95: Chapter of Evolution

First-Tier Spirit Items: Five Fluorescent Grasses.

Second-Tier Spirit Items: mo yu mine, Dark Spirit Sand.

Third-Tier Spirit Items: Starry Night Vine branches and leaves.

These were all the materials needed for the Dawn Bird's evolution.

Fluorescent Grass, as its name suggests, emits a faint glow from its branches and leaves, making it quite beautiful to behold.

However, this plant is very common, found everywhere in the lightless secret realms of the Dark Abyss, which is why it was rated as a First-Tier Spirit Item.

Luo Chen’s spiritual power covered the five Fluorescent Grasses, then extracted all the fluorescence from their plants.

The gathered fluorescence formed a tiny nebula. Luo Chen's spiritual power then spread this fluorescence into a thin, light veil, covering the Dawn Bird's body with it.

The Starry Night Vine itself is a Desolate Beast. If its trunk were used, it would naturally be classified as a Fourth-Tier Spirit Item, but its branches and leaves are a tier lower, only qualifying as a Third-Tier Spirit Item.

Luo Chen refined the Starry Night Vine's branches and leaves into a liquid State and had the Dawn Bird drink it all.

Finally, the two Types of ores were ground into a sandy consistency by Luo Chen, then mixed and used to draw a complex and strange pattern on the ground.

Luo Chen had the Dawn Bird stand in the very center of the pattern, as if performing some ancient ritual.

The pattern was activated by Luo Chen, and a pitch-black, ink-like shadow spread upwards from the pattern beneath the Dawn Bird's feet, completely enveloping it.

The true evolution process had begun.

The evolution process was not very fast; after all, transitioning from light to darkness required slowly transforming the Dawn Bird's body.

While waiting, Luo Chen turned his attention to the other two avian beasts.

He pointed a finger, “Bring me that Azure-backed White-bellied Cloud Crane.”

The Starlight Stone Spirit complied.

Luo Chen hadn't originally planned to evolve the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane, because it had already evolved from a Fierce Beast-level Cloud Crane.

Further evolution could only lead to a King-Ranked Beast, which would go against his initial intention of evolving a beast for Luo Yang. However, the shop did indeed lack a mount for transportation.

Even before its evolution, this Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane was the most suitable means of transport, and Luo Chen was very much looking forward to its performance after evolution.

race: Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane

Rank: Spirit Beast Nine Stars

Type: Wind-type, Water Type

State: Aloof and Self-possessed.

Aptitude: Ordinary

Skills: 1. Azure Cloud (Profound-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane summons a two-square-meter azure cloud that can carry people and objects, ascending to the sky.

2. Windbreak Shield (Yellow-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane creates a windbreak shield for the target to resist oncoming wind currents.

3. Cloud Rain (Profound-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane summons an azure cloud in the target area, bringing a shower of rain.

4. Wind Blade (Yellow-tier): Summons a Wind Blade to attack the target.

5. Great Wind Blow (Profound-tier): Summons a gust of strong wind to attack the target.

Aside from having a Skill that could serve as a mount or for transporting goods, its other performances among Spirit Beasts could only be described as unremarkable.

Therefore, Luo Chen had no intention of considering it as a candidate for Luo Yang's second beast; it should be quite good as a means of transport for the shop in the future.

Second-Tier Spirit Items: Wind and Rain Grass, Clear Water Lotus Leaf.

Third-Tier Spirit Items: Azure Ray King's meat.

Its evolution process was relatively simpler: it involved making a delicious meal for it using the Azure Ray King's meat along with those two materials.

Back then, when Luo Chen first saw this method of evolution, he was stunned for a long time.

He wondered which little genius discovered such an eccentric evolution method; it was truly quite unexpected.

But it definitely wouldn't be someone from Earth Star; he had certainly never seen an evolved form of the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane in Huaguo.

This evolution method, while seemingly simple, was not entirely so; the timing and quantity of added materials had strict requirements.

Otherwise, it could easily lead to a failed evolution.

Half an hour later, Luo Chen smelled the fragrant Azure Ray King fish soup in the pot and almost couldn't resist serving himself a portion to enjoy.

He placed it in front of the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane, signaling that it could now enjoy its meal.

Although its demeanor still appeared reserved and self-possessed, Luo Chen had already seen from its information that its State had changed to 'eager'.

However, its entire eating process was still very elegant, like a noble gentleman who had received excellent upbringing.

Soon, the entire pot of fish meat was in its stomach, and its eyes narrowed slightly, as if savoring the delicious taste, or perhaps falling into the drowsiness that follows a full meal.

Originally, it was only up to Luo Chen's waist in height, but it was growing rapidly. Within a few minutes, it became a head taller than Luo Chen.

The feathers on its back were all turning white, leaving only azure streaks like smoke, tracing across its back.

When it moved, the azure streaks on its back would flow like smoke, appearing very vivid.

race: Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane

Rank: King Beast One Star

Type: Wind-type, Water Type

State: Satiated

Aptitude: Good

Skills: 1. Azure Cloud (Earth-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane condenses an azure cloud within one hundred square meters. This azure cloud can change its form at will and, once condensed for the first time, can exist indefinitely in the external world.

2. Windbreak Shield (Profound-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane creates a windbreak shield for the target, resisting oncoming air currents.

3. Cloud Rain (Profound-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane summons an azure cloud in the target area, bringing rain.

4. Gale Blade Swirl (Earth-tier): Within the violent wind, Wind Blades with even more terrifying cutting power are hidden.

5. Azure Mist (Profound-tier): Wisping azure mist can block the prying of detection-Type Skills.

6. Extreme Speed Flowing Cloud (Earth-tier): The Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane greatly increases its own speed and the speed of the azure cloud, and when encountering obstacles, it can disperse like a flowing cloud and re-converge.

Evolution Path: Not yet unlocked.

Luo Chen looked at the current information of the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane. It was still not suitable as a combat-Type beast; its offensive Skills were too singular.

However, as a delivery person, it seemed quite good.

Although the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane was not his own beast, even a King Beast could not fully understand human intentions at present.

However, this problem did not stump Luo Chen at all. He brought the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch from the Qingyou Secret Realm to the Stone Spirit Secret Realm.

After promising five catties of Spirit Beast meat, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch agreed to act as a translator.

He had the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane display its Azure Cloud to its maximum extent. The azure clouds spread out about three or four meters above the ground. To Luo Chen, the Azure Cloud was like a cloud island on land.

Luo Chen even went up to feel the hardness of the Azure Cloud. It was soft underfoot, yet very solid, and there was no situation where it would fail to provide a stable footing and cause one to fall, as he might have imagined.

Intending to measure the Azure Cloud's maximum carrying capacity, Luo Chen had the Starlight Stone Spirit, which was nearly a hundred meters tall and weighed several hundred tons, stand on it.

It must be said that this was an Earth-tier Skill; even with a 'colossus' like the Starlight Stone Spirit standing on it, the Azure Cloud showed no signs of breaking.

Luo Chen had the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane control the Azure Cloud to rise, and simultaneously deploy Extreme Speed Flowing Cloud, all without any problems.

After such measurements, Luo Chen decided to assign the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane the role of the shop's mount and cargo vehicle, under the jurisdiction of the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch.

Although on the surface, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch appeared to be a major realm lower than the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane, in the near future, this would not be an issue.

Furthermore, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch was currently under a seal. Luo Chen estimated that this fellow must have been a Desolate Beast or Star Beast originally.

Otherwise, it wouldn't justify its arrogant attitude when he first met it.

Just as the Azure Cloud Skill of the Azure Smoke Flowing Cloud Crane was tested, the dark shadow, like a curtain, covering the Dawn Bird also gradually receded on the other side.

It seemed the Dawn Bird's evolution process had finally ended.