Everyone Breeds Monster Pets: Starting As A Vet That Specializes In Improving Status Effects - Chapter 23

Chapter 23 Breakthrough Synthesis, Evolution

Longmen Waterfall was just upstream. Now this waterfall was five to six meters tall, and it flowed very rapidly.

This waterfall would be difficult for an ordinary human to climb up. These little fish didn’t stand a chance.

Li Yi began to fret that his lazy fish would not be able to climb it.

The closer they got to the waterfall, the faster the current became. Many of the koi fish were beginning to slow down.

The Salted Fish that Li Yi had chosen was having even more difficulty swimming. It was almost motionless.

In order to motivate it, Li Yi took out another Hunger Status and threw it onto the fish.

Now that it was hungry again, the Salted Fish moved a little faster and began to swim forward very painstakingly. There was no food in the downstream section anymore. If these koi fish wanted to get food, they had to go upstream.

However, to reach it, they would have to pass this waterfall.

Few koi fish were capable of it.

By now, several koi fish had already followed the flow of the waterfall and swam vertically.

The koi fish crazily swayed their bodies. They wanted to push themselves to the limit and get past Longmen Waterfall! However, when they were only one or two meters away, no matter how hard they tried, they could not make it another inch forward.

The top of the waterfall was where the current was the fastest. That was the last step they had to take to pass the waterfall and win.

The people watching on the banks were all very nervous. They could find out who the winner was at any moment. They were all doing things to help their own koi fish!

In the rules of fish gambling, there were no restrictions on the participants’ actions. The participants could stand on both sides of the river and use all kinds of methods to help the koi fish they had chosen.

At that time, Liu Cheng was standing beside the river and staring at the school of fish. He was watching his own fish.

It sprinted up the waterfall for a distance, but in the end, it exhausted its strength and fell back down.

Seeing this, Liu Cheng could only sigh in disappointment.

“Looks like I’ll have to use these items I prepared!”

Following that, he took out a pill that was half the size of a fist.

He threw it forcefully towards his fish. The very next moment, the fish swam over and began to eat with its mouth wide open. When the onlookers saw this, they were all curious.

Was there any use in feeding it now?

However, the very next moment, the fish suddenly almost doubled in size!

When the onlookers saw this, they were all amazed.

“He just gave it Doubling Bait! That item costs a lot of money!”

“The worst Doubling Bait on the market is at least 100,000 yuan. That’s almost what I make in a year!”

“God damn, this guy isn’t afraid to open his wallet. But it might be worth it to double your fish’s size…”

Liu Cheng looked at his koi proudly. Now that it was twice as big as before, the koi swam faster and sprinted toward the waterfall.

Liu Cheng was confident that this year’s championship was in the bag!

After his koi doubled in size, it had become the most eye-catching thing in the river!

“Good! Charge up like that. At least get into the top three!” Liu Cheng shouted excitedly.

At this time, the other koi were beginning to notice that there was still a giant clump of Doubling Bait floating around.

Just as the school of fish was about to charge towards the bait, a silhouette rushed through like lightning!

It was Li Yi’s Salted Fish!

By now, it felt as if it hadn’t had anything to eat for three days and three nights. It rushed towards the bait like a madman!

Sure enough, none of the other fish could beat Li Yi’s Salted Fish. It swallowed it all in one gulp.

Li Yi was secretly delighted. He wasn’t expecting some Doubling Bait to randomly turn up in the middle of the river for his fish to snatch up.

He had not made the fish hungry in vain.

After eating the Doubling Bait, Li Yi’s Salted Fish began to grow in size. Similarly, it grew until it was almost twice as large as before!

After the Salted Fish finished eating the bait, Li Yi was surprised to find that there were two Status Shards above its head!

[ Doubling Status Shard ]

[ Breakthrough Status Shard ]

Li Yi reached out his right hand and took the two shards.

The current progress of the Doubling Status Shard was (1/2).

As for the Breakthrough Status Shard, he now had two of them. He synthesized them to form a complete Breakthrough Status!

( You just synthesized a Breakthrough Status! ]

In Li Yi’s system inventory, an additional gold Status entry appeared!

The gold color indicated that this Status was of extraordinary quality.

If he were to give it to a Beast, it would undergo a Breakthrough, that is to say, it would evolve, just like the Gale Butterfly did with Li Yi’s help.

Li Yi was considering whether to give the Salted Fish the Breakthrough Status.

Although the Salted Fish was very lazy, it was still the koi fish that he had chosen. Moreover, it had helped him obtain two Status Shards.

The most important thing was that, if the Salted Fish won the championship, he would earn a large sum of money.

No matter how he calculated it, it was not a loss to give the Salted Fish the Breakthrough Status.

At the same time, Li Yi saw Liu Cheng’s koi fish struggle to swim up the waterfall. Every time, it made it one step away from victory before falling back down.

This was getting close. Any longer, and first place might go to Liu Cheng!

Despite having to swim against the current, Li Yi’s Salted Fish, had already passed most of the competitors. It was in the top five.

But it was already showing signs of fatigue. This last hurdle would be the hardest.

Now that things had come to this, Li Yi could not hesitate for another second.

If he did, he would be down hundreds of thousands of yuan for nothing!

He took out the complete Breakthrough Status and threw it directly at the Salted Fish.

After obtaining the Breakthrough Status, the Salted Fish seemed to have undergone a sudden and irreversible enlightenment. Its whole body began to twist and turn madly. It began to swim toward the top of the waterfall with all its might!

The Salted Fish seemed to have activated a cheat code. Not only was its body swaying much more, but its speed was much faster, too!

Before long, it climbed from fifth to fourth, third, then second…

Everyone’s eyes were glued to Li Yi’s Salted Fish.

“This koi has become so fierce all of a sudden!”

“It’s also gotten bigger. Seems like there was some Doubling Bait left over!”

“Something’s wrong. It’s number…”

“What the hell? It’s number 0898! Isn’t that the Salted Fish from just now?”

“That Salted Fish has sprinted into second place. This is too ridiculous!”

“Is the Doubling Bait really so powerful? It really works wonders on whatever fish eats it. That Salted Fish has become a big shot!”

“Even if he gets second place, that’s still a ton of money. Talk about profit!”

“Looks like that man’s 300,000 yuan wasn’t spent in vain.”

The crowd of onlookers began to chat. Liu Cheng, who was standing among them, had a gloomy expression on his face.

His sworn enemy, Li Yi, was using the Doubling bait that he threw out there to catch up with his koi!

How could he not be angry!

However, he comforted himself in his heart. If he ate it, so be it. After all, his koi was in first place, and the huge sum of prize money was about to be in his hands!