Lin Shiming''s interest surged upon seeing such a spiritually intelligent egg for the first time.

Meanwhile, Lin Xianzhi''s divine sense had also detected the existence of the snake egg, and his face showed sheer delight.

However, he made no move; in his opinion, whether it was a matter of credit or potential, these things were better suited for Lin Shiming.

"Shiming, go and retrieve those items!" Lin Xianzhi said.

Lin Shiming didn''t hesitate. He opened the Spirit Shield and then transformed into an Escape Light, heading towards the depths of the swamp. He quickly reached the cave dwelling and saw the giant egg.

The giant egg was still emitting a resistant divine sense fluctuation, but Lin Shiming was no longer indulging it at this moment.

With a casual wave of his hand, he collected the snake egg into his Cave Heaven World.

He also carefully transplanted the Dragon Blood Grass. Half of it he placed into a Jade Box for safekeeping, and the other half, he planted in the Spirit Soil within the Cave Heaven World, right next to where he placed the snake egg.

Previously planting Dragon Blood Grass was nothing more than a pipe dream without the presence of dragon vein energies. However, with this egg seemingly reverting to its ancestral state and possessing some dragon bloodline, planting Dragon Blood Grass shouldn''t be a problem.

As Lin Shiming was planting the grass, the Red-haired Demon Monkey hopped over curiously and even tried to dig out the snake egg with its arms.

After a stern glare and a harsh warning from Lin Shiming, it scratched its head and scampered off to the side.

With the spirit egg settled, Lin Shiming arranged a Nurturing Spirit Formation.

This Nurturing Spirit Formation was more complex than the one he used for nurturing the Golden Winged Mantis. He found it in the introductory guide to Beast Taming at the Spirit Beast Sect, and it could also speed up the catalyzation of the spirit egg. However, it also required a significant amount of Third Rank Spirit Water.

As Lin Shiming poured in the Spirit Water, he also took out three Superior Grade Spirit Stones and placed them to the side.

After finishing, Lin Shiming forcefully condensed a Blood Covenant.

Now that the snake egg had developed partial consciousness, Lin Shiming wasn''t going to wait until it hatched to set up the Spirit Contract.

If the serpent were already mighty upon hatching, that would be a huge loss.

To his surprise, as he attempted the more domineering Spirit Contract from the Beast Taming details of the Spirit Beast Sect, the snake egg began to exude Spirit Light, which pushed out his essence blood and caused the Spirit Contract to fail.

Lin Shiming felt an immediate headache, as this phenomenon was not entirely unexpected. In the Beast Taming details from the Spirit Beast Sect, it was recorded that some powerful Spirit Beasts have a protective formation akin to a family spirit book by nature.

If establishing a Blood Covenant, one cannot simply have a one-sided Binding Contract.

The biggest advantage of a Binding Contract, as used with the Golden Winged Mantis and the Red-haired Demon Monkey, was that Lin Shiming could control the Spirit Beasts to die for him, and they could not resist.

In this operation, whether it was the map or the effort, Lin Shiming contributed the most, so naturally, there were no issues, especially since he was using Contribution Points to make the exchange.

Of course, Lin Shiming''s family Contribution Points were already the most abundant.

The Lin Family members were more concerned about the cultivator''s cave abode.

That was, after all, what the Lin Family had been anticipating the most on this trip.

"Shiming, let''s go check out the cave abode!" Lin Xianzhi spoke again.

Lin Shiming nodded, and then everyone headed toward the cave abode.

The Spirit Formation originally located at the cave abode was clearly ancient. Lin Shiyun quickly found a weak spot in the Formation, which Lin Shiming then broke open with a single sword strike.

What was revealed was a stone cave three meters high, appearing extremely ancient, with simple murals carved on the walls that they had not seen before.

Lin Shiming summoned the Red-haired Demon Monkey and had it scout ahead, and then the group entered the depths of the cave abode.

"Is this a hall?" After a short while, Lin Shiming and the others reached the deepest part, but there was neither the inheritance nor treasures they imagined.

Instead, it was a hall constructed of some unknown materials.

The hall was covered with a thick layer of dust.

Lin Shiming cast a Wind Clearing spell to blow away the dust.

"This is a Transmission Formation!" Lin Xianzhi suddenly exclaimed.

At this remark, all the members of the Lin Family turned their gaze to Lin Xianzhi.

All the cultivators of the Lin Family had heard of Transmission Formations, but had never seen one. It was known that even the Zhao Kingdom did not have a Transmission Formation; first, because the formation material, Void Nether Crystal, could not be found, and second, because the method of laying out the Transmission Formation had been lost.

In the entire Cultivation World, only the method for creating Teleportation Talismans was still passed down, proving the past existence of Transmission Formations.

"Great Uncle, there are several slots here, are these for placing Spirit Stones?" Lin Shiming walked up to a stone platform at one side and asked.

Lin Xianzhi nodded and then took out an Intermediate Grade Spirit Stone and placed it in the slot. A stream of Spirit Light flowed, but the next moment, the Spirit Stone fell out, failing to activate.

Then Lin Xianzhi took out a Superior Grade Spirit Stone, and only then did the slot emit a burst of blue light, causing the entire hall to gradually become brighter with a special luminescence.

However, because three or four slots were still empty without Spirit Stones, the transmission was not activated.

"It probably needs three Superior Grade Spirit Stones to activate," Lin Xianzhi declared.