Chapter 277 - 210: Lizard-Shaped Jiao_2

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Chapter 277: Chapter 210: Lizard-Shaped Jiao_2The limbs at the front and a bit further back along the middle of its serpent body grew a row of fins from above its hind limbs, extending all the way to the tip of its tail. This made it look more like a lizard. Meanwhile, Qing Hong’s body had also become stronger, gradually moving away from the shape of a serpent. The head underwent the most significant changes, with two rows of sharp teeth emerging in its mouth, its originally pointy head widening, bone plates rising on top of its head to form a backward-swept crown fin, and a layer of scale armor around its eyes, with a broad and thick nose tip. These changes made the whole head more complex and three-dimensional. Qing Hong looked different almost every day. The scales it shed alone weighed hundreds of kilograms. Ji Xinghuo couldn’t help but marvel at the wonders of gene recombination, which had transformed Qing Hong from a snake into a completely different species. It was like a lizard, yet still retained the essence of a giant python, with a body shape slinkier than a lizard’s. Seeing Qing Hong’s current form, Ji Xinghuo couldn’t help but think of a mythical creature from legends — the Jiao! Resembling a snake, with scales and four claws, but no horns. These descriptions all fit. However, legends are after all legends, Qing Hong is a creature from the Star Realm, unrelated to any legends from Earth, at most it’s a coincidental resemblance. Ji Xinghuo opened the interface, Qing Hong’s information remained unchanged. This meant it had not yet successfully integrated the gene recombination, the process was still ongoing, but it should be reaching its end since the changes in the past two days were minimal. Ji Xinghuo continued his cultivation training. By the evening, Zhao Manying had a competition today and had gone out of town with her team, leaving him alone at home. After dinner, Ji Xinghuo entered the virtual world to spar with his second brother, Zhong Ming, for a while, and then watched the Emperor Star Team’s match together, winning effortlessly as expected. After washing up and just as he was about to go to bed, his heart suddenly jolted. Ji Xinghuo sensed Qing Hong’s call, flashed over in a bolt of lightning, and found himself in the cultivation room where Qing Hong, who had been half-closed eyes for the past month, now had them fully open. Seeing Ji Xinghuo enter, Qing Hong raised its head. Previously, raising its head meant lifting its snake head vertically, but now it genuinely elevated its head because when it stood up, its head was already high off the ground. It awkwardly moved on four limbs, like a child who had just learned to walk, wobbling unsteadily. But it quickly adapted. Qing Hong’s speed increased, racing around the cultivation room in circles, with unmatched agility. It thoroughly enjoyed this new sensation of running on all fours, rather than moving with its belly against the ground as before, with a much higher perspective and broader field of view. "Not bad, not bad!" Ji Xinghuo praised. Qing Hong stopped running and came closer, lowering its head close to him. He reached out to touch the crown fins on its head, feeling the icy hard texture, as if touching armor made of alloy. It stuck out its tongue and licked his hand. The tongue was still slender, forked at the end, and with olfactory functions. Ji Xinghuo opened the interface, and sure enough, Qing Hong’s information had been updated. [Spiritual Objects: Lizard-shaped Jiao] [Level: Superior] [Ability: Dimension Stomach (Second Level 19/5101), Miniaturization (Second Level 32/3049), Golden Scale Iron Spine (Fourth Level 4126/5477), Spirit Smell (Fourth Level 16/2273), Ether Affinity* (Fourth Level 41/7079), Thunderbolt Hand* (Fourth Level 78/2833), Giant Transformation (Second Level 1/3169), Gravity Mutation* (Second Level 1/347), Gene Recombination (Not Upgradable), Sky Splitting Claw (First Level 1/239)] "Still Superior?" Ji Xinghuo was somewhat surprised. He thought Qing Hong’s metamorphosis would evolve it into a Catastrophe-Level spiritual object this time, but that didn’t happen; it remained merely Superior. However, the species of Qing Hong indeed had changed. "Lizard-shaped Jiao!" Ji Xinghuo did not know where this name came from, but it was very apt; from the name, he could tell that Qing Hong was a type of creature resembling a Jiao, belonging to the lizard classification. After the metamorphosis, Qing Hong had developed two new abilities. One was gene recombination, which could not be upgraded, and it lacked a "*", indicating it could be recombined with other species. If a monster ate Qing Hong’s body, it could also acquire the gene recombination ability. This was different from other Alien Species, very special. The other was "Sky Splitting Claw". Ji Xinghuo compared this with the virtual shadow of Qing Hong on the interface, and after careful identification, he recognized it as a Transcendent Ability! "Show me." Qing Hong stepped back a bit, waved its forelimbs, and suddenly ten virtual blades sprang from its claws, made of a grey-white energy, flickering uncertainly, each one over a meter long. With a slight swing, it left behind thin, dim scratches in the air in front of it, seemingly not very powerful. "Attack once," Ji Xinghuo pointed at the alloy humanoid target he used for training. Qing Hong pounced forward, and its claw swept through. Sparks flew everywhere! The tough alloy target immediately had five neat incisions, and Ji Xinghuo, upon closer inspection, noted the cuts were not very deep, just one or two centimeters. But he was still shocked. The hardness of the humanoid target was astonishingly high, being completely solid, yet Qing Hong had caused such significant damage without even using its full strength. If that claw had struck a body of flesh, it would have been slashed into several pieces! "No wonder it’s a Transcendent Ability!" "This is just First Level; elevating Sky Splitting Claw to the Second or Third Level, I reckon I wouldn’t survive a few hits myself." Ji Xinghuo was utterly delighted. All along, Qing Hong’s close combat had been predominantly about striking and entangling with its snake body. Now having acquired Sky Splitting Claw, its attack power had become sharper. Combined with Golden Scale Iron Spine for offense and defense, and plus the increased speed, it could take the lead in charges. And he could comfortably shoot the enemies from the rear with long-range shots. Ji Xinghuo looked at Qing Hong’s interface information, "It’d be best to mix in a ’Biological Field’ with ’Gravity Mutation’ to create a fictitious gravity field to control the battlefield like a ’Gravity Warrior’, so I could shoot more at ease from the back." Last time, he had just bought an amber cat’s eye stone for Qing Hong, which was specifically used for fusing gene recombination. If it wanted to fuse anything further, he would need to buy Red Scale Factor. Or Sky Blue Fruit also works. Ji Xinghuo was pondering in his mind, while teasing Qing Hong to make it shrink to the length of a finger, crawling on his hand, resembling a slender green lizard. "It’s not just Qing Hong that needs to integrate unique items. I need them too, to fuse with High-Frequency Thinking." "All this costs money!" "I still owe Man Ying half a billion, and owe Yunhai and the others five Transcendent Species." "If I keep cultivating on Earth, I don’t know when I’ll be able to fulfill my promises; just the increase in Star Power isn’t fast enough for power enhancement." "I still need to harvest Spiritual Origin Ability." "To enhance my own ability, and also to enhance Qing Hong’s Sky Splitting Claw and Gravity Mutation; it should not be far from evolving into a Catastrophe Spirit Item." S~eaʀᴄh the novel(F~)ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. After much thought, Ji Xinghuo decided it was time to go to the Star Realm. He stepped out of the Cultivation Room, into the study, turned on the computer to search for materials, and began to plan his next steps.

Chapter 277 - 210: Lizard-Shaped Jiao_2

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