Chapter 292: Inspection

Wang Yu soon found a thick yellow-covered book from the books filling the bookshelf, with four large black characters written on the cover: *Feng Xiang's Quotations*.

Wang Yu opened the book and began to flip through it rapidly, ten lines at a glance.

Don't look at how thick this book is; in fact, eight or nine out of ten of its contents are about the experiences of a Foundation Establishment cultivator named 'Feng Xiang' who searched for various rare and exotic beasts all over the Yu Nation hundreds of years ago. Only a small part is his little bit of insight into raising spiritual beasts.

Unlike the Wu Nation, which is mostly plain terrain, the Yu Nation has many dangerous and evil places that even low-rank immortal cultivators don't want to go to.

Therefore, after this Feng Xiang spent most of his life in the Yu Nation, he really found some strange and exotic beasts, but he also narrowly escaped the mouths of powerful demon beasts several times.

Wang Yu soon found the record related to the mutation of spiritual beasts in the middle part of the book and read it carefully.

This part of the content recorded that this Feng Xiang encountered a group of Earth-Tailed Apes in a place called 'Flower Language Forest' in the Yu Nation. As a result, during the process of fighting with this group of demon apes, he witnessed with his own eyes an Earth-Tailed Ape sinking directly into the ground and beginning to mutate. As a result, when this Earth-Tailed Ape rushed out from the ground again, it had an extra tail and two arms, becoming a double-tailed four-armed ape, its strength greatly increased, forcing him, a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, to retreat three feet and flee in a hurry.

Behind it recorded some insights and comments of this Foundation Establishment cultivator on the power of mutated demon beasts after he successfully escaped.

According to Feng Xiang, demon beast mutation is a low-probability event, and the mutation method is also random and unpredictable. Some can directly improve the strength of demon beasts, while some only change the aptitude and potential of demon beasts, and it is impossible to make any prediction. Once mutation occurs, three results will appear.

One is that the mutation is not successful, and the demon beast will die during the mutation process.

The second is that the mutation is successful, but the mutation result is not very good, and it may make the demon beast's strength weaker.

The last one is like the Earth-Tailed Ape, successfully mutating in a good direction and getting great benefits, stepping into the sky in one step.

Feng Xiang also named several demon beasts that are prone to mutation and mentioned that some demon beast mutation modes are fixed, among which he mentioned a Rock Python.

This demon python's mutation mode is to spray a special liquid from its mouth, wrap itself into an egg shape, and it will become hard in a very short time. After breaking out of the shell again, it completes the mutation.

"Giant egg."

Wang Yu felt a move in his heart when he saw this.

Although the iron-headed crocodile and this Rock Python are completely different types of demon beasts, it is unclear whether there is any commonality in the mutation mode, but seeing this description, he had at least some idea in his heart.

To truly determine whether Little White has mutated, he still needs to find an expert in the Spiritual Beast Hall to confirm it so he can be at ease. It is best to ask someone to take a look on the spot.

Thinking of this, Wang Yu no longer hesitated, put the book back in its original place, left the cave dwelling again, and headed straight for the Spiritual Beast Hall.

About two quarters of an hour later, Wang Yu appeared in front of the pond before the cave dwelling door, accompanied by an old man with white eyebrows and wearing a wide Ge-cloth robe.

"Wang Shizhi, is that mutated iron-headed crocodile you mentioned in the water?" The old man walked to the pond, first sniffed with his nose, and then poked his head to look into the pond before asking impatiently.

"Li Shishu, that iron-headed crocodile is indeed at the bottom of the pond. Once this disciple finds a way to clean the pond water, Shishu will be able to see it clearly." Wang Yu said very politely.

This old man was the "Li Shishu" who sold him the iron-headed crocodile years ago. He was only a year older than when they last met, but his face was a bit more aged, but at this moment, his face was full of excitement.

"Why is it so troublesome to clean the pond water? I have a dharma artifact that can hold this little water easily." Hearing this, Li Shishu replied without hesitation, then took out a bronze gourd from his sleeve, threw it above the pond, formed a seal with one hand, and chanted words.

The next moment, the bronze gourd turned upside down, and a piece of yellow light flew out from the gourd mouth, directly sinking into the water surface.

"Boom boom boom."

The water surface in the pond began to surge, followed by a stir, and a water column as thick as a bowl soared into the sky, but it disappeared into the gourd mouth one after another on the way.

The pond water surface dropped rapidly. In just over a dozen breaths of time, the pond water was completely drawn away by the gourd dharma artifact, revealing the black dirt mound below and the black-green spotted Big Green lying on it.

Big Green was originally irritable because the pond water suddenly disappeared, baring its teeth at the bronze gourd in the air, but after seeing Wang Yu's figure on the side of the pond, it whimpered in a low voice again.

Wang Yu jumped into the pond immediately, his feet wrapped in a layer of light golden mist, not letting a bit of silt stick to him. He walked to the dirt mound in a few steps, patted Big Green's back twice, comforted it, and signaled the spiritual beast to hide to one side.

Big Green was clearly somewhat reluctant, whimpered twice with a grievance, and then jumped off the dirt mound slowly and walked to one side.

"Is that mutated spiritual beast inside here? Is this the egg?" Li Shishu had already put away the gourd, followed closely, and walked to the center of the pond, staring fixedly at the black dirt mound in front of him, asking urgently.

"Yes, Shishu. Little White is inside. The outside of the eggshell is just wrapped in a layer of silt." Wang Yu explained.

He only knew this "Li Shishu" in the Spiritual Beast Hall, who often bought beast food from him, so he naturally found this person.

When this Li Shishu heard that the spiritual beast he sold might have undergone a second mutation, he actively asked to come over and take a look.

Wang Yu was eager for this, so he naturally agreed flatly.

"Iron-headed is a water-earth attribute demon beast. Covering the eggshell with silt at the bottom of the water is very suitable for the attribute. But the ability to control the full pond water you mentioned earlier might be its mutation. Because this type of demon beast is generally earth-attribute dominated and water-attribute assisted, let me check it carefully before drawing a conclusion." The Ge-cloth old man said while taking out a translucent white crystal from his bosom, which was the size of a chicken egg. At first glance, it looked like a large spirit stone, but upon closer inspection, it was very different.

Because the crystal surface seemed to be composed of countless small prisms, which was completely different from the round and smooth feeling of the spirit stone, which was transparent and clear.

"This is a spirit-testing stone specifically for testing spiritual beasts. As long as it is close to the spiritual beast, you can know the approximate attribute of the demon core. But it is ineffective for humans and will not have any bad effects on spiritual beasts." Li Shishu explained, took out a handkerchief, wiped a small part of the top of the dirt mound, and revealed the white eggshell.

Li Shishu first tilted his head and stuck it to the surface of the eggshell, listened for a while, then raised his head, stuck the fist-sized crystal in his hand lightly on the surface of the eggshell, and injected magic power into it at the same time. ===== CHAPTER 293 =====