Chapter 4: Unique Pet
Chen Guan remained motionless, allowing the red and white particles to permeate his body. Not only was there no fear on his face, but instead, a look of pleasant surprise.
This situation occurring after a Mystic Spirit's death has only one possibility, and that is Mystic Spirit petrification.
Similar to how a Guardian Dog transformed into a Mystic Spirit pet after death, a portion of Mystic Spirits will petrify after death. Their dead bodies transform into particles that integrate into the cultivator's body, becoming the cultivator's pet.
Not all Mystic Spirits will petrify after death; only a small portion will. The probability is unknown, entirely depending on fate.
Petrified Mystic Spirits are in the same state as they were alive, but they must rely on the cultivator to survive because they themselves no longer have vitality and need to share the host's vitality.
Mystic Spirits will only choose the cultivator who killed them to complete petrification. This stems from the Mystic Spirit's belief in the strong being respected. The one who can kill it is naturally a stronger existence, an expert it recognizes.
If a Mystic Spirit is killed by a Mystic Spirit pet, then the petrified Mystic Spirit will choose to attach itself to the Mystic Spirit pet's owner's body to complete petrification.
When the last red and white particle permeated Chen Guan's body, the Evil Cute Rabbit's corpse, along with the butcher knife, completely disappeared. Not a drop of the blood sprayed on the ground remained. Meanwhile, some information appeared in Chen Guan's mind.
Bloody Evil Cute Rabbit (Unique): Level 1 Spirit Pet.
Primal Energy: 1.
Growth Rate: 1.91.
Innate Talent: Bloody Resurrection (Unique).
Secret Method: Level 1 Vampire Great Art (Unique).
Secret Skill: Level 1 Bloodthirsty Blade Method (Unique).
Mystic Treasure: Level 1 bloodthirsty blade (Unique).
"No wonder this Evil Cute Rabbit was so terrifying. It's actually of Unique quality. I've never heard of an Evil Cute Rabbit of such high quality," Chen Guan thought with some surprise. He had originally thought this Evil Cute Rabbit was just a higher level, but he didn't expect it to be only Level 1. It was entirely due to its inherently high quality that it appeared so powerful.
Moreover, this Evil Cute Rabbit's Innate Talent, Secret Method, Secret Skill, and Mystic Treasure are all of Unique quality, which is even more remarkable.
It's not that if a Mystic Spirit itself is of Unique quality, all of its talents and abilities will also be of Unique quality. In reality, most Mystic Spirits' talents and abilities are often lower in quality than their own. Only a few top-tier ones will have the same quality. Talents and abilities that are higher in quality than the Mystic Spirit itself also exist, but the probability is lower than winning the lottery.
There are even many pets that don't have Innate Talents, Secret Methods, Secret Skills, or Mystic Treasures. Mystic Treasures are the most rare, with the vast majority of Mystic Spirits not possessing them; only a small portion do.
An ordinary Evil Cute Rabbit, let alone a Mystic Treasure, wouldn't even have a Secret Skill. Some Evil Cute Rabbits might have a Talent or Secret Method, but they wouldn't be the same as this one's Talent and Secret Method, and their quality is incomparable.
The meaning of the Unique quality is likely that there might only be one of the same kind. The Bloody Evil Cute Rabbit should be unique.
Quality represents talent, and growth rate represents growth potential. The higher the growth rate, the faster the pet levels up and the better the enhancement effect after leveling up.
The Evil Cute Rabbit's growth rate is 1.91, which is already a very high growth rate. An ordinary Spirit Pet with a growth rate exceeding 1.5 is considered quite good.
For example, the Five-Red Dog Warring States, its growth rate is only 1.14. It has no Mystic Treasure, no Secret Skill. Its Secret Method is the ordinary quality Longevity Skill learned from Chen Guan, and it only has one Talent, Loyalty, which has no combat effect. It's considered a low-tier Spirit Pet.
When the Evil Cute Rabbit levels up by one, its Primal Energy upper limit can increase by 1.91 points, while Warring States can only increase by 1.14. There are also differences in the increase of other hidden attributes like strength, speed, constitution, and intelligence. However, these data cannot be presented numerically because those attributes are full of uncertainty and cannot be accurately calculated. What the Lala Team Soul can enhance are these hidden attributes, which is potential.
A Secret Method is a way to increase one's level by absorbing Primal Energy. For example, Longevity Skill absorbs Primal Energy through movements and breathing, and the absorption speed is relatively slow, so leveling up is also slow. After reaching high levels, it requires a large amount of Primal Energy to level up, and the effect of Longevity Skill becomes even weaker, making it difficult to level up further. After all, it's just an ordinary quality Secret Method.
The Evil Cute Rabbit's Vampire Great Art, however, can directly absorb Primal Energy from blood. The higher the level of the Mystic Spirit, the more Primal Energy is contained within its blood, which is much faster than absorbing the scattered Primal Energy in the world and has higher potential.
Longevity Skill may find it difficult to further increase the cultivator's level later on, but Vampire Great Art has almost no limitations as long as blood from high-level Mystic Spirits is available.
Fortunately, a Secret Method is just a method. Human cultivators can cultivate various different Secret Methods, unlike Mystic Spirits, who find it difficult to change their innate Talent Secret Methods.
However, Secret Methods have a greater impact on humans, relating to the increase in the Primal Energy upper limit and the enhancement effect after leveling up, which is equivalent to a Mystic Spirit's growth rate.
The higher the quality of the cultivated Secret Method, the greater the increase in the Primal Energy upper limit after leveling up. Therefore, Chen Guan now needs a high-quality Secret Method; otherwise, continuing to cultivate Longevity Skill will make it difficult to achieve great accomplishments.
The way to obtain Secret Methods is also simple: killing Mystic Spirits has a certain chance of obtaining the Mystic Spirit's Secret Method inheritance. All human Secret Methods originate from Mystic Spirits.
What Chen Guan needs to do now is stay alive and then hunt Mystic Spirits to obtain a high-quality Secret Method.
Previously, Chen Guan's goal was to get a Rare quality Secret Method to increase his level first, and then hunt for higher quality Secret Methods.
Although there would be some loss in the early stage, it would be relatively safer. After all, the possibility of low-level Mystic Spirits having high-quality Secret Methods is too low, and hunting high-level Mystic Spirits without a high level is not very safe.
But now with the Evil Cute Rabbit and the Lala Team Soul, everything is different.
Under the blessing of the Lala Team Soul, Warring States was actually able to contend with the Unique Evil Cute Rabbit. If the Evil Cute Rabbit received the blessing of the Lala Team Soul, wouldn't it be even more powerful?
Level up the Evil Cute Rabbit first. By then, getting a high-quality Secret Method will not be difficult.
Chen Guan felt that his future was bright. Now all that was left was to get a Peerless Secret Method. However, Peerless Secret Methods are things that are encountered by chance and not sought after. Only a very small number of Mystic Spirits of Peerless quality will possess Peerless Secret Methods. Finding such Mystic Spirits is not easy, and even if found, whether they will drop a Secret Method is still a question.
He remotely summoned the injured Warring States back, letting him recover inside his body, and then summoned the Bloody Evil Cute Rabbit that had become a pet.
With the physique of a polar bear but the appearance of a cute pet from an anime, the Evil Cute Rabbit stood upright in front of Chen Guan, holding the butcher knife-shaped bloodthirsty blade in its left paw. This guy was even left-handed, looking both strange and cute.
"This appearance is too conspicuous. If someone sees it, it will definitely attract attention. It would be great if I could hide the bloodthirsty blade," Chen Guan muttered to himself while examining the Evil Cute Rabbit.
The Evil Cute Rabbit seemed to understand his words. With a flick of its paw, the bloodthirsty blade spun a few times on its paw and then disappeared between its paws. He didn't know where it hid it.
"It even has the function of hiding Mystic Treasures. What a good pet," Chen Guan was overjoyed. At this moment, the Evil Cute Rabbit looked similar to a Rare quality Evil Cute Rabbit, just slightly larger in size. Although it would still be a bit eye-catching, it wasn't as exaggerated as before.
