"Changes in will, an unknown transformation..."
Liang Qu stared intently at the evaluation, his brows slightly furrowed as some rather unpleasant scenes resurfaced in his mind.
He had snatched the Victorious Fighting Buddha out of the Hanging Temple's Non-Abiding Nirvana. His mind had been stretched to its limit, and the Dragon Elephant Martial Saint had ignited his heartfire. From that point on, the Marsh Spirit had changed. During the fusion with the Marsh Spirit Water King Ape, a Water Monkey Great Sage "transformation" had appeared out of thin air, with no prior hint whatsoever.
The fusion level had not changed at all at the time.
Liang Qu had not used any Marsh Essence. The change had come without warning.
Looking at it this way, combined with the evaluation, the original Water King Ape should have required exactly twenty million essence for complete fusion, from beginning to end, with no extra changes in between. It had been his own actions that had, in turn, created today's Marsh Spirit.
The rain pattered down in a drizzle.
The Dragon Spirit Silk did not become wet upon entering water.
Every droplet that touched it flowed down along the hems, leaving it dry.
Liang Qu pondered quietly.
"Purple changing to orange, an increase in Martial Bone, yet not the great transformation from Dragon Tendons Tiger Bones to Subduing Dragon Taming Tiger. At the same fusion level, did it raise the fundamental quality? Three hundred per thousand—it should be more than just Celestial. At the very least... did the width and length covered by the 'line segment' grow larger?"
A Marsh Spirit's fusion level was not inherently "linked" to the cultivation realms of the Four Gates and Seven Paths.
Liang Qu understood that perfectly well.
If a cultivation realm was a complete ascending line segment, beginning