The spot on the eggshell where raindrops fell instantly turned black.

Following this, the small life within the egg began to lose vitality, deflating like a punctured ball, and the decline was extremely rapid.

Seeing this, Su Mu looked up at the sky and found that the rain had stopped.

This rain... is the same as the river water.

Su Mu realized something, and holding the bird egg, went to the riverside, waved his hand, and a drop of water gathered at his fingertip. When it dropped onto the eggshell again, he noticed another black spot, and the vitality faded even faster.

At this moment, Su Mu realized that the small life in the bird egg was already dead. The previously displayed vitality was just an illusion.

Could it... have just died like this?

Su Mu had promised to take good care of it for those few Fire Cloud Sparrows, but now, it had died as soon as he brought it back. This made Su Mu inexplicably uncomfortable.

To prevent further decline of vitality, Su Mu waved his hand grandly, using the Water Control Divine Technique, he lifted some river water to encapsulate the bird egg.

Solidification!

With a grip of his hand, the river water solidified into ice, encapsulating the bird egg within.

Soon, the rapidly declining vitality within the bird egg froze as well.

The ice seal was just a temporary measure to stop the decline of its vitality, but could not change the fact that it was already dead.

At this moment, Su Mu thought of something, holding the ice-encased bird egg, he returned to the courtyard and asked Nannan, "Nannan, you just said... you heard this little guy calling for help?"

For if the small life in the bird egg was already dead, why would it call for help from Nannan?

Hearing this, Nannan nodded and said, "Yes, I heard its voice. Although it seems dead... but it doesn't seem completely dead... I can't say clearly."

Nannan, at this moment, couldn't define the state of the small life within the bird egg.

However, she knew that if no solution was found, it definitely couldn't hatch.

Su Mu fell into deep thought.

The signal for help could only mean one thing... that is, even though this small life had died, its consciousness had not completely dissipated.

The physical soul and everything were dead, but the consciousness lingered for a long time...

This also touched upon Su Mu's knowledge blind spot. Logically, the small life in the egg had not been born and had not come in contact with cultivation.

Theoretically, its consciousness should be very weak.

For truly strong individuals, even if their physical soul is killed, as long as their consciousness is not eradicated, they are not truly dead.

For example, with Su Mu's current cultivation realm at Celestial Immortal Perfection Realm, it would be difficult for others to kill his consciousness.

But... this small life is different, it hasn't even been born, where would it get such a strong consciousness?

Could it be... its survival instinct?

How strong of a survival instinct would it take for its consciousness to linger for so long!

...

Looking at the bird egg in the ice, Su Mu's heart was also moved.

It just wants to survive; it has done nothing wrong. The survival instinct of a life is something to be respected, it is the greatest thing in life, and also the most inexplicable thing.

For this small life, when a survival instinct reaches a certain degree, it can even temporarily surpass death!

Therefore...this small life is truly miraculous.

At this moment, Su Mu was deeply moved, and he was determined to bring it back to life.

At this time, Su Mu attempted to see if he could use Favor Points to heal it.

[No vitality detected, this creature is dead, and with the host's current River Affinity, it's temporarily impossible to use Favor Points for resurrection.]

Indeed, at least a trace of vitality is needed, even if it's just hanging by a thread, for Su Mu to use Favor Points to bring it back.

This is why Su Mu always instructs Little Black Dragon and the others, no matter what happens, they must come back alive, even if they are hanging by a single breath, they need to drag themselves before him.

However, from this system prompt, Su Mu also discovered a problem.

According to the system's wording, could it be that... when his River Affinity reaches a certain level, even if the creatures are dead, they can be resurrected?

After all, life and death reincarnation is the only law between heaven and earth that all creatures cannot escape from, no matter how long they live, countless epochs, even when the heavens collapse, even living as long as heaven and earth, eventually they will die.

Because the heavens and the earth will also die, it's just because not enough time has passed without death.

The term "immortality" might be a supreme synonym.

The concept of "immortality" is so vague, different people have different definitions.

Some people live hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, seemingly "immortal," but what if it's a billion years, a time so long that even the laws of heaven decay?

They all die.

Therefore, upon close observation, it's found that countless creatures seek cultivation with the aim of "longevity," and not "immortality."

"Longevity" is "longevity," "immortality" is "immortality," these are two completely different concepts.

So, does anyone really achieve "immortality" in the truest sense? No one knows.

"Death" is the greatest obstacle to "immortality."

If someone overcomes "death," able to resurrect continuously, could that be considered a form of "immortality"?

So... this statement from the system greatly shocked Su Mu.

....

It seems that it's not possible to save it now.

Fortunately, it's sealed in ice, preventing the dissipation of consciousness.

He can only wait until his affinity is raised to a certain level, and then find a way to bring it back to life.

Su Mu put the ice block away into his Dantian Space.

Let's first process the recently cut tree.

....

To facilitate work, Su Mu changed into light clothes, rolled up his sleeves, and started making various furniture from the wood.

The Golden Nan Wood, after being cut down, wasn't as strong as when it was growing, yet even so, only the Silver Dagger could cut it.

Thus, with limited tools, efficiency wasn't high.

It took a full three hours to finally make the benches and chairs, wiped the sweat off his forehead, it was very exhausting.

Then it took another two hours to make a wooden door, a set of wooden railings, fencing around the stone house.

After completing all these, he used less than a tenth of the wood, because this tree was simply too large to finish.

Su Mu looked at the large tree in front of him, rubbing his chin, contemplating... so much left, what should I make with it?

Can't waste it, right?

It took a great deal of effort to bring it back.

Suddenly, Su Mu thought of something, his eyes lit up, got it!

........

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