No matter how powerful a spirit manipulator was, they couldn't easily improve thier cultivation with the much coveted spiritual crystal. Usually refined from beast bones containing spiritual power, together with the breed of the essence all over the world, it's spiritual power was far beyond a human's control and endurance.

At the moment, Ana was deeply alarmed, knowing that the power of the spiritual crystal might rip her to pieces. She could almost feel a stir in her body, her blood boiling and muscles twitching and jerking violently as if she was in a meat grinder.

Luckily for Ananta, the raging spiritual power wasn't launched against it alone, as Ana too was affected, which meant Ana shared shared hits pain and the attack was less focused. After a short while, tiny sparks popped and cracked around it, wrapping it's small frame.

Seeing this, Ana made up her mind to soldier in with a stubborn will. On all accounts, she would never give up on Ananta. So, she kept the cultivation on even if it meant putting herself in danger.

After sometime, the spiritual power that had threatened to rip her began to lessen. Ananta's dragon spiritual power had helped a great deal in lessening the full effect of the spiritual crystal. Like a whirlwind, the spiritual power circled through Ana's body. For a moment, it settled in her belly, before finally going back to Ananta's dragon spirit mark. The cycle of movements went on and on, burst of spiritual power circulating between the two of them.

Though the pain in Ana's body was less intense, the dash of the spiritual power was overwhelming. Her mind started to cloud until she finally passed out, her hand still being dropping limply on Ananta's head. The circulation of the spiritual power between them still went on, cracking with tiny sparks.

At the break of dawn, the sun beautifully lit up the horizon with a spectacular glow that promised the first glimmer of hope. A slight breeze blew from the east, making the bamboo groves sway with a peaceful rhythm and grace a stark contrast to the turmoil that had raged and ruled at night.

As she slowly regained consciousness, Ana's fuzzy mind resistered something licking her. Feebly, she waved her hand and shouted,' The scary events of the night began to replay on her mind, but she was too exhausted to remember everything clearly.

Despite her protests, the licking didn't stop, so she struggled to open her heavy eyes, only to find that she was lying on something unusually soft- a gigantic animal.

When she looked up, the beast had it's head towering over her. Immediately, she sobered up, hastily sat up and realised it was like a dragon, with a head twice as big as that of a man. Blinking, it stared at her, but strangely, it's eyes were not threatening. Then it casually stuck out it's wet tongue to lick her face once again.

In surprise, Ana sprang to her feet in an instant. To her surprise, she felt much lighter than usual, so cautiously, she checked her spiritual power. Even her usually faint spiritual flame now burnt extremely bright.

Her power too reached the third grade of the mortal stage from the second grade overnight.

' Ana couldn't believe what was happening to her.

A minute passed by without her noticing, until the giant beast stood, allowing her for the first time to see just how massive it was. The beast had the head of a dragon, and it's trunk and limbs were as strong as the tiger's. Behind it had two tails that lit up with dancing flames. On the whole, it looked quite imposing. There was something familiar about it, but for the moment Ana couldn't figure out what exactly it was.

' Ana pondered as she looked around. As if in response to her unspoken questions, the beast whimpered, obviously trying to communicate something to her.

The strange beast leaning too close blocking her views, but apparently, Ananta was nowhere nearby. Recalling last night's events, and her unexplained surge of power, the reality slowly dawned on her. She raised her head and looked carefully at the beast, ‘Ananta .... You are Ananta..' Ana cried out.

Seeing Ana had at long last figured out everything. Ananta excitedly threw it's weight around. Forgetting it's current enormous size, it tumbled Ana down by mistake.

‘ Ana gasped for breath underneath the massive weight.

Feeling sorry, Ananta moved quickly aside and squatted besides Ana, whimpering to show it's apology.

Ana picking herself up and patted it's head gently. It seemed that after getting bigger Ananta was more like a dragon now. It almost shared all the features of the dragons that Ana had met. To thank Ana for her kindness, Ananta stuck out it's tongue again and lick Ana on her face.

Amused, Ana pushed Ananta's head away to avoid a shower of saliva.

She stood up and walked around Ananta a few times. Stroking her chin, she said to herself,‘ thinking of this, Ana's eyes lit up. If Ananta was a spiritual beast, she really got a treasure.

However, with her current power, Ana couldn't really tell whether Ananta was a war beast or a spiritual beast. She also couldn't tell it's star level. Judging from it's body features, what she knew for sure was that overnight, Ananta had miraculously improved to the two star level at least.

Ana was eager to know the extent of Ananta's evolution. But it was so extraordinary that no beast evaluator would ever believe, hence she had no one to seek for help.

‘ suddenly, Ana remembered the beast encyclopaedia that General Marcia had given her. She had better depend on that than go around asking for explanations of the phenomenal growth she and Ananta has experienced.

A/n: hello kiddos! My question for you today is...

What's your zodiac sign?