It's been more than 15 days, since Ji Yen brought the little sparrow with him.
Everyday, it would either follow Ji Yen around or stay near the cave like guarding Ji Yen.
Even though those little acts does not mean much to Ji Yen, he still appreciated it.
Since Ji Yen came back from the demon monkey's territory, he rarely went out his cave. Everyday he would only cultivate quietly. He would only leave the cave when it was time for meal.
Ji Yen did not make much progress in the past few days. Even though he was cultivating everyday.
The problem with it was the thin spiritual Qi in the air.
Unless one cultivate in a place filled with abundant spiritual Qi, one can rarely make any progress.
Such places are called spiritual land. And for a place to be strong spiritual land, spirit veins are necessary.
Ji Yen doesn't know any of those places. So he can only quietly cultivate inside his cave.
Today.
Ji yen was inside his cave, cultivating like every other days.
When he heard the chirping sound of the little sparrow. It sound urgent like asking Ji Yen to come out quickly.
Ji Yen sighed for a second and stood up. Then he walked out oh his cave.
Outside, the little sparrow was jumping up and down and chirping.
Seeing Ji Yen came out of the cave, it made some signs and pointed in a direction.
Then it flew into that direction.
Seeing the sparrow's enthusiasm, Ji Yen reluctantly followed it. He did not know what it was saying. But he could understand that it has found something.
After flying for about 700 meters away from the cave, the little sparrow stopped just outside a crack on a cliff face.
Then it turned to look at Ji Yen and pointed at the crack.
The sparrow's action disappointed Ji Yen. He thought the sparrow found something valuable. But it turn out to be a crack on a cliff face.
But when he looked at the crack, he found something unusual about the air coming outside from the crack.
Ji Yen looked at the crack deeply again. And to his surprise, he found a mix of reach spiritual Qi.
He nodded at the sparrow and signaled to lead him inside.
The sparrow entered the crack and Ji Yen followed it.
After entering the crack, Ji Yen found a tunnel. It was much wider in the inside than on the outside.
The two bird big and small walked along the tunnel.
To see the path clearly, Ji Yen's body lit up using Qi.
After walking for more than 5 minutes, the two bird finally reached the end of the tunnel. The tunnel led them to an underground cave.
Unexpectedly, the cave was not dark at all like the tunnel. It was full of light.
As soon as Ji Yen entered the cave, he felt like he was bathing in a warm sunlight. His breathing was clearer and smooth.
At the same time, a system's message pooped up.
[Congratulations to the host for finding a spiritual cave.]
[Date.
Item: Spiritual Cave.
Grade: Half Grade 1 (not fully formed).
Spiritual Vein: Low Mortal Grade.]
"Wow... a spiritual cave." Ji Yen murmured.
"System. How come you did not know this..?" Ji Yen asked within eyes looking left and right.
[I already said to host not to rely on me too much. Except for evolving.]
Ji Yen did not replied to the system. He kept looking around the cave.
He walked up to a glowing stone, that was the source of the light inside the cave.
He opened the data of the stone.
[A Normal stone tainted by spiritual Qi.
Uses: Lighting.]
It was just a simple data.
As Ji Yen was checking the cave, he felt some of the Qi gathering behind him.
Alarmed, he turned around quickly.
Then he saw the sparrow sitting there with its eyes closed. The Qi was gathering around it.
Ji Yen knew it must the breakthrough of the sparrow. He thought it will atleast take a month for the little sparrow to reach half grade. But lucky for the sparrow, it found a spiritual cave.
Ji Yen did not disturb the sparrow. He just stood aside and watched the whole process.
Unlike his first evolution, the process of the sparrow was slower.
Puzzled, he asked the system. "System, why is the process so slower than mine?"
[Host stored the energy and used it in one go. But the sparrow is absorbing from the surrounding slowly. Which is why the process is slow.
If host also did the evolution like this, then the process will take similar amount of time.]
Hearing that, Ji Yen nodded.
He continued to watch the process.
After about 9 to 10 hours of long process, the sparrow finally transformed.
It's body was now bigger than before. But the appearance was not the same as that of Ji Yen when he first transformed.
The Sparrow looked bigger and taller than Ji Yen's first transformed.
When Ji Yen checked the data, he understood the reason.
[Data.
Race: Cloud Wind Sparrow.
Name: None.
Rank: High Grade 1.
State: Stable state, normal.
Realm: Half Grade 1.
Bloodline: None.
Abilities: Somewhat similar to host but weaker.]
Even though both of them are of wind species, they are not the same kind.
One is Wind Chasing Sparrow, focus on speed and range attack, and the other one is Cloud Wind Sparrow, focus on speed and close range attack.
Color of the sparrow changed to greyish blue colour. And the appearance of sparrow also changed. It's height was about half a meter tall with a wingspan of 1.3 meter.
After sometime, the sparrow opened its eyes. Then it looked at Ji Yen with gratitude.
After thinking for a moment, Ji Yen decided to tell the sparrow that they are brothers.
He fabricated some story. He told the sparrow about how he had survived after their parents left him. He also told the sparrow that he ate some spiritual fruit and evolved to his new form.
Hearing the story, the sparrow showed a happy expression.
But soon, it showed a sad face and told Ji Yen about how their parents also left the world. It said that they were killed by a big tiger. And how it also survived and eaten a fruit that changed him.