Beast Taming: Sharing Pets' Abilities-Chapter 357 - 356: Dragon Loach Upgrade!

At this moment, the small loach had grown over six feet long, with a sleek golden body, each scale sparkling, and its two whiskers extending three feet in length.

On its body, there were some faint gray-black patterns, giving it a mysterious look,

and upon its emergence, a faint pressure began to spread, significantly stronger than before.

And now, the small loach’s aura was much more intense; Gu Yuan suspected that if he hadn’t tamed it, he might be able to defeat this Dragon Loach in combat, but he definitely wouldn’t be able to capture and tame it.

Gu Yuan opened the Spirit Pet System, and sure enough, this Dragon Loach had now reached its mature stage.

[Dragon Loach (Golden)]

Description: A type of spirit loach possessing True Dragon Bloodline, having lived for thousands of years. Its dragon bloodline is rich, causing its innate talent to undergo abnormal changes. Although not particularly outstanding in offense or defense, it possesses an extremely strong escape talent. Evolving to the "Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King" requires it to mature as a Dragon Loach and consume 155,000 Dao Rhyme Points!

Status: Poisoned (Mild)

Phase: Mature Stage (Upgradeable)

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Under normal circumstances, this Dragon Loach had reached its limit.

As long as nothing unexpected happened, it would gradually age as its life span depleted, ultimately becoming a dead loach.

However, due to becoming Gu Yuan’s spirit pet, things were different now, as it could already upgrade to a higher grade Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King.

This was the very reason Gu Yuan hadn’t traveled to Beiliang County.

The Dragon Loach was a Golden Tier spirit pet; who knows what kind of innate divine techniques the upgraded Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King would possess.

But they would surely be quite formidable.

Gu Yuan hoped that the Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King’s innate divine techniques would be extremely useful to him, ideally aligned with the Eternal Spirit Escape technique.

That way, even if targeted again by the Fire Entropy Ancestor, he would have enough confidence.

In fact, Gu Yuan had already tasted the benefits of the Eternal Spirit Escape; without this technique, the outcome might truly have been completely different earlier.

However, what divine technique it will ultimately be was not up to him to decide; it depended on the forthcoming Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King.

Thus, Gu Yuan moved his mind:

[Consume 155,000 Dao Rhyme Points to evolve the Dragon Loach into the Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King, Confirm/Reject?]

Gu Yuan decisively agreed: "Confirm!"

As soon as he spoke, more than 150,000 of the over 400,000 accumulated Dao Rhyme Points on Gu Yuan’s attribute panel disappeared.

Immediately, a dense white light, even interwoven with strands of purple brilliance, enveloped the entire body of the Dragon Loach.

That white light was pure and clean, filled with a vibrant aura.

As for those rare streaks of purple brilliance, they exuded an aura both mysterious and noble, as if from the ancient era, seemingly even more profound than the white light.

Under the shroud of these lights, the Dragon Loach’s body began to tremble violently, writhing and rolling on the ground, bubbles spewing from its mouth, as if enduring some kind of pain.

In truth, at the level of a spirit beast like the Dragon Loach, even removed from water, it wouldn’t generally suffer.

However, Gu Yuan pondered and still brought it to the nearby large lake, tossing it into the water.

The small loach, upon entering the water, gave a flick of its tail and obviously felt somewhat better.

"Aside from the white light, what is that new purple light?"

Naturally, Gu Yuan also noticed the additional purple light emerging from this upgrade.

Previously, there was no trace of such purple light.

Its current appearance, what does it indicate?

Gu Yuan wasn’t sure at the moment.

But one thing he could confirm, the emergence of this purple light was definitely related to the Dragon Loach, a Golden Tier spirit pet, advancing to Dark Gold.

Because the Dragon Loach was the first spirit pet under Gu Yuan’s care to ascend to Dark Gold Tier.

At a certain tier, wanting to ascend relied merely on the white light, which appeared insufficient.

This mysterious purple light was indeed required...

Gu Yuan, closely connected with the little loach at this time, could distinctly sense the changes occurring in its body and various sensations.

Through divine thought exploration, he also discovered that these purple lights imparted a special feeling to him.

It seemed to be a type of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, but emitted an aura both mysterious and noble, more profound than ordinary Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, with a higher grade,

"Could it be some kind of Innate Primordial Qi?"

A speculation emerged in Gu Yuan’s mind.

Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi is categorized into Postnatal and Innate.

Innate Primordial Qi originated in ancient times, formed after the opening of the universe from Chaos Qi.

However, as time shifted to the ancient era, those Innate Primordial Qi became much more scarce.

With the passage of time until now, the Innate Primordial Qi within heaven and earth has grown increasingly sparse.

Gu Yuan had heard a theory.

For a Yang Spirit to ascend to the Primordial Spirit Realm, apart from possessing enough talent, a stable and robust foundation, it also required a certain amount of Innate Primordial Qi; otherwise, advancement to the Primordial Spirit True Immortal Realm would be impossible.

Coincidentally, when spirit beasts like the Dragon Loach ascended to the Dark Gold Tier, they also gained Potential for a Primordial Spirit.

For example, Gu Yuan’s spirit pet Little Qing, its next step is to upgrade into a Cyan Jade Sword Butterfly.

The Cyan Jade Sword Butterfly is a renowned ancient exotic insect in the world, and its mature form is at the Primordial Spirit True Immortal Level.

Just as with the evolutionary version of the Dragon Loach, the Blood-pattern Dragon Loach King, they are both spirit pets of Dark Gold Tier.

Thus, the situation is evident.

This purple light is undoubtedly some kind of Innate Primordial Qi, and for the spirit pets Gu Yuan keeps, this purple light will definitely appear when upgrading to the Dark Gold Tier.

At this moment, the transformation of the little loach reached a critical stage.

As white and purple light permeated its body, its scales became incomplete and quickly fell off, the golden scales dimmed, portions of its skin and flesh were torn by some twisting force, with blood flowing constantly.

However, these wounds healed swiftly, only to fracture the next moment; even some bones began to break.

Pieces of snow-white bone fragments squeezed out from the flesh, mixed with a stream of blood, as the Dragon Loach’s body twisted and contorted.

The little loach, overwhelmed with pain, which used to make chirping sounds, now completely muted, fell into a semi-conscious state.

Facing this scene, even Gu Yuan felt his mouth twitch; an eerie chill crept upon his heart.

Because he could sense the feelings of the Dragon Loach, such as soreness and swelling pain, though he didn’t have to experience it firsthand, it wasn’t so torturous.

Even so, Gu Yuan still found it somewhat nerve-wracking.

Yet Gu Yuan could sense within the Dragon Loach, a powerful force was brewing and transforming!

And as the blood flowed into the water, due to the contained Dragon Blood, it quickly attracted fish, shrimps, crabs, and turtles, each appearing frenzied, racing towards it.