Chapter 153

Liang Qu recalled the other two beasts searching for treasure fish on the boat; when all four beasts were present, he had them line up one by one beside the boat.

According to the Water Essence needed by the four beasts, he divided the two cockscomb fruits into four appropriately sized portions and fed them.

Things the size of a fingernail, the Fat Catfish, Bu Neng Dong, and Quan Tou swallowed them in one gulp, without even needing to chew.

A-Wei ate a bit slower, but it only took a few breaths to gnaw the fruit flesh clean.

Communicating with the Inside Ze Ding again, the opportunity arrived.

As Liang Qu's thought arose, the Inside Ze Ding in his sea of consciousness bloomed with brilliant light.

The four beasts seemed transparent, echoing with the Inside Ze Ding.

Countless essence light escaped from the mouth of the tripod, drifting onto the four beasts to turn into firewood for transformation, emitting beams of dazzling light.

Liang Qu saw with his own eyes the changes of the four beasts in the light.

The Fat Catfish's body swelled, and in the blink of an eye, it became even larger than the boat, its muscles and bones knotted.

Under its ink-colored skin, pitch-black spots could be vaguely seen, and the fins on both sides became wider and wider, as if ink had been splashed into the river.

Bu Neng Dong's body change was about the same as the Fat Catfish's, the most striking being the two horns on its head.

The original horns on its head were only half-length, like tree stumps, but now they grew another two inches, and its scales were extremely shiny, lush with green, and vitality circulated.

Quan Tou's body size surged to just half a head shorter than Liang Qu.

Fine soft armor grew at the joints, its back shell was completely pitch-black, shining with a metallic luster in the sun, and a pair of giant pincers shone with cold light, majestic and extraordinary.

A-Wei's change was the most dramatic, curling into a ball on the wooden table in the boat.

Its back scales vibrated rapidly, especially the third scale which opened completely, and two black-patterned long wings as thin as cicada wings were drawn out from under the scales, from transparent to semi-transparent, from soft to as sharp as razor blades, all in just a few breaths' time.

At the same time, its mouthparts became more and more ferocious, cold light flickering; compared to the other three beasts, its body size didn't change much.

Liang Qu reached out and touched them lightly; A-Wei's newly grown wings could switch freely between soft and hard, folding up; at their hardest, they were no different from razor blades, but they were just too thin; if they weren't softened and were hit by someone, there might be a risk of shattering.

A-Wei should be the first of his subordinates to be able to move freely in the three spaces of water, land, and air.

"Can you fly long distances?"

A-Wei shook its head, spread its wings, and flew rapidly in the small boat, its speed extremely fast; if it were an ordinary person, they wouldn't even be able to capture its afterimage.

"Can you only move short distances?"

Liang Qu wasn't too disappointed, or rather, it was within his expectations; being able to have such an effect, he was already satisfied.

In the future, on the road of injecting poison, A-Wei's flexibility would become even higher.

Thus, all four beasts had finished evolving.

The stronger Fat Catfish swam happily in the water, stirring up big waves, but this time the boat didn't shake.

The surrounding water waves surged to the side of the boat, but were offset by Liang Qu's control; now his control over water waves was becoming more and more proficient.

Even the usually "mature" Bu Neng Dong couldn't help but be excited, following the Fat Catfish to rise and fall in the water.

A-Wei spread its wings, flashing and flying rapidly in mid-air, while Quan Tou ran to the bottom of the water, using its giant pincers to smash rocks; with one pinch, all the rocks were no different from tofu.

Compared to the essential change of the first time, the second evolution was just a continuation of the first, and the changes in the four beasts were basically not very huge.

But the growth in the strength of the four beasts was real.

The first evolution was at the martial artist level, and now they were real Galloping Horse martial masters, and could continue to grow at the current level.

This point could be seen from Quan Tou.

As a crab monster, its body size should be over one meter seven when adult.

Currently, Quan Tou was also just over one meter seven; the reason for this was entirely because it hadn't fully grown, after all, Quan Tou was less than half a year old.

Evolution is just the evolution of the life level.

The situation of the other three beasts was about the same; Bu Neng Dong and the Fat Catfish were over eight meters long, and they should be able to continue to grow in the coming days, eventually growing to between nine and ten meters.

Communicating with the Inside Ze Ding.

【Can consume 8000 points of Water Essence to evolve the Horned Wood Azure Crocodile into an Azure Wood Crocodile】

【Can consume 7999.6 points of Water Essence to evolve the Dread Tiger Catfish into an Abyss Dread Tiger Catfish】

【Can consume 7999.8 points of Water Essence to evolve the Rock Crab King into a Solid Rock Crab King】

【Can consume 7999.9 points of Water Essence to evolve the Double-Winged Heavenly Water Centipede into a Four-Winged Source Water Centipede】

The Water Essence needed reached eight thousand points.

Liang Qu felt the cost-effectiveness was quite high; wouldn't an ordinary person take a year or so to go from martial artist to martial master?

On the other hand, water beasts only need to keep eating, eating, eating.

After the four beasts had a lively time, Liang Qu sent them out to continue catching treasure fish, and he himself sank into the water to practice.

Late at night.

Quan Tou came to his side, clutching a cow-headed fish that had been split in two.

Liang Qu: "..."

Quan Tou put down the treasure fish and knocked on its head, making a sound of gold and iron clashing.

It didn't control its strength well, and when it grabbed the cow-headed fish, it accidentally split it in two; the blood flowed away in vain, and A-Wei's food was reduced.

Liang Qu didn't blame Quan Tou; being able to catch the treasure fish was the greatest merit.

Blood Pass!

Blood Pass!

All afternoon, he had been practicing martial arts, and the feeling of strangeness in his marrow was becoming more and more intense.

One cow-headed fish, enough!

Liang Qu recalled the three beasts, returned to the boat, took off his official uniform, opened the waterproof compartment, and took out three small medicine bottles.

Blood-Coagulating Pill, Blood-Changing Pill, Blood-Activating Pill!

The three types of pills were not cheap.

On the River Patrol Office's merit exchange book, one Blood-Changing Pill cost three small merits, one Blood-Coagulating Pill cost four small merits, and the Blood-Activating Pill was cheaper, costing only one small merit.

To break the Blood Pass, one needed to experience three blood changes, totaling three Blood-Coagulating Pills, three Blood-Changing Pills, and one Blood-Activating Pill, which was twenty-two small merits, worth nearly two hundred taels of silver on the market.

Fortunately, Liang Qu had a good master; Yang Dongxiong knew he was about to break the Blood Pass and had prepared all the pills early.

Skin, Flesh, Bone, Blood—the Blood Pass is the most dangerous!

Being in a foreign land, it was impossible to have senior brothers help protect him; fortunately, Liang Qu had four water beasts that could help.

Water lines appeared on the river, the three beasts all returned, and one after another protected the surroundings of the boat.

The cow-headed fish Quan Tou brought back was not small, seven or eight jin; after distributing the bones and internal organs, more than three jin of treasure fish meat remained.

【Water Essence +22】

Swallowing everything, Liang Qu sat cross-legged, his five hearts facing the sky.

The fish meat was consumed, blood and qi rose, wisps were refined into the marrow, and the temperature around him gradually rose.

Liang Qu puffed out his abdomen and sank his lungs, opened his mouth and spat out air, actually spitting out a mouthful of white mist!

It wasn't the dead of winter now; spring was getting warmer, and it was even hotter at noon!

In such weather, if the temperature wasn't astonishing, how could a person spit out white mist?

This is the moment!

Liang Qu opened the three medicine bottles; as soon as the caps were opened, the fragrance of medicine hit his nose; they were all top-grade pills of the best quality!

First, take the Blood-Activating Pill.

The premise of the three surges and three coagulations was to take the Blood-Activating Pill to activate the blood throughout the body and warm it up.

This pill, like the Blood-Changing Pill, was mixed with the two horns of the bull-horned carp as a medicine primer.

The pill entered his abdomen, the medicinal power spread, and Liang Qu only felt his whole body boiling hot, his blood surging like a river tide, rushing endlessly.

Having observed Cao Shixiong Xiang's entire process of breaking the pass beforehand, Liang Qu was naturally extremely familiar with it and knew the time had come, so he swallowed the Blood-Changing Great Pill.

In a few breaths, his whole body's energy suddenly became intense, red light of blood and qi penetrated his body, stirring up the wind and clouds around him, and the water waves under the boat spread.

On the river surface, the smell of blood gradually dissipated, spreading with the river wind.

A martial artist's blood and qi are astonishing, and for animals, they are the best tonic; carnivorous fish smelled the blood and arrived one after another, but all retreated under the power of the beasts, unable to advance an inch.

Liang Qu's skin quickly turned crimson, and large beads of blood rolled down, drying on his body before they could even hit the ground!

Three surges and three coagulations!