Chapter 212: Magikarp Evolves, Gyarados!
Shortly after the strange sea fish fled, a robust figure covered in golden fish scales leapt from the sea.
"Trying to escape? Think you're faster than me?"
Seeing the fleeing sea fish, Mo Hui smiled faintly.
At this moment, Mo Hui's body was as muscular as an athlete's, with golden scales covering his arms and chest like armor. His blue eyes gleamed with crystalline light, and the sunlight shone on the golden crown atop his head, adding an air of majesty.
If Mo Hui had held a trident, he would look like the Sea God himself.
In the next instant, Mo Hui punched forward, and a surging ocean current formed instantly in front of him.
Using this current, Mo Hui closed the distance to the fleeing sea fish with ease. He pointed lightly at the target.
A spiral jet of water, compressed to the extreme, shot from his fingertip—instantly piercing the sea fish a thousand meters away.
"Ugh!!!"
The sea fish howled as blood sprayed from its body, staining the sea red.
Several more spiral jets of water shot through its body. It soon stopped moving, and a dark spirit ring emerged from its corpse.
Mo Hui arrived beside it, waved his right hand, and absorbed the dark spirit ring into the Magikarp Martial Spirit.
"After absorbing this 80,000-year spirit ring, the Magikarp Martial Spirit should evolve into Gyarados."
Looking at the Magikarp now covered in gleaming golden scales, Mo Hui muttered to himself.
At this point, the Magikarp Martial Spirit had already been fitted with four spirit rings. Now with this fifth one, the spirit was approaching a new evolution.
Aside from the first and second rings, the rest of Mo Hui's spirit rings were all at least 80,000 to 90,000 years old—already near the limit, as 100,000-year spirit beasts were rare.
Soon, Mo Hui sat cross-legged in the water, eyes closed, and began refining the fifth ring for the Magikarp.
As he refined it, a brilliant blue-white light burst from his body. Wrapped in the glow, his figure began to transform.
An hour later, he completed the refinement and opened his eyes.
"As expected, Magikarp has evolved."
He could feel the overwhelming power within his body and couldn't help but grin.
The quality of Gyarados, originally blessed by both the Wind God and the Sea God, was already equivalent to top-tier Martial Spirits. After evolving and awakening the Wind God's inheritance, it took a huge leap—reaching the level of an Ultimate Martial Spirit.
Now, Gyarados not only possessed near-extreme wind attributes, but also fully mastered the extreme water element. Its overall quality was now infinitely close to a god-level Martial Spirit.
This was a monumental power-up. Even using Gyarados alone, Mo Hui's strength now rivaled that of an ordinary Title Douluo, even comparable to a Rank 95 Sea Dragon Douluo.
Just as Mo Hui was marveling at the strength of Gyarados, the spirit itself stirred within his body.
"Roar!"
In the next moment, Gyarados' eyes glowed and it charged at Pidgeot, who was peacefully resting nearby.
"This is bad."
Mo Hui immediately knew something was wrong.
The barrier left behind by the Wind God was meant to prevent the Magikarp and Pidgeot spirits from fighting due to power imbalance.
But now that Magikarp had evolved into Gyarados, and the barrier had almost completely worn down, its aggressiveness was showing.
At present, Gyarados wasn't just on par with Pidgeot—in terms of spirit quality, it was slightly superior.
And Gyarados had a notoriously bad temper. Without the Wind God's restraint, it naturally wanted to challenge Pidgeot.
Just as Mo Hui was preparing to intervene, something surprising happened.
Facing Gyarados' attack, Pidgeot calmly spat out a cyan orb, and in the blink of an eye, transformed into Mega Pidgeot.
With this transformation, Pidgeot launched a swift counterattack.
In just a few rounds, Gyarados, who had previously seemed unstoppable, was thoroughly defeated—beaten black and blue, and slinking back to its spot without a word.
Afterward, Pidgeot casually groomed its feathers, not even sparing Gyarados a glance.
The scene amused Mo Hui. This Gyarados was just like its predecessor, the Sea God Martial Spirit: the storm passed, the sky cleared, and it acted like nothing had happened.
Still, this incident also made Mo Hui reevaluate Pidgeot's strength. As his cultivation improved, Pidgeot was also growing stronger. Even without the seventh spirit ring, it could now rely on the Wind-Fixing Pearl to temporarily enter its Mega state.
"Eh? Wait a second…"
Suddenly sensing something, Mo Hui swam to the sea surface and called, "Come out, Pidgeot!"
With a flash of green light, Pidgeot appeared before him.
"Hahaha~~~ I finally did it!"
Looking at the summoned Pidgeot—and noticing he had not been forced out of his Gyarados possession state—Mo Hui laughed in joy.
Whether it was due to their earlier clash or the increase in Gyarados' power, he now seemed able to summon both spirits simultaneously, at least for a short time, without negative effects.
He started counting the duration of this state—one second, two seconds, three seconds…
One minute… two minutes… three minutes…
Eventually, at five minutes, the Gyarados possession faded away, and only the blue glow of Pidgeot remained.
"Five minutes? If this doesn't shorten during combat, that should be enough."
Flying atop Pidgeot, Mo Hui stroked his chin, thinking.
Five minutes wasn't long, but it wasn't short either. Under typical conditions, it was enough for a full battle.
More importantly, if the dual spirit state's duration didn't decrease with fighting, he could begin developing a unique Spirit Fusion Technique of his own.
Once successful, this would become a devastating trump card.
Then, Mo Hui looked at the time and said, "It's about time. The Seven Sacred Pillars should be ready. As for whether combat affects the dual spirit duration… we'll test that next."
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