leader to start explaining about the glowing egg.

The woman sighed as she looked at the egg. "It's been around twelve thousand years since we have this unique egg with us here in the Enchanted Magik Forest..."

At the mention of the number of years, Li Ming's jaw almost dropped to the ground. Even an egg was thousands of years old and she was still a young teenage girl. Life could not have been more unfair!

"...I still remember that morning when after setting my foot out of this cave, the first thing that appeared in my vision was a basket in which a small purple glowing egg was placed. It was accompanied by a letter that left our small group of supernaturals shaken to our core." Aislinn shuddered lightly as she talked about the day she first found the egg sitting in a basket at the cave's entrance.

"What was written in that letter?" Li Ming implored.

"It stated that the egg is our responsibility from that day onwards. We all needed to keep it safe until the day it's true guardian will appear. It was too mentioned that we can't throw this egg out of the Enchanted Forest and that the egg would need a very heavy amount of spiritual qi to grow. A bag of seeds was also placed in the basket along with the egg and the letter."

Aislinn stretched her right palm out and closed her eyes, the very next second a scroll appeared on her palm.

She offered the scroll to Li Ming who immediately took it and started opening it.

It was the exact same letter that Aislinn had found in the basket that day. The content was exactly the same as the nymph leader had told her.

"At that time the Enchanted Forest had no spiritual energy inside it. As you can see there are some instructions written at the end of the letter about how to plant the seeds that I found in the basket. It took us a few days to finally digest that we suddenly have a new responsibility in our hands. After many failed attempts, we finally figured out about how those Qi Channeling flowers worked. We grew them all over the Thundering Peaks and in that way the problem of the lack of spiritual qi inside in this world finally solved. Come, let me show you something." Aislinn said as she stood up.

Li Ming silently followed behind the nymph as they started walking deep into the forest.

It probably took them around twenty minutes or something before they finally stopped outside another cave entrance. This one was much smaller than the other one.

The nymph silently entered the cave with Li Ming following right behind her. After another few minutes of walking, they came across a ward.

Li Ming looked at the nymph with unasked questions in her eyes.

"The nymphs have a special gift. Ten nymphs who are older than five hundred years can use their collective powers to form a very powerful ward twice in their lives. This is formed by me and the others." Aislinn told Li Ming who was clearly surprised by this new knowledge.

"Wow, I didn't know about that. You used such a precious power to keep this egg protected." It wasn't a question, rather Li Ming's words came out amazed and with a touch of admiration in them.

"We needed to do our best to protect it. Someone who could enter into our world to leave this egg in front of the entrance of the cave where we live, someone who knows about our existence in this world, who knew what would have been the consequences if something happened to this egg." Aislinn sighed as she told the reason behind her step of forming the ward.

"Did that person ever returned?" Li Ming asked as they both crossed through the ward and entered into a narrow path that took them deeper into the cave.

"Never. In the past twelve thousand years, no one came here looking for the egg. Once the Qi channeling flowers started working and we securely put the egg here, only I and a few others came here from time to time just to check that it's alright. Everything has been going smoothly until an hour ago." Aislinn answered as they appeared inside a circular area at the end of the path.

Li Ming noticed the pink flowers throughout the cave and as she entered into that circular area, her gaze landed on the floor, walls, and the ceiling which was covered with those flowers.

In the very center of the room was a pedestal which too was covered with the pink flowers.

Li Ming watched as the egg, which had been following both of them, circled around her once while giving her hand a soft passing touch before it finally settled down on the pedestal.

Immediately, the pink flowers released the spiritual qi stored inside them, and the egg hungrily sucked the qi inside it.

"So, this glowing bulb is the reason behind the disappearance of the spiritual energy from the Thundering Peaks." Li Ming said with a little shake of her head as she looked at the flowers and the egg.

The mystery behind the lack of spiritual qi in the Thundering Peaks was finally solved. But in the end, she ended up with many new mysteries.

How did the supernaturals end up in this Cultivation world? Since none of them died and transmigrated, then did they all got teleported here?

Who was the woman who gave the Enchanted Magik Forest to the nymphs and what did she take in return?

Who left the glowing egg in the Enchanted Forest and why? And exactly what type of egg was this glowing bulb?

After solving one mystery, Li Ming was left with many as a gift. So many questions plagued her mind and she had no idea where she could find the answers.

And the worst part in all this? She could no longer leave and pretend that nothing like the Enchanted Magik Forest existed because now she was bound to a fking egg.

Talk about making your own life a hell!

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Wish our dear Li Good luck. She seriously needs some motivation! Sigh...