The actions of Little Thirty-Six attracted the attention of the other spirit fish.
Thus, all forty-nine spirit fish unknowingly gathered at the bottom of the waterfall.
Subsequently, one after another, the spirit fish seemed to have activated their Bloodlines and began swimming against the current, constantly climbing!
The sight of their effort was truly inspiring.
Seeing this, Little Cai was eager to try, swimming to the bottom of the waterfall and then against the flow.
He easily swam to the top of the waterfall and even passed through the silver gate, but nothing happened at all.
Little Cai looked around the gate, both before and after passing through, then looked at Su Yuan with a puzzled expression.
Su Yuan chuckled and said, "You are a Nine-Colored Celestial Immortal Fish; you likely only have this one Bloodline. As for them, who knows how many Bloodlines they have within them? Perhaps there's a trace of the dragon lineage. This is their Opportunity. Just help keep an eye on them and make sure they don't get hurt."
Little Cai innocently blew a bubble, flew to the middle of the waterfall, and watched the spirit fish's actions with curiosity.
Little Li also flew beside Little Cai, cheering on the spirit fish from the side.
Su Yuan watched with curiosity as well.
Three hours later, the spirit fish's progress had already approached a Bottleneck. The strongest, Little Thirty-Six, could only reach one-third of the waterfall's height, still a long way from leaping over the silver gate.
Su Yuan shook his head, "This is not easy at all!"
While observing, Su Yuan suddenly deduced a fact: this Opportunity to leap over the Dragon Gate was only given to spirit fish at the Qi Refining stage. Once a spirit fish broke through to the Xuan Rank, which is equivalent to the Foundation Establishment level, the dragon Bloodline within them would be suppressed by their normal Bloodline to the point of near disappearance, causing them to lose the chance to leap over the Dragon Gate.
Therefore, this Opportunity was incredibly rare, but also incredibly difficult.
Su Yuan thought about it and still wanted to give them a little help.
"Little Cai is both your making and your undoing. Because of Little Cai's Bloodline influence, your potential has been greatly enhanced, giving you the chance to climb to the Peak of the Yellow Rank. But also because of Little Cai's Bloodline enhancement, it has inversely suppressed your dragon lineage Bloodline."
Su Yuan understood their situation. Without Little Cai, these spirit fish might not even be able to reach the first-tier Low Grade. But now they could reach the Peak of the first-tier High Grade, which was due to Little Cai's incredibly powerful Bloodline. However, this meant Little Cai's influence on them was too significant.
Su Yuan called Little Cai back.
Little Cai quickly flew over.
"Play by the lake with Little Li these next few days!" Su Yuan said.
Little Cai nodded in confusion, then went off to play tail-slapping with Little Li.
Su Yuan, using the "Seven Stars Profound True Body Tempering Art" as a base, immediately modified a Cultivation Technique suitable for the spirit fish.
The special aspect of this technique was that it changed the direction of cultivation from body tempering to Bloodline purification, allowing these spirit fish to purify towards the strongest Bloodline within them!
Modifying this technique was relatively simple for Su Yuan; he easily created it without even breaking the cooldown of his abilities.
"Let's call it the 'Seven Stars Pure Blood Secret Art'!"
Su Yuan pointed his finger, and 49 rays of spiritual light flew into the bodies of those spirit fish.
Subsequently, these spirit fish were all momentarily stunned in place, some sinking directly to the bottom of the water.
Su Yuan's expression was calm as he sat by the lake and waited.
Soon, some spirit fish had recovered. Perhaps because they had the foundation of the "Seven Stars Profound True Body Tempering Art", their cultivation progressed relatively quickly, and they quickly got started with the new technique, beginning to purify their Bloodlines.
Little Thirty-Six was the first to wake up. He surfaced, bowed gratefully towards Su Yuan, and then immediately rejoined the Ranks of those charging the waterfall.
Su Yuan smiled. There was quite a bit of affection between him and these spirit fish. Although they were only at the Yellow Rank High Grade, these spirit fish actually had intelligence comparable to a thirteen or fourteen-year-old human, much higher than Little Cai. Normally, these spirit fish acted foolishly just to cooperate with Little Cai.
The change in the Cultivation Technique also caused changes in these spirit fish.
After each attempt to charge the waterfall, the four-colored light on Little Thirty-Six's body would dim slightly, and the dragon Bloodline he possessed would subtly increase by a trace!
This was not an illusion; this was an inherent effect of this specific Dragon Gate leap. This waterfall also had the function of purifying the dragon Bloodline. With the internal and external effects Overlay, the spirit fish's transformation became more obvious and rapid.
To Su Yuan's surprise, among them, the four-colored light on some spirit fish not only didn't disappear but grew stronger. Although the number of colors directly dropped from four to two, the Bloodline belonging to the Nine-Colored Celestial Immortal Fish within them was increasing!
Their performance in charging the waterfall also decreased instead of increasing, but their aura was also rapidly growing!
This meant that in the natural selection of their Bloodline purification, the dragon Bloodline was suppressed, and they chose Little Cai's Bloodline.
Su Yuan clicked his tongue in wonder.
The Acquired Bloodline was stronger than the Innate Bloodline within their bodies. Little Cai's Bloodline level was already stronger than some dragons; truly worthy of being a Nine-Colored Celestial Immortal Fish.
And among these spirit fish, Su Yuan also saw a more special one, Little Nine!
It neither transformed into a dragon Bloodline nor approached the Nine-Colored Celestial Immortal Fish Bloodline. Instead, its body turned silver, like the Silver Light Ryumin Water!
Clearly, within its Bloodline, there was something extremely compatible with the Silver Light Ryumin Water. With the advantage of the environment, the Bloodline choice shifted in this direction.
Su Yuan had to lament the wonders of all things.
Su Yuan watched like this for 27 days.
He watched the spirit fish leaping over the Dragon Gate for almost a full month.
He sensed that the spirit fish were starting to become anxious!
"Is there not enough time?" Su Yuan understood. He looked at the gate in the sky, which had begun to become faint and indistinct.
Clearly, the Opportunity to leap over the Dragon Gate was even rarer than he had imagined, but there wasn't much more he could do to help, because outsiders shouldn't interfere with the Dragon Gate leap. Otherwise, the Dragon Gate leap wouldn't be as difficult as the legends say.
At this time, the strongest, Little Thirty-Six, had achieved his best result by crossing nine-tenths of the distance, but the remaining one-tenth was even more difficult than the previous nine-tenths.
The other spirit fish were also between eight-tenths and nine-tenths of the way.
To be so close to reaching it, yet unable to, how unwilling they must feel?
Su Yuan could clearly see the unwillingness and helplessness in their eyes.
Su Yuan sighed, then thought of something and shouted towards them, "Can you cooperate? One after another, pushing each other up in a relay!"
His words caused the group of spirit fish who were attempting the Dragon Gate leap to pause.
A group of spirit fish gathered at the bottom of the waterfall and communicated with each other.
Finally, the 49 spirit fish began the challenge again.
But this time there was a difference.
All the spirit fish started leaping at the same moment!
When they reached one-third of the way, the spirit fish whose Bloodline was turning towards the Nine-Colored Celestial Immortal Fish were the first to show signs of fatigue.
They directly positioned themselves below the spirit fish with the dragon Bloodline, and then forcefully slapped their tails!
Those spirit fish also forcefully slapped their tails from the opposite direction!
Slap! Slap! Slap!
The crisp sounds echoed by the lake. The tense atmosphere made Little Cai and Little Li stop playing. Su Yuan was also filled with anticipation.
The two groups of spirit fish completed a relay at the one-third mark of the waterfall!
The spirit fish with the Nine-Colored Celestial Immortal Fish Bloodline gave their companions a boost, causing the ascending speed of those spirit fish to suddenly increase!
Soon, the second group of spirit fish reached the two-thirds mark. Some of them felt they had no hope, so they followed the method of the first group, precisely slapping their tails to relay with the remaining spirit fish still charging the Dragon Gate!
The first group eliminated 20 spirit fish, the second group eliminated another 15, leaving 14 spirit fish to continue swimming against the current!
Soon, they all reached the nine-tenths distance!
At this point, they all had stronger power than ever before, and each of them had the possibility of leaping over the Dragon Gate.
But they didn't choose to gamble. Instead, seven of the spirit fish resolutely chose to give up!
The seven spirit fish leaped below the other seven spirit fish.
Little Thirty-Six exchanged glances with Little Seven below. Their eyes met for an instant in mid-air. Little Seven's eyes held encouragement and anticipation, while Little Thirty-Six's eyes flashed with gratitude and confidence!
The tails of the two spirit fish collided. Little Thirty-Six, using this force, suddenly surged upwards again. With renewed power, he rapidly approached the Dragon Gate.
Beside him, the other six spirit fish who completed the relay were also rapidly ascending.
Seven spirit fish, carrying the hopes of the remaining spirit fish, charged forward fearlessly and leaped over the top of the waterfall!
They succeeded!
Little Thirty-Six's head was the first to pass through the Dragon Gate. At that moment, strange Laws of heaven and earth descended. That flat fish head transformed into a dragon head!
Dragon horns appeared, a dragon mouth, dragon whiskers, dragon scales. A fish head completely transformed into a dragon head! The golden scales looked extremely noble! This was a Golden Dragon!
Following the dragon head were the dragon body and dragon claws. The speed and wonder of the transformation caused the onlookers to sigh in admiration at the profound mystery of heaven and earth!
Su Yuan felt something and immediately activated his ability status without a second thought, directly enabling the four-time activation state. The 30 days of cooldown instantly converted into 4 minutes of comprehension time.
The various transformations of Little Thirty-Six and the six spirit fish immediately fell into Su Yuan's eyes. The mysterious Laws of heaven and earth also revealed a corner to Su Yuan.
The [Dao Follows Nature] ability was activated!
The profound mysteries Su Yuan could comprehend were even richer and deeper. That change originating from the Bloodline made Su Yuan feel deeply shocked.
The spirit fish's transformation lasted for a very short time, completing the astonishing transformation from fish to dragon in just a few minutes.
They evolved!
The moment they passed through the Dragon Gate, their aura directly jumped from the first tier to the Peak of the third tier, a truly Heaven-Defying leap!
This should have been a joyous occasion for the seven spirit fish, but Little Thirty-Six, after completing his transformation, turned his head to look at the spirit fish in Silver Light Lake and Su Yuan and Little Cai by the lake. Two streams of dragon tears flowed from his dragon eyes, and he opened his dragon mouth as if wanting to say something.
But his body was slowly becoming transparent!
The remaining six spirit fish that transformed into Azure Dragons, Yellow Dragons, etc., also turned their heads to look below, their dragon eyes filled with reluctance and unwillingness to part!
Their figures disappeared, along with that Dragon Gate, completely vanishing without a trace.
Clearly, this Dragon Gate had a built-in teleportation function that forcibly took away the new dragons who had transformed!
Su Yuan sighed softly, "Children always have the moment they soar through the heavens. From now on, it's up to you!"
Su Yuan stretched out his palm, and fourteen drops of dragon tears fell from mid-air, stopping in his hand, condensing into fourteen precious beads of various colors.
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