The Little Paperman said with pride, "Yes, we borrowed the path from the Ghost World."

When the Little Paperman wanted to ask Xuan Chu why he was asking this, he saw Xuan Chu’s face showing an expression of ’luck’.

To teleport here from thousands of miles away, for a magic artifact like the Little Paperman, or a powerful being like the Dragon Spirit, the cost is negligible.

However, for flesh and blood like him and Yun Ran, they need to use secret techniques, and the backlash is only a minimal price.

Feeling the pain in his body that made breathing difficult, Xuan Chu closed his eyes. The pain he was experiencing was indescribable.

Fortunately, Yun Ran hadn’t used the secret technique before. Otherwise, under the backlash and while protecting Er Dan, it wouldn’t have ended any better for her than it has for him.

The Little Paperman instantly understood from Xuan Chu’s expression why he asked this.

They had borrowed the path from the Ghost World. Although the process was a bit embarrassing, now the master is almost in a fully restored state.

Moreover, since the master’s contract with the copper mirror, his Qi Fortune had been steadily rising, so he definitely wouldn’t end up as miserably as Xuan Chu.

"My master will be fine!!!"

After saying this, the Little Paperman turned its gaze towards the direction of the Gang Qi Barrier, steadfastly holding its ground.

At this moment, the Little Paperman couldn’t help much even if it went over, so it was better to stay here and keep an eye on Xuan Chu.

The severely backlashed Xuan Chu soon fell into a deep sleep due to extreme exhaustion.

Time passed second by second.

Yun Ran had also set up a defensive array to ensure that the first descending Heavenly Thunder wouldn’t directly hit Er Dan.

Looking at her ’masterpiece’, Yun Ran sat cross-legged beside Er Dan and began meditating.

She said leisurely, "You are indeed lucky. Just breaking a shell, and yet so many are here to watch you, and this temple master is personally protecting you."

At the moment Yun Ran closed her eyes, she completely missed a special, invisible gas slowly seeping into her body.

And all around, it was filled with Er Dan’s aura, so this gas was naturally the same.

Therefore, as this gas slowly seeped into Yun Ran’s body, she didn’t notice it at all.

The night passed slowly, and when the sun rose, Yun Ran opened her eyes.

Originally in a meditative state, unless the Heavenly Thunder descended, her senses were almost shut off.

As soon as she woke up, Yun Ran immediately smelled a foul odor around her.

"Ugh... what’s that smell!!!"

Yun Ran immediately looked at Er Dan: "Could it be that you’re too slow in breaking your shell, so the egg became smelly?"

But this odor clearly wasn’t the smell of a rotten egg?

Wrongly accused Er Dan: ...

If it weren’t for its focus on breaking the shell, leaving no energy to argue, it would have gone crazy by now.

God knows, even as Yun Ran stayed by its side, it could smell these odors too, almost gagging from it.

Yun Ran didn’t realize at all that the smell was emanating from her, and kept looking for the source of the scent.

After getting close to Er Dan and giving it a sniff, Yun Ran found the odor faint, not like the source of the stench.

This made Yun Ran a bit frantic; if the smell came from Er Dan, she could barely tolerate it.

But now, no way, she couldn’t tolerate it at all.

Yun Ran immediately concentrated her breath into her dantian and quickly sensed everything around her with her Divine Sense.

She gritted her teeth and yelled, "Who is it!!!"

Er Dan, confused by Yun Ran’s obliviousness to her own smell, forcefully broke its shell again, trying to tell Yun Ran that the smell was coming from herself.

With a forceful effort, a ’crack’ was heard as another crack appeared on the eggshell.

At the same time, the surrounding temperature dropped a bit.

Er Dan initially wanted to continue with its efforts, but the temperature drop had a significant impact on it.

Just when it had gathered all its strength to brokenshell, it suddenly lost some momentum, as if something was preventing its full release.

This subtle change instantly caught Yun Ran’s attention.

If, initially upon entering, seeing the cracked eggshell and the change in temperature was a coincidence.

Then the same scenario now was definitely not a coincidence.

The temperature dropped a bit, and the foul odor in the air seemed to thin out as well.

Only the odor around her remained the same, and Yun Ran finally realized the smell was coming from her.

Yun Ran instantly broke down.

She never thought that just meditating here would leave her covered in so much odor.

"Yuck..."

Yun Ran felt utterly distressed.

Unfortunately, there was no exposed water source nearby, and she couldn’t easily leave Er Dan’s side now either.

So she had to make a decision against her conscience, continuing with her stench.

She sealed her sense of smell, thinking that as long as she couldn’t smell it, it was fine, and other beings simply had bad luck.

Having dealt with the foul smell issue, Yun Ran then focused on Er Dan.

Although most of her attention just now was on the smell, it didn’t mean she wasn’t mindful of Er Dan.

When the eggshell cracked, Yun Ran distinctly felt the difference in Er Dan’s liveliness.

After observing Er Dan carefully, Yun Ran finally noticed something unusual.

"So, you need to utilize the high temperature here to break your shell, and because you are inherently an extraordinary being, you must endure the attack of Heavenly Thunder to hatch.

You also have to bear the force originally suppressing you, and if the temperature drops before you break the shell,

you might die in the eggshell from a failed hatching?"

This suspicion made Yun Ran even more frantic.

No one had told her that eggs could have difficult births, and she had never assisted in egg hatching.

Seeing Er Dan now motionless, and the surrounding aura subtly changed from earlier.

Yun Ran anxiously paced back and forth, muttering to herself, "I’m doomed, this is beyond my knowledge."

The thunderclouds in the sky accumulated thicker and thicker, even though the Heavenly Thunder had not yet descended, the hair on Yun Ran’s body tingled with fright.

If Er Dan used all its strength to break the shell, even if it succeeded, it would be extremely weak.

Even if she withstood most of the Heavenly Tribulation, the remaining aftershocks would be enough to finish Er Dan.

Yun Ran grew increasingly anxious, but her urgency only made her calmer.