Back at the Bluefang Garden, Oasis mused, "I've gained a lot of things in Tir na Nog, and I haven't checked most of them yet."
His thoughts lingered on the egg Azael had given him.
"From the look of things, I was supposed to have already hatched it by now since Aya's has already hatched."
After a lot of calculations, Oasis took out the token of the Bluefang Garden and activated the array, securing the garden from outside interference.
He then took out the egg and placed it in a big round tray filled with flowers.
"So what now?" he thought. Without wasting time, he injected some of his mana into the egg.
As his mana flowed into the egg, it began to shimmer and emit a faint glow, as if it had been dormant but was now being revived.
"Wow, I can feel movements as if it was dead but now suddenly revived," Oasis thought as he felt something stirring inside the egg.
After a few minutes, he realized the egg was no longer absorbing his mana.
"Huh, what happened? Is it full for now?" Oasis wondered. "I will leave it here for now," he decided, moving away from the egg.
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"Wait, Azael said I must also give it a drop of blood essence until it hatches," Oasis remembered, returning to the egg.
Without wasting time, he squeezed out a drop of his blood essence and let it fall onto the egg.
The blood essence was absorbed instantly, and the egg glowed brighter for a moment before returning to its previous state.
"Wow, I wonder how long it will take to hatch. It has already been delayed by many years,"
Oasis thought as he walked toward a big spring behind his main residence in the garden, leaving the egg behind in the tray.
The spring had a lot of concentrated mana, and around it were flowers that seemed to be constantly absorbing mana from the surroundings.
"Interesting," Oasis thought.
"What will happen if I put the fire mana stones I have inside the spring?" But he decided, "I need to at least get other stones for other affinities to balance everything."
After looking around the spring, Oasis thought about how he could increase the concentrated mana and make it his cultivating paradise.
He already had a lot of fire mana stones and thought of finding or buying other affinity stones to balance the mana in the spring.
Mana stones contained a lot of concentrated mana naturally, and most if not all cultivators used them to cultivate.
Oasis also had normal mana stones in his storage bracelet.
In addition to that after searching through the storage bracelets he got from the people he had killed in Tir na Nog,
he found that some had a lot of mana stones and artifacts, which he planned to sell, especially the storage bracelet he got from the cultivators from the Starfall Consortium.
After spending time in the garden, Oasis realized noon was approaching.
He went back to his living area in the main building and without wasting time sorted out his treasures,
organizing them by grade and placing some in the vault, including the Salamander Heart Lotus.
He sorted the mana stones into their own storage bracelets, artifacts he wanted to sell into another, and his personal belongings into the bracelet he wore on his wrist.
He carefully placed his scrolls and technique manuals on a shelf in his mini library.
"Phew, finally done," he thought, relieved.
"Now I have to go and see Sister Marina. And I also have to do something about this hair," he thought as he left the building and headed toward the small bridge, leaving the garden to see his sister.
Marina was working hard and had improved her cultivation, eager to become an alchemist in the Consano Guild.
She was treated specially due to her amazing skills and was always busy working and focusing on improving.
The rumors about the disciples returning had already reached her, but she didn't go to check on Oasis as she was informed he was still resting.
Lunalith was bustling with activity, filled with both young and adult disciples. Oasis walked through the city's streets, seeing new faces.
Most people had heard about him but had never seen him, so to most, he was just an ordinary person going about his business.
"Ah, young man, we need to do something about your hair," a man called out to Oasis as he passed near a building in the city.
"Come here, lad," the man called out.
Politely, Oasis went to him.
In Lunalith, there were all kinds of people, and it it was the reason why, Oasis didn't stand out due to his skin color, just like in the academy.
The man calling out to Oasis was a beastman.
"Lad, I am Nacho, and as you can see, I cut hair," he said.
"Sit, lad, let me help you out quickly."
Oasis just went with the flow, nodding and taking a seat as Nacho began to cut his hair with precision.
"Lad, I like your hair, it's curly," Nacho said.
"I can see you are already a handsome young man, but this king is going to make you super handsome."
Nacho expertly used a pair of razor blades to cut Oasis's hair, making sure every strand was in place.
Nacho took a few minutes to expertly cut Oasis's hair.
With a faded haircut and short-medium length curls, Oasis liked the transformation. He handed Nacho a gold coin.
"Fret not, kid. It's on me," Nacho said with a smile, refusing Oasis's coin.
Oasis left the place, waving goodbye to Nacho. A few steps later, he reached the Consano Association.
In the bustling Consano Association in Lunalith, filled with more disciples and alchemists, the moment he stepped inside,
Marina wrapped her arms around him, tears of joy streaming down her face.
"Oh, my boy, you have grown," Marina exclaimed, her voice filled with emotion.
"Ah, sister, that's kind of embarrassing," Oasis responded, clearly shy as he tried to squeeze himself out of the hug.