Gray

## Biography

Gray is a Grus fey that Lin Yuan stumbled upon while he was wild-harvesting. It came to him as a pleasant surprise that the ugly gray fey was a Grus fey because among all avian feys, Grus and peafowl feys were the least seen.. The Grus feys represented longevity and good fortune, so they were known as ‘first-class birds’ and were rarer than peafowl birds. This avian fey was gray and looked very ugly. When Lin Yuan first saw it, he thought it was some other bird that other feys had wounded. But at a closer look, he found that this avian fey was not simple.

When Lin Yuan first saw the gray avian fey, it was all gray so he thought he would name it Gray.

## Appearance

When it was first discovered, Gray was a 50-centimeter-tall avian fey with a wingspan of more than a meter. It was gray and looked very ugly. After using True Data on it, Lin Yuan learnt that it was so ugly because its genes could not be fully revealed due to the lack of spirit qi.

In chapter 432, a trace of gray feathers disappeared from Gray’s body which had white feathers attached to its wings and a smear of red on the top of its head. This red was more splendid than the flowers that the Cinnabar Sweet Osmanthus bloomed. However, this red was very light, obviously not fully developed yet. It looked very graceful.

When Gray hatched from its egg, it was a white cloud with the silhouette of a crane. Gray’s cloud was originally around five square meters. But now, it looked more like a cloud that had descended from the sky and had expanded to 100 square meters after absorbing the light from the clear weather. After absorbing the translucent gray light from cloudy weather, there was a darkness inside Gray's cloud. Gray would gain a weathers' aura after absorbing it so it could never perfectly blend in with the other clouds.

But after gaining the exclusive skill, 'Jade Contract', Gray was able to condense the aura from the weathers' it absorbed into jade beasts that would be hung on it's wings.

## Relationships

### Lin Yuan

While Lin Yuan was trying to store the Wood Weaving Centipede in the spirit lock spiritual zone, he saw Gray confronting the Wood Weaving Centipede. Gray thought that the Wood Weaving Centipede was invading it's nest. Gray had never felt warmth since birth and would fight with it's life to protect all the warmth it could feel. Hence, Gray had confronted Wood Weaving House Centipede.

And after Lin Yuan took away the Wood Weaving Centipede from its tree, Gray was very resilient on him. It also seemed to half understand Lin Yuan's words.

When Lin Yuan complimented Gray by saying "Gray is the bravest", it's goodwill and love for him could be felt. Gray was very resilient on him and also seemed to half understand Lin Yuan's words.

### Wind Speed Rapid Antelope

In chapter 340, it was mentioned that Gray got along well with the Wind Speed Rapid Antelope and that it had apparently become good friends with it.

When Lin Yuan entered the Spirit Lock Spatial Zone in chapter 387, he noticed Gray was playing hide-and-seek with the Wind Speed Rapid Antelope. They were running and chasing each other and hiding, bringing a lot of fun to the Spirit Lock Spatial Zone.

## Evolutionary Journey

After Lin Yuan found Gray in his wild-harvest, he left it in the Gold fey storage box. When he was evolving the Dragon Mouth Orchid, he suddenly remembered the gray avian fey. He took it out and remembering that the crane-species fey's genetic model was severely incomplete. . Lin Yuan also gave Gray a bath as there was plenty of dust and some leaves trapped under its feathers. After this, Gray became more active and began to slowly recover it's genetic model. Lin Yuan placed it in a nest he made, in the Cinnabar Sweet Osmanthus tree. Lin Yuan chose the Cinnabar Sweet Osmanthus tree because it would be able to provide some blessings to the young crane that had a life of misfortune and because of the tree's special effects of getting rid of the evil and congeal the spirit. Moreover, Gray required the abundance of pure spirit qi in the Spirit Lock spatial zone to repair the genetic model’s flaws and it would be more effective to leave it there than injecting large amounts of pure spirit qi. Lin Yuan deemed it would be much better if Gray was left in the Spirit Lock spatial zone as it's genetic flaws needed to recover slowly.

Lin Yuan had made arrangements for Gray to eat the White Cloud Mountain minnow to repair its damaged genetic roots and replenish its nutrition. The White Cloud Mountain Minnow, which could not be considered a fey, was just a fish that grew in grass ponds and had a soft spine, with flesh high in sugar. It had an excellent effect on Gray’s nutrition.

During the period between between chapter 351 and chapter 381, Gray is said to have had eaten plenty of White Cloud Mountain Minnows and had bulked up. Thanks to the Spirit Lock spatial zone’s pure spirit qi’s nourishment, Gray’s genetic model was also constantly being repaired. Gray was already visibly stronger than before. It was so skinny that it didn’t have much flesh in the past. Now that Gray was stronger, it also molted and lost its gray feathers. They were replaced by a layer of fine fluff that was whiter than snow. Now that Gray was stronger, it also molted and lost its gray feathers. They were replaced by a layer of fine fluff that was whiter than snow. The layer of snow-white fluff was very soft and dense. It looked like snow-white feathers would start growing out of the fluff soon.

At that time, . Gray had just recovered the genetic model and woken up when it accidentally absorbed some of the World Grace that the Pure Land of Bliss outside was absorbing from the Cold Snow Pine's World Cleansing. Since The Pure Land of Bliss is connected with the version of itself that’s both inside and outside the Spirit Lock Spatial Zone it caused Gray’s genetic model to spike its promotion state.

A large amount of spirit qi crystals was needed for the promotion of Gray’s genetic model to a Heaven and Earth fey. Overall, Gray required energy from 30 spirit qi crystals and only a trace from the 31st spirit qi crystal. After this, Gray began it's cycle of growing and molting new feathers, each new set of feathers looked more intricate and exquisite than the last until the feathers formed an egg.While Gray was incubating in the egg, Lin Yuan chose to enhance the blood contract between them so that when Gray woke up, it would accept Lin Yuan as it's contractor.

In chapter 476, when Lin Yuan was about to leave the Spirit Lock spatial zone, he heard a soft noise and noticed that the feathers on the outer layer of Gray’s egg had lost all color, revealing the inner layer with Gray’s white feathers with golden patterns. After he went over to check, he ascertained that Gray would hatch within a month. Lin Yuan then sliced open his palm and allowed the blood to drip on Gray’s egg to strengthen the bloodline connection between him and Gray.

In chapter 1038, Morbius told Lin Yuan to come to the Spirit Lock Spatial Zone because all the spirit qi and elemental pearls were flying toward the egg that Gray was in. He did not know for how long Gray had been absorbing spirit qi but decided against stopping it after some contemplation. Gray was also consuming the pure elemental energy from the elemental pearls alongside the spirit qi which caused Lin Yuan to hypothesize.

It seemed that a large portion of Gray that Lin Yuan had discovered in the Endless Forest when it had just hatched and still had an incomplete genetic model was a Heavenly Family Fey whose genetic model had been degraded to preserve its life. But now, Gray had the chance to regain the lost genetic model due to the spirit qi and elemental energy available in the Spirit Lock spatial zone after which it would become the Heavenly Family Fey that it rightfully was.

Gray seemed to have absorbed enough spiritual power in less than two minutes and stopped itself. The spirit qi the poured forth from the spirit pool quickly enabled the concentration of spirit qi to reach its peak. Although Gray had stopped absorbing spirit qi, it was still absorbing the elemental energy from the elemental pearls. One by one, the various elemental pearls with outer layers flew toward Gray’s egg and shattered upon contact with Gray’s egg while Gray relaxedly absorbed the pure energy.

Since Gray craved elemental energy, Lin Yuan took out the 4,000 elemental pearls he stored for emergencies. Lin Yuan opened the box and placed it in front of Gray so that it could take as much as it needed and within five minutes, Gray reached the bottom of the box, and its craving for elemental energy had eased. After Lin Yuan offered up the heavenly-maiden-grade elemental pearls that the seven Bronze/Legend Elemental Shellfish just produced, Gray’s egg cracked, and translucent clouds flowed out from the cracks.

A crane emerged before Lin Yuan, and apologized for using too many precious resources and that it couldn't control its need for elemental energy. The newly hatched Gray also referred to Lin Yuan as 'Dad' and was the first one of his feys to do so.

Gray was truly a Heavenly Family Fey as it could speak from the moment it hatched. From Gray’s words, it seemed that it remained conscious while in its shell.

Since Gray had not eaten ever since it had started evolving so it asked Lin Yuan for the fish he gave it the last time. Overall, Gray ate 14 fishes before saying it wanted to eat the clear weather. After Lin Yuan gave it permission, Gray absorbed the clear weather and the cloudy weather that came soonly after he finished absorbing the former. When it was done absorbing the weathers, it had also gained two abilities respective to the weathers it had absorbed, 'Radiance of a Clear Day' and 'Darkness of a Cloudy Day'.

The clear weather changed to cloudy weather, then snowy weather in the span of tens of minutes. When it was about to snow, Lin Yuan asked the Mother of Bloodbath to use its Blood Law to stop experts and veterans from snooping inside the Return From Faraway Mansion. He sang in the snow while Gray was absorbing the weather from the snow. It gained the ability, 'Frozen Snowy Day' from doing so.

**Progress**
 Normal IV
 Normal IX
 Elite IX
 Bronze (1/10)

Cloudy Weather
The body will present itself as a cloud and will be compatible with any weather. The body can absorb the weather. Once the weather is absorbed into the cloud, it will become a new ability. No new abilities will come from evolution.
 Radiance of a Clear Day
 Darkness of a Cloudy Day
 Frozen Snowy Day

## References

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