58: Evolving monsters

As expected, fierce fish landed on the shore, only able to flop around helplessly.

Jia Gu Yi Yan quickly stopped, looked at the flopping fish, and rushed back to finish them off.

But then, the fish began to twist violently, their bodies growing rapidly.

At the position of their bellies, four lumps of flesh continuously grew, eventually developing into four claws.

Since it could transform the fish's mouth into sharp fangs, it could naturally transform the fish's belly to create legs for crawling!

Fish with sharp fangs, thrashing their bodies, and four claws crawled swiftly, rushing towards Jia Gu Yi Yan.

Their speed was extremely fast, like lizards.

Jia Gu Yi Yan felt his scalp tingle, and finally sensed the strange aura in front of him.

At this moment, countless parasitic monsters had transferred from the lake water to these dozens of fish, transforming their bodies.

Gathered together, the powerful monster energy was only detected by Jia Gu Yi Yan, the Summoner.

Since the monster had appeared...

“Fire Finch!”

Click!

The Fire Finch, already held in Jia Gu Yi Yan's hand, was swiftly inserted into the Summoner.

“Combine!”

Blazing flames rose from beneath Jia Gu Yi Yan's feet, and in an instant, a scorching wave of fire surged, blowing away all the fish rushing towards him.

The flames instantly covered Jia Gu Yi Yan's entire body, transforming into Fire Finch Armor.

Powerful energy filled his entire body, and Jia Gu Yi Yan leaped up, looking down at the crawling Modified Fish from above.

“Fire Finch Feather!”

Two fireballs swiftly rose from his hands, pressing together in front of him, scattering countless fiery feathers that shot towards the dense Modified Fish.

Under the cover of flames, one by one, the weak Modified Fish were swiftly pierced by the fiery feathers, falling to the ground.

From the mouths of the fallen fish, streams of rapidly surging water flowed out, shooting towards the surrounding Modified Fish.

And the remaining Modified Fish once again grew rapidly.

Their bodies rapidly enlarged, their claws became thick and strong, and their scales quickly hardened, shimmering with a light blue luster, as if water was surging within them.

The Fire Finch Feathers landed on the scales of these fish, exploding into blazing flames, but were all blocked by the scales.

Only some hot steam rose.

“This is… evolution?”

Because one of the fish was brought ashore by him, the parasitic monster modified the remaining fish, evolving crawling limbs.

And some fish were burned to death by him.

That's why they evolved scales to resist fire.

Jia Gu Yi Yan landed on the ground accordingly.

After a round of shooting, there were still six Modified Fish remaining.

Each of them was incredibly powerful, like alien crocodiles, covered in blue water scales, and they lunged at Jia Gu Yi Yan.

In that case, I'll kill all of you in an instant, giving you no time to evolve!

Jia Gu Yi Yan swiftly pulled out two cards from the card holder on his belt with his left hand and inserted them into the card slot.

Fire Finch Blade F, Equipment Upgrade E.

Click, click!

“Que Yan Blade E!”

Blazing flames surged in his palm, transforming into a blade that seemed to burn with fire.

Fire Finch Armor, Burning Form!

With the Basic Breathing Technique circulating, Jia Gu Yi Yan's entire armor seemed to be ignited, emitting a burning, fiery glow.

“Swish!”

Then, Jia Gu Yi Yan's body seemed to have completely transformed into surging flames, disappearing from his original spot and rushing towards one of the Modified Fish.

The Modified Fish seemed to sense something was wrong; as soon as Jia Gu Yi Yan entered his Burning Form, they distanced themselves from each other, preventing Jia Gu Yi Yan from attacking all of them.

They have intelligence!

Or rather, it modified the brains of these Modified Fish.

With the Modified Fish spreading out, Jia Gu Yi Yan indeed couldn't attack all of them.

Then he could only kill as many as possible, at the fastest speed!

Jia Gu Yi Yan gripped the Que Yan Blade tightly, the surging flames wrapping around the blade from his arms.

Swish!

The flame-wrapped blade cut a dazzling arc in the air, instantly cleaving one of the Modified Fish in half.

His feet landed, then rose again.

His movements were fluid, without any pause, as he swept towards another Modified Fish beside him.

This time, the blade that had just cut down the previous Modified Fish flipped and swept upwards.

With an upward slash, the poor Modified Fish was split in two from below its head, from top to bottom.

From the bodies of the two Modified Fish, a stream of water swiftly shot out, about to sweep towards the other Modified Fish.

Its speed was so fast, it was impossible to catch.

Jia Gu Yi Yan had been waiting for this opportunity.

No matter how many Modified Fish were killed, it would not affect the monster.

These Modified Fish were merely puppets possessed by the monster.

The true monster was the water parasitic within the Modified Fish!

Minds Eye, open!

In an instant, everything around him turned into abstract, rough black and white lines, everything began to slow down, and everything began to become clear.

That almost invisible water arrow was also captured by the Minds Eye, its trajectory revealed.

Then, the blade slashed sideways fiercely.

In an instant, flames and water collided.

Water extinguishes fire.

But the weak parasitic monster, divided into so many clones, simply couldn't overcome the powerful Fire Finch's fire of Jia Gu Yi Yan.

Sizzle!

The water arrow was met head-on by the Que Yan Blade, instantly vaporizing into a sky full of steam.

Jia Gu Yi Yan didn't stop, keeping his Minds Eye open, and swiftly slashed at the water arrow shooting out from another monster's corpse.

Unexpectedly, this time the water arrow gave Jia Gu Yi Yan no chance.

It actually changed direction, burrowing into the ground, and rapidly permeating through the cracks in the soil.

By the time Jia Gu Yi Yan slashed his blade into the mud, it was already too late.

The water had already followed the soil, splitting into four, and permeated into the bodies of the remaining four Modified Fish.

Jia Gu Yi Yan put away his blade and stood firm, looking at the remaining four Modified Fish, which had spread out and surrounded him.

Their bodies had transformed again.

Their scales became thicker again, and their necks and heads seemed to grow a layer of carapace, protecting their heads.

Their bodies also became larger, and their two hind limbs, covered with tiny scales, grew rapidly in muscle and bone, becoming thicker and stronger.

Their huge tails became more slender, and their two front limbs also grew slightly longer, developing sharp claws.

Perhaps because their teeth had never been effective, the Modified Fish's fangs actually began to degenerate.

Their fish mouths protruded outwards, becoming smaller, like water guns.

At this point, their length was almost two meters.

“They're getting stronger and stronger, this is getting troublesome.”

Jia Gu Yi Yan gripped the Que Yan Blade, feeling the remaining stamina in his body.

Having cultivated an additional Mian Yu Technique, Jia Gu Yi Yan's breathing had also become long and steady.

At this moment, he didn't feel any significant consumption of stamina.

It was no longer possible to deal with these four fish in one go.

Then he could only try to make them evolve as few times as possible.