It's the dry season now, and there's no water flowing down. The pool isn't large, only a few feet in circumference, but it looks very deep, with oddly shaped rocks scattered around it.
Ah Jiang sat gently on a blue stone, admiring the beautiful scenery around him.
However, at that moment, she suddenly sensed that the water elemental energy around her was unusually active, as if something was about to appear.
She immediately jumped back a good distance, and sure enough, a huge fish leaped out of the pool and lunged at her original spot.
"That was close!"
Ah Jiang was a little scared. He never expected that there would be such a big fish in the small pond he had been living in for so long!
The big fish, having missed its target, leaped back into the water, and the surface of the pool returned to calm.
She curled her lip, then looked around at the terrain and said, "If you dare attack me, I'll show you what it means to drain the pond to catch all the fish."
Moreover, after the spirit entered her body, Bai Chongjiang learned a few simple Five Elements spells, but the success rate was very low; she could only successfully cast them two or three times out of ten.
Bai Chongjiang was seething with anger. She never expected that there would be such danger in the Taoist academy she thought was safe.
If she hadn't dodged in time and had been bitten by that big fish and dragged into the water, she would have become a lonely ghost with no one to claim her body.
Having finally managed to travel through time, this ending was unacceptable to her.
She used the wooden spiked book to clear the way, the dragon sucked water to guide it, and the wings of wind to accelerate it.
Although the success rate was low, Bai Chongjiang exerted himself to the utmost and performed exceptionally well, causing the water level in the pool to drop continuously, and a dark shadow could be vaguely seen.
The big fish gradually became agitated, thrashing about in the pool several times and even shooting out several jets of water, but Ah Jiang was far enough away to avoid injury.
"He's pretty fierce." Ah Jiang stood by, arms crossed, waiting.
The sun shone brightly in the sky, and the water in the pool continued to decrease. After another two hours, most of the fish spirit was exposed, with only its tail still submerged in the shallow water, occasionally lifting itself up to splash some water on its body.
To her surprise, the large fish was incredibly beautiful: its scales shimmered with gold in the sunlight, its tail and fins were translucent, seemingly shimmering with iridescent colors, and its whiskers were a pale gold, thick and supple. Finally, its eyes were strikingly beautiful, a bright black center surrounded by a narrow ring of shimmering light—truly stunning!
"It's so big, it's definitely a demonic beast, but what level is it exactly?"
According to the "Classification of Spirit Beast Grades", it should have reached the stage of spiritual energy entering the body.
During this period, the demonic beasts, having gained spiritual energy within their bodies, will experience continuous physical strengthening. They will become taller, stronger, and faster than ordinary wild animals.
During this process, if one lives long enough or has the opportunity to awaken their spiritual intelligence, they can formally embark on the path of spiritual cultivation.
Level three demonic beasts continuously condense spiritual energy, enabling them to use simple illusions and, through changes in their throat bones, to speak human language.
Many folk tales about beautiful women changing the names of scholars are actually the work of level-three demonic beasts.
Level 4 demonic beasts can use magic, which is equivalent to the Foundation Establishment stage in humans.
Only races with good talent can transform into human form at the end of the fifth tier, while others need to reach the sixth or even seventh tier to barely transform into human form. The higher the tier, the more human-like the human form becomes.
After reaching the eighth rank, they gradually learn to suppress their demonic energy and transform it into spiritual energy, making them appear no different from ordinary cultivators.
Because the fish and shrimp in the lakes and marshes have short lifespans and very little intelligence, they rarely manage to cultivate into demonic beasts.
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