Beast Taming: I gained the talent of a spirit pet.

Chapter 357 Dragon Loach Upgrades!

At this time, the little loach was already over six feet long, with a smooth and shiny golden body, every scale shimmering, and its two whiskers were three feet long.

Its body also features faint gray-black patterns, giving it a rather mysterious appearance.

After they emerged, a faint but powerful pressure spread out, significantly stronger than before.

Furthermore, the aura emanating from the little loach had become much stronger. Gu Yuan suspected that if he hadn't subdued it, he might be able to defeat the dragon loach now, but he would definitely not be able to capture and tame it.

Gu Yuan opened the pet system, and sure enough, the dragon loach had now reached maturity.

【Golden Loach】

Introduction: A spirit loach possessing true dragon bloodline, it has lived for thousands of years. Its dragon blood is abundant, and due to this bloodline, its innate talents have undergone abnormal changes. While not particularly outstanding in attack or defense, it possesses an extremely strong ability to escape. Evolving to the "Blood-Patterned Dragon Loach King" requires reaching a mature dragon loach form and consuming 155000 Dao Points!
Status: Poisoned (weak)
Stage: Mature (Upgradeable)

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Under normal circumstances, this loach would have nowhere left to go.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, as its lifespan comes to an end, it will gradually grow old and eventually become a dead mudfish.

However, because it became Gu Yuan's spirit pet, things are different now; it can now be upgraded to the Blood-Patterned Dragon King, a higher-ranking creature.

It was precisely because of this incident that Gu Yuan did not go to Beiliang County.

The dragon loach is a gold-tier spirit pet. It is unknown what kind of innate abilities the upgraded Blood-Patterned Dragon Loach King will possess.

But it must be incredibly powerful.

Gu Yuan only hoped that the Blood-Patterned Dragon King's innate supernatural power would be of great use to him, preferably being a direct descendant of the Boundless Spirit Escape supernatural power.

In this way, even if he is targeted by the Fire Entropy Ancestor again, he will have enough confidence.

In fact, Gu Yuan had already tasted the benefits of the Boundless Spirit Escape. If it weren't for this supernatural ability, the outcome might have been very different.

However, he can't say for sure what kind of supernatural power it is; we'll have to wait and see what the Blood-Patterned Dragon King does next.

Then, a thought struck Gu Yuan:
[Consume 155000 Dao Points to evolve the Dragon Loach into the Blood-Patterned Dragon Loach King. Confirm/Decline?]

Gu Yuan readily agreed: "Confirmed!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than 150,000 of the 400,000 Dao Rhyme Points accumulated on Gu Yuan's attribute panel disappeared in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, a dense white light, even mixed with wisps of purple radiance, enveloped the entire body of the dragon loach.

The white light was pure and clean, full of vitality.

As for the very few purple lights, they exuded a mysterious and noble aura, as if they came from ancient times, and seemed to be even more sublime than the white lights.

Under the glow of these lights, the dragon loach's body began to tremble violently, twisting and rolling on the ground, spitting out bubbles as if it were enduring some kind of pain.

In fact, even if a spirit beast of the dragon-like level leaves the water, it will be perfectly fine.

However, after thinking about it, Gu Yuan took it to a nearby large lake and threw it into the water.

The little loach went into the water, shook its tail, and seemed to feel a little better.

"Besides the white light, what are these newly emerging purple lights?"

Gu Yuan naturally noticed the extra purple light that appeared after this upgrade.

In the past, there was no such purple light at all.

The appearance of this purple light now indicates what?
Gu Yuan wasn't sure yet. But one thing he was certain of was that the purple light was definitely related to the dragon-like spirit pet, a gold-tier creature, advancing to dark gold!

Because the dragon loach was the first spirit pet among Gu Yuan's raised beasts to advance to the dark gold rank.

Once you reach a certain level and want to advance, relying solely on those white lights is clearly not enough.

We still need this mysterious purple light...

Gu Yuan was mentally connected with Xiao Qiu at this moment and could clearly feel the changes and sensations in Xiao Qiu.

Furthermore, through his divine sense, he discovered that these purple lights gave him a peculiar feeling.

It also appears to be a kind of primordial energy of heaven and earth, but it exudes a mysterious and noble aura, far more profound and of a higher grade than ordinary primordial energy of heaven and earth.
"Could it be some kind of innate primordial energy?"

A certain guess formed in Gu Yuan's mind.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth is divided into the categories of acquired and innate.

Primordial Qi is formed from the chaotic Qi after the creation of the world in ancient times.

However, as time progressed to ancient times, that innate primordial energy became much scarcer.

Now, as time goes by, the primordial energy between heaven and earth has become increasingly thin.

Gu Yuan had heard of a certain saying.

To advance from Yang Shen to Yuan Shen, besides needing sufficient talent and a sufficiently stable and solid foundation, one also needs a certain amount of innate Yuan Qi; otherwise, it is impossible to advance to the Yuan Shen True Immortal realm.

Coincidentally, when these spirit beasts, such as the dragon loach, advanced to the dark gold grade, they also possessed the potential for a primordial spirit.

For example, Gu Yuan's spirit pet, Xiao Qing, will be upgraded to the Jade Sword Butterfly next.

The Jade Sword Butterfly is a renowned ancient and wondrous insect, and its mature form is at the level of a True Immortal.

Like the Blood-Patterned Dragon Loach King, the evolved version of the Jade Sword Butterfly, it is also a dark gold-grade spirit pet.

Thus, the situation is quite obvious.

This purple light must be some kind of innate energy, and the spirit pets that Gu Yuan raises will definitely also show this purple light when they upgrade to the dark gold grade.

At this moment, the transformation of the spirit pet, Little Loach, has reached a critical juncture.

As the white and purple light penetrated its body, its scales became incomplete and fell off rapidly. The golden scales also dimmed, and some of its flesh was torn apart by some twisted force, with streams of blood flowing out continuously.

However, these wounds healed quickly, but then broke open again in the next moment, and even some bones began to shatter.

Pieces of snow-white bone fragments were squeezed out of the flesh, bringing with them a stream of blood, and the dragon loach's body twisted and deformed as a result.

The little loach was in so much pain that it could no longer make any sounds, and it fell into a semi-comatose state.

Even Gu Yuan felt a chill run down his spine at the sight.

Because at this moment, he could also feel the dragon's sensations, such as soreness, numbness, swelling and pain, but fortunately he didn't have to experience them personally, so it wasn't that painful.

Even so, Gu Yuan felt a slight ache in his teeth.

However, Gu Yuan could also sense that a powerful force was brewing and transforming within the dragon loach's body!
The blood flowed into the water, and because it contained dragon blood, it quickly attracted fish, shrimp, crabs, and turtles, who rushed towards it in a frenzy.

(End of this chapter)