The Gale Sparrow had already found the location of the ze Smander nest, so there was no need for Lin Fan to waste his time looking for it.


    However, because he did take this detour to Xiao Bai''s nest, he was quite far from the ze Smander''s nest now.


    Xiao Bai, that was what he chose to name the White Tiger cub.


    Still, that was nothing when it came to Hi''s speed, so Lin Fan was able to reach it after half an hour.


    When he came up on the ze Smander''s nest, the first thing that he did was start looking around the area. He knew where the ze Smander was, but that didn''t mean that he wanted to directly attack it even if he could win since the ze Smander was only in the Third Qi Gathering Realm.


    Instead of wasting his energy, it was better to see if there was a good ce to trap the ze Smander in the surrounding area and then take it out in a single blow.


    Luckily for him, there was such a ce and it was quite near the ze Smander''s nest.


    So he quickly set up the trap before bringing out the bait.


    He didn''t know why, but for some reason, the spirit beasts out in the wild really liked chasing the Gale Sparrow. It had been the case of the Inferno Swans and many other spirit beasts. This ze Smander wasn''t an exception.


    So Lin Fan released the Gale Sparrow to draw out the ze Smander while he waited behind a bush for it toe out.


    It didn''t take long before he felt the thudding on the ground that came from the heavy steps of the ze Smander. He looked over at Hayase who was on the other side and received a nod to show that he was also ready.


    The Gale Sparrow came into the clearing first, but it was closely followed behind by the ze Smander.


    But the moment that the Gale Sparrow flew into the clearing, it immediately flew up into the sky, out of the reach of the ze Smander.


    Of course, the ze Smander didn''t give up as it looked up at the sky at the Gale Sparrow. It threw its head back as its throat suddenly started to swell and as it swelled, there was a red colour that appeared on the skin around the neck.


    It was clear that it was gathering mes to shoot the Gale Sparrow down.


    However, this was exactly what Lin Fan was waiting for.


    He raised his hand that had a blue light around it and after a few seconds, there was an ice wall that suddenly appeared in the air above the ze Smander. It appeared right in between the ze Smander and the Gale Sparrow.


    The ze Smander didn''t have a chance to stop itself from releasing its me breath, so it shot it right at the ice wall.


    However, when it touched the ice wall, it waspletely absorbed.


    Then after a few seconds, with a blue glow, there were blue mes that rained down on the ze Smander.


    The ze Smander was shocked by this and quickly released another breath of mes to counter these mes, but it found that these blue mes were actually stronger than its me breath. So it released even more mes from its mouth to counter the blue mes.


    It was at this moment that Hayase suddenly released the de of water that he had been condensing the entire time.


    With the ze Smander distracted by the blue mes that were raining down on it, it wasn''t able to react in time to the de of water that suddenly flew out.


    The de of water was unimpeded as it flew through the air, flying right through the ze Smander''s neck, bringing a streak of blood that flew through the air.


    Then without any pause, there was a line of blood that formed on the ze Smander''s neck before its head suddenly separated itself from the rest of its body. It slid off the neck before dropping to the ground with a ssh of blood.


    The blue mes that had been above it suddenlynded on the ze Smander''s corpse, but Lin Fan quickly extinguished those mes to not hurt the corpse and damage its value.


    Still, with both him and Hayase working together, this was almost too easy for them.


    Lin Fan didn''t waste any time as he put the ze Smander''s corpse into the Pet Storage Space before quickly clearing out of this area.


    Even if he had finished off the ze Smander in a single blow, all the mes that it had shot out had made quite a bit of noise and put on quite the attraction, so it was better to get out of here as soon as possible before other things showed up.


    But Lin Fan didn''t head back to the city right away, instead he went to the ze Smander''s nest. After all, this was the nest of a Third Qi Gathering Realm spirit beast, there should be some valuable things in there.


    As it turned out, Lin Fan wasn''t disappointed by what he found.


    At first it seemed like there was nothing, but then he saw that there were some mushrooms that were growing on the walls.


    They seemed to like normal mushrooms to him at first, but then he used his Appraisal Eyes to find that these were mushrooms that contained a strong concentration of elemental fire energy. These were mushrooms that could be used to refine pills or help with the cultivation of fire attributed cultivation techniques, so they would be worth quite a bit.


    Lin Fan didn''t hesitate at all as he harvested all these mushrooms and threw them all into the Pet Storage Space.


    Then he swept through the entire cave to see if there was anything else, but he wasn''t able to find anything at all.


    That was until the very end when he finally found a strange corner.


    It wasn''t strange because of the cave itself, but rather it was strange because there was a strange rock formation there. It was a kind of rock formation that didn''t seem like it belonged there, it was a kind of rock formation that seemed like it was man made.


    Lin Fan couldn''t help being curious about this, so he started poking around with the rock formation. He slowly pulled out one rock after another from the formation until he revealed what was behind it.


    As soon as the treasure that he found was revealed, his eyes popped out and his mouth couldn''t close.


    What had been revealed was a very simple and smooth stone, but it was something that Lin Fan recognized because he had already seen a picture of this before.


    While it looked like a stone, it was anything but a stone…


    It was an egg…It was the egg that was supposed to be the final item in the One Martial Chamber of Commerce''s auction.


    This egg should be the most precious thing that was sold there and it should have been heavily guarded by whoever won it, so what was it doing here?


    Lin Fan was about to reach his hand towards the egg, but then he quickly pulled it back as he looked around his surroundings.


    After thinking about it for a bit, he still reached out and grabbed the egg.


    He had already disturbed the rock formation, so it was already toote for him to back out now.


    Without even thinking about it, he quickly put the egg into his Pet Storage Space and ran out of the ze Smander''s nest. He didn''t even think as he chose a random direction and started running into the forest.


    It was already toote, he had disturbed that formation and there should be people who would being to check it. He had to get out of here as quickly as possible.


    Only when he finally felt that he had gotten far enough away did he finally stop to process what had just happened.


    But no matter how he thought about it, the only thought that he had was that he was screwed.


    There was no other way around it, he was unlucky enough to get caught in this mess and now there was nothing that he could do about it. Even if he wanted to hide this fact, it wasn''t something that could be hidden forever…


    Even if he kept the pet egg inside of the Pet Storage Space, the pet egg would eventually hatch and it would be wrong just to force the pet to stay inside the Pet Storage Space forever. Even if there weren''t any animal crueltyws here, it went against Lin Fan''s conscience to do something like this.


    So the first thing that he had to figure out was just what to do with this egg…


    No, after thinking about it, he realized that there was something else that took priority.


    After hiding himself, Lin Fan called out the Gale Sparrow and released it to start checking the surrounding area.


    He didn''t know who would being after him, but it was better than getting caught off guard, so it was best to send out the Gale Sparrow to scout the surrounding area along with the ze Smander''s nest from earlier.


    However, not long after the Gale Sparrow left, it had quickly returned with information.


    It had found a group of people not far away, but half of this group was already dead.


    As for the other half that wasn''t dead, they were people that Lin Fan recognized. Well, there was only one person in that group that Lin Fan recognized from the Gale Sparrow''s description.


    It was Ye Tian Xie, the young master that Lin Fan had seen at the auction.