Chapter 964 - 474: Fish Transformation Technique

Chapter 964: Chapter 474: Fish Transformation Technique

"Playing as animals, I’ve done that before too."

Lily chimed in, still gesturing around her head and mouth, imitating animal ears and a long snout.

"I think just doing this much isn’t enough, right?" Li Ang said.

"Correct."

Diao, noticing that Liluliss was about to derail the conversation, looked a bit anxious. She spread her arms like a bird, summoning a strong wind to lift herself up, "If you want to transform into a bird, you have to experience the feeling of flight personally, it’s not just about making gestures."

"Did the ancient witches have to fly by themselves in human form when learning the Bird Transformation Technique?" Li Ang asked her.

"Yes, floating in strong winds, seeking the feeling. This process can take months to years for some cultivators if they truly wish to transform into a bird."

Diao pointed at her elbow, performing a simple transformation. White and brown interlocked eagle feathers grew behind her arm bones.

"To best feel the state of a bird, one would also create mimic wings and might even temporarily bind the arms. To increase efficiency, sometimes they’d even break their arms."

The ancient witches had powerful healing methods, so the costs of such efforts weren’t very high, but they still involved repeatedly pushing the body and spirit to their limits.

"How long did it take you?"

"Five days... no, seven days."

Diao smiled, "I can’t quite remember."

Well, this young girl in front of him was indeed extraordinarily gifted, Li Ang realized now.

"We don’t have that much time," Inanna said.

"The Great Witch shouldn’t need long, and among Transformation Techniques, birds are relatively the hardest, because compared to beasts, birds are the most different from humans."

Diao pointed at the waterfall on the lush high wall, "Among all the Transformation Techniques, fish are relatively simple, and coincidentally, we also need to transform into fish this time."

Li Ang nodded, "Then how should one cultivate to become a fish?"

"Bind your hands and feet, sink into the water, and try to capture the feeling of swimming by undulating your body."

"..."

Regardless of having confidence in quickly learning the Transformation Technique, this was rather embarrassing.

Li Ang hadn’t said anything yet when Diao blushed and softly said, "If the Great Witch finds this inefficient, there is another method."

"Don’t tell me it’s that method."

The young girl pursed her lips, her eyes trembling slightly as she looked at him, and gently nodded.

"What method is that?" Liluliss immediately asked curiously.

Diao, enduring her embarrassment, raised her chin, and explained, "Transformation Techniques require pushing the mind and will to the extreme to capture the sense of ’reshaping oneself’, and reaching this extreme state of mind isn’t achieved with just one method."

Lily became even more curious.

Diao couldn’t bring herself to say it, but Inanna bluntly stated, "Mortal copulation."

"Ah, ah? Ah, oh."

Lily stared blankly, seemingly not understanding how the two were connected.

Thinking more, she nodded vaguely, "It seems to be something like that."

Then, Lily found it strange, "Little Inanna, don’t you mind?"

"I’ve said before, my connection with Li Ang transcends their ordinary mortal relationships. Also, can you please not call me that?"

During the Fertile Stage, Inanna was very gentle, but somewhat helpless towards Liluliss’s familiarity.

Li Ang sighed lightly, "Let me try first."

Diao showed a disappointed look, and the group immediately began looking for a river deep enough.

The waterfall flowing down from the lush high wall collected in the wetlands and, after flowing a distance, became a small river that could submerge one’s shoulders.

Li Ang carefully memorized the key points about the Transformation Technique that the young girl had mentioned along the way.

Standing on the phosphorescent wetland by the river, Li Ang grabbed his robe, and then stood still.

"Not getting in the water? What are you waiting for?" Lily asked.

"Shouldn’t you all look away?" Li Ang opened his hands and questioned incredulously.

Not to mention Inanna and Diao, what was Liluliss staring at?

"What’s the matter?" Lily blinked her ruby-like eyes.

"You’re still asking?"

Li Ang sighed, holding his forehead, causing even Diao to look back and forth between the Dragon God Witch and him.

"You have a daughter and a husband, think again?" Li Ang said.

"Oh, you mean we can’t show our bodies to people outside of friends? But aren’t we friends now?"

"Who told you that?"

"When I used to learn the Witch’s path with my sisters, it was like that. Later on—"

Li Ang pointed aside, "Turn around."

Liluliss pursed her lips and turned around.

"You too," Li Ang said to Diao.

"Why does the Great Witch treat me as an outsider?" The brown-skinned girl seemed a little aggrieved.

Meeting her eyes for a second, sensing her insistence, Li Ang had no choice.

"Fine, it’s just taking off the outer robe anyway."

He took off his magic robe and stored it in the Transcendent Treasure Vault, taking off his boots. He walked into the water in his trousers.

The river of the Spiritual Dimension is completely different from the Material World, as if it is a presentation of a concept itself. Once you enter the water, your entire being is immediately enveloped in a feeling of ’flow’.

The pure Water Spirit washes over, as if it will purify everything and wash away the ailments.

Even though his body had felt renewed when he attained Dragon Transformation Promotion, he can still feel that sense of rebirth now.

The rushing water disappears at the edge of the plains, and the ’scenery’ before everyone’s eyes is merely an image formed by the perception of spirits by visitors from the Material World. The plains do not truly exist; the flowing spirits ultimately converge into that ’celestial river’ in the sky.

Whether Magic Power or the Material Dimension, only with the existence of this celestial river can it continue perpetually; this is the rule of the world.

Even if there existed powerful beings that once tore apart the construct of the world, they did not destroy it. Perhaps, those without the Way ultimately could not achieve true transcendence, and in the end, they did not shake the objective rules.

Li Ang deepened his understanding of the intentions of the Ten Thousand Spirits, as Nebis’s spirit circulation is the key to the world’s reincarnating rebirth, and it must be protected.

The ’restoration of balance’ spoken of by the Ancient Witches might refer to someone needing to eliminate the things that affect the circulation of spirits.

In the broader sense, the Empire, Eye of God, demons, and Transcendent Demon Beasts, Desperate Secret Realm... and in the immediate sense, the Evil King Demon Remains that devour spiritual bodies.

Li Ang clamped his hands together by his sides, solidifying a water ring with magic power to bind his ankles and arms and leaped forward into the water.

He remembered what Diao said, that the process of cultivating the Fish Transformation Technique was not about learning to swim with your hands and feet bound, but about imagining and experiencing the feeling of fish.

Holding his breath, Li Ang mimicked the movements of a fish, trying to maintain buoyancy in the water.

Then, he gradually sank to the bottom.

"Pfuu! Pfuu! Pfuu!"

Soon, he surfaced from the water, gasping for air.

The first attempt failed immediately, and the three on the shore watched with expressions that were hard to decipher, as if witnessing something novel.

After wiping the water from his hair, he adjusted his breath and tried again.

"Pfuu! Pfuu!"

When he surfaced again, the three women’s faces began to show smiles.

Li Ang gritted his teeth and continued practicing.

"Hahaha, you seem a bit clumsy!" Whether it was the fifth or the sixth time, Liluliss laughed loudly without reservation.

"If you’re not convinced, why don’t you give it a try?" Li Ang pointed to the river, "If you can master it, then I won’t have to learn it."

"I’ll give it a try then."

Lily removed her black long robe in one go, causing Li Ang to instinctively retreat nervously, but her exposed skin beneath the robe was not much.

She wore a particularly materialized V-shaped bodysuit, removing her long boots, her legs were covered with specially materialized stockings, seemingly silk and cotton, with only a stretch of her white thigh exposed.

Even with her skin covered, her slender and well-shaped figure was astonishing, and Li Ang dared not look any longer, especially comparing her with Zoe in his mind, which made his guilt skyrocket.

Zoe’s agility was naturally inherited from her, and Lily, like a flying bird and a swimming fish, entered the water with an extremely graceful posture.

She swam a circle and then floated to the surface not far from Li Ang, provocatively.

"Bind your hands and feet," Li Ang reminded.

"Alright then."

She used magic to fix her hands and feet herself and submerged into the water.

"Uurghhh!"

In no time, Liluliss surfaced, coughing vigorously.

"How was it?"

"There’s something wrong with this water! It’s unlike regular water!" The black-haired girl angrily slapped the surface of the water.

"This river should be the manifestation of gathered Water Spirit, and if your perception of spirits is limited, it might indeed feel very different from nature’s water," Diao said by the riverbank.

Since a while ago, she hadn’t shown much expression.

But Li Ang always felt as though her micro-expressions were smiling.

Is she so happy?

Lily admitted defeat and returned to the shore, while Li Ang tried a few more times, gradually grasping some of the trick and managing to stay afloat.

However, precisely because he realized the knack, he also understood that this kind of cultivation could not be completed in a day or two. Even a genius in this path would need several days.

The Evil King Demon Remains, which could not be killed without destroying its internal heart, continued to devour spiritual bodies tirelessly. When it attacked again, even achieving the same results as before would only return them to the current state.

It could repeatedly attack, while they would be dragged down each time, becoming weaker and weaker.

The reason Lily could not manage that thing was because it was not afraid of attrition.

Alright then.

Li Ang surfaced and opened the profession panel.

"Has the Great Witch found the secret?" Diao stepped forward and asked.

Li Ang looked up to meet her gaze, and this time, her hidden smile was not well concealed.

"Not exactly."

"If you perform that ritual, you’ll definitely grasp everything," the brown-skinned girl quickly said.

Because the heat on her cheeks rose too quickly, her expression revealed some unnaturalness.

Li Ang understood; no wonder she was so enthusiastic about the cultivation matter from the beginning. She thought she could take the opportunity to hold him down, letting him choose not only the Ancient Witch Tribe but also the path she had always yearned for.

Besides feeling helpless, Li Ang felt a faint displeasure.

Repeating it over and over, does it assume I’ll definitely choose this? What do they take me for? Although I’m no longer a gentleman, each matter deserves its assessment...

Li Ang couldn’t quite define where his discontent stemmed from, but one thing was clear: the more they pushed him to do something, the less he wanted to do it.

He quickly navigated the panel, looking at the advanced profession routes.