"Senior Lu, I'm raising a Dragon Carp in this pool, but I don't know why—I've felt lately that its growth hasn't been going very well."
"Could I trouble you to take a look at it?"
Song Sining gazed at Lu Xuan with her clear black-and-white eyes and asked softly, mustering her courage.
"Of course. Summon it."
Lu Xuan spoke gently. He had crammed in so much knowledge about Spirit Beasts in the Heaven Sword Sect's Scripture Pavilion, and he also possessed extensive experience raising them. When it came to a Spirit Beast raised by a little girl at Qi Training Stage 3, he was brimming with confidence.
Besides, if he truly couldn't solve the problem, he could always feed it something and inspect the Spirit Beast's detailed status.
Bubbles continuously rose from the surface of the pool. Soon, a large fish drilled out of the water.
The large fish was over half a zhang long, with a slender body somewhat resembling a Flood Dragon. Fine, pale-red scales covered its body, while two red feelers swayed and waved constantly in the water.
Lu Xuan swept it with his spiritual sense and sensed that the large fish's spiritual power was roughly at the level of a Rank 1 Demon Beast. Yet at a glance, it seemed to have little vitality, floating listlessly on the water's surface.
"Senior Lu, this is the Dragon Carp I'm raising. It's a Second Grade Demon Beast, but mine is still growing, so its strength is equivalent to that of a Rank 1 Demon Beast."
Lu Xuan nodded lightly. His spiritual sense carefully searched every part of the Dragon Carp's body, trying to find the root of the problem.
"What does this Dragon Carp usually eat?"
After examining it closely and finding nothing abnormal, Lu Xuan asked the