Five days have already passed.
At around early nighttime.
Inside the cave, Ji Yen remained seated.
Without the help from from the spiritual cave, his process was slower than before. However, that did not matter much.
He only needed to calm his mind and be ready for the breakthrough.
After some time, the temperature inside the cave started rising rapidly. Ji Yen has officially started his attempt to breakthrough to Grade 2 demon beast realm.
The time kept on ticking and the temperature kept on rising. And ultimately, the inside of the cave became a pressure cooker that can cook Ji Yen alive.
The process kept on going for hours. And finally when it was about 5 hours into the process, Ji Yen's feathers started falling slowly. The first sign of successful breakthrough has appeared.
With his eyes closed, Ji Yen smiled inwardly.
Another one hour into the procedure, his body started changing.
His sparrow features all started to fade away and his hawk features became more distinct. And it became more distinct and more visible to the naked eyes as the process went on.
2 more hours later, his whole body became that of a real hawk. And minutes after that his body started increasing the size.
But the speed of his size increasing was slow.
Finally, when the morning came, the early sunlight light up inside the cave.
The light fell onto Ji Yen's body.
Now, his body has completely changed.
The feathers became more cluster and vibrant. Even the feather blades looked more thicker and denser.
At that time, Ji Yen's eyes opened slowly yet calmly.
He stood up from his seat and walked out of the cave.
When he came out of the cave, the sunlight illuminated his body. Then changes in his body can be seen more clearly with the warm sunlight shone on him.
His overall colour changed, his talons, his beak and his height. All of them changed into new one.
Standing in the sunlight and absorbing the warm morning energy, Ji Yen took a deep breath of the fresh air with his eyes slightly closed.
As he was feeling the need life, the system sent him some messages.
[Congratulations to the host, you have successfully reached Grade 2 Realm of demon beast.]
[Congratulations to the host, you have successfully undergone the second evolution.]
Ji Yen slowly opened his eyes and read the message with a smile.
'Data.' He called his new data, on his mind.
[Data.
Race: Storm Eye Hawk.
Type: Spiritual Beast.
Name: Ji Yen.
Rank: Peak Grade 2.
State: Stable state, normal.
Realm: Grade 2 Layer 1(early).
Bloodline: Four Wings Sky Hawk.
Bloodline Grade: Mid Grade 4.
Abilities:
Active: Wind Step, Feather Blade, Air Pulse Sense, Storm like Wind
Abilities.
Passive: Wind Affinity Boost.
Storage:
Energy storage: 8/120 points.]
Ji Yen could see many additional stuffs on his new data.
For example, the type of beast and the bloodline grade.
Not only that, his Qi storage got removed from the data. We'll that was because he did not need it anymore as he could just absorb from the surrounding.
When he saw the abilities, he was a little bit confused. "No additional abilities..!?" He questioned.
But soon, he got some more memories as he looked at the part 'Storm like abilities'.
After getting the new information, he understood why the data did not show new abilities except the storm part.
It simply did not need to show all the abilities. Just the like the data showed as Storm like abilities, the abilities he got was the same. He could now do many Wind abilities but they are way more powerful.
After checking the data, he finally called out his appearance data.
The system showed him a simple data for that.
[ Appearance Image:
Colour: Blue with silver.
Height: ~2.3 meters (from head to talons).
Length: ~3 meters (from tail to head).
Wingspan: ~1.5 meters (on each side).]
This time, it even included an image above the description.
Looking at his description and the image, Ji Yen nodded with satisfaction.
Then he turned his attention away from that.
With a light but fast flap of his wings, he quickly left the ground and flew up I the air.
He was going to test his new body.
Ji Yen quickly arrived at 300 meters above the grown.
"Whoooohooo...." He let out a loud excited scream.
Booom...
With a sonic boom, he flew straight in the direction.
He continued to enjoy his first ride with his new body, piercing through the thick white clouds. Gently flowing in the blue sky.
After more than 2 hours of enjoying his flight, Ji Yen finally flew down.
From just a few meters away, he could see Ji Wen standing at the entrance of the cave. He was waiting for Ji Yen.
With a light and gentle breeze, Ji Yen landed in front Ji Wen.
Seeing the drastic changes on Ji Yen's body, Ji Wen let out a shocking Yen admiring sound.
"WOW..... I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS."
After chatting with Ji Wen for sometime, Ji Yen finally asked him about the situation of the investigation. "What are the humans doing now? Did they already find our previous. Or have anyone appeared near our new place?"
Hearing the questions, Ji Wen put on a serious face and said. "Yes, they have found our previous. But it seems like they are more focus on finding the treasure. So no one has appeared near this place."
"Good. That will give us some more time." Ji Yen nodded his head.
Remembering the task, Ji Wen said. "Ohh. And I also went to a village outside the city and got us some human clothes you asked me to."
"That is perfect." Ji Yen said with with approval.
The two of them spent some time talking and discussing their plans, again, on what to do when they reach the human city.
It will be a thrilling experience for them, as demon beasts, to live among humans.
Finally, Ji Yen took out the newly evolved twin roots and gave one to Ji Wen.
[Next Chapter: Finally, a Human.]