Urban Demon Refining System

"The Thousand-Change Jellyfish is the oldest monster living in the Azure Wave Pool. There are even rumors that it has lived longer than the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King!" Biluo explained to Zhao Baichuan from the back of the giant seahorse.

"Wouldn't that make him an old monster too!"

"It's a demon! Not a monster!" Biluo corrected. "A demon refers to a spirit that has not yet developed intelligence, while monsters, apart from their appearance being quite different from humans, are not much different in terms of intelligence. In fact, some monsters are even more intelligent than humans."

"You mean this Thousand-Faced Jellyfish hasn't developed sentience?"

“You could only say it has a spirit!” Biluo agreed with his statement. “However, the most difficult thing about the Thousand-Change Jellyfish is its unpredictable ability to change shape! Xunlang! Let’s stop for a moment!” Suddenly, Biluo reined in Xunlang’s advance. “Look at that coral!”

"Coral?" Zhao Baichuan was taken aback and subconsciously looked in the direction she was pointing. He saw a cluster of red corals swaying with the waves.

“Those are the tentacles of the Thousand-Change Jellyfish!” With that, Biluo took out a small seashell from somewhere and threw it toward the small clump of coral.

"Crack!" The moment the shell landed on the coral, the tentacles seemed to come alive, instantly wrapping around the shell and crushing it!

"How terrifying!" Zhao Baichuan swallowed hard. If these tentacles were to entangle him, he would probably be doomed!

"Although the Thousand-Change Jellyfish has many transformation abilities, it can only transform three times a day. After that, it will reveal its true form! Look, it's starting to transform!"

After crushing the seashell, the Thousand-Change Jellyfish wriggled and gradually rolled into a ball, its entire body emitting a dazzling light.

"What is that?" When the light disappeared, the coral reef was gone, replaced by a small red fish.

"This is a fangtooth fish, which loves to eat shellfish. The shell I just threw out was a juvenile gong shell. This greedy fellow couldn't resist the temptation!" Sure enough, as soon as the fangtooth fish appeared, it swallowed the gong shell into its mouth and chewed it with a "crunch crunch".

"This..." Zhao Baichuan was speechless. Wasting a transformation ability for food, this Thousand Transformations Jellyfish is really a glutton!

"Don't you think this ever-changing jellyfish is stupid?" Biluo asked, as if she could read his mind.

"Hmm, a bit! Wasting a transformation ability for food is too high a price to pay!"

“From your human perspective, that’s how it is, but from the perspective of a demon, this is a very worthwhile deal!” Biluo said, pointing to the fanged fish in the distance. “Although the Thousand-Transformation Jellyfish is a demon, it is still not sentient. Three meals a day are just a luxury for it. Moreover, the Thousand-Transformation Jellyfish cannot transform back into its transformed form within a month. Before, it transformed into a coral reef only to attract some small fish and shrimp. Now that it has the Copper Clam, it can live happily in the form of a fanged fish for a long time!”

"Glug!" As if to verify Biluo's words, the sharp-toothed fish swam towards a deeper part of the pool after digesting the copper gong shell.

"Let's follow them!" Biluo pulled Zhao Baichuan over and rode Xunlang to catch up.

The fangtooth fish swims very fast, but it pales in comparison to the giant seahorse, a swimming champion. Soon, they found its tracks in a ditch at the bottom of a pool.

"So many oyster shells inhabit this place!" Biluo exclaimed in surprise. Deep in the ditch, star-like lights could be faintly seen, including many silvery-white glimmers.

"I thought the Copper Clams of Bibo Pool had gone extinct in that great calamity, but I never expected there would still be such a group here!" Biluo muttered to herself, "This Thousand-Change Jellyfish is quite cunning!"

The sharp-toothed fish plunged into the ditch and darted among the clams, quickly piling up a small cluster of clams.

"Crack!" Suddenly, the sharp-toothed fish opened its sharp teeth and bit into the copper clam, cracking the sturdy shell.

"Snap!" However, it did not continue biting, but instead chose the next clam to bite. Soon, the whole pile of clam was covered in wounds.

"What is it doing?" Zhao Baichuan asked, puzzled.

"Although the Copper Clams are not very intelligent, they are the most protective of their young. Those Copper Clams are all juveniles, and their target is the adult Copper Clams, and even those few Silver Clams!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a series of bubbles appeared in the ditch, and several millstone-sized clams swam towards her.

"This guy's in for a world of hurt!" Biluo said with a hint of schadenfreude. "I added a little cartilaginous fish mucus to that baby clam just now, and the sharp-toothed fish's teeth are probably soft by now!"

Sure enough, upon seeing these clams, the sharp-toothed fish tried to use the same trick again, biting into the sturdy shell. However, this time the expected crack did not appear; instead, its tooth broke off!

"Gurgle!" The sharp-toothed fish was shocked. It was precisely because of its sharp teeth that it had become the nemesis of the gong shell. Now that it had lost its teeth, what difference was there between it and a salted fish?

"Glug glug!" Helpless, the Thousand-Transformation Jellyfish had to transform again. A flash of light appeared, and a tadpole-shaped monster materialized.

“Those are tadpoles!” Before Zhao Baichuan could ask, Biluo explained.

"Sound Tadpole?" Another name I've never heard of before.

"The tadpole can make pleasant sounds from its abdomen, but these sounds have one characteristic: they make people drowsy! Now, plug your ears!"

"Squeak!" The tadpole's abdomen twitched, and a melodious song came from its body. Upon hearing the song, the clams paused for a moment, then fell limply into the ditch.

This process lasted about half an hour, and the singing gradually stopped only after it was completely confirmed that the gong shells had lost their fighting ability.

"The Sound Tadpole has a unique characteristic: once its song has hypnotized a sufficient number of listeners, it will automatically evolve!"

"Squeak!" The tadpole trembled, its black tail gradually fell off, and limbs grew out of its body.

"The evolved form of Tadpole! Toad!" Biluo snapped her fingers. "It's changed three times now!" She took out a conch shell and blew on it. The giant seahorse Xunlang charged towards Toad as if it had taken a stimulant!

"Squeak!" The Thousand-Change Jellyfish was startled, and its body emitted light again. However, it had already reached its maximum number of transformations. "Gulp!" A white, soft-bodied creature quickly fell from above and was caught by Xunlang's tail!