Beast Taming: Sharing Pets' Abilities-Chapter 278 - 277: Metamorphosis, Heaven-Swallowing Demon Python!
The only drawback is the lack of defense.
Then, Gu Yuan released Big Mouth from the Spirit Beast Bag in the cave.
Hiss—hiss—
As soon as Big Mouth emerged, it became extremely excited upon seeing Gu Yuan, flicking its tongue, its massive body circling around Gu Yuan a few times, and rubbing its cold body against Gu Yuan’s leg.
At this moment, Big Mouth had become a mature form, and its appearance had greatly changed.
Its body length was over twenty meters, as thick as a thigh, its whole body covered with dense dark-gold scales, which shimmered with a deep and mysterious luster, emanating a cold and dangerous aura.
This proportion seemed somewhat peculiar, but to Gu Yuan, it was normal.
Because the Devouring Serpent was indeed a type of long-bodied exotic snake.
"What’s the matter, are you also impatient now?"
Gu Yuan smiled and gently patted its snake head, soothingly said.
Then, he casually opened the attributes panel:
[Beast Master]: Gu Yuan
[Status]: Normal
[Beast Pet]: Little Treasure Hunting Mouse (can evolve into Treasure Hunting Mouse, requires 6800 Dao Rhyme Points) — Silver-backed Centipede (can evolve into Taiyin Gold Centipede, requires 95000 Dao Rhyme Points) — Devouring Serpent (can evolve into Heaven-Swallowing Demon Python, requires 8200 Dao Rhyme Points) — Black Armored Spirit Ao (can evolve into Xuanming Ao, requires 12000 Dao Rhyme Points) — Cyan Shadow Sword Butterfly (can evolve into Cyan Jade Sword Butterfly, requires 160000 Dao Rhyme Points!) — Thousand-Change Pill Spirit (can evolve into Ten-thousand Transformations Pill Spirit, requires 12000 Dao Rhyme Points!) — Purple Heaven Thunder Spider (can evolve into Primordial Thunder Spider, requires 138000 Dao Rhyme Points!)
[Tameable Spirit Pets]: 8
[Cultivation]: Celestial Human Realm Cultivator (Great Success)
[Dao Rhyme]: 350800
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Currently, Gu Yuan had tamed seven spirit pets.
Each of these spirit pets had extraordinary abilities and great potential.
Among them, the Cyan Shadow Sword Butterfly was the most outstanding, followed by the Purple Heaven Thunder Spider, and then the Silver-backed Centipede.
All three were Golden Grade spirit pets, and their strength was formidable, often helping Gu Yuan overcome many enemies.
Now, his other pet Big Mouth could finally transform and upgrade.
It’s just that, after the Devouring Serpent evolves into the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Python, what kind of talent it would gain was unknown.
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[Spend 8200 Dao Rhyme Points to evolve Devouring Serpent into Heaven-Swallowing Demon Python, confirm/refuse?]
Gu Yuan gently stroked Big Mouth’s head, inwardly saying, "Confirm!"
As soon as Gu Yuan’s words fell, he saw the 350800 on the attribute panel change to 342600.
At the same time, a dense pure white light gradually emerged on the surface of Big Mouth’s body.
This white light was pure and intense, filled with a vibrant aura, enveloping Big Mouth’s entire body, and began to seep into its body piece by piece.
Hiss... hiss...
Big Mouth rolled around as if in extreme pain, emitting strange hissing noises.
The cries were shrill and piercing, obviously more painful than last time’s transformation.
Its massive body rolling and twisting on the ground, while the dense dark-gold scales on it all stood upright.
Gu Yuan, being connected in spirit with it, could sense the unspeakable pain Big Mouth was enduring, pain that came from its marrow, from deep within its bloodline, and even from its divine soul.
Gu Yuan could see that beneath Big Mouth’s scales, the snake’s skin was beginning to crack, revealing wounds of varying depths.
Trickles of blood had already seeped out, soon staining its entire body red, and quickly pooling into a large patch on the ground, looking alarming.
Now, Gu Yuan stepped away from Big Mouth, but he didn’t act hastily nor did he need to intervene.
Because this was Big Mouth’s opportunity, a kind of transformation and ascension, but also a tribulation!
Once overcome, it would naturally transform successfully; if the transformation failed, it would meet its end!
This was normal, this was fair.
After all, in this world, no perfect thing could exist.
Gu Yuan just realized that even though he had the Spirit Pet System, it wasn’t all-powerful when it came to taming spirit pets.
His Spirit Pet System could continuously help him tame various spirit pets and could also, by consuming Dao Rhyme Points, cause the spirit pets to transform and ascend, breaking through the shackles of their racial bloodlines to become more advanced new species.
It could even allow Gu Yuan to possess the talents of these spirit pets.
One or two talents might be overlooked, but once these talents accumulated and overlapped, the kind of transformation Gu Yuan could undergo and the achievements he might reach were beyond anyone’s imagination.
Only, the transformation of the spirit pets, even with the aid of the system, carried a high probability of success but also the possibility of failure!
Previously, when Ah Centipede was still the Iron-backed Centipede, upgrading to Silver-backed Centipede was somewhat challenging but ultimately successful.
But this time, Big Mouth’s transformation was evidently more perilous.
Gu Yuan quietly waited, watching as the scales on Big Mouth were more than half shed, its body a bloody mess, and the movements gradually lessened, leaving his heart slowly sinking.
Fortunately, at this moment, the dense white light continued to steadily seep into its body. Though Big Mouth seemed exhausted, it was still struggling extremely, enduring a certain terrible pain.
More than half an hour later, Big Mouth stopped, lying motionless on the ground, its life or death unknown, with a ragged snake skin already shed, stained with dark red bloodstains.
The peculiar white light was no longer on it.
"Not good, could it have failed?"
Feeling the weak aura from Big Mouth’s body, Gu Yuan’s heart sank. Without thinking much, he hurried to Big Mouth’s front, waved his palm, and then a pure, crystalline Primordial True Water appeared, turning into tiny droplets of mist, seeping into Big Mouth’s body.
The Primordial True Water he refined had nourishing and healing effects, just right for allowing Big Mouth to regain some strength.
Visibly, the wounds on Big Mouth’s body began to heal, the wounds deep enough to reveal the bones started closing, scabbing, and the blood became hard and dry.
Yet Big Mouth remained motionless.
Luckily, after Gu Yuan sensed it for a while, he noticed that within Big Mouth’s body, which had been on the verge of death, there was now an obvious surge of vitality, and over time, this vitality grew stronger, allowing Big Mouth to begin recovering.
Soon, Big Mouth’s body moved.
Crack! Crack!
The blood scabs on its surface cracked open, turning into chunks of black-red debris, falling to the ground.
At the same time, it revealed the scales beneath the scabs, which were black and misty.
Hmm?
Gu Yuan squinted his eyes and immediately noticed the anomaly.
At this moment, Big Mouth’s body seemed to have not changed much, just became more slender, but the scales all over its body had turned black.
And not just any black, but misty black, as if shrouded in a layer of fog, carrying an unfathomable mystery, with an aura that conceals its true nature.
Even when illuminated, it remained misty black, reflecting very little light, as if it could even devour the light.
