I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 98 - 10: The Great Fate Master Who Ordains Deities (5/5)
The process of Li Boyang’s acquaintance with the Red Fish was actually much simpler than Xiluo imagined.
Ever since he decided to establish a reservoir covering all the water veins within a radius of several dozen kilometers.
Li Boyang had been searching for a location that perfectly met his requirements.
To be honest, a site that could fully meet Li Boyang’s demands wasn’t just rare; it was non-existent.
Even in the highly advanced twenty-first century of exploration and engineering, finding a similar place would be extremely difficult.
Fortunately, this was a world where extraordinary power existed, an era where divine power could influence celestial phenomena.
Relying on his keen perception of the earth veins, along with the spell bonus of Cloud Formation and Rainfall...
Li Boyang ultimately spent about half a year forcefully creating a place that completely met his demands.
This is now the site of the Mountain God Reservoir.
In the process, due to the change of water vein flows, many organisms that lived by the water were inevitably affected — the Human-faced Fish was one of them.
When Li Boyang first encountered the Red Fish, it was just an ordinary Human-faced Fish.
At most, it was slightly larger than its peers and had a more robust vitality.
When most Human-faced Fish migrated due to the changes in the water veins,
the Red Fish stayed in the muddy waters, driven by its greed, until Li Boyang noticed its existence.
[It was my negligence; I didn’t expect the persistent impact of changing the water veins to be this significant...] 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
As Li Boyang scooped the Red Fish out of the murky water, these words became her initial impression of the red-haired Child.
In the following period of time,
Li Boyang kept the Red Fish by his side, teaching her how to recognize water veins and identify predators.
The Human-faced Fish was inherently a highly intelligent species, and with the help of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Horn...
The Red Fish quickly exhibited astonishing learning abilities.
First, within a very short period, she learned the human language and knowledge.
Then, under Li Boyang’s guidance, she discovered her potential and officially transformed into a Spirit Monster.
Especially with the Amphibian Life Energy Regulation Breathing Method (Test Version) Li Boyang modified specifically for the Red Fish, she swiftly achieved an extraordinarily large size, far beyond that of ordinary Spirit Monsters.
In response, Li Boyang was equally surprised.
But he quickly realized that the Red Fish inherently had the potential to become a Spirit Monster, completely unlike the ordinary, even malnourished, children like Li Jingshu.
This was confirmed when the Red Fish sensed the Water Vein Primordial Qi and actively assisted Li Boyang in guarding the reservoir.
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"So, you’ve cultivated another Spirit Monster?"
Having grown tired of entangling with Li Boyang’s cumbersome naming of "Breathing Techniques,"
Xiluo just earnestly observed the Red Fish, lurking underwater, with a look of "I’m very shy."
If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, it would be really hard to imagine such a timid, shrinking Human-faced Fish almost destroyed the entire reservoir.
"But... isn’t this fellow clearly a Water God?"
The leap from a Spirit Monster to a Water God is hardly ordinary.
Even a gifted creature like Panhu has not yet received recognition from any earth vein.
In contrast, this Human-faced Fish, which transformed into a Spirit Monster for less than two years, actually became the "Reservoir God" in the true sense.
"This touches upon another idea of mine..."
Li Boyang was quite candid, without concealment, as he began to explain.
"I’ve always been thinking about how Mountain Gods and Water Gods like you gain the recognition of the Primordial Qi."
"After an ordinary creature transforms into a Spirit Monster, how can it further evolve in the direction of a deity?"
"Is it the reconstruction of the physical body? The sublimation of the soul? Or purely unwavering faith?"
"Or is it some special change that I haven’t observed yet?"
Li Boyang paused slightly as he reached this point in his speech.
"Until I noticed, with the establishment of the reservoir, a new water vein emerged from nothing to existence..."
"Creatures living near this water vein all exhibited a peculiar phenomenon of ’convergent evolution’ simultaneously."
"Whether fish or snakes, they are evolving in the direction of gigantism and predation, which obviously cannot be explained by common sense."
Struggling to understand the terms in Li Boyang’s narrative,
Xiluo despairingly realized she couldn’t keep up with his thinking.
"Don’t talk to me about that nonsense; you know I always hate those things..."
"Skip all the processes and analyses; just tell me your conclusion directly!"
The interruption from Xiluo slightly halted Li Boyang’s speech, and a look of helplessness towards "illiteracy" emerged in his eyes.
"Simply put, our understanding and definition of ’life’ have been too narrow."
"Perhaps ’Primordial Qi’ is also a type of life in another sense; even this world might be alive."
"This new water vein needs a guardian, so it is striving to assimilate all nearby beings, trying to select the most excellent guardian from them..."
"This is a form of screening."
"Since it is screening, then tailoring for it is possible, right?"
"The Red Fish is the guardian I tailored specifically for this new water vein, summarizing its various conditions."
"When the water vein has only the Red Fish as the Spirit Monster that meets its requirements, what choice will it make then?"
"And you see the result, a new Water God was born."
Shrugging slightly, Li Boyang continued to add.
"Of course, before this, I wasn’t sure if the Red Fish would become a Water God..."
"When the Red Fish decided to leave the reservoir for winter last year, I didn’t even know she would return here."
As he said this, Li Boyang didn’t forget to cast his gaze towards the Red Fish underwater.
Noticing Li Boyang’s gaze,
the Red Fish instinctively swished her tail, and a blush resembling that of a shy girl appeared on her face.
"Destiny has given me the grace of renewal, and I want to repay the kindness of Destiny."
Upon hearing this, Xiluo nodded in realization, her gaze flicking between Li Boyang and the Red Fish.
"Speaking of which, why do you call this child ’Destiny’?"
"Does this term have any special meaning?"
Hearing Xiluo’s question, Li Boyang also showed an expression of curiosity.
"In the ’Jingchu Kingdom’ where I was born, it is said there once emerged a supreme being capable of enlisting deities, revered by the people of Jingchu as the ’Great Fate Master.’
"Since Destiny transformed me into the Water God of this area, isn’t it ’Destiny’?"
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